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Eurosceptic parties of the left and of the right have made a good showing at the elections for the sham ‘EU Parliament’, and UKIP have done exceptionally well in the UK. The response from the unelected EU commission and the Germans appears to consist of: - ‘we will make a pretence of listening to the protest but we will basically ignore it and hope that it will go away when the economy improves’. The ‘ever closer union’ faction of the euro political class remains in power but the tide has started to turn.
The EU economy seems unlikely to ever improve now because energy and raw materials become ever more scarce and expensive, and dynamic emerging economies with cheap labour look set to dominate future markets. An over regulated synarchist managed, undemocratic and creatively inhibited europe hamstrung by political correctness and gigantic social security bills seems set for decline. The EU will reap a hurricane of revolt next time if it continues to ignore calls for a complete rethink of its function or for its dissolution. UKIP has done the British a huge favour by providing a Eurosceptic alternative to the BNP, the French eurosceptics had little alternative but to vote for the National Front.
UKIP’s triumph seems a fitting kick in the teeth for the Guardian reading classes and the illiberal dimocrats. The party of little more than ‘neither of the above’ has become trounced by a party with serious alternatives. (It just seems a pity to me that UKIP’s environmental policies seem very poorly scientifically informed.)
The widespread attempt to accuse UKIP of racism has backfired spectacularly. Whilst the party (like any other) probably does include some individuals with such opinions, its general stance appears Culturalist rather than racist. Most Brits don’t feel too bothered about skin colour but they do object to militant multiculturalism and believe that some cultures have stupid and ineffectual ideas and inhumane value systems.
Since the sixteenth century the foreign policy of the British has centred upon denying anyone hegemony in Europe. Thus they fought the Spanish, the French, and the Germans for centuries and then opposed the Russians throughout the cold war simply to prevent anyone dominating continental Europe. The strength of Europe lies in its diversity and the ability of its various separate nations to try experiments with different approaches. Britain reinvented democracy and taught it to the world, now it must struggle again to prevent Europe descending into an undemocratic Soviet or modern Chinese style hegemony led by an unelected and unaccountable synarchy of the political classes hiding behind a vast faceless bureaucracy.
I do hope the Scots see sense before their independence referendum. If they want more independence then trying to throw their lot in with the EU will have exactly the opposite effect. They would do better to negotiate more independence for themselves within a UK free of the EU. Tartan romanticism would eventually become heavily regulated by the EU you know, expect 5,000 pages on the health and safety and political correctness of kilts and sporrans and bagpipes, and you can forget about those sock dirks.
The Epoch seems to have received rapturous reviews from everyone who has read it
The basic Platonic-Pagan-Monotheist paradigm which has dominated esoterics since the first centuries of the first millennium until quite recent times has finally met its fully formed nemesis and replacement in the Quantum-Neo-Pagan paradigm. The new map of esoteric reality looks disturbing and challenging………. and strangely beautiful.
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News.
Ah, Beltane has passed, the sun shines, ten thousand toadpoles graze the pond at Chateaux Chaos once again, and the gardens sprout their glories. The mandrakes however have gone to sleep again, methinks I must have the autumnalis variety.
EPOCH, The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos has received a rapturous reception, we have dispatched them to every continent except Antarctica, and the Americans have ordered them by the hundreds, have a look at the reviews and customer comments: -
This Thursday we have the elections to the sham European parliament. I’d recommend voting UKIP in the UK, or for similar alternatives in other parts. Don’t worry, the UKIP nutters will never come to power in Britain, but one may as well exploit the opportunity to protest at our continued membership of a grossly undemocratic, unelected, unaccountable, corrupt, and incompetent European Union, if only to encourage an eventual referendum about leaving it.
Matt Kaybryn and I will deliver a talk on EPOCH in Bristol on June 11th, in support of Sef Salem’s Visible College. (Flushed with the success of his Glastonbury Occult Conference he has decided to have a go at more widespread conference organising, and despite our err, ‘metaphysical differences’ we shall make the ecumenical effort.)
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http://www.visiblecollege.co.uk/bristol-sessions/
For details of our metaphysical differences see this ongoing debate: -
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The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos has landed!
https://www.specularium.org/the-esotericon-portals-of-chaos
Delays at the printers held things up for a while but they have done a splendid job in the end and made a magnificent collectable impression of this bold and disturbing full colour hardbound masterpiece and its fifty five accompanying cards of the Portals Deck by Peter J Carroll & Matt Kaybryn.
We have just arranged for Weisers Antiquarian to distribute in the USA, they should have copies by end of next week, this should make them available without a lot of the horrendous transatlantic carriage fee. (The book and cards weigh 2kg with packaging!)
