Our Purpose
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft
You may wonder what this is all about. Why would this coven of dark witches want the world to end when, in fact, it would destroy them as well?
Because the witches understand that the physical or mundane realm is only an illusion. The next world will be ethereal, and the prepared humans will be the next world's inhabitants.
Long ago, before written history, there was a world where the inhabitants were what some today would call monsters. Some evidence of this time can be found in fossil records, such as those of dinosaurs and other undefined remains. Many unexplained fossils have been discovered and either quickly explained away or, at times, absconded with and hidden. From giant humanoid skeletons to weird objects embedded in stone, it is apparent that we don't have the slightest clue about the history of this planet. Oddly enough, we also see weird residue suggesting that thermonuclear detonations have occurred on this planet in the distant past.
A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe... An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns rose in all its splendor... It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race. -The Mahabharata
There was a world before this one and one before that one. Each of those worlds was inhabited by creatures that no longer exist in this Universe. Each of those worlds destroyed themselves or were destroyed by forces from "somewhere else." Subtle clues that may not point to the whys have been left behind but have left traces of the whats and hows.
This world was formerly inhabited by what we would call monsters nowadays. Someone or something created circumstances that destroyed those beings. Of that, we are sure. Legends and stories point to some of these beings being responsible for creating humans and maybe several human-like species that existed before. Stories (including songs) are the one form of information transmission that can survive a worldwide holocaust.
Where are all the fossils of these ancient beings? All fossil records may have been erased by geological processes, meaning ancient beings described in legends could have once roamed Earth but left no trace. Erosion, subduction, and human activity can destroy fossils, leaving gaps in the record.
We tell stories so that we may remember. These stories can come from many places, not the least of which are sources like the collective unconscious and the morphogenetic resonance field. A world, or several most likely, existed before this one, and there's ample evidence to think that those worlds and their residents had knowledge that has been lost.
Some people have tapped into the spiritual residue of that past world, and it comes through in many forms. One form is fiction. There is a lot of speculation as to why this would be the case, but let us just say the creative process opens the human mind in a way that bypasses the typical ego awareness we all experience most of the time. Our normal waking state is also known as consensus reality.
We all know that feeling of being "in the zone." We also know what happens when we are in that state. We can achieve incredible feats, both physically (sports), intellectually (arts), and spiritually (magick). In the zone, things don't come from you but instead seem to come from without, from another place, using you as a vehicle. One could also use the metaphor of a receiver and a signal. The creative impulse is broadcast (from where we won't speculate), and you are the receiver, left to act upon the impulse. As practitioners of Voudoun point out, ritual allows you to be "ridden" by the Loa (deities). Notice they don't say you become the deity. You are merely a vehicle.
A few writers and artists have been clear channels of the old knowledge. You can sense it when you encounter their work. The art of Austin Osman Spare, the works of the Dadaist, the Surrealist school, the art of Marjorie Cameron, Antonin Artaud, and, of course, H.P. Lovecraft, to name but a few.
After much debate among the members of our underground community, it is the consensus that H.P. Lovecraft's tales were an unconscious channeling of the memories of the old ones. There are many reasons for this conclusion, which we will discuss in another publication. Suffice it to say Lovecraft's stories are an echo, a mirror of other ancient sources we have access to, and are confirmed via deep trance channeling sessions among those with sight.
This brings us back to Jack Parsons. Jack was a follower of Thelema, the spiritual school headed by Aleister Crowley. Thelema heralded a new Aeon (age), that of Horus. Horus is an Egyptian martial god. This is, in essence, another aspect of the "final epic," which has many different names across cultures. This was a beginning, a soft launch, so to speak. It was an introduction to what was to come.
Mython Labyrinthi foresaw two more that were to follow that would bring us closer to the return of the Old Ones. These were proven to be, in order, Jack Parsons, the one who opened the portal, followed by a student of Crowley's and friend of Marjorie, Kenneth Grant. The relationship between Grant and Marjorie was not public knowledge. Kenneth Grant wrote to Cameron, hoping she might move to England and join his London-based group, the New Isis Lodge. The official story is that Cameron never responded. The truth is that while she never went to England to join his group, she did respond and maintained a long-lasting correspondence.
Grant was one of the first to propose that Lovecraft was not merely writing fiction but was, apparently subconsciously, channeling messages from the dormant old ones via their dreams. Grant and others later influenced by him, such as Levenda, saw Lovercraft's writings and ideas as clearly echoing what we at the Mython Labyrinthi had concluded long ago. A message was being sent and received from the Old Ones. A constant beacon that certain people can pick up under the right conditions.
Levenda went as far as to pseudonymously publish a copy of the mythical Necronomicon, as referenced in Lovecraft's writings, using ancient Sumerian god forms and rituals. Some of these rituals work, but it is unclear where this material originated.
Unfortunately, we aren't the only ones to pick up this signal.
As often happens in the wild, the message was "intercepted." Other groups with different agendas picked up the signal. They began to use it for various purposes, sometimes for reasons that were obvious to us and other times for goals that appeared opaque or simply confusing.
Let us discuss a few of these groups and their backgrounds to the best of our knowledge.