From:    Josh Norton                            Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      All                                    20 Jul 94 11:29:00
Subject: 91 Parts #2- Pascomb (1/               UpdReq 

For your summer entertainment, two more brief visions from the Parts 
of the Earth....
7/15/1994 2:40 pm
I invoked PASCOMB by the power of Zinggen and the Aethyr LIL, calling 
upon the 2360 ministers who dwell there to come and present its nature.
At first there was only a sense of a very strange energy. A sort of 
quintessence of  sundering, without any object. As if an act of 
ripping something apart had been separated from the things being 
ripped and made into a spiritual ideal. 
A voice said:
"A mighty tearing suffuses the universe, rending each thing from its 
opposite. That which is above and that which is below are sundered 
from one another; that which is to the right is sundered from that 
which is to the left; that which is before is sundered from that which 
is behind. 
"And all things are brought to one level; each thing above is brought 
down, each thing below is raised up; that which is before and behind, 
to the left and to the right, are brought to the center and 
inextricably mixed.
"And out of that mixture are new dualities formed. None higher or 
lower than the others; there is no ranking here. Observe:"
There came before me the image of the sign of Gemini seen in the last 
vision, with its straight side pillars and the curved top and bottom 
bars. It underwent a transformation: the portions of the bars between 
the two pillars broke away from the parts outside; those outer parts 
blended into the pillars. Gradually the two center parts of the bars 
moved towards the center of the figure; as they did so, the parts of 
the pillars they passed ceased to be straight and became smoothly 
curved towards the outside. The bars met and merged together into one 
longer bar, and the sign of Gemini was transformed into the sign of 
Pisces.
"Thus it is with these parts of the Aethyrs, which God has made into 
parts of the Earth. For she is not a place of hierarchies, but a 
[spherical] surface; and upon that surface are the powers arrayed in 
their might. That which is shown as various spheres in Dee's diagram 
is not truly so. The parts are dispersed about her suface like the 
colors about the surface of a soap bubble; and like those colors, they 
are constantly shifting, changing their places. At one moment one 
might cover a great territory, only to be practically overthrown in 
the next by its neighbors."
(As the above was said, it was impressed on me in an instant that all 
the variations of the Earth's surface were minute and 
undistinguishable with respect to the world's size. The highest 
mountains and deepest ocean trenches vary less than one part in 
sixteen hundred of the world's diameter. In relation to its size, the 
variations in the Earth's surface are no more significant than the 
variations in thickness that cause the color shifts of the soap 
bubble. Why this should be emphasized, I don't know; perhaps I missed 
something.)
Now I saw an image of the world with the Aethyrs arrayed about it in 
concentric spheres. Again there came the sundering force that opened 
the vision, and all these spheres were broken into pieces. The pieces 
tumbled down towards the Earth, and as they hit the surface they slid 
over and around each other until none of them was above any other. 
Gradually they expanded and shifted until they covered the entire 
surface. 
Each of these pieces seemed to be both a sort of energy and a living 
liquid at the same time. I could distinguish them by their differing 
shades and hues, each unique. Now they seemed to be at war with each 
other; the effect was of a bunch of brightly colored slime molds 
fighting for territory. Each pushed against its neighbors, seeking to 
gain more ground for itself. One might lose ground for a time, but was 
never completely extinguished; if all its territory in one place was 
taken by its neighbors, it simply sprang up again in another place 
where the pressure was low. 
And it seemed to me that each of these living "parts" was in fact the 
cause of some idea that lives in the minds of men, or rather of those 
shared perceptions and ideals that make up the identity of a nation or 
a group. Because each part is unique in its essence, it follows that 
all groups must be in conflict with each other at one time or another. 
Harmony is the result of likeness or complementarity of nature; where 
likeness does not exist, there must be friction and conflict. Thus the 
idea of complete unity among nations is doomed to fail, as is the 
unity or harmony between groups within nations. If a certain type of 
belief or government is overthrown in a certain part of the Earth's 
population, it will simply appear again in another part, or as a 
minority belief within a particular culture. 
The voice said: "Thou hast grasped it. Thus it was said to Dee that 
these parts governed the governments of the Earth, and that one could 
manipulate those governments through the use of the power of the 
corresponding part. It extends through all levels of organization 
within the world; since all individuals are unique, they must at 
sometimes be in conflict with their neighbors. And thus it was said in 
the Thelemic book that Horus, god of War, is the ruler of this world.
"We would emphasize again that the parts of the Earth, and the Aethyrs 
from which they spring, are not expressions of the unity of existence, 
but of the aspect of discord. In this they are the complement, the 
neccessary balance to the divine and angelic Names derived from the 
Great Table by orderly means. Those names and hierarchies show the 
unity aspect, the merging of the discord of events into the singleness 
of spirit. Here we deal with the shattering of that unity, with its 
expression in the unspeakable variety of unique events taking place in 
the world at any moment. 
"Now, in order to continue, we would have you wait for an hour or so, 
and relax. For there is more to see, but the time is not quite right. 
Return again today.
[continued next message...]
... "Patch grief with white elephants." -- Shakespeare
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718

