A Tale of Two Moons...







"The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs."



― Yevgeny Zamyatin



The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress…

Blavatsky’s Story





“The Moon is now the cold residual quantity, the shadow dragged after the new body, into which her living powers are transfused. She now is doomed for long ages to be ever pursuing the Earth, to be attracted by and to attract her progeny. Constantly vampirised by her child, she revenges herself on it, by soaking it through and through with the nefarious, invisible and poisonous influence which emanates from the occult side of her nature. For she is a dead, yet a living body. The particles of her decaying corpse are full of active and destructive life, although the body which they had formed, is soulless and lifeless.”



-Helena P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine



edit on 2-12-2013 by Eidolon23 because: ∇



Narrative is more important than the thumb. The thumb is merely an accessory appendage that works as a peripheral device to our story-making ability (super-power, really). If you take a look at the stories that form the cornerstones of our society, the stories from great American Literature, for instance, you might find it interesting to try and see them as representing problems that we are trying to solve. The reason that the great stories resonate with us all is because they reflect problems that are common to all of us, as individuals and as nations of people. As with all stories we are trying to solve something here with this story about The 8th Sphere and the Moon. When stories persist as some do, and are spread over a wide geography, it usually means we are collectively working on really big stuff. Here is one version of a version of the story in question.As you will see, this particular story crops up everywhere, reflected in modern movies like Dark City and The Matrix, and in themes explored by the likes of P.K. Dick. If you know that one, substitute The 8th Sphere for Dick’s concept of the VALIS system.The story tells that the corporeal Moon, as we see it, is a physical ‘remnant’, a shell, of what is “spiritually” evolving into a planet: namely, what the Mahatmas told Sinnet is called “The Planet of Death”. This evolving part is invisible, and much larger than the Moon, and its “field” of influence and control encompasses the Earth. Later, other authors such as R. Steiner and David Ovason elaborated on this tale. Steiner reinforced what Sinnett said and also emphasized that the purpose of the 8th Sphere is to harvest the souls of mankind by acting as a sort of “cul-de-sac” leading away from the Sun and casting them into an endless loop of deep spiritual isolation known as, or Hell.The method by which the 8th Sphere and its minions, referred to at times as The Shadow Beings, draw a soul into isolation was neatly summed up in a contemporary way by R. Steiner. According to him, whenever a soul expressing the “will to evolve” had that drive subverted to “clairvoyantism”, that right there was the work of The 8th Sphere. In a sort of update from D. Ovason more than 50 years later, he tells us that he was instructed in a tradition which taught that any form of organized efforts based on “clairvoyance”, such as seances and “in other localities and activities wherein human beings attempt to meddle – against the cosmic law – with the lower Etheric planes”, would create “nodes” which feed the Moon, The 8th Sphere, its favorite food, and is the greatest contributing factor to getting splintered off and sent to the Moon, never to return.The deepest secrets that Madame Blavatsky taught concerning this story about our real relationship to the Moon tell us that we originated there, and by some accident of attraction, we were “thrown down” to the earth in the rage of our mother’s birth pangs, and that we have been locked in this struggle with her for a very long time. Nothing better illustrates the flux of all poised opposites quite like the moon, with her incremental passage from black to white and back again. However distasteful we may find Blavatsky’s story, the theme seems to be a constant fixture in the work of latter-day teachers trying to push this narrative forward toward a fullness of understanding. It is said that we were dropped to Earth just shy of full-term, that we may have killed her in the birth process, and that we are now locked into a ghastly, mutually cannibalistic relationship with our own Zombie Planet Mom. The real heartbreaker, though, is that on top of it all, we have forgotten her, so the love/hate relationship goes both ways, and neither party can remember why anymore.Consequently, the Moon,(T8S) knows us intimately and uses that knowledge to manipulate our weakest points, the things that we are working hardest on, the things that cost the most when we stumble, in order to extract our spiritual essence so she can grow independent enough to get free of us. Talk about “failure to launch”. It keeps us in a stale circuit; when T8S is working perfectly, the only thing that escapes are the souls that have been absolutely isolated and they go directly to populate the evil protoplanet. “No one here gets out alive”, as one famous food-packet once said, at least that’s the idea.Which is why it is deeply troubling that Blavatsky, fully aware of this critical information, instructed her aspirants in the very practices that fed the Moon directly in great gulps. Yum. Sinnett had begun writing about The 8th Sphere prior to the 1893 publication of Esoteric Buddhism, and Blavatsky is on record as trying to shut down Sinnett’s “leak”, but she never denied what Sinnett said, only tried to modify it, sparingly and carefully, and then not at all. Her plate was full with other sorts of messes. You have to ask yourself why an organization of any kind that has this knowledge would encourage its “students” or followers, or what have you to engage in the very practices that are bound to isolate them? Also, aren’t they all doing it together, and does that not count as not being isolated? Uhh, generally, no, not in the settings that I have visited, anyway. In my experience I have found the downside of the Moon Mirror to be an equal opportunity employer; just about every group I have ever been involved with, from straight-up Japanese Zen Buddhism to the most deeply western and hermetic and even Christian groups, all have possessed a seething underbelly of sexual turmoil, jealousy, posturing and ideological partisanship that ultimately spelled their demise, at least as they knew it.