Devious Poetry (part four)

In the last post, we discussed how the Thelemites believe we have gone through three aeons, and that the fourth is either already here, or is currently overlapping the third, or is coming very soon.

Before I continue, consider the Buddhist symbolism of the yin-yang, the belief that all things should be in “perfect balance”.

I mentioned that the first aeon (Isis) was the age of the “Great Goddess”, which the Thelemites believed was “mostly matriarchal“. They believe the first aeon was the age in which the concepts of the “Earth Mother” and “Mother Nature” were invented, and that it featured “mainly” feminine Gaia/Earth worship.

Then the second aeon (Osiris)–according to the Thelemites–was the age of the “Father God”, characterized by self-sacrifice and worship of God, and of submission to “The Patriarchy“.

The Thelemites believe the third aeon (Horus) is symbolized by self-realization (ie: Many people opening their third eye and seeing, using, and understanding magick).

I’ve blogged in the past how alchemists are trying to create the Great Work/Magnum Opus/Philosopher’s Stone/Fountain of Youth (all the same thing).

The goal of the third aeon is to discover the secret to eternal life (even if it’s just an “internal wellspring” for “eternal spiritual life” on Earth). In fact, Aleister Crowley stated the word “Abrahadabra” is “the Word of the Aeon” which signifies “The Great Work Accomplished”.

According to mythology, Horus was born of Isis and Osiris. But before he was conceived, Osiris had been murdered. So Isis pieced his cadavers together, much like Frankenstein’s Monster, except *ahem* one part was missing. After using her magick to resurrect her husband, she fashioned for him a phallus and used that to conceive her son.

Thus, while it is mainly still Patriarchal, the third aeon is about removing the manhood, and depowering the Patriarchy to prepare for the coming fourth aeon.

The word Thelema means “will”, so they are quite literally trying to bring about this future through their own secret will. They believe that if they awaken everyone’s Third Eye, the “True Will” (a Thelemic fatalistic concept) will take over and guide society to the next aeon, an aeon of awakened mages.

(But how many of these “magi” could there possibly be? We’ll get into that in the next post.)

So how does one depower the Patriarchy? Focus on depowering men, perhaps? Male shaming? Feminism? Devaluing the father role in a family unit? Increasing the number of female-only clubs/workout centers/etc. and getting rid of all the male-only clubs by either shutting them down or forcing them to accept women through litigation, thereby taking away most men’s chances to experience a true fraternity? Or perhaps by trying to change laws so they advantage women over men? Or by bringing back the concept of the Earth Mother and Gaia worship through forced rituals that may do more harm to the Earth than good? Perhaps by rewarding “female-owned” businesses? Erecting statues of Isis all over the place?

All valid answers.

The Aeon of Horus, the Age of Aquarius, and the New Age are nearly synonymous. This helps explain why Moore spoke of the hippie movement and drugs that use hallucinogens to open the third eye in his “History of Magick”. But that was perhaps a failed experiment, a false attempt to jumpstart the Age of Aquarius when in reality, awakening everyone to the existence of magick was going to take more patience and a more steady hand than was originally thought.

In fact, there’s a lot of people still stuck in that pesky second aeon, myself included. I guess we stand in the way of “Progress”.

Or, what if the second aeon, third eon, and fourth aeon are all overlapping?

Methinks the Thelemites’ main thesis is falling apart.

Anyway, the fourth aeon is supposed to be the Aeon of Ma’at.

Ma’at is the female deity of “cosmic balance” and carries an ankh, and her male counterpart is Thoth (remember that Crowley’s deck was called the Thoth Tarot). And did you happen to notice that Harpo’s clothes are covered in ankhs?

What is an ankh? What does the ankh represent? Why does Clown World go “Honk-Honk”?

All this and more answered next time.