Outer Gateways

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Invocation by Hamsa OUTER GATEWAYS Kenneth Grant SCOOB BOOKS PUBLISHING LONDON Copyright © Kenneth Grant 1994 First Published in 1994 by SKOOB BOOKS PUBLISHING Skoob esoterica series lla-17 Sicilian Avenue Southampton Row London WC1A 2QH Series editor: Christopher Johnson All rights reserved ISBN 1 871438 12 8 Printed by Hillman Printers (Frome) Ltd Contents Introduction 1 The Primal Grimoire 2 Tutulu 3 The Unfamiliar Spirit 4 The Double Voice Behind Liber AL 5 The Madhyamaka & Crowley 6 The Fourth Power of the Sphinx 7 Magical Significance of Yezidic Symbolism 8 The Mirroracle 9 Ufologicks & the Rite of Mithra 10 Typhonian Implicits of Arunachala 11 Apects of Dream Control 12 Creative Gematria 13 Wisdom of S'lba 14 Mystical Gnosis of S'lba 15 Magical Formulae of S'lba 16 Qabalahs of S'lba - I 17 Qabalahs of S'lba - II Glossary Bibliography Index Illustrations Plate 1 Invocation by Hamsa frontispiece 2 Cthulhu by H.A.McNeill II 3 The Magician (Frieda Harris / Aleister Crowley) 4 The Chariot (Frieda Harris / Aleister Crowley) 5 The Sabbatic Candlesticks and Satyr 6 Black Eagle by Austin Osman Spare 7 Seal of Zos Kia Cultus by Steffi Grant 8 Desmodus by Kenneth Grant 9 “Thirst” (Steffi Grant / Aleister Crowley) 10 Horus byy H.A.McNeill II 11 Yantra of Kali 12 Formula of Arrivism by Austin Osman Spare 13 The Self’s Vision of Enlightenment by Austin Osman Spare 14 The Arms of Dunwich The Eye of Set The Seal of Aossic 15 Ilyarun by Steffi Grant 16 Evocation by Hamsa 17 Astral Marginalia (Shades of S’lba), by Kenneth Grant Line Illustrations 18 The Yantra of 31 note music (William Coates) 19 The Tree of Life To the memory of RUDOLF FRIEDMANN I can tell you how to find those who will show you the secret gateway that leads inward only, and closes fast behind the neophyte for evermore. H.P.Blavatsky Introduction HE Typhonian Tradition matured and declined before the monumental phase of the earliest civiliza- Ttions. This is witnessed by fragments of magical and mystical lore once current in Egypt and the Far East. The Tradition lingered on and became corrupt with passing epochs and the gradual attrition of an age-old lineage of initiates. Harassment by warring factions seeking temporal power at the expense of in- temporal space-transcending Knowledge stifled the spark and fouled the springs of the ancient Wisdom. It reappeared fitfully over the centuries in obscure alchemical writings in the Weest, and in Oriental occult tartars, and traces of it proved sufficient to permit of its powerful resurgence, one of the most remarkable phenomena of recent times. Outer Gateways is the first volume of a third Typhonian Trilogy. It culminates in the presentation of material that is comprehensive only in terms of the Tradition which I have endeavoured to outline in ppre- vious books. The material in question begins at chapter 13 (Wisdom of S’lba). It has been included in re- sponse to repeated requests for an example of the kind of transmission resulting from magical rituals per- formed in New Isis Lodge, some of which have been described in the previous volume. A word of caution is, perhaps, not out of place. Although a recently “received” text, and therefore a genuine qabalah, Wis- dom of S’lba is not announcing a New Dispensation, or attempting to overthrow any particular systems of magick or esotericism. Nor is it claimed on its behalf that it contains a universally applicable grimoire. It is, purely and simply, a synthesization of emanations received under curious circumstances outside nor- mally accepted magical procedures, and subsequently translated into terrestrial language. it has been described as a Typhonian Tantra, but a more precise definition would identify it as a text of the Typhonian School fed by Ophidian Vibrations emanating from the Tunnels of Set. It contains at its core a metaphys- ic, a philosophy, and psychomagical formulae which, under special conditions, enable occultists working with the Typhonian Current to contact the sources from which it issued. Any trace of the influence of Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and others which the reader may dis- cern, are explained by the fact that the Wisdom issues from sources identical with those from which these writers drew, and Spare was personally involved in the initial activities of New Isis Lodge where S’lba emanations originally earthed in 1955 through 1962. I should like therefore to acknowledge my indebtedness to these writers as also to those individuals (mentioned in the book) who have kindly allowed me to quote from their writings and from the numerous letters I have received during the course of the publication of these trilogies. I also wish to