World-Cult Vectors: Romance of Meru Lives
Western mythographers, spiritualists and seekers of a New World Order have been pointing to the Indian Caucasus and Mt. Meru for centuries. It’s a path to enlightenment and pre-Babel unity that uses in order to displace Scripture. The path of spiritual politics is complex, ongoing and has much to do with Afghanistan…
The military aspect of the War on Terror began in Afghanistan, but not in winter 2001-02. Perhaps it began with the Russian re-entry into that shaky and new-coined state in the 1970s only to be taken down by jihadist fighters trained and funded in part by Anglo-American services. So during the Bush administrations soldiers of Western nations, led by America have been chasing our man in Afghanistan. That’s the major plot line.
This contest includes a complex, acrimonious and high stakes relationship between forces led by America, Russia and Iran. These maneuvers, including long periods of occupation by Russian, British and American troops spanned 1921-50. Much of this concerns control of oil, especially in northern Iran, many believe, and this has been going on for more than a century though initially it was British groups not Americans as the main Western presence. British colonization of the Indian subcontinent had earlier led their forces into Afghanistan if mainly to pursue and suppress Islamic raiders and opponents.
In the early decades of the 19th century, Russia, Persia (“Iran” since 1930) and the Ottoman Turkish Empires battled for control of the Caucasus mountain area where these three states converge near the center of the world’s land mass. But the battles now are as much or more about matters of spiritual power as resources and profit and that may help explain why so much energy, if less media attention centers on Afghanistan due east of Persia. Specifically on eastern Afghanistan where that state, Pakistan, Russian, China and northern Kashmir (India) meet. Here is the site of Mt. Meru, the lotus and “top” or pole of the world and source of the four great rivers that define the four directions and that vie with Eden as the site and source of the world and humanity, — at least post-deluvian (“after the flood”).
Many mythographers have placed the Biblical Mt. Ararat in the Indian Kush; Sir Walter Raleigh may have been the first writer in English to do so – or to identify Ararat with Mt. Meru, the holy phallus rooted in the holy yoni of the earth. Thomas Maurice in Indian Antiquities (1800) argued that Zoroaster had received his inspiration for the Zend-Avesta in a cave there. With Maurice, George Stanley Faber located the cave of Mithra, a martyred, murdered and reborn avatar to Meru. Faber’s thesis that the primal religious symbols of humankind are types of this primal phallus and vulva may be seen in Mt. Doom and the vertical “eye,” dark with wavy flaming halo in The Lord of the Rings whose temporal siting at the end of the “fourth age” and incipient age of man brings theosophy to scores of millions in the West. Beware the almost sexless, highly “evolved” elves whose hooded cloaks, tense serenity and runes link to the paganism within the church as well as to the historical fantasies and racial doctrines of Ariosophy. Tolkien’s elves bring to mind the “New Group of World Servers” of those who identify Lucifer with the savior and their “World Service Intergroup” includes presitigious NGO’s and players like the Gates Foundation.* The elves, led by an all-knowing queen, a shape of light give “religion” and foresight to all of Middle Earth while the hermaphroditic icons of Sauron have an antithesis in the marriage of Sam the essential human who cannot be ‘savior’ but who saves Frodo repeatedly while the “ring bearer” goes into the West, to Atlantis like Arthur and their model, Hesos-Krishna too ‘good’ for this world and too wounded by it to remain. The film treatment of this Elvish theosophy presents an androgynous Frodo whose features have the geometric precision of a Greek Kouros, the blandly smiling and afflicted Dionysos.
The inhabitants of Atlantis, French scholar J.S. Bailly believed originally came from Meru, the holy louts, top and center of the world and its nourishing rivers. Mt. Meru also is the supposed home of Dionysus, another god-man with rites of blood-drinking and sharing of fresh-torn flesh to bind the worshippers in communion that blots out individual consciousness and limited strength (Euripides, the Bacchae). Such beliefs reach into the present with Gothicism like that of Nicholas de Vere and the thesis that “Satanism, Vampirism and Witchcraft” are the true basis of all true religions, that Jesus was “a Dragon King of the Grail” and symbol of the grail maiden’s divine vulva, “the anointed sacred womb” (The Dragon Legacy; see also Genesis of the Grail Kings, Laurence Gardner). So English, French and other European seekers for a single world religion and central holy place imbues the apocalyptic fictions, secret societies and perhaps geopolitics, including new world cults from the Renaissance to our day.
