These things you would deem true if you had Nous, but if you have no gnosis you will not believe them (CH. IX, 10)

Theurgic Eugenics
The Philosophical Child is a topic we have discussed in a trilogy on Erotic Esoterica, that is forthcoming. But as a question from a dear disciple has been asked, we present a brief synopsis on some considerations for all that seek the True Philosophy. We invite the ignorant that might object to the forthright comments in this piece to research ancestral procreationism especially in Pythagorean and related traditions, of which there is ample literature. We will constantly assert these noble ancestral customs over the actual degenerate worldviews propagated by the worst of those claiming the Way of Hermes or to be priests or disciples of the Way.

There are complicated reckonings of calendars amongst the ancients. This extends even to within the same cultures, such as some beginning at the Summer Solstice at Delphi, and some the Winter Solstice, such as Delos. Our Tradition can be described as Hyperborean Hermeticism, as an understanding of the more ancient origins of Indo-European traditions that formed the root cultures and theology of Greece and Egypt. Even the Egyptian priests say that, for instance, Athens is much older, though Greeks have lost their memory of the past and are like children in this way (as discussed in Plato). But the interchange of Gods and worship of Europe and Egypt is so vast and ancient, as Isis is sung in the Orphic hymns and from old Black Sea civilizations (Bosporan Isis), on the Sacred Way. Hermes stole 50 of Apollo’s best cows when he was just a baby, again tying the most ancient Hermetic myths with the Indo-European themes of youthful sacred cattle theft. The relationship with Hyperborean Apollo, the transmission of the lyre and this esoteric key of all the seven planets with the strings and notes and correspondences is the key to the inner rituals of this Temple. This is necessary to explain why we begin the year’s calendar on the Winter Solstice, and this reckoning is, in our view, that most aligned with the alchemical seasons.

The time to collect the alchemical dew is thus in the fourth month, around the timing of the Equinox. The fourth month is said to be the birth month of Hermes, and his link in the myths with Apollo, whose timing of sojourn to Hyperborea coincides with the Winter Solstice, makes this the most auspicious understanding of the timing of alchemical and Philosophical operations. It has been a constant tactic of the occult wars, from secret societies having their own calendars to the Papal manipulations, to different cults, etc. both in terms of solar and lunar and starting points (for example B.C. and A.D. or as Freemasons use Biblical dating, especially some of the founding Solomon’s temple).

These are tangential topics discussed at depth in their appropriate manuscripts and publications, but we present this information so that one can do the proper research and determine the auspicious calendars and to consider the importance of this subject within the esoteric wars. It is far beyond the scope to defend the Indo-European and older ancient European astronomy/astrology as much older than those suggested by modern scholars. But we mostly default to Classical Hellenistic or proper Hermetic sources whenever possible, supplementing from related Traditions and purging inversion of anti- and counter-Traditional pollutions. (For instance, the deviant, addict Crowley published Moonchild about an inverse, kabbalistic version of these ancient rites, tethering all off-spring to that inverted and diseased worldview and parasitical entities. Those that incorporate this counter-Traditional pop occultism reveal themselves as possessed, infiltrated and compromised.)

Our subject here is specific to generating the optimum condition for the Philosophical Child, the filius philosophorum. Another subject far beyond this essay is the inherent and demanded procreationism at the core of all True Traditions. This is the generative continuation of the race, of the function of the gods, and the microcosmic link with Theos as Father and Mother in producing Life, spiritual and material. The soul’s descension and completion of the Great Work to immortality is necessary to the world’s order. Those that deny this are literally degenerate, not generative or procreative. We find this is a spiritual eugenics, of incarnating true Philosophers, of ensouling gods and daemons as the core of the entire Mysteries. This is especially articulated in Pythagorean and Neoplatonic, Aryan, Egyptian Mysteries and only the most degenerate and extreme cults inverted this, castrating themselves, banning woman from the Rites, celibacy, and other deviant lifestyles.

Cupid is the son of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love. Here Mercury is teaching Cupid to read, with Venus. The holy couple express the secrets of the Mysteries in this hierogamy and birth of the Magus, the master magician Cupid/Eros, the very force of all magic.

