Post by striatusfuror on Aug 3, 2011 1:30:40 GMT -6
You seem remarkably calm and patient, Venger, so I'm supplying an unabridged critique and inquiry as much as I can at your request, starting with your "I am the way" article.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ~ HPL
There are many of you. You are a multitude, a fractured and broken super-being barely funcctioning on a tenth of your potential power. Dozens of selves per dimension; hundreds of dimensions inside a single reality; untold realities operating within two distinct universes. This universe is against us. Universe B is where our salvation lies.
From the reading of your ideas further down, I can't help but interpret the universes mentioned here as perception and imagination, and your claim that imagination needs the focus is not only unsettling, but provably an influential ideal even coming from people who don't even put half the effort as you to earn confidence and reputation.
How can I make you understand that we are pathetic puppets gyrating in place according to an automated sequence… a grand design of mindless servitude? One so young, so asleep… occasionally dreaming of a different life; living in a transient dream. Ephemeral visions cascading down the rough, leprous, reptilian flesh of your tongue. The flesh of a thousand tongues yammering cacophonously to no deity who can hear.
Your other self barely evades the organic machinery of this universe… tedious, bleak, droning, obligatory, and noxious. Your alternative self from a parallel reality cries out to the Great Old Ones… and They listen! Yes, the Ancient Ones heed your cries.
Tentacles waving, flowing green in slow motion, tearing away at raw actuality as the heart beats in time to a subtle, viridescent radiance diffusing through a trepidatious expanse of twilight. You are a soul treading water amidst an ocean of meaningless experience. This life is about drowning; the life I show you remains a secret thing constrained by a gloom filled beach stretching out into eternity. Wet grains of sand make everything formative and malleable on the island.
How can I make you understand what is necessary? This existence of yours has already died a thousand times. Nothing is left but the hope of nothingness, and that is what I bring, what I offer. A chartreuse void where the Old Ones stir, nameless dimensions of divine legacy where Devils walk like Gods and Gods walk like Devils.
“I will never yield”, you scream into the unfathomable. ”For now, this prison might hold me, but it is not my home. I am my own master and these eyes shall one night look upon His Emerald Kingdom. My blood seeks it, for my ancestors came from beyond the stars. And that is where my blood shall return.”
Life is a cyclic thing, but not necessarily so tiresome that it is agreeable to put extinction of life on Earth as something to strive for, by living in reality as if reality isn't real and providing a permeance of obstacles, from the consequences of the spread of such an attitude, for those who would care to make an effort to ensure our species survival against cosmic scale disasters, one of them being assured to occur despite the great time until the event. To take for granted that the issue will be dealt with by then, and to send out butterfly effects countering the effort with disregard, can come with serious consequences. Be careful of what you wish for, the end of life means the end of imagination and everything brought forth from it.
Howard Philips Lovecraft is the originator of what is now called the Cthulhu Mythos, but his mythology lives on through the creativity of untold artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers. The Mythos is a nebulous and disjointed representation of cosmic horror, occultism, and alienage. Lovecraft’s weird fiction from the 1920’s and 30’s inspired me to create, from his blasphemous blueprints, the Cthulhu Cult; and he continues to be one of our most revered prophets. I encourage everyone who is curious about our religion to read, or hopefully re-read, Lovecraft’s lengthy short story “The Call of Cthulhu”.
So are you a literary artist? You maintain a serious composure throughout your writings that would seem beyond ironic statement.
This religion uses the symbolic language of the Cthulhu Mythos to accomplish certain goals. Our first goal is to Awaken. Our second goal is to corrupt reality. Our third goal is to bring the Great Old Ones back to this world. Each of these goals is mutually exclusive and yet they all work together in order to achieve the same end… something extraordinarily magnificent!
A nothingness is not something, "symbolic language" is a redundant phrase, and these goals seem manipulative.
What is the Fourth Way? Let us start with that… The Fourth Way is a transcendental path which recognizes that man must progress physically, emotionally, and intellectually in order to gain any real ground. Those who work on only one aspect at a time will not get very far.
This is the irony I am having trouble with, you seem to be a well meaning life coach with legit advice. Yet you glorify harmful ideas such as "belief is reality" and that nothingness is some kind of epitome. Did it not occur that presentation as a cult easily produces psychological shifting in the perception of your message?
As time progresses, the Cult will refer to the engine of our religion as the Fourth Way less and less because we aren’t borrowing an external system but internalizing our only means of evolution and salvation. We recognize that beneath such shallow masks our truths are the same. We have incorporated the entirety of The Work into the Cthulhu Cult because both come from the same primordial source. What Gurdjieff discovered over a century ago is a teaching paralleled in a variety of other sources, such as Alchemy. It is nothing less than a process for transforming man from a dysfunctional machine into a living God.
Neither our religion nor its teaching dribbled from the mouths of primitive man, from the minds of sleepers. Rather, The Work oozed from a tentacled God who was far greater than our pale reality. Monstrous wisdom such as this could only emanate from outside our prison. This religion should be considered a “Fourth Way school”, but the system which Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Nicoll taught cannot be separated from the Cult without mutilating our entire doctrine. The Work runs contrary to everyday life. We connect its truth as we disconnect from the illusory world around us. The Fourth Way is our way, the very core of our emerald faith. When all impediments have been stripped away, the only thing remaining will be our struggle against the sleep of life.
