Corporate Logos as Occult Symbols, The Vesica Piscis

The "Occult", in a tinctured sense, has always controlled "vice". First, it is incredibly profitable, and second, the various vices of the world remain but temptations upon which rewards and punishments can be meted out, and thus a ruling elite may remain focused on ruling through controlling the avenues of corruption upon which the people may come to believe that "order" as provided for by the ruling elite is necessary.

The Opium Wars offer but a small window of the use of drugs to destroy cultures and create conditions to imbed particular philosophies, not the least of which is the very Alphabet upon which English is predicated. Today, the world of narcotics can best be viewed as being entirely controlled by Setian Occult forces within cellular national security blankets. It is no secret that the United States was in Vietnam partially to control the opium of the Golden Triangle, and that American military might is used to protect or otherwise control the cocaine fields in Colombia and the massive heroine being produced in Afghanistan.

Where in the previous generations, drugs were used to destroy foreign cultures, very much as alcohol was deployed against the native American Indians, today, with control nearly absolute, drugs are used to prey on the domestic populations, with the intended effect of both weakening the society and strengthening the police powers.

There should not be any aversion to the simple truth that CO-Caine implies "with Cain", or they who gladly murder their fellow Brothers.

This control of "vice" extends into all manner of society and manifests itself nearly everywhere - if only one is willing to but glimpse and understand.

Vice as Natural Human Behavior

It can be said that "if a person has no vice, then he is a novice, and thus has not experienced what living has to offer." Vices are, essentially, everywhere. They squeeze on the individual and hold the individual tight, and if properly fastened to the subject, never ever lets the person the go. Such are the nature of vices.

Vices, at the end of the day, can be defined as virtually any focused interest by the individual, and this definition can further be fused to arbitray religious constructs and turned into being of the "devil himself". Vices are difficult to understand for the laity, for ultimately, all focused thoughts are vices - it is only the cultural moral influences that provide vices with coloring and admixtures.

So long as there is this form of Earthly living, there will be vices waiting to grab and latch onto the person. There is a universal component to vices. So it should not be surprising to hear Manley P. Hall comment in Secret Teachings of All Ages, "Man's evil habits therefore actually became the unconscious perpetuators of his philosophical precepts. "We must admire the wisdom of the Initiates," writes Papus, "who utilized vice and made it produce more beneficial results than virtue." Does not this act of the ancient priests itself afford proof that the entire mystery of the Tarot is wrapped up in the symbolism of its zero card? If knowledge was thus entrusted to fools, should it not be sought for in this card?"

Thus it is the use concious acknowledgement of what is vice and how it works that lends the idea so skillfully to the Craft. By simply imbedding the Codes into materialism, the very habits that make up materialism become the progenitors of the ancient symbols and inherent energetical designs crafted into them. Hence it is only natural that corporate logos, to they who are in the know, be used as symbols of the Occult for these symbols are the very foundation to the archetypical construction of Western constructs.

The Vesica Piscis as an Occult Foundational Symbol

Yarker references in his work "The Arcane Schools", "It was in these prehistoric times that the symbols of the two creative forces of nature developed, represented by crux-ansata, lithoi, or lingam, and the vesica piscis, or yoni. They are equally the signs of a dogma which lay at the root of all religions in regard to fire, not the fire burning upon the altar, but the fire which that symbolised and was termed "divine darkness," a spiritual or magical fire, seen by gifted seers, of which the earthly symbols are the pyramids, the obelisk, and the church spires.<<"The Rosicrucians," Jennings.>>

Theodosius Obelisk, Istanbul

With such a statement, in context, does one really think that the Obelisk as the Washington Monument rising up through the Vesica Piscis, does not carry with it some significant occult meaning? If you believe so, how would you organize your thoughts surrounding such? But no matter, for if the Pyramids, the Obelisk, and the Church Spires are but earthly symbols, what then of the Vesica Piscis?



The Vesica Piscis, two interlinked circles, is also known as "the Yoni". The name "yoni" refers to the middle portion of the interlocking circles, is derived from the Sanskrit meaning, "divine passage". That the yoni is the feminine, the yoni should be viewed such that the divine passage becomes a correlation to sex, or male/female union. It is this correlation, and its relation to rebirth and regeneration that remains a basic truth at the very core of Occult structural foundations.

