spell breakers

Breaking the Spell of Whiteness

An Anarchist Witch's Guide to Disrupting the Curse of White Supremacy


A Goatish E-Zine

By Libre Solanum Nigrum

libresolanumnigrum@gmail.com

Illustrated by Spider


We the Spellbreakers


This booklet reveals the roots, history and sorcery of whiteness for the purpose of disrupting its flow for the sake of collective liberation.  


We are in a season of extraordinary trauma. The chaos magicians of whiteness are attempting to overpower our collective consciousness so that we feel powerless to contain it. This is a lie - we are not powerless.  We are, in fact, the very medicine that this era calls for.  It is time to reclaim our collective Power.  


Revealingly, whiteness (and its flex colonialism) was cast in the very same season as the European and Salem witch burnings. Whiteness and witch hunting share the same root - conceived of the same impoverished spirit, and perpetrated by the same malevolent sorcerers. 


What have we learned in the past 13 generations that can help us identify and disrupt this force today? 


We are the witches born for this moment.  We, the Mother’s Daughters, beneficiaries of her divine gifts, are called to cast our collective Grace to break the illusion of whiteness, reverse the spell of separateness and reveal our true divine natures.


Whiteness is an illusion and spiritual apartheid which divests us from our root connections and families, the Earth and all beings. It is blinding to those it inhabits. As spellbreakers our work is to illuminate and interrupt the energy current which powers whiteness.


Our work is energetic; it is quantum. Whiteness does not get taken down in the streets; it gets taken down in the hearts, minds , energy fields, understandings, mythologies, beliefs, psychologies, egos, thoughts, visions, fantasies, imaginations, futures and spirits of people and the community.  

If there is the collective will to do so, we can disrupt and redirect this energetic current. We are not just receivers of information from the collective; we are transmitters as well. 

Witches are invited to look deeply into this well and consider their own practices and orientation.

 

The spell of whiteness is chaotic, decentralized, and has been cast over centuries, through legions of images, forms and mediums, consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally, ritualistically and casually. Sacrifices, christian prayers, mantras, sigils, Hollywood movies, sacred ceremonies, created myths and narratives, erasure/removal of competing thought forms, the control of money (power) and countless other energetic forms have been used to cast and hold the spell. 


Because it is constantly being cast from innumerable unseen (and often unseeing) hands, there is no single way to undo the spell of whiteness. However because every single one of us has been exposed to the spell, we are all vexed and enchanted by it in different ways. We are all uniquely lineaged to it. By accessing our own mycelial connections, we can reach into the heart of whiteness and disrupt the current. 


Our diversity of lineages is our strength.  It allows us to approach the monster from many different angles. The giant’s weakness is that it is blind. In this way we are able to cast many small cuts and disruptions until the beast weakens and falls. 


Ending whiteness is an anarchist act which inherently breaks norms and disrupts power. Spell breaking is not performative; it is meant to cause actual disruption and requires true collective psychic action, not just a dance.                


We were born for this. May we cast together as spellbreakers for the benefit of the Mother.

The Inherent Violence of Whiteness

Breaking Down the Problem


1. Whiteness is an idea - not a biology or ethnicity.   


It is not in the body - it is in the mind, heart and spirit.  (fn 1)


Whiteness is a collective behavior; an agreement, a mutuality, a way of thinking, a team, a group murmuration, a practice, a system, an ideology, a gang mentality, a sexuality, a privilege, a hive consciousness, a belief system, an energetic forcefield, a spiritual practice, an aesthetic, a fraternal organization, a contract – any number of esoteric, ethereal and philosophical descriptors. 


It is not a person - it is an idea which has power. It is a sorcery.


Whiteness is intersectional with patriarchy, capitalism, westernism, modernity, christianity and western occultism. It is the unspoken meaning behind “American,” “male”, “normal”, “Christian”, “suburban” and “middle class”. In some circles it is synonymous with “God” and “Jesus”.


Whiteness is an identity proscribed at birth, based on parents’ identity. Like religion. It is not consensual; it is compulsory. Whiteness has no substance, it is an identity based on social constructions and behavior, without physical roots. It only exists as an idea where whiteness exists as an idea.  The trees do not know race; but they experience the impact of whiteness. (fn 2)


Because whiteness is in essence an energetic thought form shared by a group consciousness, it can be accessed in immaterial planes. Malevolent wizards understand this reality and use it to access and project into the white collective consciousness to further their destructive purposes. 


