Clarry Kitten

"Somewhere in the world today there is a woman for whom the Sword is forged. Somewhere there is one who has heard the trumpets of the New Age and who will respond. She will respond, this new woman, to the high clamor of those sar-trumpets; she will come as a perilous flame and a devious song, a voice in the judgement halls, a banner before armies. She will come girt with the Sword of Freedom. Before her, kings and priests will tremble, cities and empires will fall, and she will be called BABALON, The Scarlet Woman. She will be lustful and proud, subtle and deadly forthright and invincible as a naked blade. Women will respond to her war cry, throwing off their chains, men will respond to her challenge, forsaking foolish ways. She will shine as the ruddy Evening Star in the lurid sunset of Gotterdamerung. She will shine again as a Morning Star when the night has passed and a new dawn breaks over the garden" To you, oh unknown woman, is The Sword of Freedom pledged." JACK PARSONS (1914-1952) Rocket scientist and Thelemic occultist. From: Freedom is a two edged sword. paultoner.com/downloads/Jack…

"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord" The source of the king's power ultimately resides with the collective--the mob, the commoner. Which is why statecraft is so neurotically fixated on controlling the mob. If that mob rises, nothing can prevent it--just ask the French. The same model applies to the dynamic between the masculine and feminine--the masculine hierarchy and the feminine collective. Now, in an ideal (moral) world, the king acts as a servant, not as an authoritarian bully...but, let's face it, that's just too much effort and requires being decent and worthy and all that tedious shit. Far easier just to manipulate and subjugate the mob into compliance with various fear-based methods--brute force, religious indoctrination, parking tickets, you get the idea. The same is true of the male and female--in essence and in life. The female holds the power; SHE is the intermediary between the seen and unseen (the queen is the most powerful piece on the board), but the male is the figurative, explicit representation of that power in the terrestrial world. Now, again, he has options as to how that power is deferred to him--be worthy (the Arthurian model) or be a raging cunt--psychologically subduing her so she fawns. One is real and produces good leadership and good men, the other produces corruption and abuse. You've got 3 guesses as to which method Christianity (and all the patriarchal faiths) employed and 3 guesses as to what kind of man is attracted to those systems. Sure, they sugarcoat the dagger to the throat with such sweet lines as "man is head of the wife as Christ is to the church"--self-sacrifice and love and blah blah blah... but, unfortunately, the evidence on the ground is often, if not always, the total reverse of that. Why? Because the moment you insist on the thing, it vets for precisely the wrong kind of man. Harry can only find the philosopher's stone when he's not looking for it. In essence, men are fit to lead women in precise proportion to their reluctance to acquire that position. True deference comes in reverse: SHE chooses him; he does not make her submit. Arthur receives the sword from the Earth by being worthy, not by being an abusive, power-hungry dipshit...and that power is taken from him the moment he is. Quoting Plato or some-such: "those who desire power the least are the most qualified to wield it"

The disciple whom Jesus loved John’s Gospel never names this disciple. It calls him only “the disciple whom Jesus loved” At the Last Supper, he is “leaning on Jesus’ bosom.” Church tradition identifies him with John the Evangelist, the same John who holds the serpent-cup. His feast day is the 27th of December, presiding over the winter, and his symbol is the Eagle. Is it our veiled Ophiuchus again--the serpent-bearer? The forgotten 13th sign...the Feminine? John the Evangelist is always depicted as feminine, and is associated with the serpent, the cup (the womb) and the eagle. The Eagle is, of course, Scorpio's ascended counterpart. So when the Galactic Centre (the heart of the Scorpion) aligns with the Winter Solstice (as it does in our era), that phenomenal serpentine power, akin to kundalini, is transmuted by the FEMININE serpent-bearer into the ascended Eagle and a new age--a new Great Cycle--is birthed.

Ophiuchus, the forgotten 13th sign. When the serpent is tied to woman, it is demonised. When the serpent is associated with the masculine, it magically becomes positive. Eve and the serpent: the woman is blamed, and God punishes. A male hero beheads Medusa. Lamia and Lilith are drawn as serpent-women. Delphi: the oracle originally belonged to Gaia, guarded by the serpent Python. Apollo kills the serpent and takes the shrine, but keeps a woman, the Pythia, to speak the prophecies. Asclepius’s rod became the emblem of medicine. His daughter Hygieia, who fed a serpent from a bowl, was pushed aside. Her bowl and serpent survive as the sign of pharmacy. Moses’s bronze serpent, which heals, and Hermes’s caduceus. China: Nüwa, the half-serpent creator goddess who made humanity and repaired the sky. India: Kundalini-Shakti, the coiled serpent power, is explicitly feminine. Serpent, moon and menstruation The snake sheds its skin and is renewed, just as the Moon “dies” and returns monthly, and the womb sheds and renews. Aboriginal Australia offers the clearest ethnographic case. In the Yolŋu Wawilak Sisters story, the Rainbow Serpent is drawn by menstrual blood and swallows the sisters. Anthropologist Chris Knight (Blood Relations, 1991). Men subsequently steal the Wawilak sisters' power--the serpent power. The Arabs called the constellation Ophiuchus al-Ḥawwāʾ, “the serpent-charmer”. In Arabic, Eve is Ḥawwāʾ too, so the two words look and sound almost the same. As the 13th sign, it further reinforces its association with the Feminine. Why else were the lunar cycle, the serpent, and the number 13 so systematically vilified? So what is Eve's (Ophiuchus') Fall? Half a Precessional Cycle ago, when Ophiuchus presided over the Summer Solstice point, we fell from a Golden Age- the descent into materialism- as the Galactic Centre began to descend and Orion began to rise. That descent is best exemplified by the final phase--the Kali Yuga. Under the Christian epoch, the Feminine is hounded, subordinated, tortured and burned; the Priestess is run out of town, banned from entering the sacred precinct; and humanity descends into rampant materialism. Our era marks the ascent of the Galactic Centre through the Serpent Bearer's efforts. The Feminine rises.