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UPDATE 24th April 2014.The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos has landed!
http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com/shop/
The Glastonbury Occult Conference & Epoch Book Launch provided an interesting challenge as I had a mind-numbing head cold,……. and no book.
The printers have delayed things yet again because of a backlog and queue of other peoples screwed up and amended publications, however they now promise us delivery of books and cards by 10th April so we should start dispatching them from my depot on about the 14th April to bookshops and individuals.
See www.esotericon.org for details as they emerge.
Nevertheless the artwork that Matt brought along in both graphic and electronic display form drew gasps of admiration, an auction of a couple of prints from the Portals raised a splendid sum for charity, and the bound proofs of the book at least provided something for readers to thumb through, plus Prof. Ronald Hutton gave a splendid introduction to the work before I delivered my own snot-dribbling ramble about it.
Other highlights of the weekend included meeting the new style OTO at Glastonbury, now projecting a sort of Scientological glamour of suits and haircuts, tight and faultless organisation and fresh Thelemic fervour. A friendly debate entitled ‘Thelema & Chaos’ between myself and Sef Salem will commence on the Blog of Baphomet in a couple of weeks.
No visit to Glastonbury would seem complete without a night spent at The Covenstead B&B, a veritable museum of rare, exotic, and downright strange esoteric artefacts from many traditions and cultures, particularly witchcraft. Followed by breakfast in its Illuminati style dining room served by the host, the extraordinary Adele.
And just in case the recent minor flurry of excitement about cosmic inflation has got anyone worried I append this.
The recent announcement of the detection of anisotropies in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation by the BICEP 2 group hardly merits all the hyperbole that it confirms the principle of cosmic inflation which exists only as a phlogiston-like repair patch on the questionable 'Big-Bang' theory, and that somebody deserves a Nobel for it.
Along with an inflaton field, the BB theory also requires dark matter and dark energy to keep it afloat and we seem to have no credible mechanism or other observational evidence for these seemingly imaginary phenomena.
The anisotropies in the CMBR seem equally consistent with the hypothesis that the CMBR consists of trans-antipodal starlight that has become redshifted by the small positive curvature of a hyperspherical universe finite and unbounded in both space and time, and that the anisotropies do not represent the 'seeds' of galaxies yet to form after a big bang, but rather that they represent the heavily redshifted traces of galaxies that already existed to emit what we now observe as the CMBR.
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UPDATE 24th April 2014.The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos has landed!
http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com/shop/
Herewith a bit more detail on its contents: -
The Esotericon & Portals of Chaos. By Peter Carroll and Matt Kaybryn.
This superbly produced large hardbound book, 212 pages, 240mm x 270mm contains extensive text by Peter J Carroll and over 50 large full colour illustrations from Matt Kaybryn. Carroll’s text begins with a historical resume of magical and esoteric thought, where it came from and where it may go, and then it moves on to the presentation of three complete grimoires.
The first grimoire of Elemental magic deals with modern practical magical techniques and the classical and modern interpretations of the traditional elemental symbolism.
The second grimoire of Planetary magic deals with the Pagan and Neo-Pagan magical archetypes or ‘god-forms’, their contemporary roles in the human condition, and how the magician can access them for their inspiration and to borrow their abilities.
The third grimoire of Stellar magic deals with the ‘Elder Gods’, those foci of awesome and dangerous extraterrestrial knowledge and power that await us in the vast deep reaches of the cosmos. It constitutes the latest upgrade to the ever evolving Necronomicon.
Various other chapters deal with the history of symbolism, the creation and / or the evolution of gods and goddesses, and the physics of parapsychology and extraterrestrial communication. All in all this book contains enough to keep any wizard, magician, esotericist or natural philosopher entranced and busy for quite a while. A fuller description of the contents of the book appears below**.
The Portals of Chaos. By Matt Kaybryn and Peter J Carroll.
The Portals of Chaos consists of a deck of fifty four large 230mm x 143mm full colour altarpiece sized cards created by Matt Kaybryn working in conjunction with Peter J Carroll. Unlike conventional Tarot decks, these larger cards which resume all the Elemental, Planetary and Elder God forms in the Esotericon book, have extensive uses in Invocation, Enchantment, Evocation, and Illumination as well as in Divination. Matt spent thousands of hours creating these images using high technology combined with meditation, invocation, and great artistic skill. Some have said that the result makes the Lindisfarne Gospels or the Sistine Chapel look rather dull by comparison. A fuller description of the contents of the card deck appears below*.
