Spirit Whirled: A Godsacre for Winds of the Soul

By Dylan Saccoccio

Book IV continues the journey east as we travel deeper into history to uncover the secret doctrines of the Architectonici, Mathematici, and Perfecti encoded in all mythoses and religions. In doing so, we will uncover the lost systems and similarities of language while exploring the history of an ancient empire that's been long forgotten, or more likely, hidden from us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dylan Michael Saccoccio
• Release date: Mar 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798442622973

Dylan Saccoccio

Ancient History • Astrotheology • Language MasteryMy work will save you thousands of hours and millions of dollars (should you be an entrepreneur) so you can learn the system of priestcraft that governs this world without sacrificing your health, your mental well-being, and the best years of your life trying to figure it out on your own. Not only will you become unhexable, if you do the work in Get Mad or Get Realistic, you will dial in your physique and become top-shelf. Only the strong survive.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chance Garton, Jason Lindgren, Rose777, Patrick Daly, Rob Edward, Owen Benjamin.

1 MYTHOS OF THE SEED

WHY DID I DO THIS WORK? Wasn’t it enough to just learn it once for myself? Why did I waste my life doing it a second and third time, writing a book and speaking of it with others? Many men I learned from encouraged teaching in some capacity, even leaving works behind that remain centuries after they existed. Now it’s my turn. In doing this, I face my own mortality, knowing that someday you will be reading this after I am long gone, yet you will gain immense knowledge from this graveyard of words. A graveyard used to be called a Godsacre or Godsfield to convey victory over death and the harvesting of life by God. Graveyard is a word that conveys decay, hauntings, and scary things. Words of passion and imagination are called psyches anemoi (winds of the soul). You will take nothing physical with you into the next world, but maybe you will take what you know. May this Godsacre for Winds of the Soul enrich your life, and may it stay with you when you depart for the next one. Archbishop Trench wrote in On The Study of Words, You will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and prospect of being enabled thereby to teach others more effectually. If you do, and your studies in this way become a selfish thing, if you are content to leave them barren of all profit to others, of this you may be sure, that in the end they will prove not less barren of profit to yourselves. In one noble line Chaucer has characterized the true scholar, ‘And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.’  

Knowledge can give you an immense advantage over others, but greed and the hording of knowledge can cause the most important systems and technology of civilization to be lost upon collapse. The solution to making any culture anti-fragile is to imbue as many of its people as possible with as much knowledge of that culture’s history and systems as possible, including religious symbolism, agriculture, sanitation, engineering, etc. Seneca warned against greed, There is no avarice without penalty. It is enough of a penalty in itself.

Unfortunately, during my lifetime, most men and women claim they want the Truth and to be free, but given either they know what to do with neither. I suspect this is due to a lack of knowledge that makes us afeared of living on our own terms. We are too dependent upon too few for our society to function. When we are dependent, we become like sheep. Milton wrote, The hungry sheep look up and are not fed.

Influential men capitalize on this and form institutions that are all too eager to become the shepherds. The most powerful institution over the last two thousand years is the Church. It is an institution that has caused the ruin of many cultures and many people. Machiavelli explained this in The Prince, When the Cardinal of Rouen told me that Italians understood little about warfare, I replied to him that the French understood little about stagecraft, for if they had some understanding, they would not have permitted the Church to gain so much power. Experience has shown that the power of both the Church and of Spain in Italy has been caused by France, and that her downfall has been brought about by the Church and by Spain.

Many of us want to be great but are afraid of failure. We seek to restore our culture and nation, but we are afraid of the punishment that often accompanies speaking the Truth. We seek knowledge but fear being wrong. That is unacceptable. You must not shy away from publishing your work. Trench reminds us, To make mistakes, as we are in the search of knowledge, is far more honourable than to escape making them through never having set out in this search at all.

In order for us to comprehend the historical narratives we’re fed and the languages we speak, the techniques of the priests used for creating language and symbolism must be learned, and to a greater degree, the institution of the Church must be looked at realistically, not idealistically, so that one can understand the system that compels the priests. Religion, spirituality, government, and the societies they flourish in will always reflect the morality of the people. Milman, in History (p.37), wrote, Christianity, in short, may exist in a certain form in a nation of savages as well as in a nation of philosophers, yet its specific character will almost entirely depend upon the character of the people who are its votaries. It must be considered, therefore, in constant connection with that character: it will darken with the darkness and brighten with each succeeding century; in an ungenial time it will recede so far from its genuine and essential nature as scarcely to retain any sign of its Divine original: it will advance with the advancement of human nature, and keep up the moral to the utmost height of the intellectual culture of man.

