Much of my work over the last few years has focused on the hidden forces within the human body and from without in which we act as Food for the Moon by these organisms that seek to control, shape, legislate, and if needed be, destroy our modern reality.
As part of my studies into the history of the various political ideologies that have helped “mold our modern era” such as the idea of liberalism in Modernity, I came across some fascinating history connecting the current liberal movement to a much more older form of governing the people that can be found in the Ancient Roman Empire.
You see, in Old Rome, the liberals were the plebians who today are called citizens in the West and would-be followers and worshipers of the god Liber who was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom. Aspects of the cult were considered very un-Roman and asserted plebeian rights to ecstatic release, self-expression, free speech, and a focus for civil disobedience.
The cult was described to have spread “like a plague” amongst the lower classes, morally weak, effeminate males and anyone who may have leuitas animi (fickle or uneducated minds) but even Rome’s elite were not immune.
Today, among many liberals, we see many of the exact same traits and concepts as if they are taking notes from the old days of Rome. Yes, even our so-called elite in the U.S. like in Hollywood and Washington seem to be internally infected, filamentary connected and unphilosophically driven.
To be honest, it feels like we are now in a global Roman replay on steroids where the lead actors upon the fringe are infecting the entire Culture of the decaying Western world.
My children, your children, and everyone’s children are at stake here to this global Liber virus of leuitas animi.
What is interesting to those people who have an interest in the history, science, and psychology that drives political beliefs whose thought-forms appear to travel into the morphic fields of our nations’ party-centric ideologies is that researchers are starting to discover that there are “psychophysiological stimuli affecting these very political ideologies.”
A recent study claimed that “conservatives react with higher levels of electrodermal activity to threatening stimuli than liberals.”
Meaning, for example, a conservative is more alert and sensitive to parasitism which would make them react and or defend against parasitic attacks.
In the study, the researchers “assessed reliably, electrodermal activity in the replications and published studies captures individual differences in the physiological changes associated with attention shifts, which are unrelated to ideology.
In contrast to psychophysiological reactions, self-reported emotional reactions to threatening stimuli are reliably associated with ideology.”
Here is a summary of the study and a copy of the PDF below.
The Psychophysiology of Political Ideology: Replications, Reanalysis and Recommendations
Going back to the 1950s, studies in both political science and political psychology have proposed that individual differences in political ideology do not just reflect differences in narrow political considerations but, rather, express broader sets of individual differences pertaining to personality, basic values or broader social outlooks (Hibbing et al., 2014; Jost, 2006).
In particular, a common argument has been that a conservative political ideology is likely to be endorsed by individuals motivated to reduce threats in their daily lives. In this view, so-called “threat-sensitive” individuals find the order inherent in a conservative ideology attractive.
A large range of studies support this basic assertion using diverse methods, including assessing differences between liberals and conservatives in self-reported need to reduce insecurity (e.g., Jost et al., 2009), observing the living spaces of liberals and conservatives (e.g., Carney et al., 2008), assessing personality differences between liberals and conservatives (e.g., Gerber et al., 2010) and investigating the impact of threatening events (e.g., terrorist attacks) on public endorsement of conservative policies (e.g., Merolla & Zechmeister, 2009).
While psychologists have turned towards neuroscience in understanding the biological underpinnings of political ideology, political scientists have turned towards techniques from psychophysiology. Whereas measures obtained via neuroscience methods are expensive and require extensive training, psychophysiological studies are far less costly to conduct (Soroka, 2019).
In particular, this work has focused on the measure of skin conductance or electrodermal activity (EDA), an index of sympathetic nervous system arousal obtained by measuring microscopic changes in sweat production via electrodes on the fingertips (Figner & Murphy, 2011). The seminal finding was established by Oxley et al. (2008) who found that conservatives responded with higher EDA than liberals when viewing images of diverse threats such as spiders, maggots and guns.
Since then, a number of follow-up articles have been published, all using psychophysiology to shed light on the psychological underpinnings of political ideology (Dodd et al., 2012; Knoll et al., 2015; Smith et al. 2011).
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NASA is exploring technologies that would use fungi (molds) to grow self-repairing, self-replicating habitats on the Moon and other planets.
NASA says that one-day future astronauts may live in habitats that are fabricated with a “revolutionary concept called Myco-architecture explores the impressive properties of fungal mycelium which is, in some ways, stronger than reinforced concrete and is capable of growing and repairing itself.”
