Hecate

It was all women, it was all the feminine mysteries, and it was the deep feminine mysteries.

It was the mysteries of Medusa, the mysteries of Hecate, the mysteries of Persephone, the mysteries of Kali.

It was the dark depths of the feminine mysteries that I was devoted to.

Then I moved into working a lot with sacred union, bringing the two together, which is what we were just doing that masculine descent, feminine rising that grace that blew up YouTube there.

Artemis had spent her entire divine existence learning to operate with lethal efficiency in conditions that were actively trying to make efficiency impossible.

Phlegra was chaos, Artemis was at home, Aphrodite, Hecate and the others.

The tradition is less consistent about some of the other goddesses and honesty requires acknowledging that.

Aphrodite's presence at the battle is mentioned in certain sources, but not elaborated upon with any great specificity.

The bonds between beings, the forces of desire and connection that organized human and divine society, were precisely what the giant's victory would have unmade.

Aphrodite at Phlegra was love defending its own right to exist.

Hecate, goddess of the crossroads and of magic, appears in several traditions as one of the more effective combatants against specific giants, using her torches, her particular command of the liminal and the strange, to devastating effect against opponents whose strength was entirely physical and whose vulnerabilities were therefore entirely non-physical.

Magic against muscle is an interesting tactical problem, and Hecate solved it with a directness that the sources find notable enough to record, even when they do not always elaborate.

Also, there is a lot of this based on actually bringing into physical manifestation or you know the demonic entities right to really bring them into the world so this is one of the things that all these people that are into this and look you know i was just shocked to see i've i think i've something like 150 different books related to this stuff which again when i started this i i i thought it was an interesting way to analyze things no i mean these are very actively engaged in by probably tens of thousands of people if not more um of course the people that are you know especially the order of the nine angles right these guys are you know the uh they're the the pharmacos right the pharmacos meaning the human sacrifice right so they're doing all this stuff and they will end up as the you know they're being they're allowing themselves to be sacrificed by you know being sold on this this procedure so I'll just read a little bit more so this and this ties into Atlantean magic and I found these direct connections as well so I guess my intuition is pretty good because usually I have something I will find that connection but let me just read another one so the nightside realm of the witch the path of Lucifer's flame it leads the questing soul through these gateways of power to the forbidden realm of atlantis where the gates of fire are open far below the night side realm In the depths illuminated by Belial, the most secret gnosis of history, and this is from Kenneth Grant, by the way, of the history of all the races of men and the power of the first gods of Atlantis is discovered.

The gates are revealed to those who have walked the path of Hecate and Lucifer in soul preparation for what may be a journey from which mind or soul from which neither mind or soul will return.

That doesn't sound like that kind of an idea, does it? Okay, through the work within this book, Pathways to the Depth are illuminated.

All who wish to pass beyond these gateways to experience this transition of souls to that of the eternal god body must pass for lucifer himself lucifer holds the keys to these gates which lead to the two remaining crowns and known in some cultures as sacred crystals or precious stones it is lucifer as lord of the ascending flame who bestows the final crown of divinity upon the soul so these Again, many, many books and literature, this is people following this as their spiritual path.

So I definitely went through a Greek mythology phase and, you know, remember bits and pieces of it, but I don't think that I knew this.

When I started reading the book Hecate by Courtney, can't remember her last name, but I will put it in the show notes.

What I didn't realize was that Demeter was, you know, crying out, like, help

me,

help me.

And nobody said, comes to her aid except for Hecate, the torchbearer.

And she is one of two people or gods that has the ability to go back and forth between the underworld and our world besides Hades.

There's, is it Mercury? Yes, Mercury.

But that is sort of my aversion to certain, like to be subservient.

Like I've had readings in the past and, you know, she suggested to me that I should look into Hecate.

Right.

And I, but I just don't like the idea of being subservient to anybody.

This is like the river Styx.

This ferryman here is, I look at this as like a Hecate sort of energy when I see the six of swords, especially in a context like this with the death card.

And we're talking about spiritual handlers.

I'm seeing the spiritual handler.

No.

And then we learn that Medea spends most of her time in Hecate's temple.

Right.

And Hecate is a goddess that is fully associated with not just magic, but kind of the darker aspects.

Absolutely.

We should also point out that Asterodea, the Caucasian nymph, that has nothing to do with her complexion.