Dreams- The Algol/symbol corellations

It’s taken me a while, betweeen my partner working on her review like a madman (and therefore dominating the computer), and taking the time to do the research.

But:

Algol:

The Gorgon Medusa plays an important part in the story of the Greek hero Perseus. Robert Graves relates that, “…the Gorgon Medusa had serpents for hair, huge teeth, protruding tongue and altogether so ugly a face that all who gazed upon it were [literally] petrified with fright.” The Greek Myths (Penguin, 1955) page 239.
With the aid of Hermes and Athene Perseus slew Medusa and cut off her head, which continued to have the ability to turn those who beheld it to stone.

Algol is the second brightest star of the constellation Perseus and thus is sometimes referred to as Beta Persei. The name Algol, says Richard Hinckley Allen, comes from the Arabic Ras Al-Ghul, which literally means the Mischief Maker. Star Names (Dover, 1963) page 332. Algol is called the Demon, the Demon Star and is also known as the Blinking Demon because it is part of a binary star system where a dimmer star periodically eclipses its brighter partner.
Algol has a very bad reputation among astrologers. Vivian Robson says, “It is the most evil star in the heavens.” The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (Sun Books 1995) page 124. William Lilly gives a significator a score of minus five points if within five degrees of Algol and says it prenotes death either by violence to oneself or others. Christian Astrology pages 115, 257-8, 536.
One would think that this is a star to stay well away from. However, Cornelius Agrippa says,

Under the Head of Algol, they made an image whose figure was the head of a man with a bloody neck; they report that it bestoweth good success to petitions, and make him go carrieth it bold and magnanimous, and preserveth the members of the body sound; also it helpeth against witchcraft, and reflecteth evil endeavours, and wicked incantations upon our adversaries.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bk.II, Chapter 47 (Tyson ed.) page 395. Agrippa gives the following instructions for the making of rings which we can adapt for our Algol talisman,

Now, the manner of making these kinds of rings, is this, viz., when any star ascends fortunately, with the fortunate aspect or conjunction of the Moon, we must take a stone, and herb that is under that star, and fasten it under that star and make a ring of the metal that is suitable to this star, and in it fasten the stone, putting the herb or root under it; not omitting the inscription of images, names and characters, and also the proper suffimigations…”

Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bk.I, Chapter 47 (Tyson ed.) page 140.

The Moon is strong in its exaltation Taurus and is making an applying sextile to the Sun. Nevertheless, this is still an election with malefic overtones. William Ramesey says, “…in all manner of Elections for good…[Let not the Moon] be in the Ascendant…” Astrologiae Restaurata (London, 1653) page 127. It is the planetary hour of Saturn, the Greater Malefic. And c’mon, it’s an Algol election!

Agrippa says that under the rule of Algol are diamonds, black hellebore and mugwort. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bk.I, Chapter 32 (Tyson ed.) page 99. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is available from the Lucky Mojo Curio Company. Here is more information on Black Hellebore, Helleborus niger.

Algol even has its own character which appears to right. Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bk.II, Chapter 52 (Tyson ed.) page 409.

An interesting thing…while reading the Agrippa, somewhere towards the beginning of the first part, he writes this:

The Number and the Nature of those things, Cal’d Elements, what Fire, Earth, Aire forth brings: From whence the Heavens their beginnings had; Whence Tide, whence Rainbow, in gay colours clad.  What makes the Clouds that gathered are, and black, To send forth Lightnings, and a Thundring crack; What doth the Nightly Flames, and Comets make; What makes the Earth to swell, and then to quake: What is the seed of Metals, and of Gold What Vertues, Wealth, doth Nature’s Coffer hold.

Consiering all the work I’ve done recently in tring to find a smiplistic, reduced, NON-CONTEXTUAL sumbol system to describe the process of perception, that AS I FINISH IT, I have this dream.

And then find this quote.

Added, for some insane reason, the elements of storm and apocalypse like’n to the dream.

The corellation Agrippa makes is unmistakeable.

This is the final combination of movements before the summation of Philosopher’s Stone consciouness.

The true perception of what you’re working with.

So…on with the other symbols.

Chango:

In trying to find a metaphysical match to the symbol in my dream, I remembered several which had the same patterns of foce and summation.

