Even if I do not understand, I yet conceive some deeper sense to lie in the words. Not measuring and judging these things by private reasoning but giving the chief right to faith, I have supposed it to be too high to be comprehended by me.
ST. DIONYSIUS, ON REVELATION.
This is Western man trying to understand occult cosmology without the key to Causation.
This so-called Revelation of St. John has ever been a mystery, “too high to be comprehended” even by the other saints. It need not be henceforth because our theory explains it completely. But before explaining it, we would like to make two assertions about it: it is not a revelation, and it should not be taken too seriously.
The book is but Creation and Evolution apocalyptically, that is, occultly, written. As these were known to all the ancients, John required no revelation to acquaint him with them. He had learned about them from others and but embellished them, like Ezekiel, to give his writing power and authority. Its symbology is common to all Creation myths; its repeated use of the number 7 can have no other significance: 7 angels, 7 horns, 7 stars and 7 seals, 7 vials, 7 plagues and 7 candlesticks, 7 churches and 7 letters addressed to them, 7 spirits before the throne, and a beast with 7 heads. In Ezekiel 4 we find the same, identical symbols; John, in fact, is but the Ezekiel of the New Testament. Like his prototype, he sees the gates of heaven open, a throne therein, and 7 lamps that are “the spirits of God”—the 7 planes and elements. Like Ezekiel, he sees four beasts, this time with wings instead of rings. Like Ezekiel he sees dead bodies lying in the street (earth), which after three and a half days rise and walk again—the life-force dead in matter, which after the first half of Devolution is alive again in Evolution. Like Ezekiel, he eats a little book, the book of life, which in its cosmic sense is Involution written on the inside, and Evolution on the backside; the one paradisical, the other purgatorial. In its human sense, it is existence, sweet in contemplation but sour in experience. All this realized, we know of nothing in all literature that needs debunking more than this so-called revelation.
It is not to be taken seriously, that is religiously, because it is not what it is alleged to be—a vision of the awful majesty of God, his retribution upon wicked humanity, his promise of a new heaven and a new earth, the posthumous existence of Christ, and his preeminence in heaven. This is no part of Reality; it is but priestly “stage props.” So again, we know of nothing so deserving of the phrase, “Much ado about nothing,” spiritually. Stripped of its nonsense, it is but the creative process, the many visions, but different aspects of this, thrown together without logic or sequence, either by the author because he did not know the sequence, or by subsequent redactors who desired to hide its true meaning.
The book opens with the 7 letters to the 7 churches, but as this is more apropos of subsequent “mysteries,” we will leave it with a promise of a surprise when later we return to it. Here we will begin with Chapter 4. As the book is much too long to deal with verse by verse, we will comment only on what is most relevant.
1. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
After learning about revelators from Ezekiel, we should know what this is—ecclesiastical deception. There are no revelators, no prophets, and no prophecies in the scriptures; there are only cunning priests religionizing cosmology. There was no door opened in heaven, and there was no voice as of a trumpet; there was only pagan imagery and symbolism. The throne is the earth itself, set up in that heaven called space; the rainbow round about it is its cosmogonical trajectory as represented by the zodiac. The precious stones are but lapidarian symbols thereof, as of the Jews. The jasper, emerald and sardine (sardonyx) stones are the gem symbols of Pisces, Gemini, and Cancer. See p. 375.
5. And out of the throne proceeded lightlings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
The “seven Spirits of God” are the seven plane forces in Involution, and their thunder and lightning represent their violence.
6. And before the throne was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
7. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
The same old four—Leo, Taurus, Aquarius and Scorpio, the complete invoevolutionary cycle as in the zodiac.
8. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him (north, south, east, west and up and down); and they were full of eyes within (symbols of intelligence): and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come (Chap. 4).
Why is it we mortals assume the unknown part of Reality is “holy”? There’s nothing holy about its creations—a flaming sun, insensate earth and savage nature. Causation is to be respected only because it is cause; without it there would be nothing. This is the scriptural meaning of both holy and sacred. What “was, and is, and is to come” is this Cause in its three stages, Involution, Earth and Evolution, thus one with the Sphinx. It is not “almighty” but only adequate for its purpose. And how could its unconscious forces say anything? This is allegory and nothing more.
1. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals (Chap. 5).