And seeing how "vice" is used as a means to advance and preserve the philosophy, what better vice than that of "materialism", and what better symbol of "materialism" than that of "the MasterCard", which enables materialism beyond many a person's economic means?

However, this symbol is found in many a corporate logo. How about Chanel or the famed Sedars Sinai Medical Center?












The famed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California?

And of course, KOOL Cigarettes


It is all very cool when you begin to see that things are not as they appear, and the reality of the Construct begins to burst open like a bud before your eyes.

Imagine a clever code for G-d hidden here, in the corporate symbol for Gucci? And some would only see the Vesica Piscis!

Venus and Mars as Acroamatic Cryptograms

Cryptograms as the Underlying Formation of Philosophy

Manley P. Hall wrote in Secret Teaching of All Ages regarding the "Cryptogram as a Factor in Symbolic Philosophy",

If the art of deciphering cryptograms could be made popular, it would result in the discovery of much hitherto unsuspected wisdom possessed by both ancient and mediæval philosophers. It would prove that many apparently verbose and rambling authors were wordy for the sake of concealing words. Ciphers are hidden in the most subtle manner: they may be concealed in the watermark of the paper upon which a book is printed; they may be bound into the covers of ancient books; they may be hidden under imperfect pagination; they may be extracted from the first letters of words or the first words of sentences; they may be artfully concealed in mathematical equations or in apparently unintelligible characters; they may be extracted from the jargon of clowns or revealed by heat as having been written in sympathetic ink; they may be word ciphers, letter ciphers, or apparently ambiguous statements whose meaning could be understood only by repeated careful readings; they may he discovered in the elaborately illuminated initial letters of early books or they may be revealed by a process of counting words or letters. If those interested in Freemasonic research would give serious consideration to this subject, they might find in books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the information necessary to bridge the gap in Masonic history that now exists between the Mysteries of the ancient world and the Craft Masonry of the last three centuries.

He then says,

With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clearer vision contemplate the reality; but the ignorant, unable to distinguish between the false and the true, behold a universe of symbols. It may well be said of Nature--the Great Mother--that she is ever tracing strange characters upon the surface of things, but only to her eldest and wisest sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings. -emphasis mine

This above statement can be found to be linked into the Osirian/Isisian Mystery traditions via Plutarch, who says in On Isis and Osiris,

For Isis is a Greek word, and so also is Typhon, her enemy, who is conceited, as his name implies, because of his ignorance and self-deception. He tears to pieces and scatters to the winds the sacred writings, which the goddess collects and puts together and gives into the keeping of those that are initiated into the holy rites, since this consecration, by a strict regimen and by abstinence from many kinds of food and from the lusts of the flesh, curtails licentiousness and the love of pleasure, and induces a habit of patient submission to the stern and rigorous services in shrines, the end and aim of which is the knowledge of Him who is the First, the Lord of All, the Ideal One. Him does the god urge us to seek, since He is near her and with her and in close communion. The name of her shrine also clearly promises knowledge and p11comprehension of reality; for it is named Iseion,8 to indicate that we shall comprehend reality if in a reasonable and devout frame of mind we pass within the portals of her shrines.

That Manley P. Hall references "...but only to her eldest and wisest sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings.", can too be seen as a direct parallel in Plutarch, who says that Typhon "scatters to the winds the sacred writings, which the goddess collects and puts together and gives into the keeping of those that are initiated into the holy ritessince this consecration, by a strict regimen and by abstinence from many kinds of food and from the lusts of the flesh, curtails licentiousness and the love of pleasure, and induces a habit of patient submission to the stern and rigorous services in shrines..."

Each speaks about an initiated elite that is possessing of certain keys, wherein the primary key is clearly said to be a "cryptic alphabet". In Plutarch, the "cryptic alphabet" is simply inferred, for Plutarch deals with "the letters" as "gods", hence when he refers to "gods", it is clear he is speaking about "letters". In "On the Letter E at Delphi", from Moralia V, Plutarch says of the Letter E, "That the god is no less a philosopher than a prophet, Ammonius proved to the satisfaction of all by adducing his titles one by one,..."

