The Rosy Cross of Being in Upward Causality
Correspondence:
Archetype B.) Negative White Cube Stone of Infinite Contraction, Tree of
Knowledge, Chaos in Chaos, Absolute Chaos, Hadit, Inside of the Inner
Cube/Backside, Kinder/Man as the Macrocosm and Paradox as the Microcosm
This
section is difficult to write. What one
tends to think of as Upward Causality is actually Qliphothic Upward Causality
and thus finite. The opposite of
Infinite Expansion is not Collapse. The
expansion described in the previous section is an external expansion. What I’m basically describing in this section
is an internal expansion. It is what
happens when Paradox expands Its mind as opposed to Its body. It’s difficult enough to imagine the infinite
out, but the infinite in and the subsequent implications become mind boggling
and confusing. Regardless, I’m going to
give it try.
This is
the section that reflects upon the concept of Hadit. Crowley describes Nuit as the circumference,
Hadit as the center. This is easy enough
to understand.
Yet he
goes on to describe Nuit as matter and Hadit as motion. What does this mean? Matter is energy slowed down in vibrational
frequency. Vibrational frequency is motion. What the hell is energy without movement?
The best
analogy I could come up with, inspired by Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory,
is that Nuit is the passage, and Hadit is the journey. (That would make Heru Ra Ha not the observer,
but the observation itself.)
This is
how Hadit mimics Nuit, but is not the reflection of Nuit. The journey mimics the passage, but it is not
a reflection of the passage. I will get
back to this in the Section Metatron’s Cube.
-0.) Before.
Before anything. Before the big
bang. It began with a single Point of
negative light. A true point of 0
Dimensions. This Point was a unique
singularity of non-being.
It was,
is, and shall forever be the True Name, The Word of inward manifestation, which brought Itself (as Paradox) into
Being.
The Point
became aware that there was nothing inside
of Itself. In this awareness, in this
realization of self and not self, the concepts became manifest. Thus the Point, dividing like a cell, became
two: zero (0), the nothing inside of
the self, and one (1), the self.
Consequently,
the first psychic dimension (dimension
within the mind) came into being. (in echo form)
And in so
doing, Kinder came into being, the first gods of mind known as Thought and
Emotion, and a god known as Inner Dimensions.
-1.)In this manner, the Point extended inwards in one direction, to infinity,
as the first Negative Ray. The Point defined this specific direction as
Descension (Doubt/Questioning (F) “the depths of despair”), and thus Paradox
created a mental floor of infinite depth.
And in so
doing, a Kinder came into being, a god of emotion known as Despair.
With the
concept of “Descension” realized, came the awareness of “Ascension,”
(Faith/Acceptance (M) “the heights of ecstasy”) and thus the Depression became
bi-polar, extending infinitely upwards as well, creating a mental ceiling of
infinite height.
And in so
doing, a Kinder came into being, a god of emotion known as Mania.
With the
concept of the polarized mind realized, came the awareness of the balanced
mind, and thus the Point created a second mindset, perpendicular to the first
mindset. In this way, Paradox created mental
walls of infinite left (Passion, Willpower (F) “right-brain thinking”) and
infinite right (Reason, Logic (M) “left-brain thinking”). Balance is also associate with Ma’at and
Libra, thus it is judgment and justice.
Consequently,
the second psychic dimension (dimension
within the mind) came into being.
And in so
doing, Kinder came into being, gods of thought and emotion known as Passion and
Reason. So too came the gods of judgment
and justice.
With the
concept of the polarized and balanced axes realized, came the awareness of
depth. Thus the Point created a third
mindset, an awareness of time, extending infinitely forwards
(Imagination/Conceptualization (N) the future, forward thinking, progressive
(ahead) (onward) and infinitely backwards (Perception /Observation (N)
(time/the past) (backwards attitude) (behind) (regressive). Thus, Paradox created mental walls of
infinite front and infinite back.
Consequently,
the third psychic dimension (dimension
within the mind) came into being. (muth, the finite life)
And
thusly, the Point enclosed an infinite cube, known as the Negative White Cube
Stone, a fundamental building block of existence.
And in so
doing, a Kinder came into being, a god of soul known as An Angel of Life and
Death.
This is
the inward blooming of the Great Rose of Creation.
-2.) The Cross of Being
The
Negative White Cube Stone unfolds into six squares, a cross in two dimensional
space. Thus, the Negative White Cube
Stone becomes the inner Living Stone, the Cross of Inner Being, hiding the
Secret of Life Itself. (The stone is thyself.)
The image
is colored the same here as on the Downward Cross, for both Suns are
represented equally in the source image; however, the image is inverted, just
as the Tree of Knowledge.
At the
center of the cross is the Point, as if crucified there. Around the Point, and lit by the Point, is a
rose with five petals, now inverted.
