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Mvimaedivm Black

::: OCCULUS & BIN ANATH: Origins:::

C5. Excerpt OA 35.

12/12/122 CE

+O+ Now what’s important to note is that the clues exist it is just a matter of Sinister empathy to decipher the code and
trace them backwards to find what was unsaid and potentially, unknown. Again using geometrical concepts linked to one
another through formial development we have tilled new ground – wherein we can finally reveal the true origin of the
next Dark One – “Bin Anath”.

It is doubtful that the Order was even aware of the connexion given how drastically the Sinister Tradition departs from
the original pre-islamic bedouin tradition in which we find the symbol of Kthunae and the meaning of Bin Anath.

In the second part of this essay I enclose RM’s Sinister Tarot Atu V – The Master whose governing One is Atazoth – and
which for convenience we will take to mean the aforementioned ‘increasing of azoth’ though as CR’s MB contributions
have shown, this is not strictly correct.

Now in Caelethi [meaning “Slayers”] we find the following – hidden in plain sight no less.

The depths of the sea,

a tunnel of knives,
there is union here,
while he directs the Chosen
Rage in the Eye
of the Goat -
the golden triangle
stands against a sky of fire

The Master is in fact a tripartite magical depiction of The Giving, wherein we have the constellation of Capricorn through
The Master is in fact a tripartite magical depiction of The Giving, wherein we have the constellation of Capricorn through
the barred window, mirrored again on the draped cloth, and yet again through the actions of the figures.

The sigil of Atazoth can be derived from the Sign of Capricorn – wherein, the upper orbular sign is used as the Dark Gate
in ONA mss – whilst the lower half of the sigil depicts the increasing of azoth via the union of two halves [priest and
priestess] and the right half of that section of the sigil presumably refers to some specific time, or force. See below where I
have marked out the sigil in Capricorn which signs both end in the Eye of the Goat or Oculus:

If we may touch on some brief lore:

Legend: During their war with the giants, the Gods were driven into Egypt and pursued by Typhon. In order to escape,
each was forced to change his shape, and Pan, leaping into the Nile, turned the upper part of his body into a goat and the
lower part into a fish, a shape considered by Jupiter worthy of commemoration in the heavens. [Robson* (https://href.li/?
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Oculus.html#*), p.35.]

Influence: Ptolemy’s observations are as follows “The stars in the horns of Capricorn (https://href.li/?
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Capricorn.html) have efficacy similar to that of Venus, and partly
to that of Mars. The stars in the mouth are like Saturn, and partly like Venus: those in the feet and in the belly act in the
same manner as Mars and Mercury: those in the tail are like Saturn and Jupiter.” By the Kabalists this constellation is
associated with the Hebrew letter Yod and the 10th Tarot Trump “The Wheel of Fortune.” [Robson* (https://href.li/?
http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Oculus.html#*), p.36.]

The constellation Capricorn has a great influence over human affairs portending major changes in such areas as climate
and political customs. Along with the sign, the constellation is also noted as the “Mansion of Kings.” Unfavorably situated
with regards to lunar eclipses, it indicates major storms, especially at sea. [Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology (https://href.li/?
http://www.astrologyetal.com/full.html), George Noonan, 1990, p.36.]

The astrological influences of the constellation Capricorn (https://href.li/?

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Capricorn.html) given by Manilius:

“In her shrine Vesta tends your fires, Capricorn (https://href.li/?