One was primary.

The Voudoun veve of Shango, lwa of storms.

Yeah, Lwa of thunder and lightning. Did anyone else hear a loud audible *click*?

so then we come to the second symbol I came acrossed  The NOR gate:

The Nor Gate.

The NOR gate is a digital logic gate that implements logical NOR . A HIGH output (1) results if both the inputs to the gate are LOW (0). If one or both input is HIGH (1), a LOW output (0) results. NOR is the result of the negation of the OR operator. NOR is a functionally complete operation — combinations of NOR gates can be combined to generate any other logical function. By contrast, the OR operator is monotonic as it can only change LOW to HIGH but not vice versa.

In most, but not all, circuit implementations, the negation comes for free — including CMOS and TTL. In such logic families, the only way to implement OR is with 2 or more gates, such as a NOR followed by an inverter. A significant exception is some forms of the domino logic family.”

Basically, what a nor gate is, perceptually, is kind of the “watched pot never boils ” proof of logic.

As long as there is ANY input, the output is always negative. Only in the complete absence of input from any source makes an output.

As the shaman from Altered States would say, “It is the crack between nothing and nothing”.

In it’s own way, that’s how thunder is too. Lightning push air out of the way so fast that a vacuum forms behind the bolt. A sonic boom. And yet, there’s nothing what common sense says is “material” about the bolt. It’s energy, and yet it makes an effect as if it had mass.. If it is nothing but energy, common sense says it is….”nothing”.  This energy splits the air, another thing which is considered- having no weight or mass- to common sense, not real…nothing.

Thunder happens in the crack between nothings

Oddly enough, now the Gnostic Gospel of “The Thunder, Perfect Mind”  makes perfect sense.

I was sent forth from the power,

and I have come to those who reflect upon me,

and I have been found among those who seek after me.

Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,

and you hearers, hear me.

You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.

And do not banish me from your sight.

And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.

Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!

Do not be ignorant of me.

For I am the first and the last.

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin.

I am <the mother> and the daughter.

I am the members of my mother.

I am the barren one

and many are her sons.

I am she whose wedding is great,

and I have not taken a husband.

I am the midwife and she who does not bear.

I am the solace of my labor pains.

I am the bride and the bridegroom,

and it is my husband who begot me.

I am the mother of my father

and the sister of my husband

and he is my offspring.

I am the slave of him who prepared me.

I am the ruler of my offspring.

But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.

And he is my offspring in (due) time,

and my power is from him.

I am the staff of his power in his youth,

and he is the rod of my old age.

And whatever he wills happens to me.

I am the silence that is incomprehensible

and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.

I am the voice whose sound is manifold

and the word whose appearance is multiple.

I am the utterance of my name.

Why, you who hate me, do you love me,

and hate those who love me?

You who deny me, confess me,

and you who confess me, deny me.

You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,

and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.

You who know me, be ignorant of me,

and those who have not known me, let them know me.

For I am knowledge and ignorance.

I am shame and boldness.

I am shameless; I am ashamed.

I am strength and I am fear.

I am war and peace.

Give heed to me.

I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.

Give heed to my poverty and my wealth.

Do not be arrogant to me when I am cast out upon the earth,

and you will find me in those that are to come.

And do not look upon me on the dung-heap

nor go and leave me cast out,

and you will find me in the kingdoms.

And do not look upon me when I am cast out among those who

are disgraced and in the least places,

nor laugh at me.

And do not cast me out among those who are slain in violence.

But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.

Be on your guard!

Do not hate my obedience

and do not love my self-control.

In my weakness, do not forsake me,

and do not be afraid of my power.

For why do you despise my fear

and curse my pride?

But I am she who exists in all fears

and strength in trembling.

I am she who is weak,

and I am well in a pleasant place.

I am senseless and I am wise.

Why have you hated me in your counsels?

For I shall be silent among those who are silent,

and I shall appear and speak,

Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?

Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?

For I am the wisdom of the Greeks

and the knowledge of the barbarians.

I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.

I am the one whose image is great in Egypt

and the one who has no image among the barbarians.

I am the one who has been hated everywhere

and who has been loved everywhere.