One of the most significant changes undergone during a culture’s shift from morality and wisdom to immorality and ignorance, or vice versa, is that of language. When edifices, records, and artifacts have been destroyed, language preserves its mysteries. Language is usually created by the priests and royalty, and then filters down to the masses, where it takes on a life of its own based on how that culture evolves or devolves. Language impacts every aspect of culture, yet so few understand how it works. Kuhn wrote in Shadow of the Third Century, Human culture advances cyclically, rhythmically, or in waves. It rises high and sinks back. Its crests form and break at a given point. They do not run steadily in the same form. Like the surf on the beach, they gather their faces, take their form, spend their energy in one climactic surge and die away. Rhythmically another follows. Cultures surge to heights, then recede. Brilliance does not reproduce itself. Culture is not static. What is to be adduced here for its weighty import that Greek philosophy came at and as the culminating point of perhaps the highest tide of uplift in human culture, and Christianity came at and as the lowest point of the recession of that wave.

Language and symbolism are ultimately the tools that compose religion, which the priest classes and royalty use to govern the masses, or rather give to the masses so that it shapes their thoughts into governing themselves. Strabo wrote (Lib. I, p. 19.), It is impossible to govern a mob of women or the whole mixed multitude, by philosophical reason and to exhort them to piety, holiness, and faith; we must also employ superstition with its fables and prodigies. For the thunder, the abyss, the trident, the torches, the serpents, the thyrsi of the gods, are fables, as is all ancient theology; but the legislature introduces these things as bugbears to those who are children in understanding.

Regarding Mystery religions, George Hodges wrote in The Early Church, They led their disciples on from grade to grade till they were taught at last a doctrine too sacred to be told to the common world.

Original sin is a Brahmin idea, which became Abrahamic on account of Abram being Brahma. Rev. Maurice wrote, It is the invariable belief of the Brahmins that man is a fallen creature. Upon this very belief is built the doctrine of the migration of the souls through various animal bodies, and revolving Bobuns (separate regions of the universe) or planetary spheres.

Original sin wasn’t even known in early Christianity. They knew Genesis was an allegory, as is the eating of the fruit. This bizarre superstitious hex is what causes people to make sacrifices. Imagine all the potential lost because of people developing a victim mindset that excuses their lack of accomplishment and action, and then the crippling yoke of the need to atone and make up for sins they didn’t commit. Nothing is more demoralizing than the belief of original sin.

The fables and mythoses at once reveal their secrets to some and conceal them from others, admitted by Clement of Alexandria, Now Wisdom, hard to hunt, is the treasure of God’s unfailing riches. But those, taught in theology by those prophets, the poets, philosophize much by way of a hidden sense. I mean Orpheus, Linus, Musaeus, Homer, and Hesiod and those in this fashion wise. The persuasive style of poetry is for them a veil for the many.

Clement of Alexandria admitted his initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries, I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the kernos, I have slipped into the chamber.

Origen wrote in Contra Celsum, But that there should be certain doctrines not made known to the multitude, which are revealed after the exoteric ones have been taught, is not a peculiarity of Christianity alone, but also of philosophic systems, in which certain truths are exoteric and others esoteric.

Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, excused the priests for using secrecy to encode their knowledge, "The people will always mock at things easy to be misunderstood; it must needs have impostures. A spirit that loves wisdom and contemplates Truth close at hand is forced to disguise it, to induce the multitude to accept it. Fictions are necessary to the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.

If the sacerdotal laws allowed the reservation of judgments to the allegory of words, I would accept the proposed dignity on condition that I might be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables... In fact what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportional to their imperfect reasoning.

One of the major problems with Mystery schools (or any collective order) is that their systems and rituals can never be kept to the confines of their lodges or temples. Without fail, different sects or traditions are always developed by members who leave or seek to establish and control their own order. For any order to become vast and powerful (lucrative), it needs to have wealthy and/or many members who will contribute to its cause. This requires the lowering of standards in terms of who is allowed to join, which leads to missionary-style work, where the unscrupulous blind zealots brainwash the unsuspecting locals. Before long, the allegorized secret knowledge is lost and, subsequently, massive populations praise and worship an erroneous belief, at best, or a sinister lie, at worst. This is seen in the clerical class. A good example comes from Guignebert’s Christianity Past and Present, We must take into account the fear of the unsound brother who might misuse the Mystery if he were admitted to it without due formalities. Precautions are accordingly taken to avoid this profanation.

