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This Tooth is called Incest and in the Hyperqabalah it is the node Jincdotec. This node is fed by Zirnstaai.

The three (heuristic) spheres of reality are, the regular world, the magickal world and the energetic world. I’m not pretending this is a perfect breakdown but for the purpose of this note it will do.

The everyday world is the one we most commonly live in, or at least most of us. It functions on the bounded level of spatio temporality and gives rise to scientific rationality. This world is perfectly real. It is largely easy to communicate about things at this level because they can be spoken about in ways that people can recognise as having similarities. The rules are the same for all of us.

In this level the accretions may be sort of understood, though it will likely be only psychologically. We may understand that things are seen through concepts, though this is only an interesting feature of how perception occurs and not of ontological significance.

Magickal world functions at the level of the accretions. Magick as an activity that attempts to manipulate the world can do so because the accretions are not simply epistemological but rather ontological. Concepts (accretions of pneuma) plug into regions of ‘reality’ known as vectors and then create a filter through which concept creating organisms like humans view them. This makes a feedback loop of reperceiving the object as the concept thus driving the accretion further into the vector, making the identity between closer (though impossible to reach).

This process is the everyday magickal act of perception which reinforces the reification of object/concepts. It is also the level through which ‘magick’ as a reality manipulating activity takes place. Desired concepts (what the magician wants to happen) are applied (spells) to vector regions (situations that are required to be changed to the will e.g. make next Tuesday a sunny day, make it so I get the job etc). This is all achieved at the pneuminous accretive level, which in a sense is still actions with the world with the only difference being that the strings are pulled in non physical ways.

The last division I have called the energetic world. This name is chosen not arbitrarily but on the other hand only in recognition of how this term is often employed in esoteric systems, designating as it does, a nebulous power that courses through all things.

Energy must in a sense be the pneuma itself, except of course it is not bound into accretions. The practitioners who attempt to engage with this level are the mystics and their kin. Here the actions do not attempt to engage with the accretions but only to dispel them so that reality outside of them can be perceived. This is the most difficult aspect of all occult practice. This is the realm of silencing the mind in endless layers that show themselves. The accretive layers are very very deep.

All these layers interlock. The magician makes some use of the energetic but they do not pursue it. The everyday makes some use and has some perception of the magikcal but they do not pursue it. The energetic is inescapbaly embroiled in both of the above constantly strive to over come them.

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This Tooth is called Eris after the Goddess of Strife. It is Zirnstaai in the Hyperqabalah which is the feeder node for Jincdotec. Its tree is the poplar or aspen, animals are beavers and kingfishers.

It is strange and interesting how in the process of pulling out a philosophy, its twists and turns show themselves as it goes. It’s almost as if Hegel was right.

The reticulum as I have described it, is an interconnected series of fibres that connect beings together in endless a-spatial-temporal ways. What seems to be clearer now is that rather than a kind of in itself, the reticulum is the conceptual (pneuminous) in itself.

Whilst interlocking with this in some sense, the energetic levels can in a sense be considered separate from this. This seems to be the case because the energetic levels function outside or at least in a different relation to the accretions.

Herein does lie something of a paradox that we cannot intellectually untangle but that intimates that certain developments of awareness alter the relation between the central point of awareness and the accretive layers. It is paradoxical because accretions are concepts. We necessarily see the world with them. Yet the person who has achieved sunyata has in a sense removed the accretions from the vectors, and yet they can still function.

This must regard the energetic way in which the accretions are attached to the organism. When seamlessly attached in normal circumstances the organism uses energy to attach/maintain the accretions. This results in the positive feedback loop of magickal creation. In a sense, to see things as they are is to break the feedback loop. This returns the access to the object to its primordial use level and stops the formation of archetype and the process of archetype projection.

This too is clearly related to the two kinds of esoteric interaction, but more on that later.

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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.