There Is No End To Male Romance

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There Is No End To Male Romance

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Humanity, a puppet named Hope
Held back by that evolution program
known as war.

The fascination with lost civilization is a relatively new ingredient in the occult traditions of the West. Versions of Western occultism dating from before 1750 or so show few signs of it. It sprang out of the achievements of nineteenth-century archeology, and above all the rediscovery of Ancient Egypt. In many ways, Egypt was the archetypal “lost civilization” – ancient, legendary, and (at least before the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822) sufficiently unknown to serve as a Rohrshach inkblot on which fantasies could be projected at will.

Egypt has remained a happy hunting ground for occult history ever since, but other lost civilization soon entered the fray. Nineteenth-century occult writings, in particular, were full of them; nearly every imaginable corner of the globe was assigned to some lost civilization or other. Large and details occult histories of the world were drawn up and published, tracking the rise and fall of forgotten empires and the emergence and sinking of lost continents. The sweeping planetary history traced out by H.P. Blavtsky in her immense tome The Secret Doctrine was the most famous of these, but it drew on many previous examples of the genre and inspired countless imitators.

Another lost-civilization theme of great current importance entered the picture in the middle of the nineteenth century, when J.J. Bachofen‘s book Mutterrecht introduced the idea that the first form of human culture had been matriarchal. In 1903, English classicist Jane Harrison proclaimed that Europe itself had been the location of an idyllic, goddess-worshipping, matriarchal civilization just before the beginning of recorded history, and spoke bitterly of the disastrous consequences of the Indo-European invasion that destroyed it. In the hands of later writers such as Robert Graves, Jacquett Hawkes, and Marija Gimbutas, this lost “civilization of the Goddess” came to play the same sort of role in many modern Pagan communities that Atlantis and Lemuria played in Theosophy. For a time in the middle and late twentieth century, the idea of neolithic matriarchies was accepted by many conventional archeologists and prehistorians, although this support has faded in recent decades, and forceful challegnes have been mounted by scholars claiming that evidence for ancient matriarchies simply isn’t there.

John Michael Greer, The new encyclopedia of the occult, p 280

One comment on “There Is No End To Male Romance”

14 Jan 2012 at 4:02 pm las artes

The Indus civilization is still poorly understood. Its very existence was forgotten until the 20th century. Its writing system remains undeciphered. Among the Indus civilization’s mysteries are fundamental questions, including its means of subsistence and the causes for its sudden disappearance beginning around 1900 BCE. We do not know what language the people spoke. We do not know what they called themselves. All of these facts stand in stark contrast to what is known about its contemporaries, Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.

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