A researcher holding a petri dish containing mycelia – the underground threads that make up the main part of a fungus – growing in simulated Martian soil, also known as Martian regolith. Image via NASA/ Ames Research Center/ Lynn Rothschild
Fungi or Molds are microscopic organisms that produce underground nutrient-absorbing threads called mycelia and spores that emit poisons and eat organic material.
NASA researchers are investigating the potential of mycelia to help construct self-repairing, self-replicating habitats on the moon and Mars.
The video below shows the NASA Innovative Advanced Concept (NIAC) known as Myco-architecture.
To watch the in-depth presentation about his topic please visit the 2018 NIAC Symposium Livestream site: https://bit.ly/2MbxCvz
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The ancient mythos surrounding the origins of Dionysis is that he had a double birth of fire and water. He was also strongly associated with cultivating vines (fertility) and the development from the juice of the black vine via its decaying grapes which we call wine. (human ingenuity).
As the sun dries the earth clay/mud and ripens the grapes of the green vine, in a like manner, water and the morning dew moistens the same soil as they give rise to the microorganisms who give birth to spirits – the “black vine juice.”
A drink made of molds/fungi that brings the duality to the consciousness of humans who under its influence know both joy and sorrow – Laughter and cries.
The Black Vine of Dionysus brings riches and financial ruins and conscious and unconsciousness or death such as Lycurgus, who raped his mother and ended up blind and mad forever imprisoned within the filaments of the underworld for opposing Dionysus.
The bearded Dionysus sits beside the Goddess of Gnosis from Crete, Ariadne, and a Satyr. Through the filaments of Dionysus, Ariadne will awaken to her true origins.
As the black vine, Dionysus is the first representative/symbol of the individual vine or as I conjecture in modern terms, he was the first idea of the species of fungi (black vine) to become alive and conscious molding into another thousand vines.
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My special guest today is philosopher, Freemason (regularly installed Heirophant-of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraim), author, and the founder and World Grand Master of the Scholalary and Political Order Ur Illuminati (SPOUI).
An International Illuminati movement based on the ancient traditions of the Bavarian Illuminati that is in league with other Illuminati sects such as one of Italy’s most respected Freemasons, Dr. Guiliano Di Bernardo who is the Grand Master of the Dignity Order.
The Ur-Illuminati is an exclusive global Fraternity based on the Third-Way Esotericism and Noopolitics: Beyond the White and Black Brotherhoods. This is NOT an Order which an initiate can add to their other ones; it is an end to esotericism and noopolitics.
Dr. Nicolas Laos is a native of Athens, Greece and is an internationally published and respected author of numerous books on philosophy, ontology, metaphysics, Freemasonry, Noopolitics, and his latest book, The Meaning of Being Illuminati which is the world’s first scholarly research on the true history and inner-workings of the Real Illuminati.
Would you like to know the truth about the Illuminati without the conspiratorial nonsense and how you can possibly become a member of this exclusive global Fraternity based on the Third-Way Esotericism and Noopolitics known officially as the “Scholarly and Political Order of the Illuminati (SPOUI)”?
Please order and read the Dr. Laos’ book, The Meaning of Being Illuminati from Amazon at the link below. After you read the book and if you are still interested in joining this international Illuminati order, please contact Moe at this link and explain who you are and why you would be a good candidate to serve the SPOUI
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“Incredibly, when it comes to learning, the neuron behaves like a giant antenna, with different branches of dendrites tuned to different frequencies for maximal learning.” – Mayank R. Mehta – UCLA Neurophysicist
In the movie the Matrix, the reference to humans as battery sources is one of the main themes in which the movie is based. The most prized human battery in the movie is Neo who in the scene below while still trapped in the Matrix he is referred to as ‘Coppertop’ by a character named ‘Switch.’
Exiting the Matrix, Neo is told by Morpheus that he is not a human living in the modern era but that he and everyone else are harvested for their energy, batteries for the machine civilization ruling the world. Morpheus instructs Neo;
“The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown…
What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this – and he then holds up a “Coppertop Battery” for Neo to see.
While the Matrix movie is intended to be a modern Gnostic fiction, it is actually based on science and the fact that our bodies have been proven to act like and even power batteries. An ancient occult science about the secrets to true human consciousness is now being revealed.