For it is on the legendary Mt. Meru, they claim that all the descendants of Noah, the entire human race dispersed carrying traces of the “one true religion” with them. Why then the Western and Islamic focus on Jerusalem which is not mentioned once in the Koran? Perhaps for many in the director class (WSI), the elves and wizards of our day, this war of Edom and Ishmael “to blot Israel out from nationhood that its name not be remembered anymore” (Psalm 83) is partly a distraction for the masses east and west, even if it is a tragedy for the Jews whose Scriptures, teachings and practices have been tabled for appropriation and burial since Hadrian renamed Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina and Judea, “Palestina”; this is a tragedy for even those in the elite pleasant and thrilling as their lives may be now. Perhaps it’s a distraction from the new “bible of hell” that gnostics since William Blake have been promising to drop on humans.
An obsessive drive to bury the precursor helps explains the fascination with death and sterility of the hierarchs striving to establish a World Religion. Since this spiritual imperialism and monoculture is the drive of both Christianity and Islam it makes sense that their lengthy clash should produce a synthesis containing significant portions of each. Perhaps that is what much of the “War on Terror” is meant to achieve. The West commits suicide by murdering Israel; jihadists commit suicide to murder Jews: there seems to be considerable commonality here; the synthesis is vibrantly in place. In the West, goddess worship and destruction of families; in the East, women as chattel. Perhaps once the Jews are gone, at least from Israel, the dream of the World Conference of Religion for Peace” as per its report, “we can achieve a new world order” will be realized.* Gender relations will be feudal; goddess cults and cunning linguists over all. Pop culture and the media surround us with types of “the Grail maiden, that rare living goddess whose sacred essences were shed joyously in the service of the ancient Vampire Queens and overlords” (de Vere 269, 38-9, 62-8 inter alia).
Many years ago I wrote my doctoral thesis on the poet-philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelly. His greatest work, Prometheus Unbound, uses pagan Greek myths, Gnostic themes and values and dabs of Zoroastrian fire worship and symbolism, a major component of the Christianity he still hated, to establish a syncretic religion for all humankind. Its bases are forgiveness, love and goddess worship. As often in Romantic - Modernist writings the Redeemer is a woman, the goddess Asia whose name is a form of the proto-Semitic words for fire (given a female ending) and for “woman.” Asia is the “Child of Light” and “Light of Life” who walks on water, infuses love throughout creation and transforms all beings into spirits who chant harmoniously in a universal “Orphic song” and language. Shelley already had celebrated her revolutionary, ostensibly liberating powers in the character Cythna in A Vision of the 19th Century also titled, The Revolt of Islam (1817). The preface to this epic extolls his wife, Mary as a type of Asia, a “Child of Light.” Asia’s recognition and assumption of her own godhead and her incandescent revelation is simultaneous with and the flip side of the dethroning of Jupiter (PU II.v – III.-i). Jupiter, or Jove as Shelley also calls his lonely, scared tyrant, hinting at Jeh-vah, as one vocalized form of the tetragrammaton is mispronounced, the patriarchal tyrant who like Blake’s Urizen (“your reason”) and “Nobodaddy” (nobody’s daddy) is Gnosticism’s vicious view of the Creator and Compassionate Father of Judaism.
The apotheosis of Asia in Shelley’s poem (1818-20) put into place a model for a “World Religion of Peace” complete with luciferian trappings that suffuse the poet’s works that emphasize that the planet Venus in the morning is called lucifer and that the latter, thus is a form of a female triple goddess and redeemer. In the poems, until his palinode, the brilliant, pained and ironically titled ”The Triumph of Life” it is all love and light; spiritual, sexual, and political liberation… Then, at the end he realized it was all shadows, deceit, a false glare, not true light, and death.
