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Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

Why, o earth-born men, have you surrended yourselves to death, when you have the authority to claim immortality? Change your minds, you who have been fellow travellers of error and companions of ignorance! Free yourselves from the shadowy light! Lay claim to your immortality, shed your destruction!”

This realm is a school and prison, a fallen temple that is now possessed by parasitic, inorganic or alien entities. This process has been encoded in the lore and mythos of all cultures as the ‘War of the Gods’ of which human beings are the proxy forces. These are the Occult Wars on earth, with clandestine societies and intelligence agencies finishing the work of removing the Way, and filling the void with spiritual honeytraps to target and destroy those of the Philosophical Race of the Gods. Thus, the true descendants and heirs of the celestial legacy, the children of earth and starry heaven, are hunted, pursued, and tormented. The Mystery centers of the past, such as Eleusis, were screening for true gods incarnated as humans, that their Memory might be awakened through initiation. This is why all sectors of society were allowed to participate from slave to royals. The true prize, trophy, the Holy Grail of this questing life is to find and retain this essential knowledge, or rather, to uncover and Remember as the veil of forgetfulness is dissolved through the Great Work. The Enemy of life is to distract, demoralize, distort, and invert these teachings such as that one becomes lost. True Hermetic theurgy is thus becoming a True Human Being, to draw Nous as Immortal Memory and Divine Gnosis into the body, as statues were animated with aspect of the divine correspondence. The Body thus becomes ensouled, exalted, and godlike in its intensity and stabilized potential, purified like the toxic mercury of the outer alchemy and fixed, aimed, in thought, word, and deed towards the Magnum Opus.

If you are reading this you are likely vehemently searching for an authentic lineage of Hermetic teachings and have grown weary of the false, fake and diluted platitudes of these degenerate groups that are the Enemies of Life. The seed of this esoteric group has been gestating within the writings of Magus Publishing and the Hyperborean Research Society for over a decade. It is a more intimate group, a theurgic filiation with the teachings of our Hermetic Masters. It is the pursuit of a Radical Hermeticism that recognizes an ancient Occult War that wages as above, so below. Waged by anti- and counter-Traditional forces against what is the Ancestral Way. The vast majority of those engaged as the Enemy are indoctrinated, the products of generations of occult propaganda and social conditioning. They have a spark of True Humanity but have grown lazy, apathetic, lethargic, forgetful of True Memory. These naïve seekers are the conduits to the parasitic forces, the unwitting pawns and proxies for the enemies in the war of the Gods. But there are a few on both sides that are an elite, a small percentage who are aware of the Crisis of the Situation, the immediacy and dire predicament to waste or be exploited in this precious incarnation. This is a remnant of such groups, a few amongst the ruins who seek to preserve the true essence of these teachings and practices. There we externalize this Shrine (Temple Zero) to become a repository for authentic Hermetic knowledge and practice, and as an esoteric action in these occult conflicts. We follow the templates and teachings of true adepts, who have propagated the way and retained the honor, the discretion, the ancestral and kindred loyalty to Tradition that insulates and protects the genuine Way of Hermes.

Since the destruction of the Classical Age, the systematic eradication of the Mysteries, of the Masters, of the Way has been a patient, steady war. In the vacuum of this destroyed Tradition comes in the distortions, the complete inversions, the appropriations and dilutions and plagiarism of the true Way. We see some groups claiming to represent a Hermetic ‘institute’ or lodge, but they are only nominally Hermetic, and lure the naïve into the traps of the Hebraic kabbalah (to differentiate from Christian Cabala, Greek qabala, etc.), which is the anti-thesis of the Hermetic worldview no matter what contortions and occult non-sense in attempt to justify such a synergy. Likewise, there are those claiming to teach the Way of Hermes with such hubris and vanity in their presentation. It is the typical ‘online guru or teacher’ their clear motive of presenting their persona as a master, using their name, their likeness, trying to appear scholarly or mystical, and registering for classes and other similar schemes. There are many claims of their work and the similar self-promotion of the pop occultists, offering reviews and endorsements like a restaurant. They want (and need) so bad to have paying members, large classes, and followers for their own validation. In contrast, we seek to conceal, to be elite, selective, and recruit a few select persons of quality. To clarify, we find no problem in those teaching in a scholarly or academic way and using their real name. When they begin to use their own name and picture as esoteric masters it is an immediate warning sign. But the totality of their methods, presentation, and goals must be assayed as yet another occult honeytrap for those that wish to be spoon fed easy lessons and regurgitated platitudes. We take no pleasure in having to waste precious time addressing such armchair esoteric groups and self-styled masters who do no practical alchemical research nor the specific exoteric and esoteric tasks that are the core of true Mastery.