And if you are still not convinced that "the Mysteries" are revolving around the eluecidation of the inherent philosophy within a "cryptic Alphabet", there is this regarding the "acroamatic cipher", as spoken by Manley P. Hall, "The creation myths of the world are acroamatic cryptograms, and the deities of the various pantheons are only cryptic characters which, if properly understood, become the constituents of a divine alphabet. The initiated few comprehend the true nature of this alphabet, but the uninitiated many worship the letters of it as gods."

The Alphabet is the Code of ISIS, wherein ISIS is a cipher for SPEECH.

ISIS = 9+19+9+19 = 56 = 19+16+5+5+3+8 = SPEECH

Yet so, too, do the glyphs of the Astrological signs make up its own "divine Alphabet" to be worshipped, even as the inherent designs remain for the safe keeping of the Initiated few. Venus and Mars are examples that can be readily revealed.

Venus and Mars as Acroamatic Cryptograms

Venus and Mars present a clear example of a situation wherein the "wise" may "penetrate the veil", while the "ignorant" are confronted with a "universe of symbols". In effect, the eleucidation of the symbols for Venus and Mars provides for a clear example of how various glyphs/letters are fabricated upon larger philosophical truths.

To begin, do not be intimidated if you have never heard of any of this written in any book. Since the transference of the inherent nature of the symbols in done through an acroamatic channel, meaning through an oral explanation within controlled channels in the Initiatory (Illuminatus) systems, it stands to reason that in general, one should not expect the that the clear manner of the constructing the glyphs would be found to be committed to writing and so would not be available in any book. You can infer that knowledge is tucked away in this story of Jesus, who is removed from birth and taught from birth into the Mysteries.

This account inProtevangelion, Infancy I, Chapter XX, suggests of the hidden nature of letters wherein it is said of Jesus,

"So they brought him (Jesus) to that master; who, as soon as he saw him, wrote out an alphabet for him. And he bade him say Aleph; and when he had said Aleph, the master bade him to pronounce Beth.

Then the Lord Jesus said to him, Tell me first the meaning of the letter Aleph, and then I will pronounce Beth.

And when the master threatened to whip him, the Lord Jesus explained to him the meaning of the letters Aleph and Beth;

Also which were the straight figures of the letters, which the oblique, and what letters had double figures; which had points, and which had none; why one letter went before another; and many other things he began to tell him, and explain, of which the master had never heard, nor read in a book."

Needless to say, there is a whole hidden body of knowledge, both surface, and subsurface, regarding all the letters and astrological signs. Following revealins the nature of Venus and Mars.

Basic Occult Constructs in Venus

VENUS maintains a precise timing code as to its name. Being the second planet from the Sun, it maintains its relationship to B in that B is the profile of a pregnant woman, or in mythological particulars (acroamatic ciphering), the Goddess Isis pregnant with the baby Horus. It's secondary relationship in the Isisian Codes is that of "R", wherein when a woman's water "BR-ACHES", or breaks, the linkage of BR is manifest as in BRth, BRn, BRed, BReed, BRing, BRought, BReast, etc.

As an astronomic phenomena, the planet VENUS maintains a synodic orbit of 225 days, hence the Letters V as placed at position 22 and the E as placed at position 5 encodes the actual synodic orbit of 225 days around the Sun/

V=22
E=5
NUS = SUN

VE = 225 around the NUS (SUN)

It characteristics are that the planet is enclosed within a blanket of CLOUDS, wherein the word CLOUD serves as an anagrammic code for OCCULT, and so VENUS serves as a perfect example in "nature" of a condition to represent the attributes of the Mysteries.

OCULT = CLOUT = CLOUD - (for a comprehensive example of letter transpositions, see the blog entry "Superman and the Relationship of N to TEN (10)".

There is much more you can glean from any research into the properties of "the Goddess Isis", but the above serves as simple examples.

Basic Occult Signatures to the God of Mars

In the Illuminatus System, letters often act as whole words. This technique is oft noted as "notariqon", but the actual system was highly developed in Heliopolitan Druidism, from which much of the current Illuminatus System is derived. In the case of the word "C", this can act as both "see" and "sea", as in 93 = IC = I see. In the case of the Letter R, it can have a value of "R = are" and be "pre=positioned", as in a "pre-positioned" phrase.