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Capricorn.html): and from her you derive your skills and callings.
For whatever needs fire to function and demands a renewal of flame for its work must be counted as of your domain. To
pry for hidden metals, to smelt out riches deposited in the veins of the earth, to fold sure-handed the malleable mass—
these skills will come from you, as will aught which is fashioned of silver or gold. That hot furnaces melt iron and bronze,
and ovens give to the wheat its final form, will come as gifts from you. You also give a fondness for clothes and wares
which dispel the cold, since your lot falls for all time in winter’s season, wherein you shorten the nights you have brought
to their greatest length and give birth to a new year by enlarging the daylight hours. Hence comes a restless quality in
their lives and a mind which is often changed and floats this way and that; the first half of the sign is the slave of Venus,
and that with guilt involved, but a more virtuous old age is promised by the conjoined fish below.” [Astronomica
(https://href.li/?http://www.amazon.com/Manilius-Astronomica-Loeb-Classical-Library/dp/0674995163), Manilius, 1st century AD,
book 4, p.241.]

The astrological influences of the star Oculus

With Mercury: Of the nature of Saturn and Venus. It gives a clever and piercing intellect when in conjunction with
Mercury. [Robson* (https://href.li/?http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Oculus.html#*), p.180.].

References:

*[Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (https://href.li/?http://www.amazon.com/Fixed-Constellations-Astrology-Vivian-

Robson/dp/0766142280), Vivian E. Robson, 1923].
 Notable stars in Capricorn: Epoch 2000

Longitude Name Nature Mag. Position Lat. Dec.

03 Aq. 46 Geidi (https://href.li/? Venus/ 4 Horn of 07N 13S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#geidi) Mars Goat
04 Aq. 03 Dabih (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 3 Left Eye 05N 15S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#dabih) Venus of Goat
05 Aq. 25 Oculus (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 5 Right 01N 18S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#oculus) Venus Eye of
Goat
13 Aq. 26 Armus (https://href.li/? Mars/ 4 Heart of 03S 20S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#armus) Mercury Goat
13 Aq. 51 Dorsum (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 4 Back of 01S 17S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#dorsum) Jupiter Goat
20 Aq. 12 Castra (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 4 Belly of 05S 19S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#castra) Jupiter Goat
21 Aq. 47 Nashira (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 3 Tail of 03S 17S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#nashira) Jupiter Goat
23 Aq. 32 Deneb Algedi (https://href.li/? Saturn/ 3 Tail of 03S 16S
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#deneb%20algedi) Jupiter Goat

Classical mythology linked the constellation figure of Capricorn with Pan who during the war of the Titans jumped in
terror into the Nile and changed his shape into that of a goat-fish. Thus the words ‘panic’ and ‘pandemonium’ originated.
Greek myth also associated the symbolism to Dionysus [aka Nyktelius or Noctulius] (Bacchus to the Romans), the god of
wine, agriculture, and earthly fertility; or Liber ‘the free one’, an older Italian god of fertility and growth in nature. All of
the classical associations exploit the symbolism of the goat’s horn as a drinking vessel and cornucopia – an abundance of
the gifts of nature as seen in the sustenance offered by the goat’s milk. Capricornus is the Latin name for the constellation
which refers only to a goat’s horn, a potent symbol for fertility which gave rise to a reputation for hedonistic behaviour
and the more negative tendencies associated with ‘acting the goat’. In many respects these attributes present an extreme
quality of Zeus who was nourished in infancy by the goat Amalthea. A deeper spiritual significance, and a more
Saturnian flavoured origin is revealed in the ancient depiction of this star group as a goat’s forebody attached to the tail of
a fish.

The constellation has a widespread association with aquatic creatures in ancient times. Early Hindu astrologers depicted it
as a goat’s head upon the body of a hippopotamus and it was known by some Latin authors as Neptune’s Offspring or The
Rain-bringing One. This is partly because the Sun’s passage through this section of the sky coincided with the rainy season
of the ancient year. The symbolic roots are also tied into the worship of Ea, one of the most important Babylonian gods
who ruled over Waters, Wisdom and Magic. Ea’s domain was the ‘Primeval Deep’, and he was known by the title
‘Antelope of the Ocean’.

