It’s a variant on the FAQ. While nobody asked, I answer a few of the questions I imagine the curious and quick seeker would put forward. To keep things fluid I don’t even type out any questions. I just tap away at the keyboard to simulate the unsolicited running of my mouth.
Some Details about MC I Didn’t Clutter the Front Page With
The Meta Codex is the Great Arcanum in the modern context. The force, matrix, and goddess that is magic has moved alongside and through humanity for at least thousands of years, manifesting in pre-history through the standing stones and cave paintings of our ancestors.
This Mistress of Mystery emerged in early civilization via the priesthoods of Mesopotamia and Egypt through such archetypes as Marduk, Thoth, and Isis. Through Greece and Rome the Arcanum was represented in Hermes, Mercury, and Hecate.
The Meta Codex is not a religion or deity. It has simply been represented by both in the past.
Our Druid forebears in Europe knew the Art as Draiochta. The ritualists and alchemists of the Middle Ages often referred to the Art by specific names like sorcery, herbology, enchantment, divination, or maleficium.
She traversed the new world as Hoo Doo, Pow Wow, Theosophy, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The New Age Movement of the 19th century was her expression, just as the parallel rise of New Thought belonged to her male compliment.
Today she yet lives, in this golden age of magic where any person can access the lore and methods that were once secret and hidden and more people than ever practice the Art and walk the Way. This self-aware, evolving force we have called magic, the Mistress of Mystery and personification of the Great Arcanum is the Meta Codex, ancient magic in the present age.
In truth the Codex is not strictly feminine. She is also masculine, just as the paradox is dogmatic or the dogma paradoxical. As the Eastern doctrine speaks of spirit (male) entering matter (female) to bring about living intelligence, so the Western tradition labels wisdom father and understanding mother, who birth the twins of knowledge, reason and gnosis.
Father and mother, king and queen, sister and brother, mistress and lover, the duality breathes in the Codex. I simply refer more often to the Goddess within it.
By the same token the Meta is not exclusively Western. Nor Eastern. She is both and beyond. As I am a Westerner, however, I often view or share her through the lens of the Western Mystery Tradition.
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