Alchemical Wedding by David Aronson
Square-bound A4-size Journal: 184 pages, 80 in full colour, including colour pull-out and covers
Comes with DVD: over 1 hr video, 1 hr audio with slideshows; plus audio CD 78mins magickal musick. 70 Contributors!
Full contents list, images, video and audio samples and ordering information HERE
Greetings from the Moerae, the Three Fates.
The veils are rent and we become visible. Since the dawn of time has the tradition been that we shall be met at the Crossroads. We are the wyrd sisters. When the moon is new perhaps you may hear our whispers on the winds of change. You can no doubt feel our presence here, ere you read these words. Ours is the subtle touch of destiny.
If you have traversed the Labyrinth to get here, you will have perhaps met one or two of us already -Clotho, the Spinner Who spun you in, Who gave you the thread with which to travel? Or perhaps you have met Lachesis, the Weaver at her loom, and woven your wyrds into the Warp of the Wyrd, and arrived here via the Cross-stitch in her tapestry? If you're still with us, you can't have yet met the third of us, unless ye have re-turned for a new visit...
Though oft I wear this triple veil, many are my masks, as three or as one. One is that of Hecate- Goddess of the Crossroads. If the major arcana of the TaroT are arranged in a LemniscAte (infinity symbol), my Wheel of Fate spins at their Crossroads. Which path Will you choose?
There is somebody else here too you know. Who? Aha! I wait in the cracks...
Ignore those odd whispers between my oracle. I am the SphinX who guards the Wheel. My five secrets are each represented by an arm of the pentagrammatical foundation onwhich the Great spiralling lunar loom above spins; where the ebb and flow of the tides glimmer in the warp and weft of the great web.
This is the communications nexus-axis of this Virtual Mutation Parlour (read CrossXPoem above a-cross the screen):
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If you are familiar with that ancient Book of Symbols The Tarot you will no doubt have noticed that the Ten Spokes of Tradition (the sephiroth of the Qabbala) on the Wheel above have been replaced with the eight spokes of the Chaosphere. The result is indeed chaotic in it's dimension-bending fract(ur)al Complexities.
Who could be responsible for such a reinvention of the Wheel of Fortune?
Ah! That would be telling, and we know the fourth power of the Sphinx do we Not?
Yet one of my forms can be seen riding Her wheel, finger and toe hooked into two arms of the pentacle, other opposable toe hooked on the tooth of Typhon, that old drag-on the Wheel of evolution, ever drawing us back to the primordial swamps of atavistic resurgence. I appear thus above in the form of Hermanubis, psychopomp and trickster, a hybrid of Anubis -Egyptian Jackal of Judgement and Psychopomp, Hermes -Greek Psycohopomp and Messenger of the Gods, and Hanuman -Hindu Monkey God.
Ha! It is I, Hermanubis Nexhagus, taking Fate into my own hands. I am the Elder Jester of the Precreate. Ha!Ho! Is it I?Ho! God of uncontrolled change! Oh! Goddess (now) of unchanged control? For I am Nexhagus, the nexus of the Hag, Hecate. Ha! Ho! Nexhagus? Ho! Ha! For many ages have I woven the chromosomes of humankind...working through such delightful vessels as
Dionysus ("Aha!"), Hermes Trismegistus ("as Above, so Below"),
YHShVH ("On Earth as it is in Heaven"),
Austin Osman Spare ("As Within, so Without"),
and now via the w-rite-ings and spell-ings of Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule ("As Before, So After"):
Often outer metamorphosis is just a metaphor for inner metamorphosis
For metamorphosis is just a metaphor for metaphor
And metaphor is just a metaphor for metamorphosis
And metamorphosis is just a metaphor for this
More of this, more for this, more for this metamorphosis
And more metamorphoses are more metaphors for more metaphors
And more metaphors are more metaphors for more metamorphoses
...And so on and so forth and metamorph
For evermore and metamore
...Until you get
Metaphor-for-metamorphosis-psychosis
By now you should be hearing the above words.