Ea was the most stoical of the ancient gods and his mythological traits reveal him to be a constant friend to humanity. The
Greeks preserved his character in their own myth of Oannes, an exceptionally wise creature, described by Berossus as
half-fish and half-human, who was said to have emerged from the ocean on four occasions to bring culture and
civilisation to mankind. Ea and Oannes are both described as articulate, patient, tolerant and serene. Their lack of
emotional excitability are impressed upon the character traits associated with the star sign Capricorn.

Despite its zodiacal importance, Capricorn is unremarkable as a constellation, possessing no stars brighter than 3rd
magnitude. It is second only to Cancer for its lack of luminosity and, like Cancer, was regarded as a celestial portal
between Heaven and Earth. Whereas Cancer was ‘the Gate of Men’, through which souls descended to Earth from
Heaven, Capricorn was ‘the Gate of the Gods’, the portal of ascension through which souls of the departed ascended back
to Heaven. This ties neatly with Hermetic Philosophy, which regards the sphere of the Moon, the planetary ruler of
Cancer, as the final realm in which incarnating souls acquire shape and form in birth, and the sphere of Saturn, the
planetary ruler of Capricorn, as the final realm in which ascending souls free themselves from earthly trappings upon
death. It is assumed that this association developed whilst the Sun’s ingress into Cancer marked its greatest elevation and
Capricorn marked its nadir. Early philosophers looked upon water as the element from which all life emerged, hence
symbolism of an aquatic or amphibious nature is prevalent in the constellations linked to these points.

This Hermetic-Platonic philosophy has a direct relevance to Babylon and therefore strengthens the argument that
Capricorn celebrates the mythology of one of their prominent gods. The name ‘Babylon’ is the Greek form of bab-ili, the
Assyrian translation of the Akkadian ca-dimira, ‘gate of the gods’, by which name it was locally known. The Hebrew name
Babel (bab‘gate’ + el ‘god’) shows the connection more clearly.[1] (https://href.li/?
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#1)

As ‘the Gate of the Gods’ Capricorn was favoured for times of sacrifice, and in the zodiacs of Denderah and Esna, where it
is depicted by a goat-fish, it is called Hu-penius, meaning ‘the place of sacrifice’. Goats were a creature of choice for
atoning sacrifice – Letviticus of the Old Testament describes a ceremony whereby one goat is offered in sacrifice, to be
slaughtered on the north side of the altar, whilst a second becomes a sin offering, a scapegoat which after the ceremony is
exposed to the wilderness as the bearer of man’s sin. This scapegoat fell naturally into the symbolism of evil, some Biblical
translations refering to it as Azazel, an outcast evil spirit residing in the wilderness. Azazel has subsequently been seen as
a demonic goat god that has influenced pagan illustrations of the devil. But this is a very distorted vision of the symbolic
properties of the goat. The goatfish however can be seen as a powerful dualistic emblem, uniting creatures that roam the
mountains with those that swim the depths of the ocean, a symbol of the integration of spirit in matter which must one
day be separated and held to account. [ed]

Ptolemy noted the stars in the horns to be like Venus with a lesser influence of Mars; those in the mouth like Saturn with a
lesser influence of Venus; those in the feet and belly like Mars and Mercury, and those in the tail like Saturn and Jupiter.
[2] (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#2)

Manilius suggested that the stars in the first half of the sign are subject to Venus ‘and that with a guilt involved‘, whilst ‘a
more virtuous old age is promised by the conjoined fish below‘. In a general sense this is borne out in the meanings attributed to
the stars, those in the first half of the constellation tending more towards issues of sacrifice and relationship problems,
those in the latter suggesting attributes of trustworthiness, the potential for good judgement or acting in an advisory
capacity to others.

