Preah-Tra & Physis
“…Disembodied art thou… Sunk into the Black Pit, the Dark Night of the Soul.” – SIR.
The Sphere of Mercury
“…WITH A BLAST, OF MY TRUMPET! I HEAL, YOUR WOUNDS! Before you the yellow Sigil of Mercury. Touch it. Armed with the knowledge extracted from the pool, you are now entering the Dark Sphere of Mercury. This is a desolate place. Heath blasted by fiery tempest, scorpions eating charred animal. See, how the dismembered are scattered to the bitter winds! The air congeals and chokes. Farewell happy fields! Hail horrors! Hail! This is the Sphere of Transformation. But do not tremble in the face of a breeze that would dismantle your features. Instead, be indulgent, remember all that you saw in the bloody pool, remember you deepest desires. Before you now is a black inverted pentagram. This, is the Womb of Mercury, the Eye of Satan. This, is the gateway, of Transformation. The pentagram will begin to move closer… you will feel the fear and sensuality of metamorphosis, your form cracking, shedding and mutating, as it takes on the attributes, scryed from the previous Sphere. Transformation, will be complete, when you pass through the pentagram, and emerge on the threshold of the next Sphere, as that, which you desire to be. Only intense lust for this outcome will pull you through. Passivity will render you as useless ash, cast, into the pit, of a particular nameless horror. But hark! The pentagram grates forth… TRANSFORMMMM!!” [ - The Self Immolation Rite, ONA ]
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Ga Wath Am — 0/Physis — 8th Pathway From Mercury To The Sun In The ToW
The power within is great
The eagle eats
Its human offspring
Cold music here
Blue woman hold the horse’s head
While the Seer weaves
PHYSIS – GA WATH AM
The gradual unfolding of nature; the source of Evolution, that which creates Wyrd. The essence behind the appearance of things. Ga wath am: the Power within me is Great. [ -The Septenary Tree of Wyrd, C. Beesty Boy!]
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The Sphere of Sol
“…With your lover, by your side, I put before you, the gold Sigil of the Sun. Touch it. You are now entering the Dark Sphere of Sol. The swords, that cast their shadow, over hateful paradise… draw back, to reveal mountain ranges, majestic against a sky, of flame. You are standing on the edge of the circle made by nine sacrifical stones. Here, there is a thick darkness weaved by the unsated fog and contained by the mountains. Those roaring obscurers of that which lies beyond! Illuminated by the glow of putrefaction, the corpse of your former self, discarded during transformation, lies in the circles centre. Witness the repulsive entities that violate and mutilate your corpse! This sacred shell, is now the prey of every necrophiliac and cannibal! It seems initially, that they are performing gross obscenities for pleasure, but, look closer. The corpse is delicately gutted, and from the bones extracted, these creatures are constructing a tower, that rises far above the mountain peaks. Their work finished, they withdraw, bowing to your superiority and divine disposition. They light a protective circle of fire around the stones. This, is the Sphere, of Vision, Understanding, and Prophecy. Accompanied by your lover, climb the bloody bones to the top. Here, you will see your kingdom, surrounding, stretching out far into the solar fire, of increase. See your Temples! Your Riches! Your Works! All in progress… and contemplate all that you have now, and all, that you hope to achieve in your journey so far, as a Dark Messiah. Take pleasure, for you can make anything, simple…” [ - The Self Immolation Rite, ONA ]
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Commentary:
Preah-Tra is the word denoting the Death of Buddha. Preah meaning “Sacred,” “Venerable,” “Worshipful,” and Tra/Trah/Tras being the Sacerdotal word of Sanskrit/Pali origin meaning “PASSED,” “Gone To The Other Side.”
You never use the word death or die when speaking about the Buddha, as it is a sign of high disrespect. Preahtra is the word. Or we say “Preahbudh Preahnibbian,” meaning “The Buddha is Dead/has Died.” Preahbudh is “The Buddha” and Preahnibbian means something liKe “The Most Sacred Nibbana/Nirvana.” Here Preahnibbian does not mean the Buddha has gone to or achieved some Nirvana. It simply means he is Dead/Tra.