Benevolent practitioners can and should use their gifts to counter malicious forces and to help transmute us collectively towards outcomes of Grace. We outnumber the players who are trying to destroy us. Remember that the trees are on the side of justice. They have been watching and remembering and are in league with the Mother. We are root lineaged to all creations of nature; our collective body is not skin deep, nor is our mind.

2. Whiteness is a recent phenomenon. 


The idea of separate human races was conceived by 17th century patriarchs - European men - who needed to justify their impulse to violently dominate. It was used as a divider of the species, creating a hierarchy of entitlement which give white men the “right” to enslave, rape, steal, exploit, own, conquer, erase, ignore, torture, sell, violate, molest, kill, mutilate, breed, and steal the land, resources and wealth of racialized “others.” 


Race was not the cause of violence and greed - it was just an excuse for it.  Before inventing whiteness and its narcissistic ego white supremacy, Europeans were already practicing extraordinary acts of violence and greed on other Europeans.  


At the same time Britain was colonizing 17th century New England, it was also brutally colonizing Ireland. Under the military leadership of Oliver Cromwell, England slaughtered, raped, unhoused, starved and brutalized the people of Ireland  - reducing its population by up to 20%. It also criminalized the ancient magical Gaelic languages, violently assaulted the land, deforested the island and massacred native wildlife including every single Irish wolf. All in order to steal Irish land and resources.  Whiteness did not protect the Irish until the Irish became white.  (fn 3)


Europe was suffering a preexisting spiritual illness before it created the division of race.  The work that we do to break the spell of whiteness addresses the roots of this curse.


The European Christian churches (Catholic and Protestant) were complicit for centuries in the violence perpetrated against the people of Europe (including Ireland). And so it follows that they participated in and profited off of the violence against non-europeans outside of Europe.  (fn 4)


The church used its manipulative forces to cast, spread, uphold and capitalize on the spell of racial division.  It did so to increase its own holdings and power.  The church, in a shadowy sleight of hand, appropriated the violent strong arm of imperialism to force its patriarchal monotheistic hierarchical religion of christianity on the “untamed” non-christian world. 


The church’s sorcery was designed to spiritually repress ancient wisdoms and channel energy towards its male god of wealth and power, ritualistically destroying the traditional Earth, polytheistic and matriarchal practices which preceded Christianity.


Race was originally conceived as having religious implications - with white meaning christian, and non-white meaning non-christians. Because non-white was cast without power, it was not given a right to resist (or consent) - it could only obey.  


Christianity was used to spiritually bind colonized people who were forced to give up and destroy their traditional practices and “convert.” Faith was weaponized against whomever Europe wanted to rape and steal from. And the church got their cut of the take. The absolute diabolical treachery.


The merging of Christianity with imperialism coincided with the growth of organized occultist movements in Europe such as Freemasonry, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, the Order of the Golden Dawn and Satanism. 


These mostly male-concieved and led organizations focused on themes that disrupted dominant Christian hegemony, but also tended to be materialist, using supernatural forces to attain wealth, sex or power. Their influence on and connection to the spread of European expansion and white supremacy is evidenced globally in occultist symbols on memorials dedicated to white colonial domination, wealth and power.


The idea of whiteness was ritualistically cast against blackness  as an opposing force.  (fn 5)  As a parasitic energy, the curse feeds off the suffering, loss and indignation of blackness.  If blackness did not suffer, whiteness would have no benefit. It is a zero sum game theology.  


Blackness is a metaphysical metaphor for the  Unknown.  They are  inseparable concepts.    The heresy of whiteness generates fear of blackness as symbol of the  frightful unknown (to whiteness) in order to justify and manufacture inequality .  

3. Whiteness is a fundamentally exclusive and separatist ideology. 


Whiteness defines itself by what it excludes. Whiteness exists only as the ideological antithesis of “non-white”. Whiteness is the absence of racial stigma. 


