(((·))) Atlantis

The Fourth Sphere manifests to initiates of the second degree of the AOE. Her is the seat of Hummpa-Taddum

One the AOE initiates understand the magical purpose of the AOE system, they can attain the Second Degree. By mediating,

Initiates attain the second degree by achieving a magical understanding of the AOE and its purposes. By meditating upon the Platonic Decanomy – the doctrine that Atlantis is ruled by five pairs of twins – they consolidate a body of mystical, numerological, and chronomantic insights. The key test is the identification and correction of Plato's Decanomic error (Plato's misnumbering of the Atlantean City's concentric rings).

At this level AOE doctrine envisages the universe as a hierarchically unified decimal construction, governed by the relations between five twin-faced entitites (the Archons). This system is mapped by the AOE’s most potent diagram: the Atlantean Cross (or Pentazygon), whose degenerated cultural relic is popularized as the cross of Christendom.

Second level initiates learn to designate the Archons by the five concentric signs: ·, (·), ((·)), (((·))), and ((((·))). From this much follows, since the rings represent a rigorously ideal form of nested secrecy, initiation and control. This sacred pattern is reflected in the structure of the AOE's magical organization (with its circles of hermeticism and ruling Council of Five).

In the Fourth Sphere the game of decadence is more elaborately and explicitly ritualized, with its divinatory function clearly exposed. Decadence is seen to communicate orders from the Archons, informing all AOE doctrine and practices.

The world of the Fourth Sphere is exemplified by the schematics of the lost Dunwich Cathedral (based on an internally mirrored vision of the Atlantean Cross). Spaces of this design are essential to the ceremonies of initiation into this Sphere.

Architectonic is understood as a distribution of Archons (on Atlantean Cross), whose Order is the nested series of the Archons, constituting a system of concentrically embedded time loops. This ‘Architectonic Order’ creates the illusion of secular history, producing progressive time through chronomantic interventions. At this level the conception of the ‘Eschaton’ is enriched by a preliminary understanding of Omega Point cosmic historicism, including some knowledge of the importance of the Axsys program (the AOE ‘Great Work’), and of communication with Alpha Centauri (‘The Star’).

Fourth Sphere magic is oriented towards the “creative binding” or transcendental production of time (“erasing the wounds of time”). The objective is to exorcize all time anomalies (de-realizing them as ‘mere’ coincidence, chance etc.).

The Platonic description of Atlantis, hermetically comprehended, constitutes the core of Fourth Sphere doctrine: key to the entirety of Western religion, philosophy and science, as well as to the destiny of the earth. Atlantis is conceived as the Ideal State, incarnated through the AOE. (Kant's description of the noumenon as lying ‘beyond the Pillars of Hercules’ attests to the continuity of this tradition). Second degree initiates understand that the oecumenic myth of Atlantis serves as an AOE cover story, with the submergence of the legendary city-continent symbolizing its chronomagical concealment, whose traces appear in tales of advanced technologies, higher intelligences, and the visitations of an ‘alien race’ (the Nephilim of the Hebrew Bible, and the Sumerican Annunaki).

Atlantean Gnostics indciate this sphere belongs to the ‘second dimension of time’, within which secular history persists as a region of Atlantean memory.