It is the
inverted five pointed star, which represents the conquered
Will, aka Submission, of Paradox as It manifests (not materializes) into
the echo-phase of being. This inverted
five pointed star is the cosmic seed of the macrocosm
of Man
Let me
reiterate that,
The Cross
of Being is but a reflection of The Great Cross (section -6.), and though it is
but a fragment, it is yet none-the-less capable of redintegration. The Cross of Being represents the creation of
the insubstantial/non-physical ideal of creation, the Sephiroth created within
Ain Soph, as well as the creation of Ain Soph Itself. (Atziluth in the Four
Worlds)
And in so
doing, Kinder came into being, gods of Submission and Destruction.
-3.) The Elemental Inward Expansion of the cross
Next comes
the Elemental Expansion of the Rose.
Surrounding the Cross of Being are the First Three Petals of the Greater
Rose, in the shape of a vertical Triangle, now inverted. Each petal represents one of the Three
Primary Forces. Note that the symbol for
each Element is now inverted.
The top
Petal is called aleph; the Element of Air
(as Destruction), the charge of Neutral.
On the Tree of Knowledge it
is The Middle Pillar, the Pillar of Mildness.
Its color is represented as White (Negative
White and Black [aka Positive White] towards each other, via Gray). It
represents the simultaneous movement of upward and downward causality.
The Left
hand Petal is called mem; the Element of Water
(as Reason), the charge of Negative.
On the Tree of Knowledge it is
the Pillar of Severity. Its color is
represented as Cyan (White to Black, via
C, M, Y) It represents the movement of upward causality.
The Right
Hand Petal is called shin; the Element of Fire
(as Passion), the charge of Positive.
On the Tree of Knowledge it
is the Pillar of Mercy. Its color is
represented as Blue (Black to White via
R, G, B) It represents the movement of downward causality.
And in so
doing, Kinder came into being, gods of the elements.
-4.) The Planetary Expansion
And from
these primary elements, comes The Sphere Expansion.
Encircling
these Three petals, are Seven petals, each representing one of the Seven
Spheres of Vivification. They are
represented on the Tree of Knowledge
by the outer Sephiroth.
And in so
doing, seven Kinder came into being, a god of each planet.
The question here is what is an inner planet? How is planet within the mind? Traditionally,
each planet represented an aspect, for example, Saturn as life-death. These are the inner planets of Paradox, the
emotional aspects of the Spheres.
They are
Ordearth, Creation (as Destruction).
Koslovea, Destruction (as Creation).
Thordrea, Father (as Passion).
Vealokos, Mother (as Reason)... Eden, Cycle (as Chance)/ Chance (as
Cycle). Earth, Reason (as Mother).
Lovea, Passion (as Father).
-5. ) The Celestial Inward Expansion
Encircling
the Seven Petals are the Twelve Petals of the Zodiac. Each sign is assigned a color, representing
the center point of light, split, as if through a prism, into the various
colors of the light spectrum. On the inner cube /back side, Negative
light dominates. The Center
represents omnipresence, and on this side, is
Destruction (as Creation), aka Malkuth (as Kether), the “Destruction” of the
Whole. In short, the Center is upward
causality. For more information on the
Zodiac of Eden, see the Chapter on it beginning here: LINK
-6.) The Rose Cross of Inward Manifestation
The Great
Cross is also formed of the six squares of the unfolded Negative White Cube
Stone. Each of the four extensions of
the Great Cross represents an Element, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. This is Paradox as IHVH, as God of the
Elements.
Let me
reiterate that, here the idea, manifestation, is complete, and materialization
is taking place, thus, the Unfolded Cube now represents the muth phase, the
forming of matter. This is decoherence
from the Superposition to the chosen manifestation.
The
central foundation cube is colored to represent Yesod
(as Daath), and the cube traditionally representing the abyss is color
coded to represent Tiphareth. This
represents the path of upward
causality travelling down the middle pillar of the Tree of Knowledge, from Yesod
(as Daath), through Tiphareth, to Daath
(as Yesod). On this side of the
tree, Yesod (as Daath), the mundane as
the idea, is the foundation of reality.
Tiphareth, the materialization of the Suns’ rays into the physical
world, is the bridge across the abyss from matter
to idea (and back again). That
leaves Daath (as Yesod), the idea as the
mundane, as the lid of our cube when the cube is closed, directly opposite
of Yesod (as Daath), just as it is
on the Tree of Knowledge. It is also noteworthy to realize that in
Suturian philosophy, Daath (as Yesod)
is the only Element that is also a Phase, and has the charge of Neutral.
The
Greater Rose, being now in full bloom, is crucified to The Great Cross. The crucifixion of the Greater Rose to the
center of this decoherence indicates that complete disentanglement from the
Cosmic Whole is never possible, for what is one if not defined by that which it
is not?
-7.) The Elemental Inward
Expansion of the Rose Cross of Manifestation
This is
the point of Materialization and the mundane phase. With Materialization comes the fifth Element,
Spirit (i.e. Holy Spirit, Shin, Jesus). In
the Negative Light spectrum, Spirit
is represented as Black. However, in
this paradigm, Black is Destruction (as Creation), aka creative change.
