In worship of Nature in all Her forms, in joyful celebration, in animal innocence, and the lustful dance of spirit clothed with form, lies the ability to materialize desires.

The Shadow Tarot

 

"The Lord Khem arose, He who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the universe."

Aleister Crowley, Liber CCXXXI

"The 26th Tunnel is under the aegis of A'ano'nin those number is 237. His name should be uttered in a raucous and bleating tone in the key of 'A' . . . "

"The sigil of A'ano'nin shows the Ur-Hekau surmounted by the head of the priest and surrounded by the letters BKRN, which add up to 272."

Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden

 

excerpted from . . .

The Shadow Tarot 

© Linda Falorio, 1995

         

Set, having become the taunting Scarlet Woman in this Nightside tunnel dominates the reification of A'ano'nin. Radiant as the sun which sets behind Her, as the reddened eclipsed moon, Her alluring Evil Eye of Night exudes powerful pheromonic essences that affect primitive mammalian backbrain limbic consciousness, regulating the most basic levels of instinctual behavior. Emotions heightened, and senses intensified by this stimulation of the ancient rhinencephalon, satyrs and fauns cavort in the priapic bliss engendered to which She gives the ancient Sign of Blessing: It is the Witches Sabbath, Saturnalia.

The pentagram, the five-pointed star, ancient seal of protection and sign by which humanity is known throughout the worlds, represents the four elements whose combinations constitute the manifested universe crowned by the fifth element of Spirit, to which humanity aspires. Inverted it becomes the sign of Pater Pan, the generative spirit of creation. Here is the Goat-Foot God, the Devil, Saturn, ruler of the heaviness of matter, of the slow, inexorable rhythms of nature's daily life.

Here is matter ruling spirit—matter/Mother—She who clothes all things with form, she who keeps our boundaries, she who holds us in reality. For it is Woman who brings about Man's downfall through subtle pheromonic workings of her body. Spirit is pulled into incarnation by physical desire, falling from heavenly origins into the abyss of time, reveling in the sensate joy of getting down and dirty, covered with "filth and excrement,@ clothed with material existence.

Here is Wiccan worship of the Goddess and God, Nature in Her myriad manifestations, celebration of joy, animal innocence, and life, here is the lustful dance of spirit clothed with form and flesh, here is the worship of the Impulse which brings us back time after time, pulling us into physical incarnation.

MEDITATION:

A need to work with the energies of A'ano'nin is suggested when we find blind submission to authority, feeling trapped, as though we are nothing more than myrmidons to corporate, patriarchal anality, made to dutifully sacrifice natural needs and functions to demands of industrial efficiency. Here we may experience impotence accompanied by guilt at the natural urge to joy and sexual expression, and find discomfort with a free outpouring of orgasmic energy. There may be a sense of vengeful righteousness in the imposition of one's sex-morality upon others, while at the same time feeling isolated, trapped, controlled, depressed, alienated from nature and the body. Such longing to escape the sorrow of existence may result in addiction to religions and world-views that deny sensual pleasure in the here and now, paying homage instead to false promises of "transcendence" of our worldly woes.

The powers of this tunnel include living through the senses, being attuned to the vast rhythms of nature, following the wisdom of the body, and taking joy in all phases of the cycles affecting human life. Thus are derived wisdom and power, and the ability to draw healing energy and physical vitality from contact with the earth as Tellus derived his strength, and here is the ability to "ground" potentially disruptive forces. In working with the energies of this tunnel, we find resources to contact all manners of fairies, gnomes, sylphs, undines, and devas of the kingdoms of the earth, we learn to find power-spots, to communicate with all forms of life, and gain the ability to materialize desires. Here we connect with a feeling of oneness, and a sense of ease in a wholistic world of which humanity is a natural part, where instincts are not evil, where everything, everyone, and every act are acceptable and a necessary unfolding of The Faceless One, Hecate, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, the Unfathomable Great Goddess.