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Some months ago, HPHC wrote a post discussing several key things to do with matters pertaining to both the understanding of our own theology, as well as the nature of the enemy. Within this sermon, HPHC referenced the literal existence of Tartarus. This caught the eyes of several, who had been assuming Tartarus to be purely a symbolic aspect of Greek Theology. Naturally, this raised certain curiosities. This, however, is not just about Tartarus, rather, it’s about using Tartarus to demonstrate a finer point about the interpretation of Ancient Mythemes. I’ll do my best to summarize things, though reader beware, it’ll be lengthy, and I don't promise perfection absolute.
To begin with the apparent question. Is everything within ancient story literal? No. Allegorical thinking and metaphor are important mechanics in the preservation of knowledge. Due to enemy influence and other factors, perhaps, people have forgotten about such things as the Chakras or the Kundalini. To use an example however, the Yule Tree, its lights, and its star, persist as a symbol of such.
However, one should not be quick to interpret everything “strange” within the stories of the Ancients as purely symbolic. Things are much more complicated than this. Take Theseus, the King of Athens. A mythical King, of legendary deeds. Though his story is filled with allegory, Theseus was a real man. Similarly, there are places in Greek myth which are real places you can go and visit today. The point is, something existing within myth does not preclude it from existing within reality. Many fools have tried to make these claims. They notice the symbolic aspects of the Gods, and so they speak against their literal existence. The opposite, is in fact true. Just because Troy was the place of Homer’s Iliad, does not mean its ruins aren’t still there, in modern day Anatolia.
With that established, it’s important to realize that, similarly to real places and real people existing in legend, so too are other matters, ones less understood by the modern, less spiritual man. It’s easy to see Athens still exists with your eyes. But what of the Underworld/Hades?
This is the part where people start to struggle. With spiritual understanding having faded within the mainstream, it’s easy to disregard anything as “the supernatural” as purely allegorical. An undeveloped man can see Athens, but, they cannot see the Underworld, or remember it. Indeed, the Underworld too, much like Athens, Sparta, Troy, appears as a location within myth and legend. Much like these worldly places, allegorical stories can happen within it, in the context of legend. That however, does not mean it doesn’t exist in the literal sense as well, same as our Gods.
But what is ‘Tartarus’? What does it represent, and why does it matter? Importantly too, how does it differ to the Jewish falsehoods perpetrated by Abrahamic deceptions?
Within allegory, Tartarus is the abyssal prison regarded as far below the Underworld as earth is below Olympus. Of course this isn’t literal, as Hades isn’t below our feet in the literal sense, but, above and below are indeed spiritual concepts which reveal the true nature of these things.
In the Titanomachia, after the Olympian Gods triumphed over the Titans, most of them were imprisoned within Tartarus, with the Olympian assuming dominance over the earth, the sea, and the heavens. The most principle of these Titans was none other than Kronos, the Titan of Time, associated with Saturn. Meanwhile, the most principle Titan who remained outside of Tartarus was none other than Prometheus. Already, there is more allegory here than I can discuss in reasonable time, but I’ll make it brief.
In a sense, the dwelling of Kronos in Tartarus is symbolic of Saturnic spiritual matters. The effects of the Kundalini remaining sleeping in the root chakra, and how this unascended spiritual state causes our mortal forms to experience ‘bound time’, or ‘titanic time’. The time experienced by mortals, who suffer the effects of aging, same as the passage of the seasons, and the harvest. Olympians however, are representative of ‘unbound time’, or eternity. The Gods of course, are able to see things in a certain non-linear sense. They are above time’s ravages. This dichotomy is in turn, important to understanding the mythological creation of humanity within Greek theology. Prometheus, not subject to Tartarus, shaped humanity’s physical form, whereas the Olympians breathed soul into it. We as we are, are Titan, and Olympian.
The ‘mystery cults’ of Greece, be it the Eleusian or the Orphic, often had to do with this very nature. The internal triumph of our Olympian half over the Titanic is symbolic of ascension to Godhood. To become Olympian in totality, is the Magnum Opus.
Beyond the Titanomachia, other mythemes begin to portray, through further allegory, increasingly revelatory aspects of what Tartarus is. The most famous inhabitant of it, is of course, Sisyphus. If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the story of the man forced to roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down at the top, for eternity. This has become known in modern dialect as the ‘Sisyphean Task’. But why is it relevant here?
