I'd like to hear some people's take on the Magan Text creation myth found in the simon Necronomicon.
It has been many years since the first time that I read the SN in full, as a much broader study of occult literature. Then, this story didn't make much sense. However, since then I've developed my Sight quite a bit and only recently, within the last few days, I read this story again and suddenly it had so much more depth - as a symbol representing the creation of all that is on a Macrocosmic Energetic level, as well as an evolutionary one.
Many parts of the myth became illustrated to my mind's eye as I read the text, and immeditate associations occurred to me between what I was witnessing and previous journeys I have made into the universal past through the supernal consciousness (via scrying, dreaming, journeying through symbols, and transcendental meditation).
More than anything, the story gave the impression of very ancient wisdom, and it especially - along with a newfound understanding of the occult mind which has allowed me to garner a great deal more wisdom from the SN as a whole - has renewed my own interest in the SN all together.
The magan text can be read online here:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jasen01/texts/Magan.htmlI have seen, in my own journey work, the formation of the universe on a spiritual level, and it is because of what I saw there that I hold the beliefs that I do about Gods and the other things which are in our multiverse.
The consciousness of the universe, whole and undivided, may be considered, to my experience, Enki. The Source of that Consciousness may be compared to Anu - the inception before the conception. Then, within this universal consciousness - just as in our own mortal consciousnes - there are any number of major divisions. Considering the Principles of the Intellect and the Will within mortal consciousness, we may say that Marduk is the Will aspect of the unified whole. Enki's Will.
Comparing two halves of the whole, we derive the Feminine and Masculine principle. We Derive further principles by dividing the whole into other parts, and by these divisions discern the natures and principles of the Multiverse. Comparing the various qualities and phenomenon of consciousness, we derive the Spirits, the Elementals, etc. We are seperated from these things only by our Ego. It is the attention of our Ego - our Shape - which momentarily grants these entities, these fragments of Enki, or of Marduk (ultimately the same, save that we may classify the intelligences as aspects of Enki and the Agents as aspects of Marduk?) communicable consciousness. Or, through higher magick, and perhaps in conjunction with the ascension of consciousness, meet them halfway, to achieve a higher communion beyond normal consciousness.
In any case... I have begun to commit the text to memory, and have found that reciting the portion that I have memorized in the same manner as buddhists chant scripture, places my consciousness into a most particular state of reflection on what I can only describe as genetic memory.
I believe that in addition to reflecting a spiritual dimension of creation, the text also seems to accurately - as far as logical examination of man's evolution goes, in addition to my own experiences with scrying that history - follow the trials that early man would have faced - Referencing Absu as the 'Sea' and that he 'Rose Up' to destroy the elder gods (perhaps a dual reference to the Higher Consciousness and perhaps the earlier anscestors of the contemporaries of the myth?) sounds very much like a reference to a flood, symbolically, and there is a connection further on in the line, "We survived on tops of mountains" for why else would we need to do this, save for a flood? Almost every creation myth involves a flood.
In the same section as the above mentioned line is the line, "And (we survived) beneath the feet of mountains" referencing perhaps an ice age as well?
While there may be no sure way to date the exact time of the compilation of the Magan text - certainly it must have existed long before it was written down, and so parts of it may have been added a different times, and of course oral histories and myths are known to change from time to time over the generations - it seems to me to reflect some very, very old memories in human consciousness of our first ages as the Race of Man.
What I find to be unique about the magan text amongst creation stories is that it represents so well the many dimensions of the creation of the universe. Taking a symbolic look at the myth, it conveys quite brilliantly a history of the battle that Higher Consciousness must have originally had to endure to survive in an unforgiving early earth; an energetic model of creation from the chaos of the big bounce into the inevitable evolution of consciousness and ultimately life; and a map of the formula of human consciousness.
Anyone care to share their thoughts on this text? I suspect that it is often overlooked by those taking an interest in the text - but aside from offering a rather unique insight into a universe which accurately depicts the truth that we must continuously Battle to continue existing in the universe (we are privaledged and lucky to survive in the universe, not here by personal right), it also grants a deep cultural insight into the collective mind from whence this Text, the Necronomicon, arises. Such insight, I believe, naturally engenders an individual to the true nature of the Forces invoked in the book.
The Magan Text, Creation Myth - On Many Dimensions
Jun 3 2006, 12:02 AM
