1. The Major Aspiration of every person is to entertain the gods.
2. The principal way to entertain the gods is through struggling in an attempt to achieve the meaning of one’s life.
3. The Minor Aspiration of every person is whatever they decide the meaning of their life is.
4. In principle, there are no restrictions to what a person might decide their Minor Aspiration is.
5. No matter how fervently they aspire to their Minor Aspiration, their struggles are always subordinate to the Major Aspiration. This is true whether or not they believe in Elementalism, and whether or not they have even heard of Elementalism.
6. Some decide that the meaning of their life is survival.
7. Those whose Minor Aspiration is survival operate on a similar level to prey animals. Their main concern is getting through to the next day.
8. Some decide that the meaning of their life is recreational.
9. Those whose Minor Aspiration is recreational operate on a similar level to children. Their main concern is lulz.
10. Some decide that the meaning of their life is physical.
11. Those whose Minor Aspiration is physical operate on a similar level to predatory animals. Their main concern is control.
12. Some decide that the meaning of their life is sexual.
13. Those whose Minor Aspiration is sexual operate on a similar level to bonobos. Their main concern is the next oxytocin hit.
14. Some decide that the meaning of their life is social.
15. Those whose Minor Aspiration is social operate on a similar level to wealthy people. Their main concern is the next dopamine hit.
16. Some decide that the meaning of their life is intellectual.
17. Those whose Minor Aspiration is intellectual operate on a similar level to the Seven Initiates. Their main concern is dispelling ignorance.
18. Some decide that the meaning of their life is spiritual.
19. Those whose Minor Aspiration is spiritual can operate on the same level as any other being, depending on the orientation of that spirituality and the degree to which a person successfully attains it.
20. It is important that a person knows what their Minor Aspiration is and where it might lie on the Great Masculine Axis.
21. Whatever a person decides the meaning of their life is, that meaning is subordinate to the Major Aspiration.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
1. The centre of the Quadrijitu is the place of zero energy. Although it is perfectly peaceful there, it is also perfectly boring. Therefore, God desired to experience energy.
2. The energy of an experience is the degree to which that experience is removed from the centre of the Quadrijitu.
3. The extent to which energy moves up and down along the Great Masculine Axis is called frequency.
4. The extent to which energy moves left and right along the Great Feminine Axis is called vibration.
5. The experience of any given time and place in the Great Fractal will appear somewhere on the Quadrijitu as a combination of energy, frequency and vibration.
6. Following the First Tenet, the Summer Pole is equivalent to a radial angle of zero degrees.
7. The Autumn Pole is then the equivalent to a radial angle of 90 degrees.
8. The Winter Pole is then the equivalent to a radial angle of 180 degrees.
9. The Spring Pole is then the equivalent to a radial angle of 270 degrees.
10. The energy of the experience of any given time, place or perception in the Great Fractal can be expressed as a number between 0 and 1 inclusive.
11. The closer the number is to 0, the more the energy is like bliss. The closer the number is to 1, the more the energy is like awe. Herein it needs to be understood that suffering is awesome, in its own way.
12. Bliss is the minimum amount of negative energy, at the cost of the minimum amount of positive energy.
13. Awe is the maximum amount of positive energy, at the cost of the maximum amount of negative energy.
14. A location of (0.1, 0) is like the First Emanation of the Divine, something very close to the natural state of consciousness.
15. A location of (0.1, 90) is like the novelty of first perceiving the division between yang and yin.
16. A location of (0.1, 180) is like a gentle lull of boredom.
17. A location of (0.1, 270) is like the Sun shining again after a cloud briefly passed in front of it.
18. A location of (0.5, 0) is like the first feeling of joy.
19. A location of (0.5, 90) is like the first feeling of despair.
20. A location of (0.5, 180) is like the first feeling of rage.
21. A location of (0.5, 270) is like the first feeling of hope.
22. A location of (0.9, 0) is like the awe of seeing a million spiritual seekers realising the Four Tenets.
23. A location of (0.9, 90) is like the awe of seeing a million revellers drink themselves to oblivion.
24. A location of (0.9, 180) is like the awe of seeing a million skulls shattered by flying axes.
25. A location of (0.9, 270) is like the awe of seeing a million flowers bloom for the first time.
26. Thus, any given time, place or perception within the Great Fractal can be described by the equation (x, y), where x determines the energy of the experience and y determines the frequency and vibration of that experience.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
Readers of Manly P Hall’s The Secret Teachings Of All Ages will have found reference to an occult concept called the Mithraic Ladder. In its exoteric form, this is the name given to the ladder of seven rungs by which initiates ascended the grades in the Mithraic Mysteries. Its esoteric meaning, as this essay will explore, means something different.
In the physical world, the Mithraic Ladder represents the ascension through the seven grades of the Mithraic Mysteries, from the Corax degree through the Nymphus, Miles, Leo, Perses, Heliodromus and Pater degrees (it’s possible that these degrees were for the Mithraic priesthood and not for mainstream initiates). Thus, the Corax degree is the lowest and the Pater degree the highest.
In the metaphysical world, the Mithraic Ladder represents the spectrum between good and bad/evil, divided into seven steps. The bottommost step is always taken to represent the base, ignorant, animalistic state of humankind, and the uppermost step to represent the perfect and divine state that can be achieved in enlightenment. This metaphorical Mithraic Ladder underpins a great deal of occultist thought.
