Chronos, Mist and Aether:

 

Chronos, Mist and Aether:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

TO ETHER.

0 EVER untam'd Ether, rais'd on high

 In Jove's dominions, ruler of the sky;

Great portion of the Stars and lunar light,

 And of the Sun, with dazzling lustre bright;

All-taming pow'r, ethereal shining fire,

Whose vivid blasts the heat of life inspire;

The world's best element, light-bearing pow'r,

With starry radiance shining, splendid flow'r ;

0 hear my suppliant pray'r, and may thy frame

Be ever innocent, serene, and tame.

The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus: Hymn no 5

Aether is the son of Chronos and Mist and is in qabalistic understanding, the Supernal Light, which is the light that bursts forth from the whirling of Kether to create Chokmah and Binah. These gods are appropriately more suited to Da-ath, however making these associations isn’t easy or clear, with regards to these Primordial Gods, as most of them are associated with the Supernal Triad, which is beyond intellectual understanding. It could be that, that which is associated with Da-ath, is objective experience as disunion, and would make sense, as everything is only real as per one’s relationship to it. It is within Da-ath, where Choronzon is, he is the God of dispersion and above the Abyss is The One, or The Unity. But as we cannot directly experience such unity and survive, The Unity may logically only be perceived, so it is reasonable to assume that this union with the Supernals, must be experienced in Da-ath. Frater Achad said that the grades above the Abyss, are experienced as one grade, and this idea may be worth exploring. If the nature of the ordeal within the Abyss is experienced as dispersion, it may be a result of having attained to this union, where the phenomenal world is experienced entirely foreign to the union and threatens one’s psychic constitution at that level of experience. However uncertain, I assume this ordeal would be an experience of extreme isolation, symbolized as the lonely towers, as at that stage, the world is perceived as Chaos and the only peace could be found internally, which indicates the nature of the Oath as well. Therefore, failure is the inability to re-integrate, like all ordeals, but this particular one, is experienced as a direct relationship between the magician and the universe and leads to insanity, as a result of the incongruent natures between subject and self and subject, self and the world, slowly dispersing being into delirium.

In Orphic theology, the World Egg wherein Phanes gestates, is symbolic of Da-ath and it is placed inside Aether. Therefore, Aether, if the above is true, is linked to the Supernal Triad, or in Neoplatonism, the Intelligible World and the Forms, but so are most of the Primordial Gods, Chronos is Time and Caligo is Mist, it is said that the space wherein the World Egg was placed, is the boundless lap of Erebus, surrounded by Aether, thus linking Time and Space via the relationship between Chronos, Caligo and Aether. This is an extremely elaborate creation story, wherein the division between subject and object is emphasized. Thus, the many different forms of light, which serve to express the relationship between man and the universe around him. Phanes is known as the first born and he is said to have created Heaven and Earth, thus, he is a consequence of Space and Time, who are symbolized by his parents and the evolution from Chaos into form. As Chaos, Time, Mist, Aether, Nox and with the birth of Phanes, Heaven and Earth. Aether is translated or is also known as Brightness and as Aether surrounds the World Egg placed in the lap of Erebus, he generates LVX which is indicated and in this essay is called the Supernal Light, emanating from Kether. Chaos and Chronos are appropriately associated with Chokmah and Binah, it is easier and more convenient to view these gods in question, as relating undefined to the spheres of the Supernal Triad, as owing to the abstruse nature of these gods. Qabalistically it becomes convenient and more intelligible, with Chokmah-Logos (Great Father) and Binah-Saturn (Great Mother), or simply the Primordial Opposites. Or, even more directly, the above theology can be seen as a primitive explanation of the Thelemic formula 0=2. So, if Aether is brightness and Phanes is consiousness, both of these are brought into Heaven and Earth together, as the light generated by Phane’s birth and accordingly, forms the symbolic relationship between Phanes and Jupiter, ergo establishing the Demiurge.

“Love is the law, love under will.”