This is
the essence of upward causality, the act of Kinder creating Paradox in his/her
image, just as Paradox creates Kinder in Its image.
If this is
inside Paradox’s mind, then this must be Paradox’s ideas, right? So how can Paradox’s ideas be physical, as
they are here in Step -7.? My ideas are
not physical; therefore Paradox’s cannot be, either. True, but my ideas can become physical, but
only when expressed through the physical medium of the body. I can think of a creature and draw it. I can feel love and hug someone. So too, can Paradox. So step -7 must be the equivalent of this,
the expression of Paradox’s thoughts into the physical medium.
And it
also the inverse of this, how the physical medium effects the mind.
It’s easy
to understand how God creates Kinder/Man, or how the Sunlight makes the
Moonlight, but how does the moonlight make the sunlight?
Shin/Kinder/Man
is a reflection of Paradox, made in God’s image. The reflection mimics the source. How can a reflection become the source, aka
the cause?
One of the
definitions of reflect is “cause to return or rebound.”12 The very definition of reflect contains the
word cause in it, so it certainly can be the cause, but how?
The answer
is through self-awareness, through cognizance.
How do our
own reflections change who we are? If
one does not like what one sees in the mirror, one will adjust his or her self
to compensate. If one dislike’s one’s
hair, one may cut it. If one dislikes
one’s body, one goes on a diet and starts exercising. The same is true with personal
reflections. If one dislike’s one’s own
bad habit, such as smoking, one may quit smoking.
So too, do
we, as the reflections of Paradox, change Paradox.
A mirror
is not truth. A mirror doesn’t lie, but
our own eyes may deceive us! In self-reflection,
we make Paradox better. Or, if our own
reflections/self-views are skewed, we make Paradox worse. Yet, we change Paradox, none-the-less.
Reflections
are powerful. We look at ourselves and
realize that we are beautiful or old.
And we become beautiful or old within our own mind’s eye. We define ourselves with our own perspectives
of ourselves. So, too, do we define
Paradox, for we are Paradox’s reflection, and as the self changes, so too does
the reflection change!
Thus, the
reflection becomes the active and the source becomes the passive. It’s a game of Ping Pong. Cause becomes Effect, Effect becomes Cause,
repeat to infinity!
Does art
imitate life, or life imitate art? The
answer is, of course, both.
It is here
that God is shattered into all these personal selves, all these individual self-reflections,
as Shin/Kinder/Man. This shattering of
Paradox into pieces is the physical creation of God as Shin/Kinder/Man.
Without
the wounds of upward causality, there is no God upon the cross.
It is here
that God becomes God, for without self-reflection, God just is. If God cannot contemplate itself, God cannot
be God. I think therefore I am. God thinks, therefore God is. But if God doesn’t think of Itself as God,
then God is not God. This is the concept
of God as the microcosm.
This is
the concept of Kinder/Man as the Macrocosm.
This is the meaning of the Inverted Pentagram.
Tradition
often calls this symbol evil, but it is not.
Man cannot
see God within the Inverted Pentagram, for in this symbol, man is God, and
therefore man can only look through the eyes of God and therefore away from
God.
-8.) The Balanced Inward Extension of the Rose Cross of
Manifestation
Upon the
square of Tiphareth is placed a Hexagram, a symbol representing the balance of
downward and upward causality, the macrocosm and microcosm working in
unison. Like all the symbols on this
side of the cross, so too is the Hexagram inverted.
I have
colored this hexagram according to the Primary color triangles of the Chaos
Hemisphere.
Here, the
downward pointing triangle is Fire (as
Passion). This makes the downward
pointing triangle symbolic of downward
causality, which in this paradigm, is the microcosm. Traditionally, the downward pointing
triangle is often thought to represent the Divine Spirit going down into the
physical realm, which holds true in this symbol.
Here, the
upward pointing triangle is Water (as
Reason). This makes the upward
pointing triangle symbolic of upward
causality, which in this paradigm is the macrocosm. Traditionally, the upward pointing triangle
is thought to represent man’s spirit going up into the spiritual realm, which
holds true in this symbol.
Let me
reiterate that this symbol means that the cycle is complete. The downward causality has reached the
bottom, and the upward causality has reached the top! It means wholeness. Completeness.
Unison!
The First
Rays have reached their destination at the opposing Godhead. Here they are contained. As a second Ray arrives, the two combine (+ +
+ = - , - + - = +) and they become their opposites! Now they may return from whence they
originally came, but they are not the same!
Thus, Man rises, becomes God, and falls again, and God falls,
becomes man, and rises to become God again!
This is
the meaning of the hexagram.
-9.) In Full Bloom
Finally,
the Rosy Cross is in full bloom.
This is
the cross of Upward Causality, of Kinder/man as the macrocosmic influence and
the Divine as the microcosmic Influence.
Here, Paradox as the parts, or particles, is the cause, and Paradox as
the whole, or wave, is the effect.
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