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E. Posthumous Pageantry
“Deaths” of their slaves, and particularly the more
prominent ones, are beloved by profane religions for the
spectacles they invite, both immediately and sometimes
annually thereafter. Or even daily, as in the case of the
famous “Woman in Black” visiting Rudolph Valentino’s
crypt.
As with the event of “death” itself, the common
feature of all such profane necrofestivals is complete
disinterest in the current state of the deceased. There is
never any concern or conversation about whether the
individual is in Heaven or Hell: how to congratulate the
former or commiserate the latter.
With the possible exception of Elvis Presley, no time is
spent searching for reincarnations either. 70 But even after
several samplings of “Thriller”, the author remains
uncertain whether Michael Jackson was indeed then/
subsequently zombified. And some personages, such as
James Dean, Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, and Adolf
Hitler, mesmerize the masses far more as avatars than
actualities. On the other hand, perhaps Morrison already
was one?
F. Monolithic Anamnesis
To understand physical “death” accurately, it is first
necessary to dispel the notion that physical “death” is an
utter and final end: the proverbial “Big Black Sack”
propaganda of the profane. In actuality it is nothing of
the sort, but a consciousness-evolutionary process which
70 Except upon the disincarnation of the Dalai Lama, which
precipitates a search for his new embodiment. Unlike The King,
however, His Holiness usually reappears in Tibet instead of Las
Vegas.
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is easily realizable and identifiable once one knows where
and how to look for it.
As so much else in MindStar, this is a practical,
personal exercise in anamnesis: recollective Nœtic
knowledge of primal truth (a neter or Platonic Form).
Once alerted to anamnesis, and upon exercising the
requisite dialectic thought-discipline to attain it, its utility
and veracity will be definitively and reliably self-evident.
While anamnesis may be activated by simple
prompting [as illustrated by Plato’s Dialogue the Meno],
it can also be utilized in extensive and elaborate
explorations [as illustrated in the “Sphinx & Chimæra”
Afterwords to this book].
For a convenient metaphor to illustrate the “death”-
transitional sequence, we need look no further than the
classic science-fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
[Do not read this as nostalgic entertainment. It is an
exercise to replace the prevalent, preconditioned mental
model of “death as BBS obliteration” with a schematic of
continuation and evolutionary transition.]
As you apply anamnesis to this, its actuality will
replace the BBS falsity, freeing you from enslavement to
that hopelessness and despair. 71
In this collaboration director Stanley Kubrick and
author Arthur C. Clarke were not too far off when, at the
culmination of the film, the transitioned MS of astronaut
71 In Greater Black Magic (GBM) a purgative ritual such as this is
called a Black Mass. And authentic BM has nothing to do with
mockery of the Catholic Mass [except for addicted Catholics]; it is a
ritualized shock tailored to each celebrant, the purpose of which is
the removal and dissipation of identified self-destructiveness. It
eliminates taboos, sacred cows, and all similar conditioning, whether
conscious or subconscious.
A famous “secular” example is the shattering of Winston Smith’s
Julia-addiction in George Orwell’s 1984 by a stronger BM of rats in
Room #101.
In his The Aristos and The Magus, John Fowles described the
BM as “disintoxication”.
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David Bowman was represented as an “embryonic star-
child”. As he awakened, wrote Clarke, “he wasn’t sure
what he was going to do next ... but he would think of
something.”
2001 starred a flat-black, Golden-Rectangular 72
Monolith with the “missing link” power to catalyze
successive stages of human consciousness evolution:
from instinctive-animal to Homo Sapiens in prehistory,
then from intelligent incarnation to pure mentality (=
“star-child”), activated once man had advanced
sufficiently to reach the Moon and encounter a “sentinel”
Monolith. 73
The prehistoric and Moon Monoliths are followed by a
third, floating in space near the Jovian moon Europa.
Bowman’s transitional trip through it occurs in two
stages:
First his 3D-defined body is subjected to a series of
extreme physical forces to destroy its OU-physical
displacement.
The metamorphic Bowman then finds himself in a
Subjective-Universal (SU) “hotel suite” in which he is
suspended while his OU 4D accelerates to match the dis-
integrated 3D, as illustrated by a hypercompressed aging
process.
The “OU-4D-vacated” Bowman now re-enters the
Monolith to complete his transition to a third, wholly
mental stage of evolution, theatrically portrayed as the
“star-child”. In Egyptian Symbolism, Bowman’s MS has
72 A golden rectangle is a rectangle that can be cut up into a square
and a rectangle similar to the original one. All golden rectangles are
similar and the ratio length/width = golden ratio = (1+ sqrt 5)/2, or
ϕ. ϕ is held to be the universal standard of beauty in proportion.