Hermetic procreationism is explicit and spoken in a stark and clear way that many find, in this modern world age, harsh. But when an esoteric text is so rarely direct, one should clearly take note. The mental contortions to explain this away as meaning a ‘spiritual’ child are so disingenuous and anti-Tradition as to hardly be worth mentioning. But any related search to this topic will find topics from such New Age and pseudo-occult traditions from those who claim to be priest of Hermes. They will bend to their own degeneracy and project modernist social justice values over the noble ancient cultures and customs. But there is no mistake this term in its Greek as relating to biological birth, and anyone that disputes this is either ignorant or intentionally misleading, or rationalizing and selectively choosing what is Hermetic or not. They fail to understand this in the larger cosmology, theology, and worldview of all ancient cultures as to procreation.

This is not dogma but doctrine, a concept and imperative of Nature and the Gods that is especially incumbent on the Philosophers. If not, there is nothing but discordant births, born out of love, of intention. Many will deny the below passage and yet claim to be of the Hermetic Path, they are punished for their selfishness and degenerate lifestyles that are an affront to Nature and the Way of the Gods. This is why the Hippocratic Oath refuses to give abortion (Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.). We are aware this is debated as to the original, but it certainly would be consistent with the absolute abstention from blood sacrifice and supporting the worldview of transmigration.

We have litigated against these arguments in countless publications for the interested reader. This is the core of Pythagorean and Orphic diets, which are also stipulated in bloodless meals in the Hermetic context. The latter is another aspect that many try to explain away, though it is explicit in another rare time, indicated a direct teaching that seeks to clarify Hermetic worldviews in a fog of wars of cultic extremes. Here we see clear doctrinal consistency from Pythagoras, who studied Egyptian traditions, and the Greco-Egyptian and Hermetic Hyperborean philosophical cohesion. The Tradition is Perfect, but no one group can be said to be perfect in stewardship, preservation, propagation. It is our role as Philosophers to investigate the True Works of True Adepts, that were sworn to secrecy, who thus give us glimpses and allusions through myth and discourse to the true Way. The Hermetic literature, as Hermes is a thrice-incarnated sage/immortal/God in various phases, is thus a Message from the Herald of the Gods of the Divine Way.

In Book 2 of Corpus Hermeticum:

Hermes: The other name of Theos is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh all. The part of father is to make.

Wherefore child-making is a very great and a most pious thing in life for them who think aright, and to leave life on earth without a child a very great misfortune and impiety; and he who hath no child is punished by the daimons after death.

And this the punishment: that that man’s soul who hath no child, shall be condemned unto a body with neither man’s nor woman’s nature, a thing accurst beneath the sun.

Wherefore, Asclepius, let not your sympathies be with the man who hath no child, but rather pity his mishap, knowing what punishment abides for him.

Let all that has been said, then, be to thee, Asclepius, an introduction to the gnosis of the nature of all things.

The innocence of a Child is a vital accountability, there is an investment in the present and future of this world, a stake in the positive outcomes of creating a prime condition for the Great Work for souls. Therefore, a true Philosopher with child would tend towards conservative and Traditionalist worldviews as ancestral, tested practices beyond custom or culture. The state of the world and its future is thus abstract for those who do not have children born of their union. They simply cannot care or consider the implications and impact of decisions, policies, and actions as affecting future generations the same way as actual parents. The participation in the grand cycle of souls and bloodlines has been forfeited by the shallow and selfish instincts that deny both Nature and the generative procreationism of the Gods.

To return to calendars in conception of a true filius sapientiae (“child of wisdom”), if we consider Hermes of the fourth month from the Winter Solstice that is April, and nine back from this month is July. Therefore such a birth to occur within this month is auspicious as “In astrology, Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, considered as governing the period from about March 21 to about April 19. Its representation as a ram is identified with the Egyptian god Amon and, in Greek mythology, with the ram with the golden fleece, on the back of which Phrixus, the son of King Athamas, safely fled Thessaly to Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram to Zeus, who placed it in the heavens as the constellation.” The alchemical data on this month is so vast we can only touch upon it, but this is a month to produce the Philosopher of Scholar-Warrior, a cunning, strong, and powerful force. A child conceived in April, which is the time to commence the Great Work is equally auspicious and a child would be born in January. This is of a child whose spark of life began in the timing of the Great Work and the spring’s vibrant sun but born in the coldest part of Winter, and thus a true infans solaris lunaris (“sun moon child”).

Hermes rules both Gemini (May 21 to June 21) and Virgo (August 23–September 22) and these are especially auspicious months be born as children of Hermes. Nine months from the winter solstice will have a child be born within the sign of Virgo, and this is a most favorable time for the arrival of a Philosophical child to incarnate into this realm. There is a sense of completion in the autumn birth, the love generated within the coldest, darkest time of the year and to be expressed in the union that is the true fruit of this expression of intimacy and intention.