Sisyphus, in legend, tried to evade his mortality, not through growth and development of the soul, but trickery, and hubris. He considered himself smarter than the Gods, and thus not subject to natural law. The meaningless, endless task he has been put to for this ‘sin’, is in itself, representative of this. To try and be more than mortal, through the cheating and deception of natural law as opposed to the embracing of it, is a task of no conclusion. Every time you reach the top, your work will come undone. There is no permanence, no eternity. Sisyphus here, is an icon of dross and sin. And he is but one of many examples. Among him, there are others like Tantalus, who tried to pilfer the secrets and gifts of the Gods through equally perverse means, or through great acts of evil, like the cannibalization of his own son, much like Kronos before him.
It’s a common mytheme, you see, that after, or because of, the defeat of Kronos, the Olympian Gods face other monsters too. The Giants. Typhon. These monstrous entities all bear the same traits. Hideous. Terrible. Often bringing disease or sorrow. They are harbingers of the worst, and most lesser aspects of everything purely material. The things that ravage those without spiritual development and understanding.
With the allegorical understanding established, now you can begin to unfold the literal nature of Tartarus, same as the literal understanding of Hades. No, Tartarus is not the Pagan of the Abrahamic Hell, in spite of the fact that the Abrahamic Hell pulled much of its ideas and concepts from it. Tartarus literal existence, maintains the same function as the Underworld itself. And this has to do with what I’d refer to as the hierarchy of souls.
Within Hades/the Underworld, there are many tiers which souls dwell. There is the Asphodel Meadows. This is where the “bulk” of humanity’s souls go. The mostly undeveloped. Those unextraordinary masses, without grievous sin or great deed alike. Conversely, there is the Fields of Elysium. These are the “heroic” souls, those with spiritual understanding and deed within their lifetime. Lastly, there are the Fields of the Blessed. The highest tier of Hades, to those who can dwell among Hades with full spiritual understanding and comprehension. Those souls which do not drink from the River Lethe and forget the experiences of the spirit. Great philosophers and minds like Plato and Socrates are associated with this very place for evident reason. Even Cronus himself, after his freeing from Tartarus, drinks from its nectar, and becomes its Lord. Yes, there is allegory here, but, the difference of power and development between souls, how they dwell in these astral realms and how they’re reborn, are very real things. Very literal things.
As such, so is Tartarus. Natural law is what it is, and there are souls far lower, far more coated in dross and undeveloped, that ‘sink to the bottom’. As is it is within Egyptian Theology, they call it the weighing of the heart (soul) against a Feather of Ma’at, symbolic of justice and goodness. The developed soul, is a lighter one. The dross addled soul, is a heavier one. One of the base metals, as opposed to golden light.
Natural law, and the operation of the Gods, sort souls on hierarchy. Though the world as we know it is full of deceit, there is no cheating the scales. A rich shabbos goyim can buy himself as many drugs as he wants to extend his life. He will still die. The astral reality is one of absolute truth, and no soul is equal to another. The most dross ridden souls simply cannot dwell in the same space as the developed, brightest ones. Natural law, nor the Gods, allow such a thing.
Consider this a chicken or the egg matter. In our world, you will find that the heaviest souls are borne by the people who often commit the most grievous crimes. They are ‘ugly’ people. Often both in appearance, and in act. Even in modern science, it is demonstrated that only a ‘high IQ’ individual is capable of compassion. Whereas the stupidest members of the species are capable of the worst cruelties. There is not ‘one humanity’. Can you say Pythagoras is the same ‘race’ as someone who is so fallen they cannot inhibit themselves from sporadic acts of rape and violence? These are realities that are happening all over the world, right now, as you read this. Though it’s hard to imagine for anyone bearing even the most basic comprehension, there are people so low that they give in to urges that render them below the noble animal. There are people who see someone pass them on the street, and decide on the spot, to torture them to death. Just because. Can you honestly imagine yourself committing such an act? By and large, no, of course not.