Manilius also saw Capricorn as the source of metal-workers’ talents because Capricorn, as the sign of winter, related to the
year’s (and therefore the earth’s) depths. He associated Capricorn with that which needs a ‘renewal of flame’ because its
season brought back a renewal of the sun’s light following the winter solstice :

For whatever needs fire to function and demands a renewal of flame for its work must be counted as of your domain. To
pry for hidden metals, to smelt out riches deposited in the veins of the earth, to fold sure-handed the malleable mass –
these skills will come from you, as will aught which is fashioned of silver or gold. … You also give a fondness for clothes
and wares which dispel the cold, since your lot falls for all time in winter’s season, wherein you shorten the nights you
have brought to their greatest length and give birth to a new year by enlarging the daylight hours.[3] (https://href.li/?
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#3)
Manilus’s outlook is clearly a continuation of more ancient veneration, which saw Capricorn as a sacred and powerful
constellation, presenting a need to offer sacrifice and atonement because of its alignment with the solstice. [ed]

The alpha star, Giedi, or Al Gedi, whose name derives from Al Jady, ‘the Goat’, seems to embody the association with
sacrifice and the temperament of Ea in its influence of benefice, sacrifice and offering (Robson, p.167). Located between the
horns, its nature is reckoned as like Venus with an influence of Mars. TheLarousse Encyclopedia of Astrology associates it
with piety and self-sacrifice. Robson states that it is symbolically called ‘The Slain Kid’.

Dabih, in the left eye, has a nature like Saturn and Venus and holds a mixed reputation – if well placed it denotes
prominence in public affairs and success in business, but if afflicted it causes criticism, suspicion, problems with friends
and lovers, and the failure to realise ambitions. It is also related to sacrifice through its Arabic title Al Sa’d al
Dhabih meaning ‘the Lucky One of the Slaughterers’. A similar meaning is attributed to Oculus in the right eye.

Armus and Castra, in the heart and belly respectively, are stars with disagreeable natures, whose prominency indicates
malevolence and destructiveness. Robson states of Armus “It gives disagreeableness, contemptibleness, instability,
shamelessness, nagging and a troublesome and contentious nature”. Of Castra he says “malevolence, destructiveness, and
an uncontrollable temper”.[4] (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#4)
Dorsum, Nashira and Deneb Algedi, are all in the tail. As befits their Saturn-Jupiter nature they have the power to
destroy or aid, depending upon whether they are well placed or afflicted. Fortified, they suggest the ability to hold a
position of trust; afflicted, they indicate corruption and loss. Ebertin and Hoffman state of Deneb Algedi:

Dependent on its position in the cosmogram, it will bring a life full of change. According to Arabic tradition, Deneb
Algedi will make a person become a legal advisor or counsellor, and will give such a person the ability to hold a position
of trust. This fixed star makes for integrity and justice and gives a knowledge of man. Therefore we see here a refining
Saturn influence. This will be achieved if the radical Saturn is well placed. [5] (https://href.li/?
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#5)

Capricorn culminates due south around midnight during mid-August and September.
The Sun crosses Geidi around 24th January, Dabih around 25th January, Oculus around 26th January, Armus
and Dorsum around 3rd February, Castra around 10th February, Nashira around 11th February and Deneb
Algedi around 13th February.
Notes & References:

1] See the word-origin webzine:http://www.takeourword.com (https://href.li/?

http://www.takeourword.com/Issue033.html)
Back to text (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#1back)
2] Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, (1st cent. AD), trans. Robbins, published by Harvard Heinemann, I.9
(Loeb p.53).
Back to text (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#2back)
3] Manilius, Astronomica, (c. 10 AD) trans. G.P. Goold, 1997, published by Harvard Heinemann,
Loeb classical library, London. 4.243-259, (Loeb p.241-43).
Back to text (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#3back)
4] Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations, 1923, republished by Ascella, p.141 and 156.
Back to text (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html#4back)
5] Ebertin & Hoffman, Fixed Stars and their Interpretation, trans. Irmgard Banks (Tempe, AZ:
The American Federation of Astrologers, 1971), p.77.
[See footnotes and OA 34, 35 for relevance]

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RM’s angular codes encrypted information into the images that only he or someone with his helical code can decipher.
Often only a word or two or associated key word to charge the images secretly through sympathy. However, when one is
particularly and intimately familiar with the pre-occupational esoteric theories of the ONA – his poetry is not so difficult
to discern in places.