In the case of MARS, we can see that we have a sequence of M ARE S, wherein the gematria can be established into the larger system via summative coding.

M = 13 = 1+2+3+...13 = 91
S = 19 = 1+2+3+...19 = 190

What you will see is that M and S are sharing palindromic coding in that each can be viewed as being both 19 and 91, hence M's are S's.

Other observations shows that MARS is the 4th planet from the Sun, and so can be related back to the Letter D, which is as the Sun coming up on the HORIZON. The planet is the "RED" planet, which is linked to the element FE at 26, or the Chemical Element number for IRON, from which the "red sun" derives its color. Too, much can be gleaned from researching into the properties of MARS, such that it exists in a "perpetual state of drought", in that it has no water, etc.

All of these are used to fuse together the larger the Construct.

The Spoken Word as the Sword

Joseph Hall, in critiquing Sir Francis Bacon, wrote a poem criticising the usage of compounding of words (taking two words to make one), wherein he says,

"He knows the grace of that new elegance
which sweet Philsides [Phillip Sidney] fetch of late from France,
That well beseem his high-style Arcady (Arcadia)
Tho others mar it with much liberty
in epithets to join two words in one".

In the case of cryptograms in words, we then must take into account the compounding of words, such as "to get her" to create "together", or "no thing" to create "nothing", but we also must be cognizant of the use of singular letters to represent whole words, as in the letter C used for both "see" and "sea". An example of this is too intimated in Shakespeare, "Hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G."
- Richard III, I, 1.

The "alphabet" was known as "the cross-row".

"Like all of the great poets and dramatists of the time, Shakespeare learned his basic reading and writing skills from an ABC, or horn-book. Robert Speaight in his book, Shakespeare: The Man and His Achievement, describes this book as

a primer framed in wood and covered with a thin plate of transparent horn. It included the alphabet in small letters and in capitals, with combinations of the five vowels with b, c, and d, and the Lord's Prayer in English. The first of these alphabets, which ended with the abbreviation for 'and', began with the mark of the cross. Hence the alphabet was known as 'Christ cross row' -- the cross-row of Richard III, I, i, 55. A short catechism was often included in the ABC book (the 'absey book' of King John, I, i, 196). (10)"

Hence as one must "hearken after prophecies and dreams" and "pluck the letter G", a more pragmatic way of viewing this is that if you are to seek after the hidden cryptogram within, as the naming of things was oft done through astral channels, it too might be necessary to remove a single letter, solve for the letter, and then place the sequence back into its constructed channels.

In the case of the word SWORD, we have to include all the "energetical channels", meaning established Occult and esoteric symbolism, before a full understanding of the meaning (hearkening after prophecies and dreams) can be fully established.

The primary symbol of "swords" is that it is one of the four primary suits of the TAROT, comprised of Pentacles, Wands, Cups, and Swords. Each of these suits is then fused to larger archetypical codes that then link back to astrologic or "deity" attributes. In the case of the SWORDS, the sign is associated with the Air and to all things related to thought and words and communication. In this way, the suit is associated directly to Isis, even as it is oft associated traditionally to Hera with Isis associated to "earth".

As AIR is associated with SPEECH and THOUGHT, the SWORD would need to be broken down into its S-WORD, for the WORD is PI is the ALPHABET. Thus the S, as being associated with AIR and COMMUNICATION AND SPEECH, becomes associated with the SPOKEN WORD TRADITONS (again linking back to ISIS) as the Veil covering the Eyes of in the "two of swords" hints of the Scales of Liberty equally.

Now that we have connected the dots, we can "hearken after prophecies and dreams" (solve for the cryptogram) and bring out the code of SWORD.

SWORD = SPOKEN WORD = SPOKE and WORD

Now we begin to link back all the symbols. The Spoke is the radius of a circle. Hence the Sword is as the radius of a circle equally. When we speak, and we have finished, then we have "spoken", or we "have spoke". The "spoke" of speaking is linked to the "spoke" of the wheel" which is linked to the SWORD via the "spoken word". However, the archetype is that the SPOKE is the radius, and so what is "the Word" but the CIRCLE or PI?