While non-whiteness may exist in various shades and integrations, whiteness is defined by “purity” (ironically subjective and mutable) based on exclusion.  So central is the notion of exclusion in the concept of whiteness that it is impossible to be both white and non-white. To be non-white is to be racially excluded from whiteness.  Whiteness separates itself from all that is non-white, including its own kin and  closest blood family.   Whiteness  is  thus revealed as a disloyalty - a form of deception - a trick - a curse.


The exclusive nature of whiteness is unable to survive racial integration. It cannot just “do better” or “try to get along” with non-whiteness.  It is unable to coexist with non-whiteness.  Once whiteness integrates with non-whiteness, whiteness becomes non-white and is thus symbolically destroyed. **Poof!** The magic is gone!


Whiteness fears the death of whiteness.  The most violent white supremacist groups threaten the lives of others fueled by fear of white death - of “replacement” by non-whiteness.  Whiteness consciously and unconsciously understands that integration leads to the death of whiteness. 


Although whiteness perceives and projects its fear as if there is an actual physical threat to life and body, the death it fears is not, of course, physical.  What whiteness actually fears is an extreme racialized ego death that would result in its  loss of supremacy, status and power. 


Integration does not kill the person, just the whiteness of a person. Whiteness has since its inception codified separatism in order to preserve itself from the “death” of racial mixing. Racial division laws separating white from black were therefore among the very first passed in colonial America to insulate whiteness from non-whiteness.


The inability of whiteness to integrate and its existential fear of racial death is projected as racialized anxiety directed against non-white people.  This neurodynamic of whiteness is  meant to protect and preserve white racial exclusivity and superiority from the racial threat it itself created.  It is  an ouroboros - forever consuming itself. 


White self-segregation and separatism are practices of white insecurity - the other side of the coin of white supremacy.  Whiteness typically does not make an effort to integrate physically, socially, sexually, professionally, romantically, residentially, educationally, recreationally, spiritually, religiously or intellectually with non-whitenes. It is uncomfortable and therefore  incurious and unmotivated.


Non-whiteness has no choice but to integrate with whiteness; in the racialized paradigm, all is whiteness. Non-whiteness must always negotiate whiteness, while whiteness makes no reciprocation. It is a non-mutual relationship; inherently unequal.


Humans identify themselves in multitudinous ways which exist simultaneously without cancelling each other out. Ethnicity, often confused and conflated with whiteness, is not cancelled by other simultaneous identities. Irish ethnicity, for example, is not cancelled by intermixing with non-whiteness - one can be both Irish and non-white.  Only Irish people’s racial identity is cancelled by blackness. Blackness and Irishness can exist together in the same body but blackness and whiteness cannot. 


Only whiteness is destroyed by blackness - because whiteness is an illusion that has been cast that will go away. Because the death whiteness fears is nothing more than an ego death which would dissolve the illusion of supremacy (which, btw, spoiler alert, **everyone else can already see**).  


We can as witches help doula people past the illusion of whiteness. Dissolving the ego and birthing the liberated spirit is alchemical work. 

4. Whiteness is unable to exist peacefully with non-whiteness 

and therefore with itself - because it inherently sees non-whiteness as a threat to its exclusivity and thus its existence. It is bent into a contortion of incongruency. 


Although whiteness may sometimes "support" multiculturalism, it is not personally interested in multiculturalism (hence the running man dance and perpetual progressivism without ever actually arriving) because multiculturalism is fundamentally a threat to whiteness.  “Blackness” cancels “whiteness” so at the end of the day there can be no true integration for whiteness.  This is the fundamental premise of white supremacy.  

 

Although whiteness may at times profess to support  multiculturalism - it is conflicted by the  truth  that multiculturalism threatens whiteness's exclusivity and is therefore incompatible with whiteness.  This can present  a serious conflict.   Whiteness supports other people’s multiculturalism, but it does not engage in its own. 


Whiteness can not say the truth out loud  (which everyone outside of whiteness can already see) for fear of being called racist. Because, of course, the idea of white supremacy and the practice of white exclusivity and white separatism is in fact racist. Fundamentally so. It was designed that way. And so whiteness is perpetually contorted to defend itself. (fn5)


In this way the spell of whiteness reveals itself as the inability to align its true thoughts and its projected thoughts. The hypocrisy lingers over the reasoning. People racialized as white are forced to be psychically contorted; insincere.  Whiteness exists in a state of conflict between what is said and shown and what is felt and believed. 