The throne is the planetary entity, and the book, “the book of life.” What was written on the inside is Involution, and on the backside, Evolution; the one, sweet to the gods who cannot feel, and bitter to man who can. This part of the revelation is not from God but from Ezekiel, who got it from the Babylonians, the Assyrians and the Sumerians. The seven seals are identical with the seven decrees of Ishtar and Innana.
2. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof?
3. And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
4. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Here begins the propaganda for the faith. The implication is that the opener of this book is the Christ of the Christian religion. Well, it is if you know what Christ is, but those who think it is the man of Galilee have much to learn. The opener of this book is the Creative Principle. This alone closed it at the end of Involution, and this alone can open it in Evolution. The Lion of the tribe of Judah is the zodiacal Lion, Leo the sun. It is this that wakens Life asleep in matter, and thus opens Evolution, here called the “backside” of the book of life. The seven seals are the laws of the seven planes, and the seven angels, the powers thereof. As each plane is opened its power prevails for a time, then passes to the next. This is knowledgeable henotheism as opposed to monotheism, the perfect concept for commercialists so absorbed in their material things they do not care to learn the modus operandi. The “seven spirits before the throne” are but symbols of the septenate Creator, alias God, a generic term for Reality, without knowledge of it. Knowledge here of the purely cosmogonical nature of this Christ, Lion, Judah and David will help the reader understand these things when later we deal with them.
7. And he came and took the book out of the hand of him that sat upon the throne.
This is Evolution taking the book of life out of the hands of Involution, power having passed from the one to the other. This is the subject of half the Pentateuch.
8. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts (cardinal powers) and four and twenty elders (consciousness and energy of the twelve zodiacal cycles) fell down before the Lamb (Aries, the genetic principle), having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints.
Here we see the purely symbolic nature of this book. The odors are not odors but prayers of the saints, and the saints are not saints but creative forces.
9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
The slain here is the Creative Principle symbolized as Aries, the Ram. This is “the lamb, slain from the foundation of the world,” that is, its beginning. On the 7th plane it became “dead matter,” until redeemed, raised up again in Evolution.
10. And has made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
The Life Principle freed from matter now reigns on the earth. The “we” and “us” are not human beings but this principle personified and euhemerized. It is only with this the myths and scriptures deal. Therefore to understand them we must learn a new language, a sort of cosmolingua, or language of the cosmos. This was the Esperanto of antiquity. To hear a sermon in any other language is a painful experience; it reveals so clearly the cause of our present conditions. The cause of all man’s troubles can be reduced to just one word—ignorance. It is this that’s running our world, not wisdom.
And what better example of this could we have than our present understanding of the next chapter “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”? No doubt you have heard sermons based on these dread horsemen, all in terms of man, his sin, and a loving God’s wrath and vengeance. Myth and scripture, however, deal not with such things.
1. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
7. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth (Chap. 6).
The four talking beasts are again the four presiding powers of the zodiac, but the horsemen are something new. They represent the four lower planes in Evolution. As in Sagittarius, the horse symbolizes the dynamic but uncontrolled genetic force. This realized, what should we expect of it but war and conflict? This we asserted throughout and we said the Gospels affirmed it. There is no peace for us on these four planes; to attain it, we must acquire the wisdom of the White Horse of the Kalki Avatar, namely, fifth-plane consciousness. As all this was priestly knowledge two thousand years ago, it was carefully kept from the masses. To this end the horsemen and their symbols were intentionally transposed and confused. This we assert without apology, for we have found it again and again in other parts of the Bible.
The first horse is not number 1; it is number 3, black and with a balance. This is the black earth, symbolic of the darkness of matter; in plain words, the mineral kingdom. Its zodiacal symbol is the balance, as we made it, and according to St. John, rightly so. The second horse is number 4, a pale horse, “and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” This is Virgo, as we made it, the pale, etheric energy of the plant kingdom. As this is the beginning of biologic life, it is also the beginning of death. The reference to the wheat and oil belongs here rather than to verse 6; Virgo still carries a sheaf of wheat. The third horse is number 2, a red horse, “and power was given him who sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another, and there was given unto him a great sword.” This is Scorpio, the killer, the astral element whose awakening in the animal kingdom initiated “the struggle for existence,” warfare and carnage. Number 4 is number 1, a white horse whose rider, bearing a bow and crown, “went forth conquering and to conquer.” This is Sagittarius, the archer whose task is to conquer the energies of the planes below. The white horse is that White Horse of the Avatar whose wisdom will bring peace to both man and savage nature. On the lower half of his kingdom he too is a killer, conquering by violence as today, but his future conquering will not be of energy over energy, but of consciousness over energy. This fourth plane is the human Armageddon on which is fought the battle of human spirit over matter. Until this is won, the powers of these four planes will make hell of a fourth part of the planetary whole, the lower right-hand quadrant, as stated in verse 8.
