URANUS & The Radioactive Metals
Russell had said that: “Radioactivity is man’s discovery of how the human race can die quickly, and not be able to propagate its kind for many long centuries.” He also warned of greater dangers to come. “The greatest radioactive dangers are accumulating from 8 to 12 miles up. This seems to be ignored. The upper atmosphere is already charged with death dealing radioactivity for which it has not yet sent its bill. It is slowly coming, however, and we will have to pay for it for another century, even if atomic energy plans ceased today.”
Here again we encounter the ancient Uranus, also known as the Overhanging Heavens,15 “the generative power of the sky, which fructifies the earth with the warmth of the sun and the moisture of the rain.” But now the bright overhanging skies are charged with radioactive clouds falling silently “little by little… in the rain and snow and dew, onto the earth, the rivers and the sea.”
Dr Wilhelm Reich also described how the clear desert atmosphere became grey and lifeless, charged with Deadly Orgone Energy immediately after atomic tests.16 And nowhere is safe. Samples of radioactive strontium have been detected from the snow of Antarctica to alfalfa in the fields of Wisconsin. The Hopi Prophecy also warned of the catastrophic results if uranium was taken from the sacred lands for the wrong reasons.
“So we begin to see more earthquakes, we see changes of seasons, severe winters, severe droughts, qr maybe big winds killing people and destroying property, and great flooding by rain, and maybe mountains blowing their tops, and land sinking, and then towards the last lightning starts hitting people because we have not followed the law of the Great Spirit…We now stand at the final stage as predicted by the Great Spirit.”11
The facts speak for themselves. Earthquakes, floods, droughts and major storms…they are all on the increase as even a casual observer of news reports cannot fail to notice. At least 15 million people are expected to die of starvation and disease in Africa over the next year due to drought. Underground nuclear testing contaminates the vast underground aquifers beneath the desert, and although scientists say ‘there is no connection’ swarms of earthquakes shake the planet within days, even hours, of these gigantic chthonic blasts. There were more earthquake deaths reported in 1990 than during the whole of the 1980s. A fascinating book H-Bombs Have Us Quaking details the major earth movements following the atmospheric tests of the 1950s. With good reason the author calls nuclear power “the scientific religion of death.”17
ALCHEMY AND THE SHADOW SCIENCE
The ancient alchemical tradition with its metallic and planetary correspondences is a profound science of transmutation, concerning both consciousness and substance, describing life and death and the renewal of life as a continuous metamorphosis. But while this noble science seeks the healing elixir of life, the debased shadow science of nuclear technology has brought misery and death to the planet, and casts a shadow upon our children and their descendants for thousands of years to come.
The end product resulting from the decay of uranium is lead, while alchemy begins with lead as the ‘base’ metal which is purified and ultimately transmuted into the gold symbolic of spiritual perfection. The discovery of uranium and its subsequent use in warfare and nuclear technology has irrevocably altered the course of human evolution. A gateway has opened into the abyss and humanity balances precariously on the edge.
In the occult Qabalistic tradition, the planet Uranus is attributed to the 11th sphere on the cosmic Tree of Life, the ‘false’ sephirah called Daath, and the Gate of the Abyss. Here is the knowledge of death, a sudden and explosive knowledge as the blackness of the abyss is lit with the lightning flash of illumination.
Daath is the ghost, the shadow of reality, as occultist Kenneth Grant writes; it is the place of crossing-over or “reversal to the source of Non-being… Daath being the Gate of the Abyss is the point both of ingress into noumenon and of egress into phenomena; in other words it is the gateway of the manifestation of non-manifestation.”18
Here lies the secret of duality sought by etheric scientists such as Le Bon, who showed’ ‘that matter is not eternal, that it constitutes an enormous reservoir of forces, and that it disappears by transforming itself into other forms of energy before returning to what is, for us, nothingness.”
The sphere of Uranus corresponds in the human body to the subtle energy chakra called Visuddha in the region of the throat. It is the source of the Word,’ ‘the creative power of the mystic Sound that, according to the old tradition of India, pervades all spaces,” a concept echoed in the words of Moray, who wrote: “There, at its very foundation, matter consists of an electric charge which governs the very motion of the planets and suns. I consider gamma rays or radioactivity an electrical action only of a different rate of vibration. If one, therefore, sets up a sonic oscillation, a sonic oscillation existing in the realms beyond the light rays, one will be in harmony with the oscillations of the universe, the energy which is coming to this earth continuously, oscillating back and forth in a definite sonic.”14
The highest Uranian sciences show clearly that the infinitely small particles of matter obey the same universal laws from atomic space to planetary and stellar space. As human consciousness reaches further out into the distant regions of the solar system, we encounter new streams of cosmic energies, alien radiations from the deepest abstractions of space…and whether we are aware of it or not, we too are transmuted, and changed into a new form of life.
URANUS REFERENCES
1. Astrology Karma and Transformation, Stephen Arroyo, CRCS Publications WA, 1978
2. The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Michael Bertiaux, Magickal Childe, Inc. N.Y., 1988
3. The Sirius Mystery, Robert K.G. Temple, Futura Publications Ltd., London, 1976
4. Uranus and Neptune — The Distant Giants, Eric Burgess, Columbia University Press, N.Y., 1988