The Work begins as the roots of every Cultist and extends to his furthermost branches. We are committed to Awakening individual Cultists, as well as, the rest of humanity because nothing can be done while man is asleep. First, before anything else, he must stop being a machine imprisoned in this realm of illusion.
It's funny you mention disconnect, as these statements encourage a detachment from reality. Your Awakening just transmutes a puppet into a different sort of puppet. Encouragement of wisdom and awareness only requires itself, the cult language, especially that which is not obviously disclaimered, can spread and mutate in unexpected ways by chain reactions down the web of influence. It may have seemed keen to attract people to be more fulfilled and alive, yet it works as a counteragent at the same time.
Every Cultist seeks a state of higher consciousness. We call the fruits of this process, Awakening; though many might call it enlightenment, gnosis, self-actualization, or something similar. We can be roused from our everyday state of waking sleep using various methods and techniques. The following is but a taste of what is required. Adhere to it as much as possible, and in sufficient time, one might find oneself to be more conscious. Probably the greatest impediment to Awakening is that humans believe they are already Awake; however, that is quite wrong. We begin the Work asleep, every last one of us.
· Realize that you are not conscious in this moment. You are not observing, not paying attention, not mindful. Every thought,
feeling, and action is automatic. You are hypnotized by the natural rhythm of life.
· Observe yourself as having different centers; a physical, emotional, and intellectual center.
· Observe the many ‘I’s inside of you. Each ‘I’ operates your machine for awhile but no ‘I’ is master.
· Find and organize the small group of ‘I’s inside of you that wish to Work and make substantial changes.
· Struggle against yourself; everything that is automatic and machine-like must be observed and fought.
· Do not display negative emotions; they only drain and distract you.
· Do not identify with or lose yourself in anything that is not part of your essence, who you really are.
· Do not feel sorry for yourself or engage in any self pitying behavior. This merely replaces the effort it takes to improve your
life.
· Remember yourself whenever possible, that is, be mindful and fully aware. Observe internally and externally.
· Be as the void… empty, clean, calm, clear, and pure.
· Seek guidance from an esoteric school which can assist with your training.
The natural rhythm of life, is modelling. Zoology reveals that youth of an animal with cognitive ability, learns how to achieve by observing others of its kind. If circumstances withhold it, they are reduced to trial and error for self-teaching. That's why a cat could have a difficult time figuring out the right way to get down from a tree, if not having observed another climbing down backwards.
Modelling has become a puppet show in human society. The role models purporting endowment of the strengths of what we are; responsible application of intellect, wisdom and imagination- are mocked and ignored. The slew of con artists spreading misinformation out of greed, all the mental conditioning of national pride or religious zeal, and what else going on within the psychological warfare going on in the world, does show a need for awakening the sheep, but we can do so without playing the game ourselves.
The corruption of reality is basically just manipulating the world through ordinary action, the extraordinary action of a Conscious individual, and use of sorcery or what we call Viridian Magic. For example, ordinary action would be like not stepping in front of an oncoming car. Extraordinary action might be resisting ‘I’s that opposed your evolution. Using Viridian Magic creates small changes beneath the fabric of time and space. We manipulate reality to make life easier, sweeter, and more rewarding. At the moment, life is full of suffering and we humans were made to endure it. In fact, human suffering feeds the universe. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Conscious humanity could stop suffering and finally evolve into the Godlike beings we truly are. If man was already fully conscious would we have wars, economic instability, starvation, outbreaks of disease, torture, broken families, and widespread hopelessness? No, all of these unfortunate predicaments occur because man is currently asleep.
Viridian Magic has three parts. First, one must have intent or whatever the Cultist desires his outcome to be. Second, create a mindset which is void-like, observant, and open to possibility. Third, a Cultist’s will projects or fires the energy needed to alter reality into the universe.
So, how does this work? What if everything happening in the world was determined by code like html or something similar? If we understand reality to be varying dimensions of possibility, then it stands to reason that all potential outcomes are not created equal. Certain areas of reality can be affected; new formulas may be introduced, simply observing a process can alter the result. Magic simply nudges reality in a particular direction, and Viridian Magic agitates or disturbs things on a deeper, more fundamental level. At its best, our green sorcery can re-write the entire programming language!
Our interpretation of willed change is colored by sickly greenish hue of our understanding. Not only the ends, but the means; the Cultist must first ask himself several questions. Is this intent in keeping with the Work? Is my attention focused on the right things? How can I strengthen my resolve? If I change this portion of reality, then what needs to happen in order to correct any adverse imbalance I may cause?
Speaking of sorcery as if it were fact seems entirely unnecessary for encouraging willpower. I'd have no issue were you to clearly signify fantasia with some simplistic indication like "suppose yourself to possess this power of viridian magic: ..." or otherwise.
Aeons ago, ancient Godlike monstrosities ruled this universe. For some unknown reason, the Great Old Ones were expelled. Even though They squirmed and seethed beyond our universe, the Old Ones still had some influence… and continue to leverage what They can. Mankind, in particular, was given the benefit of consciousness which some might call a soul. He has the possibility to develop himself far beyond what the universe believes is capable. However, universal forces use their power to keep us asleep and enslaved.
