Alan Moore and Om (Part 2)

While Watchmen is considered one of the greatest graphic novels of history, the Swamp Thing series delivers extremely powerful ideas in small doses, like the lyrics of Milwaukee-bred Damato Dali. When Moore was assigned to continue Swamp Thing, he revamped the character from a typical monster to a mind-expanding elemental with powers drawn from, and rivaled by, Earth. The comics are typically sold in volumes:

This is Moore's second volume, "Love and Death." and it explores the world through the eyes of the Swamp Thing when his human love interest, Abigail Holland, eats a tuberous root off him.

Voila! Out of body experience. Abigail and the Swamp Thing are intertwined in an infinite fabric of dissolving and expanding consciousness. The lessons in reality continue to develop all the way through the intense ending of Volume 4, and once again in Volumes 5 and 6. These are incredible works revealing the clashing of good and evil and its effect on nature's glorious, hidden interactions.

Of the transcendentalists, Alan Moore is most similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The most common theme is the unity of nature. This is also a large aspect of Om's Pilgrimage.

Before dissecting Om lyrics, a small disclaimer is needed. If you are not acquainted with the metaphoric imagery of Shakespeare, the lyrics may be slightly difficult to understand.

For example, in Pilgrimage, "Sushumnic Vertebrae" requires an understanding of Latin prefixes. 

"Sus-" -Under, before

"Humnic-" Of the ground (Humus)

Vertebrae- Spinal Bones.. or Roots?

Is the Earth unlike the skeletal structure if roots are its' bones? The glorious relationship illustrated by this line is a key aspect of transcendentalism.

Now, Pilgrimage requires us to revisit the third eye:

"Witness from mind and psychic sheath a guardian sun restrains the world projection."

What is the psychic sheath? According to Alex Grey, from earlier, it is this:

The chakra (meaning "Wheels of Light" in ancient Sanskrit) points in their vertical alignment determine our spiritual bearings on the planet. According to David Icke, "These 'chakras' connect through into other energetic levels of being beyond human sight."

If the "guardian sun" is our solar system's sun, then "restrains the world projection" could refer to the ancient philosophical belief that the sun determines our reality. 

According to the Secret Teachings of All the Ages by Manly Hall,

"According to Robert Fludd, the

sun has three properties--life, light, and heat. These three vivify and

vitalize the three worlds--spiritual, intellectual, and material.

Osiris represents the third, or

material, aspect of solar activity, which by its beneficent influences

vitalizes and enlivens the flora and fauna of the earth. Osiris is not the

sun, but the sun is symbolic of the vital principle of Nature, which the

ancients knew as Osiris. His symbol, therefore, was an opened eye, in

honor of the Great Eye of the universe, the sun" (143).

The human DNA is crystalline, much like the crystal transmitter-receiver found in radios and other conduits of frequencies beyond the human range of sight. The sun emits photons, which determine the crystalline structures of our bodies in turn. Reality can in effect be programmed by the sun! Let's read that line again:

"Witness from mind and psychic sheath a guardian sun restrains the world projection."

Now, listen to the song.

Navigite Magnopere!

-SubTemplum