These seven stages are often referred to by their corresponding alchemical element. The lowest stage is lead. Next is tin, then iron, then copper, then silver, then mercury, with gold as the highest stage. This arrangement reflects how a person’s soul seems to emit more light the higher they climb up the Mithraic Ladder.
These seven stages can be arranged into three groups, corresponding to the three parts of the Platonic soul. Hence, lead and tin represent the appetitive soul, iron and copper the spirited soul, and silver, mercury and gold the rational soul (iron and silver might be considered parts of the appetitive and spirited souls, respectively).
Because the Mithraic Ladder reflects a fundamental pattern within the Great Fractal, namely the existence of the Great Masculine Axis, it can be seen everywhere.
The most obvious place is in the heavens, where the uppermost step is represented by the Sun, and the lowermost step by Saturn, with Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter in between. Whether this is a fluke, or whether the architect of the material world saw fit to encode a Mithraic Ladder in the heavens, remains a mystery.
A rainbow is not a Mithraic Ladder. Although the rainbow is divided into seven distinct bands, these are not steps, as there is no sense that any are of higher value to any other. The rainbow, like other natural phenomena, operates along the Great Feminine Axis. It could thus be argued that the Mithraic Ladder is orthogonal to the rainbow.
The Mithraic Ladder can be found in many academic fields, particularly psychology.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a description of the biological organism ascending the Mithraic Ladder as it meets its instinctual needs through time. Here, lead and tin are represented by physiological needs, iron by security needs, copper and silver by social and career needs, and mercury and gold by self-actualisation needs.
Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development describes the human being ascending the Mithraic Ladder as it grows older. The trust vs. mistrust stage corresponds to lead, the autonomy vs. shame and doubt stage to tin, the initiative vs. guilt and industry vs. inferiority stages to iron, the identity vs. role confusion and intimacy vs. isolation stages to copper, the generativity vs. stagnation stage to silver and the ego integrity vs. despair stage to mercury/gold.
Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development also describes an ascension of the Mithraic Ladder, in the form of the human consciousness developing moral sophistication. Kohlberg’s theory divides moral development into six stages comprised of three groups, so that pre-conventional morality corresponds to the appetitive soul, conventional morality with the spirited soul, and post-conventional morality with the rational soul.
All of these theories describe a journey up the Mithraic Ladder, wherein the initial state of existence is transcended, and then the second state is transcended, and so on until the seventh and highest state is reached. The phrases “to have ascended to the crown chakra” and “to be in seventh heaven” reflects the bliss of having seen beyond the veils of illusion and transcended material suffering by reaching the seventh rung of the Ladder – in other words, to have turned lead into gold.
My theory of female mate selection, as discussed on the Clown World Dating podcast with Chad Chaddington, is that female mate choice is primarily a function of each woman’s frequency of consciousness, i.e. where her consciousness is on the Mithraic Ladder. For example, women with souls of lead will be attracted to low-frequency men and will discount high-frequency men, whereas women with souls of gold will do the opposite.
My contention is that this theory explains the sometimes baffling mating choices made by women in Clown World better than any alternative theory. This superior explanatory power is generally true of theories based on the Mithraic Ladder, which describes a person’s spiritual development, and which therefore can be found in a multitude of expressions in the material world.
1. The Third Tenet reminds us that the Great Fractal is the eternal and infinite interplay of the war between good and evil and the dance between masculine and feminine.
2. When two sides exchange in the belief that the other is evil, one has war.
3. When two sides exchange in the belief that the other is good, one has peace.
4. War is when good and evil exchange.
5. Peace is when masculine and feminine exchange.
6. The absence of exchange does not connotate peace, but an excess of order. Because an excess of order does not entertain the gods, they tend to cause it to dissolve in warfare.
7. War is not an inherent evil, but rather an intensification of the experience of passing through the Great Fractal.
8. Peace is not an inherent good, but rather a relaxation of the experience of passing through the Great Fractal.
9. While at war, one can be certain that the gods are watching.
10. While at festival, one can also be certain that the gods are watching.
11. It is false that peace does not entertain the gods, but they prefer festivals to stagnant peace.
12. The gods are appalled by those who live in peace but fail to appreciate it. They bring war upon such ungrateful types.
13. If one can learn to overcome the suffering of war, then one is likely to entertain the gods.
14. If one can learn to appreciate the suffering of war, then one is certain to entertain the gods.
15. War is the natural order of material life, therefore those who overcome it entertain the gods.
16. Peace inherently entertains the gods by virtue of being unusual. A stagnating peace, however, causes them to will chaos upon the stagnant.
17. Without awareness of the Four Tenets, there exists only war.
18. Understanding the First Tenet means having compassion for all living beings.
19. Understanding the Fourth Tenet means that one’s fragment of consciousness radiates peace into the material world.
20. The Elementalist is not prejudiced, neither for or against, either war or peace. The most important thing is to play one’s role in entertaining the gods.
21. War and peace span a spectrum of intensity that is akin to the spectrum spanned by fire and earth. The most intense warfare can be compared to the hottest fire.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