For this reason many people racialized as white have extreme emotional reactions to the topic of “race” and often take behavioral measures such as anger and defensiveness to avoid having to reveal or interrogate themselves (or the white practitioners they feel obligated to protect).  The root of the nerve that is triggered by truth is where the source of the rot hides.


To the degree that people aligned with whiteness desire true connection to humanity which has been excluded from whiteness, they suffer deep feelings of guilt, shame and disconnection. 


Whiteness acts out its internalized shame by racially attacking, aggressing, minimizing, dismissing, targeting, surveilling, hating, fetishizing, demonizing, scapegoating, monitoring, controlling, raping, limiting, reducing, animalizing, dominating, abusing and stereotyping the racialized “other”.  Whiteness always behaves violently in order to protect itself from scrutiny. It contorts logic and reason to disguise its own shame and guilt.

5. Whiteness perpetuates itself through multigenerational acts of collective complicity


An unspoken code of silence, similar to that shared among police officers, protects people racialized as white from the full consequences of white behavior.  Whiteness allows whiteness to “get away with” behaviors that it does not allow non-whiteness to engage in.  Whiteness promotes and protects whiteness for the benefit of whiteness.


In exchange for the privilege of white racial impunity, whiteness imposes rigid physical, social, cultural, behavioral, intellectual, artistic, religious, sexual, relational, psychological and spiritual boundaries and constraints on people racialized as white. 


Persons racialized as white who break the rules of whiteness or fail to “go along and get along” with whiteness are punished, humiliated, questioned, threatened, attacked, stigmatized, belittled, ostracized, excluded, intimidated and shamed. 


In this way, whiteness is like a cartel or a gang or a mafia or an empire.  It enforces loyalty in exchange for protection (from risks and dangers it itself creates) under threat of violence. Whiteness requires conformity and obedience. 


Women racialized as white are required to commit their bodies and future legacies to whiteness. They must breed only with men racialized as white in order to have children who can be racialized as white in order to perpetuate whiteness. 


The non-white children of whiteness are excluded. (fn 6) Their own children. Excluded. 


The social engineering of segregation and exclusion combined with behavior codes of silence and complicity allow whiteness to act with impunity against non-whiteness with the guaranteed silence of whiteness.

6. We can evolve past whiteness. 

It is not “a given,” or “just the way things are.” Whiteness is a relatively new idea. It was cast and constructed by visionary persons for the sake of creating power just a few centuries ago. And so it can be deconstructed and recast by visionary persons creating balance and collective liberation today. 


Whiteness is only a current point of view, a perspective, a lens.  Whiteness had no relevance 2000 years ago, and it will not in 2000 years from now.  The greatest civilizations of the world  developed as a result of the miscegenation of people, ideas, religions, knowledge and magical practices.  Whiteness bottlenecks human evolution. It is time to evolve.


Whiteness is a form of multigenerational bondage - it is a state of constriction which operates to continually separate and insulate itself from the rest of humanity and by extension nature and the Great Mother.  It is an energetic castration; it halts further development.


Whiteness is not consistent with inclusive orientations of care, freedom, unity, collectivism, matriarchy, mutuality, nurture, creation, sharing, generosity, consent and reciprocity. 


Death, including the death of ideas, is a natural part of the cycle of life. The goal of this next generation is collective thriving. We must gracefully let go of the ideas and ways of being that no longer serve us.


Matricide - the aeonic curse of domination and violence against women, femme bodies and Mother Earth is one of the greatest and most ancient threats we collectively face - but we can not even begin to address the issue of violence against women when we are not even on the same page about our shared humanity. Whiteness erases non-white women (and all other women not conforming to the standards of whiteness).  It is a tool of the patriarchy.  Matricide can not fall while women are pledged to whiteness. We remain a house divided.   


Silence and complicity will not protect us from the planetary catastrophe of whiteness. Only our actions can break the spell. Sadly many “progressive” spiritual leaders harmfully perpetuate whiteness and segregation because they are blind to their own racialized beliefs. We are being ordered and legislated through “anti-woke” laws to stay asleep.  It is a good idea to wake the fuck up.  


