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Very frequently when meeting a Seeker or a Cowan, the person will tell me that he or she has long been interested in magic, divination, nature, and so on. When "Nature" is mentioned, I've learned to hear "spending time outdoors" or "the natural environment." Rarely, someone will mean it to refer to "the Earth" or, even more rarely, "the Earth Mother" as a conscious entity. "Nature" proper is none of these things. The confusion probably started arising in the 1970s when we all started "fooling Mother Nature" with our delicious, chemical-filled Chiffon-brand fake-butter-magarine (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkiq5jD5Hc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8).

If you are priest or priestess of the Old Religion, your subtle experiences of the Unseen will have fitted you admirably to understand what I will explain here. If you are some kind of some self-declared Tik-Tok-er or IG-er outside of the structure and tutelage of the Wise Ones, good luck to you. You chose your bed.

Nature is more akin to the female side of the One-Most-High. Higher in vibration and reach than the Earth Mother, or the Triple Goddess of the Moon, or even the Great Queen of Heaven. Nature is a set of laws and conditions, of stressors and flexors (just as we all are) and Her signature in physical manifestation is the number 7. She creates nothing in physical manifestation with the number 7 itself. She *IS* the number 7, and when you see something organized along the lines of the number 7, She is there, but in the background. 7 colors. 7 whole tones. 7 directions. The 7 shapes of creation.

She is present by Her absence. Look at the triangle above. Isis was Nature amongst the Egyptians. Erase Her line. What do you see? (the two remaining lines form a 7). Therefore, I repeat: She is present by Her absence.

The Wise Ones, both ancient and modern, call Nature the Virgin, because 7 cannot be divided by any number within the first ten digits except itself (the number 1 does not count inasmuch as, technically, no division has occurred in the result). She also bears no children because she can produce no other digit by multiplication in the first ten digits.

In the Greek Mysteries, Athena was the figure of Nature. In Greek numerology, Her name added to the number 77. She was called Parthenos (the Virgin), which in Greek numerology added to 515. 51.5 degrees is the nearest approximation to each angle of a 7-sided Heptagon.

The mystery that She is both present and absent at the same time is shown in Her mathematics.

When She is present, we cannot see Her:
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 = 5040
7 x 8 x 9 x 10 = 5040

When She is absent, we know by Her absence that She must be there somehow, even if invisible:
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 = 720
8 x 9 x 10 = 720

NO OTHER DIGIT BUT 7 WILL DO THIS. This is precisely why veils are used in the celebration of the Mysteries of the Goddess, and why OMMA THEIS EISO PEPLON means both "look beneath My veil" (see me, I am here) and "hide your eyes within your cloak" (do not look at me, I am not here).

She is Athena Parthenos. The Heavenly Venus of the Alchemists. Aseh-Neeta of Sais in Egypt. The Elohim of Netzach. The Hecate of the Chaldean Oracles. The High Priestess of Tarot. She is the link between the most subtle rates of vibration and the most dense rates of vibration.

Nature is like an ocean wave. The water is not the wave, but the water tells us that the wave is passing by. Nature is just like that. She is like Rilke's lover whom he could never catch. He could smell Her perfume on the balcony, but She was not there herself. He entered a street just as She turned the corner at the other end. In an antique store, an old mirror was still dizzy with the reflection of Her presence, although She had left the shop.

Rilke, however, was not a Witch. If you have been lucky enough to be blessed with inherited or learned skill, I will state that it is possible for a human being to perceive this "Nature-wave" by the inner senses. In other words, we are not engaged merely in theory and number-juggling here. Witches have the power to perceive this in reality. Never heard of all this before? Wash your nose of its ink-spots, and go find a Witch.

Are you interested in numerology? You need to know these doctrines of cosmology and number. Do you read the Tarot or playing cards? If your meanings of the 7s do not comprehend the above doctrines, you will never be a great seer or seeress for the Gods. You must learn the Universe's language. It cannot be compelled to learn yours. This goes not just for 7s, but for all the numbers.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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I think a High Priesthood should have some instruction in cosmology, whether it be a cultural cosmology or a universal cosmology. It should be the duty of a high priesthood to study and to know how the Cosmos works.



The Two Triads of the Astral Plane

In these two Triads, one has an outline of instruction, which must be fleshed out by a instructor.

Three Levels of the Astral Plane: The Halls of Light, the Halls of Thought, and the Halls of Hollow Forms.

Three Aspects of the Astral Body: the Body of Vitality, the Animal Form, and the Magical Mirror of the Cosmos.

I have been to, seen and experienced, all three levels. I have used all three aspects of the astral body. It is such that permits me to teach about them.

. . . are the oldest Gods of all." That is one of my favorite quotes from an old Witch named Ameth, now deceased, whose use-name was Doreen Valiente. It's true. The Gods of the Witches predate all of the Abrahamic religions by thousands and thousands of years. Take this image on a wall of Chauvet Cave, in France (photo 1). Dated to 32,000 B.C. It shows what has been called "Venus and the Sorceror" or "The Bull-Man and the Goddess." The photo below is a comparison of some of the artistic geometry to the Venus of Willendorf statuette (photo 2).

The Bull-Man/Goddess image is all the way in the back of the Chauvet Cave. Moving forward to the cave opening is like the birth canal into the Great World. Any Witch would recognize this as a massively old shrine or temple to the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

You may think that such entities as this have little to do with the modern world. You would be wrong. Their importance as spiritual forces has never been lost to the Wise Ones, who have hidden it in plain sight in many different places across the centuries.

Can you, dear reader, tell me one of them? Where the Bull-Man and the Goddess push you forward through the birth canal and into the Great World? Think on it, and I will provide an answer to the riddle at a later date.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

* Copyright to Coven Rochester