In Prometheus Unbound Shelley identifies Asia with Venus – Aphrodite, the goddess of love, as well as Cybele, the mountain-mother and triple goddess archetype of “the queen of heaven” (Ashteroth, Ishtar, Isis Omnia, Isa, Ceres, Diana, etc) crowned with a crescent moon and shaking a thyrsus. In the epic, one of Asia’s younger sisters is Ione (”yoni”). As often in Medieval and Renaissance iconography, Prometheus, tortured by the tyrant’s eagle becomes the crucified savior who needs, as does Blake’s Los (“loss”) reunion with his female emanation (”Jerusalem”) to be healed as the redemptive human imagination, to leave the hard rock of punitive law and hatred (Torah) and take up new residence in the vale of Kashmir, in the “destined cave” in the foot of Mt. Meron (III. iii – iv) from which goes forth the healing song and clarion call of integrated consciousness and a religion of love. In Blake, the healed man arises as “Albion.” In Tolkien’s Return of the King, as in Ariosophist symbolism the eagles are saviors; many people from England and Italy to the Philippines saw the American eagle as a savior, too though now it is an image of popular revulsion; but perhaps not to the emerging hierarchy.
And so we have Operation Enduring Freedom for democracy in Iraq; we have the drawn out crisis with Iran reorganizing the pivot of the “world island” to establish a new world religion such as many modern philosophes have championed. But perhaps, like Gondor’s march on the black gates this is partly a feint or necessary first step, and equal or greater attention is being paid to the center of the world’s mountain ranges where the Dalai Lama, Mr. Gorbachev, the Pangaeists and hierophants of Luciferian light can found their world cult. But why must they degrade, disempower and kill so many of us first? Perhaps there is something morbid in their wish to be as gods; perhaps all concerned should read and absorb Adam’s explanation to Eve of the terrors and webs that fancy and the deified imagination can weave from our appetites (Paradise Lost V. 35-128); “monsters from the id…”
But still they insist, as they have for a century, “there can be only one education anywhere on earth, and that is education for world citizenship” (Dr. Erwin Cameron, May 5, 1946)* and a new religion for its “age of aquarius.”
The Age of the Aryans will not come without “that last dim battle in the west” from which there are very few survivors and in which the entire world will reel back into the beast, as Tennyson wrote. The Age of Aquarius may be a picnic for a few but most of us will be Morlocks or Eloi (another mocking mutation of two of the Creator’s Names and divine powers). The attempt to establish a modern cult of Horus is the road back to Egypt, rapture, insanity and slavery as our films and geopolitics show. The Book of Formation teaches that “God made the two great luminaries” with the letter that indicates water and masculine wisdom, the wisdom and “enduring kindness” of the Hebrew Scriptures (Isaiah 55) of which all can drink without money, without having to convert to gain sustenance. All our lives are in the generative complementarity of man and woman with the letters denoting the Unity of the Creator essential to keep them both from falling into “fire” as the holy tongue shows. The hierarchs have worked to isolate women within their own fire, burning up family and all generative balance. The dialectic’s “blender” via “education that no longer teaches facts” and the media is crushing man, woman, wisdom and understanding into numbed, androgynous beings, a nightmare from pagan mythologies ruled by bickering ‘gods.’
True peace (shalom) comes only from integrity (shaleim) as the root sparks of Hebrew letters show, shim-lamed-mem and the teaching of marital balance; but with the powers devoted to crushing out the integrity, identity and memory of Israel there will be only the false peace of fragmentation and equally false and imposed unity.
For centuries the powers and artists have given the lie to the Holy One of Israel, the Creator. Perhaps toward evening there will be light… (Zechariah 14:7, Isaiah 63, etc).
*For quotes about councils and shapers of a world religion and global spiritualism I draw upon the research and writings of Hannah Newman, Dr. Dennis Cuddy and Constance Cumby and texts cited in the essay.