It is not because people commit these acts that the ‘Gods send them to Tartarus’. It’s more nuanced than that. Rather, those with souls so heavy and corrupt, are the only ones capable of such acts to begin with. And that is the literal reality of ‘Tartarus’. It is the lowest astral reality, reserved for the heaviest souls of humanity. To go back to Egyptian thinking, these souls are ‘devoured by Ammit’ in a ‘lake of fire’. Most souls that naturally go to dwell in such a place, may not even have the energy to be reborn into the next life. That is the ‘devouring’. Which is to say, the destruction of these souls as per natural law. Tartarus is not about vengeance and spite. It is about natural hierarchy. It is what comes of those who have spent lifetimes suckling up Abrahamic filth, corrupting themselves with enemy energies, and/or refusing development, and in turn, often becoming ‘monsters’, in how they are frequently inclined to act while alive. To provide an example, take the ‘Bible Belt’ of America. The most capital Christian place is also the capital of homicide, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, incest, obesity. Have you ever noticed the most “Christian” people are often the most hideous physically? Such a thing is not a coincidence. Even in death, the ‘filthiest’ souls are the ones prone to what are popularly called as ‘hauntings’. These are not things we need to worry about, as the Gods sort them out, but the point still stands. The nature of these souls is as such they even bear negativity beyond the body. It’s why Tartarus is considered a prison of ‘evil’, where entities guard watch to make sure these souls cannot harm the dwelling places of the higher ones.
So no, Tartarus is no “Hell.” Anyone here reading this has to understand that you’re not going to get arbitrarily sent to such a place. This isn’t Christianity. You’re not getting sent anywhere for being ‘sinful’, that’s not really the point. It’s the same as it is in life. Your experience is the effort you put in. And unlike Christianity where 99.99% of people even the goodest goy go to Hell anyway for whatever stupid nonsense, even the most ‘normal’, mundane person isn’t set for such a place. This is what ‘Asphodel’ is for, so to speak. Tartarus, Ammit, these are the extreme examples.
To provide a very personal anecdote, like many here, I have a parent who, despite being unpracticed, had ‘spiritual experiences’. When I was about two years old, an uncle of mine died quite young in a car accident. Later, his dog mysteriously vanished, likely having sensed something had gone wrong, as animals still often possess these higher instincts, probably having escaped to go look for him, and likely having died himself. It was a mere few days later, my mother had a dream. One that felt real. It wasn’t just a dream. The colors were too vivid. She was at the edge of a hilly meadow, with a bright blue sky, too bright for simple reality. My uncle was there, with his dog, and they departed together into the distance with only the briefest acknowledgment of a goodbye. This place, was the exact depiction of how the Ancients described the Meadows, but my mother had no reading or knowledge of anything Pagan, she was almost an Atheist, most of her life. Yet there it was. A real place, before her astral eyes.
The point is, my uncle was an unremarkable man. Not a Pagan. Not spiritually practiced. Not a bad person, but not one someone would write stories of. Even despite teenage petty crime, he still seemingly passed on to the Meadows, and likely has possibly been reborn into his next life. As is the way of things, and as they should be. Again, we are not Christians. You look at someone the wrong way and you deserve an eternity of torture? These are deranged, hateful fantasies of souls who are likely due for the jaws of Ammit themselves. Even the most average soul, with a lifetimes of good, bad, successes and victories, failures and errors, will experience rest and rebirth. It takes lifetimes of extremely wilful self-corruption to ever be such a soul that’ll face dwelling in the low places, or ultimately obliteration.
To change gears, in an effort to wrap this topic, I can touch on the inverse. Within the universe there are worlds and dwelling places so high that even our most developed would struggle to perceive them. Looping this back around to the allegorical vs the literal, the reality we experience today is not precisely the same one as the Ancients. Things change, both the development and perceptive abilities of humanity at large, and the astral state of our own world. Alexander the Great once named and spoke with a Demon in the same room as him, when several others were present. There is, indeed, much missing from our lives. Imagine we are dreaming, and are only just beginning to open our eyes to the full width and breadth of reality.
In the stories of the Ancients, you will see common references to other beings. Not just the Gods themselves, but entities like, for example, Naiads. There are hosts upon hosts of as Cobra himself named, ‘Chthonic Demons’ that are not quite Gods, but ranks and files of ‘lesser’ entities that represent a great many extraordinary things. Once, these things were realities of life. Understanding of these forces and entities lived on in altered form. Like why so many in rural places give offering to ‘Fairies’ for good luck, blessings, and to maintain a good hearth. The understanding is somewhat corrupted, but there’s a literal truth to be had there all the same.
