911 and the Occult

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"9/11 AND THE OCCULT."

by Asif Husain

"This essay is about magickal activity connected with the events of September
11, 2001, its symbolism, and the occult significance of the day.

There is layer upon layer of symbolism here. I cannot conceive of a more

classic manifestation of the Mars-Geburah force than what happened on that
day. What immediately struck me was the way in which Mars manifested on
9/11/2001. To begin with, that date was on a Tuesday, Mardi in French, the
day that we ascribe to Mars. This is one of the malefic planets, bordering on
the dark and evil aspects of the qlippoth. It can manifest itself in quite
unpleasant ways. Very nasty!

Now what are the qualities of Mars? It is projectile; explosive; volatile;

destructive; katabolic [i.e., breaks things down]; sudden; acts without warning;
severe; disciplined; precise; dynamic; dangerous; deadly; accurate; forceful;
vehement; strong; powerful; unpredictable; fiery; violent; cutting; slashing and
slicing. All these qualities were abundantly in evidence on that day.

Then there was the symbology of the Tower [of Babel] itself, which is
attributed to Mars and which is the Trump of that planet. That card, the
sixteenth key of the Tarot�s Major Arcana, was quite blatantly obvious to any
mage on 9/11. It was all over that attack. Moreover, even the very details of
the Tower Card [path 27] were in evidence then. Those people jumping out of
the windows and falling to their deaths! Exactly as depicted on the card! Those
are the eight Fallen Kings and the eleven Dukes of Edom wearing crowns!
Falling headlong! The card is often interpreted as the Fallen Ruins of the
Edomite Kings. Many of the folks who died in the collapse of those two Twin
Towers were captains of industry and masters of Wall Street. They can most
definitely be seen to represent the concept of the Kings of Edom who fell
because they refused to accept Divine Light.

In addition, the Hebrew letter PEH [P], meaning mouth [the organ of speech] is
ascribed to the card, along with the planet/force of Mars, the god of war and
violence, chewing people up into devastation as they disappeared into the
maw, the gullet, the jaws of Hell, under the earth, under the rubble! That is
the Tower. Notice the similarity to The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot Deck
Tower Card that shows the building NOT falling over but sinking straight
downward into the open mouth of Hell or Moloch or�in our view here, Yog-
Sothoth. The image on that card matches perfectly the sight of those two
towers falling straight down. When the Tower of Babel was struck, people
started to talk in different tongues; this is where the word "babbling"
originates. [The W.T.C. was a world centre with many tongues spoken]. It
should hit home to people just how much of a weapon a mouth can really be.
The old idea that: "Words will never hurt me", is actually quite false. Words
have hurt devastatingly. Think of Hitler and his power of oratory. His sheer
hypnotic power of speech and words was so immense that it did incalculable
damage on a world scale. Now there�s a powerful mage if ever there was one
[of the black and evil variety]. The same idea occurs in the Chinese I Ching
where the Chinese tri-gram TUI means both �mouth� and �weapons�.

The 27th path of the Tower unites Hod with Netzach; hence in the passage
from the Mercurial intellection of Hod to the natural intuition and harmony
with nature in the Venusian Netzach, there is a breaking of forms. Mental
edifices built on shaky foundations collapse. This suggests that skyscrapers are
unnatural constructions, Towers of Babel. Our whole civilization is full of such
manifestations of breaking away from the natural order of things. Skyscrapers
are vertical constructions; the Earth is horizontal. Verticalness is a spiritual
dimension of growth, not a physical one. Therefore, this is a sign that we have
become material to the exclusion of the spiritual. We have replaced material
symbols for spiritual ones (Mammon). Every event is karmic, especially if it
affects the lives of billions of people as this one did. Towers of Babel are built
everywhere, especially inside us.

Other meanings of the Tower Card are man-made institutions; monuments built
to materialism; a false sense of self or ego; the destruction of our own
perceptions or what we perceive to be reality; the concept of what most
people call "I"; our personality and its awareness being shattered by an influx of
force revealing something of the nature of our True Self and Higher and Divine
Genius; a stepping stone into the inner world; and useless images and idols
being torn down to make way for new growth. Choose any of these that you
think fit. As the Tower is destroyed in each of us, we are free to pursue our
True Will. The lightning bringing destruction upon the false crowns and false
values of our existence, which we believe to control us, is a sudden realization
or flash of perception of our true self, our real identity. Our true reality is the
representation of the Divine essence within us. We need Mars to tear away the
obsolete values. Geburah is the dominant energy of this path.

