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THE AEON OF CTHULHU RISING
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By Tenebrous
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``Nor is it to be thought ... that man is either the oldest
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or the last of earth's masters, or than the common bulk of
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life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old
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Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we
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know, but between them, they walk serene and primal,
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undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate.
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Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and
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guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in
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Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of
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old, and when they shall break through again...''
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H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
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(as from the `Necronomicon')
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The century in which we live has witnessed the dawning of a New Aeon; or
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rather, the return of energies and entities, across vast gulfs of time
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and space, from primal eras which antedate by millenia the appearance of
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humankind upon the Earth. In his pivotal Mythos tale, The Call of Cthulhu,
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Lovecraft has adumbrated the first portents of this return, the outer
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edges of whose pericosis with our own continuum is detected by the
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incredibly subtle and sensitive `antennae' of poets, writers and artists -
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more especially those already aligned to the concept of `outsideness'
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through their own explorations of alien, exotic, bizarre and outre subject
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matter. And indeed, it is through the work of such artists in actuality
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that the first hints and descriptions of these forces and entities find
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expression.
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This `new Aeon' is currently known under a variety of names by differing
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cults: the astrological `Age of Aquarius'; the Thelemic `Aeon of Horus',
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inaugurated by the avatar Aiwaz, in 1904 e.v.; Frater Achad's `Aeon of
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Maat', the Era of Truth and Justice; and so on. To that particular body of
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magicians, artists, writers, and other visionaries of the Cthulhu Mythos
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which constitutes The Esoteric Order of Dagon, the emerging era is
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recognised as the Aeon of Cthulhu Rising, with reference to the prophetic
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fictional work of H.P. Lovecraft, as outlined above. As his description of
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the initial wave of Aeonic energy (which has such drastic effect on the
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dreams of `sensitive' individuals around the world) coincides with the
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rising of the island of R'lyeh on 28 February 1925 e.v., the E.O.D
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numerate this event this event as Year One, A.C.
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However, before the complete influx of these elder forces into our
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present space-time continuum can be facillated, the secret and primal
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gateways must be located, and opened, to allow access from `outside the
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circles of time.' This gateway has been glyphed by Lovecraft as one of the
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Great Old Ones themselves - ``the noxious Yog-Sothoth who froths as primal
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slime in nuclear chaos beyond the nethermost outpost of space and time.''
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As Guardian of the Gate, he is synonymous with Choronzon. The ``nethermost
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outpost'', itself an opening or window to the dimensionality of the Great
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Old Ones (Universe B), is the star Sothis, or Sirius.
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In turn, the gateway of the New Aeonic forces (Yog_Sothoth) is identified
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with the `non-Sephiroth', Daath, on the qabalistic Tree of Life. As
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Kenneth Grant explains:
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``It is now possible to see the continous flow and evolution
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of Aeons occuring simultaenously and passing over into the
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world of anti-matter. The Yog (or Yug .. an aeon or age ..)
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of Sothoth is the counterpoint - as the Aeon of Set-Thoth,
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or Daath - of its Twin, the Yug-Hoor, or Aeon of Horus.
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Yog-Sothoth is the Gate through the aeons to the Star-
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Source beyond Yuggoth, the Yug or Aeon of Goth.''
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Outside the Circles of Time, p. 214
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The knowledge and formula by which this gateway can be reopened can
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therefore be only apprehended through the negative vortex of Daath. In the
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case of Lovecraft himself, who in waking life vehemently denied the
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verdical nature of the material with which he was dealing, the process of
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appropriation was almost completely subconscious, occuring through the
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medium of dream-experiences. As would be expected, the visitation of such
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unhuman and ultracosmic revelations took the form of the most hideous
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nightmares.
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By the same token, those initiates of the E.O.D. who are working towards
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the Opening of the Gate of Yog-Sothoth must be prepared to undertake this
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most dangerous descent into the Abyss of Daath (the so-called `false
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knowledge') in order to activate these formulae effectively. This process
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involves the projection of a part of themselves into those spaces
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`between', to which Lovecraft makes repeated reference, and which
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constitute the existentiality of the Old Ones themselves. Is is here that
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this `false knowlege' (glyphed as Lovecraft as the grimoire, Necronomicon)
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can be found and retrieved, brought back through the vortex of Daath, and
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finally given actual, concrete manifestation in the Outer.
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-oOo-
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