This short track by Orryelle is from Mutation Parlour's ThanatEros CD
How came this to be, this fract(al)uring of the traditional dimensions of the Wheel? Well in this Age of Information accessability, mystery traditions unveil and a-veil-able magickal systems collide. All symbols are ultimately metaphors, so unless we can continue to metamorphosize them into new contexts, we are naught but the puppets of a con-fused Fate. Sometimes the correspondences don't quite match, and we must learn the subtle art of Adjustment, dancing the masques of Maat: I imp-lore thee: to survive in this age of reality dissection, adapt to be adept at this cross-cultural and cross-subcultural Crossroads, this grand Inter-Sect-Ion of different perspectives.
Bored of 'e-turn-all-y sitting on her spotty toad stool, Hekt (Egyptian frog-headed Goddess)-Ate her own timespun tapestry, and as Hermanubis Nexhagus I jumped off her wheel and onto her back, riding the frog to Arcana 23, Outside the Circles of Time. Here the physical and the metaphysical inter-sect. Bodies, Forms, Ideas, Words, Sounds, and Images are dissected and reassembled, metamorphosised in the cauldron of chaos.
Solve et Coagula!
Select a section from the Cross-Section over the Wheel of Fate above -or from the more tabulated index below- where new information is inputted, upcoming projects are heralded in advance, linked in while in process, re-presented and re-corded, and eventually condensed and filed into other categories as they pass from currency (of course, some are re-current). New files are created to contain those passing events or information which don't/won't fit in any established category; and some of the data which crackles through this nexus point refuses to be contained, flying off back into the ether from which it was spawned.
For this virtual reality is not quite ethereal, nor quite 'real' -it is the Crossroads between flesh and spirit, between Nuit andHadit, betwixt Zos and Kia...
The MUTATION PARLOUR was originally a physical place, a studio for body arts. It evolved into the name of a musical/theatrical endeavour. In the LABYRINTH performance Installations, the Mutation Parlour again became a physical place, where in-it-I-ates could stop and be physically psychically or spiritually mutated on their journeys. All the elemental paths -fire/energy, air/space, earth/mass and water/time- intersected at the Mutation Parlour, the Crossroads of the Labyrinth.
The paths of the physical Labyrinth were woven through the trees with ropes, string and other threads, in the Druidic tradition. They were, effectively, physical web-sites! Now this Virtual Mutation Parlour sits as a Crossroads in the vast virtual labyrinth of the internet, the world-wide web. From humble beginnings, it has become a veritable nexus-axis of ideas and forms. Cross-communication/ cross-pollination between different cultural and subcultural tribes, clans and individuals is encouraged.
email: odxob@yahoo.com) I don't usually mind people borrowing bits of my art or text for their own sites; I just like to be asked first, and assure the appropriate credits and links are included, thereby facilitating the distribution of information... So please e-mail me.
Cyberspace is a vast starry web throughwhich we travel at wordspeed, symbolspeed, sometimes verging on thoughtspeed. The virtual labyrinth also reaches underground, into the cavernous catacombs of hidden information. Like its ancient source, it is an underworld initiation. We dwell at the Crossroads, the Crossways, where the ancient Goddess of Fate -Hecate, also known as Orchill, or Urdu, though oft she wears a triple veil- intertwines the dark and bright threads, weaving under and over, under and over, down through the underworld and up through the overworld. The Mutation Parlour is a Cross-stitch in the fabric of eternity, the tapestry of time, spun through space. Chthonos, Ychronos, we evoke thee. Electro-magnetic wwwebs crackle with the influx to this nexus, in-it-i-ates drawn to the Mag(us)Net. And as outward from this nexus our own virtual website grows within the vaster labyrinth, so too shall our physical web-sites grow. The etheric framework of future physical Labyrinth projects is being woven herein. Once remanifest, they will link back into these cyberwebs. This virtual parlour is the Crossroads between the unmanifest and the manifest, where via Logos and Imagos we bring things into being. Physical projects of the Mutation Parlour, of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre and other affiliations of the HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk shall be recorded herein, where they shall be digested, mutated and spat back out into the wo/manifest world in new forms.
