Category Archives: Archetypal Anamnesis

Archetypal Anamnesis, Cydonia, Dwellers on the Threshold, Face On Mars, Night Land, Polysemous Narrative, Richard Hoagland, Underworld

Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 6: Opening the Gate

Image courtesy of Keith Laney of the Hidden Mission.

 

“I called to remembrance the brasen Lyons, in Salomons Temple, which were of such fierce countenances, as that they would bring men to forgetfulness…”—From Hypnoteromachia Poliphili

“the flood of the First Noah took place on Mars. The garden (of Eden) was located in the Northern Hemisphere not far from the polar regions…The waters rushed down into the conduits and drowned all the original Adam-II people there.” —From “The Sky People” (originally published in 1961)

“…as I stood there in the vast embrasure, I had also a knowledge, or memory, of this present life of ours, deep down within me; but touched with a halo of dreams”—From “The Night Land”

Although The Night Land takes place on Earth in an imaginative future aeons away, I had already surmised the eerie rapport with Cydonia and the landscapes of the planet Mars when I initially read The Night Land in 1990. 1) Some of this I briefly mentioned in the November 4th 2015 open-lines episode of Richard C. Hoagland’s Other side of Midnight radio program. In this installment we will focus briefly on those resemblances and where it appears I am not alone in sensing them. Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 6: Opening the Gate →

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↑1 Some of this I briefly mentioned in the November 4th 2015 open-lines episode of Richard C. Hoagland’s Other side of Midnight radio program.
Archetypal Anamnesis, Atlantis Symbolism, Dante, Dwellers on the Threshold, Magic, Night Land, Polysemous Narrative, Soul, Von Welling

Dwellers on the Threshold: The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 5-Drawing the Circle

A symbolic representation of the compounds of the human soul as illustrated in the “Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum Et Theosophicum” by Georg Von Welling

 

“For all its flaws and idiosyncrasies, The Night Land is utterly unsurpassed, unique, astounding. A mutant vision like nothing else there has ever been.”–China Mieville writer of the New Weird genre

The Night Land, a weird alchemical blend of the eschatologies depicted in The Time Machine and the drama of cosmic angst playing out in The War of the Worlds, confects an occult and symbolically analogical landscape of the human psyche.

One of the keys perhaps in understanding the metaphysics behind the nature of the soul as conceived in Hodgson’s literary formulations and even just the basic concept of an “Electric Circle” in The Night Land in the first place, is, as we hinted previously in this series, probably found in Marie Corelli’s 1886 novel,  A Romance of Two Worlds.

Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold: The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 5-Drawing the Circle →

Archetypal Anamnesis, Dwellers on the Threshold, H.P. Lovecraft, Night Land

Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 4-The Call of the Muse

I am haunted by recollections
Of places where mad perfections
In horror were brought to birth;
Where pylons of onyx mounted
To heavens with fire embowered,
And turrets and domes uncounted
O’er the terraced torrents towered.
—H. P. Lovecraft
in his 1925 poem “Primavera”

Although it is outside the scope of this series to get heavily into the literary influences involved behind Hodgson and Lovecraft, it is, as was indicated in part 1, a necessary query into the workings behind the subconscious and any possible connection to an anamnesis of a cataclysmic end to a pre-historic Martian civilization. If there were ever such a civilization, given all the other possibilities we are exploring here at Suburbs of Heaven, it would pervade the entire solar system, not just Mars. Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 4-The Call of the Muse →

Archetypal Anamnesis, Cydonia, Exploded Planet, Lucifer, Thomas Lake Harris, War in Heaven

THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview

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Anyone recognize the man in the above photo?

Meet Thomas Lake Harris who died on this day 110 years ago. Although not the first individual to mythologize an exploded planet, he certainly is probably the most astonishing example of one. Continue reading THE FALL OF LUCIFER: Dismembered Gods and Exploding Planets in Myth, Mysticism, Religion and Science: A Preview →

Archetypal Anamnesis, Archetype, Dwellers on the Threshold, Mythology, Night Land, Polysemous Narrative, Underworld

Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 3–Invoking the Muse.

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“Watcher of the South East” Artwork by Steven E. Fabian. Published in “The Dream of X”

 

Spirits of earth and air,
Ye shall not thus elude me: by a power,
Deeper than all yet urged, a tyrant—spell,
Which had its birthplace in a star condemn’d,
The burning wreck of a demolish’d world,
A wandering hell in the eternal space;
By the strong curse which is upon my soul,
The thought which is within me and around me,
I do compel ye to my will. Appear!–From Lord Byron’s “Manfred”

 

The Night Land, mixing supernatural and science-fiction elements, blends technological and supernatural worlds in a weird topological landscape of meaningful and meaningless images where the mind, scared of its own shadow, fills in the rest. Then, proto-typically stirring the same cauldron from which the macabre cosmic images of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu would be steeped in, The Night Land set the stage for the 20th century’s “Dying Earth” theme. Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 3–Invoking the Muse. →