Perseus gripped the terrible sickle in his hands. The Medusa and her sisters lay sleeping before him. He raised the sickle high and brought it down with all his strength upon the monster’s neck. The terrible blade sliced through sinew and bone.

In the myth the sickle that was given by Gaeae to Chronos to overthrow Uranus was given to Perseus by Athena. Now, in our time it is given to us. This sickle was the blade that was used in the ancient sacrifices. It was used to castrate and kill the Sun King. In its later form it became the scythe of war. We can use it now to overthrow the monster that has killed millions upon millions throughout time. Here in our time we can turn it upon the Goddess herself. We can kill her now, in our own hearts and minds and forever. This takes courage. Are you hero enough to do this or will you let her preside at the wedding of woman and world State?

When a real marriage dies, then part of a child of that marriage also dies. The one single, sure and concrete truth in a universe filled with doubt and mystery is this - we each of us exist as a result of our biological parents. When they divide that which is indivisible, when this rock upon which we build our lives and our identities splits asunder, then we too are split apart. This has been happening to us as a species. We have been torn apart by the schism. The one thing we know to be true, the one rock on which we as human beings build our existence is crumbling away. We are slipping into a dark, storm lashed ocean of despair and oblivion. If we cannot stop this happening, if it is truly evolutionary and inevitable, then we have but one alternative left. We have to transcend this dark place. We have to bridge the schism. We have to undertake a metamorphosis as human beings into a new stage of development.

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

To do this, the power of dysfunction, nurtured in the perpetual darkness of the evil abyss of must be transformed into the power of love. This must surely be our personal goal in life and that of our ultimate human destiny. Seen in this context, the upheavals of the last few decades can be seen reflected in the individual human analogy. If we can stop the war within ourselves we can stop it from happening in the world. To do this we must cease to sacrifice and cease to demand sacrifice. Kill the Goddess within ourselves and we can kill war - forever.

All things are ready if our minds be so.

HenryV

We have come together here in our new mind – our cybermind, we have together already linked through the mythological to enable us to see a hitherto forgotten way to view our society and ourselves. We can see also the potential to make these thoughts into words and into our actions. We are in effect, two thirds of the way there. We have the means to slay the Medusa and to go forward into a new age. We can become whole. In terms of wider humanity we have this choice – we can either become whole or we will surely perish. Have we now the courage?

Man is nothing more than evolution become conscious of itself.

—Julian Huxley.

Here, in this mind we have a new consciousness. Here we can question, think, learn and understand. Humanity has to learn once more, in this new way, from this new perspective that families have always been the basic building blocks of our civilization. If we want to have a new society, fit to inhabit this new age - an age in which our children grow secure, in an atmosphere of sanity and love, which is surely their rightful heritage, then we better make sure that we do our utmost to create and sustain good families. This is the rock on which they must stand or they will drown in that dark ocean of oblivion.

Under Feminazism’s heel, no man is safe to live his life, or to love, or to father his children.

Under Feminazism’s heel, every man is the victim of an insane creed that deems him responsible and punishable for all evil, past, present, and future.

Under Feminazism’s heel, every man’s son is such a victim, past, present, and future.

Under Feminazism’s heel, every man's son is a potential betrayer, exploiter, jailer and executioner of himself and every other man.

—‘Perseus’ - With no apologies to anyone.

The human race consists of two genders that either evolved or were created for each other for the purpose of procreation and to perpetuate the species. Civilization could be seen, as no more than an afterthought. It certainly makes the whole process more amiable and orderly and its benefits for human progress are undeniable. We can also see civilization as a drive for unity – not only with each other, but with our planet and ultimately the universe itself.

Only if both the genders realize that the only real way to achieve this is if they co-operate and work toward a common goal - a better future for our children, instead of instant gratification for individuals who are isolated from each other without a common purpose. Gender warfare, like all warfare, is an insanity that will only benefit the instigators of evil. This selfish, dysfunctional behavior must end. It will achieve nothing but destruction. We cannot replace a male god with a female god or vice versa. There is but one creation - we are both part of it and the sum of it.

I saw one great tragedy,

The cause of all the rest,

The failure of man to realize his own divinity.

I saw but one solution,

The realization of this divinity.

—Franklin Merril Wolff

In part one of the Head Of The Medusa we summed up the current state of things with the equation: A x B = X. There is an older equation that, like the relevance of the myths has been forgotten. Like them it was formulated so long ago that no one knows its origins. It seems as if this equation has always existed in the hearts and minds of us all. How indicative of our own time – a time filled with so much complexity, so many frenzied, fleeting forms, so many images and representations that assault our senses - that we have forgotten how to see this one, simple thing.

I will ask you to indulge me in a little algebra. Algebra is not a subject that many of us are comfortable with, but it is merely a code, - a way of representing something by another method. Much like the myths we have explored have helped us to see the complexities of our human situation. Like the myths, these few numbers sum up a profound truth about our existence in a stunningly simple form:

2 + 3 = 5 = 1

Let’s do some algebra.

