The Mouth of See widens further. This 3rdTooth is called Artemis. Artemis was a cruel Goddess of chastity and wild beasts. Artemis mercilessly punished mortals -poor Actaeon was ripped apart as a deer by his own hunting dogs after accidently seeing the Goddess naked. Artemis is the veil to the other world which should not be punctured. This is why she is chastity. She herself commands the phallus (bow and arrow) with which she defends the other world. It is the node Asnerist in the Hyperqabalah which is fed by Gramier and preceded by Teufos.

The pre-ontology is an almost impossible realm to describe. I don’t pretend to be able to see it clearly. However I think certain phenomenological activities and my play with occult systems as they pass through my region, sometimes have given me glimpses of this.

The problem with the pre-ontology and its relation to the vector field is that the vector field has no concepts in it by definition, so to be able to see it purely is probably impossible (Merleau-Ponty understood this). Sunyata in Buddhism seems to have a description of a kind of state in which the field is free of accretions yet all action is still possible, indeed improved. This sense of emptiness does seem flickeringly visible and in perceiving it one gets the sense that the ground that is seen could give rise to so many conceptual possibilities. It is simulataneously understood as the world we know and empty at the same time. The emptiness looks, is identical and yet due to its emptiness it looks different. When seen as empty, the pre-ontology albeit flickeringly, shows through.

This empty state suddenly reveals that the trees are stil trees but maybe not the regular trees that we know. Everything is more open. This ground always becomes an ontology, to regular awareness the accretions must take hold and a world appears. But underneath it is always what gives rise to it and this is not an academic fancy but an experiencable realm. The pre-ontology can help make sense of descriptions of the world like one finds in the old weird fiction writers like Machen and Blackwood. These intense, living, dark, pagan worlds are visible in the pre-ontology or rather they can spring out of it. These worlds themselves are accretions, layers. But they are not the regular accretions we perceive.

In this sense it is not simply a stripping away that reveals these worlds, but rather a stripping away and reassembly. The entry into them in this sense is perfectly real as (according to the theory) the accretions are not psychologically inert but ontolgically active.

If the pre-ontology can be held and the right route found, then Artemis can indeed be found in the wood. Though who would want to find her, I do not know.