And now that these four are past, in Evolution, we come to the fifth, wherein the battle has been won.
9. And when he had opened the fifth seal (plane), I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
11. And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season (cycle), until their fellow-servants also and their brethren (not people but forces), that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
In Chapter 7 the thought is carried further:
13. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, They are they which came out of great tribulation (the lower planes), and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple (the earth): and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
These are not human souls martyred for the faith, as we are led to believe, but the World Soul on this nonmaterial plane. They were not slain for “the word of God,” religiously, but for “the will of God,” planetarily. On these high planes life’s struggle with matter is over; therefore there will be no tears as of now. The white robes signify the purified planetary aura; had it any literal and personal meaning it would be but a human correlate—the human aura freed from the dark colors of the physical. In speculating on Venus we said the forms there might not be physical but astral, and in time and placement Venusian life may be on even the seventh plane. And we, the killers, would go there!
The Lamb and the God part in this cosmic process is but priestcraft using cosmology to establish Christianity.
12. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
14. And the heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places (Chap. 6).
As the sixth plane is beyond the material world, that world no longer matters for the life upon it. Counting from Leo, the maker of matter, this sixth plane corresponds to Capricorn, and as Blavatsky said, “Capricorn is connected with the birth of the spiritual microcosm and with the death of the physical universe,”1 ‘for us, the world. This is also “the gateway into life of those who know not death.” If the body here is no longer physical, then it knows not physical death. Here also the heavens (planes) are beginning to roll up as they rolled down, a purely natural process, and a matter of trillions of years hence. Why then terrify present humanity with it? At that far distant day the present suns will have become planets, and this is the meaning of verse 13, “the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,” more correctly, became earths.
15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16. And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17. For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Chap. 6).
And this is called wisdom, “divine revelation,” and the like. I say it is priestcraft using cosmology to frighten the ignorant into submission to it; its wild imagery, but intellectual terrorism used to gain power. Today no one should give it a moment’s serious thought, that is religiously.
But to complete the story: The first two verses that follow are from chapter 8, the last three, from chapter 10. The reader may say this is tampering with text to prove our theory but no, these bits and pieces were deliberately scattered about to conceal and deceive. We are but putting them back in their proper place. And this is not the only case where this must be done.
1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
2. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
5. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6. And sware by him that liveth for ever . . . that there should be time no longer:
7. But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound (future), the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
The seventh seal represents the seventh and final plane in Evolution, and as time is concomitant with matter, there shall “be time no longer.” Here Evolution is at an end, the work is finished, and all is well. And so said Job: “in seven no evil shall touch thee” 5:19. And such is the mystery of God—Creation and its sequel. Such also is the mystery of Revelation, not a vision of heaven but a review of time, not a revelation from God but a plagiarized account of Evolution. And how does it differ from ours save in language? We too said there were seven planes and seven cycles; we too said their manifestation was sequential and henotheistic. We also said our theory was “gospel truth,” but unlike Ezekiel and John we did not take it from older sources and say we got it in a vision. We thought it out—and long before we perceived it in the ancient archives. That is why we can interpret them. As Emerson said of traveling, so with occult literature: we see in things only what we take with us, already know. This is also why the race cannot see cosmology in the scriptures; it does not know cosmology, nor has it the means of seeing it. The criterion of truth is the amount of truth we have in ourselves, so the amount and kind of truth we see in the scriptures depends on the amount and kind we have ourselves.
The other septenary visions—the seven plagues, the seven vials of wrath, etc., are like the first, so again we will leave them to the reader. In chapter 11, however, there is a reference that we should understand; it pertains to the Gentiles, non-Jewish scum.
1. And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3. And I will give power unto my two witnesses (genetic consciousness and energy) and they shall prophesy (bring about) a thousand two hundred and threescore days . . .