The 16th-century Occultist, Eliphas Levi had written about the four elementary forms in The Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendental Magic, where he makes specific reference to copper being metal that is related to fire. He writes;
“The metals that correspond to the four elementary forms are gold and silver for air; mercury for water; iron and copper for fire; and lead for the earth. Talismans are prepared from them, having relation to the forces which they represent, and to the effects proposed to be obtained.”
In my own attempts to find out who and what Archonic force is harvesting my energy and for what purposes, I have come to the conclusion that one of the words left out of the battery references in the Matrix is a word that we often hear in modern marketing and even today as one of the main identifiers of health. For example, one of the most famous batteries used to power our electronic devices is the “Duracell Coppertop Alkaline Batteries” and one of the most popular drinking waters for the modern health craze is “alkaline water”
The basic science behind this modern craze is that people are acidic and they believe drinking high PH alkaline water will alchemically transform their blood to be more alkaline. I honestly do not believe that is the case and it is much more complicated to turn human lead into Gold.
You see, it isn’t the metal copper that is the key to the mystery of human batteries because this metal is really just a conduit for a much higher power which is encoded into the word ‘alkaline’ or more appropriately named alkaline phosphatase (ALP) which is a protein found in all body tissues with the highest amounts found in the liver, bile ducts, and bone.
The meaning of alkaline is relating to, containing, or having the properties of an alkali or alkali metal and has it relates to the human bloodstream – having a pH of more than 7.
To become a battery, Neo, or get the top of the pyramid I contend is through the initiation into the Great Work in which the initiate attempts to connect via their consciousness to what Plato had called the World of Forms or Ideas (Platonic Eidos or Idea). A special level of consciousness or radio/internet channel that Plato calls the more real world, the world of eidos (idea in English) which is the Matrix or material reality constructed by man through ‘Forms’ or ‘Ideas which is the most accurate reality.
Now let’s delve into a little science.
YOUR BRAIN IS A RADIO RECEIVER
Scientists are finding out our brains work like a radio receiver and it has a ‘tuning knob’ to a specific frequency creating mental maps that are actually influencing behavior.
According to Science Daily, researchers at Radboud University the Netherlands recently reported that brain circuits can tune into the frequency of other brain parts relevant at the time. They said;
Animals (and humans alike) have a mental map of the surrounding environment, consisting of place cells. These cells correspond with places in the physical space and fire when the animal reaches the place or remembers it. The mental map is fed by two sorts of information: with memories from earlier experiences, and with sensory information.
Direct measurements in the brain of mice, looking for their way in a maze, show that memory information is sent with another frequency to the mental map than sensory information is. The brain area representing the mental map synchronizes with these frequencies like a radio receiver: it is only tuning into the information that is important at a given time, an international team of researchers led by Francesco Battaglia from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen show.”
In another study, UCLA Neurophysicists found that our brains have a preferred frequency that needs to be perfectly rhythmic—timed at exact intervals for achieving optimal learning. Even at the optimal frequency, if the rhythm was thrown off, synaptic learning was substantially diminished.
“This research also showed that once a synapse learns, its optimal frequency changes. In other words, if the optimal frequency for a naïve synapse—one that has not learned anything yet—was 30 impulses per second, after learning, that very same synapse would learn optimally at a lower frequency, perhaps 24 per second. Thus, learning itself changes the optimal frequency for a synapse.”
“Our work suggests that some problems with learning and memory are caused by synapses not being tuned to the right frequency,” said Mehta. If that’s true, the findings may lead to new therapies for treating learning disabilities. Perhaps drugs can be developed to “retune” the brain rhythms of people with learning or memory disorders. “We already know there are drugs and electrical stimuli that can alter brain rhythms,” Mayank R. Mehta said. “Our findings suggest that we can use these tools to deliver the optimal brain rhythm to targeted connections to enhance learning.”
Mehta concludes, “Incredibly, when it comes to learning, the neuron behaves like a giant antenna, with different branches of dendrites tuned to different frequencies for maximal learning.”
This science I actually came across after I created the article, The mycelium network of fungal infected Geniuses who built our world, where I explain my theory that true philosophers have formed a world-wide-web of knowledge and memories via a secret mycelium channel of interconnectedness that only certain initiated/infected humans can access.
Another article that covers my theory is A Demiurge Democracy With Demagogues Ruling the Demography, where I delve into the science of Plato’s Demiurge, the “primordial receptacle,” and this receptacle is compared to the element we know as gold (phosphorus), which “can be molded into any number of distinct figures,” but which contributes nothing of its own characteristics to the final product.