That word “Tra” is then related to the Latin word Trans meaning to Go Thru, Go Past, Go Beyond, Go Across. The root can also be found in such words as “Transition,” and “Transformation,” which are two English words that touches very closely to the quality and essence of the word “Tra.”
There is one other place in the Mythos of the Buddha where the word Tra is used. The word is Tra-Deung, which is Sacerdotal Khmer/Pali-Sanskrit.
When in English we read or hear about how the Buddha sat in meditation without eating for many years under the Bo Tree and became “Enlightened,” that English word “Enlightened” is a mistranslation or a grossly inadequate rendering of the word “Tra-Deung.”
It is questionable and debatable what “Enlightenment” means in the English language, since it has so many qualities, values, and flavours, and since it is so nebulous a term. But in the more older word “Tra-Deung” it is very clear what the Buddha achieved. He didn’t achieve anything. He didn’t get hit by a bright light. He didn’t become all knowing. He went passed or beyond something. Or he overcame something.
Tra means to Go Beyond, Cross Over, Pass. Deung means “To Know,” or “To Recognize/Discern” something or someone. Tra-Deung therefore means something like ‘Having Gone Beyond Knowing,’ ‘Passing Recognition and Discernment” “By-Passed Knowledge/Knowing.”
“Deung” as a verb and adjective describes a function of the mind. That part of mind which “knows.” This part of Mind which knows is Consciousness: Vinyan [vin~n~an] in Pali, which per the Buddha has Recognition and Discernment as its functioning quality. Oddly, the word “Deung” seems like a distant cousin of the Germanic root “Denk-” as in “Denken” meaning to Think; except “Deung” means to Know.
Consciousness apprehends only what its 5 senses can grasp. Without those Five Senses we/mind cannot “Deung” or know anything.
There is no knowing without Seeing object/form. There is no knowing without hearing word/sound. There is no knowing without feeling texture/things. There is no knowing – no recognition/discernment – without smelling aroma/scent. There is no knowing without tasting. How do you know what a Jackfruit or Logan or Mango tastes like? Can that Knowing/knowledge be given to you in word? No. You must Taste it for yourself. Then you know. Then we are able to recognize and discern such taste.
If we see a bird, we know what it is, and we can say: “Birds fly in the air.” That statement is logical and reasonable in general. We know we see a bird, and then we know that birds fly. Why or how do we know that bird fly? Because we have Seen birds fly before. Therefore if we Hear someone tell us they have seen a pig fly, it sounds “illogical/irrational” to us. Why? Because we have never consciously seen a pig fly ourselves. The experience of grasping pigs flying with our five senses does not exist within our World-thought-word-model. Thus, Logic and Reason has its limits.
Logic and Reason is limited also by Consciousness, or the functions of Consciousness: recognition, discernment, analysis, recollection of memory, and comparing what it apprehends with its 5 senses up to its world-model made of words and ideas it has accumulated. We call that accumulation of thoughts and ideas “logic,” and “reason.” Logical and Rational Knowing is limited by what consciousness knows: what it has gathered with its five senses. So when what we gather with our five senses matches up to our worldmodel of words and ideas, we say that such “makes SENSE,” it is “commonsense,” and therefore is logical or reasonable.
How does one go beyond the limits of Consciousness: of Knowing?
By not even using the mental/intellectual function of consciousness to gather information. There is another mind beneath Namo/Mana [mental mind] called Chitta/Citta which means the Heart-Mind. Chitta doesn’t “know” things. It “feels” things. “Feel” is the wrong word to use because it doesn’t capture what Chitta does. Words like “Tune Into,” “Communion,” “Empathize,” “Become One With,” and “Intuite” better captures the function of Chitta. In the original Sanskrit and Pali, the word used to describe the actual function of Chitta is “Buddhi.” Buddhi basically meaning “Intuitive Understanding.” Thinking is to Consciousness, what Buddhi is to Chitta.