The Tower Card also means fighting; war; misery; distress; adversity; calamity;
ruin; destruction; danger; fall; change [often complete and sudden]; conflict;
disruption; the fall of dreams; the sword; catastrophe; sudden disaster; wrath
and anger; Aries; trial by fire; the coming of a New Age; Cosmic Energy in its
grossest form; the Jaws of Dis; the Eye of God; the king must die; freedom
from old structures; panic; fear; grief; despair; loss and chaos. The stricken
Tower signals enantiodromia where the good becomes the bad with an eruption
of rage, envy, insanity, and death. Is this the collective psyche�s constellation
of the opposite in a move toward wholeness? America has pulled the Tower
Card from the cosmic tarot deck that resides in the collective unconscious of
humanity.

The constant repetition of the image of the destruction of the Twin Towers
that was so pervasive throughout the media after 9/11 is perhaps symbolic of
an unseen process that is happening in the psyche of America and the world.
Those images have definitely had a powerful transformative effect on everyone
who has seen them. National confidence has eroded because there is an
intuitive sense that something more than the Twin Towers has collapsed. In the
Tarot, knocking down the tower represents the catastrophic failure of old
structures that need to change. Perhaps the fall of the Twin Towers signals the
necessary destruction of our materialistic, patriarchal value system.

In the Major Arcana we see a tower

being struck by a zigzag bolt of
lightning emanating from the sun. The
explosion knocks off the crown of the
tower and causes the figures of men
and women to plummet to their
destruction. Fire, smoke and flames are
seen billowing out of the windows and
inside the structure of the tower.
Traditionally writers have associated
this card with the destruction of the
Tower of Babel, the Fall of Atlantis, or
God's vengeance on Sodom and
Gomorrah. It has often been
interpreted as the punishment for
pride. In addition, the Tower Card
follows the Devil Card, which represents
the risks of becoming too entangled in
matter and ego. Values based only on a
materialistic viewpoint are inherently
unstable. The lightning represents the
sudden flash of illumination about the
power of Spirit to create change; if and
when lightning strikes and we cling to
ideas that no longer work for us,
unexpected events and disasters may
force us to make a major shift in our perception of reality.
The Tower also represents attitudes that are resistant to change, so perhaps
we should be asking ourselves, what in our culture is resistant to destruction?
As the Taoists so aptly say, "the stick that won't bend must break."

If we resist forces beyond our control, our lives can be 'turned upside down' by
cataclysm. Cosmic Energy in its roughest form is an unavoidable element of
Creation. In addition, this Cosmic change can be terrible and abrupt, causing
hardship, misfortune, and the loss of security. Other names for the Tower Card
are "The Struck Tower", "The House of God", "War" and "The Fire from Heaven."
Interpretive readings of the card on a personal level associate it with danger,
collapse, lost conceptual plans, sudden death and demolition of old beliefs.
When this happens we must react with hope rather than fear. The highest
truths can now be realized.

The Tower Card symbolizes a law of life that says: eventually what goes up
must come down, one way or another. Look into the fire cauldron of
transformation. A warrior-like attitude and phallic driven hubris "cometh
before a fall." Pyramids do get pillaged and towers burned; what goes around
comes around. Karma. Erections come down and are demolished. The image of
the World Trade Centre towers being struck down is burned into our
consciousness.

The Blasted Tower is the House of God. A tower, being struck by a huge
lightning bolt, is cracking. A large crown is toppling from it. A man and a
woman are falling headfirst. This card symbolizes the destruction of the
ego�or we could say the old dominator paradigm, the patriarchy. It symbolizes
the end of illusion. The lightning bolt represents Truth.

The card, which admits of two interpretations in one, is a manifestation in its

rudest form, of pure destruction, the destruction of the old-established Aeon
by lightning, flames, and engines of war. The other interpretation is drawn
from the cult of Shiva. At the top of the card appears the Eye of Shiva.
According to this, the card represents perfection, the perfection of annihilation
by emancipation from the prison of organised life. The dove and the serpent
represent the feminine and masculine impulses. In the language of
Schopenhauer, "The Will to Live and the Will to Die".

