Terra Incognita – a short reflection

On March 31st I entered the 'rabid hole' at Gallery 491 in East London.

Sucked into a strange world filled with strange creatures, strange noises and strange objects, I felt utterly at home. I found myself in a manifested vision of Gnosis, so intimately known to me.

In this wonderous place, one was the dreamer and the dream, the observer and the observed. In those attending individuals capable to receive what was evoked, a tiny seed of gnostic realization has been planted – a seed well worth nurturing as it may grow and take you onto a journey leading to absolute liberation and freedom.

John Harrigan and his FoolishPeople troupe skilfully engaged all senses in a way that any resistance to becoming fully engaged was futile and one had to surrender to a magical myth unfolding – a myth of spiritual awakening and transformation. We witnessed and experienced the pains of mystical death and resurrection and the strange beauties and wonders of spiritual and esoteric realization.

On a personal level and interpretation this was the true magic of this night – the urging for all of us to begin to explore our inner Terra Incognita, the unknown world, the hidden universe that lays dormant as we are concerned only with the Eidolon and are caught in the archontic spider-web of the profane world.

Let us re-claim our lost spiritual heritage and establish again the ‘kingdom’ within and through this manifest a new world also in the outer. It is possible, do it now!

David Beth - Tau Melchizedek
Sovereign Grand Master
Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua, La Couleuvre Noire
‘Ecclesia Gnostica Aeterna’
Apostolic Gnostic Bishop