Because chitta does not rely on the five senses, chitta does not grasp or prehend Form or “Things.” It grasps or “feels” for the “Essence [arupa]” of things [rupa]. A quick example of chitta working would be when you see someone a long distance away, and you “know/feel” who that person is instantly even before the person comes close enough to be seen with the eyes in detail. In the sense that the Conscious mind does not grasp the timeless flow of sunyata, Chitta does. The Essence and Beauty of a fine piece of music, artwork, or person TRAnscends the functions of Consciousness and its knowing, by prehending something finer beyond the forms and thingness of things.
Consciousness cannot genuinely grasp the suchness of Love. Chitta does. If left to the logical function of mental consciousness, love would eventually be broken down into meaningless biochemicals, molecular structures, biological and physiological functions, and common law rules of courtship. Consciousness is boring, its stupid, its superficial, it is meant to break Things down into bite sizes to know. Consciousness must break down Forever into hours, minutes, days, years, centuries. It must break down Forever into miles, kilometers, light years. When chitta can simply “grasp” the Essence of Forever without much effort or breaking it down into baby bites. In a way Chitta says to Vinyan [consciousness]: “This is what Forever ‘feels’ like.” And in return Vinyan says to Chitta: “Okay, I’ve seen what a mile looks like, how many miles is in Forever?”
So, to Understand something, one must stand “under” what one is trying to grasp. Under coming from the words Inter/Antar meaning “Before,” “Among,” “Between.” You can read about and know of a culture; but to Understand that culture and people you must Stand Before/Among/Between that culture and people to Directly Experience such. So Chitta can only Buddhi what it is up next to. You cannot “appreciate” or feel the beauty of Canon in D Major [my favourite classical piece, I can play it on the violin: my favourite instrument] when you are not intimately connected to that music or in its presence. Likewise, you cannot appreciate/feel the beauty of a painting sitting at home, when the painting is in the Louvre.
So the word “Tra-Deung” simply means that the Buddha went beyond knowing the suchness of Things and Forms and Words and Ideas and Concepts, and learned to Buddhi things to come to an Intuitive Understanding of what everything was around him, how everything works, and how he and others fits into this everything. And so we say that he is a “Buddha” which is the masculine form of the feminine Buddhi, meaning “That/He Which/Who Buddhi-ed.” The grammar makes a lot of sense if you know Spanish or Italian. In American Spanish a “Guapa” [La Guapa] means “She Who is Hot,” and a “Guapo” [El Guapo] means “He Who Is Good-Looking.” In Sanskrit the grammar runs on the same line of thought: a Deva means “He Who Is Shiny/Luminescent,” and a Devi means “She Who Is Shiny.” In the Tipitaka Buddha is also called the Sambuddhi meaning the One Who Intuits By Itself. He is also called the Samma Sambuddhasa, which means the One Who Totally/Wholey Sambuddhi-ed. So we can say that Tra-Deung via Buddhi – Intuitive Prehension – causes us to Transcend ordinary/mundane – anariya – knowledge such that we grasp or Understand the wordless Essence/suchness of Dhamma: Phenomena.
The Eighth Pathway
For the Initiate of the Sinister Seven Fold Way who knows a few things about the Traditional side of the ONA such as the Septenary Tree of Wyrd, we can see that the essential mythos of Buddha – Mind Transcending Mundane Knowledge Via Dark-Emapthy and/or Intuition – can be understood as being a part of the Initiate’s Pathworking Quest from the Yellow Dark-Sphere of Mercury, thru the 8th pathway of the Tree of Wyrd represented by Atu 0 [Physis] and Ga Wath Am, and finally to the Gold/Orange Dark-Sphere of Sol.
