The three phases of the classic journey of internal alchemy are the Nigredo, Albedo, and Rubedo. Blackness. Whiteness, and ablution. Rubedo, The Ruby, redness, the blood flowing.
Traits of each are listed below. Below these are the notes and quotes.
1. Nigredo
The beginning of the dissolution of the false ego, often with accompanying physical pains. The “self” sees itself as a constructed being, a character playing a social role, and the pressures of life begin to wear away at the self concept. Looking for truth outside one’s own self, one encounters only misery and woe, depression, suicidal and nihilistic ideation, and often headaches. The dark night of the soul, symbolized by the Caput Corvus. The nigredo is Saturnine and often chaotic. Blackness is also a color of fertility–black like the rich soil– and hence the new self is being formed inside the shit of the old self. The nigredo is a cooking process in which the imagines self is reduced to it’s rawest elements. The “BLACK SUN” sigil is an indicator of this phase. One typically during this phase cannot practice kenosis or zazen for any length of time and alcohol and drug use are common. Deliberate attempts to enter the nigredo to clear out psychologic complexes are possible but only recommended if one has a partner of friend to act as a guide. Typically, the kundalini cannot rise normally during the nigredo, and this can cause emotional and sexual problems. Undertaking an ONA insight role during the nigredo can be dangerous in the extreme, as a person discovers in bits and pieces their true strengths and weaknessess. Equivalent tothe Lovecraftian UBBO SATHLA. Also in Lovecraftian terms, this nigredo is an encounter with DAOLOTH, often the first encounter.
2. Albedo
The ablution. The self becomes aware of it’s place in the totality of all things and becomes humbled. This is a good phase of the journey to practice Taoist kenosis and ZAZEN. You’ll accept Ma Durga during this phase and see what your weaknessess are without making excuses. Illumination, Lucifer. The importance of clan and ethnos may seem to be of much less importance here. AZATHOTH is Lovecraftian mythos. Some may be tempted to embrace RHP type compassion doctrines during this phase. The defensive mechanisms of the false ego are now gone.
3. Rubedo
The re-awakening. In some ways, the rubedo is a second mode of the albedo. Once chastened, the person realizes that they cannot LIVE normally as a perpetually humbled person, being surrounded on all sides by the mundanes– and so must allow the life to flow back in once more. During the RUBEDO, you will become what you’ve always been, but didn’t know your were with any clarity. Some eastern practices refer to this phase as entering the “Diamond Body”. The self that cannot die for it LIVES FOREVER. NYARLATHOTEP, as Lord of Awakening, the OBIC MASTER that lives outside the cosmos, yet effects it’s contents.
NOTES
A lot of Batman’s journey in the early phases of the movie “Batman Begins” are a pretty good idea of what the Nigredo is, especially as it dissolves, due to the addition of an herbal drug, into the Albedo.
The transit from the nigredo to albedo can be physically dangerous and so the deliberate entering of the nigredo as part of better understanding an INSIGHT ROLE should taken with extreme care.
QUOTES
Mundane or Sinister? The Standards of The Sinister Way
So, you want to join us? You want to become one of the sinister few? Part of our sinister Order of Nine Angles family? One of those who understand – who know – mundanes for the expendable resource they are. One of those who knows or who feels, in a wordless way in their very being, that we can be far more than we are; one of those who knows, who understands, or who feels, in a wordless way in their very being, that all laws, past and present, are restrictions – a means of mundane control, devised and implemented by mundanes in a mundane attempt to prevent we sinister few from turning our lives into a succession of ecstasies. One of those defiant ones who would rather die than submit, and who understands that words are a means, not the essence.
Know then that you have to prove and test yourself – taking yourself to and beyond your physical and emotional and moral limits. If you succeed, fine. If you fail – no excuses, you failed. You can try again, and again, until you succeed. Or you can accept the truth – that failure makes you, marks you, as mundane. No excuses.
Are you, then, ready to test yourself? To defy, to overcome? To be heretical? If so, here are the challenges. Here are the minimal standards you must meet to become of us, to join us. And if you do not desire to so test yourself, to meet, to surpass, the standards, we set – then go elsewhere. If you somehow in some way want to debate or to dispute these standards of ours, then you can go elsewhere.
We are not interested in your excuses, your mundane words – for these are minimal entry standards for our traditional sinister nexions. For you to join us – for you to become a member of our sinister elite, to become a genuine Initiate of our Seven-Fold Sinister Way – you have to undertake the following.
Physical Standards
Train for and undertake all three of the following physical tasks – the minimum standards (for men) are: (a) walking thirty-two miles, in hilly terrain, in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 30 lbs; (b) running twenty-six miles in four hours; (c) cycling two hundred or more miles in twelve hours. [Those who have already achieved such goals in such activities should set themselves more demanding goals. For women, the minimum acceptable standards are: (a) walking twenty-seven miles in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 15 lbs. (b) running twenty-six miles in four and a half hours; (c) cycling one hundred and seventy miles in twelve hours.
If you cannot achieve all these minimal standards – you failed.
Mental Standards
Construct and learn to play both the basic and the advanced Star Game.
If you cannot do this – you failed.
Moral Standards
Find, and test (according to our sinister guidelines) a suitable mundane, and then cull that mundane.
If you cannot do this – you failed.
Heretical Standards
Become, for a minimum of six months, a public advocate of one of the following modern heresies – radical (Jihadi) Islam, or National-Socialism.
If you cannot do this – or fail to understand why these are genuine modern heresies – you failed.
No excuses; no debates. You are either of us, or you are mundane.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
121 Year of Fayen
The wise man is not surprised by death
he is always ready to leave.
“Putrefaction is so effective that it destroys the old nature and form of the rotting bodies; it transmutes them into a new state of being to give them a totally new fruit. Everything that has live, dies; everything that is dead putrefies and finds a new life.” (Pernety, 1758)
And who is this pure fool? Lo,In the sagas of old time, legend of scald, of bard, of druid…Cometh he not in green like spring? O thou water that art air, In whom all complex is resolved! OH YES…fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the white house! Write letters in dead languages to people you’ve never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors, stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! DIVINE MADNESS! Let there be ECSTACY, ECSTACY in the streets!! Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
– Mr. J
Red. White. Black.
Black in the center, turns to white, turns to red.
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