People are confused, naturally, when people read what the Ancients had penned. Stories of people talking to ‘Naiads’ or what have you. Though these entities can too, be used in allegorical stories, like everything else I said, it does change the existence of a forgotten, literal truth.
These lesser Cthonic Demons were and are, aspects of our world. Laws that are intrinsic to our world, our life. They are part of a great spiritual hierarchy, underneath the Gods. Oftentimes, these entities presided over things like rivers, forests, fields. These are things that were the lifeblood of humanity. Geometric ley lines, places where we would find food, or water. The honouring and association with such things was part of life. People understood the existence of these entities. Lo and behold, the moment people stopped being Pagan, what happened? A great era of destruction, poisoning, and so forth. A desecration of the land, and the belief it was resource only, and not divine. Complete abandonment of respect for natural law was yet another blow to the spiritual wellbeing for this world. If you look at Ancient Greece, you see how they built in-tune with nature, dotting the landscape with shrines to all sorts of locally relevant entities.
It is not just us and the Gods. You read any text from any nation you’ll see the stories of what existed. The almost ritualistic nature of people’s lives. The awareness of the astral reality. You have five senses. Imagine living with just one. This is a similar thing to our reality today, for there is so much we do not see, hear, touch and feel. This will not always be reality for us. As we rise, we will rise our astral with it. And the spiritual nature of the world will become apparent once more. There is a reason why, the world you see cited in the scrolls of the Ancients is so much more colorful than the one of now.
Tartarus was really just a topical key, in this sense, to elaborate on a larger topic. That, yes, allegory is important, not everything written by our ancestors is purely such. Something can be both real, and allegorical. Oftentimes, like with runes, the vibrational reality of the universe means that the physical manifestation of things are representative of an astral truth. Like the first rune Fehu, which can literally be taken to mean ‘cattle’, ordains over the mobility of wealth, among other things. Among farmers, what were cattle, but literally wealth that walked?
In the end, it’s important to use your mind’s eye when reading anything of the Ancients. The full scale of the truth in their words and reality will only become more apparent as we ourselves grow. Take heart in knowing the world is stranger and more beautiful than even you imagine it to be.
To begin with the apparent question. Is everything within ancient story literal? No. Allegorical thinking and metaphor are important mechanics in the preservation of knowledge. Due to enemy influence and other factors, perhaps, people have forgotten about such things as the Chakras or the Kundalini. To use an example however, the Yule Tree, its lights, and its star, persist as a symbol of such.
However, one should not be quick to interpret everything “strange” within the stories of the Ancients as purely symbolic. Things are much more complicated than this. Take Theseus, the King of Athens. A mythical King, of legendary deeds. Though his story is filled with allegory, Theseus was a real man. Similarly, there are places in Greek myth which are real places you can go and visit today. The point is, something existing within myth does not preclude it from existing within reality. Many fools have tried to make these claims. They notice the symbolic aspects of the Gods, and so they speak against their literal existence. The opposite, is in fact true. Just because Troy was the place of Homer’s Iliad, does not mean its ruins aren’t still there, in modern day Anatolia.
With that established, it’s important to realize that, similarly to real places and real people existing in legend, so too are other matters, ones less understood by the modern, less spiritual man. It’s easy to see Athens still exists with your eyes. But what of the Underworld/Hades?
This is the part where people start to struggle. With spiritual understanding having faded within the mainstream, it’s easy to disregard anything as “the supernatural” as purely allegorical. An undeveloped man can see Athens, but, they cannot see the Underworld, or remember it. Indeed, the Underworld too, much like Athens, Sparta, Troy, appears as a location within myth and legend. Much like these worldly places, allegorical stories can happen within it, in the context of legend. That however, does not mean it doesn’t exist in the literal sense as well, same as our Gods.
But what is ‘Tartarus’? What does it represent, and why does it matter? Importantly too, how does it differ to the Jewish falsehoods perpetrated by Abrahamic deceptions?
