Promethean Pirate by Jason Reza Jorjani

Author:Jason Reza Jorjani [Jorjani, Jason Reza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: uber man, faustian futurist
ISBN: 9781915755032
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2022-11-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: Belial of Atlantis

If we want to dynamite Traditionalism at its foundation, as I do, then we need to ask the question of where, or when, the Counter-Tradition really began. Even if René Guénon saw the Counter-Initiation as coming to its culmination in Modernity, he also recognized that Modernity is not so much a particular epoch as it is a form of society. Was there, as Guénon himself suggests at times, a Modernity before the modern age? An ancient or primordial modernity? Indeed, there was, and it is there, or then, that we will find the origin of the Counter-Tradition. This primordial modernity of “Atlantis” has been hidden from us by “the gods” precisely because what defined the character of that society was, above all, a Promethean rebellion that is the most original and authentic form of Counter-Traditionalism.

In approaching this subject, we face the problem that has been endemic to studies of groups such as the Gnostics or the Assassins. We are forced, for the most part, to reconstruct their worldview and way of life based upon the hostile heresiology of the Catholic Church or the Caliphate. Of all the sources concerning the rebels in Atlantis, on account of whose rebellion the civilization was supposedly destroyed, only Plato is somewhat neutral. The rest of our sources are vehemently hostile and literally demonize the rebel Atlanteans, seeing them as the first host of Satan. This is consistent with the biblical Books of Genesis and Enoch, through to the accounts of Rudolf Steiner, who calls the rebels “Ahrimanic,” and the Sunday school teacher Edgar Cayce, who brands them “the sons of Belial,” rising in opposition to the putatively divine so-called “Law of One.”

Of course, there is one other source here that is supremely relevant and that is the myth of Prometheus — including the parts of it involving his brothers Atlas and Epimetheus (as well as the latter’s wife, Pandora) and the son of Prometheus, Deucalion, who is the Greek Noah. In order to really understand Cayce’s “Belial” group, which Steiner brands as “Ahrimanic,” on its own terms through a reconstruction of its own perspective, we need to identify convergences in the various “Atlantis” or “Fallen Angel” narratives, establish the terminological equivalents across these narratives, and extract the core elements of this occulted history from the moralistic propaganda that has hitherto enmeshed them. Then the story can be reread through the lens of the mythos and ethos of the Promethean rebellion.

There are a handful of key elements to this story, which are common to every significant version of it, and which very likely point to a hidden history that haunts our world to this day. The first element is that long, long ago, the world of mortals was much more directly administered by “gods” or “angels.” These seemingly “immortal” beings hid “heavenly secrets” from mere mortals, who served these divine beings more or less as a race of slaves, ignorant of the purposes and motivations of their masters. Plato calls these masters the Olympian gods.

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