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Anyone know which lineage of the occult Blair subscribes to?
from his book,IJYNX (recommended. occult-curious TOOL fans should get it
aren't many short-cuts for understanding where TOOL's coming from... js):

Incorporating a magical vocabulary and nightside symbolism, IJYNX is a unique collection of occult prose-poems by an author who has been studying, experimenting, and writing about the western esoteric tradition for over twenty years. While some of the mystical verses attempt to convey ritually-machined hyperdimensions of consciousness (including encounters with the trans-mundane entities that inhabit these parallel continua), others contain, rather inexplicably, detailed knowledge of a higher Arcanum involving the alchemical entelechy of the dead. And still others challenge even the author's initiated interpretation of things perceived in the ontological spectrum of a `Magizoth', other than to suggest, upon a closer examination of the cryptic word play, that they are anti-apotropaic in nature, and offer, at the very least, rare fleeting glimpses of the Grand Dreaming of a Treasured Eye.

"...glittering word play... dazzling in their jeweled splendour. The sheer torrent of brilliance suggests to me a cascade, arrested, carved in rock-hard and unyielding prose. When recited aloud they create a devastatingly hypnotic effect. Thank you for a sumptuous feast."
- Kenneth Grant, O.H.O. Typhonian O.T.O.

ex. IJYNX poem, found over on dailygrail.com:
(site admin Greg Taylor edits BMB's literature)


UROBOROS

Violet eyes shine.
Jeweled water of the living graal,
Gilded, stainless vessel 'neath the prismatic lamp of Abraxas.
Night-blue draperies a-glitter with cosmic opulence,
Tides of blood aurified in her sacred chalice.
Radiant white-plumed dove shedding tears of rainbow wine,
Mooncup of red-gold with swirls of oily iridescence.
Lady of the serpent holding a richly-crowned babe,
Nurtured with gemmed drops of the milk of paradise.
Face enhaloed with light adored by amethyst-lidded eyes,
Child of great serenity protected by majestic wings,
Perfumed gauze of the vesture of the dragon-queen.
Spooned from calyx horroris the rich food of the matrix,
Extracts of the perfect ruby flowing from her hidden spring.
Bestowing mystic sight to the prince in wisps of azure garment,
A wondrous flowering upon the deathless green.

Slain lamb bleeding the rarest colors,
Royal secret in morsels of dainty meats.
In those rosy fingers, a golden wafer held,
Sweet like the honey of breasts.

Majesty of a tawny lion in the aurora of a lustrous sun,
Anointed harlequin king enthroned in the Temple of Midnight.
Feast of crimson cakes offered by the peacock angel,
Horn of plenty from the purity of silver nectar.
Orange-gold galaxies in a Krater of celestial firefoam,
Tower of ivory bedecked with the exiled emerald stone
Held in purple gloves of ornate, pattern-draped kings
Swallowing heart-drops of the virgin's unfading glory.
Scarlet-jetted fountain of the unmated mother
Converted into a vehicle of the highest light.
Vivified dreams reached by mercurial swan-chariot,
Tapestry of paradise hidden in a flame's black majesty.
Shimmer of kingdoms in spring's gemmed rain,
Blessed greenness of the companions of the Sangraal,
Jeweled flesh of the living treasure.
Violet eyes shine.


Blair MacKenzie Blake has been studying, practicing and writing about the western esoteric tradition for over twenty years. More recently, he has been focusing his attention on the neurochemical basis of successful magickal workings (and paranormal activity in general) BMB is also the writer for www.toolband.com and www.dannycarey.org.
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Originally Posted by leefnaspleaf View Post
Anyone know which lineage of the occult Blair subscribes to?
from his book,IJYNX (recommended. occult-curious TOOL fans should get it
aren't many short-cuts for understanding where TOOL's coming from... js):

Incorporating a magical vocabulary and nightside symbolism, IJYNX is a unique collection of occult prose-poems by an author who has been studying, experimenting, and writing about the western esoteric tradition for over twenty years. While some of the mystical verses attempt to convey ritually-machined hyperdimensions of consciousness (including encounters with the trans-mundane entities that inhabit these parallel continua), others contain, rather inexplicably, detailed knowledge of a higher Arcanum involving the alchemical entelechy of the dead. And still others challenge even the author's initiated interpretation of things perceived in the ontological spectrum of a `Magizoth', other than to suggest, upon a closer examination of the cryptic word play, that they are anti-apotropaic in nature, and offer, at the very least, rare fleeting glimpses of the Grand Dreaming of a Treasured Eye.

"...glittering word play... dazzling in their jeweled splendour. The sheer torrent of brilliance suggests to me a cascade, arrested, carved in rock-hard and unyielding prose. When recited aloud they create a devastatingly hypnotic effect. Thank you for a sumptuous feast."
- Kenneth Grant, O.H.O. Typhonian O.T.O.

ex. IJYNX poem, found over on dailygrail.com:
(site admin Greg Taylor edits BMB's literature)


UROBOROS

Violet eyes shine.
Jeweled water of the living graal,
Gilded, stainless vessel 'neath the prismatic lamp of Abraxas.
Night-blue draperies a-glitter with cosmic opulence,
Tides of blood aurified in her sacred chalice.
Radiant white-plumed dove shedding tears of rainbow wine,
Mooncup of red-gold with swirls of oily iridescence.
Lady of the serpent holding a richly-crowned babe,
Nurtured with gemmed drops of the milk of paradise.
Face enhaloed with light adored by amethyst-lidded eyes,
Child of great serenity protected by majestic wings,
Perfumed gauze of the vesture of the dragon-queen.
Spooned from calyx horroris the rich food of the matrix,
Extracts of the perfect ruby flowing from her hidden spring.
Bestowing mystic sight to the prince in wisps of azure garment,
A wondrous flowering upon the deathless green.

Slain lamb bleeding the rarest colors,
Royal secret in morsels of dainty meats.
In those rosy fingers, a golden wafer held,
Sweet like the honey of breasts.

Majesty of a tawny lion in the aurora of a lustrous sun,
Anointed harlequin king enthroned in the Temple of Midnight.
Feast of crimson cakes offered by the peacock angel,
Horn of plenty from the purity of silver nectar.
Orange-gold galaxies in a Krater of celestial firefoam,
Tower of ivory bedecked with the exiled emerald stone
Held in purple gloves of ornate, pattern-draped kings
Swallowing heart-drops of the virgin's unfading glory.
Scarlet-jetted fountain of the unmated mother
Converted into a vehicle of the highest light.
Vivified dreams reached by mercurial swan-chariot,
Tapestry of paradise hidden in a flame's black majesty.
Shimmer of kingdoms in spring's gemmed rain,
Blessed greenness of the companions of the Sangraal,
Jeweled flesh of the living treasure.
Violet eyes shine.


Blair MacKenzie Blake has been studying, practicing and writing about the western esoteric tradition for over twenty years. More recently, he has been focusing his attention on the neurochemical basis of successful magickal workings (and paranormal activity in general) BMB is also the writer for www.toolband.com and www.dannycarey.org.
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