In Astrology, the Black Moon is a celestial body that moves in an orbit invisible to official astronomy. Hebrew Kabbalists refer to this mysterious orb as Lilith, the Black Moon.
Despite being rarely noticeable to observation instruments, astronomers Riccioli, Cassini and Alischer confirmed its existence.
The Pythagoreans called this star Vulcan, classifying it as a second satellite of Earth. Some occultists call it Anti-Earth, a planet analogous to Earth that would describe an ellipse in the opposite direction to the Earth.
In the Tarot card oracle, Lilith is associated with the Moon card (XVIII) and its dark face, whose symbolic contents refer to the impulses of the unconscious, the domain of illusions, the "sleep states of the soul", the practices of spells and spells.
THEOSOPHY
In Theosophy, or in the 'Old Religion", the secrets of the Black Moon belong to the profound knowledge of cosmogenesis, achieved by few among the highest Initiates. Theosophists assert that the Moon precedes the Earth; it is older.
In the evolutionary hierarchy of the cosmos, the Moon is the mother of the Earth. The "Lunar Gods", the Pitris (among the hindus), are ancestors of the human race:
The Lunar monads or Pitris, which are the ancestors of man, actually assume personality itself in a human existence. (BLAVATSKY. 2000, p 222).
In the planetary chain admitted in Theosophy, a globe that dies transfers its energy to another that is born. Aging through milenia, the Moon became virtually a dead planet, on which rotation almost ceased, after the birth of our Globe.
The Moon is, without a doubt, the Earth's satellite; but that doesn't invalidate the theory that she gave everything to Earth except her corpse. (...) And before this [the Earth] reaches its Seventh Round, its mother, the Moon, will have dissolved in the subtle air... (BLAVATSKY. 2000, p 199-200).
In this condition of a corpse, the symbolism of the Moon adds numerous morbid attributes:
The Moon is today a cold residue, the shadow dragged by the new body into which its powers and life principles were transfused. It is now condemned to follow the Earth for long Evos (Eons), attracting it and being attracted by it. Incessantly vampirized by his daughter, he takes revenge by impregnating her with the harmful, invisible and poisonous influence that emanates from the hidden side of her nature.
Because it is a dead Body, and yet it lives. The particles of his decaying corpse are full of active and destructive life, although the body they formerly formed is soulless and lifeless. (...) Like ghosts and vampires, the Moon is a friend of sorcerers and an enemy of the reckless. (BLAVATSKY. 2000, p 200).
It is on the Moon that theosophists locate the region of Kama-Loka or the Sublunar World, where the dead migrate and where they remain to purge, from their spiritual essence, the impurities of materialism, errors and earthly crimes and where they must undress themselves. of his Kama-rupa, the astral-animal body-soul.
LILITH: BLACK MOON MYTHOLOGY
Lilith, representation on clay tablet, Mesopotamia. In the figure, the classic characteristics: the woman, a demon. Bird of prey claws, wings, flanked by two owls and two lions. Piece dated around 2000 years before Christ.
Lilith is one of those mythological figures whose origins are lost in a nebulous past. Her biography accounts are contradictory, after millennia of mixing between the beliefs of various peoples. The best-known syncretism is the combination of Mesopotamian and Israelite legends. The oldest narratives are found in the culture of Sumer.
In the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh (2000 BC) she appears as a sterile prostitute with a zoomorphic appearance, beautiful and young, with owl's feet and bat wings.
The attributes of nocturnal beings are signs of Lilith's affinity with the nocturnal hours and, by extension, with darkness, darkness.
Her evil, demonic nature, with a violent and tempestuous spirit, migrated from the Chaldeans to the Jews. In the sacred books of Judaism, the myth of Lilith is included in an unofficial version of anthropogenesis.
There are references in the Talmud, the Zohar and the Tora. Confusing plots surround the character: she sometimes appears as the unsubmissive woman, who preceded Eve but, due to her rebellion, was expelled from Paradise; Now, she is a personification that refers to a kind of "untold story" of Eve.
Apocryphal tradition states that God failed to create the first woman. Making the creature out of clay and breath, just as she had done with her firstborn, Adam, He made she equal to him. This was Lilith: arrogant, she claimed her substantial equality to refuse subjection to her husband.