So the code is simple.

SWORD = SPOKEN WORD = SPOKE and the WORD

The "SWORD" contains both the idea of a RADIUS (and an implied diameter), and with it, the "omnific Word, or Pi." Hence, the SPOKEN WORD contains the whole of the esoteric code.

Ingeniously crafted and hidden away from view.

Integrating the SPOKEN WORD into VENUS and MARS

Now consider the "letters" of "Venus" and "Mars" in light of the Acroamatic Cipher. In the case of MARS, Mars is regarded as "the god of War" and so is linked back to Seth. When we consider the "birth of Seth", we read the following:

"On the third day Typhon was born, but not in due season or manner, but with a blow he broke through his mother's side and leapt forth." That is all we are told. That is all we needed to be told. The third day we can equate to the SEA and C as Typhon, and if he was born with a "blow from his mother's side", what this is describing in an acroamatic fashion is the very sign for the "god of Mars".

The "sword" is piercing with a blow through "his mother's side".

This is key. For we then must link the story of "Jesus" to the "Father". John 19:33-34 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was dead already, so they didn't break his legs. One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out.

What is wrong with the picture? "Blood and water" is the sign of giving BIRTH, and so the acroamatic cipher of Jesus is symbolic of "the Goddess" at time of giving birth, and so this statement is an acroamatic cipher for VENUS!

What is being born with a blow from the mother's side is "MARS" and when the side is pierced and "blood and water came out", such is describing "VENUS".

The operative element is "the Sword". The Spoke and the Word. The Diameter as inferred by a radius and Pi as the WORD or circumference of the wheel.

From here, one can peer into the mysteries further to reveal more of the construct and the letters upon which this story is further constructed.

Volvo and the God of War

There is a simple reality in play. What is up is down and what is down is up. Show me a word that is being vilified and I will show you where the inherent good lay imbedded in the word. At the end of the day, "the leaders", those who "sealed the chest wherein Osiris lay", are sworn to destroy the past in order to create their own future. Those who "serve the Goddess" work just as tirelessly to preserve the knowledge and transmit its inherent philosophical meanings for the present and the future.

But that gets into the world of "conspiracy", doesn't it?

Let us focus on the Acroamatic Cipher. wherein Manley P. Hall states in "Secret Teachings of All Ages",

"The religious and philosophical writings of all nations abound with acroamatic cryptograms, that is, parables and allegories. The acroamatic is unique in that the document containing it may be translated or reprinted without affecting the cryptogram. Parables and allegories have been used since remote antiquity to present moral truths in an attractive and understandable manner. The acroamatic cryptogram is a pictorial cipher drawn in words and its symbolism must be so interpreted."

- Source

However, there is more to be understood about the Acroamatic Cipher, from its inherent oral transmission of basic form,design, and intent, to the fact that the Acroamatic Cipher is the primary means to transmit a particular knowledge about a "divine Alphabet". Continues Manley P. Hall,

"The creation myths of the world are acroamatic cryptograms, and the deities of the various pantheons are only cryptic characters which, if properly understood, become the constituents of a divine alphabet. The initiated few comprehend the true nature of this alphabet, but the uninitiated many worship the letters of it as gods."

- Source

The Nature of Nature

What is the "nature" of Nature? The word hints clear. NATURN = A TURN. What "nature" does is "turns over the elements", reusing them in a purpetual dance of life and death. Nature, as "the Goddess", is both a "nurturing" force, and a force of war. Nature, in short, can too be very cruel. Survival of the fittest is an order of the realm, and balance is the key to the beauty. Too much of anything suffocates the inherent balance, and so Nature corrects "herself".

EARTH, being but the constituent numbers of E+A+R+T+H = 5+1+18+20+8 = 52 Weeks, and being but a representation of the "Goddess", in that the number is a co-relational circle, too is set against a series of turns, from the day to the night to the turn of the seasons, Nature cannot beget without the admixture of revolving in a manner set against principles esoterically referred to as "Pi", or "Ma'at". Gyroscopes keep the vehicle in balance and the inherent sounds of GY, found in "gynecology", all hint at a deeper mystical code within the words.