From:    Josh Norton                            Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      All                                    20 Jul 94 11:30:02
Subject: 91 Parts #2-Pascomb (2/2               UpdReq 

7/16/1994 8:04 pm
(I did not return to the vision until now because the timing felt wrong.)
I again recited the Call for LIL and invoked PASCOMB. After a few 
minutes the force of the Part came strongly. The Voice continued.
"Now, you have grasped the connection between the power of these Parts 
and the actions of government. Truly, the world is in a constant state 
of war, from the standpoint of the Aethyrs. And the most active, 
violent of those wars at present take place not upon the physical 
plane, but upon the planes of emotion and reason, For each Idea has 
power within these worlds, and any Idea which is supported at its core 
by the creative power of God (as most are) cannot be eradicated wholly 
from the world. 
"Even should it be wholly washed away from the minds of all living 
beings, it would arise again spontaneously. For it requires not the 
power of men to maintain its existence; its has an energy separate 
from their recognition and support. Should it be washed away, then at 
some future moment, some man or woman would (through natural affinity) 
touch its power with their mind, and it would instantly become real 
within the world again.
"This war is perpetual, and the only thing that changes its character 
are the slow changes in the consciousness of God, as its creative plan 
evolves over time. At any given point in time, some ideas are 
emphasized by these changes and others de-emphasized. Thus in the 
previous age did social ideas take an extreme hierarchical form with 
those on the bottom serving those on top, while in this present age 
are social ideas more oriented towards the masses of men and their 
needs.
"But the dominance of one sort of ideal does not eliminate the others; 
they remain always, and insinuate themselves into the functioning of 
society and of life in the details of activity where they cannot gain 
dominance in the overall rulership. And if that dominance of an ideal 
should fail, then others -- temporarily suppressed -- regain their 
prior place. Thus the rapidity with which the Soviet Union devolved 
into its cultural predecessors; the local cultures had not been 
absorbed by the ideal, but only overlaid, partially smothered by it.
"And the war is reflected even in the functioning of the living things 
of the world. For each type of animal and each type of plant is at war 
with those upon which it feeds, even as it is dependent upon them. And 
each unique being fights against its neighbors for its share of the 
available resources. Trees wage slow, years-long battles against each 
other; lesser plants feed upon the detritus of that war, and wage 
their smaller wars beneath. And so on.
"Never shall this conflict be done, no, not even should the Kingdom of 
Heaven come. For it is the nature of the third of the three Great 
Aspects of God's creation (of which the body, emotions, and mind are a 
part) that every particle and composite being within the world shall 
respond uniquely to the power of God's creative will. Where the proper 
goal of each is unique [i.e., it's "true will" under the power of the 
divine] then conflict inevitably arises.
(On an unspoken level, it was also mentioned that unity lies only in 
the Second and First divine aspects, those of Love and Will (or 
Being), both of which are entirely spiritual in nature, and come into 
the manifest world only through the action of initiated sapients.)
"There is no unity within the manifest world, nor shall there ever be. 
Those who seek to impose such a unity, through law or morals or 
"correct behavior" are doomed to failure. God wishes it so; were the 
manifest world one in all ways then it would no longer be a fit 
material for His creative activity, and for the creations of those 
lesser beings who dwell within it it. Creation is change, and change 
always brings conflict. 
"Now we have said enough and would end here, if you will."
I said I had no questions that had not already been answered in the 
nonverbal subtext of the presentation. I thanked those who spoke, and 
ended the vision.
... NYC: Hell with a sales tax.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718

From:    Josh Norton                            Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      All                                    20 Jul 94 11:32:04
Subject: 91 Parts #3-Valgars (1/2               UpdReq 