Within allegory, Tartarus is the abyssal prison regarded as far below the Underworld as earth is below Olympus. Of course this isn’t literal, as Hades isn’t below our feet in the literal sense, but, above and below are indeed spiritual concepts which reveal the true nature of these things.
In the Titanomachia, after the Olympian Gods triumphed over the Titans, most of them were imprisoned within Tartarus, with the Olympian assuming dominance over the earth, the sea, and the heavens. The most principle of these Titans was none other than Kronos, the Titan of Time, associated with Saturn. Meanwhile, the most principle Titan who remained outside of Tartarus was none other than Prometheus. Already, there is more allegory here than I can discuss in reasonable time, but I’ll make it brief.
In a sense, the dwelling of Kronos in Tartarus is symbolic of Saturnic spiritual matters. The effects of the Kundalini remaining sleeping in the root chakra, and how this unascended spiritual state causes our mortal forms to experience ‘bound time’, or ‘titanic time’. The time experienced by mortals, who suffer the effects of aging, same as the passage of the seasons, and the harvest. Olympians however, are representative of ‘unbound time’, or eternity. The Gods of course, are able to see things in a certain non-linear sense. They are above time’s ravages. This dichotomy is in turn, important to understanding the mythological creation of humanity within Greek theology. Prometheus, not subject to Tartarus, shaped humanity’s physical form, whereas the Olympians breathed soul into it. We as we are, are Titan, and Olympian.
The ‘mystery cults’ of Greece, be it the Eleusian or the Orphic, often had to do with this very nature. The internal triumph of our Olympian half over the Titanic is symbolic of ascension to Godhood. To become Olympian in totality, is the Magnum Opus.
Beyond the Titanomachia, other mythemes begin to portray, through further allegory, increasingly revelatory aspects of what Tartarus is. The most famous inhabitant of it, is of course, Sisyphus. If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the story of the man forced to roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down at the top, for eternity. This has become known in modern dialect as the ‘Sisyphean Task’. But why is it relevant here?
Sisyphus, in legend, tried to evade his mortality, not through growth and development of the soul, but trickery, and hubris. He considered himself smarter than the Gods, and thus not subject to natural law. The meaningless, endless task he has been put to for this ‘sin’, is in itself, representative of this. To try and be more than mortal, through the cheating and deception of natural law as opposed to the embracing of it, is a task of no conclusion. Every time you reach the top, your work will come undone. There is no permanence, no eternity. Sisyphus here, is an icon of dross and sin. And he is but one of many examples. Among him, there are others like Tantalus, who tried to pilfer the secrets and gifts of the Gods through equally perverse means, or through great acts of evil, like the cannibalization of his own son, much like Kronos before him.
It’s a common mytheme, you see, that after, or because of, the defeat of Kronos, the Olympian Gods face other monsters too. The Giants. Typhon. These monstrous entities all bear the same traits. Hideous. Terrible. Often bringing disease or sorrow. They are harbingers of the worst, and most lesser aspects of everything purely material. The things that ravage those without spiritual development and understanding.
With the allegorical understanding established, now you can begin to unfold the literal nature of Tartarus, same as the literal understanding of Hades. No, Tartarus is not the Pagan of the Abrahamic Hell, in spite of the fact that the Abrahamic Hell pulled much of its ideas and concepts from it. Tartarus literal existence, maintains the same function as the Underworld itself. And this has to do with what I’d refer to as the hierarchy of souls.
Within Hades/the Underworld, there are many tiers which souls dwell. There is the Asphodel Meadows. This is where the “bulk” of humanity’s souls go. The mostly undeveloped. Those unextraordinary masses, without grievous sin or great deed alike. Conversely, there is the Fields of Elysium. These are the “heroic” souls, those with spiritual understanding and deed within their lifetime. Lastly, there are the Fields of the Blessed. The highest tier of Hades, to those who can dwell among Hades with full spiritual understanding and comprehension. Those souls which do not drink from the River Lethe and forget the experiences of the spirit. Great philosophers and minds like Plato and Socrates are associated with this very place for evident reason. Even Cronus himself, after his freeing from Tartarus, drinks from its nectar, and becomes its Lord. Yes, there is allegory here, but, the difference of power and development between souls, how they dwell in these astral realms and how they’re reborn, are very real things. Very literal things.