thank those who have given me illustrative material, which has been duly accredited. Kenneth Grant My observation, of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous struc- tures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings. Aleister Crowley 1 The Primal Grimoir number of arcane texts claiming non-terrestrial provenance are of supreme significance in the sphere A of creative occultism.1 Perhaps the most mysterious and certainly the most sinister is the Necronomi- con, the first mention of which appears in the fiction of the New England writer H.P.Lovecraft. Said to have been written by a mad Arab named Al Hazred, the Necronomicon actually exists on a plane ble to those who, either consciously like Crowley, or unconsciously like Lovecraft, have succeeded in pe- netrating it. There are vague hints of the book’s existence in the arcane literature of East and West; that is to say there have been oblique and guarded references to a grimoire containing instruction for establishing rapport with the denizens of other worlds, other dimensions, other spaces, with their congeries of bub- bling globes and demonic luminaries beyond the stars. Dr. John Dee, the 16th century magician, trafficked with alien entities and left a record of his transactions in the historic Liber Logaeth. Other occultists have left accounts of similar transactions. But it was H.P.Lovecraft (1890-1937) who crystallized in a single concept the strands of weirdness and wonder, hor- ror and terror, that went into the making of these and yet more ancient records. He created an archetypal anomaly, the Necronomicon. The title means the Book of Dead Names, or Names of the Dead; dead, that is, to earth-life but who exist in dimensions inaccessible to average mortals. Immaterial as the book is, it has led, inevitably, to far reaching controversy and it is no exaggeration to say that many of today’s creative occultists have been influenced, not by the presence of the book but by its absence. It is in fact the concept of magical absence that has proved to be the matrix, the mother-void, of those mysterious con- tacts with alien entities that are today placed within the category of Ufology, the lore of unidentified flying — or floating — objects. The label is useful for two main reasons: it affirms the anonymity of the entities in question, it further affirms their association with the elements of air and of water which are the phenomenal symbols of space;2 or, in metaphysical terms, with the Void, typified by the concept of Outer Space. What is particularly significant is that Lovecraft first mentioned the Great Old Ones — the chief ppro- tagonists of the Necronomicon — in The Call of Cthulhu, a tale which initiated the Cthulhu myth cycle. 1 Of the more celebrated, ancient and modern, we may cite the Stanzas of Dzyan; the Enochian material received by Dee & Kelley; Oahspe; and The Book of the Law (Liber AL), transmitted to Aleister Crowley; and others to be mentioned in due course. 2 Whether flying or floating, space is implied because the element water was anciently identified with space, as witnessed by expressions such as the ‘ocean of space’. This tale was written in 1926, the year in which Frater Achad3 vibrated the Magical Word, Allala, which adds up to 93.4 Cthulhu is described by Lovecraft as an octopoidal abnormality abiding in the deep, waiting to surface and possess the earth, which is a way of describing a lurker in Outer Space waiting to in- vade the terrestrial sphere. This is a macrocosmic interpretation. From a microcosmic standpoint Cthulhu lies dreaming in the ocean, the subconsciousness, awaiting certain astrological configurations that will both announce and facilitate its manifestation on earth, projected via the minds of its chosen votaries. These are necessarily ‘few & secret’.5 The name Cthulhu, although assumed to be an imaginative apellation created by Lovecraft, bears very close resemblance to Tutulu, a word that appeared in Crowley's Liber 4186, which antedated Lovecraft’s tale by nearly two decades. Here again appears a connection with extraterrestrial entities, for Liber 4187 is the book of the Aires or Zones beyond earth. Ufology has now infiltrated the contemporary occult scene and the 'new' lore has lent to Orders such as the O.T.O., NIL, and ZKC,8 orientations other than those which characterised them in the days of Bla- vatsky, Crowley, Spare, and others. In the present book these orientations will be examined in relation to areas of magical consciousness hitherto unexplored. We shall in fact approach the Gateways between which and humanity there exists a solution of continuity that may be transcended only by the magick of the Mauve Zone.

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