The “temple of God” is the planetary entity. This is that “temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens,” space. The outer court given over to the Gentiles is the lower material part. In Revelation and the Old Testament the Gentiles represent the material and subversive forces that oppose the spiritual, God and the Jews—a good example of national pride and racial conceit. In the synoptic gospels, however, the order is reversed; there it is the Jews who are the opposers; mythically they are even made the crucifiers of the spirit, Christ. This distinction should be kept in mind when reading the Bible as a whole.
The outer court is not to be measured because it is no part of the spiritual kingdom (consciousness); indeed, its destiny is but a cosmic corpse, a lifeless moon. The “thousand two hundred and threescore days,” or 1,260, are the same as the “forty and two months,” both but numerical symbols of the planes and periods the material dominates, namely, the four lower kingdoms and cycles.
And this “temple of God” had “a wall great and high (its “ring-pass-not”) and twelve gates (zodiacal divisions), and at the gates, twelve angels (powers), and names written thereon (Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and others) which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel,” esoterically. “On the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates” (Rev. 21:13). These are the four divisions of three signs each we found in the zodiac, also in Ezekiel 48:35. And in the midst thereof, the very center in fact, there was a city, the earth, “and the name of the city from that day shall be, the Lord is there.” We too said the Lord is there, the creative principle in matter, earth. It may have sounded shocking then, but you see it is “God’s word.”
16. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth:. . . The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal (because it is a globe).
17. And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
The angel is the creative power and this and Man, capital m, are one. The number of cubits in the wall is the same as those who are saved, namely, 144. This and the number of the beast, 666, the number of the “woman clothed with the sun,” 1,260, and even Adam, spelt in Hebrew Adm, are numerically the same. And all are the earth entity. And it is this drab entity that St. John describes so glowingly:
18. And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20. The fifth, sardonyx; the six, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
The twelve zodiacal divisions with their birthstone symbology are shown in the list below.
Jewish gem symbology based on the lesser zodiac is as follows:
This is “the Holy City” on which we base our faith in a heaven hereafter. If it isn’t a hoax what is it? As an ideal, it is but a dream of the Zodiacal Night; now that that is passing we must wake and buckle down to the task of building this city on earth.
21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
And this is our “pearly gates” and “streets of gold”! This is the city this saintly humbug saw “coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”—gran-diloquent symbology of this old world in its radiant sun period. Yet on such bases religions are founded. Such is the power of words, particularly on fear and ignorance. Indeed, so powerful are they, anyone with sufficient command of them can rule the world. This was the priests’ original objective.
Instead of visions of God and his holy city, Revelation is but the ancient Gnosis of the pagan mystics whom the Christian Fathers with inhuman cruelty exterminated. But this so-called saint, actually gnostic, was too smart for them; he wrote their “hated doctrine” up in such a way as to make them accept it as a cornerstone in their temple of lies. And there for two thousand years they have bowed in reverent awe before the thing they hated most.
And now that we know what we are reading let us look at some of the other “visions.” These again are but aspects of the planetary process, some pertaining to Involution, some to Evolution. Such is chapter 12.
1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven (space); a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
2. And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days (1,260 or forty and two months).
The woman, symbol of matter, is not only “clothed with the sun,” she is the sun, the great Earth Mother of all mythologies; she is Isis, Innana and Ishtar. Here in this sun period is conceived and carried the nascent earth itself, with the moon under its feet as we made it. This is the child the great dragon Typhon, symbol of violence, would destroy. Had it anything to do with the Christ of religion, how equate his fantastic origin here with that of the Gospels? Typhon is the violent, turbulent forces that eventually destroyed the free energies of the sun but not the earth within it. This is saved and carried up by way of Evolution to “the throne of God,” the metaphysical planes as in the first vision. In the Greek myth, Typhon is called Python, offspring of the Earth Mother Gaea. This was the slimy monster Apollo, the sun, beheld as the Deluge subsided. Thus it and the son are one, namely earth.
The time the woman remained in the wilderness is identical with the measurement of “the holy city,” also earth. This wilderness of both the Old and New Testament is the four lower material planes. The stars that fell from heaven certainly were not the visible stars but the invisible ones finally dragged down to earth, matter. In our theory we assumed there are many in the invisible stage; John seems to have had the same idea.