In most Tarot decks the image on The Tower Card is of a tall tower, somewhat
like a modern lighthouse. But this "light-house" is being "lit up" by a lightning
bolt and flames of fire! Two people are falling headfirst to the hard rocks
below, as if they had been blasted out of the door-less room at the top of the
tower. It appears to be a scary sight, and one can only wonder or fear for what
might happen to those two poor people when they "hit rock-bottom". What is
even more "scary" is that the occult meaning of The Tower card is
"Destruction"! This is not a positive card in any reading. The word "occult"
simply means "hidden", and the phrase "the Occult" simply means "a body of
esoteric knowledge and wisdom hidden from those who are not ready, willing,
or able to understand it". What we do not understand, we often fear; and this
is why some people seem to fear things, which are "occult" or hidden from their
understanding. It represents the fear of the unknown, the greatest fear.

The full name of this card is "The Lightning-Struck Tower", and that adds an
electrifying element of sudden "shock" to the scene, or at least an element of
surprise. They couldn't see this coming, and then suddenly their whole world
was turned upside-down. The Tower is ambiguous: Is it a fortress or a prison?
Indeed there is little difference, for we easily may become prisoners of our
own defences.

The Tower is the World Axis, the centre of being, and the divine illumination
has struck at its core, demolishing it, but igniting in its depths the spark of new
life. The falling figures, representing head and heart (reason and emotion),
were imprisoned in the Tower�s dogma and defences. Though now released,
before they can be reborn they must "come back to the earth" of the body and
must be submerged in the Abyssal waters of the unconscious, which have been
quickened by the lightning. The manna from heaven, falling around them, will
sustain them through the trials of this transformation. Symbolically speaking,
the tower prevents us from seeing the light. It is an obstacle on our path. The
distinctions between the 9/11 WTC attack and the Tower Card become blurred,
as they are both expressions of the same archetypal image. It is not entirely
clear in this article, which one is being talked about, so perfectly do they
correspond to each other. The entire nation and even the whole World
received a wake-up call that morning. I am not suggesting that all of this
applies to 9/11. It is up to the individual to decide how much of it really does.
And there is even more than this in the Tower Card.

Beyond this, however, we should consider the attack on the Pentagon. There is
the symbolism of the Pentagon itself. The planetary figure of Mars is the
pentagon. The Pentagon Building has five sides, five stories, and five
concentric circles, the number of Mars and Geburah�qabalistically. There is an
interesting connotation when you think that this building is for war and the
military. This can be attributed perfectly to Mars and we are sure it was no
coincidence. Whoever designed and built it must have had some qabalistic
knowledge and intent and knew what they were doing. Robert Anton
Wilson�in his fictional "Illuminatus! Trilogy"�describes the Pentagon as a
Magickal Circle intended to keep the Lovecraftian Yog-Sothoth in place. [This is
because Yog-Sothoth is the heart and soul of what the Pentagon does.] Now, I
am not suggesting that what Wilson wrote is literal fact. However, I *am*
suggesting that the Pentagon is [whether intentional or not] a magickal circle,
and that this building *does* contain some of this planet's most nasty and
destructive energies. Breaking that circle open on 9/11 [along with the massive
human sacrifice that went on that day] played a big part in unleashing the
atrocities and destruction we have seen in the months since. What Wilson
fictionalised as "Yog-Sothoth" is, in fact, let loose to wreak havoc on this
planet�and it is consuming entire nations in its path. The plane that slammed
into the Pentagon symbolically broke through the protective circle and
defensive barrier of the country�smashed right through it. Oil has been called
the blood of the Old Ones. It is literally the remains of ancient dead creatures.
Fossil fuels are the old bones of dinosaurs and dragons and such entities. The
World has an insatiable greed for it. Watch Bush go into Iraq for it.

Then there was the suicide and sacrifice of the nineteen. Suicide and
sacrifice are attributed to Scorpio, which is ruled by Mars [again!]. Scorpions
are known to sting themselves to death. That is the Death Card. Highly
appropriate!

Then there was the way in which those two buildings disintegrated in a most
unexpected manner. To many of us that seemed decidedly supernatural. Now
that is highly characteristic of Geburah-Mars�katabolic and breaking down.
That's how that force operates. One of the odd things about the 9/11 attacks
was the way in which those two buildings came crashing down. They turned
into dust, were pulverised, disintegrated, just crumbled. It was like a
controlled demolition. My question is: Was that predictable? Could the
hijackers themselves have foreseen that? Normally, when a building is hit, it
still remains standing. It doesn't just collapse like that. But both those two
buildings did collapse. If, before the attack, people had known they would be
hit, they would say: "Okay, then. There will be a big fire. We will put out the
fire and repair the damage to the buildings but the World Trade Centre will
still be standing there." I have talked with building inspectors and they told me
that what happened was not predictable. Nobody expected, imagined or
dreamed that the buildings would be gone, including those who planned the
whole thing. No-one anticipated, predicted, contemplated, or believed, that a
total collapse of either tower was possible or imminent. Dion Fortune wrote:
"Geburah...therefore represents the katabolic, or down-breaking aspect of
force. Katabolism, be it remembered, is that aspect of metabolism, or the life
process, which is concerned with the release of force in activity." The point
being, the reason that it is important to know this, is that this appears to be
the work and function of Geburah, or the God-Head. There was apparently
some other force at work that day, unknown to anybody, manifesting itself.