The world is a prison from which we must escape. For untold generations, Cultists have attempted to bring the Ancient Ones back to earth. When the stars are right, They shall return! The Old Ones are destined to break through this prison so that our own obscured potential might flourish. Those who are Conscious will obtain everlasting power and life, they will be like Gods.
It is not the universal forces that subjugates, but the forces of human nature, the negative aspects arising of moral nature.
Truths don't change on a say so, they can only become better revealed. Pulling a myth out of a working of a mind has no effect on history, not to say that your myth is an impossibility.
Who can say this world works according to a logical and beneficial plan? Who among us can stand back and look objectively upon this ridiculous and wretched display without their soul vomiting? The banality of our christian corporate culture sickens me. Without a thought or a care, ordinary people trudge through their mundane existence. Like insects, humans quickly move from one vague pursuit to another. Our species would be utterly meaningless if not for two things.
One, humanity was designed as nourishment. Human suffering is food for the universe. Man, as he believes himself to be, is not real but an illusion…In fact, he does not exist at all. Everything that happens to us is pure accident; human beings have no will of their own. We are sleep walking slaves! Because of this our perception of “reality” is skewed.
Two, certain faculties in man evolved because of our ancient Devil-God forebearers. Seeing potential in Cro-Magnon, our consciousness was elevated. This is the missing (magical) link. We were given the potential to see our horrific position in the universe and to destroy this parasitic charade. Unfortunately, we evolved only half way. Humanity is stuck somewhere between ape and God.
What is the meaning of life? It is that everybody suffers. This is the fundamental truth which no one can escape. We all suffer. Such a realization led me to believe that organic life on earth serves a particular purpose…there is a conspiracy against us. Our suffering feeds the universe.
We are all wrapped up in the trials and tribulations of this existence. This tightly woven blanket wraps us to the point where we are insulated from the truth. We are asleep and may as well not be alive at all. And the key to the Cult of Cthulhu’s philosophy is to Awaken. We endeavor to influence the world more than we are influenced by it. It is the destiny of some to evolve further.
We suffer because we are broken machines, cracked eggs, incomplete programs, existential mutations, holograms who have lost their way. Everything else may be illusory, but endless human suffering is the inevitable truth which we must start with.
Our philosophy is almost like a sinister Buddhism…awakening with fire, with lightning, with lust, cruelty, and indomitable will. Traditional Buddhism seeks to alleviate suffering by eliminating the initial craving, adhering to the middle path, and ignoring extremes. The CoC overcomes the suffering of this world by becoming conscious. We go after our desires. Yes, we actively meditate and strive for enlightenment, but we also covet and conquer. This is a religion of the spirit and the flesh!
Those who read these words with understanding are more (or perhaps less) than human. If you feel a connection, a resonance with the prophecy of the Old Ones, then you are not like most. Genetically, you are not altogether homosapien. It is believed by some that a distinct minority of human beings were born closer to the demon heritage of Lord Cthulhu. The superior development of our gifts, imbued within us by the Dark Gods, has gone farther than ordinary man. We have evolved beyond our brothers. And it is this evolutionary might which drives us towards higher goals. Freeing the Old Ones, destroying this “reality”, and transforming into Gods ourselves…those are our goals. We welcome those of the Left Hand Path as brothers and sisters. Let us work together to accomplish something worthwhile!
Very, very, cynical, and difficult to look at and maintain that these influentially imbued words gathering support to misguided presumptions of existential ideals, was not meant for theft of confidence.
Coveting and conquering is the losing move to our advanced prisoner's dilemma.
The Cult of Cthulhu is a sorcerer’s lodge following the Left Hand Path, the road of antinomianism and self-deification. Official members work with occult secrets of an alien nature. Once described as Lovecraftian Satanism, the Cult of Cthulhu seeks evolution for a select fragment of humanity. In the last couple years, we have transformed into a Fourth Way school. For those who aren’t familiar with the Work, it is a knowledge that was first brought to the west by Gurdjieff and popularized by Ouspensky. It is nothing less than the struggle to be conscious.
Anyone can be a casual member of the CoC; however, three inner degrees will take possession of startling secrets. Most people don’t want understanding, they want comfort. We are not most people. Members of the CoC struggle to raise their knowledge and being. As our organization grows in strength, so the individual magus will rise up to claim his divine birthright.
Promising, if self-deification doesn't turn into evil by subjugating others to claim it.
Belief is reality. We choose what to believe in and our beliefs influence the consensual reality around us. Our consciousness has a direct effect on the world. Discover the nuances of this relationship, and there are few things a sorcerer cannot do.
Disturbing.
If one is to Awaken, if one is to achieve anything… there must be a goal. Something down the line we can point to and say, “Yes, That is what I’m trying to obtain.” Each individual who comes into the Work must find their own goal. Why do you want to be more conscious? What would you do if your machine was not broken but in perfect working order? How much could you achieve if you had seven times the productivity which you currently enjoy?
So what happens after that? As I say, it’s a subjective thing. Some Cultists might want to get farther in life, have more luxuries, stand out from the crowd, or conquer insurmountable obstacles. However, collectively, the Cult’s goal is to bring the Old Ones back. This will change everything. Reality as we know it will cease to exist. We are part of a greater plan, but things are still a mystery. Who can speak of the Emerald Kingdom with any clarity? Who can comprehend the details of becoming an entirely new species?
