Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: Lots to mine in your note! I'll be spending some quality time with it, haha. I was ...

Lots to mine in your note! I'll be spending some quality time with it, haha.

I was particularly intrigued by your connection of internal combustion engines with kundalini awakening. Either the inventor of ICE (forgot... Diesel?) was a member of something really really really interesting, or its another example of "as within, so without." Both are possible...

Your mention of Shakti also meminded me of the Egyptian apocalypse myth, which actually happens repeatedly - their snake demon APEP eats the world, but Ra (rays of sunlight) defeat it (forgot how) and somewhere along the way the heads of people who's souls were eaten pop out of the belly of the snake and eat the snake, as if to depict it being eaten from the inside. I can only guess as to its true meaning, but it couldn't be any more obvious that it's an allegory for a spiritual process. My guess is that its a warning about some kind of mistake during kundalini awakening.

The thing that initially caught my attention with Egyptian mythology was their belief in a lake of fire, which souls go into to be reborn. Israel is right next to Egypt, so I don't think its a coincidence that they both talk about a lake of fire. Add to that, the Egyptians' belief that this world is literally Osiris' corpse, and life here is actually death, and Osiris was killed by his brother Seth, and Seth is the third son of Adam... Well, something is going on there.

If you combine the Egyptian version of the lake of fire with the Judeo Christian version, you get... Buddhism. You get reborn into hell (this world) over and over until you burn away all sin (karma) and then awaken.

Another thing I want to tie together is how the Djinn are tricksters. Arabs seem to only portray them as dangerous or demonic. But if they represent Kundalini or the energy entwined around the Caduceus staff as snakes, then their trickster nature makes sense as a testing force arising from psychological shadow - from Jungian psych. Demons were (I'm asserting, but it invites debate) tests arising from within one's self. A misunderstanding, aka a sin, tests you and might manifest as a personified entity, like a schizo complex. If you can use the personification of Trickster to purify yourself, removing the sin, then the demon becomes an ally (basically a reminder) and then is usually differentiated by calling it a Daimon. Modern witches use this frame and combine it with ritual and meditation - I can only guess as to how much they accomplish... Its possible they're delusional... But I liked the frame and detail when I found this.

I feel like I've strayed too far from the topic. You've given me some new things to research. Its a Good Friday, indeed.