VALGARS -- Third of the 91 Parts of the Earth
7/19/1994 1:10 pm
Recited the Call for LIL and invoked VALGARS by the power of the 
zodiacal king Alpudus. 
The vision opened with an image of the glyph of Pisces as in the 
previous vision. The glyph was colored a deep ocean blue. 
Immediately the crossbar of the glyph broke in two places, 
close to the curves. The remaining part of the bar contracted 
to a dot between the two curves, the parts of the bar still 
connected to the curves were absorbed into them.
The two curves rotated about their centers so that their lower ends 
came together. For a moment a half-moon seemed to grow off of the top 
of the right-hand curve, so that the whole figure seemed like an 
Enochian letter "B", B. The dot between the curves became a diamond. 
But the half-moon quickly disappeared and the figure turned blood-red, 
becoming the glyph of Aries. 
The glyph tilted away from me and moved away at the same time. From 
below an image of the Earth came into view, and the glyph descended, 
coming to rest with its two arms conjunct with the Euphrates and 
Tigris rivers. The dot between the arms marked the location of Bagdad 
-- actually slightly north and west of there; perhaps ancient Babylon. 
The point where the arms met did not quite touch the Persian Gulf; it 
ended in the marshes where the two rivers meet.
The view descended towards the Earth, and I saw that it was indeed 
Babylon that was depicted. The region surrounding the city was green 
with growing crops and grassland; not the dry waste of current-day 
Iraq. Across the river to the west I could see forested hills.
The city was enclosed in a long wall, save for a short stretch of the 
river bank near the center of one wall. This gap did not seem to be 
deliberate, but rather the result of erosion undermining the wall. 
Within there seemed to be a smaller area with high walls as well; 
perhaps the area of the palace and main temples. 
Now the viewpoint rotated around the city to the eastern gate. A long 
thoroughfare extended west to an unfinished zigurrat. I saw people 
moving down the avenue towards me; they passed through the gate and 
dispersed to the four directions.
The Voice spoke:
"The tower you see is of course the so-called Tower of Babel. And the 
people are dispersing as was said in the biblical myth. But it was not 
the hand of God which produced this effect, except indirectly, through 
the power of the Part governing this region. The symbolism of the 
Tower is of course the symbolism of Mars, ruler of Aries. And it is 
the characteristics of the sign and its ruler that are here 
represented in one aspect. 
"You know of course that Aries represents the initial outpouring of 
force that begins any project, any work of creativity. It is the force 
that overcomes the inertia of matter and moves it into a different 
state. But this force is short of duration; it gives out quickly, 
burns itself up. If the work of creation were to continue, it would 
need to be imbued with the longer-lasting force of Habit or Custom, 
which maintain the new state. But that is to be seen elsewhere, not 
here.
"What is shown here is the illusory unity provided by the imposition 
of force upon disparate, chaotic elements each having their own unique 
nature. Such unity never lasts; as soon as the force is exhausted, or 
directed towards a different goal, then it dissolves into its initial 
elements again. This is as we said in the previous Part, here 
manifested in its actuality.
"The various cities of the lands between the two rivers at times tried 
to impose their rule on their surroundings by force. Their rulers 
sensed in their minds the nature of the power of this Part, and 
attempted to manifest it. But such rulership was not natural to the 
area, was imposed upon a pre-existing "culture" in which smaller 
specialized settlements coexisted in a complex network of trade. 
"In this earlier culture, the specializations of each town depended 
upon the resources available in their area. One being close to clay 
deposits would engage in the manufacture of pots and bowls. Another 
having flint would make cutting and digging tools. Yet another might 
have timber, or medicinal plants, fertile grain-growing lands, or 
grasslands for cattle. Each of these would make the most of its local 
resources and trade along the network for the other items they needed. 
"This is not unlike the current-day state of the world economy, though 
in miniature. And the failure of the imposed rulerships of the great 
cities gives a lesson that might be learned today. 
"The early centralized rulerships were initially accepted for the same 
reason that every government since has been accepted. It seemed 
advantageous to the people of the towns to give over a portion of 
their production in exchange for protection from the larger losses to 
criminals and raiders along the trade routes. But once the principle 
of centralized rule was accepted, things rapidly went downhill. 
[continued in next message...]
... This tagline is true but not provable.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718

From:    Josh Norton                            Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      All                                    20 Jul 94 11:33:06
Subject: 91 Parts #3-Valgars (2/2               UpdReq 