Let there be a theurgic ceremony, and even in one of the Traditionalist weddings as following the dissimulation of our lineage. Some disciples have been married in Sedevacantist Catholic ceremonies or authentic tariqa blessed weddings from Sufi shaykhs, other in traditional Buddhist rites. To this add private rites of dedication, of purifications, catharsis, of thought, word and deed expressed in intention, commitment, in presencing the understanding of attracting a great and noble soul of Light by a mutual refinement of all aspects of Being. The true electrum, the sun and moon, the white and red, must unite in purified embrace. The purging of all past sorrows, regrets, creates, and evolves the souls as True Human Beings. This is an alchemical technical term, the Perfect Man and Woman, not as superior, but as completed. This is a completion, a conjoining, the wedding, or welding of metals purged of all toxic sentiments, all wayward thoughts and energies, all clinging pains and woes. Even in the most dire circumstances, these distresses must be banished for the duration of the rites, for there is a strain of melancholy, of depression and anguish in all Philosophy that can be exacerbated by those seeds sown in discord and ingratitude for Life.

The lovers are saturated in the pool of Memory, the baptism of Divine Nous, expressed in them regaining the wings of the soul. This draws a noble soul to such a union, whose spirit and soul animates the matter with life.

The death-like phases of pure erotic exhaustion, of expended passion and generative energy, is the decomposition phase of the work. The sexual alchemy is to leave the couple conjoined, as one, but in a deathlike repose, preserved in the elixir of Memory, but with the signs of the dark phase of the crow or Ravens, symbols of Apollo. The soul descends from above like dew from heavenly clouds. This is the ritual resurrection, the mysteries of Isis and Osiris and Horus, into of Odin (a form of Mercury) and the mysteries of Baldur as discussed in the work of Bǫlverkr V.1.

Cupid/Eros, son of Mercury, is the guide of Psyche to Immortality. Psyche in despair need to take refuge in Pan as Nature, the healing wilderness, the separation and exile. Psyche attempts to ‘see” Love, to quantify such a blessing and thus it flees. Venus sets Psyche a series of increasingly difficult tasks to regain this Love. Although Psyche fails the final task, the gods make her immortal and she is reunited with Cupid. Love must be transmuting, it must be active, it must be unconditional, but understood as a potent and powerful, and thus dangerous. Toxic, grasping love is a disease of the soul and heart. So many create life in love and end in hatred, in broken homes and trauma to innocent children. The actions of theurgy truly begin when one engages in the householder and family, that of the delicate balance of self and others, of duties exoteric and esoteric, of time and priorities. One should have a ‘panic’ attack at the responsibility and adjust to stand in strength as parent, guardian, teacher, exemplar, priest and priestess in the temple of the home. So many are demoralized by scarcity, of unrest, war, disease and corruption, of a dying world age. Our is to propagate the Way, to become adepts and to give birth and raise those that will be the heirs to the divine birthright, born of Earth and Starry Heaven.

The preparations can be as simple or elaborate as both partners wish. But let all be touched by the artful hand of the Muses, inspired to be an encoded expression of the Great Work. Let the bedchambers be the joining of two worlds, two divine immortal souls in full mindfulness of a sacred and divine action of which there is no comparison. It is a true miracle, the spirit and soul generated from the intercourse of two microcosms, two kingdoms combined, two essences intermingled, the monad and the dyad producing the sacred completion, the triad. This is the dynamism of the One to three, the Mystery of Life, of something from nothing. The sleep is to be as the same Art of the dream incubation, infused with the meditations, the incenses, the harmony of the classical instruments that are a resonances and frequency to the macrocosmic music of the spheres in perfect symphony.

The theurgic lifestyle, the philosophical studies, the arts of the muses are to occupy the Psyche of both partners. Let the contemplation of Divine Beauty attract the most subtle and beautiful souls. Let these intentions be in thought, word, and action at the climax of each encounter. Understand the symbol of the caduceus as two comingled and intertwining serpents in copulation, the union of which births the winged and enlightened beacon of the Divine Nous, the Memory as gnosis, of intellect, of the continuity of self across the Abyss that hastens on its return to the heavens. Theurgic procreation is thus the culmination of incarnating a Soul for the Great Work and this profound understanding must penetrate to the DNA before, during, and after the ritual conception.