**EPOCH - The Contents of The Book
The Esotericon & Portals of Chaos. By Peter Carroll and Matt Kaybryn.
Contents, Dedications, Prologue.
Ch 1 Introduction to The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos.
Magic over the Aeons, Elemental, Planetary, & Stellar Magic. – An examination of the origins of the esoteric and magical traditions in late classical antiquity and their revivals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, followed by an analysis of current and possible future developments, with mentions of the known seminal philosophers and magicians involved.
Ch 2 The Portals of Chaos Deck.
Tarot History. - The Tarot has a history quite different to that which many magicians think.
The uses of the Portals Deck. – Not just for Divination, but as a more extensive toolkit for Evocation, Enchantment, Invocation, and Illumination as well.
The Esotericon Tree, Chaobala. – The Tree of Life (& Death) upgraded with wider cosmological perspectives than previously available to the wizards and natural philosophers of the past.
Ch 3 Elemental and Elementary Magic. The 1st Grimoire.
The Realm of the Elements and a Basic Magical Primer. – The origins of the ideas of the four (or five) classical elements and modern interpretations and extensions of these ideas, plus how to do practical magic, explained in the simplest terms.
Baphomet. – A modern conception of ‘The Spirit of the Earth’, the Egregore of this our home planet, and its development from Shamanic times to the present Aeon.
Ch 4 Theometry & Aeonics.
A History of the Gods and Paradigm Shifts. – The co-evolution of humanity and its gods and goddesses and its archetypes and philosophies, and the directions in which we have, and in which we may well take each other.
Ch 5 Planetary Magic.The 2nd Grimoire.
The Planetary and Bi-Planetary God-Forms. – A Pantheon of 36 ‘god-forms’ drawn from many sources and cultures to create a more complete neo-pagan psycho-cosmology of the human condition for the 21st century.
Ch 6 Cosmology.
Strange Physics Interlude 1. Alien Life & The Perfect Cosmological Principle. – The universe now looks immensely larger than all but a few ever suspected, and it contains vast numbers of sources of higher intelligence.
Ch 7 Omnality.
Strange Physics Interlude 2. Quantum Omnality in a Non-Local Universe. – An examination of some cutting edge quantum hypotheses which suggest that the higher knowledge of advanced alien intelligence remains potentially available to us.
Ch 8 Stellar Magic.The 3rd Grimoire.
Stellar Metaphysics. Necronomicon Prologue. Necronomicon Commentary. The Necronomicon. – A Chaos Magic based approach to accessing the awesome and potentially terrible knowledge and power held by Alien Entities which appear to us as The Elder Gods.
Appendices.
1) Alien Elements. – An example of how some Alien Intelligences conceptualize basic reality in a self-consistent manner that looks rather different to ours.
2) Elements, Geomancy, Planets. – An upgrade to traditional Geomancy to include the whole solar system and beyond.
3) The Hypersphere Equation. An addendum to The Octavo. – Apophenia appears to have withheld this simple, beautiful, and elegant solution as some sort of a reward for finishing THIS work – She seems a tease as well as a Muse.
4) The Joy of Texts. A humorous poem by Ronald Hutton. A sort of banishing by laughter. – Simply so good we had to put it in.
Endpieces. – Platonic-Pagan-Monotheism or Quantum-Neo-Paganism?
References. – Some other seminal works you should read if you haven’t already done so.
Dramatis Personae. – Notes on the lives and works of Bruno, Mathers, Crowley, Lovecraft, Grant, Carroll, and Kaybryn.
Afterword. – The futures.
*The contents of the Portals of Chaos card deck.
The Portals of Chaos. By Matt Kaybryn and Peter J Carroll.
Fifty four cards, plus a title card, resuming images of the following Elemental, Planetary and Bi-planetary, and Elder god forms: -
The Elemental forms
The ‘Archangels’ of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Aether.
Baphomet
The Planetary and Bi-Planetary forms
Ouranos, Odin, Ma'at,Athena, Lucifer, Apophenia, Thoth, Isis, Saturn, Osiris, Choronzon, BaronSamedhi, Kali, Anubis, Hecate, Jupiter, Thor, JHVH, Juno, Vulcan, Dionysus, Mars, Horus, Eris, Loki, Ishtar-Astarte, Sol, BVG & Child,
Bob-Legba, Asherath, Venus, Pandora, Babalon, Mercury, Pareidolia, Luna.
The Elder God forms, an Evocation form and an Invocation form for each
Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath, Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth.
Have a look at the Epoch post 3 blogs back for more details of launch.