These myths are again linked to the celestial and cosmological micro-macrocosmic relationships of the earth and the heavens, giving rise to our calendar, both esoterically and exoterically. Against this symbiosis, the unconscious mind utilizes specific symbols that alert the conscious mind of its origins and purpose within this eternal cycle of life that removes the fear of death as a finality. History satisfies the conscious mind; myth satisfies the unconscious mind.
Clan Tubal Cain is not polytheistic, nor is it duo-theistic. In strict accord with its Traditional Mythos, it follows the principle of a Monolatrous practice. This effectively elevates an atavistic presence recognized in the Tutelary God—Tubal Cain with whom the Clan preserves a covenanted relationship. Beyond this singular preference for a mediating entity, we acknowledge the Father and the Triune Goddess and other deities of whom Tubal is but one of choice. Within the Craft of Tubal Cain, Fate as the manifold Goddess of life and death and as the controller of ‘life in time,' is a force understood to be above the gods.
Robert Cochrane asserted that ‘all ritual must be prayer'; petition then, not coercion. This repeatedly stresses imperative knowledge of the Higher Will exceeding the needs of the Lower Will.
Who is Tubal Cain?
Tubal Cain, the hairy one, is a mythical progenitor and benefactor of the human race, heir to an unknown and non-human race, archaic and primal. He is embodied in all things wild and all things tame, he is the master of the animals, yet tiller of the earth. He forges metals for the corn and killing fields. Ancestral Priest-King imbued with the generative spiritual fire of the elder gods, he is the hunter and hunted, the lover and the beloved. He is the alchemical serpent king of wisdom, and sacred horned Ur goat of enchantments, mighty warrior and the champion of the individual, the pioneer, the recluse, the mystic and the mage.
Tubal Cain as an avatar of Lucifer is seen by many as the supreme deity of the Craft. Tracing the chronology and history of ‘the Devil', traditional Witch Master and ‘Prince of this World' has revealed many esoteric mysteries regarding his origins and variant roles. He is Lord of the Manifest worlds, reflected in the spirit, soul, and body of Man, thus He wears the Triregnum—the Three Crowned Tiara that represents his threefold nature and divine light. He is the pole/point/qutub and He communicates through the sonic sound, Logos. Those who shine forth this reflected light must veil their faces; to reveal means to draw aside and re-veil means to cover again, giving us the mask.
The subtitle of Tubelo's Green Fire reads "Mythos, Ethos, Female, Male & Priestly Mysteries of the Clan of Tubal Cain." What do you understand the term "Mysteries" to mean?
If I may paraphrase Robert Cochrane here, the Mysteries are the means by which we come to know ourselves as the product of God. Male and Female Mysteries are taught separately at first only to give definition to the third set of Mysteries by which they are transcended.
In myth, when the king has lost his way and his faith, then, through his role as the priest/king, his people are bereft; the barren landscape in which they starve is a graphic only, a narrative device, a literary motif of the mystical writers. His faith/wisdom (Pistis-Sophia) needs restoration and re-union within the Hieros Gamos to restore his Virtue. The Grail has nothing to do with the land or womanhood in the absolute sense. This association was made by linking Pistis Sophia with Mary in the Marianism of that period in order to again promote the role of the Church in the blessed right and ability of the Monarch to rule.
Again, the idea of male gods and heroes sacrificed to themselves is a later Christian gloss on the early myths of immolation and self-mutilation that formed the journey of many ancient religions, revealing more about their primitive brutality than their spirituality. More enlightened descent myths of a Promethean nature do of course reveal an element of punishment by the older gods for bringing wisdom to mankind, a punishment they willingly accept, but this is not the same as willingly sacrificing oneself for their own knowledge as did Odin, an act that also had nothing to do with maidens, altruism, or salvation of humanity.
Many kings actively engaged in near annihilation of all family contenders who might usurp them. Queens were political acquisitions; their blood-line was unimportant, but their dowered lands, however, were. Because the grail is gnosis/wisdom, anyone may therefore be a seeker—the grail is pure and may be won by the true pilgrim; that is all that we believe; no more no less.
It has nothing to do with monarchs, land, fertility, just the pursuit of Truth. Hindu chauvinism along with the Grail Mysteries of the medieval era do in fact typify the spiritual evolution for men on the back of women; but the fact that human error/ego/bias has failed a glorious and sublime principle, should not prevent us from utilizing it to its full and desired fruition. The harmony is here one of equality, a union of force and form. It is not about supremacy or subjugation nor a lack of one for the other. Within Gnosticism, this imbalance was not engaged or indulged; both men and women, as individuals, achieved enlightenment supported by their community.
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