Saturday, January 7, 2017

The Portal of The Cross


Kenneth Grant on The Cross.
“ ...In Haitian Voodoo the waters beneath the earth typify the birthplace of the human race, viz : Guinea.
 The foot of the cross is the source of all mundane life and its summit points towards the extra-
terrestrial home of the Loa, the spirits who spangle the darkness of night with their star-fire. The magick mirror reveals the mysterious imagery to the initiate only at the point of intersection, thesupreme  marma. In this sense the cross is the true instrument of immortality and redemption from the waters. It is the gateway to other dimensions which it creates when it unites the three modes of consciousness represented by the watery abyss and the heavenly fire which is seemingly divided by the veil  of earth and air (land and sky).
….This is the Sign of the Cross(roads) over which Legba presides in the Rada, Rites, the rights based on cross of the cardinal points, the four ways or roads.... In the Voodoo Petro Rites, as distinct from those of the Rada, the emphasis is laid upon the the dimensions or pathways between the cardinal points...
…. The eight directions of space typified by the Asiatic Tantrics in their basic yantra of the eight-petaled lotus bears a similar significance. The magick mirror as a means of trafficking with spirits and:
seeing of past or future events reflected in its depths was based upon the 'waters' beneath the earth:
the subliminal abyss of the subconscious typified by the cross and its intersections of time-space- present symbolized vertical beam of extra-terrestrial and clairvoyant vision.”
-"Cults of Shadow"

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