We break the spell by exposing whiteness for what it is.  By pulling back the curtain and revealing the wizards who are pulling the levers we disrupt the illusion of power.  


Block it.  Become racially non-compliant. Tell on whiteness. Refuse to participate in its gang. Become racially feral. Interrupt its energy feed. Don’t fuck with it. Don’t feed it. Don’t offer it your sexual energy. Don’t obey. Interrogate segregated spaces and people. Don’t consent. Become interested in other things. Question white authority. Don’t go along or get along with white hegemony.  See it as the less attractive option. Look in a different direction. Shift the paradigm. Move it. Bend it. Defuse it. Reject it.


Whiteness can not be reasoned with or saved - it is firmly rooted in principles of injustice.  It is unable to co-exist with collective liberation  because it is a practice  which inherently rejects  freedom (especially for others).  Whiteness  enforces - through its strong arm of violence  secured by white silence - where and how people are allowed to live, travel,  worship, be in nature, work, eat, create , relax and socialize and who they are allowed to love, protect, care for, be attracted to and procreate with.  Whiteness  will always harm that which it seeks to exclude and control.   The practice of whiteness is an effort to  limit Nature.


We let go of whiteness (and the degradation of “race”) in the same way we leave other bad, outmoded and unpopular ideas behind. We just stop participating. We cancel it. No violent upheaval or drama necessary.  Just switch lanes. Grow out of it. Move on. It happens all the time. It is the nature of living things to change.


Whiteness is a fundamentalist religion.  You either are or you aren’t.  You are free to leave the churchOnce we can see the practice of whiteness for what it is we have the opportunity to defuse and reject it.   In doing so we  lose only  the  illusion.  Only the truth can set us  free.   If we have the collective will, we have the power and ancestral spirits to disrupt the spell of white supremacy and rebalance the wheel for the wellbeing of all our Mother's children. 




The Running Man - A Metaphor



What does it mean to be “progressive”? 

Progressing towards what exactly? 

Progressing towards fairness and equality? 

Progressing towards inclusion? 

Progressing towards responsibility? 

Progressing towards accountability?

Progressing towards justice?


I would argue that progressivism is actually a disguised practice of whiteness.  I would also argue that people impacted by white supremacy are not “progressing” towards the idea of equality and inclusion - they are already there. 


And what, exactly, is the starting point from which progressivism has advanced from? What is the distant racist past that it has left behind?  Because I would argue that people impacted by white supremacy were probably never there.  


They never embraced an ideology from which they needed to progress in order to believe in their own equality and freedom. Progressivism is irrelevant when you are already there. Progressivism is for people who need help to get there.  It is not radical.  


Actually being desegregated - physically, morally , intellectually, spiritually, energetically and psychologically - is radical.  Practicing liberation, equality, mutual care, reciprocity and consent  is radical.   Being awake to the greater exisitance of humanity and Creation is radical.  Caring for, being responsible for, feeding, housing, protecting , nurturing,  tending to, praying for and defending one's neighbor is radical.  Practicing the values of animism is radical.  Living in  conscious integrity to the Mother as divine  sister to all creation is radical. 


Progressivism is stuck in an infinite loop of progressing towards goals without ever actually  getting there.  


The running man dance is a wonderfully illustrative metaphor.  The dance, popularized in the 80’s by hip hop culture, features dancers performatively going through the motions of running, with arms and legs rhythmically pumping, while dancers run in place, so that they appear to be infinitely running without ever actually moving forward.  Infinitely performing progression without ever actually progressing.


Progressivism hijacks actual progress in social justice movements.  Progressivism advocates for change, but is often unwilling to cause the actual energetic disruption necessary for change. It is just performing (however vigorously) the running man dance.  


There is a lot of talk about multiculturalism in progressive spaces, but not enough actual desegregation of those spaces.  There is a lot of training and “listening” with very little productive outcome - because progressive spaces typically harbor the values of white supremacy. They are not intended to change the status quo; they just look like they are.


Progressives who see the negative impact of white supremacy as essentially a non-white problem that they are just "helping" with are practicing white supremacy.  This disingenuity subverts progress.


Actual change requires no dance skills - just change. The “walking” part of “talking the talk and walking the walk”.  