These theories I still stand by but this science would also now include the research contained in this article which helps substantiate it even more.
“Batteries are the bottleneck of any electronic system, says Dina El-Damak, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California. A device is only as good as its power source, and already the quest for more power and faster computing has led to dangerous situations like the Samsung Galaxy 7 explosions.
One solution is creating self-powered devices that generate electricity from sources like motion and body heat with no internal battery needed.”
The scientific facts are that the main power we get to create energy is derived from the chemical known as phosphorus and in Latin as Lucifer. As the Rosicrucian (AMORC) Grand Master, Max Heindel once said that ” phosphorus is peculiar to the brain alone and that idiots have very little phosphorus; shrewd thinkers have much; and in the animal world, the degree of consciousness and intelligence is in proportion to the amount of phosphorus contained in the brain.”
They are even making better, long last batteries out of the stuff.
For example, a recent study led by the Rice University chemist James Tour and his team found that red phosphorus was a way to “spy” or keep lithium dendrites in check on the battery. In the study, they created a lithium cell with a red coat of phosphorous.
By utilizing the red Phosphorus-coated separator, the battery charging voltage changes, signaling to the battery to stop charging, preventing any serious damage to the battery.
“By combining the two recent advances, the growth of lithium dendrites can be mitigated, and there is an internal insurance policy that the battery will shut down in the unlikely event that even a single dendrite will start to grow toward the cathode,” says, Tour.
This, of course, brings me back to my most recent article where I discuss the God Dionysus as a protector of trees and harvest being “Dionysus of the tree”, this ancient myth is actually connected to modern science given the fact that today a dendrite means “a structure of nerve cells that comprise the human brain.” The word was coined by scientists who first studied the structure of the brain, they noted its strong resemblance to trees so they named it after the Greek Dendron, meaning “tree.”
Trees actually communicate through a complex network of fungi that connect trees forming a symbiotic relationship. The uncanny resemblance between the human dendrites which like filamentous structures within the brain and the fungi in the air and within the soil (mycelium).
Possibly this is how we tune in to one another and access the great philosophical divide between the Giants, the Sons of God or Neo, and the masses of mental midgets whose dendrites go downwards into the ground where the parasitic and ghost frequencies reside.
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In ancient Crete and Greece, the God Dionysus was the main deity whose tragic story and rituals reflect the awesome drama we know as birth, life, human duality, death, decay, and the great restoration of all beings.
This tragedy in which the human with his lower animal instincts form the Black Dionysus who was considered a Son of God and also the God of this World with his various epitaphs showing that he was also a God of nature, vegetation, the tree, vines, and decaying grapes in the form of wine where he became the drunk God.
Rather than rehash what has been written about Dionysus many times before, I would like to focus on some new revelations dealing with the idea of a living, decaying, dying and reborn god with his various epitaphs reflect the true nature of humans and the dual aspects of our reality which become evident once we come to know the true history and our own inner Black Dionysus on an intimate basis, we can balance him with the science of the light of Apollo.
DIONYSUS DENDRITES – THE TREE GOD
The first depictions in ancient artwork and literature his early developments as a tree God before he became associated with grapevines and wine when almost all the ancient Greeks of this time had sacrificed to “Dionysus of the tree” and was strongly associated with the pine-tree. In Thebes, the Capital of Boeotia, and the Phoenicians, one of his titles was “Dionysus in the tree” and a legend of Potniae tells that the people of the town, having offended Dionysus, were suffering from an evil pestilence.
The government of Delphi had commanded the Corinthians to worship a specific pine-tree “equally with the god,” so they made two images of Dionysus out of it, with red faces and gilt bodies. (1)
As a tree God, Dionysus was the patron of cultivated trees and harvests in which prayers were offered to him and his images set in orchards so that he would make the trees grow and they would have a bountiful harvest and he is then referred to as “well fruited,” “he of the green fruit,” and “making the fruit to grow.” One of his titles was “teeming ”or “bursting ”(as of sap or blossoms).
In ancient Athens, the Athenians were said to sacrifice to him in order to ensure a full harvest of all the fruits of the land.
The earliest images of the God show him made of wood with the branches still attached in parts, and in this version, he was called Dionysus Dendrites, the protector of trees. His image was often merely an upright post, without arms, but draped in a mantle, with a bearded mask to represent the head, and with leafy boughs projecting from the head or body to show the nature of the deity. In art, a wand, tipped with a pine-cone, is commonly carried by the god or his worshippers.