73 Clarke’s original 1948 short-story was entitled The Sentinel,
describing just such a Moon-trigger, without speculating on the
consequences of its activation. Sentinel was later expanded into
2001.
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cast aside its khat-OU4D incarnation to reconstitute itself
on a ka-basis. 74
Not being initiates or Symbolists, neither Kubrick nor
Clarke found the imagery or language to be this specific.
What audiences see is therefore their “Nœtic sensation”
of this process: an artistic act of anamnesis. 75 It is the same anamnesis in 2001 which impresses them with a
subconscious sense of the intrinsic correctness, the
validity of this film-sequence without being able to put it
into words.
Stanley Kubrick was an avowed atheist, who, having
illustrated next-stage evolution, felt no need to define it.
Famous for completely differentiating his films, he simply
went on to A Clockwork Orange, then Full Metal Jacket.
But Arthur Clarke was less sanguine about the door
he’d cracked open. Popularly regarded as one of the “Big
Three” moderns of science-fiction, he had to stand up
against the other two: atheists Isaac Asimov and Robert
Heinlein. The unspoken ethic was that any hint of
supernaturalism in their stories would taint their
“science”, take them down a stage to “fantasy”. 76 The<
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most that Clarke permitted himself in interviews was a
74 An Egyptian illustration of this transitional process was authored
by Bram Stoker in The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), based upon the
GBM Opening of the Mouth. It was filmed, more sensationally than
accurately, as Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971) and
The Awakening (1980). An extract from the Stoker novel is included
under the discussion of the ka-emanation in MindStar.
75 Cf. Chapter #4.A.
76 When in 1982 Isaac Asimov sequeled his famous Foundation
trilogy with Foundation’s Edge, I pointed out to him that his hero’s
choice of Gaia in favor of the First and Second Foundations smacked
suspiciously of Paris’ choice of Aphrodite over Hera and Athena in
Greek mythology, Isaac amusedly admitted that I’d caught him; he
nursed an affection for that legend.
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Deistic shrug that God might have created the OU, but if
so paid no further attention to it.
Obviously Clarke was left floundering what to do with
his 2001 “star-child”. In 1982 he finally came up with the
sequel 2010: Odyssey Two, in which an inexplicably-re-
OU4D David Bowman chats with his wife on television,
materializes on Earth to visit his mother, and then
bequeaths the entire Solar System to humanity as long as
it stays away from Europa [for which no reason is
given77]. To emphasize this Dave changes Jupiter into a
second sun for the System, doubtless precipitating both
gravitational and radiation catastrophes for all the
remaining planets. Perhaps unsurprisingly Arthur didn’t
stick around to watch this happen; he went through his
own Monolith two years earlier in 2008.
With the perspective of initiation, we can do a bit
better than Kubrick & Clarke as to “what’s beyond the
third Monolith”:
G. Neter-Xertet
Having rejected the Big Black Sack of atheism/
agnosticism, as well as its tacit but camouflaged
acceptance by profane religion, the obvious question
remains: If upon disassociation from a physical human
body, where does the MS “go”?
“Go” is in quotes because the MS isn’t a 4D OU
displacement that is either stationary or mobile against
OU points of reference. It is of metaphysical, not
physical constitution and integrity, like the neteru, and
can be accurately conceived and understood only upon
this realization and in this context.
77 It turns out that there’s yet another one of those you-know-whats
down there in a swamp, but so what?
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Human brains conditioned to working with their
physical senses alone are accustomed to regard the OU
(the perceptive extent of those senses) as the whole of
reality.
These same physical senses are almost, but not
completely useless where reality beyond the OU is
concerned. The key to that capacity lies in the mind’s
capacity for intuition. This has nothing to do with the
commonplace use of this term for guesswork and
hunches. Rather it constitutes the capacity of though
exclusive of all OU-sensory receptions and their
accumulated reality-patterns. This is the intuition
described by Plato as Nœsis.
As illustrated by the structure of the Platonic
Dialogues, Nœsis is attainable only after an individual
has recognized and freed himself from a “pyramid” of
lesser, OU-referential thinking: a “thought purification”
process called by Plato the Dialectic. 78 In the Dialogues
it is illustrated by conversation in order to render it
intelligible in words; but the process itself is purely
mental. Experienced Initiates can activate Nœsis by
reflective thinking alone: “turning the mind in upon
itself”. The term meditation most closely characterizes
this, although again that term has been popularly
corrupted in various recreational expressions.
