The path of the Mystery Tradition has, up until now, led the seeker along a vast array of “lights” and “images” – a “Ladder of Lights” (as it were) — tracing the phantasmal images of the material world back to their Source. But it is not the glamorous procurement of further persona and personality upgrades that the seeker is after, rather it is the absolution of the same, those which have already been acquired and are but weights to keep you bound to the material world.

So the seeker passes the Gates of Life seeking to bring the parts of the whole together — if they be so lucky. Too often it is the separation of the whole into more esoteric parts that merely ends with further separating the person from the Source. The emphasis should not be on the bedazzlement attainable to the psyche of this world to delight in making some gematric or symbolic link — when all is actually connected in equality and oneness — not just to be found in one or two “sacred” relationships between attributes and forces.

This is never fully realized in the World of Light that we become accustomed to because it exists already in a state of separation from the World of Darkness. Polarity. The point is not necessarily the glorification of the Darkness either. Just as many people succumb to the trappings of the Darkness as they do the Light and both are existing in a duality that is contrary to the Oneness that is the Source. Duality is not Oneness.

So, what does one do? You can climb the Ladder of Lights and thereby unify the manifold natures of the existences found in the Light — but is this the end? Working back up the Tree of Life, the seeker has uncovered a very dangerous glitch in the system. . .this is not all there is. But where is it? And how is it that we can confront this hidden aspect for wholeness. How do we get to the other side?

After having moved forth through the Gates of this Universe, the seeker inevitably moves passed the final doorway and is able to glean a look behind the curtain. . .and there is nothing more horrifying than what one will find. All we have done and worked towards, all we have quested for in our endeavors into the Light and into the System and when the curtain is peeled back it is only to reveal — Nothingness. . .the Primordial Abyss.

All of the systems in the mind that have given form their meaning has washed away and the realization of the illusion is paralyzing. For when we had our “Wizard of Oz” to toy with in our minds, we could at the very least laugh in our own folly at being fooled in the game of some supernatural crazed madman behind the curtains. At the very least things could be made to make sense — systematically. But now at the cusp of reality and sanity, we know better. Before you is the Other Side of the Tree… Crossing the Abyss. . . Into the Beyond. . . You have reached the edge. You are have reached — the Shadows.