From: Thyagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: The Akashic Records...
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 10:21:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

93!01.11 e.v.


Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The word of Sin is Restriction.


Within a very wonderful piece on Yeats and dissolution, 

Sonia brock writes:

Some who take destruction in the form of Sekhmet or Kali as
their deities of preference may have some recognition that change
and breaking up of old patterns is necessary to progress on the
wheel of things.


Response:

Indeed.  This is the reason that all doctrines must be challenged
strongly and pointedly.  It is much like a wolf, weeding out the
failing members of a herd.  The haditic buck leading today will be
the fallen corpse of tomorrow.



Sonia:

Another mystical idea of Yeat's, one shared by others such
as the pioneer in psychology, Carl Gustav Jung,  is of 'Spiritus
Mundi',  mankind's huge attic where ALL the images are kept, both
old and new.  All Akashic records, all the idols and icons are in
this place from the Sphinx to Mahatma Ghandi, from the Pentegon
to Presley, from Holy Mary Mother of God to Egypt's Lady Nuit of
the night sky.  All of the old gods and goddesses are there.
Anything which we have empowered by our worship or regard is up
there in the attic, in the group mind, waiting; waiting for our
summons to emerge again and resonate to the power of prayer;
invocation or evocation or regard.  The old gods have not left
us.  They are waiting for a summons to appear in new clothing for
whatever age calls them forth.  Society had best take care what
ancient dream is called forth for another season, another turn of
the wheel, another go round of the great historical spiral.
Beware of what change, what metamorphosis that which you evoke
may revolve to!


Response:

Your words here reminded me of a bit of text I found recently
regarding those 'Akashic records' and the 'gods awaiting summons'.
We've had some heated interactions regarding certain grimoires
in this newsgroup and as I research this slowly and carefully
I am becoming comfortable championing these ideas.  I quote
Peter Smith, from his piece entitled 'Cults of Cthulhu', published
in _Starfire: A Magazine of the New Aeon_, 8704:


"One explanation of the many correspondences found in Lovecraft's
work may lie in Kenneth Grant's interpretation of the Necronomican, [sic]
as having its existence in the Akasha, or Astral Light.  This is an
etheric reservoir which surrounds the earth, and which retains within
its structure the imprint of every event which has occurred since the
formation of the planet.  It can be drawn upon at will by those who
possess the necessary psychic ability, and may be manipulated to
provide positive images.  It was from these Akashic records that
Blavatsky received _The Book of Dzyan_ and Crowley transcribed
_The Book of the Cells of the Qliphoth_.  Lovecraft may have received
_The Book of the Dead Names_ in the same manner, though in his case
the process was an unconscious one."  Page 15.


This supports my assertion that the _Necronomicon_ may well be
comparable to the Tantric Buddhist 'termas' and forms a direct
parallel between Eastern and Western grimoires.




Invoke me under my stars.  Love is the law, love under will.


I am I!


Frater (I) Nigris (666 - Until one of my kin convinces me it ought be 333 ;>)