Polaria and WH Müller

[Nalyd Khezr Bey]

WH Müller, author of Polaria: Gift of the White Stone, along with Mario Garza of Symbolic Studies, were recently interviewed HERE, if anyone is interested. I've kept this book as a kind of secret talisman since I first acquired it in the 1990s and quietly advocated it to anyone I thought would benefit from it ever since. If you do a search of the title in this forum you will find my mentioning it here several times. They talk a bit about some German Typhonians in the interview that I thought you guys might find amusing.

[Michael Staley]

Nov 9, 2023 20:40:37 GMT Nalyd Khezr Bey said:

WH Müller, author of Polaria: Gift of the White Stone, along with Mario Garza of Symbolic Studies, were recently interviewed HERE, if anyone is interested. I've kept this book as a kind of secret talisman since I first acquired it in the 1990s and quietly advocated it to anyone I thought would benefit from it ever since. If you do a search of the title in this forum you will find my mentioning it here several times. They talk a bit about some German Typhonians in the interview that I thought you guys might find amusing.

I'd never heard of this title until a few months ago when, preparing for a podcast, one of the questions on the list was about this book. I've still not read it, but one of the interviewers seemed to think that it might have been by Kenneth Grant writing under an assumed name. I said that it was unlikely, given that there is no reference to it in Kenneth's diaries and papers.

Would be very interested to hear from you your impressions of the novel.

[Nalyd Khezr Bey]

I heard that you gave an interview to Juan Ayala. I had commented to those guys on one of their many podcasts back in September when they finally arrived at Polaria. They were speculating in the show that the author was KG, in fact were quite convinced of it, and that sparked me to leave a comment about it having nothing at all to do with KG and that the author is alive and well in Berlin. Juan responded back and said it was curious that I made a point to say that and that he had just interviewed you the week before and said you had told him basically the same thing, without the added bit about the author being alive of course. (Looking forward to hearing that interview you gave to them whenever it is available.)*

It's a bit difficult for me to describe what Müller's book is about as I think I've taken the material into places that even the author never intended and it's hard to separate my own legend from his map. I've been living and working with this material since 1997 when it first fell into my lap. I could never really get anyone else interested in it to really talk about its implications, so I began keeping it to myself and following its clues on my own for years. My own breakthroughs with it really began in 2015.

It's not a novel but is an exegesis on the Alchemical-Polar tradition embedded in Lovecraft's work. One might compare it in style to a combination of Grave's The White Goddess and Fulcanelli's Mystery of the Cathedrals.

* EDIT: Synchronistically, it looks like that interview dropped yesterday as I was posting this. It can be heard at the link I provided above to Juan Ayala's website: titled "#183 The Kenneth Grant Revival with Michael Staley & Mario Garza".

[Michael Staley]

Nov 27, 2023 23:16:14 GMT Nalyd Khezr Bey said:

It's not a novel but is an exegesis on the Alchemical-Polar tradition embedded in Lovecraft's work. One might compare it in style to a combination of Grave's The White Goddess and Fulcanelli's Mystery of the Cathedrals.

Thanks for that, Nalyd. Your summary is intriguing.

[Nalyd Khezr Bey]

Dec 10, 2023 18:18:05 GMT Michael Staley said:

Thanks for that, Nalyd. Your summary is intriguing.

No problem Mick. I was thinking that perhaps a few excerpts from the book may clarify it more or at least give an idea of what it's about. The first three are from the author's introduction and describe the intent of the book. The fourth excerpt is an example of how the bulk of the book reads.

Times are changing, and the Trinity of the Planets-beyond-the-Threshold, beyond the seventh, will attain momentous significance for the evolution of terrestrial life.

The Veils have to be lifted to recover the Seed, the Dreaming One must awake, the Fish must be freed from the Net in which it is caught since the Fall.

Some will embark on the stony Way to the Pole and to transformation; others will not. Some will know the Mysteries of Creation; others will never catch a glmpse. But those who will know, will change.

This book is intended for the spiritual Pilgrim, the phonetic cabalist, and esoterically inclined Lovecraft reader who already feels a certain draw toward the Threshold.

Hopefully, this book will be of help to those undergoing the process of transformation. There are those who do not know what is happening with them; some might not know where to seek advice, while others might be in great despair. Let "Polaria" be a writing of instruction to those who sincerely seek.

The process of actual transformation takes place in man's lower abdomen. Only there the Gateway opens. In Greek, the Philosophical Vessel is called "krater." "Krater" contains the important root word arc, respectively, ark. "Krater" is "Ark-ter" or "Ark-tar." "Ark-ter" in turn contains the word for stone, that is, kar or car. Lovecraft implied the quest of the Stone by using the name "Carter" for his autobiographical character. Carter can thus be rendered "He of the Stone."

The Stone is the Heart, and the Heart is in the Earth. The Greek word ker, related to the Latin cor, can be found in words pertaining to "earthen," such as the English "ceramic." "Car" can be found in "Arc-adia," the Land of Immortality. Furthermore in this context we find the name "Cathar" to be an anagram of "Arcath" or "Arcad." "Arcad" is exactly the same as "Arcadia." The Medieval Cathars at Montsegur, persecuted by the Church of Rome for their Polar Tradition, were legates of Arcadia, the Land of the Living. Lovecraft chose the name Carter purposely in that it is phonetically reminiscent of "Cathar." Carter is indeed a heretic from the Solar point of view, as were the Cathars of Montsegur to the Catholic Church.

Such were the Templars whose mystical teaching also had in it the millennial legacy of the Titans. The former brought it to Europe where the inner circle launched an attempt to establish the Ancient Law. Its sacrosanctum is the Stone of Oneness on which the priest of the tribe of Jesse tried to build his Spiritual Church. It was his mission to restore the ancient order by bringing reformation to the belligerant tribes of the Near-East.

 And just for good measure, here's one more that elaborates on some of the themes of that last quote.

Arcadia, in the form of "Arcade," is also identical with Cardea or Cardia, being not only the name of the Goddess of Hinges and wife of two-face Ianus, but also the Greek word for heart. But more, "Cardea" is "Car-d-ea," or "Car-d-ia," consisting of "Car" and "Ia." Thus "Cardea" is the "Stone of Ia, the Creatrix."

Connected with the heart and its respective chakra is the Green Ray, that is, arka in Sanskrit. It indicates the mystical Way of the Heart and the Planet of Origins, the Globe of Sulphur Seas between Mars and Jupiter. Green is its color, and it is the color attributed to al-Khidr or the Green Man of myth. In Polar tradition, Khidr is unbounded by Religion. He is Hermes-Mercury, the Divine Messenger, the Green Ray of Guidance. Jules Verne dedicated a whole story, entitled "The Green Ray," to this Polar symbolism.

Arka, the Green Ray of Spirit, is like the Argha, the Vessel of the Goddess, a receptacle of spiritual energies, pivotal to the process of transformation. This energy-center is magnetic; and if a certain degree of receptability is achieved, a preparedness of dissolution kindled, the Ray flashes forth and the individual is oriented toward the Pole. The Poleward Way begins in the fourth plane in man, the Heart Chakra.