As High Priest, I know many things; but even I can’t say for certain what will happen exactly. Unlike other religions, the Cult of Cthulhu accepts a certain amount of strangeness. In fact, we embrace the unknown. We don’t attempt to answer the unanswerable. We don’t give you a happy ending such as…
You reach heaven and it’s bliss forever.
You get enlightenment and then you’re done.
You’re in bed with a thousand and one virgins.
You become one with the universe.
You pass Go and collect $200.
No, our end is incomprehensible to us at this present stage. The full scope of ascension is scarcely imaginable to us as we are, asleep and imprisoned. What will it be like to escape from our prison? Just how shall our freedom taste? Does all that depend on the individual? Perhaps reaching the ultimate goal will be a unique experience for everyone? Beyond the shrouded mysteries of time, I know it is our destiny to become the answer… whatever it is, we must have it. For each Cultist who has Awakened, there is a corresponding jade throne at the center of infinity. It beckons us onward just as our yearning draws us nearer to an indescribable juggernaut of bilious ooze, horns, eyes, tentacles, and a gaping maw of teeth and tongues, thousands of tongues lashing and dripping, tasting the very essence of our salacious will!
Freedom, empowerment, curiosity and luxury are obtainable by those in a circumstance such as ours, but it is not by surrendering to death, rather, by fighting for the prosperity of life, to allow us to further accomplish and realize the Emerald Kingdoms you desire.
What is the Eldritch Mandate? It is a command for select human beings to evolve. This evolution is a process of transformation, transcendence, and eventual Godhood. The Ancient Ones have provided us with the tools and understanding to change who we are for the better. To shirk such a responsibility would make us no better than animals foraging for food and shelter in the wild. The Eldritch Mandate is an opportunity to complete our evolution; now is the time and place to begin this epic journey.
But what gives us the right? Shouldn’t man be content with what he has? Isn’t it enough to wallow in our unfulfilled potential, our ignorance, our suffering? The Cthulhu Cult cries no! No, we shall not quietly be absorbed into this universe. No, we shall not wait to die peacefully in our sleep. Mankind was made for better things. The fact that we can reason is but a single aspect. There is a better way. Living deliberately, functioning with meaning and purpose. The sleepers may continue in a world where substance is hidden and liberation is nothing more than a joke, but that is not for the masters of this world. We seek something true because we know that everything that isn’t truth is falsehood!
Our Eldritch Mandate is a call to arms. It is our burning desire to take action. This world feels an awful lot like concrete, but it’s soft in the right places, malleable. Why shouldn’t we make reality our mistress? What better way to honor the Ancient Ones? What better path to victory than to manifest our most obscene desires?
What drives us is our desire to get from point A to point B. It makes precious little difference to us what an individual Cultist believes. Is the Cthulhu Mythos to be taken literally? Are the Cult’s rituals the best or only use of Viridian Magic? Does the Work necessitate spirituality or any kind of religious view? The answer to all these is: not necessarily. Our organization represents a balanced understanding, a middle road. Just as green is the center or central color in the spectrum… the Cthulhu Cult haphazardly stumbles to neither one side nor the other. We take in all impressions, we consider all aspects. Then, finally, we consciously choose the path which suits us best, individually and collectively.
We are neither for good nor evil. Our understanding reaches beyond such simplistic duality. Cultists are concerned with obtaining higher states of consciousness. The Cult is beyond good and evil. Good and evil connote a moral paradigm that does not require truth as a basis. The Work suggests that we view things based on potential benefit; what will assist our awakening versus what perpetuates our sleeping state.
Dogma should not be confused with the preaching of fundamental principles. There are some basic truths which are unavoidable. Truths such as that man is asleep, that he has many ‘I’s within him, and that external forces played, and still do play, a role in our evolutionary development. Yet, this religion is not in the habit of enforcing strict lines of thinking. The possibility, nay, encouragement of personal assessment, curious speculation, and individual understanding is paramount. At the end of the day, all our words are but instruction, a map showing the way. How one gets to that destination is up to the Cultist in question. Every journey is taken alone.
Ultimately, faith is more powerful than money. Belief is the new currency; everything else is just the middleman confusing the issue, getting in the way. All traditional forms of wealth are bankrupt or potentially so. Those who believe make their own reality. Determining what is real and what is not is the absolute authority and source of power. Cultists make a conscious decision to believe in our paradigm. That is what matters. Ordinary belief is the individual subscribing to a delusion, it does not require truth. A Cultist seeks truth through experience first and then forms his belief on that foundation of truth. This is a far better way to live; each of us discovering our own truth and building our collective and consciously chosen belief instead of simply accepting whatever consensual delusions are forced upon us.
That's the thing, "We'll believe what we want to believe" isn't any healthier than popular delusion. It causes hindrance to lucidity, the way for higher wisdom. The remark of cultists seeking truth through experience is rather weak when you are feeding your beliefs as truth at other times, and are running a monarchy over those you claim to be a mixed bag. Complete neutrality would mean to not tinker with the buttons of human psychology in any way, yet, you are, so you're not neutral, nor beyond good and evil. It's just difficult to tell which you are.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. ~ HPL
There are many of you. You are a multitude, a fractured and broken super-being barely funcctioning on a tenth of your potential power. Dozens of selves per dimension; hundreds of dimensions inside a single reality; untold realities operating within two distinct universes. This universe is against us. Universe B is where our salvation lies.