Or, as St. Francis Assisi originally put it:  “It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”


The performative progressive seems unable to distinguish between the running man dance and actually running. Progressivism will not get us where we need to go.


We are not here to run in place, we are here to move the wheel forward. 


“It’s the truth that the truth makes them so uptight.”  Sly & the Family Stone: Stand! (1969)



Staying Awake in An Era of Anti-Wokeness


The U.S. anti-woke argument defending whiteness goes something like: 


“Sure whiteness has done some bad things in the past (*slavery*) but it's mostly good and done great things for humanity and it's getting better about the other stuff (infinitely progressing) - Stop blaming whiteness you must hate white people you're racist! How are white people supposed to know what to do about racism? It didn’t happen to them so how could they know anything about it? I never owned slaves, my ancestors were poor or immigrants and worked hard and suffered and I’ve suffered a lot so I'm not privileged - race is just an excuse. I personally don’t even see race. So I don’t know what the big deal is.” *blink*blink* 


Whew. It's a lot to take in - especially for folks racialized as non-white. The magical swirl of admission and denial and guilt and deflection. Nothing to see here folks… move along… the Jedi you seek is not here…  


All of it designed to avoid and not respond to the unasked, unspoken, even unseen root question: that of the karmic responsibility of whiteness.


Breaking the spell of whiteness requires, first and foremost, the ability to see it clearly. To be able to discern it in all places.  You have to be able to sense it and point it out - systemic and mundane, subtle , normalized, rationalized, ubiquitous, stealthy, hidden, compelling and denied.   You have to be willing to admit its' crimes; to narc on it without the impulse to pardon or defend.  You have to look for it, know the places it haunts. Notice it.  If you can’t see it, if you are blind, then this work is not for you. Your medicine will have no potency because you can't see the illness.


You have to be able to pull the skin off whiteness. Whiteness is not flesh; it is an immaterial ghost which possesses a group of people who self identify with paler flesh. It is a wetiko. It is an impoverishment of spirit. It is a hunger.


Whiteness is perpetually hungry because it is an identity birthed of privilege and taking. It is an unfairness perpetrated to get more for the in-group.  The terminal sickness of whiteness is its insatiability. It was crafted as a weapon to steal and it creates want - endless want. It is an unfairness that even “good” people benefit from. But an unfairness nonetheless.

 

It socializes people to believe that they are different and therefore better and entitled to the biggest slice of cake. Of course that is not true, but when enough people reinforce that belief, it becomes a self affirming feedback loop. A circle jerk. The person believing that they are better might be willing to fight over it. 


We are witnessing the collective nervous breakdown of whiteness; it is suffering a spiritual crisis.  Whiteness is a fragile group ego, and white supremacy is the ego’s narcissist expression. 


Whiteness fears accountability, reciprocity and the potential of having to taste its own medicine. It is blind with fear. It is designed this way to hold its captives in bondage.


Beneficiaries of whiteness, fearing the shame and demotion that exposure will cause, instinctively try to conceal its true nature. It is necessary to be able to see past the smoke screens, mirrors, deflections, redirections and sleight of hand. 


There is no cure to whiteness, no fixing it to make it better. It is inherently and fatally flawed. Whiteness will continue to struggle because it is built on poor ground.  It is a philosophy of taking by violence which can only end in collapse. It is a serial treaty breaker. It is poison in the soil. It is not a sustainable practice.


To save the people you must be able to see the illness.  This is shamanic work. This is the work of witches who can see.

 


Genesis II


Rise Up Witches!

It is time to reclaim our rightful seat at the throne as keepers of the eternal flame, bearers of truth and protectors of life. 

Daughters of Sophia! Sisters of Brigid! Blooded Daughters of Mami Wata! Granddaughters of Pachamama! Inspirations of Tara! Muses of Sappho! Reflections of Lakshmi!

Clasp thy lineage fast to thy breast and bear the truth for all to witness - we are Daughters of the Mother Herself.  

We are here to claim our rightful inheritance.

The aeon of patriarchy is set under our feet; 

The Matriarch reclaims her blood and her soil.

We are not separate from Nature. We Are Her.

It is our right and honor to use our magic for the protection of our Divine Mother and all of her children.

Return us to the knowledge of the Tree of Life.

We are not separate - we are one root.