Solve et Coagula!
- Love & Will, Orryelle
email: odxob@yahoo.com
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CENTRAL INDEX of PATHWAYS through this virtual LABYRINTH:
* MAGICK EGG -Newest information and additions to this site. The Axis of the Crossroads, where imp-ending events are heralded. Don't just look at it, Crack it open -something new may hatch!
* Metamorphic Ritual Theatre -Introduction to the company and concept, upcoming productions and extensive Archives of images and synopses of previous productions. (including...:)
*'Circe's Banquet' -illustrated script.
* My Alchymic Wedding -The Sacred Marriage Reified - After womanifesting his anima for 9 moonths via mantra, meditation and mutation (via estrogen intake), Orryelle Bascule (Ob) married Orryelle Defenestrate (Ob). The Childe born of this union is the hermaphroditic Baphomet. Read the report and see photos and animation from this unique Ceremony and subsequent Reception (inc. Performances)
* INSPIRALink. Multimedia Press (IMPress)
-the new publishing vehicle of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk and affiliates:
* See and hear samples from SilKMilK MagiZain Collective print journal with audio CD. (includes ordering information).
* 'THE BOOK of KAOS' Tarot Deck by Orryelle.
Sample Cards and Text and ordering information.
The CHORONZON MACHINE Ritual Opera. An interactive recreation of the Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Production, with scene-by-scene images verse and sound samples.
Feature-length video DVD and Audio CD of the soundtrack by The HARLEQUINTET available.
*The GLOBAL CHAKRA WORKINGS Central Vision with Links to accounts of and photographs from these major group Rites so far:
NEW: Reports and pictures from The GLOBAL VISSUDHA (Throat) CHAKRA WORKING
-Saqqara and The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt Nov. '06 (Samhain full moon): Full accounts from various participants, photographs, drawings, video, transmissions, beginning HERE
GLOBAL MULADHARA (Base) CHAKRA WORKING at Mt Shasta California USA (The Tenstar Weaving );
The GLOBAL SVADISTHANA (Navel) CHAKRA WORKING at Lake Titicaca, Peru, South America (The Svadisthana Sabbat);
The GLOBAL MANIPURA (Solar Plexus) CHAKRA WORKING at Uluru, Central Australia.
*The GLOBAL ANAHATA (Heart) CHAKRA WORKING -The 13th-Tribe Weaving at Glastonbury, Somerset, UK (June Solstice 2oo3). Accounts and images from the Ma-nifested Working...
*PENTAGRAMMATON RITUALS -the script, photographs and global responses from the October 98 rituals which seeded the Global Chakra Workings (above) and launched:
*LIBER PENTAGRAMMATON -The HarleQuintessence re-turns. Quantum Qabbala transmission.
ESOTEROTICA Gallery -esoterotic paintings, drawings & photography by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule.
*ZUVUYA An essay on Aeonics, interweaving the ideas of Nema, Terence McKenna, Aleister Crowley, The Mayans, Hopi Indian and biblical prophecies, Peter Carrol, A.O.Spare, Jose Arguelles, Aion, Achad, the ancient Egyptians, Hunbatz Men, J.M. Jenkins, Celtic, Norse and Greek mythologies, Quantum Qabbala, etc. -towards the imp-ending paradigm shift...
*SOLAR SERPENT JOURNEY Ritual at Jabiluka and other adventures in Kakadu following the t(r)ail of Almudj through central Australia.
*Orryelle's TRAVEL JOURNALS/ Magickal Record -Photos and accounts of my strange adventures and rites in Netherlands (inc. Spectacular New Millenium Tower of Babel Rite, France, Spain, Mexico (Mayan Temples and Magic Mushrooms, Quetzalcoatl Blood Rite), Bolivia and Peru (Ayahuasca in the Andes) in 1999 and 2000.
Orryelle's Adventures in INDIA 2005