In this image, it appears as if fungal spores are shooting from his body.
THE SCIENCE OF DENDRITES
I find it fascinating that in the earliest times he is called Dionysus Dendrites given the fact that today in 2020, when you research this word “Dendrites,” you find it means “a crystal or crystalline mass with a branching tree-like structure,” and “a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.”
With the history of Dionysus as a protector of trees and harvest being “Dionysus of the tree”, this ancient myth is actually connected to modern science given the fact that today a dendrite means “a structure of nerve cells that comprise the human brain.” The word was coined by scientists who first studied the structure of the brain, they noted its strong resemblance to trees so they named it after the Greek Dendron, meaning “tree.”
Believe it or not, these Dendrites appear to be natures, animals, mammals, and humans’ super internet signaling pathway that we all share. A type of biological internet for communication and a whole host of other mechanisms such as parasitism and natural selection.
For example, a Dendrologists is a scientist who studies wooded plants who at one time theorized that trees that lived together were cooperating with each other by sending resources through their roots and sharing nutrients, forming a complex system sometimes referred to as the “wood wide web.”
However, they are now finding that the trees actually communicate through a complex network of fungi that connect trees forming a symbiotic relationship. The uncanny resemblance between the human dendrites which like filamentous structures within the brain and the fungi in the air and within the soil (mycelium) is in my opinion, more than accidental.
The University of Harvard says, “Fungi can cover a large surface area by developing white fungal threads known as mycelium. Mycelium spreads out on top of tree roots by up-taking sugars from the tree and by providing vital minerals back to the tree, such as nitrogen and phosphorus (Figure 2). This symbiotic relationship between tree roots and fungi is known as the mycorrhizal network (from Greek, Myco, “fungi” and Rhiza, “root”).
Scientists believe all trees have a mycorrhizal network, but “trees only communicate with each other if the fungal and bacterial species that constitute their mycorrhizal networks are the same.” (2)
Now ponder on that fact next time you wonder why you like certain people and not others or are attracted to someones writing and repelled by others. Perhaps, like a tree, our ability to understand the communication about cooperation and the future philosophy will be determined by the very fungi we carry in our bodies. This theory goes along with my article, “The mycelium network of fungal infected Geniuses who built our world.”
This question led me to more research showing that various human dendritic cells (DCs) function as recognition molecules that act as a link between innate and adaptive immunity in order to recognize of pathogens. These dendritic cells then gather the necessary knowledge of the pathogen to employ the appropriate immune weapons via the Toll-like receptors (TLRs) to respond to the threat from different groups of microbes. (3)
“I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind. The mycelium stays in constant molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.”
“I see the mycelium as the Earth’s natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one-day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.”
VINE AND WINE GOD
Homer who had written about Dionysus never mentioned him in association with wine, nor does he appear in Olympus. It is said that Hesiod was the first who calls wine the gift of Dionysus and later is described as the god who teaches man the preparation of wine, whence he is called the “drunken god” (uatváuevos), and the sober king Lycurgus will not, for this reason, tolerate him in his kingdom. (Hom. Il. vi. 132, &c., Od. xviii. 406, comp. xi. 325.)
From this point on, the ancient mythos surrounding the origins of Dionysis had morphed to that he had a double birth of fire and water and strongly associated with the juice of decaying grapes that we know of as wine As the sun dries the earth clay/mud and ripens the grapes of the vine, in a like manner, water and the morning dew moistens the same soil and the microorganisms drink to give birth to the “black vine.”
As the black vine, Dionysus is the first representative/symbol of the individual vine or as I conjecture in modern terms, we can possibly say that what they may have meant in the esoteric sense is that he was the first idea of the species of fungi (black vine) to become alive and conscious molding into another thousand vines. (4)
This may be why Pausanias writes in his, Description of Greece, “Dionysos is lying down in a cave, a bearded figure holding a golden cup, and clad in a tunic reaching to the feet. Around him are vines, apple-trees and pomegranate-trees.”
HADES: THE CHAINS OF DARKNESS IN TARTARUS
Dionysus is also associated with Hades or hell and caves were considered as a gate to the underworld as the abode where the gods like Zeus and his son, Dionysus had presided over human affairs. In another myth, in observing the decay of vegetation in winter, Dionysus was supposed to be slain and to join the deities of the underworld.