The word Buddha is related to the older word Budh, which is the Sanskrit word for Mercury. Budh/Mercury represents knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Physis or Nature is the Living Book of Life. There are two methods of reading the Book of Nature [Physis]: Mental Knowing of ideas/words/concepts/forms and the Intuitive Understanding of the Essence beneath such ideas, words, concepts, and thing-forms. So it was said that Physis represents: “The gradual unfolding of nature; the source of Evolution, that which creates Wyrd. The essence behind the appearance of things. Ga wath am: the Power within me is Great. “”The Power within me” matching up nicely with the concept of Sambuddi: to Buddhi to gain an understanding of things by Oneself/Sam. Meaning that you don’t need another person to unload their ideas, words, concepts, and worldmodles into your head, to know what they know.
And so like the Buddha, we end up right where we should be: the Golden Dark-Sphere of Sol, which represents what? “This, is the Sphere, of Vision, Understanding, and Prophecy.”
What does the word “prophecy” actually mean? A “prophet” is one who is in communion or connexion or in tune to the Divine [Numinous], and shares his/her Understanding of that Divine Essence with others. “Prophecy” is the act or process of a Prophet relaying/conveying his/her Vision, revelation, insights to others after having been gotten inspiration from the Divine Presence or Numen. In the same sense that the Prophet Muhammad was in “communion” with the Divine Presence/Being of Allah, and shared the Qur’An with his people. But also in the same sense that the Buddha was able to tune into or harmonize himself with the Divine Essence of Nature and Life [Dhamma/Phenomena] and shared that Divine/Numinous Vision with his people in words. That Understanding of the Divine Essence beneath the trivial mundane radiates and shines out of such people like light shines from the Sun bathing everyone equally. First is the experience, then the grasping of the Essence, then the packaging of that Essence into words and ideas. What we do with that light or how we use and mentally/intellectually understand that light on the receiving end is entire up to us and based on our individual level of Understanding.
Prophecy does not always involve prediction and foretelling the future. Although if one is At-One with the Numen or the Way of Things, one can aeonically use what insights gathered to see and predict future events. In a similar sense that after a scientist has studied a phenomenon in Nature, and has conducted tests, he may use his Theories to make accurate predictions with. Similar also to the Buddha, as how when he intuitively grasp the understanding of causality or cause and effect, he is able to predict the karmic effect arising from a present cause.
The Eye of Satan
It is said in the Dark-Sphere of Mercury: “This, is the Womb of Mercury, the Eye of Satan.” Mercury representing “Satan,” and the gateway of transformation. The Womb suggesting something developing. The birth of which is accompanied by a gush of water and life. The Eye Sees. Satan is The Sinister. The Eye of Satan being the “Eye” that can see the Sinister Essence of life and nature and the cosmos sans the outer words, ideas, theories, morals, etc.
In the Tipitaka it is said that the Buddha apprehends and “rules” the world with something called the All Seeing Buddha-Eye, or the Eye of Buddhi, or the Eye of Buddha. Which is to say that chitta has it’s own “Eye” with which it “Sees.” What is Chitta again? The Heart-mind.
So in the Holy Qur’An it was said by the Prophet Muhammad: “Say this is my way. I am inviting you towards Allah by way of Inner Sight.” – (12:108)
In the Islamic Traditions one can only Understand Allah with the Inner Sight of what is called the “Eye of the Heart” or Chasme Qalb in Arabic. The Sufies states that when the Heart is hardened like Stone, the Eye of the Heart is closed and thus cannot See the Divine. But when it is softened and this Eye of the Heart is opened, Understanding gushes out of it like a spring. In the Sufi Traditions, thus, this Eye of the Heart and the spring of Understanding it gushes out is represented by the Prophet Musa striking a Stone in the desert with his staff whereon Water came forth. Which is to say that even in such a visibly barren “land” as a desert – having no life – the Eye of the Heart can See the Light and the Life in this desert, and its Waters/Understandings Quenches our Thirst/Quest.
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