Then there is the number of hi-jackers: Nineteen. That was surely no

coincidence. This is a profoundly symbolic number in Islam. Check out The Holy
Qur'an, Chapter 74, verse 30 and the surrounding verses. There are web-sites
that go on in detail about the numerical code based on the number 19 that is
embedded throughout the whole of the Qur'an. There are over a hundred pages
of clear-cut examples. This symbolism is well known to Muslims. Allah also has
99 names in the Qur�an. [9 X 11 = 99].
 There was also the dramatic and spectacular way in which it happened.
Everybody knows about that. It has achieved mythical proportions.

Consider also, "The Curse of 9:11". In the Bible, there are two relevant 9:11�s
(Chapter and Verse). The first is Daniel 9:11: "Yea, all Israel have transgressed
thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the
curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the
servant of God, because we have sinned against him." The passage is self-
explanatory. The next three verses continue to elaborate. It presents hard
facts that must be accepted by Crusaders and Zionists. The message appears
too obvious for it to be a coincidence. The second relevant Biblical 9:11 is
Revelation 9:11: "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the
bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek
tongue hath his name Apollyon." Abaddon here is a personification of
destruction. A fitting verse for 9:11. Coincidence again, perhaps? Further,
these two books, Daniel and Revelation, are two of the most prophetic books in
the entire Bible.

There was admittedly a lot of magickal activity surrounding that day. The
choice of day alone can be interpreted qabalistically: 9/11 [9+1+1=11].

9 = Yesod, the Foundation. The W.T.C. was symbolic of the foundation of

Capitalism, and thus of the entire American Empire. The attacks of 9/11 were
certainly a direct attack on America�s foundation.

11 = The Averse Tree, or Qlippoth. The Qlippoth are the Shells of the Dead (of
the grave)�and one can easily see the connection to the W.T.C. disaster and
the mass grave it created. One interpretation of the Averse Tree has always
been that it is the Fallen Ruins of the Kingdoms of Edom. And the W.T.C. was
certainly that. Tying back in again to the Tower Card, which was all over that
attack, the Averse Tree is related to the Fallen Kingdoms of Edom. Well, it just
so happens that the Tower Card is often interpreted as�you guessed it �the
Fall of the Edomite Kings. These things are all one.

Even the structure of the number 11 is telling. We all know it resembles the
two Twin Towers. But, even more than this, it represents the Kether of the
Averse Tree�which is ruled by the demonic Dual Contending Forces, or
Thaumiel. (Two Ones where there should properly be only One.) It means
Warfare.

More of a magickal nature was also going on after 9/11 that I am aware of, but
it doesn't directly relate to what I have talked about here and now.

Now the question arises: Was this done consciously or not? Was it a
coincidence? Did it just happen or was it planned? Did the perpetrators know all
this about towers struck down from above and five-sided buildings, know what
they were doing? In that case, is there someone [or many] who are doing
magick, possibly of that faith, very powerful, and specifically doing 'war work'?
Then there would be someone behind the scenes who did this, someone who
"lives in the shadows of history."

To end, I should also state that the attacks on 9/11 were not just an attack
on "America." They were a direct attack on the "side of Light" by the "side of
Darkness." Maybe that sounds a bit romantic [and definitely simplistic!] �but
the fact remains. I have seen many, many important spiritual and magickal
groups (from Masons, to the Golden Dawn, to the Rosicrucians, to Wiccan
groups, etc., etc., etc., etc.) break down and even dissolve under the
pressures post-9/11. Directly after the attacks, I watched as the forces of
darkness reigned on this planet without opposition �because the forces of Light
had all been crippled. It took several weeks and months, but the Light-siders
began to emerge slowly [and most importantly!] silently. From Michael Moore
publishing his anti-Bush book [Stupid White Men] at a time when fear of
prosecution for "treason" ran high�to the blessed soul who risked his or her
very LIFE to smuggle Karl Rove�s campaign plan out of the White House to
leave it on a park bench. Since then, the "good guys" have been regrouping and
fighting back�but it sure was dark there for a while.