But in a sick twist of fate, the divine child was secretly saved and watched over by the Cretan priesthood – the Curetes; but the jealous Hera discovered where be was, and sent Titans to the spot, who, finding him at play, tore him to pieces, and cooked and ate his limbs, while Hera gave his heart
to Zeus.
Caves, tombs, and subterranean chambers have played the central place of initiation for candidates in various secret societies for many thousands of years such as we find with the Dionysian and Eleusinian mysteries. Caves and dark chambers have a long association with the womb of the earth mother and the secret rites of birth, death, hell, midwifery, and with the annual birth of the divine child.
It was said that Dionysus came to Eleusis and took his place there by the side of Hades,” so that Heraclitus in one of his dark words declares this identification to be a proof that life and death are one.” (5)
These Great Caves of Initiation became known in the secret mysteries as “The gates of hell” which were at various holy caves around the world that have a legendary reputation for being entrances to the underworld such as found at Mount Ida on Crete in the cave of Zeus.
When we look to Scripture, the Greek words for “chains” and for “caves” are almost exactly alike and we find that in 2 Peter 3/4:
“In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep. For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them in chains to be held in gloomy darkness until their judgment.”
I find it interesting that the “sinning angels” having been “cast to chains of darkness” delivering them “in chains to be held in gloomy darkness.”
When I see “chains of darkness,” it takes me back to Dionysius Dendrites and the fungal science I spoke of above for the sinners should go with “delivered” or with “having cast into Tartarus or cast down into hell” “reserved unto judgment,” is a place of preliminary detention with the evil spirits (fungi/molds) who tempt and harass us on earth.
Man is subject to these spirits when he is stuck in a dream state bound by his lower nature in which the evil spirits have dominion over his soul. He is asleep in Hades tormented be his shadow and evil demons who hold him in chains.
Plotinus writes of the dark mire and what is meant by the falling asleep in Hades;
“When the soul has descended into generation (from its first divine condition) she partakes of evil, and is carried a great way into a state the opposite of her first purity and integrity, to be entirely merged in which, is nothing more than to fall into dark mire.”
He continues, “The soul, therefore, dies as much as it is possible for the soul to die: and the death to her is while baptized or immersed in the present body, to descend into matter, and be wholly subjected by it; and after departing thence to lie there till it shall arise and turn its face away from the abhorrent filth. This is what is meant by the falling asleep in Hades, of those who have come there.” (Ennead I., book viii)
The Athenian philosopher, Simplicius, writing 2,500 years ago calls matter the dregs or sediment of the first life; matter being, as it were, a certain mire or mud. (7)
Of this mud, it is written in Discordia demens of Virgil; an exact translation of the Νεικεϊ μαινομενῳ of Empedocles;
Hinc via, Tartarei quæ fert Acherontis ad undas;
Turbidus hic cæno vastaque voragine gurges
Æstuat, atque omnem Cocyto eructat arenam.*
“Here is the way which leads to the surging billows of Hell [Acheron]; here an abyss turbid boils up with loathsome mud and vast whirlpools; and vomits all its quicksand into Cocytus.”
The path to conquering the self or shadow constituted the teachings of the Lesser Mysteries to signify the condition of the initiate’s unpurified soul in its earthly body controlled by the spirits of matter until purified by philosophy in body, mind and the Holy Spirit, suffers death.
He is in the dark fungal chains in Hades.
His only hope for salvation is an initiation into the Higher Mysteries of Nous.
As Proclus writes in Theology of Plato, book iv;
“The perfective rite [τελετη, telete],” says he, “precedes in order the initiation [μυησις, muesis], and initiation, the final apocalypse, epopteia.”
Προηγειται γαρ, ἡ μεν τελετη της μυσεως, αυτη δε της εποπτειας. (8)
In which Virgil leads us to the Elysian fields:
Devenere locus lætos, et amæna vireta
Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas.
Largior hic campos æther et lumine vestit
Purpureo; solemque suum, sua sidera norunt.*
“They came to the blissful regions, and delightful green retreats, and happy abodes in the fortunate groves.
A freer and purer sky here clothes the fields with a purple light; they recognize their own sun, their own stars.”
SOURCES:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion By James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer – 1922
2. Exploring The Underground Network of Trees – The Nervous System of the Forest by Valentina Lagomarsino figures by Hannah Zucker
3. Dendritic cells and fungi – 2003 Study
4. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Volume 4 edited by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray
5. Studies of the Gods in Greece at Certain Sanctuaries Recently Excavated By Louis Dyer
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