Ritual: Manifesting the Aeon
Some Background
Do you actually know what “New Age spirituality” means? Or is that, for you, just a collection of arbitrary mouth-sounds that are often used together as an insult for hippies?
Infamous magick practitioner, Aleistar Crowley, called it The Coming of the Aeon. The musical Hair called it the Age of Aquarius. The Bible called it The Second Coming.
Bet you weren’t aware those all referred to the same thing!
The Procession of the Equinoxes is a somewhat fuzzy way to categorize the epochs of human civilization. It works like this: the Spring Equinox is a pagan holy day near Easter—not a coincidence—where night and day are of equal lengths… equi: equal, nox: night. Every Spring Equinox, the Sun rises aligned with the same Zodiacal constellation. The motion of the Earth moves this sunrise backwards through the Zodiac roughly every 2000 years.
The Jesus Fish on people’s Chevy Suburbans symbolizes the Age of Pisces, when the Sun was rising in that constellation. It’s also why Jesus fed so many people with His fish duplication trick and loved His fishing metaphors so much.
Meanwhile, The Old Testament marks the turning from the Age of Taurus to the Age of Aries, that’s why worshiping the Golden Calf is so blasphemous: Taurus is known as The Bull.
According to Damien Echols, these Ages or Aeons represent mankind’s evolving relationship with Divinity. In the Age of Taurus, the predominant religion was polytheism, or God-as-Many. Ancient Greeks or Egyptians worshiped whole pantheons—think of all the glowy people in Disney’s Hercules. Aries is supposed to have coincided with the emergence of Jewish monotheism: God-as-One. During the Piscean age, a plurality of humans have been dominated by Christian beliefs; that God-as-Man energy that Jesus symbolizes through the Immaculate Conception. And now we’re moving into Aquarius, which is supposed to be Man-as-God.
The Aeon, Interpreted
The borders between constellations are fuzzy, but even as an Atheist, it’s got to look like the time is nigh.
Man-as-God sounds an awful lot like Ray Kurzweil’s Transhuman billionaires who have had their aging “cured” and who will be able to use mental implants to access all human knowledge instantly and to reconfigure matter at a molecular level with swarms of nanobots called foglets. In other words, they’ll be immortal, omniscient and omnipotent.
Those of us who actually want to reclaim the moniker “New Age” from the mockery it has endured have a slightly different outlook.
Ritual
- Say aloud: “I see all things with the eyes of the Christ.”
Notice any changes in your perception and bodily sensations. Selig’s Guides make a special point of mentioning that you aren’t trying to force a shift in perspective or a visceral reaction–you’re just trying to allow and observe anything that comes up. - Close your eyes. Picture a foot-in-diameter sphere of golden light at your solar plexus.
This represents Tipareth, the Kabbalastic Sepherot where Man and God combine (like Jesus, or Horus, or you). According to Lorri Davis in the book she co-wrote with Damien Echols, Ritual, another way to say “God” is “universal love” and that’s what the “eyes of the Christ” are from the previous step: the eyes of unconditional love. You’ll be drawing energy into this sphere, transforming it to the sphere’s frequency, and infusing the rest of your body with it. In this way, you attune your Atman’s vibration so that it resonates with The New Aeon’s Man-as-God spiritual motif. - Inhale; see the golden orb glowing brighter.
Allow yourself to notice it making your chest warm and tingly as it sucks in pure white light from every direction. As is said in the Kybalion, “The All is in all,” and so the energy of Source, God, Creator, Universe, (etc. choose your own adventure), can be drawn from literally anything. For your own ease of belief modification, though, it’s probably best to do this in a place with good vibes, or at least safe ones. Mastery—incarnation with Love as the “what” that you are—must involve feeling confident doing it from anywhere, though, right? - Exhale, saying “I am love through [the name of a person you sincerely love]. Word, I am word.”
As you recite this mantra, feel the golden orb’s energy flow through to your extremities like golden lava, plasma or hot water. You’re becoming an alchemical tincture! - Repeat Steps 3 and 4.
The waves of energy should get stronger as stronger as you do it with:- Two more people you deeply love.
- One person you’re neutral towards.
- One person you’re in conflict with.
- Yourself.
Students of Buddhism have probably recognized this as the Metta portion of the ritual. Yes, I did add two extra people you deeply love. Why? Three is considered a holy number by many practitioners, and hitting it here helps gather inertia that you can use to roll into the other people on your list. Your mileage may vary or you may choose to stick to just one person you already have strong feelings of love towards. Make it your own!
- Say “Behold I make all things new” in a firm tone and open your eyes.
Results?
Pay attention to how you feel after this. Are you full of energy? Full of love? A step closer to manifesting as the Second Coming? A jump nearer to starting your own cult?
Just bask in it.
Feels good, doesn’t it?
Geoff Gallinger writes poems, essays and fiction and has said a time or two that a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from SF State qualifies them perfectly for being a pizza driver. That sounds like self-deprecation, but hours a day completely alone in a beater car with an audiobook and a notepad for company are actually a good approximation of a “room of one’s own.”
Being home isn’t too bad either; their daughter and wife will always be their primary audience.
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