The problem is that three can keep a secret if two are dead. There is no use of occulting knowledge in this day and age because the ability to share information is so instant and available to all, so the lie permeates the world before it’s even known that it was a lie. There will be times Eusebius is referenced, along with many other figures or Fathers from the Church. Keep this quote in mind from Grotius of the Netherlands (Epistolae, p. 7), Ecclesiastical history consists of nothing but the wickedness of the governing clergy.

This secrecy of symbols and language is what destroys culture and turns its populace into little more than barnyard animals. B.A.G. Fuller wrote in History of Philosophy, The untutored mind is naïve and soft-headed. In its operation it scarcely distinguishes fact from fancy, dreaming from waking. It swallows everything it is told. Hence it is forever shying at shadows, growling at reflections, pursuing will-o’-the-wisps and clinging to phantoms. Now and then it may happen to lay hold of a truth, but it does so at random, on irrational grounds and with no sense of the difference between the real and the illusory.

This does not equate being tutored with being godless. Knowledge will bring you closer to your Creator, whatever you perceive that energy observed in the first law of thermodynamics to be. Fuller also wrote, But a godly life can flow only from right knowledge of the divine nature and from immediate communion with it. Atheism is therefore the worst thing that can befall a human being. Equally bad is superstition, which is exemplified by the unworthy stories and ideas about the gods current in the popular theology, and by the fear, the cringing before their power and their distrust of their will, engendered by the traditional religion. Indeed the orthodox notions are bound to sow and foster atheism.

There is not one great Empire or culture that doesn’t have its own mythology. Those which have risen since the fall of Rome lasted only centuries because they didn’t create their own mythos to symbolize their history. Instead they adopted the sunken post-Hellenic literalist thinking and retarded themselves into Roman slaves, too ignorant to recognize they’re still under Roman rule, too oblivious to see that they’re still slaves. The root of idolatry is to take an image or concept literally, while failing to grasp its actual meaning.

The word tribulation means affliction, sorrow, anguish, but that is due to the symbolism derived from its etymology being tribulum, which is a threshing instrument, or harrow, used to separate corn from the husks. Tribulatio was the act of this separation. The symbolism is that tribulations separate the weak or inferior, or lesser, qualities of man, his chaff if you will, from his upright, pure, or divine qualities, his wheat. This work will be a tribulation for most of you who read it, as it will indeed separate you from the chaff. Only the strong survive. You must get strong physically and mentally. Both aspects require doing the work. If you come across words you’ve never seen or heard before, don’t casually breeze past them. Research them.

The key to understanding mythoses is to know the cycle of the sun and the celestial bodies, the seasons, the days, and the hours, as well as the life cycles of everything. The most obvious will be the figures representing aspects of the sun during its yearly journey. The second most obvious will be the Corn Myth encoded into everything, which is why you will see seed symbolism and etymology in the traditions and names, from Capricorn (goat-seed), the Cult of Ceres (the seed), Cerberus (the three-headed dog of the solstice who guards the gates of hell, or winter), Cerebrum (seed of Brahm), Cerebellum (seed of War), Cornucopia, and how it ultimately ties into the sun, with qeren (Krn) and cornu representing both a horn and radiance, hence the horned gods of the seed like Kronos, Pan, Cernunnos, Jupiter Ammon, Zeus the Father, Moses, etc.

The astrological symbol of Saturn is a cross and a ram’s horn, as is the symbol of Jupiter, only inverted from that of Saturn. This represents the sun and its radiance, reminding even the most ignorant of charlatans who call themselves astrologers and alchemists that they are old archetypes of the sun. We will look at other implications of ram further into the book. If you made it this far in the series you should be able to explain the meaning of the cross as it pertains to the sun’s journey.