We are responsible for each other. 

We refuse to objectify life; the mother is not for sale; we will not be complicit.

Everything is alive! Everything is sentient!  Everything is family! 

Let us retake the wheel and direct our vessel towards Grace. 

May we keep the sacred balance and repent of our season of separateness while we cast this vision renewed and together.

May all beings be free.



Eve’s Treasure 

A New Gnostic Telling

One day the Demiurge was sitting on their luminous throne in the æther, pridefully basking upon the man they had made in their own image.  They cast their many eyes downward and beheld the man aping about the garden, swinging his penis at Eve, the woman who had just recently arrived. 


Eve was standing in front of a tree, greeting it in its own language, as she had with each new being she met in the garden.  The Demiurge, immediately seeing the reflection of Sophia in the spark of Eve, were struck with fear and outrage that this female might someday outshine their masculine creation.


They immediately set to work to thwart this unsettling trajectory.  The Liminal Godhead took a small seed and hid within it the secret of life, transforming the seed into a living vessel containing all of the Mystery’s magic codes. They buried the seed deep into the womb of a tree, where they felt certain the humans would not dare to look into the darkness.


What the Divine Creator did not know, however, was that the serpent, who was vastly ancient, was at that very moment making love to the tree.  As the tree and spiraling serpent vibrated together towards ecstasy, the glowing seed of knowledge was expelled from the tree in their climatic passion and landed directly into the hands of Eve.  


Eve, the tender and compassionate, at that very moment realized that the man who had been oggling and groping her intended to rape her! She quickly swallowed the glowing seed and stepped into the tree where she was able to hide from her violator.  From the safety of her arboreal protector, Eve watched in silent horror as the man and archons consumed her reflection.


It was in the heart of the tree of life that the serpent told Eve about the great mysteries which the seed contained.  The serpent, who always had her ear to the ground, perceived the Demiurge’s intentions of elevating the primitive man by hiding truth and wisdom from the Sophiac woman. The snake thus revealed to Eve that, hail, she was in fact fully of Grace and that her Mother, the Creator, was with her. Blessed also was the golden seed she had swallowed in her womb, which contained the eternal gift of awareness and life.


Discerning that the Demiurge would never allow Eve to be knowledgeable above the man created in their own narcissistic image, Eve became disguised as a lesser being, making herself smaller to hide the truth of what was hidden deep inside of her. Thus she avoided the wrath of man’s vengeful and jealous god. 


The man, being ruled by the insatiable hunger of his sexual organ, forced Eve under his dominion to control her body because he could not fathom her Grace. Thus the hungry and blind became rulers over the wise and perceiving.


Over generations Eve’s daughters forgot their gifts and the sacred magic of the ancient seed carried in their bodies. Hidden away, as in the darkness of a tree’s womb, lay the richest treasure of all creation - greater than all of the wealth, gold and power men use  violence to seek. 


Women alone were trusted to hold the secret keys to the living codes of all creation and the divine power to alchemize life into flesh. It is said that when women remember the Grace they hold within them, they will collectively rise and cast aside their false diminution to claim their place in the temple as rightful and true Leaders who are powerful and wise protectors of life and justice, lovers of Trees and Nature and the beloved Daughters of the Divine.





Footnotes

Whiteness  does not see or define itself by  the negative consequences it creates - it only  harvests the benefits while casting the costs on to others.  Racial  division and domination, whitewashing and erasure of non-white people and history, injustice, inequality, brutality, monitoring, violence, policing, imprisonment, segregation, economic disparity, exclusion, control,  repression, censorship, restriction, trauma, suffering, prejudice, bigotry and hatred are all the toxic byproducts of whiteness.  Whiteness produces and generates racialized harm which must be endured and navigated by people racialized as non-white.  Whiteness'  refusal to see, acknowledge or mitigate the harm it causes is a primary source of racial strife and struggle.   Whiteness makes the violence of whiteness the burden of non-whiteness rather than the responsibility of whiteness.  Non-whiteness  is forced to carry and be identified with and limited by the negative consequences and associations of whiteness, while whiteness shirks its responsibility for the harm it creates, reaping the benefits while demanding to be viewed as  "good'.    Whiteness is a practice of gas lighting.   Blind and narcissist. 

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