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We saw in Chapter 15 that the Dragon is an integral part of the
Greater Mysteries. It is therefore likely that the older parts of the
Necronomicon represent a Babylonian formulation of the Greater
Mysteries. Its newer formulations, complete with symbols, are
interpretations of the last one hundred and fifty years.
Before turning our attention to the unsavory aspects of
necromancy, it is helpful to understand a little more of the poem called
the Descent of the Inanna. This poem appears in both the Creation Epic
of the Mesopotamians and the Dread Book. Surprisingly, it allows us to
outline the acceptable limit of magic in mysteries by reference to the
rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.
We begin with Marduk Kurios of the Double-headed Axe.
Tiamat originally swallowed him but later the roles reversed. In claiming
to slay the Old Ones on the Earth, Marduk was following in the footsteps
of the first Indo-Hittite warrior prince in defeating the Goddess. 1306 This
Gorgon-slayer was Ptersus the Destroyer. 1307
Marduk’s name means son of the righteous mound or KUR-KUR
and is represented by a triangle of three dots. He is the son of the
supreme physical god Enki, brother of Inanna, God of Jupiter and Lord of
Magicians.
We see him as St George killing the green dragon and as Perceval
in the Arthurian romances. His color is royal lilac or purple. He is the
manifestation of the Philosophers' Stone whose mark is interchangeably
the Phoenix, eagle or Tau-cross hammer.
The regal symbol of the double-headed eagle facing east and west
is the ancient phoenix, often mistaken for an eagle. This symbol entered
the rites of initiation in two ways.
The Amazon-Scythian women used the famous double-headed
axe or labrys, which became a popular Scythian and Greek symbol of
death in the Mysteries. The dual curved blades represent the moon’s
monthly cycle of waxing and waning. The Scythians represented initiates
as a pure phoenix arising from the ash of its father. From the doubleheaded
axe, the phoenix, too, became the double-headed badge of an
Eastern Priest-King. It is the insignia of a Patriarch in the Eastern
Church. In 1919, the Eastern Synod bestowed the double-headed badge
of an Eastern Priest-King on the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The double-headed phoenix derives also, or for the same reason,
from Marduk's distinguishing emblem of the double-headed axe. 1308 The
double-headed eagle represents the dual face of Marduk, Janus or Pan.
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