As such, so is Tartarus. Natural law is what it is, and there are souls far lower, far more coated in dross and undeveloped, that ‘sink to the bottom’. As is it is within Egyptian Theology, they call it the weighing of the heart (soul) against a Feather of Ma’at, symbolic of justice and goodness. The developed soul, is a lighter one. The dross addled soul, is a heavier one. One of the base metals, as opposed to golden light.
Natural law, and the operation of the Gods, sort souls on hierarchy. Though the world as we know it is full of deceit, there is no cheating the scales. A rich shabbos goyim can buy himself as many drugs as he wants to extend his life. He will still die. The astral reality is one of absolute truth, and no soul is equal to another. The most dross ridden souls simply cannot dwell in the same space as the developed, brightest ones. Natural law, nor the Gods, allow such a thing.
Consider this a chicken or the egg matter. In our world, you will find that the heaviest souls are borne by the people who often commit the most grievous crimes. They are ‘ugly’ people. Often both in appearance, and in act. Even in modern science, it is demonstrated that only a ‘high IQ’ individual is capable of compassion. Whereas the stupidest members of the species are capable of the worst cruelties. There is not ‘one humanity’. Can you say Pythagoras is the same ‘race’ as someone who is so fallen they cannot inhibit themselves from sporadic acts of rape and violence? These are realities that are happening all over the world, right now, as you read this. Though it’s hard to imagine for anyone bearing even the most basic comprehension, there are people so low that they give in to urges that render them below the noble animal. There are people who see someone pass them on the street, and decide on the spot, to torture them to death. Just because. Can you honestly imagine yourself committing such an act? By and large, no, of course not.
It is not because people commit these acts that the ‘Gods send them to Tartarus’. It’s more nuanced than that. Rather, those with souls so heavy and corrupt, are the only ones capable of such acts to begin with. And that is the literal reality of ‘Tartarus’. It is the lowest astral reality, reserved for the heaviest souls of humanity. To go back to Egyptian thinking, these souls are ‘devoured by Ammit’ in a ‘lake of fire’. Most souls that naturally go to dwell in such a place, may not even have the energy to be reborn into the next life. That is the ‘devouring’. Which is to say, the destruction of these souls as per natural law. Tartarus is not about vengeance and spite. It is about natural hierarchy. It is what comes of those who have spent lifetimes suckling up Abrahamic filth, corrupting themselves with enemy energies, and/or refusing development, and in turn, often becoming ‘monsters’, in how they are frequently inclined to act while alive. To provide an example, take the ‘Bible Belt’ of America. The most capital Christian place is also the capital of homicide, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, incest, obesity. Have you ever noticed the most “Christian” people are often the most hideous physically? Such a thing is not a coincidence. Even in death, the ‘filthiest’ souls are the ones prone to what are popularly called as ‘hauntings’. These are not things we need to worry about, as the Gods sort them out, but the point still stands. The nature of these souls is as such they even bear negativity beyond the body. It’s why Tartarus is considered a prison of ‘evil’, where entities guard watch to make sure these souls cannot harm the dwelling places of the higher ones.
So no, Tartarus is no “Hell.” Anyone here reading this has to understand that you’re not going to get arbitrarily sent to such a place. This isn’t Christianity. You’re not getting sent anywhere for being ‘sinful’, that’s not really the point. It’s the same as it is in life. Your experience is the effort you put in. And unlike Christianity where 99.99% of people even the goodest goy go to Hell anyway for whatever stupid nonsense, even the most ‘normal’, mundane person isn’t set for such a place. This is what ‘Asphodel’ is for, so to speak. Tartarus, Ammit, these are the extreme examples.
To provide a very personal anecdote, like many here, I have a parent who, despite being unpracticed, had ‘spiritual experiences’. When I was about two years old, an uncle of mine died quite young in a car accident. Later, his dog mysteriously vanished, likely having sensed something had gone wrong, as animals still often possess these higher instincts, probably having escaped to go look for him, and likely having died himself. It was a mere few days later, my mother had a dream. One that felt real. It wasn’t just a dream. The colors were too vivid. She was at the edge of a hilly meadow, with a bright blue sky, too bright for simple reality. My uncle was there, with his dog, and they departed together into the distance with only the briefest acknowledgment of a goodbye. This place, was the exact depiction of how the Ancients described the Meadows, but my mother had no reading or knowledge of anything Pagan, she was almost an Atheist, most of her life. Yet there it was. A real place, before her astral eyes.