We know the poetry is related to an increasing of Azoth – the depths of the sea refers to the Abyssal, the tunnel of knives
to a ceremonial gauntlet through which the opfer makes its procession, the union refers to the priest and priestess, whilst
the Grand Master draws down the acausal through visualization and chant. This is the Rite of Recalling – the attempt to
birth a Dark One through a newborn [age indifferent].

The golden triangle may refer to the tetrahedron potentially held up to the Sun – and/or it may refer to the celestial
alignment of the Tropic of Capricorn when the ritual takes place, which would explain why the tetrahedron would be
‘golden’ in description – and also why the tetrahedron crystal is blood-stained in the Tarot atu/image.

“Due to the precession of the equinoxes the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in the constellation
Capricornus, but the astrological sign called Capricorn begins with the solstice. The sun’s most southerly position, which
is attained at the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to
the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.”

Note also the blue butterfly – denoting previously imprisoned forces now transformed which fits perfectly with an
increase of azoth and the acausal drawn down and released via the sacrificial union of the opfer. The ONA’s
preoccupation with this Rite are surprisingly uniform despite being encoded so many ways.
 A small amount of research reveals that the Eye of the Goat is in fact, Oculus

Now note, that where the Dark Gate symbol is –

This is the Star – Dabih, aka the Left Eye of the Goat and:

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html (https://href.li/?http://www.skyscript.co.uk/cap_myth.html)
“Dabih, in the left eye, has a nature like Saturn and Venus and holds a mixed reputation – if well placed it denotes
prominence in public affairs and success in business, but if afflicted it causes criticism, suspicion, problems with
friends and lovers, and the failure to realise ambitions. It is also related to sacrifice through its Arabic title Al Sa’d al
Dhabih meaning ‘the Lucky One of the Slaughterers’. A similar meaning is attributed to Oculus in the right eye.”

Now I pause here briefly to inject a letter to the artist:

+O+ Hi – appreciate your generous assistance. I have a larger question first.

Firstly – we’ve established that the sigils of the Dark Pantheon are not and cannot be Pre-Sumerian.

Secondly, in the notes you gave in Caelethi you gave the names of stars such as the Herdsman which we identified as
Bootes which accompanied Atu XIII / Death. The rising of Arcturus in the Autumn (northern hemisphere) was and is
associated with certain rites of sacrifice and with The Dark One, Baphomet, the Mother and Mistress of (human) blood.
Hermes De Stellis XV identified the sigil of Algol/Raz-alghul used for Vindex in a 12th C Greek Manuscript and an 8th C
Arabic manuscript. Whilst in Kthunae you depicted Capricorn from which the symbolism for Atazoth is drawn and of
particular interest the denotation of a particular Star called Occulus, which in Atu V / Atazoth you identify with an
allusion to its traditional name in code as the Eye of the Goat. And as an aside, the energies of the slain [presumably] opfer
figurative or real toward this gateway which passage also seems to involve the Dark Gate, Dabih. We traced that back to
its connexion with an animal sacrifice in Arabic which is called ḏabiḥa and which begins to tie the known opfer-practices
of the Order into perspective.

