Fragment 10

With this Fragment, we start a new series of Fragments. In which we shall examine egregores, Dee's Watchtowers, and Astral Temples. In simpler terms we are going to examine thought forms, and thought worlds. And of course, I shall have more to say on gods, and demons. The term "egregore" has become popular in modern occultism. The two books that probably contributed most to the rise of the term "egregore" are Mouni Sadhu's "The Tarot" and Tomberg's "Meditations on the Tarot". I have also recently finished reading M. Stavish's book: " Egregores". So what is an egregore? The term is Greek and is usually translated as "Watcher". All the books use the term "egregore" very broadly, to cover collective human activity.I wonder if amimals that demonstrate collective activity have an egregore? In other words the term "egregore" is too broad to be useful. I am going to narrow the term to denote the gods of the various monotheistic religions: Allah for Islam, Jehovah for Christianity, Yahweh for Judaism, Brahman for Hinduism, and Utopia for the Political theologies (Communism, Nazism, Progressivism, totalitarian movements in general). So the key term in the definition is "collectivism". These are the gods of the collective religions, they are all emanations of Aten. Aten is the hidden god behind the gods of the monotheistic religions. The Gnostics were both right and wrong in positing a hidden god. They were right that there is a hidden god, they were wrong in thinking the hidden god is the good god. Aten is neither good nor evil, instead Aten is mechanical. As I have explained before Aten is the law of non-contradiction, continually working itself out. As expressed in Hegel's formula: Being, Nothing, and Becoming. Aten is an abstract, mechanical god, that only a logician, or a priori philosopher, like Spinoza, or Hegel can love. For the rest of us, he is an empty abstraction. So Aten emanates lesser gods. The way in which this works is when a person, or group of people accepts Aten as the primary principle, or paradigm of experience, the organizing principle of all experience, Aten emanates. Let me explain. We think in scenarios (I will have much more to say about this in upcoming Fragments), and these scenarios must be organized to be useful. So we have two factors the experiences or scenarios of though of a group, or an individual, and Aten (the organizing principle). The experience of a group is usually organized into a culture, the individual a part of the culture. Culture is of course how a group interprets the cosmos. Aten then organizes the experiences of the individual or group. This is what creates, what I have called the Individual mind, or homunculus (see my "5 Meditations of the Nature of Mind @ processidealism.blogspot.com). This is what is commonly called the self. Aten then organizes the experience in individuals. A group is formed of like minded people: the culture. The homunculus of the group is projected out to form an egregore, a basis, and imperative for collective activity. Thus the birth, or emanation of an egregore: Allah, Yahweh, etc. Let us use Allah as an example. Once enough of the medieval Arabs decided to accept Aten. Muhammid had a series of dreams that emanated Allah. Allah was emanated to unite and guide the Arabs. Unlike Aten who is highly abstract Allah took the experience and organized it; resulting in the Quran. As I have said before Aten must be set. This is what gave Allah his character. It seems one of the most lucrative occupations of medieval Arabs was hiring out as mercenaries for the constantly warring Roman, and Persian Empires. So it should come as no surprise Allah has the character of a Bandit-King. In the this series of Fragments I will have more to say about all of the above egregores, as well as thought worlds. a Necromancer.