From the reading of your ideas further down, I can't help but interpret the universes mentioned here as perception and imagination, and your claim that imagination needs the focus is not only unsettling, but provably an influential ideal even coming from people who don't even put half the effort as you to earn confidence and reputation.
How can I make you understand that we are pathetic puppets gyrating in place according to an automated sequence… a grand design of mindless servitude? One so young, so asleep… occasionally dreaming of a different life; living in a transient dream. Ephemeral visions cascading down the rough, leprous, reptilian flesh of your tongue. The flesh of a thousand tongues yammering cacophonously to no deity who can hear.
Your other self barely evades the organic machinery of this universe… tedious, bleak, droning, obligatory, and noxious. Your alternative self from a parallel reality cries out to the Great Old Ones… and They listen! Yes, the Ancient Ones heed your cries.
Tentacles waving, flowing green in slow motion, tearing away at raw actuality as the heart beats in time to a subtle, viridescent radiance diffusing through a trepidatious expanse of twilight. You are a soul treading water amidst an ocean of meaningless experience. This life is about drowning; the life I show you remains a secret thing constrained by a gloom filled beach stretching out into eternity. Wet grains of sand make everything formative and malleable on the island.
How can I make you understand what is necessary? This existence of yours has already died a thousand times. Nothing is left but the hope of nothingness, and that is what I bring, what I offer. A chartreuse void where the Old Ones stir, nameless dimensions of divine legacy where Devils walk like Gods and Gods walk like Devils.
“I will never yield”, you scream into the unfathomable. ”For now, this prison might hold me, but it is not my home. I am my own master and these eyes shall one night look upon His Emerald Kingdom. My blood seeks it, for my ancestors came from beyond the stars. And that is where my blood shall return.”
Life is a cyclic thing, but not necessarily so tiresome that it is agreeable to put extinction of life on Earth as something to strive for, by living in reality as if reality isn't real and providing a permeance of obstacles, from the consequences of the spread of such an attitude, for those who would care to make an effort to ensure our species survival against cosmic scale disasters, one of them being assured to occur despite the great time until the event. To take for granted that the issue will be dealt with by then, and to send out butterfly effects countering the effort with disregard, can come with serious consequences. Be careful of what you wish for, the end of life means the end of imagination and everything brought forth from it.
Howard Philips Lovecraft is the originator of what is now called the Cthulhu Mythos, but his mythology lives on through the creativity of untold artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers. The Mythos is a nebulous and disjointed representation of cosmic horror, occultism, and alienage. Lovecraft’s weird fiction from the 1920’s and 30’s inspired me to create, from his blasphemous blueprints, the Cthulhu Cult; and he continues to be one of our most revered prophets. I encourage everyone who is curious about our religion to read, or hopefully re-read, Lovecraft’s lengthy short story “The Call of Cthulhu”.
So are you a literary artist? You maintain a serious composure throughout your writings that would seem beyond ironic statement.
This religion uses the symbolic language of the Cthulhu Mythos to accomplish certain goals. Our first goal is to Awaken. Our second goal is to corrupt reality. Our third goal is to bring the Great Old Ones back to this world. Each of these goals is mutually exclusive and yet they all work together in order to achieve the same end… something extraordinarily magnificent!
A nothingness is not something, "symbolic language" is a redundant phrase, and these goals seem manipulative.
What is the Fourth Way? Let us start with that… The Fourth Way is a transcendental path which recognizes that man must progress physically, emotionally, and intellectually in order to gain any real ground. Those who work on only one aspect at a time will not get very far.
Keep pushing, moving forward, looking at things from new angles. Those are the keys to continual success. It is absolutely possible to shape our individual destiny using the right techniques, guidance, and understanding.
This is the irony I am having trouble with, you seem to be a well meaning life coach with legit advice. Yet you glorify harmful ideas such as "belief is reality" and that nothingness is some kind of epitome. Did it not occur that presentation as a cult easily produces psychological shifting in the perception of your message?
As time progresses, the Cult will refer to the engine of our religion as the Fourth Way less and less because we aren’t borrowing an external system but internalizing our only means of evolution and salvation. We recognize that beneath such shallow masks our truths are the same. We have incorporated the entirety of The Work into the Cthulhu Cult because both come from the same primordial source. What Gurdjieff discovered over a century ago is a teaching paralleled in a variety of other sources, such as Alchemy. It is nothing less than a process for transforming man from a dysfunctional machine into a living God.
Neither our religion nor its teaching dribbled from the mouths of primitive man, from the minds of sleepers. Rather, The Work oozed from a tentacled God who was far greater than our pale reality. Monstrous wisdom such as this could only emanate from outside our prison. This religion should be considered a “Fourth Way school”, but the system which Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Nicoll taught cannot be separated from the Cult without mutilating our entire doctrine. The Work runs contrary to everyday life. We connect its truth as we disconnect from the illusory world around us. The Fourth Way is our way, the very core of our emerald faith. When all impediments have been stripped away, the only thing remaining will be our struggle against the sleep of life.
