Right at the get go the OA begins to deal with the key elements of the Maat archetype, dealings with death, the afterlife, consciousness, morality and how events and people are connected through perceived meaning and destiny. The show is basically about a woman who is abducted and experimented on because she has had near death experiences and her captor wants to exploit her and others for their access to other dimensions. The strangest thing about it is that I had a dream many years ago about a mad scientist who wanted to extract some substance from my consciousness that related to my own near death experience and personal mental struggles. I'll dig up the tweet/journal entry that I know it must be findable. I was also reminded of the same black school scientist in the film Beyond the Black Rainbow. My brief twitter synopsis was even retweeted by the director but getting back on track... this show is entraining with alot of personal themes.
"Thou art ASAR UN-NEFER ("Myself made Perfect"): Whom no man hath seen at any time."
- Aleister Crowley on the Holy Guardian Angel in Liber Samech
There is a great theme in the film where entering this transcendent afterlife astral duat realm that faetures what I think is a beautiful incarnation of Nuit/Maat.
In these scenes we see our main character biologically dead but encountering a starry initiatory goddess that grants access back from this astral plane and into her body.
My Film a Thin Skin or Membrane series has been charting the course of these Maat/Astral/Afterlife mysteries and synchronicities, I reccomend seeing all 3 parts to understand why I feel the OA and these gathered medias all feel like a powerful projection of psychic content that we can tap into a live sense of understanding history, that we might help all find a greater holism and meaning in our personal and collective awareness.
ALPHA AND OMEGA Antahkarana
The collective willpower element brought to mind a recent revelation that hast been stirring in how and why Life the Universe and Everything always seems to come back to 42 and personally for me the relationship there to Maat and her 42 principles/the duat. Realizing that Maat was the ancient egyptian symbol for collective civic consciousness. Egypt was even divided into 42 parts in honor of this original goddess of equality and justice in community. So what we see is Maat/42 as an early apprehension of the collective state of being. This would also reflect and develope the Hebrew concept of the Shekinah which was also the Goddess/Feminine expression of divintiy just like Maat. Shekinah means Glory and referred to a special kind of Grace, Energy, and Power that could supposedly even be seen in the form of a great pillar of light when Israel was united in Spiritual harmony. This all connects amazingly to the personal pillar of light that is each of our spines known as the Rainbow Bridge or Antahkarana. Amazingly the Shekinah is also even quoted in Crowleys chapter on the Maat/Libra/Adjustment tarot card Adjustment.
"This woman-goddess is Harlequin; she is the partner and fulfillment of The Fool. She is the ultimate illusion which is manifestation; she is the dance, many-coloured, many-wiled, of Life itself. Constantly whirling, all possibilities are enjoyed, under the phantom show of Space and Time: all things are real, the soul is the surface, precisely because they are instantly compensated by this Adjustment. All things are harmony and beauty; all things are Truth: because they cancel out.
She is the goddess Maat; she bears upon her nemyss the ostrich feathers of the Twofold Truth."
So interestingly again we are reminded that the Fool or Aleph is the partner of the Harlequinn Maat who is Lamed, we have AL the two key elements of Liber AL vel legis. Maat rules over law and order so we see her doubly invoked in Liber AL and the word Legis or Law as well. The fool representing the male force of creation and Maat or adjustment representing the goddess that births that creation into many colored form.
So interestingly again we are reminded that the Fool or Aleph is the partner of the Harlequinn Maat who is Lamed, we have AL the two key elements of Liber AL vel legis. Maat rules over law and order so we see her doubly invoked in Liber AL and the word Legis or Law as well. The fool representing the male force of creation and Maat or adjustment representing the goddess that births that creation into many colored form.
"Arnold: When I was first working on your mind, there was a pyramid I thought you needed to scale, so I gave you a voice, my voice to guide you along the way. Memory, improvisation, each step in order to reach the next step, but you never got there. I couldn't understand what was holding you back. Then, one day, I realized I'd made a mistake. Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward, not a pyramid, but a maze. Every choice will bring you closer to center of send you spiraling to the edges, to madness. Do you understand now, Dolores, what the center represents? Whose voice I've been wanting you to hear?"
Consider the powerful connection here to the Holy Guardian Angel or ones personal Genius or Daemon, that which brings us direct communication from our deepest purest self. This silent center, this teacher whos speech is in silence, is what the initiates of Thelemic mysticism must forge their own contact with as one manifests their joy and their will in this reality. It seems as though Westworld is continuing the perfect reflection of the Gnostic themes of personal Salvation through knowledge and conversation with the Heart / Tiphareth / Christ Savior.
Consider the powerful connection here to the Holy Guardian Angel or ones personal Genius or Daemon, that which brings us direct communication from our deepest purest self. This silent center, this teacher whos speech is in silence, is what the initiates of Thelemic mysticism must forge their own contact with as one manifests their joy and their will in this reality. It seems as though Westworld is continuing the perfect reflection of the Gnostic themes of personal Salvation through knowledge and conversation with the Heart / Tiphareth / Christ Savior.
"The Holy Guardian Angel is representative of one’s truest divine nature. The term is equivalent with the Genius of the Golden Dawn, the Augoeides of Iamblichus, the Atman of Hinduism, and the Daemon of the gnostics.
In the system of Magick, the single most important goal is to consciously connect with one’s HGA, a process termed “Knowledge and Conversation.” By doing so, the magician becomes fully aware of his own True Will. For Aleister Crowley, this event was the single most important goal of any adept:
It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step—crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. (Magick Without Tears, Ch.83)"
- Thelemapedia on the Holy Guardian Angel
"Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose."
As I have explored in past posts on this blog about how the Aquarian Age that we are entering ( who's first decan is Libra aka Maat) we have explored that this age would unify the binaries of our society, androgyny would become more pronounced and the rigid black and white perspective of the past would give way to a greater transcendent understanding of reality and the human being. The return of the feminine energy after the age of imposed patriarchal male power is highlighted by not only Hilary Clintons running this year but many films and television shows that have been highlighting the feminine as well. In the world of magick and mysticism we understand that after the imbalanced patriarchal age of christianity that we are presently returning to alignment with the repressed goddess/feminine and thus our culture and psyche produce the signs and forms that communicate this return to psychic unity in our culture.
Thats all for now, more thoughs to come, much love.
"Let the woman be girt with a sword before me:" - Liber AL Vel Legis reintroducing the goddess/feminine current via the return of the great mother/whore BABALON
As I have explored in past posts on this blog about how the Aquarian Age that we are entering ( who's first decan is Libra aka Maat) we have explored that this age would unify the binaries of our society, androgyny would become more pronounced and the rigid black and white perspective of the past would give way to a greater transcendent understanding of reality and the human being. The return of the feminine energy after the age of imposed patriarchal male power is highlighted by not only Hilary Clintons running this year but many films and television shows that have been highlighting the feminine as well. In the world of magick and mysticism we understand that after the imbalanced patriarchal age of christianity that we are presently returning to alignment with the repressed goddess/feminine and thus our culture and psyche produce the signs and forms that communicate this return to psychic unity in our culture.
Thats all for now, more thoughs to come, much love.
In the Netflix show "The OA", Prarie refers to herself as the OA which is intended to mystify the viewer and get them ready for season 2. "OA" is definitely a spiritual reference and is a twisting of the Lord Jesus saying four times in the Revelation, "I am the Alpha and Omega". The writer of The OA makes Prarie a Christ archetype, but the desire is to make her the end of the current state of the world and the beginning of a new world which uses special interpretive dance moves to unlock the secrets of the universe. For reference, read Revelation 1:8, 1:11, 21:6, and 22:13.
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