“Those who had reached the full grade of Hermes are to keep silence on their “virtue” or power (§ 22); they were never to boast of their Gnosis. If they did, it would only bring the Gnosis into contempt; for they would still appear as ordinary men, would probably often say and do things, when they were not in the higher state of consciousness, which fell below the standard of their high ideals, and so they would be slanderers or calumniators of the Gnosis before the world.”

This is why all true Hermetic manuscripts are essentially anonymous works attributed to Hermes, scholarly commentary, and translations are exempt from this rule of secrecy. At best the person’s identity should be shrouded in mystery, although there were cases of occult war strategy where adepts had to use the Enemies’ methods to secure the very survival of the Tradition. Of course, this is difficult in modern times to hide but all efforts should be made and most that seek to have their name and photographs associated with their occult works suffer from inferiority and histrionic disorders, which is sadly one of the worst parts of the occult misfits and degenerates that have infected the Western Tradition. (Other warning signs are endorsing systems of kabbalah, Freemasonry, the pseudo-occult New Age of Eliphas Levy, Thelema, Golden Dawn, Wicca, Temple of Satan/Set, ‘left-hand path’ role players and other kabbalistic system of the infected contagion fully metastasized into the Western Tradition. Many are so invested in these false paths, tattooing themselves with their symbols and garish displays that they could never ungrasp and seek a true alchemical path). Thus, through rituals and passivity, they become possessed, the conduits, tethered to the false demiurgic forces, trapped in between realms and denied incarnations until they forget and dissolve in the astral fields.

Sadly, these boring, false, and desiccated teachings have the aura of an online community college course and self-help modules from New Age gurus. It is a pitiful, mundane caricature of the true Way of Hermes, such as is propagated by progressives on liberal internet forums and such. Others are so deluded, coarse, and informal and irreverent in talking of the Gods as they would a casual acquaintance and simultaneously claiming themselves as priests or in contact or communication directly. It is ludicrous to the point of near amusement, but it’s a sacrilege and such a hubraic violation that it is truly tragic. There is a vulgarity, a modern coarseness and uncouth strain that permeates these degenerates, who are also are the same that are triggered when they encounter some doctrine that is explicitly contradictory to their worldview and lifestyle. Likewise, the texts are there for one to read and engage in heuristic philosophical striving to work these basics out for themselves. It is precisely what is beyond the texts, that must be absorbed and studied on one’s own that one works through the stages to true esoteric Work.

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.” They are of benefit in catching low hanging fruit and satisfying a type of tragically pitiful individual that is attracted and feels fulfilled by such engagement of a ‘spiritual path’ that transforms the ordeals, the trials of the Great Work into a type of self-help course of mutual validation. Those that eventually will tire of such tedious regurgitation can finally move to more practical alchemical and Hermetic engagement with the Mysteries. Here there are specific tasks and rituals as passed on from the most ancient masters and if you do not accomplish them, you fail. There is much to be learned in such failures and attempts, but it is still failure. The true Hermetic quest is a trophy for one to search, with every thought, word, and deed, one must become a True Human Being and burn with the secret fire that renders one a daemon. It is the lifeless, withered platitudes of such soft presentations of these systems that drives people to transgressive paths, extremism, and the wrong type of radical behaviors. Because the true humanity yearns and longs for a true encounter, a burning, transmuting initiation that is so profound that it is a literal rebirth and so transforming that life can never be the same. It is brutal, painful, sacrifices, isolation, testing oneself in every capacity to regain that lost Memory.

These honey trap groups are set up to ensnare, harvest and slowly demoralize with withered, dead end teachings that simply assimilate them into a distorted worldview with a Hermetic veneer. They use strategic search terms to every Hermetic topic so that they are seen, having a lure and bait set at every topic to try to lure the seeker into their online courses teaching pseudo-occultism based on their uninitiated translations of Hermetic texts. They serve a purpose in luring the uncouth and vulgar towards their just rewards.

We are nameless, truly esoteric, there is no fee or any other formal entanglements. It is to be the Shrine that appears in the wasteland, an enduring temple in the vast expanse of ruins. One can support the actual work through value for value trading and purchasing our specific publications, hierobotanica, unique theurgic items, and alchemical products. One joins by interaction, through developing talents that serve the Temple (proficiency in various languages for translations, investments, technology/media, to bookbinding, blacksmithing, pottery, glassblowing, animal husbandry). To engage is also in the procuring of our sacred items as establishing a link and being educated on our Hermetic Traditions through such Master Teachers as Solazaref, and the anonymous Silent Brotherhoods, crypto-Hermetic tariqa, monasteries, the Hyperborean lineages of Unani medicine, Rasashastra of the Arya, and kindred alchemical lineages that were part of the ancient Mysteries of which Hermetic encoded as a specific, elite path. This is an elitism not born of some “authority denying entry, but because it asks from the practitioner a wide variety of abilities, at least in potential, and the willingness to develop them through hard work.” It is a self-imposed brutal assay of one true efforts and persistence in the Great Work. These are of a tradition that maintain a distinct, autonomous and lineage free from (and hostile to) Masonic, Kabbalistic and other pathogens that have infected Western Esoterica for 2000 years. Some of these are special offerings available to any to support the Temple, others are only given as gifts for specific works and investments of time, energy and resources. We outline our own specific exoteric and esoteric tasks through the Hebdomad to the Eighth and Ninth.