The Work begins as the roots of every Cultist and extends to his furthermost branches. We are committed to Awakening individual Cultists, as well as, the rest of humanity because nothing can be done while man is asleep. First, before anything else, he must stop being a machine imprisoned in this realm of illusion.
It's funny you mention disconnect, as these statements encourage a detachment from reality. Your Awakening just transmutes a puppet into a different sort of puppet. Encouragement of wisdom and awareness only requires itself, the cult language, especially that which is not obviously disclaimered, can spread and mutate in unexpected ways by chain reactions down the web of influence. It may have seemed keen to attract people to be more fulfilled and alive, yet it works as a counteragent at the same time.
Every Cultist seeks a state of higher consciousness. We call the fruits of this process, Awakening; though many might call it enlightenment, gnosis, self-actualization, or something similar. We can be roused from our everyday state of waking sleep using various methods and techniques. The following is but a taste of what is required. Adhere to it as much as possible, and in sufficient time, one might find oneself to be more conscious. Probably the greatest impediment to Awakening is that humans believe they are already Awake; however, that is quite wrong. We begin the Work asleep, every last one of us.
· Realize that you are not conscious in this moment. You are not observing, not paying attention, not mindful. Every thought,
feeling, and action is automatic. You are hypnotized by the natural rhythm of life.
· Observe yourself as having different centers; a physical, emotional, and intellectual center.
· Observe the many ‘I’s inside of you. Each ‘I’ operates your machine for awhile but no ‘I’ is master.
· Find and organize the small group of ‘I’s inside of you that wish to Work and make substantial changes.
· Struggle against yourself; everything that is automatic and machine-like must be observed and fought.
· Do not display negative emotions; they only drain and distract you.
· Do not identify with or lose yourself in anything that is not part of your essence, who you really are.
· Do not feel sorry for yourself or engage in any self pitying behavior. This merely replaces the effort it takes to improve your
life.
· Remember yourself whenever possible, that is, be mindful and fully aware. Observe internally and externally.
· Be as the void… empty, clean, calm, clear, and pure.
· Seek guidance from an esoteric school which can assist with your training.
The natural rhythm of life, is modelling. Zoology reveals that youth of an animal with cognitive ability, learns how to achieve by observing others of its kind. If circumstances withhold it, they are reduced to trial and error for self-teaching. That's why a cat could have a difficult time figuring out the right way to get down from a tree, if not having observed another climbing down backwards.
Modelling has become a puppet show in human society. The role models purporting endowment of the strengths of what we are; responsible application of intellect, wisdom and imagination- are mocked and ignored. The slew of con artists spreading misinformation out of greed, all the mental conditioning of national pride or religious zeal, and what else going on within the psychological warfare going on in the world, does show a need for awakening the sheep, but we can do so without playing the game ourselves.
The corruption of reality is basically just manipulating the world through ordinary action, the extraordinary action of a Conscious individual, and use of sorcery or what we call Viridian Magic. For example, ordinary action would be like not stepping in front of an oncoming car. Extraordinary action might be resisting ‘I’s that opposed your evolution. Using Viridian Magic creates small changes beneath the fabric of time and space. We manipulate reality to make life easier, sweeter, and more rewarding. At the moment, life is full of suffering and we humans were made to endure it. In fact, human suffering feeds the universe. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Conscious humanity could stop suffering and finally evolve into the Godlike beings we truly are. If man was already fully conscious would we have wars, economic instability, starvation, outbreaks of disease, torture, broken families, and widespread hopelessness? No, all of these unfortunate predicaments occur because man is currently asleep.
Viridian Magic has three parts. First, one must have intent or whatever the Cultist desires his outcome to be. Second, create a mindset which is void-like, observant, and open to possibility. Third, a Cultist’s will projects or fires the energy needed to alter reality into the universe.
So, how does this work? What if everything happening in the world was determined by code like html or something similar? If we understand reality to be varying dimensions of possibility, then it stands to reason that all potential outcomes are not created equal. Certain areas of reality can be affected; new formulas may be introduced, simply observing a process can alter the result. Magic simply nudges reality in a particular direction, and Viridian Magic agitates or disturbs things on a deeper, more fundamental level. At its best, our green sorcery can re-write the entire programming language!
Our interpretation of willed change is colored by sickly greenish hue of our understanding. Not only the ends, but the means; the Cultist must first ask himself several questions. Is this intent in keeping with the Work? Is my attention focused on the right things? How can I strengthen my resolve? If I change this portion of reality, then what needs to happen in order to correct any adverse imbalance I may cause?
Speaking of sorcery as if it were fact seems entirely unnecessary for encouraging willpower. I'd have no issue were you to clearly signify fantasia with some simplistic indication like "suppose yourself to possess this power of viridian magic: ..." or otherwise.
Aeons ago, ancient Godlike monstrosities ruled this universe. For some unknown reason, the Great Old Ones were expelled. Even though They squirmed and seethed beyond our universe, the Old Ones still had some influence… and continue to leverage what They can. Mankind, in particular, was given the benefit of consciousness which some might call a soul. He has the possibility to develop himself far beyond what the universe believes is capable. However, universal forces use their power to keep us asleep and enslaved.