It is apparent that of those that were not adopted – the symbols refer to sky-based events. Karu Samsu for instance is
Akaddian [Uskaru Shamsu] and denotes an eclipse – thus its meaning ‘I invoke the Sun’. Symbols of other deities are
loosely based on conceptual icons that Did exist around the time of Sumer but certainly not before it which possiblity has
been ruled out by two of the worlds foremost experts on Sumerian culture and a handful of diligent Sumerian and ANE
scholars – and our own studies into the concepts that existed or were recorded or allowed to be recorded in association
with Sumer [that is, Ki En Gi r] laws and culture. Some of the sigils have the hallmarks of being cannibalized from much
older symbols and signs that were prevalent such as the triumvirate of sun, moon, venus, the pleaides, and various new
century alchemical ideas and alchemically philosophical symbols. The symbol of Atazoth or Capricornus is by far the
most predomominant symbol used in the S.Tarot – emphasizing this particular root practices importance. Due to the
precession of the equinoxes the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in the constellation Capricornus,
but the astrological sign called Capricorn begins with the solstice. The sun’s most southerly position, which is attained at
the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on
the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice – which would perhaps be referred to as the golden
triangle – though I scarcely wish to rob you of your poetry’s magical secrets so easily.

My initial question is – in relation to your understanding of the history and meaning and sinister history of Occulus [both
left and right] how far back do you – or did you – believe the Tradition and what it entails – harks back to? And from
what language do you understand terms like Bin An Ath to derive from?

Going out on another limb for a moment – perhaps it is sheer coincidence, but there is no historical connection between
the Seven stars of the Tradition used that we can find; with the small exception of the Nabateans whom used a Seven-
Sphered system; the Picatrix; and the clear connection of the diagram of Fludds tree of life used for the Tow model;
lending the seven ethos to it. What is odd though is that those seven stars form a number of curious geometric shapes
perfectly, a crystal, a pentagram and a perfect triangle – rather too well to be a coincidence leaving us to think that some of
the stars, like the dark gods names and sigils are arbitrary and were chosen because they make these shapes. Yet it could
of course be an entirely freak coincidence.”

Now – based on the reply which was as expected – and the notes by AL on the suspected but incorrect Old English origins
of the Dark names [we must remember that it is useless to trace etymology alone – only tracing the conceptual
developments of the subject can aid in such ancient things] we can establish that the ONA is not aware of the origins of
many of these monikers, just the purpose.
 I enclose here a brief section of the Tam-Al-Sharif manuscript that promptly illustrates my point and cements our dis-
covery. Note that the stars described in Ursa Major – Daughter of the Bier describe Kthunae [refer to C2. OA 34 for
context. /-/ See also Chronological Development of the Concept of Demons (https://href.li/?
http://mvimaedivmblack.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=comparisons&action=display&thread=58) – DG section MB.

Also before you consider the text note this claim regarding Bedouin sacrifice:

“Among current-day Arabs human sacrifice is forbidden and unpracticed, but we find hints that it was practiced in pre-
Islamic times. An early Christian story tells of the son of St. Nilus who is saved from being sacrificed to Venice, the
morning star, because the Arabs overslept. [Photius, Patrologia Graeca, p. lxxix, cols. 583-694] A story from the third
century a.d. says that the Arabs of Duma sacrificed a child every year and buried it under an altar. [Prophyry, De
Abstinentia, II, 56] Isaac of Antioch (fifth century) said that when the Arabs of the Syrian desert took Beth Hur in
Mesopotamia, they sacrificed many children to the goddess Al Cuzza. A century later an Arab leader, Mundhir III,
sacrificedfour hundred nuns to the same goddess. Near Kufa are two stelae called “the two stones rubbed with blood.”
These are supposed to have been set up by Mundhir who rubbed them each year with the blood of human sacrifices. [
Julius Wellhausen, Reste arabischen Heidentums (Berlin, 1897), pp. 40-43] During the early days of Islam a story was told
of Muhammad’s grandfather. The grandfather had vowed to sacrifice one of his sons if he were to have ten sons. At the
birth of his tenth son he was advised to offer a hundred camels instead. [M. Gaudefrey-Demombynes, Mahomet (Paris,
1957), p. 57] “

See the BL for more JSTOR files on Human Sacrifice and the History of Human Sacrifice section in the Dark Gods board. See the BL
also for the rest of this document and the connexion with NF’s ancient cosmology and constellations text. +O+

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