E Rehmus - The Magician's Dictionary

-----------------------------------------------------------------------MONOLATRY Worship of a single God. Many consider the idea of "one" God a step backward. Monotheism, it is claimed, is clumsy it attributes everything to a single fons et origo and then forbids us to examine this resultant "Everything Factory" because it is beyond human comprehension. In other words, monotheism is just another, more pernicious symptom of atheism or agnosticism, except that the believers create a fetishistic idol and then stand in awe of their own ignorance, which it represents.

The Egyptians were not such sticklers about keeping boundaries between monotheism and polytheism. If the Xtians were honest they'd admit that the Trinity is pure polytheism. Indeed, not even the Jews are strictly monotheistic, as their hierarchies of angels indicate, as the Hebrew language itself betrays its polytheistic origins. And as Hakim Bey says, if the muslims understood Islam, they'd worship idols.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------MOON Arcanum number 18. Hebrew letter Qoph (meaning the "back of the head" or the seat of sexual energies). The reason Diana is the goddess of chastity is that the Moon's monthly visible link to ovulation serves as proof of virginity. But the Moon also symbolizes Occult Truth and witchcraft, the so-called "left-hand path." As one of the three manifestations of Divine Light, however, there can be no evil in it. It is the light of Khephra about to rise, that is, it is the lux tenebris, the light we call darkness. It is also the Subconscious Mind.

Astrophysically the moon is a "corpse". But then most of the planets are "dead" worlds. The greenhouse effect on Venus is horrific, the atmosphere of Jupiter is poisonous, the outer worlds are frozen solid and so on. We might say that the Sun is "alive", but if so, it is much too alive for us, certainly, with its nuclear explosions and temperatures upwards of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. No, we must, as Genesis instructs, think of the lights in the heavens as "illuminators" and "signs", rather than as possible human abodes. By that token, the Moon is not a "dead world" but Diana's silvern lamp!

Some astrologers say the Moon is the Personality, whose chief characteristics are "protection and envy. What they mean is that it is the archetypal Anima (as the Sun is the archetypal Animus) and the ruler of the emotions, moods, feelings, desires, etc. The actual "New" Moon is not the conjunction of the Sun and Moon in the same sign - that phase is known as the "Dark of the Moon". The fine crescent of the "New Moon" occurs in the sign just following the conjunction. It is the beginning of the lunar month and known as Sahar Dag. It occurs five twelve-hour periods after the listed new moon.

The Atu corresponds to Khephra about to rise, says Crowley, hence is one of the three sacred "lights" and cannot be evil. It is also the realm of Yesod on the Tree of Life.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------MOROS God of Doom.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, THE John Keel's seminal work on UFOs, involving, among other things, a "7-foot, red-eyed monster with wings" seen in West Virginia. Keel, however, does not believe ufos come from outer space and he was thus a fore-runner of ValĂŠe's theories. Says Keel, they are ". . . ultraterrestrials - beings and forces that coexist with us, but are of another time frame, that is, they operate outside the limits of our space-time continuum, yet have the ability to cross over into our reality.

This other world, however, is not a place (as Mars or Andromeda are places), but is a state of energy." He says the important thing is the lights. They change people's heads - either these lights enlighten them or they drive them mad (in the way that psychedelic drugs can do). The rest is all a cover-up for that - the UFO, etc. assumes the shape of current cultural beliefs and expectations under the control of extradimensional intelligence. However, someone or something doesn't want us to know the real nature of these phenomena. Hence the "men in black", Air Force secrecy, etc. But the lights continue. Apparently the absurdities are intended to keep the contactees from being believed by others. The reason is still generally unexplored.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------MOUNTAIN Mountains, being the exaltation of earth and the home of the gnomes, mountains enjoy special occult prestige. Mt. Meru was to the Hindus the navel of the world, Mt. Olympus the home of the Greek Gods, and so on. The Chinese