The revolving nature of Nature, and the sounds "vulva" are all sounds that elevate the Feminine. So too does the word "vulture", which comes to feed one last time on "Her creation". In "The Encyclopedia of Masonry", we find under the heading of "Development" this interesting insight into the use of "volvere",

"The Ancients often wrote their books on parchment, which were made up into a roll, hence called a "volume" from volvere, "to roll up". Thus, he who read the book commenced by unrolling it, a custom still practiced by the Jews in the reading of their Sacred Law, and it was not until the whole contents were unrolled and read that he became the master of its contents. Now in the Latin language, to unfold or unroll was "devolvere" whence we get our English word "to develop".

- Source

Here is where a bit of added insight into the "Masonic double-headed eagle" may be helpful

If the word "devolvere" is being used as a philosophical construct for the word "develop", then how does the word "devolve" share a philosophical equality to "develop", when each certainly could be said to be eminating from the same Latin word, "devolvere"? The word "develop" means "to build up" while "devolve" means to "to bring down". For this reason we hold that you cannot simply peer into words in a linear fashion, for letters are being spun as on a sphere and their usages in identical linear derived mannerisms may have seeming opposite linear meanings.

In otherwords, you cannot make any single literal assumption as to how to view any given set of letters at face value, and must view words and symbols in their context, aided greatly by the revelation that the Construct is based on Pi and 666 as ADM and EVE. The Double Headed Eagle reminds us to view words "this way or that", as written forward or in reverse, and having meanings that mean one thing, and its complete opposite all contained within itself.

The Letters take precedence.


So just as 322 can or may reveal "3 22's", or VVV of the VW, and hence the CODE of EVE in the Garden of Eden (with "god" in Illuminatus mythological systems), then the "Occult symbol" of VW as "322" is that it reveals the Circle as ADM = 1413 = 3.141 and EVE as 666, to reveal Pi and 666.

Utilizing the "double headed eagle", the first step is to simply look for any hints in words as spoken in reverse. VOLVO can reverse quite readily to the word OV LOV, or Of Love, the "vulva", the "feminine", etc., and it is this potentiality that must too be considered prior to a philosophical deconstruction of any give symbol. Clearly the corporate sign of "VOLVO" contains the readily obvious sign for "MARS", and so VOLVO as "ov lov", surely hints strongly that it is merely a code for "Venus, the Goddess of Love", and hence Volvo the corporate signia is really a pretty self descriptive code for

VENUS AND MARS.



Volvo. Venus and Mars.

The patterns are the self explanatory truths to the imbedded Occult signatures.

More on the acroamatic nature of Venus and Mars in a future posting.

Corporate Logos as Occult Symbols - Part I

And there is nothing to fear if, in the first place, they preserve for us our gods that are common to both peoples and do not make them to belong to the Egyptians only, and do not include under these names the Nile alone and the land which the Nile waters, and do not assert that the marshes and the lotus are the only work of God's hand, and if they do not deny the great gods to the rest of mankind that possess no Nile nor Buto nor Memphis. But as for Isis, and the gods associated with her, all peoples own them and are familiar with them, although they have learned not so very long ago to call some of them by the names which come from the Egyptians; yet they have from the beginning understood and honoured the power which belongs to each one of them. - Source - Isis and Osiris

People oft need to stop and think. Who were the "tycoons" of yesteryear, especially as such pertains to the Western construct? Just your "average Joe"? No. More likely than not, they were a member of some "fraternal society", even as the traces of such are swept away only to be discovered later by the wayward travelling who peers into the more hidden ways of the world.

Do you really believe that the major personalities who were responsible for the backbone and fabric of what would become "the Western Construct" were NOT of some fraternal order?

If you believe that, well, ok. There is a class forming that teaches Creationism and Darwinism in the other hall. Feel free to sign-up.

This project is not about the perpetuation of political correct beliefs (inanities); it is a pursuit to arrive at the inherent philosophical truths as held by those who crafted and became "the Illuminatus".