The point is, my uncle was an unremarkable man. Not a Pagan. Not spiritually practiced. Not a bad person, but not one someone would write stories of. Even despite teenage petty crime, he still seemingly passed on to the Meadows, and likely has possibly been reborn into his next life. As is the way of things, and as they should be. Again, we are not Christians. You look at someone the wrong way and you deserve an eternity of torture? These are deranged, hateful fantasies of souls who are likely due for the jaws of Ammit themselves. Even the most average soul, with a lifetimes of good, bad, successes and victories, failures and errors, will experience rest and rebirth. It takes lifetimes of extremely wilful self-corruption to ever be such a soul that’ll face dwelling in the low places, or ultimately obliteration.
To change gears, in an effort to wrap this topic, I can touch on the inverse. Within the universe there are worlds and dwelling places so high that even our most developed would struggle to perceive them. Looping this back around to the allegorical vs the literal, the reality we experience today is not precisely the same one as the Ancients. Things change, both the development and perceptive abilities of humanity at large, and the astral state of our own world. Alexander the Great once named and spoke with a Demon in the same room as him, when several others were present. There is, indeed, much missing from our lives. Imagine we are dreaming, and are only just beginning to open our eyes to the full width and breadth of reality.
In the stories of the Ancients, you will see common references to other beings. Not just the Gods themselves, but entities like, for example, Naiads. There are hosts upon hosts of as Cobra himself named, ‘Chthonic Demons’ that are not quite Gods, but ranks and files of ‘lesser’ entities that represent a great many extraordinary things. Once, these things were realities of life. Understanding of these forces and entities lived on in altered form. Like why so many in rural places give offering to ‘Fairies’ for good luck, blessings, and to maintain a good hearth. The understanding is somewhat corrupted, but there’s a literal truth to be had there all the same.
People are confused, naturally, when people read what the Ancients had penned. Stories of people talking to ‘Naiads’ or what have you. Though these entities can too, be used in allegorical stories, like everything else I said, it does change the existence of a forgotten, literal truth.
These lesser Cthonic Demons were and are, aspects of our world. Laws that are intrinsic to our world, our life. They are part of a great spiritual hierarchy, underneath the Gods. Oftentimes, these entities presided over things like rivers, forests, fields. These are things that were the lifeblood of humanity. Geometric ley lines, places where we would find food, or water. The honouring and association with such things was part of life. People understood the existence of these entities. Lo and behold, the moment people stopped being Pagan, what happened? A great era of destruction, poisoning, and so forth. A desecration of the land, and the belief it was resource only, and not divine. Complete abandonment of respect for natural law was yet another blow to the spiritual wellbeing for this world. If you look at Ancient Greece, you see how they built in-tune with nature, dotting the landscape with shrines to all sorts of locally relevant entities.
It is not just us and the Gods. You read any text from any nation you’ll see the stories of what existed. The almost ritualistic nature of people’s lives. The awareness of the astral reality. You have five senses. Imagine living with just one. This is a similar thing to our reality today, for there is so much we do not see, hear, touch and feel. This will not always be reality for us. As we rise, we will rise our astral with it. And the spiritual nature of the world will become apparent once more. There is a reason why, the world you see cited in the scrolls of the Ancients is so much more colorful than the one of now.
Tartarus was really just a topical key, in this sense, to elaborate on a larger topic. That, yes, allegory is important, not everything written by our ancestors is purely such. Something can be both real, and allegorical. Oftentimes, like with runes, the vibrational reality of the universe means that the physical manifestation of things are representative of an astral truth. Like the first rune Fehu, which can literally be taken to mean ‘cattle’, ordains over the mobility of wealth, among other things. Among farmers, what were cattle, but literally wealth that walked?
In the end, it’s important to use your mind’s eye when reading anything of the Ancients. The full scale of the truth in their words and reality will only become more apparent as we ourselves grow. Take heart in knowing the world is stranger and more beautiful than even you imagine it to be.
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