The Woman was and is the Priestess. In Her reposes the Mystery. She is the Mother, brooding yet tender, the lover, at once passionate and aloof, the wife, revered and cherished. She is the witch woman. She stands co-equal with her mate who is the chieftain, the hunter, the thinker and the doer. The woman is the Priestess, guardian of the mystery, syble of the unconscious and prophetess of dreams. Togther they balanced each other until the catastrophe of the Patriarchal Age, arch-typified by the monosexual monster, Jehova. Then, under the rule of Priests, woman became an inferior animal while man became isolated in his imagined superiority and found himself at the mercy of his own merciless intelligence. It was total war between the emotions that must and the intellect that will not. Every patriarchal religion is a self-contradictory monstrosity. They are dogmatic creeds that shift like straws in the wind of the intellect. Upon this shifting structure man has failed. He knows the futility of such artificial systems but he fights for them with all the sick fury his frustration can generate. In the process he has lost his mother, his wife has failed him and his lover eludes him. The Mystery has gone out of the Temple, banished by a senile and self-sufficient council of beards. - Jack Parsons.

Possessed or Priestess? The Pythia at Delphi: When the priestess of Apollo delivered prophecies, ancient accounts (such as those by the Roman poet Lucan) described her entering a frenzy where her neck and throat would visibly swell and convulse. This physical expansion was believed to be caused by the pneuma (the divine breath or vapor of Apollo) violently filling her vocal tract so the god could speak through her. Plutarch describes the voice emanating from their swollen throats as often harsh and heavy: "Her voice lost its female cadence and became a deep, authoritative projection capable of filling a temple cavern" In historical accounts of possession, it is frequently recorded that the victim's jaw locks tight in a state of tetanic rigidity. Despite the lips and mouth being completely frozen, a voice—often described as dual, unnaturally deep, bass-heavy, or animalistic—is heard projecting directly out of the larynx and throat. The "Ball" or Swelling in the Throat: In the famous 16th-century possession case of Nicole Aubrey (The Miracle of Laon, 1566) and the later cases of the Salem Witch Trials, witnesses repeatedly documented a massive, visible "lump" or swelling that would travel up the torso and lodge in the neck. The neck would balloon in size, becoming as rigid as iron, while the victim lay in a catatonic or tetanic state. The exact same neuro-physical phenomenon can be interpreted as a divine blessing or a demonic curse depending entirely on the cultural lens of the era. The physical symptoms of the Pythia at Delphi (1st century BCE) and Nicole Aubrey at Laon (1566 CE) are identical, yet their societies viewed them as polar opposites. This shift reveals how the "script" of spiritual trance evolved over millennia. Across both history and modern anthropology, women are predominantly the ones who experience these trance, oracle, and possession states.

"In Cyprus at the festival of Ariadne, the officiating priest would lay in bed an imitate the groans and pains of childbirth. Among the Yakut it was believed that male priests could actually give birth. In California the adopting of female attire was believed to bestow great powers. In short, this universal practice does not seem open to any other interpretation than that magic was originally regarded as an essential female function. The priests of Heracles of Kos dressed as women when they offered sacrifice as did the male officiants in the festivals of Dionysus. The male assistants in the cult scenes from Minoan Crete are represented as wearing women’s clothes. All priestly robes, skirts, aprons, soutanes are indeed everything of an essentially feminine character" The Mothers, Briffault,

In the Aegean civilisation, Gustave Glotz, writing in 1925, noting on the role of women in Crete asserted that women initially controlled the form of religious rites: “The priestesses long presided over religious practices. Woman was the natural intermediary with divinities, the greatest of whom was a woman deified. …the participation of men in the cult was like the association of a God with the a goddess, a later development. Their part in the religious ceremonies was always a subordinate one. Even when the King became the high priest of the bull. As if to extenuate their encroachment and to baffle the evil spirits to whose power this act had exposed them, they assumed for divine services the priestly costume of women. It is the Priestess who takes her place on the seat of the goddess, sits at the foot of the sacred tree or stands on the mountain peak to receive worship and offerings from her acolytes and from the faithful."

Wow.