Tracy R. Twyman - Genuflect

Genuflect

By

Tracy R Twyman

20162017

Cover Art:

Here Ends the Work of the Sun

Jesse Peper, 2017

JessePeper.org

Other works by Tracy R. Twyman (nonfiction) include: Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled (with Alexander Rivera) Clock Shavings

Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge

Solomons Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of Americas MoneyThe Merovingian Mythos and the Mystery of RennesleChateauMindControlled Sex Slaves and the CIA

For more by the same author, visit TracyTwyman.com

Thanks to those who helped in various ways: Rich, Jesse Peper, Alexander Rivera, Philip Gonzalez, Leon Zhivelev, the press office of Bloomberg London, and the staff of the British Museum.

And to those whose sagacious revelations preceded me, for good or for evil: Hermes Trismegistus, Gaius Valerius Catullus, St. John the Divine, Hippolytus, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Abraham the Jew, Johann Daniel Mylius, Athanasius Kircher, Michael Maier, Jacob Boehme, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Goossen van Vreeswyk, John Dee, Sir Francis Bacon, William Blake, Marquis de Sade, Comte de Lautreamont, Franz Cumont, Jessie Weston, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Thomas Wright, Eliphas Levi, Fulcanelli, Margaret Murray, H.P. Lovecraft, Carl Jung, Emma Jung, Iwan Bloch, JK. Huysmans, Luis Buuel, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Manly P. Hall, Robert Graves, Stanley Kubrick, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Balance, Alan Moore, Matthew Barney, Joscelyn Godwin, and Nicholas de Vere.

Nota bene: While several of the characters in this story have certain aspects based on known, powerful figures in the modern world, I make no claim that these people are involved in any nefarious deeds such as those depicted here, nor is it my intention to malign them. These characteristics were borrowed for artistic purposes only.

Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled,

He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

Horace, Odes

Chapter 1: Autodidact de Occultis

To know the secret or the formula of God is to be God.

To know the secret or the formula of the Devil is to be the Devil.

To wish to be at the same time God and Devil is to absorb in ones self the most absolute antinomy, the two most strained contrary forces; it is the wish to shut up in ones self an infinite antagonism.

It is to drink a poison which would extinguish the suns and consume the worlds.

Eliphas Levi, The Key to the Mysteries Hello there. Thank you for reading this book. I hope it will be of interest to you.

This is intended to be a record of the incredible things I experienced at the end of March and beginning of April 2018, leading to the historic events of this year that you no doubt already know about. I need to write this down before my memory fades completely. This is already starting to happen, so I must work quickly.

I got myself into this mess because I am good at what I do. But there is also very little market for what I do, so I have to take what I can get whenever it comes around.

My job is the sort of thing that only exists in horror movies. I investigate the occult. I study the anthropology of religions and cults, both old and new, from around the world. Then I apply the patterns I see there to the study of other things. And I always get interesting results.

Most of my work just involves reading books and websites: lots of rare books and extremely obscure documents. Many rare, outofprint texts can be found online for free if you know where to look. Google Books, JSTOR, Bartleby, and Scribd are good resources for this sort of thing. Also, the interlibrary loan

program is amazing. I cant believe that a library halfway around the world will loan me, a complete stranger, a book with only three copies known to exist, again, usually for free.

Only a fraction of my research material involves books about secret societies or magic spells. A lot of it includes chasing down details about historical events and personages, or comparing the motifs used in myths, folklore and fairy tales. But I dont pretend to be an academic, per se. No university would fund my work, because none of it can be used to advance the political movements embraced by presentday college culture, or to prop up the pet theories of tenured professors.

In pursuit of the esoteric, I have at times accidentally revived doctrines and theses that have been longabandoned by modern mainstream academia, often with no good reason for the rejection. My work tends to validate the worldviews of writers from previous eras whose entire approach to scholarship, and the assumptions it was based on, have been thrown out by todays universities along with the bathwater. I find that quite often these modern exemplars of learning end up just quoting other modern authors, who of course share their own biases about historical events and people, without checking the primary documents related to the subject in question.

This becomes an endless loop of reflection, as if in a hall of mirrors, until the author of a research paper ends up essentially quoting himself by quoting seven other writers he knows who are working within the same small milieu and whose ideas can be traced directly back to him. They are so busy patting each other on the back that nobody takes the time to track the evolution of the belief system that is being constructed between them, which may one day be taught to public schoolchildren like a catechism. If they were to do this, they would quite often find themselves having to reevaluate the work of classical writers that has been dismissed heretofore because the underlying approach to research used to construct it is no longer considered politically correct.

Strangely, what seems to be the hallmark of this older approach to history, anthropology, and comparative mythology is simply the assumption that once can find significance in the similarities between divergent traditions from different cultures. Also, it is apparently now controversial to suggest that symbolism is

always symbolic of some kind of prototype with inherent meaning. Todays academics revel in depriving mans ancestral traditions of meaning because they can project whatever they want onto it. While undergrads majoring in Diversity Studies protest cultural appropriation on the other side of the campus, myth and anthropology students are bullied into ignoring how the religious beliefs and ritual practices of one group have influenced another.

So I knew that my bills would never be paid by a government grant or university donors. I have to compete in the marketplace with all the other nonfiction writers for reader who, for whatever reason, are interested in this type of subject matter. Of course, those people are usually weirdos.

In seeking further information beyond booklearning I have, at times in the past, actually socialized with some of these weirdos. In other words, Ive joined cults and secret societies that Ive been invited into, mainly to see how they worked. I had also practiced several forms of divination, both in these groups and on my own. I found this to be a useful way to find clues pertaining to the rest of my research.

All of that became too dangerous for me at a certain point, however. So for the last few years, until about two months ago, I had socialized with almost nobody. I abstained from both ceremonial magic and reading oracles. I contented myself with utilizing the knowledge I had amassed, the published information already available, and my own intuition. By now I had developed a knack for understanding how mystical traditions worked, and could often anticipate what I would find in my investigations.