Taurus Aries Pisces - ??? - 2012? Aquarius - 2012? - ???
In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. When he awakens he can’t remember this dream.....he only remembers that it terrified him. So he calls his magicians before him.....men he had rounded up in early childhood and sent to be trained by the “Chaldeans” - the priests of south-eastern Mesopotamia. The magi. The Bible calls Daniel the “master of magicians.” Nebuchadnezzar tells these magi that not only do they have to interpret his dream.....they have to tell him what the dream was first. Daniel is able to do this because God sent him the exact same dream as Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel tells the king....”You dreamed of a statue. This statue had a golden head.....chest and arms of silver.....thighs of bronze.....calves of iron....and feet of iron and clay. You are the golden head of this statue. God has given you this kingdom. You are the purest, most valuable and sought after part of this statue. The Golden head is Babylon.” When we look at this on one level, it’s predicting future kingdoms. If the golden head is Babylon, then the silver chest and arms would be Persia....the next kingdom that rose to world power. Then next came the Greek empire....Alexander the Great conquered Persia. That is the bronze thighs. Next came the Roman Empire....the iron calves, spreading out and conquering the known world. Lastly we have the feet, made of iron and clay. This is where we are now. All the separate toes are all the European countries, America, etc. This is the most diluted and weakest part of the statue. On another level it’s not about world empires at all. It’s about the current of magick. How with each passing Empire it has become more and more diluted, watered down, and less of less value. We are not even in the age of Iron anymore. We are clay and iron mixed. Clay and iron represents how the modern magickal traditions, etc still have some workable techniques (iron) but they no longer know the information that accompanied them. This cycle begins again with every aeon. Most of the lodges, orders, etc that exist now rely upon the formula of the old aeon - the age of Pisces. It’s why their rituals rely so heavily upon Christian and Judaic formulas. We are now entering the aeon of Aquarius, when we receive a new dispensation. A new way of understanding and interacting with divinity that is more suited to our current state of consciousness. We are not here to endlessly perpetuate the formula of the old aeon. That’s the whole story of the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf when Moses finds them. They were trying to go back to the formula of Taurus, even though they were entering Aries. We are here to christen the new aeon. To help deliver a new dispensation. This is what Crowley tried to tell the members of the Golden Dawn, but they couldn’t understand it. They couldn’t see what he was telling them. They weren’t far enough along to be able to see it yet.
- Damien Echols