The world is a prison from which we must escape. For untold generations, Cultists have attempted to bring the Ancient Ones back to earth. When the stars are right, They shall return! The Old Ones are destined to break through this prison so that our own obscured potential might flourish. Those who are Conscious will obtain everlasting power and life, they will be like Gods.
It is not the universal forces that subjugates, but the forces of human nature, the negative aspects arising of moral nature.
Truths don't change on a say so, they can only become better revealed. Pulling a myth out of a working of a mind has no effect on history, not to say that your myth is an impossibility.
Who can say this world works according to a logical and beneficial plan? Who among us can stand back and look objectively upon this ridiculous and wretched display without their soul vomiting? The banality of our christian corporate culture sickens me. Without a thought or a care, ordinary people trudge through their mundane existence. Like insects, humans quickly move from one vague pursuit to another. Our species would be utterly meaningless if not for two things.
One, humanity was designed as nourishment. Human suffering is food for the universe. Man, as he believes himself to be, is not real but an illusion…In fact, he does not exist at all. Everything that happens to us is pure accident; human beings have no will of their own. We are sleep walking slaves! Because of this our perception of “reality” is skewed.
Two, certain faculties in man evolved because of our ancient Devil-God forebearers. Seeing potential in Cro-Magnon, our consciousness was elevated. This is the missing (magical) link. We were given the potential to see our horrific position in the universe and to destroy this parasitic charade. Unfortunately, we evolved only half way. Humanity is stuck somewhere between ape and God.
What is the meaning of life? It is that everybody suffers. This is the fundamental truth which no one can escape. We all suffer. Such a realization led me to believe that organic life on earth serves a particular purpose…there is a conspiracy against us. Our suffering feeds the universe.
We are all wrapped up in the trials and tribulations of this existence. This tightly woven blanket wraps us to the point where we are insulated from the truth. We are asleep and may as well not be alive at all. And the key to the Cult of Cthulhu’s philosophy is to Awaken. We endeavor to influence the world more than we are influenced by it. It is the destiny of some to evolve further.
We suffer because we are broken machines, cracked eggs, incomplete programs, existential mutations, holograms who have lost their way. Everything else may be illusory, but endless human suffering is the inevitable truth which we must start with.
Our philosophy is almost like a sinister Buddhism…awakening with fire, with lightning, with lust, cruelty, and indomitable will. Traditional Buddhism seeks to alleviate suffering by eliminating the initial craving, adhering to the middle path, and ignoring extremes. The CoC overcomes the suffering of this world by becoming conscious. We go after our desires. Yes, we actively meditate and strive for enlightenment, but we also covet and conquer. This is a religion of the spirit and the flesh!
Those who read these words with understanding are more (or perhaps less) than human. If you feel a connection, a resonance with the prophecy of the Old Ones, then you are not like most. Genetically, you are not altogether homosapien. It is believed by some that a distinct minority of human beings were born closer to the demon heritage of Lord Cthulhu. The superior development of our gifts, imbued within us by the Dark Gods, has gone farther than ordinary man. We have evolved beyond our brothers. And it is this evolutionary might which drives us towards higher goals. Freeing the Old Ones, destroying this “reality”, and transforming into Gods ourselves…those are our goals. We welcome those of the Left Hand Path as brothers and sisters. Let us work together to accomplish something worthwhile!
Very, very, cynical, and difficult to look at and maintain that these influentially imbued words gathering support to misguided presumptions of existential ideals, was not meant for theft of confidence.
Coveting and conquering is the losing move to our advanced prisoner's dilemma.
The Cult of Cthulhu is a sorcerer’s lodge following the Left Hand Path, the road of antinomianism and self-deification. Official members work with occult secrets of an alien nature. Once described as Lovecraftian Satanism, the Cult of Cthulhu seeks evolution for a select fragment of humanity. In the last couple years, we have transformed into a Fourth Way school. For those who aren’t familiar with the Work, it is a knowledge that was first brought to the west by Gurdjieff and popularized by Ouspensky. It is nothing less than the struggle to be conscious.
Anyone can be a casual member of the CoC; however, three inner degrees will take possession of startling secrets. Most people don’t want understanding, they want comfort. We are not most people. Members of the CoC struggle to raise their knowledge and being. As our organization grows in strength, so the individual magus will rise up to claim his divine birthright.
Promising, if self-deification doesn't turn into evil by subjugating others to claim it.
Belief is reality. We choose what to believe in and our beliefs influence the consensual reality around us. Our consciousness has a direct effect on the world. Discover the nuances of this relationship, and there are few things a sorcerer cannot do.
Disturbing.
If one is to Awaken, if one is to achieve anything… there must be a goal. Something down the line we can point to and say, “Yes, That is what I’m trying to obtain.” Each individual who comes into the Work must find their own goal. Why do you want to be more conscious? What would you do if your machine was not broken but in perfect working order? How much could you achieve if you had seven times the productivity which you currently enjoy?
So what happens after that? As I say, it’s a subjective thing. Some Cultists might want to get farther in life, have more luxuries, stand out from the crowd, or conquer insurmountable obstacles. However, collectively, the Cult’s goal is to bring the Old Ones back. This will change everything. Reality as we know it will cease to exist. We are part of a greater plan, but things are still a mystery. Who can speak of the Emerald Kingdom with any clarity? Who can comprehend the details of becoming an entirely new species?