Accordingly there is no “physical [in the precise sense
of that term] place” wherein the neteru - and each
individual MS - dwell. For conversational convenience
only the Egyptians identified it only as the Neter-Xertet
(Place of the Neteru). In conventional Egyptology it is
frequently confused with the Tuat (Underworld) or
Amenti (Afterworld), simply because of the accepted
portrayal of Egypt “soul”-mythology as a Hebraic-style
78 Cf. FindFar for detailed discussion & illustration of the Platonic
Pyramid of Thought.
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“Heaven/Hell” journey & repository. As Symbolism
reveals, the multi-aspect MS is not reimprisoned in a
postmortem body and dragged before a “Hebrew-Godly”
Osiris to be judged and consigned to a Heavenly Amenti
or Hellish Tuat.
The neteru are utterly unconcerned with pre-
mortem human morality. “Weighing of one’s heart
against a feather” represents each MS’ transition from
OU-referential morality (symbolized by the ab or “heart
emanation”) to pure/abstract neter-morality as
symbolized by Maat.
Expect your eventual awakening [or “entry” if that is
easier to conceptualize] to Neter-Xertet to be a wondrous
unfolding of possibilities, limited only by your own
coherence, creativity, and courage.
This “destination” is the same for every conscious
entity’s MS; the only difference is with what Nœsis you
anticipate and plan for it. If you’ve “died” expecting
nothing but the terror and obliteration of non-initiation’s
BBS, it’s going to take you awhile to get over your
surprise, relief, and wonder: a meta-“rebirth” not
altogether unlike your previous, more constrained
incarnate one.
H. The Two Paths
The initiatory journey to Neter-Xertet is by one of two
Paths: the Right-Hand (RHP) and Left-Hand
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(LHP). 79 The Egyptians represented these respectively in
Symbolism as HarWer80 and Set.81
1. The Right-Hand Path
A MS which has chosen the RHP emerges in willful
synchronicity with the natural neteru, enjoying the rich
harmony of their collective Natural Law. In this
environment the MS is no longer be-Set by the tensions
of incarnate tension between a self-affirmative
consciousness enveloped in NL regularity. By far the
most initiated MSs arrive via the RHP and enjoy this
experience of Neter-Xertet as “participant” rather than
“creator” neteru. 82
Such NL-harmony is also the transitional emergence
of non-initiate MSs, the difference being that, a bit like
2001’s “star-child”, they don’t anticipate it and will need
79 While these terms originated in Buddhism to designate asexual/
sexual rituals, and were later used in Judæo-Christianity to
distinguish angelic from dæmonic occultism, they are used herein as
in the Temple of Set: RHP = OU inclusion & harmony; LHP = OU
d
istinction & independent creation. Cf. The Temple of Set and
IlluminAnX.
80 “Horus the Elder”: the original, pre-Osirian Horus as the neter of
the Solar daylight, complement of Set as neter of the night sky and
the seven circumpolar stars ( Septemtrione). Together Set and
HarWer functioned in complementary contrast as the Sam-Taui,
represented in Symbolism as a human figure with both their heads,
or the two of them ceremonially binding-together the Djed-pillar of
Existence. [In later Osirian mythology Horus was re-cast as Osiris’
son (hen “the Younger”) and Set as Osiris’ evil brother. MindStar
refers to their original apprehension.]
81 Cf. Sir J. Norman Lockyer’s The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of
the Temple-Worship & Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians.
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1964.
82 In human mythology this is somewhat similar to the difference
between “angels and archangels”, Tolkien’s “Maiar and Valar”, etc.
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to gradually discard their BBS terror and/or profane
religions’ “afterlife” myths. But relief and harmonious
consciousness will gently and comfortably arise, without
sacrifice of individuality.
While neither violating nor wishing to violate NL,
RHP MSs may freely observe and move about in the OU,
indeed to the extent of subtle interaction [as the khabit]
with still-incarnate beings. Such interaction is sensed by
the incarnate at both conscious and subconscious levels
of thought: the former as “dreams” and the latter as
extra-sensory perception (ESP) in the precise incidence
of impressions not utilizing the body’s physical senses.
Rather such occasions are a Thought-Field (TF)
phenomenon. 83
Such ESP awareness and communication occurs
through the khabit-emanation of one or more MSs, and is
“shadowed” in the physical brain of the incarnate by
Theta-wave activity. 84 It is the khabit that both causes and is sensitive to OU-disturbances such as “ghosts” and
“haunted houses”, which also explains why such
sensitivity is more developed in some incarnates than
others.
2. The Left-Hand Path
The LHP is based upon the principle of isolate-self
consciousness - “the Gift of Set” - and its exploration,
83 Concerning TFs see C#5.B.4 herein. Concerning the related Life-
Fields (LF) ordering and maintaining the consistency of an incarnate
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