Revealed Books

Revealed Books

https://runesoup.com/2018/04/revealed-books/

It's my annual reminder to think with the notion of extradimensional entanglement and literary output -particularly the first day of the feast. (The whole three days are a study in the gradual diminishment of signal quality over time.) There's quite a bit about all this in Star.Ships. There's also more in this old post here.

Then you should probably look at the biography of the recipient/author. The premium members have recently finished up a course on the role of the Saints in the European magical tradition which saw St Teresa of Avila return to the discussion after her first appearing in the Journeying course. She had been a lifelong and frankly brilliant mystic, but it was only after what we would today call an NDE in the form of an illness that basically killed her (and a vision of a glowing sphere or orb with the actual castle inside, which is very Close Encounters) that she began writing her more famous and astonishing works, particularly The Interior Castle. Crowley also had some highly unusual atmospheric phenomena to accompany his sync storm too, you will recall.

So there's a 'becoming invincible' moment that puts both Aleister and Teresa's names on the door to the club.

Next we need to consider the impact of the received text. The Gita and The Interior Castle go without saying. But in terms of specifically western magical examples of reception/automatic writing/etc, there would be no wicca and all its subsequent children -including chaos magic, frankly- without the Book of the Law. And the (overt) western space programme would also have been significantly delayed or possibly not even have happened. So that's the words of a star goddess that brought female forms of divinity back to (Protestant European) 'Man' and got 'Man' to the actual stars. Not fucking bad.

So the Book of the Law is currently on a very short list, although one I expect will grow over the rest of this century. It's important with extradimensionality to leave the door open for non-immediate impact. The best example of this -and the best example of my categorisation of a revealed book in the twentieth century- is Jung's Red Book, which we only got access to in the twenty first century. The same may ultimately apply for some of the 'grimoiric revelations' that I find personally more interesting or useful than Dee's and Kelley's. (Excellent Booke, a sufficiently jailbroken Dr Rudd, etc.) It's early days.

And finally, referencing Bob Wilson, there's also 'the amount of data in the signal you did not expect to receive'. The Book of the Law is fucking weird, and it brings us back to what my tutor said all those years ago about non-human minds.

This last criterium also rules out the overwhelming majority of Pleiadian/Seth/etc channelling which is a highly predictable mélange of 'all fluff, no climax'. There is so much announcing of looming announcements, so much arriving to prepare the way for arriving. Dear alien brothers and sisters: if you are already here, then you are already here. Announce already! Almost none of it crosses Angels in America's 'threshold of revelation'.

I suspect the reason this is so in most cases is the channellers and channelling groups -sincere seekers, let's not forget- are experiencing their own awakenings and mistaking that for the earth's awakening. Which, to be fair, is what awakening can feel like. The cosmos feels alive and responsive because, well, it is. So they're essentially channelling their future invincibility and mistaking it for space masters.
But the highly predictable nature of the content of these channellings -combined with their complete failure to be actually predictive in a prophetic sense- rules the lion's share of them out.

The reason for being so stringent in winnowing down what constitutes a revealed text is the same reason David Paulides does so when examining disappearances from national parks: It is better to have too short a list than to have a list which includes false positives. You want a good clean list so that you can put it through its paces.
For instance, is Grant Morrison's comic series, The Invisibles, a revealed text? It is preceded (allegedly) by some 'becoming invincible' moments, it caught him up in its own narrative, it turned out to be weirdly predictive about the shadow government's interest in psi, it's a pretty good screen memory for the impact the darker corners of the spirit world can have on our political system, and without it we wouldn't have The Matrix and without The Matrix the gnostic revival would not have been nearly so successful.
I don't know. The Invisibles definitely rakes its tin cup across the bars of the cage I've put revealed texts in. Can say that much.

Ever wonder if ever book is "revealed" in some sense?

"Only because language casts a shadow both much vaster than itself, and inaccessible, does the spoken word hold and renew such magic. "
 -Roberto Calasso, Baudelaire