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As I reflect on the previous holiday posts, I’ve decided to Reblog and update the following post… 

Christmas Day 2005, Jimmy Page visits Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

[Top Left Pic, The Lamen of the OTO]
[Top Right Pic, Jimmy Page wearing T-shirt w/ Lamen of the OTO]

The above photographs show Jimmy Page on Holiday wearing a T-Shirt with the Lamen of the OTO.  But what’s more interesting is that he’s standing with the Temples of Angkor Wat in the background.

The following definition of the OTO is taken from Michael Staley’s “Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis - A Brief History”.

The Ordo Templi Orientis" (O.T.O.) is the name applied to an arcane tradition once known as the Stellar Wisdom, which had its roots in Lemuria.  [Blogger’s note: Robert Plant has indicated that his feather Sigil was a Symbol of “MU” another name for Lemuria] After the submergence of Atlantis the tradition was perpetuated in the mysteries of North, Central, and South America and in the Polynesian Sea Cults. But it attained its apotheosis in the pre-monumental period of Egypt’s history, and in its decline it was carried over into the Typhonian Dynasties, ending with the XVIIth, although remnants of it are traceable in the XXVIth dynasty. In later ages the Wisdom reappeared in fragmented form in certain Far Eastern traditions.

What do Angkor Wat, The Stars, The Dragon & Jimmy Page all have in common?  Lets being with what do the Temples of Angkor Wat and the Drago Constellation have in common… 

In 1998 Graham Hancock and John Grigsby showed a correlation between the temples around Angkor Thom and the constellation of Draco, also known as the  Dragon Constellation.   He shows how the Temples on the ground mirror the Stars in Draco.   Reminding us of the phrase inscribed in The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus… “That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing.”

The diagram above shows the path of the celestial north pole around the ecliptic north pole, over an illustration of the main temples around Angkor Thom.  On the ground, the location of Angkor Thom matches the location of the ecliptic north pole in the sky. West Mebon, East Mebon and Ta Som have the same spatial relationship to Angkor Thom that Deneb, Thuban and Kochab have to the ecliptic north pole.

The movement of the celestial pole is another aspect of the 25,776 year cycle known as the precession of The Equinoxes.

Because Angkor is in the tropics, the northern stars are low on the northern horizon. In the present era Polaris is close to the celestial north pole. When Draco is in alignment with the Angkor temples, it is below Polaris and below the horizon.  During it’s nightly rotation around the celestial north pole, when Draco is above Polaris and visible from Angkor, it is upside down in relation to the Angkor temples. In 11,500 B.C. Vega was the northern polestar and Draco aligned with the Angkor temples above Vega and above the horizon.  Vega is the brightest star in the northern sky and it is by far the brightest northern polestar. Canopus is by far the brightest star along the celestial south pole and the second brightest star in the sky, after Sirius. Canopus and Vega were both polestars around the same time, approximately 13,500 years ago.

Polaris is readily found by using the prominent group of stars known as the Big Dipper which along with the little dipper spoon the Draco Constellation also know as “The Dragon”.  

Ursa Major aka “the Big Dipper” & “Great Bear” has had many names to the ancients due to its evolving mystical significance.   What I find interesting is how the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper have had a common mystical significance and a unifying role in mythology across many cultures and time periods.  Known as “Ascent Mysticism”, the idea that the Dipper was seen by observers as a Chariot or Stairway to the Heavens, imply’s there was an occult or unifying theme to this mysterious group of Stars.  

Occult researcher Peter Levenda explores this idea in his book “Stairway to Heaven”, a fascinating broad ranging study that traces the thematic commonality of the Chariot or Stairway across ancient Egypt and Babylon to the Jewish and Christian Kabbalists, Chinese Daoists, Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodun and fending with 19th and 20th century European occult societies.  

Levenda is also believed to be “Simon”, the author of the Simon Necronomicon, a grimoire that derives its title from H.P. Lovecraft’s fictional Necronomicon, featured in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos stories.

Lavenda in Stairway to Heaven uncovers a common world wide myth that has in been in the same basic structure and form since the earliest form of writing.  From the oldest form of Jewish mysticism and through the dead sea scrolls, Levenda reveals the commonality of the number seven and its association with the “heavenly” themes of a chariot, a Throne, a Temple and a divine Being. 

Lavenda examines not only the myths but also the rituals of Egypt, Sumer and Babylon, including the ascent rituals of the middle east.   He also demonstrates how the mystical practices of China and India display important similarities to these rituals, most notably in the practices of the Chinese alchemists who used a map of seven stars as their ladder (or Stairway) to heaven.   

So what do the Big Dipper, The Dragon & The Stairway to Heaven have in common with Jimmy Page?   You tell me.   I will be writing more on my own Occult observations of the Big Dipper aka The Bull Of Heaven and the Thigh of Set in posts to come.

You may find other works by Peter Levenda interesting such as “The Dark Lord” where he explores the worlds of religion, literature, and the occult by taking readers on a deeply fascinating exploration on magic and the left hand path as he investigates the nature of the Typhonian Current and its relationship to Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon.

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