As High Priest, I know many things; but even I can’t say for certain what will happen exactly. Unlike other religions, the Cult of Cthulhu accepts a certain amount of strangeness. In fact, we embrace the unknown. We don’t attempt to answer the unanswerable. We don’t give you a happy ending such as…
You reach heaven and it’s bliss forever.
You get enlightenment and then you’re done.
You’re in bed with a thousand and one virgins.
You become one with the universe.
You pass Go and collect $200.
No, our end is incomprehensible to us at this present stage. The full scope of ascension is scarcely imaginable to us as we are, asleep and imprisoned. What will it be like to escape from our prison? Just how shall our freedom taste? Does all that depend on the individual? Perhaps reaching the ultimate goal will be a unique experience for everyone? Beyond the shrouded mysteries of time, I know it is our destiny to become the answer… whatever it is, we must have it. For each Cultist who has Awakened, there is a corresponding jade throne at the center of infinity. It beckons us onward just as our yearning draws us nearer to an indescribable juggernaut of bilious ooze, horns, eyes, tentacles, and a gaping maw of teeth and tongues, thousands of tongues lashing and dripping, tasting the very essence of our salacious will!
Freedom, empowerment, curiosity and luxury are obtainable by those in a circumstance such as ours, but it is not by surrendering to death, rather, by fighting for the prosperity of life, to allow us to further accomplish and realize the Emerald Kingdoms you desire.
What is the Eldritch Mandate? It is a command for select human beings to evolve. This evolution is a process of transformation, transcendence, and eventual Godhood. The Ancient Ones have provided us with the tools and understanding to change who we are for the better. To shirk such a responsibility would make us no better than animals foraging for food and shelter in the wild. The Eldritch Mandate is an opportunity to complete our evolution; now is the time and place to begin this epic journey.
But what gives us the right? Shouldn’t man be content with what he has? Isn’t it enough to wallow in our unfulfilled potential, our ignorance, our suffering? The Cthulhu Cult cries no! No, we shall not quietly be absorbed into this universe. No, we shall not wait to die peacefully in our sleep. Mankind was made for better things. The fact that we can reason is but a single aspect. There is a better way. Living deliberately, functioning with meaning and purpose. The sleepers may continue in a world where substance is hidden and liberation is nothing more than a joke, but that is not for the masters of this world. We seek something true because we know that everything that isn’t truth is falsehood!
Our Eldritch Mandate is a call to arms. It is our burning desire to take action. This world feels an awful lot like concrete, but it’s soft in the right places, malleable. Why shouldn’t we make reality our mistress? What better way to honor the Ancient Ones? What better path to victory than to manifest our most obscene desires?
What drives us is our desire to get from point A to point B. It makes precious little difference to us what an individual Cultist believes. Is the Cthulhu Mythos to be taken literally? Are the Cult’s rituals the best or only use of Viridian Magic? Does the Work necessitate spirituality or any kind of religious view? The answer to all these is: not necessarily. Our organization represents a balanced understanding, a middle road. Just as green is the center or central color in the spectrum… the Cthulhu Cult haphazardly stumbles to neither one side nor the other. We take in all impressions, we consider all aspects. Then, finally, we consciously choose the path which suits us best, individually and collectively.
We are neither for good nor evil. Our understanding reaches beyond such simplistic duality. Cultists are concerned with obtaining higher states of consciousness. The Cult is beyond good and evil. Good and evil connote a moral paradigm that does not require truth as a basis. The Work suggests that we view things based on potential benefit; what will assist our awakening versus what perpetuates our sleeping state.
Dogma should not be confused with the preaching of fundamental principles. There are some basic truths which are unavoidable. Truths such as that man is asleep, that he has many ‘I’s within him, and that external forces played, and still do play, a role in our evolutionary development. Yet, this religion is not in the habit of enforcing strict lines of thinking. The possibility, nay, encouragement of personal assessment, curious speculation, and individual understanding is paramount. At the end of the day, all our words are but instruction, a map showing the way. How one gets to that destination is up to the Cultist in question. Every journey is taken alone.
Ultimately, faith is more powerful than money. Belief is the new currency; everything else is just the middleman confusing the issue, getting in the way. All traditional forms of wealth are bankrupt or potentially so. Those who believe make their own reality. Determining what is real and what is not is the absolute authority and source of power. Cultists make a conscious decision to believe in our paradigm. That is what matters. Ordinary belief is the individual subscribing to a delusion, it does not require truth. A Cultist seeks truth through experience first and then forms his belief on that foundation of truth. This is a far better way to live; each of us discovering our own truth and building our collective and consciously chosen belief instead of simply accepting whatever consensual delusions are forced upon us.
That's the thing, "We'll believe what we want to believe" isn't any healthier than popular delusion. It causes hindrance to lucidity, the way for higher wisdom. The remark of cultists seeking truth through experience is rather weak when you are feeding your beliefs as truth at other times, and are running a monarchy over those you claim to be a mixed bag. Complete neutrality would mean to not tinker with the buttons of human psychology in any way, yet, you are, so you're not neutral, nor beyond good and evil. It's just difficult to tell which you are.