There is nothing new in this story, rather myth. Cronus sought to destroy Jupiter, but the “holy” child was saved by being wrapped up in rags, matter, and cared for by Amalthea in the hills, wilderness. According to another myth, Dioné, the mother of Apollo, when pursued by Python, fled into the wilderness. In still another, Eurydice was chased into the woods by Aristaeus, god of herdsmen, and there killed by the sting of the serpent, matter. In Egypt it was Isis, fleeing with her “divine son” Horus, when pursued by Typhon. And let us not forget Mary fleeing with her “divine son” into Egypt when threatened by Herod. That this too is a myth is also revealed in Revelation. In 11:8 John says: “. . . the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Now, we repeat, our Lord was not crucified in Egypt unless it is synonymous with the earth. And if it is, then that’s where Mary went.
7. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8. And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven (Chap. 12).
Here we see where war began—in heaven. This one is the war of Creation, very different from the peaceful process of the Priestly Account. Michael is but one of the “beasts” of Ezekiel, the primary creative power, and his angels are the kirubs (cherubs), creative aspects. The dragon and his angels are the violent energy principle. Here John is telling us the truth— there is nothing but war in God’s creation. And now this heavenly war is earthly war and human war. The preventive force is not God but man. He alone can stop the dragon and his warfare. Fortunately he is now dimly aware of it.
9. And the great dragon was cast out, and that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth (became earth), and his angels were cast out with him.
Here we see the natural and impersonal nature of these so-called beings, now religious superstitions. They are not beings nor are they opposers of the Creator; they are but the energy, ultimately material part of the Creator, and coworker with him.
10. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night (Chap. 12).
If this be literally true, it is strange business to be going on in the heaven of religion. If the Devil is so evil, what was he doing there in the first place? And if God is so “holy, holy,” why did he allow this evil one to accuse the brethren “day and night”? And who are the brethren, since this is Creation not Evolution? This is personified cosmogony, and its “war in heaven” is as old as the first mythologist. Among the Romans, Lucifer rebelled and was cast down to the bottomless pit called Orcus, earth. The Titans of Greece made war upon Zeus and for their impiety were hurled down to Tartarus, a place lower than Hades the sun, hence also the earth. In India, Mahasura (great spirit), envying Brahma his glory, led a legion of rebellious spirits against him, but Siva cast them down into Honderah, the place of darkness. In Persia, Tiamat, the adversary, fought with Sosiosh, the Creator, who, overcoming her, formed the earth from her body. Here in “the bottomless pit” called matter these warring elements were bound for a “thousand years,” merely an indefinite period, until loosed again through radiation. This we dealt with in another section. We also dealt with something else that now appears in Revelation 9:
1. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
11. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. (And Apollyon is Apollo, the sun, now dead.)
Here, as we said, it wanders about in space, hence a planet— wanderer—a cosmic bomb, asmoke and deadly. This is the “bottomless pit”—matter here going through its congealing and cooling process, and so we read chapter 20:
1. And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand (Medusa, the congealing force).
2. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years (Prometheus Bound).
7. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison (Prometheus freed).
To start another war—this time biologic. This and the pale horseman are one—”and Hell followed with him.”
8. And shall go out to deceive the nations (planes) which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them (the creative forces) together to battle: the number of which is as the sand of the sea.
This is Evolution but the last word has not been said about Involution, and so in chapter 16 we come to another great mystery, Armageddon. Here we will see how meaningless it is for us.
16. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
The “seventh angel” is the power of the seventh involutionary plane—the sun-earth stage, symbolized by the city Babylon. The warfare is that between the spiritual and material forces. In this the material wins. Here the creative process ends and so the voice from heaven says, “It is done.” And elsewhere, “It is finished.” After this the earth is divided into three parts, Involution, Devolution and Evolution.
1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth (Evolution): for the first heaven and the first earth (Involution) were passed away; and there was no more sea (the prephysical elements; Chap. 21).
And we said these no longer existed when the physical was formed. We also said that this newborn world was no Garden of Eden, and John agrees. He calls it a seven-headed beast on which sits a whore, clothed in jewels and fine raiment; none other than the “woman clothed with the sun,” now material and evil.
4. And the woman (the Earth Mother) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication (symbols of materiality; Chap. 17).
This scriptural harlot is decked out just like the “holy city,” and in verse 18 we find she is that city. “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Not kings, but kingdoms.
5. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Babylon, like Egypt, is a mythic symbol of the earth.)
6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration (Chap. 17).
The earth is drenched with blood, not just of martyred saints, but of martyred life. This is “the will of God,” but because of a false theology no man dares say so.
7. And the angel said unto me, wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is (Chap. 17).
Such an explanation does not explain; it only compounds the mystery. But this is as it was meant to be. It is the language of one who knew but wished to conceal the true meaning, namely, creation. It is, we repeat, priestcraft using this to found a religion. And so its foundation is dragged in—Jesus. And what had he to do with Creation unless he too is a symbol?
The beast that was is the sun-stage of this earth; this is Involution and therefore “is not” today; and yet it is, because it is now the earth itself. Theoretically, the seven planes are now evolutionary.
9. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.
11. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition (Chap. 17).
The eighth stage of this cosmic beast, the earth, is a moon and we too said it would go into perdition—dissolution. All material elements will someday be destroyed, radiated away, and this is the destruction of the Great Babylon, earth, scripturally called a whore. This is what “the word of God” calls the work of God.
Here follows an account of her wealth in silver and gold, precious stones and fine raiment, the merchants’ fornication with her, and their consternation at her fall. All symbolic language but it has its human correlate—the commercialist, his absorption in matter and obsession with material things. He has read this many times but he has never seen in it a warning; in fact, as far as he is concerned, the wise of all the ages may as well have never lived. And so he goes on his way plundering and despoiling. His one objective is financial profit and in the interest thereof he has poisoned the air, the water and turned the soil into a dust bowl. Were he allowed to continue he would render the planet uninhabitable. He hasn’t intelligence enough to correct his own false mental trends and so nature must. For this purpose she instituted the law of cycles. Under this we change whether we like it or not. This is what is happening now—Pisces to Aquarius, but never having been taught the wisdom-knowledge we don’t even know what’s taking place. Thus we are but blind actors in a play we do not understand.
In this commercialistic age man, generic, is but economic man, and from every moral and spiritual standpoint economic man is a fool—in the sense of unwise. He does not know what he is doing, to himself or his world. Apparently he has never heard of what in occult circles is called “the dweller on the threshold”—the malevolent product of primeval savagery, now his subconscious. This can be aroused and is being aroused in his daily practice. With a few more decades of this practice he will breed a generation of monsters. There is no such thing, in our age, as physical lycanthropy, but there is such a thing as psychic lycanthropy—moral man into amoral beast, and we are producing him. He is walking our streets and invading our homes, a creature that would kill for the price of a meal. So to all the ologies economic man must study to be a good businessman, he should add teratology, the study of monstrosities, also theronistics—the creation and maintenance of monsters. Fortunately his age and dominance are passing, from commercial theronistics to social therapeutics.
It is of these things and their cause the Revelator is now speaking.
1. And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea (cosmic), having seven heads (planes). . . and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon (energy) gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority (Chap. 13).
In an early chapter we said that the celestial bodies are cosmic beasts, and asserted that “holy writ” was our authority. Well, here it is. This particular one is Leo, the sun, king of the cosmic beasts. This is the beast of all mythologies—Cosmosaurus, the planetary entity, particularly in its solar stage. As it is the sun that creates the planet’s matter, it is the Cosmocrator, and so this Cosmosaurus and this Cosmocrator are one, and his Judeo-Christian name is God, hence our theronistic world. Elsewhere we said that secretly, the Bible is the greatest indictment of God ever written. In dealing with his work the saints and prophets consistently use such terms as beast, whore, blasphemy, Satan, sin and evil. And for two thousand years Western man has been worshiping their creator. What now, little man, what now? Well, now perhaps, he can see his own metaphysical incompetency in not seeing this; also the solution to the paradox—divine source and savage nature. The rest of this chapter reveals even his own source and nature.
3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The wounded head is number 7—mortal matter forming in the sun. This is Achilles’ heel, that part of Being subject to mortality.
4. And they (the creative forces) worshipped the dragon (energy) which gave power unto the beast (matter): and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?
5. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months (Chap. 13).
As this is the same number as that of the “great city” and “the woman clothed with the sun,” these three are one.
11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth (entity); and he had two horns like a lamb (consciousness and energy) and he spake as a dragon (energy dominant).