Once one has proceeded through these steps, there is unfettered access to all our resources and correspondence, advisement, healing protocols, etc. We invest time and energy into those that demonstrate the enthusiasm to grow and evolve this project and to replicate this model and template for their own path. Our missionary work is to be a repository of certain occult knowledge and to define and assist in training a Hermetic Adept worthy of that name. There are no titles and awards, etc., but the honest and brutal assessment of Self evaluation in the pathworking of this Way. The Temple is in devotion to the Gods, and presenced in the incessant training in the ways of the technical and philosophical Hermetica, of the Philosopher, the Healer, astronomia, scribal arts, theurgy/magia, strategic economics and clandestine lifestyle, visionary and herbo-mineral-metallic medicines of alchemy. Thus any true Hermetic path will have authentic alchemical teachings at their core. The student of practical laboratory alchemy is faced with the true labyrinth of false teachings, deliberately deceptive teachers. Some authors are generous, some are stingy with secrets, others are misled and others are there for the only purpose to mislead. The symbols are appropriated (like the ‘star of David’), the works plagiarized (such as by Masonic plagiarist Fulcanelli, but if only were mere plagiarism and not also laced with deliberate false dead ends and traps), works banned or chapters denied to be published such as with Manfred Junius).

“My son, when you understand the truth of your statement, you will find your brothers, who are my sons, praying with you.” Discourse of the Eighth and Ninth

To Join this Temple is to become in filiation (as sons and daughters) to the Hermetic teachings, to engage with theurgic and noetic devotion into the exoteric and esoteric tasks of our Traditions. These are personal, private, self-imposed, self-governed and regulated. There is only the personal accountability to self, the ancestors, to one’s kindred, to the Gods. We emphasize a radical, self-sufficient autonomy as the true wealth and the exoteric cultivation of good manners, morals, decorum, decency, humaneness appropriateness of action as true Nobility of the Spirit. There are no false titles and empty grades, just the reality of truly getting what one deserves in this world and the next that is a fundamental aspect to a true quest and the Great Work. It is a prize, a trophy, and one has allies and True Friends, just as there are false teachers and true monsters along the labyrinth. One must learn the Way and seek the fiery investiture of True Initiation and bright and luminous Memory.

We seek to create and recruit a select, discreet community to engage in exoteric and esoteric authentically Hermetic projects and missionary Work. This is the aimed pursuit of the true Mysteries and Magnum Opus that culminates in the gnosis, the tasting of Perfect Nature, the True Human Being, those who arise beyond denotata and abstraction to the Pure Vision in this body and to the Ogdoad and Ennead beyond the Abyss.

“The seven spheres, as they are called, have as their Ruler the Deity called Fortune or Destiny, who changes all things according to the law of natural growth, working with a fixity which is immutable, and which yet is varied by everlasting movement.” CH, Asclepius, III, 19b. “And thereupon, having been stripped of all that was wrought upon him by the structure of the heavens, he ascends to the substance of the eighth sphere, being now possessed of his own proper power, and he sings, together with those who dwell there, hymning the Father, and they that are there rejoice with him at his coming. (…) they (the men ascending to this sphere) give themselves up to the Powers, and becoming Powers themselves, they enter into God. This is the Good. This is consummation for those who have got gnosis.” CH, Libellus I, 26a.

We are called to propagate this Way CH 1,32) “This is what you call the beauty of the soul, the edification that came to you in stages. May the understanding come to you, and you will teach.”

The Hermetic Virtues are grounded in Gnosis of the Way of the Gods, the attainment of Divine Nous. This leads to a freedom and exaltation of ecstasy. To this bliss we invoke and apply Self-Restraint in the concentration and containment of that energy and force. Thus, we endure through Perseverance through the internal and external vulnerabilities and obstacles that hinder the Way. We seek Nobility and Justice through Ancestral Custom, the proper order and appropriate action of the accumulated wisdom of the Ancestors. This is the foundation of fellowship, of filiation, of Community, which is the recreation of the World, the microcosmos of order in the rural esoteric hermitages and homesteads. These aggregate to Alithei (Alethea) (the antithesis of lethe as “oblivion”, “amnesia”, or “concealment”) the banishment of forgetfulness, the recovery and Remembrance of Immortal Memory.