When I first received the Metabolism of Time, it appeared to me as a vision of characters living alongside a double helical river (perhaps the Euphrates and the Tigris) and as I contemplated the dream language of this vision and related it to the world around me it began to reveal its secrets. I learned the cosmogony and the outer edges of the physiognomy. During university I encountered the Western Mystery Tradition alongside my studies in Genetics and Biochemistry and began working towards a grand fusion of the ideas that culminated in a channelling of the text in 2001. This appeared in the form of 4 Acts, mirroring the notion of the 4 Kabbalistic worlds. Over the last 15 years I have studied QBL in depth and harmonised a rectified Tree of Life with these discoveries through the use of the Sefer Yetzirah and the consultation of Raziel.
In Act 1 (Atziluth) - The Metabolism of Time - we find the explanations of the hyper-spheres of cellular consciousness: the sensation of the physical body, the sensation of physical reach, the sphere of perception and the sphere of consciousness which completes the occupying being. Closely examining the occupant we discover how each individual moment of time has to pass through ten steps in order to be understood and how these steps differentiate into characters.
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| THE METABOLISM OF TIME |
In Act 2 (Briah) - The Book of Fantastic Lies - we find the physiognomical descriptions of the characters, i.e. The Cast, their underlying associations with the endocrine system and also various details of how those characters interact with other characters, i.e. the Scenes. The Scenes describe a shattering of the primal self (the Fool) into a collection of characters that seek unification through dialogue around the two rivers which are the personification of the Metabolism of Time itself.
The Cast
- The Ignorant Genius - Pituitary
- The Ignorant Fool - Pineal (serotonin)
- Mr Fernando, the Bloodless Being - Pineal (melatonin)
- Bobblepin the Treefrog and her woolly unicorn - Thyroid/Parathyroid*
- The Shellfish - Thymus (immune recognition of self)
- The Confused Venutian - Thymus (immune recognition of foreign bodies)
- The Prisoner and Anarchist - Pancreas (insulin and glucagon)
- The Mime - Adrenal Cortex (cortisol)
- The Semi-psychic Jay - Adrenal Medulla (adrenaline)
- The Many Mannnered Mind Man - Gonads*
The Scenes**
- The Early Works of an Ignorant Genius
- The Treefrog's Hopeless Quest
- The Observations of the Shellfish and the Principles of Trade
- From Conversations with Mr Fernando
- The Prisoner's Voice
- Compassion in the Face of the Jay
- The Final Works of an Ignorant Genius
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| THE BOOK OF FANTASTIC LIES |
In Act 3 (Yetzirah) - Conflux and the Zeitgeist - we find descriptions of the processes that all spheres of consciousness undergo (on any scale) and how the occupants now differentiated into characters interact with other characters to acquire nutrition and to complete the metabolism. We also encounter the concept of masks and how through spoiling/abuse a small percentage of the population do not have ''masks'' that fit with their underlying genetic structure. We learn how to identify this and to provide healing.
The Processes
- Flux - Change, Energy, Fuel - glucose, Experience, Cycling
- Shards - Stored Energy, Fat, Memory
- Rifts - Imbalance, disharmony, exhaustion, starvation, stress, infection, breach
- Veil - Mortality, finitude, apoptosis
- Colour - Infinite experience derived from the finite, archetypes derived from mortality
The (natural) Masks
- The Director - The Ignorant Genius
- The Angel - The Ignorant Fool
- The Timelord - The Bloodless Being
- The Magus - The Shellfish
- The Demon - The Confused Venutian
- The Dreamer - The Prisoner
- The Lover - The Mime
- The Immortal - The Jay
- The Vampire - The Many Mannered Mind Man
- The Gambler The Treefrog
In Act 4 (Assiah) - Interactive Theatre and Strategic Drama - we find a selection of various practical activities based in the idea of removing/countering blockages or knots in the soul (similar to the Yogic concept of Granthis). The magickal applications discussed in this section are almost entirely medical, in the sense that they seek to heal the self/other people and the approach is firstly bio-psychological building towards the psychic as we move people from a material model towards a Mind model***. The idea of initiation as healing is discussed and we see that as ''blockages'' are removed various powers are released, unlocked or tapped. These powers include charm/magnetism, enhanced memory and referencing from ''outside the mind'', discernment, mind control/telepathy, remote viewing, astral projection and time travel.
I think the material contained in the lessons is useful for a number of reasons a) It provides an illustration as to how spirits and/or magickal memory can communicate ideas/abilities across time and between incarnations and b) it updates a lot of the material we have with the modern findings of endocrinology and biopsychology providing unique bridges in understanding and solutions for problems in healing.
*In the crossover to The Kabbalistic Tree of Life, The Treefrog (Thyroid) occupies the position of Daath because of where Briah (the 2nd world) is in relation to the Shattering, i.e. ''Malkuth'' has not ''fallen''. In Yetzirah there is no position for Daath and the mask of the Gambler, the Natural mask of the Treefrog is in the position of Malkuth. This is complicated :-)
**The scene list was incomplete in that it did not deal with all possible interactions between the characters leading to the idea of ''secret paths''. Some interactions are highly unlikely in natural conditions although various strange hybrids and distortions of nature can be created in synthetic ''high pressure'' environments.
***I don't mean psychological I mean panpsychic.
