The Quadripolar Quaternary
We have already said more than once that the individual human mind, taking on various personalities, becomes more or less accustomed to interacting with other forms of consciousness similarly centered on being. In other words, a person at least roughly understands how to interact with already known and yet-to-be-discovered forms of life that inhabit the Macrocosmos.
At the same time, Magic insists that a person’s most dangerous enemies dwell not in the Macrocosmos but in the Psychocosmos. We have already discussed that by “Psychocosmos” the Magi do not mean the person’s “inner” world, but a particular view of universal reality — a viewpoint from the standpoint of mind.
For a clear understanding of the features and ways awareness interacts with the various inhabitants of the Psychocosmos, let us once again examine its nature and characteristics.
As noted, the Myth we are considering reduces all manifested reality to the striving of the Great Spirit, the Absolute to know itself within the differential multiplicity of its aspects.
For this purpose He sequentially objectifies in His primordially unified, unmanifest nature four original biners that create the difference of potentials necessary for manifestation.
The first and foundational such biner is the being/mind biner, signifying the Spirit’s initial emergence beyond itself, the division of the One into object and subject of self-knowledge, the known and the knower. The next step is the emergence of the actuality/potentiality biner, Yav/Nav, which denotes the creation of a field for the mind’s activity. Then the poles of the first biner begin to mirror one another, forming the very process of self-knowledge and thereby manifesting the third biner — monadic nature/plasticity — that is, the equilibrium between integral unity and unity-in-multiplicity, maintained by the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces — Naxash and Ea. These two forces, in turn, manifest the fourth biner — attraction/expansion, i.e., the receptive and giving principles of the cosmos. It is clear that all four original biners are merely different facets of the Great Spirit’s initial division, its going beyond itself (more precisely, the freeing of space within itself for creation). Together they constitute the primal engine of the world-process, traditionally called the Quadripolar Quaternary.
In our present discussion we will focus on the first biner of the Quadripolar Quaternary — the biner of being and mind.
As in any other biner, its poles mirror one another, giving rise to a new quartet: 1) pure mind (pouring forth into the world-hierarchy of Monads), 2) pure being (manifesting in the world’s totality of energies — dharm), 3) mind reflected in being (the waves of life of the Macrocosmos), and 4) being reflected in mind (the inhabitants of the Psychocosmos).
Clearly, the first two elements, as the “pure” poles of the biner, exist only potentially; in actuality, only the “mixed” latter two modifications take place.
It is precisely as a result of this process that the cosmos divides into two oceans — the Macrocosmos and the Psychocosmos. In each modification of reality there are both energy producers and predators.
Moreover, in the Macrocosmos mind must always have a body — its vehicle and support. In the Psychocosmos mind is born from being; it has no body or vehicle, yet it depends on the being that produces it.
Therefore, inhabitants of the Macrocosmos need an inflow from “outside” of the Force of life, while inhabitants of the Psychocosmos require the sustaining force of mind that supports them.
Accordingly, our oft-repeated thesis becomes clear — the predators of the Psychocosmos are more dangerous and subtler than the inhabitants of the Macrocosmos. After all, it is not surprising that the human mind has been thoroughly enslaved precisely by inhabitants who have come from the depths of the Psychocosmos — Lamassu, parasites of the mind.
For the Magus, the Magus’ lifelong struggle is to free his mind from this yoke, for as long as the masters of the Psychocosmos are creatures that consume rather than produce energy, development is impossible. Understanding that the ocean of mind is not merely a “sea of illusions,” the Magus trains himself to treat it with the utmost seriousness, allowing no relaxation or carelessness in the struggle — the struggle for his freedom.
An interesting aspect. Lamassu, trying to remain in the shadows for more effective consumption of power, not only aims to distract attention away from themselves as entities, but their activity is also aimed at convincing people of the illusory nature of their living environment. After all, one must admit that for some people, until a certain time, and for most— their entire lives, the space of the psychic cosmos is perceived as nothing more than a game of imagination (not without the efforts of Uncle Freud and his followers, among others). This position leads to an inevitable urge to free oneself from the power of “dreams” and to direct all efforts toward achieving important goals of the only and alternative reality of social life (macrocosm). After that, the so-called “subconscious” can calmly form the causes of behavior of the individual in the social environment. Clever, I must admit. But the question remains, from what time and how did the parasite gain the ability of direct access to human consciousness? After all, if one believes certain sources, in the foreseeable past, the power of the parasites of consciousness was quite scant, and consumer society was not the main form of existence of individuals.
Thank you for your articles! Please tell me, if the path of the Western magician, unlike Eastern currents, is aimed at maximum individualization of the subject, and consciousness, as you said, is already born with its predator— is it possible to “hunt oneself” and kill some of one’s innate individual qualities, simply by considering them not their own? Is there a way to precisely understand whether I came to a particular conclusion, whether it was “whispered” to me, or if it’s My true will?
Eiol. By counting them as not ‘your own’, you fall under their greater influence.
You wrote that there is no guide of Consciousness in the Psychocosmos… Why? What about the Body of Dreams?