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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who
would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That
God’s name is Abraxas.

Hermann Hesse, “Demian”

There is a God about whom you know nothing, because men have
forgotten him. We call him by his name: Abraxas. He is less definite
than God or Devil…. Abraxas is activity: nothing can resist him but
the unreal … Abraxas stands above the sun[-god] and above the devil  
If the Pleroma were capable of having a being, Abraxas would be its
manifestation.

That which is spoken by God-the-Sun is life; that which is spoken by
the Devil is death; Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word,
which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and
lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the
same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.

Carl Jung, “Seven Sermons to the Dead”

IO IO IO IAO SABAO KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE. IO PAN, IO
PAN PAN IO ISCHUROS, IO ATHANATOS IO ABROTOS IO IAO. KAIRE PHALLE KAIRE
PAMPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR. HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO.

Aleister Crowley, “The Gnostic Mass”

About Abraxas

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obsessedwithskulls:

Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of Mictlan, in Aztec religion, was a god of the dead and the king of Mictlan, the lowest and northernmost section of the Underworld. He was one of the principal gods of the Aztecs and was the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of Death and the Underworld. The worship of Mictlantecuhtli sometimes involved ritual cannibalism, with human flesh being consumed in and around the temple.  The more you know!

Source: obsessedwithskulls
Skrik

Mnemosyne/ Μνημοσύνη (Roman equivalent: Moneta) was a Titaness, goddess of Memory and the inventor of Words.

Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She
represented the rote memorisation required, before the introduction of
writing, to preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth. She was
the daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). Uranus
and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, consisting
of twelve elder gods/goddesses, being Mnemosyne included among them.

Via: La Audacia de Aquiles

Picture: Mnemosyne, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Painted in 1876 to 1881. Jane Morris was the model.

Skrik

I salute the light of God in you. In fact, it means that the light of God in me greets the light of God in you. But you know that there is no difference between the light of God in me and the light of God in you. And since greetings are only made between two separate entities, it would be better for us not to speak at all of greetings, but to say that the light of God in us celebrates its presence in our hearts forever.

Fady Bahig, “The Journey of the Fool“, about the meaning of Namaste