NEPTUNE’S PRIMORDIAL OCEAN
According to Robert Graves, Poseidon originally had nothing to do with the sea and only acquired his rulership over the waters when the sea-goddess Amphitrite, the “all-encircling triad,” was forced into marriage with him. Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom attributed to this sphere, was also originally a sea-goddess.
Even earlier, long before the Greeks formed their patriarchal hierarchy of gods, the trident signified the triple goddess of the new, full and waning moon worshipped throughout the Celtic world from pre-historic times. She was the Mare-goddess, the triple-Muse, inspirer of poets and bards, and the guardian of natural springs from which her creative power was conceived to flow. A deep understanding of her lunar and etheric rhythms was vital for the success of all magical operations.
Perhaps more than any other occult symbol the trident represents the plunge into the deepest levels of the unconscious mind to where Neptune’s golden palace is concealed, the secret place of crossing over into the world of spirit. But this point of crossing over, or reversal from the known to the unknown worlds, is guarded in all traditions by frightening and wrathful deities such as the “mighty demon” called Choronzon. Occultist Kenneth Grant refers to this entity as a corrupted form of Chozzar, the ancient god of Atlantean magic, an earlier form of Neptune symbolized by “the triple-tongued flame of spirit.” As the Guardian of the Deeps, this fearful entity watches over the ultimate gateway through which extra- or ultra-terrestrial contact is established. This is the nature of the “hidden” or “forbidden” knowledge of Chokmah, forbidden because it points the way of access to other, non-human dimensions.
Neptune’s sacred dolphins are symbolic of this other world contact, a memory of the half-human half-fish deities worshipped in the most ancient times, sea beasts such as Dagon and Cannes who were said to have come from distant star systems to give their knowledge for the evolution of the human race.
In modern times, the resurgence of interest in the etheric sciences has also coincided with an immense fascination for UFOs and alien contact. Back in the 1940s and 1950s Meade Layne, the founder of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, wrote extensively about flying saucers (or ether craft) as coming from the etheric worlds which interpenetrate our own world of matter.16
In his extraordinary book Contact With Space, Dr Reich also documents the appearance of UFOs during his cloudbusting experiments involving the orgone energy ocean. The contact was overwhelming in its implications, and led many of his more orthodox followers to believe that he had gone insane. But as Reich himself wrote: “Earthmen had encountered space as it really was; not as science had conceived of it heretofore… I knew, we had without intending it, drilled a hole, as it were, into the wall which had for millenia separated man from the universe around him.”17
The mysteries of Neptune take us far beyond any rational explanations or comfortable conclusions. What begins as a simple exploration of the etheric worlds becomes an ever extending journey into the infinity of spirit. While certain of its qualities and processes can be described, the ether itself ultimately remains elusive and indefinable; it can only be experienced and understood by developing the higher organs of perception. To attempt to harness or manipulate the ethers without understanding the spiritual forces they embody is to fall into the same blind trap of our present materialistic science. But the future scientist like the alchemist of old will know that the transmutation of matter and consciousness, in the hyperphysical space of the ethers, are one.
As Eliphas Levi said: “The Great Magical Agent, by us termed the Astral Light, by others the soul of the earth, and designated by old chemists under the names of AZOTH and MAGNESIA, this occult, unique and indubitable force, is the key of all empire, the secret of all power.”12
NEPTUNE REFERENCES
1. Sacred Science, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Inner Traditions Int., N.Y., 1982
2. Sensitive Chaos, Theodor Schwenk, Schocken Books, N.Y., 1976
3. Glimpses of the Unseen World, Carl Frederick Krafft, BSRF, Garber-ville, CA
4. Radiant Energy, Dr T. Henry Moray, BSRF, Garberville, CA
5. The Science and Philosophy of the Drown Radio Therapy, Ruth B. Drown, BSRF, Garberville, CA
6. The Cosmic Pulse of Life, Trevor James Constable, BSRF, Garber-ville, CA 1990
7. New Light on Therapeutic Energies, Mark L Gallert, BSRF, Garber-ville, CA
8. The Journal of Borderland Research: Operation Pincer II. Vol. XLIH, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1987; Project Tango. Vol XLV. No. 5, Sept-Oct 1989; Operation Clincher. Vol XLVII. No. 3, May-June 1991; BSRF, Garberville, CA
9. The Etheric Formative Forces In Cosmos, Earth and Man, Dr Guenther Wachsmuth, Anthroposophical Pub. Co., London, 1932
10. Psycho-cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stupa, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Dharma Publishing, CA, 1976
11. Magick in Theory and Practice, Aleister Crowley, Castle Books, N.Y.
12. Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi, Rider & Company, London, 1958
13. Lithium and Lithium Crystals, Haroldine, BSRF, Garberville, CA, 1988
14. The Mystical Qabalah, Dion Fortune, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, ME, 1984
15. Veve, Milo Rigaud, French & European Publications Inc., N.Y., 1974
16. The Ether Ship Mystery, Meade Layne, BSRF, Garberville CA
17. Contact With Space, Dr Wilhelm Reich, Core Pilot Press, N.Y., 1957
Uranus & Neptune — The Distant Giants, Eric Burgess, Columbia Univ. Press, N.Y., 1988
The Ether of Space, Sir Oliver Lodge, BSRF, Garberville CA
Alchemy, Titus Burkhardt, Element Books, Ltd., Dorset, UK, 1986
Astronomy Magazine, Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, WI The White Goddess, Robert Graves, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, N.Y., 1984
Astrology, Karma & Transformation, Stephen Arroyo, CRCS Publications WA, 1978
Tales About Metals, S. Venetsky, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1981
The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Michael Bertiaux, Magickal Childe, N.Y., 1989