Cursed by God, she abandoned paradise and went to live in the desert, in the region of the Red Sea: There where demons and evil spirits live (...) a cursed place.
Another version presents a different reason for Lilith's revolt. Adam's first wife, the traditional Eve, would have had children. However, the angels, jealous because of God's attention to man, vengeful, mercilessly killed the children.
Brutalized by supreme misfortune, Eve transforms into Lilith and leaves the Garden of Delights. There was nothing left for her but to go to the underground worlds where, allying herself with the demons, she learned the magical arts and the practice of vampirism, ultimately becoming, herself, one of the most powerful demons on the face of the Earth.
BRIDE OF SAMAEL
It was there, in Hades (Greek) or Hell (Catholic-Christian), that Lilith met Samael, the Lord of the Evil Forces of the Sitra Achra (on the other side).
They became lovers. Lilith is called "the bride of Samael". Together, they reign over all the evils that afflict humanity.
This union resulted in demonic offspring: Lilith gave birth (or rather, to the darkness) to one hundred demons a day, offspring known as Liliotes or Linilins.
Meanwhile, in Eden, God provided a second wife for the lonely Adam. In order to avoid feminist pretensions, the Lord decided to produce this other from a part of Adam's own body.
He chose the rib, which wouldn't be diference, and fill that local with a few more flesh. The new Eve was born as a byproduct of Adam.
However, once again, although reasonably submissive, it was curious Eve, who, succumbing to her desire for the apple of knowledge, dragging her husband along in her dareness, caused the definitive expulsion of the human race which, outside of God's domain, would suffer all the difficulties and tragedies that have made and continue to make the history of humanity.
Since then, the eternal conflict has been established that torments man, always divided between impulses, for good and for evil.
Just like the Devil, the Serpent and Satan, Lilith represents evil in its feminine side, inspiring everything from the misfortunes of fortune to the most perfidious actions of individuals.
Some of Lilith's "titles" are: Queen of Evil, Queen of the Night, Mother of Succubus, Mother of Demons, Black Moon (the latter, a relationship with astrological symbolism).
Due to her dark resume, Lilith's origins were colored with stronger details. Once a demon, she would have been created, "in truth", from dust and excrement or even from saliva and blood (Hebrew tradition).
LILITH'S CURSES
Samael is a polygamous demon. He has three more wives, in addition to Lilith, and she also has relationships with other demons.
They are the other three wives of the Lord of Evil: Aggarath, Mochlath and Nehemah. The latter is considered as powerful as Lilith.
The analysis of syncretism allows us to interpret Lilith and Nehemah as different aspects of the same force. In HISTORY OF MAGIC, Eliphas Levi comments on the attributes of Lilith and Nehemah:
'There are in hell – say the Kabbalists – two queens of vampires; one Lilith, mother of miscarriages, the other Nehema, the fatal and murderous beauty.
When a man is unfaithful to the wife destined for him by heaven, when he gives himself over to the paths of a sterile passion, God takes his legitimate and holy wife and gives him to the kisses of Nehema.
This queen of vampires knows how to appear with all the charms of virginity and love; it takes away the hearts of parents, leads them to abandon their duties and their children; it brings widowhood to married men, it forces men devoted to God into sacrilegious marriage. (...) Nehema may be a mother, but she does not raise her children; she gives them to Lilith, her disastrous sister, to devour.
Lilith's evil action in the daily lives of men and women is documented in Assyrian, Babylonian and Hebrew folklore. Whether to avenge her children killed by men, or due to the curse she carries, the appearances and influences of this demon are always characterized by terror.
Like the succubus, she attacks the sleep of the unwary by imposing violent sexual relations which result in hybrid creatures, a mixture of people and demons.
She also produces nightmares, mounting the chest of sleepers and suffocating them while producing terrifying visions (here she resembles Jurupari, a demon among Brazilian Indians who acts in an identical way).
Among other evils, Lilith would be responsible for the disagreement that resulted in the murder of Abel, by Cain, for the sterility of men and women, abortions, illnesses in children (which weakens them, vampirizing them), marital discord, adulteries. In the Chronicle of Cain (JOCASTIAN, 2002), Lilith appears as the first sorceress in the world.
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BLAVATSKY, Helena Petrovna. A doutrina secreta. Cosmogênese. São Paulo: Ed Pensamento, 2000.
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