I am the one whom they call Life,

and you have called Death.

I am the one whom they call Law,

and you have called Lawlessness.

I am the one whom you have pursued,

and I am the one whom you have seized.

I am the one whom you have scattered,

and you have gathered me together.

I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,

and you have been shameless to me.

I am she who does not keep festival,

and I am she whose festivals are many.

I, I am godless,

and I am the one whose God is great.

I am the one whom you have reflected upon,

and you have scorned me.

I am unlearned,

and they learn from me.

I am the one that you have despised,

and you reflect upon me.

I am the one whom you have hidden from,

and you appear to me.

But whenever you hide yourselves,

I myself will appear.

For whenever you appear,

I myself will hide from you.

Those who have [...] to it [...] senselessly [...].

Take me [... understanding] from grief.

and take me to yourselves from understanding and grief.

And take me to yourselves from places that are ugly and in ruin,

and rob from those which are good even though in ugliness.

Out of shame, take me to yourselves shamelessly;

and out of shamelessness and shame,

upbraid my members in yourselves.

And come forward to me, you who know me

and you who know my members,

and establish the great ones among the small first creatures.

Come forward to childhood,

and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.

And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,

for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.

Why do you curse me and honor me?

You have wounded and you have had mercy.

Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have known.

And do not cast anyone out nor turn anyone away

[...] turn you away and [... know] him not.

[...].

What is mine [...].

I know the first ones and those after them know me.

But I am the mind of [...] and the rest of [...].

I am the knowledge of my inquiry,

and the finding of those who seek after me,

and the command of those who ask of me,

and the power of the powers in my knowledge

of the angels, who have been sent at my word,

and of gods in their seasons by my counsel,

and of spirits of every man who exists with me,

and of women who dwell within me.

I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,

and who is despised scornfully.

I am peace,

and war has come because of me.

And I am an alien and a citizen.

I am the substance and the one who has no substance.

Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,

and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.

Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,

and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.

On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,

and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you.

[I am ...] within.

[I am ...] of the natures.

I am [...] of the creation of the spirits.

[...] request of the souls.

I am control and the uncontrollable.

I am the union and the dissolution.

I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.

I am the one below,

and they come up to me.

I am the judgment and the acquittal.

I, I am sinless,

and the root of sin derives from me.

I am lust in (outward) appearance,

and interior self-control exists within me.

I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone

and the speech which cannot be grasped.

I am a mute who does not speak,

and great is my multitude of words.

Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.

I am she who cries out,

and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.

I prepare the bread and my mind within.

I am the knowledge of my name.

I am the one who cries out,

and I listen.

I appear and [...] walk in [...] seal of my [...].

I am [...] the defense [...].

I am the one who is called Truth

and iniquity [...].

You honor me [...] and you whisper against me.

You who are vanquished, judge them (who vanquish you)

before they give judgment against you,

because the judge and partiality exist in you.

If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you?

Or, if you are acquitted by him, who will be able to detain you?

For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,

and the one who fashions you on the outside

is the one who shaped the inside of you.

And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;

it is visible and it is your garment.

Hear me, you hearers

and learn of my words, you who know me.

I am the hearing that is attainable to everything;

I am the speech that cannot be grasped.

I am the name of the sound

and the sound of the name.

I am the sign of the letter

and the designation of the division.

And I [...].

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[...] light [...].

[...] hearers [...] to you

[...] the great power.

And [...] will not move the name.

[...] to the one who created me.

And I will speak his name.

Look then at his words

and all the writings which have been completed.

Give heed then, you hearers

and you also, the angels and those who have been sent,

and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.

For I am the one who alone exists,

and I have no one who will judge me.

For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,

and incontinencies,

and disgraceful passions,

and fleeting pleasures,

which (men) embrace until they become sober

and go up to their resting place.

And they will find me there,

and they will live,

and they will not die again.

I read this, now, and see so many things which apply to the prnciple of thunder, to Agrippa’s discourse, to Algol itself.

It’s truly amazing.

I’ll do the symbol breakdown /comparison and the text synchs tonight

The dream was NOT a bad dream.

The dream was my glimpse of finally seeing what i needed to see.

Of knowing something in my heart I cold never say.

I can see again.

I can see.