One of the reasons for the seed symbolism and etymology in Pagan orders is due to the Corn Myth, the death of the seed in the soil during the winter and its germination (or resurrection) in the spring. This natural cycle is worthy of having religions based on it because it mirrors the macrocosm of the sun’s cycle and reflects the cycle of life above the plant life in the animal and human planes of existence. This is going to be a primary influence in all mythos. Only Christianity perverted it and turned it into a literal story, hiding those secrets from the masses. The Pagans revered life and its cycles. Their rituals and beliefs recognized divinity in everything from birth to death. John 12:24 is the Corn Myth, Verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit, and the Corn Myth is incorporated into the idea of resurrection in 1 Cor. 15: 35-49.

The planets were looked at as seven angels or Cabirian deities. Chthonic deities were related to the earth (soil), agriculture, and the underworld. This is why so many archetypes related to the sun, and the Corn Myth, have an earthly or underworld theme to them. After all the myths and superstitions regarding Pan and the pagan way of deifying Nature and everything in it, the people in the age of Imperial Rome were knowledgeable enough to see beyond the superstitions and allegories of their ancestors, but not enlightened enough to grasp the esoteric philosophy that existed in the Hellenic world. This gave way to Rome opening itself up to all things and traditions mystical, from astrology to witchcraft. It was similar to the New Age movement of our time. The death of Pan and the superstitions attached to it gave way to a whole new set of beliefs and cults that replaced it. Paganism likely collapsed due to the fetishism of Nature. Pan was eventually replaced with Jesus. The irony is that the esoteric knowledge that Pan took to the Godsacre was what Christianity needed to appreciate how amazing Christ is. This pattern was seen in reverse with Germany in the 20th century. Christianity imposed an unnatural, unrealistic set of beliefs upon Europeans, which weakened their mental and physical fortitude. It turned the nature of man into sin, or evil. Torture became the path to sainthood. Pan was restored during the Italian Renaissance and the German Reformation, but in my opinion the concepts have fallen short due to the nature of man.

Any claim that religion, mythology, and the Mysteries don’t have astronomy and astrology at their core is nonsense. According to Vettius Valens, cited by Selden (de Diis Syr.), the initiated swore by the cycles of Heaven, "Omnes qui inciderint, adjuro per sacrum solis circulum, inæquales lunæ cursus, reliquorumque siderum vires et signiferum circulum, ut in reconditis hæc haberent, nec indoctis aut profanis communicent, sed præceptoris memores sint, eique honorem retribuant, which translates as, I adjure all who fall into one, through the sacred circle of the sun, the unequal races of the moon, and the strength of the other stars, and the ring-bearer, that they may have these things in store, and do not communicate them to the unlearned or profane."

Godfrey Higgins, in Anacalypsis, wrote, The Mythos of the Hindoos, the Mythos of the Jews, and the Mythos of the Greeks are all at the bottom the same; and what are called their early histories are not the histories of man, but are contrivances under the appearance of histories to perpetuate doctrines, or perhaps the history of certain religious opinions, in a manner understood by those only who had a key to the enigma.

Higgins is a man who spent over twenty years researching language, symbols, and culture at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. He concluded, "After giving the subject all the consideration in my power and a diligent examination of ancient documents for many years, I have become quite convinced that almost all the ancient histories were written for the sole purpose of recording mythos, which it was desired to transmit to posterity—but yet to conceal from all but the initiated. The traditions of the countries were made subservient to this purpose, without any suspicion of fraud; and we only give them the appearance of fraud when we confound them with history. This is the case with all early histories. They were all anciently composed; or, if written, they were written in verse for the sake of correct retention by the memory and set to music for the same reason. They were all the same nature as the Iliad and the Aeneid. The most ancient of the ancients had nothing of the nature of real histories."

Ancient people used original zodiacal or astrological charts to create history and renowned figures, localities, kings, etc., and then also applied them to geography. The myths came first and then they used it to forge a historical narrative. They turned allegory into history, but not just any allegory; the allegories were astrological. An example would be something like the Book of Enoch, which, upon deeper understanding, will reveal the movement of the luminaries.

Bryant wrote, Besides it is evident that most of the deified personages never existed; but were mere titles of the Deity, the Sun, as has been in a great measure proved by Macrobius. Nor was there ever anything of such detriment, to ancient history as the supposing that the gods of the Gentile world had been natives of the countries where they were worshipped.

Origen’s work is significant because he lived during the time the Church was making its move, destroying modality and the meaning of the Gospels it hijacked to serve its own agenda. He asked (Contra Celsum, IV. 171. Spence), Or, forsooth, are the Greeks to be allowed to use such words with regard to the soul, and speak in allegorical fashion (tropologein) and we forbidden to do so?