This second beast is the physical earth, born of its own sun parent.
12. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed (not religious, but biologic sun-worship).
13. And he doeth great wonders so that he maketh fire to come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men (Chap. 13).
The solar fire is brought down or reduced to dense matter in the sight of the creative elements, personified as men. This is identical with the myth of Prometheus.
14. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast (man), that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed (elimination of the unfit; Chap. 13).
The “they” of this vision, so called, are the creative forces and the image they made of the first beast, the sun, is the earth; and this accomplished, “they” made another image, generically, man. And so if man is made in the image of God, he is made in the image of a beast—Cosmosaurus. This is the esoteric wisdom of the Bible. And how different from chapter 1.
18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six (666).
This is God’s number; then let us get it and stop worshiping him. The text says it is the number of a man, but its source belies that. It is written ’’’ which is the Hebrew letter yod (God) repeated three times, a good example of the concealed indictment. It is branding the Creator in a way the ignorant cannot discover.
This fraudulent saint did not see the God of religion or its Christ but he did see something and saw it clearly—the true nature of Causation. This he continues in various chapters:
13. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth . . . (Chap. 8).
10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb (Chap. 14).
1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2. And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image (economic man).
3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
8. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire (Chap. 16).
11. And the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they had no rest day nor night. . . (Chap. 14).
9. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues . . . (the plagues of Exodus; Chap. 16).
And why shouldn’t they, if this be God?—an inhuman “beast” compared with which the
. . . Dragons of the prime,
That tear each other in their slime
Were mellow music matched with him.
Tennyson, In Memoriam LVI
Where then is the God of love and mercy? There’s not a trace of him in Revelation (the New Testament), nor yet in Ezekiel (the Old Testament). Neither is there in the Pentateuch. The God of Joshua is but this same mad “beast” reveling in blood and battle. No, save for the Gospels, which are truth perverted for benefit of clergy, there are only savagery, cruelty, pain and death in the Bible. And this is what constitutes its truth; the rest is lies. Savagery, cruelty, pain and death are the way of life and therefore “the will of God.” When in outlining the creative process we spoke in similar terms, we were, no doubt, accused of blasphemy, but our indictment was purely negative; we only denied God divinity, whereas St. John writes a whole book to prove His diabolical savagery. Compared to his charges, we think ours are defensive and exonerative; we even said the Great First Cause is not responsible for its cruelty.
The mystery of Revelation is no mystery at all, but only occult knowledge of Causation, Creation and Evolution—exactly as we wrote of them. As these are all that was, and is, and ever shall be, we see the significance, and also insignificance, of the author’s warning not to add or take anything from it, which the rest of the scriptures do with their moral unreality.
We see also the fraudulent nature of this alleged authority. Every race of antiquity knew the content of Revelation, yet John, like Ezekiel, had the audacity to say that he himself saw and heard these things. “And I John saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.” And we have been worshiping ever since instead of civilizing ourselves. Worship, we repeat, is the wasteful act of an ignorant soul.
Once our souls are enlightened what wrath exists will not be “the wrath of God” but the wrath of man. Aside from the punitive laws of nature, this scriptural “wrath of God” is but the priesthood’s terror weapon.
What then is the “salvation” this book offers us? It is planetary, not human. Of the countless billions who have lived on this earth, our literalists believe that only 144,000 will be saved. Such people should read their Bible with more understanding or not at all, for St. John tells them that all will be saved. “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world (that is all life) are become the kingdoms of our Lord” 11:15. But think not this is exclusively Hebrew knowledge. Older far than this is the Hindu story of Vishnu pacifying humanity and pardoning the devils Siva threw into the bottomless pit, after which ail will dwell with the gods again on Mount Meru. What then becomes of the doctrine of eternal punishment? Even Origen pronounced this doctrine false and well he might for it is but mythological double talk and nothing more. What is mythically “lost” is the Life Principle itself; its “sin” was that of falling into matter (Involution); from this it rose again and was “saved” (Evolution). This is the Bible’s theme, not “lost” human souls, or salvation. Had this been understood from the beginning, we would not have wasted two thousand years saving our souls that were never lost. Do you not see then the necessity of knowing something more than the literal word? This is neither fact nor history; it is priestly perversion thereof. The rest of Revelation is but more of the same.
1 The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 612.