Says Manley P. Hall in his treatise "Secret Teachings of All Ages", in his analysis on the Tarot Cards,

The Tarot cards were entrusted by the illumined hierophants of the Mysteries into the keeping of the foolish and the ignorant, thus becoming playthings--in many instances even instruments of vice. Man's evil habits therefore actually became the unconscious perpetuators of his philosophical precepts. "We must admire the wisdom of the Initiates," writes Papus, "who utilized vice and made it produce more beneficial results than virtue." Does not this act of the ancient priests itself afford proof that the entire mystery of the Tarot is wrapped up in the symbolism of its zero card? If knowledge was thus entrusted to fools, should it not be sought for in this card? Source - Secret Teachings of All Ages

Papus is a key player in the negative aspects of what become the "Dark Illuminatus" even as he provides us with a clear set of instructional material to penetrate and piece the underlying philosophy. One should read between the lines of his treatise called Qabalah.

So what is it that Papus said that demands such critical attention? "We must admire the wisdom of the Initiates," writes Papus, "who utilized vice and made it produce more beneficial results than virtue." In otherwords, in a negative Illuminatus construct, the use of vice, and with it the intended destruction of the non-initiated soul via the use of the instruments of vice, be it Cigarettes, Alcohol, and later, harder illicity forms of drugs, are all part of the acceptable usage of the Occult so long as the knowledge is preserved.

It is a negative use of the earlier idea as expressed by Plutarch, "And there is nothing to fear if, in the first place, they preserve for us our gods..."

Whereas Plutarch may have intimated that there was little difference between the use of the Ankh while the Christians used the "t", or the Cross, it mattered not. The Tau and its message was being spread across the land, and anyways, those who knew understood the message and remained silent participants as the knowledge spread. Some failed and went astray within the Initiatory Systems. Plutarch, too, discusses this inherent problem that oft arises where the Spoken Word is the primary transmission method:

"Thus men make use of consecrated symbols, some employing symbols that are obscure, but others those that are clearer, in guiding the intelligence toward things divine, though not without a certain hazard. For some go completely astray and become engulfed in superstition; and others, while they fly from superstition350 as from a quagmire, on the other hand unwittingly fall, as it were, over a precipice into atheism." - Source
Mass religions are manifestations and expressions of those who have fallen over the precipice and into atheism, for the "gods" are the Letters, and the "God", the Alphabet.

So again. Where do we start?

John Yarker writes in "The Arcane Schools"

"That of Elephanta is a threefold construction, and it is alleged that all castes, and even kings wrought with the chisel in its construction. Whilst the oldest cyclopean architecture is attributed in Europe to the Pelasgians, in India it is attributed to the Pandus who were a pre-Brahmin tribe, and Ferguson regards the analogy of this style with that of the Incas of Peru as one of the most remarkable facts of history. It was in these prehistoric times that the symbols of the two creative forces of nature developed, represented by crux-ansata, lithoi, or lingam, and the vesica piscis, or yoni. They are equally the signs of a dogma which lay at the root of all religions in regard to fire, not the fire burning upon the altar, but the fire which that symbolised and was termed "divine darkness," a spiritual or magical fire, seen by gifted seers, of which the earthly symbols are the pyramids, the obelisk, and the church spires.<<"The Rosicrucians," Jennings.>>"

This sounds like as good a start as any. The Tau (T) and the Vesica Piscis are without a doubt critical keys to the larger philosophy. The Vesica Piscis is the foundation for the mythical Garden of Eden, while the Tau and its archetypes are critical Occult keys to the Egyptian Ankh and the Christian "cross".

A practical analysis and usage of the Vesica Piscis can be found at Freemasons-Freemasonry.comVice. Although this does not deal with the speculative aspect of Freemasonry, it is worth a look so as to understand its practical value. Since the Isisian Codes seeks to provide insights into the speculative truths of the "Craft", we shall state simply that the Vesica Piscis is a crucial key to the larger Osirian Mystery Schools.

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The Vesica Piscis is the foundation to the creation of the Philosopher's Stone. It is also found often in crop circle formations. - Image Source

In the meantime, we can see the inverse of or skeleton of the Vesica Piscis in the corporate logo of Dos Equis.



Time constraints prevent further eleucidation for this entry, so we will revisit this topic again at a later date.