"The rulers must draw more and more on the productivity of the towns 
in order to widen their rule. The wider the borders of the kingdom, 
the larger the portion of production that must be spent on defense and 
internal regulation. This is simple geometry. Eventually the point of 
diminishing returns is passed; the rulers can no longer take enough 
resources out of the economy to maintain their rule. The hardship for 
those from whom it is taken increases until they are no longer willing 
to support the "national" government, and the system collapses. 
"In the Babel incident, it is this failure of resources that is the 
true cause of the disruption. The craftsmen who were building the 
tower were drawn from many peoples in the area, each of them with 
their own customs and variation on the regional speech. When the 
rulers could no longer pay for their services, they perceived this as 
a sign of divine disfavor; their confidence in the communal project 
was lost, ethnic tensions increased, and finally they left to return 
to their home towns.
"This is the failure of every government that seeks to rule by force, 
from ancient Uruk and Ur to the present day. In those earlier cases, 
the process was sometimes advanced by deterioration of the climate, or 
-- more commonly -- by the failure of crops upon which the 
city-dwellers were dependent. 
"The region of the Earth governed by Valgars shows this tendency with 
particular emphasis. One after another came conquering rulers; many of 
them inspired by the imaginary "glory" of the memory of their 
predecessors. The early cities, the Babylonians, Assyrians, the Bagdad 
of ancient times and the present, all have sought to rule and each has 
fallen back into chaos when their power was no longer sufficient to 
the task. Over and over the same story is replayed. Even now, the 
ruler of Iraq perceives himself as the incarnation of an ancient 
Assyrian ruler, dazzled by the vision of restoring ancient glories 
even as his nation is rent asunder around him. 
"Like the flow of the two great rivers, the power of this Part seems 
mighty in its beginning and continuation, but in the end it collapses 
into chaos; as the two rivers become lost in the great marshes of 
their combined delta. When their waters finally reach the sea, they 
get there through a myriad of tortuous channels, not in the great 
unified flow that their beginnings promised. And so it ends, always.
"Now we would like for you to continue with these visions; it seems to 
us that you would be doing a service thereby. But be not concerned if 
there be interruptions, hiatuses in the work. For this is necessarily 
a long-term project, and it is certain that other tasks and 
opportunities will come between at times. Do what thou will, when thou 
will, and we will be accessible to you. We are done, for today."
I thanked the Voice for its presentation, and ended the vision.
Seer's comments:
This completes the Parts attributed to LIL. It is too early to 
speculate on the complete course to be presented, but some obvious 
connections can be made between these three parts.
First, all three deal in some way with the chaos or disorder that 
precedes the initiation of a creative act -- and which may well be 
stimulated by the first inflow of creative force. There is an 
increasing constraint upon the unorganized materia as the visions 
progress: Occodon defines outer boundaries, Pascomb organizes the 
content of those boundaries into conflicting elements, Valgars shows 
the first attempts to bring the materia into conformance with a 
creative will. 
Second, each vision deals with a region that is (loosely speaking) 
bounded by water on two sides. Egypt by Lake Victoria and the 
Mediterranean Sea, Syria (mundane equivalent of Pascomb) by the 
Euphrates and Jordan, and Mesopotamia by the Euphrates and Tigris. The 
repetitive occurence of opposed curves in the astrological glyphs is 
probably connected with this.
I get the sense that the "failure of government" theme of the three 
visions is a reflection of the fall from unity embodied in the Call of 
the Aethyrs. Were we taking the Parts in the reverse sequence, (as 
Crowley did with the Aethyrs themselves) it may be that these parts 
would show the final return to unity in the divine.
The presence of Babylon in the third vision is odd, since Babylon has 
its own Part later on in the series (number 80, Mathula). The region 
named Mesopotamia in Liber Scientia is called Upper Mesopotamia today, 
with the Liber's Babylon as Lower Mesopotamia. Many of the mundane 
attributes overlap, but I suspect that whatever beings were the Voice 
of this vision were simply using it as a convenient substitute for the 
city of Sargon the Great, who created the first empire with a true 
centralized government in upper Mesopotamia, and whose empire ended 
160 years later in much the way described. The latter name was 
apparently buried too deep in the silt of my unconscious mind to be 
dredged up on short notice; it popped into awareness about fifteen 
minutes after the vision ended.
... The Aleph-sub-zero is the alephth aleph.
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718

From:    Fir                                    Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      All                                    20 Jul 94 07:31:00
Subject: Centre for Enochian Studies?           UpdReq 

Last night someone mentioned an organization called Centre
for Enochian Studies in the San Francisco area.
Does anyone know if they're still around and if so contact
info?
Thank you.

201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718