Alvin Boyd Kuhn explained, in The Shadow of the Third Century, the power of the goat-songs, the tragedies, and the significance of theatre, and I suspect this is why entertainment coming from Hollywood constantly rehashes mythological archetypes, A myth is an abstract conception dramatized. It concretizes an abstraction to the inner eye of thought, giving it a new and more vivid power to stir the feelings. He who can dramatize abstract Truth is the leader of man to his divinity.

And again, Myth is only as narrow as the unintelligence that misapprehends it, and that there are practically no basic ideas, deep and luminous as life itself, which the myths have not been designed to dramatize and illuminate, when a capably receptive mind of clear vision is at hand to interpret their recondite sense.

Language and religion are intimately linked. M. Max Müller wrote in Chips from a German Workshop, But more surprising than the continuity in the growth of language is the continuity in the growth of religion. Of religion, too, as of language, it may be said in it every thing new is old, and every thing old is new, and that there has been no entirely new religion since the beginning of the world. The elements and roots of religion were there, as far back as we can trace the history of man; and the history of religion, like the history of language, shows us throughout a succession of new combinations of the same radical elements... During the last fifty years the accumulation of new and authentic materials for the study of the religions of the world has been most extraordinary; but such are the difficulties of mastering these materials that I doubt whether the time has yet come for attempting to trace, after the model of the science of language, the definite outlines of the science of religion.

In our efforts to understand mythology, religion, and history, we must understand language and how it is used by the priest class to create names and words in their method of encoding natural phenomena in stories. The key to understanding the Mysteries is knowing when they were written and what the names or archetypes meant to those who encoded them. Sometimes the symbolism is confusing because it is reassigned to signify something other than what its name suggests.

Words often start out conveying a simple idea, but over time, through perhaps bad or unfavorable circumstances, and with degradation of man’s character and vernacular, they become something that conveys a malignant idea. Knave once meant a lad but now means a dishonest or unscrupulous man. A boor was a farmer but is now an unrefined, ill-mannered person. A menial was one of the household but now is work or a task not requiring skill and lacking prestige (adjective), or one who works a menial job (noun). A minion was once a favorite but now is a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one. Daft used to mean modest but now means foolish. Orgies (during the era of Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries) used to be religious ceremonies. Eleusinian Mysteries are the Mysteries of the son of Sol, or ινις Ήλιος, which is Eleus-inis or Helios-inis. Thus, the twelve labors of Hercules are the twelve signs that the sun moves through and the impact it has on the world in each sign. Dapper used to mean brave and bold but now means neat and trim. Plausible once meant worthy of applause but now means seeming reasonable or probable. Lewd meant unlearned but now is crude and offensive in a sexual way. To resent used to be to repay or return as action or benefit (kind or injurious). Now to resent is to feel bitterness or indignation at a circumstance, action, or person. This same re-sent type of meaning was found in retaliate, where one re-tallies. Animosity used to mean spiritedness but now is strong hostility. Retract was to reconsider but is now to withdraw or to take back. Paradise was a word that meant royal park or garden of delights in most oriental nations. Passion used to mean suffering, hence the passion of the Christ. Someone who is passionate is suffering something to be done to him. To suffer is to allow, so now we see how being passionate is to allow something to be done, or to be tolerant. In life, you get what you tolerate, so be mindful of what you’re passionate about in order to avoid suffering unintended consequences.

The second syllable of marshal comes from schalk, which originally had no evil connotation in it. A Godschalk or Gottschalk was a God’s servant. Is a marshal a servant of Mars (war) or the sea (el mar; mare)? A seneschal is the steward or major-domo of a medieval great house or a governor or other administrative or judicial officer. I suspect this is where the idea of political figures being servants of the public arises, but the reality is that politicians only serve themselves and whoever can bribe or blackmail them the best.

When looking at kin and kind, we see that kindness is debt of kin. Kindness is treating others as though they are kin. It is a debt of love. There are those one is kind towards and those one must be kind to due to marriage or affiliation to one’s kin. Owing a debt of kin is to be kind, or kin’d: kin-debt.

Pransus and Potus mean overconsume and drink (respectively) in Latin, but pertain to being drunk. Is it coincidence that the President of the United States is called POTUS? Is he drunk on