The number five is of great significance. In all cultures, five is a mystical number. It is a number that represents harmony and balance in all things. In Islam, there are five pillars of piety; there are five Confucian virtues - humanity, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. In Christianity there are the five wounds of Christ and in China, five is the center, the harmony of yin and yang. Five is the number of harmony.

5 is the number of perfection.

1 is the number of the Divine,

2 of the feminine,

3 the masculine,

Therefore, 2 + 3 = 5 = 1, the microcosm, the symbol of the synthesis of marriage.

The alchemists of old sought the fifth element, the quintessence, a word that still has some special meaning even today, though we have long forgotten that it actually refers to the life generating and sustaining spirit. The "Philosophers Stone" that the alchemists strove to discover - to turn base metal into gold - was actually an analogy for transforming matter into spirit. If we as a species could achieve this, if we could all be part of this equation, what then would that add up to?

We have a wonderful opportunity now that must not be lost. If it is indeed true that this is the stumbling, fumbling puberty of the human race, then we must allow the young species the freedom to find its true path to adulthood. This is never an easy transition in individuals. Imagine the tormented path that a whole emerging new species must take. Is it so different to imagine that the broken hearts, the pain and the posturings we all suffer during our individual adolescence cannot afflict a species?

But what opportunity lies beyond our embarrassing teenage years? What is the full significance of the achievement of the adulthood of humanity?

Imagine if you can, human beings united in mutually beneficial, self-supporting roles. Truly as equals in the sense that each brings their own attributes to the partnership. Each is truly a half of the whole. A true synergy of power. A true synergy of love. A true marriage. What miracles might we then achieve?

It is impossible, of course, isn’t it? It’s a utopian folly, surely. The stuff of fairy tales. It couldn’t possibly happen, could it?

It could. It really could – for it happens every day to millions of people – as individuals. They come together and are united in the spirit of love.

The Myth of Perseus and Andromeda that follows the death of the Medusa tells us that this can happen to our species – but that, as they say - is another story for another time.

What will it be then? Will the equation be: A x B = X, or will it be: 2 + 3 = 5 = 1?

It’s up to you to work it out anyway you choose. When we have come two thirds of the way to becoming whole, then we can go forward. This is what awaits us – if we have the courage. Are you coming with me?

The enemy increaseth every day;

We, at the height, are ready to decline,

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a sea we are now afloat and we must take the current when it serves, or loose our ventures.

—Julius Caesar Act IV Sc2, Shakespeare

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Words are surely the children of our thoughts. They can mean nothing and they can mean everything. The wrong word at the wrong time is a dangerous word, and we have seen many dangerous words spoken and we have noted the damage they have done to our children and our society. But, the right words, born of the right thoughts at the right time are more powerful than any physical weapons for war or for peace. We have to take up this archetypal sword. It came to be given to us through words, words that were not even written down, thousands of years ago in another time and another place as far removed from this place and time as we are now.

The wise ones that wrote down the story of that old hero knew a thing or two about the power of words. Did they know that their words would be passed down the ages, mouth to mouth, told and retold to countless generations – to finally end up here as thoughts in the new mind of humanity? I think maybe they did. They knew the power of those words and that story and they knew it would be needed some time in the future. Maybe this is such a time. Maybe this is THE time. Maybe they were needed and used many times before and will be again, who knows? Not I - and words such as these are the stuff of my life.

When I was a child at school the teacher would sometimes pin special pictures up on the classroom wall. Those pictures were great tools for teaching and they stuck in my mind. The one I remember most clearly after all these years was of David and Goliath. I think that now we are rather like the young David facing a giant at this time. In our individual lives we all get to face our share of giants. They come before us in many forms. To stand up to something that big, that horrific, we have ultimately only one weapon. That weapon is our faith in ourselves. I recall that David took five stones from a stream for his sling, but he used only one to kill Goliath.

We won’t stand and face the giant before us without that faith standing by our side and we won’t throw that stone without that faith guiding our arm, that’s for sure. I don’t know how many men and women will face this giant with me, but I know who will be standing with them. This old myth will surely be there at their side.

If you stand under the clear night sky on a cold, winter night, you can easily see the beautiful constellations of Orion, Taurus and the Seven Sisters star cluster. Just above that mighty hunter is the constellation of Perseus, he’s not so easy to pick out and you really need a diagram. There is even a star called Algol that represents the evil eye of the Medusa’s head held in his hand. The wise ones, who wrote the myth, had this picture pinned up there in the sky with which to teach their words – and to carry the story down to us, through the generations. Up there in the heavens - written in the stars upon the walls of eternity there is a message for the illumination of the children of the Earth as they stumble blindly across the surface of their blue jewel, ignorant of the wisdoms above them in the blackness - where time and space are of no consequence.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.

Genesis, Chapter I, verse 27.

THE HEAD OF THE MEDUSA

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Posted 2000 04 19
Updates:
2000 09 11 (reformated)
2006 10 31 (reformated)

The Head of the Medusa — Chapter 16: Complementarity, unity, cooperation, not competition

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