The most important document to understand much of the Hermetica is found amongst the dialogues of Plato. These texts are as lock and key to each other. We encourage the reader to study the role of Zeus and Philosophy in the Myth of Plato’s Phaedrus, the juxtaposition of the doctrines of Memory, the allusions to Thoth, aspects of the soul. Again, as initiates sworn to secrecy, these are initiated documents that cannot be studied as presented under the profaned Western philosophical abstractions and deviations. Lacking the Master Narratives, they languish in confusion and sophistry. Depicted is Jupiter and Juno in a Renaissance collection of the divine sexual positions, a truly Western equivalent of the Kama Sutra. The ritual assuming of the masks, correspondences and names of the Gods is to reenact the mythos in a ritual form. The Philosopher, the Lover of Wisdom, is warm and sensuous and aroused by beauty. But there is mastery, there is control, there is intention.

Sexuality without a true intention creates astral parasites just as human births not born of love are discordant and whose lives are accursed with bad fortune, it is a waste of seed and sexual energy, a loss of vitality, a dissipation of potential lifeforce. Not all sexuality must be procreative, but it must always be Philosophical, as the essence of Hermetic magic is the ‘birthing’ of intention from the father/solar to the mother/lunar whose essence in combination manifests esoteric needs and desires for the adept in the exalted, orgasmic ecstasy. This force turned to generating life is the secret to the Philosophical Child timed with the alchemical seasons and the Divine Nous present and held with every movement of passion, love, and philosophical lust. Just as there is an alchemical and Hermetic process of the soul’s ascension, there is likewise a method for the ensouling of a Philosophical child. Random careless sexuality, accidental or malicious impregnation may or may not produce such souls. There are many daemons and immortal souls to incarnate, which is why there is a true great replacement, as above, so below.

The hylic, the barely human thus populate the world with hive-like ‘people’ that are far from True Human Beings. These souls cannot transcend their birth, their genetics, fate, their indoctrinations and traumas to be Completed. They are not of the Philosophical Race, those that retain the Memory and Nous of the supernal Light. Thus, most are of the unwashed masses whose minds leak like a sieve and across the abyss of death and rebirth there is no continuity of self. Of course, some are chosen by the Enemies of Life and they incarnate their saints with powerful inversions of this magic.

Let the lovers contemplate such works as refined pillow books, sacred erotica, the amores of the Gods as seen by those the Seers that painted such beauty until this numinous understanding organic arises the clan nectars, that warms the blood, that exalts to the highest bliss and yet retains the control, like a chariot or athletic contest, or combat as various metaphors describe. Consult the alchemical manuscripts for proper regulation of breath and orgasm, withholding and sublimating orgasm unto the most potent, mutually timed release and internal verbalized intention, the envisioned soul incarnated into a healthy, beautiful and sacred child. Read of courtly Love and the Grail, of mythic and heroic love, of chivalrous love, “of love that moves the Sun and other stars.” From a “Love, that exempts no beloved from loving in return.” True abiding love is the secret, love of the King and Queen for each other, love of ancestors, love of future generations unborn. It is of a purified affection for the self, a true love and gratitude for the Immortal Becoming that is one’s inheritance from Theos. To this divine source, this light there is the unadorned and silent gratitude for a moments time and precious incarnation to presence the Way of the Gods. It is, love for love’s sake, love of beauty and light over the forces of dissolution, those Enemies of Life, the triumph of love over strife, of life over death, of light over darkness, or Memory over oblivion.

Take the instruments of our Art, the sacred mercury and the quartz and have them as the witness and adornment of the temple, be it in the open night sky or sacred grove, within the tents of other Rites. Make an effort to break from all commonness in the preparations. Let one match the colors of bedsheets with the correspondences of the Gods. As with alchemical operations, the repeated distillations are essential. The body is the crucible, the alembic, the semen the seed, the fiery elixir. Let the adept be exhausted in this circulation and the operations incessant during the periods of ovulation and fertility should they fall within these sacred alchemical timings. Let the fires be ignited with the most precious elixirs herbs, the most subtle of incenses, and saturate the body in the most pure and nutrient dense diets. Purifications of astral and lustral waters, the invocations of the deities of our Tradition with the fumigations are especially important during these entire lunar cycles. There are specific elixirs to fortify the reproductive organs for both male and females we suggest, and those interested may contact for these protocols and post-partem herbs as well.

So many are obsessed with not having children, from the dread and selfishness that combines to a modernist nihilism foreign to all ancestral and traditional societies. The transformation that occurs to a True Human Being is inexpressible. There is a duty fulfilled and greater one just beginning, that of education and sacrifices, of experiencing the range of human emotions, fears, hopes, the ineffable bond and cherished responsibility that demands strength, maturity, and the total engagement. One has intentionally ensouled a child, and this is a transmuting action that goes back and forth in time to one’s ancestors and those of future generations. To future parents we suggest the monograph Hyperborean Pedagogy for a guide to parents in educating themselves and their children in the Way of the Gods.

“Never to have been born is best But if we must see the light, the next best Is quickly returning whence we came. When youth departs, with all its follies, Who does not stagger under evils? Who escapes them? ~Sophocles
Born of Love and Strife, life endures from Necessity. Would you be born once again and endure the torments and joys of this life? Is it worth it to feel in the same flesh all the pleasure and pain? Awe is the beginning of Philosophy, and the prize of this realm is Nous, the luminal Memory of the Immortal Knowledge of Self. Life is thus precious and a punishment, a blessing and curse, as perhaps is Love. Gods and daemons in exile will seek a birth that brings them into proximity with some slight chance of encountering the catalysts to this Immortal Remembrance.

We have sincere gratitude and thanksgiving, even at the core of such suffering, pain and sickness, the eventual loss of youth, of loved ones and life itself. The staggering evils shall not prevail, those washed in initiation escape them. It is the True and Only meaning of Life. Such a chance to love, to be loved, to love Wisdom and attempt the Great Work and Quest is truly a blessing. Fear not! Those sincere couples that attempt to procreate but do not conceive are still blessed by the Gods. It is those who are capable but who refrain from deviant, selfishness, hubris and rejection of eusebeia as a transgression against Nature and the “right conduct in regard to the gods.” Especially accursed are those that become aware of these Truths and reject them from some cultic indoctrination, some modernist propaganda, some excuse or rationalization. These are same enemies of true ancestral custom as justice, who deny the obligations to one’s household, homeland, and gods. They are the antithesis and Enemies of the authentic Way of Hermes and the Immortals.

Plato’s Phaedo contains one of the most articulate philosophical validations of motherhood, that of the true human condition of this relationship in the deepest love of the Mother, human and divine. This dynamic of parental love describes this continuing process of self-emptying, sacrifice, of deep empathy that is totally transformative, and more so for those of the Philosophic disposition. This is discussed by Socrates in Lysis in the process of observing a child growing to maturity as of deepest benefit. Even in complex relationships of philia (φιλία) from friendship to erotic to love, there was the imperative of procreation, of family, of bloodlines and from the gods to mortals. The denial of this right was considered the ultimate punishment and denial of life, an enslavement. These erotic mysteries and truths are at the core of all alchemical and Mystery cults that are in accord with the Gods, though many appropriate the symbols, deities, and change the mythos to justify perversions and inversions of the Way. This is the microcosmic creating of worlds, to participate in the divine order of souls, in creating life itself. This is also to understand the abiding love of Theos for all and the veils of sorrow and misery that are but delusions, trials to test and assay a love that is authentic, abiding, and Immortal.

Family Time by Emil Rau.

Cycles of trauma have estranged so many from Traditional life and family, from divorce and radical social policies, liberations of latent deviations. The Neo-Malthusian ‘elite’ want to discourage the most educated, those of the highest cultural expression to have abortions and vasectomies as tactics of the Occult War. This is a truly degenerate cult inverting nature, castrating and injecting children, profaning alchemical principles and turning the golden beauty of the human form into a rotten caricature and subhumanity worse than beasts. Yet these are the same that claim that there must be massive migrations to replace declining birth rates. This is the difference in this modern fog of war, of awakened versus ‘woke,’ and the suicidal, biophobic forces that hate organic, natural life and families.

The individual stripped of Master Narrative, of meaning, of family and ancestral context, has nothing between themselves and the full-spectrum dominance. There is no blood loyalty, there is no kith and kindred, there are no true relatives for support and the bloodlines of heroes and gods and kings wither and die, to be replaced by the ‘melting pot’ of huddled masses and savage hordes. This is a profound reverse alchemy, but an aspect of the final war of the Gods by proxy.

As we see the signature of the Enemy on these policies, as the esoteric forces behind these devastating and inhuman conditions both for those used as pawns in geopolitical agendas and those who are being slowly eradicated as a people and Western Tradition that enshrined individual rights that cannot be tolerated in the New Order. Traditional societies of all races are destroyed to make way for this new reality, the worldview of the Cult externalized in an absolute anti-human dystopia. To live as a Traditional Family is thus a supreme act of esoteric warfare against the parasitic forces of the Enemies of Life.