THE MYTHOS

The mythology of the Novum Carta is expansive and exists as an egg within an egg within an egg. Within each egg exists a new reality to uncover. We humans exist within the most inner sphere and as we work our way out, it becomes more expansive with beings of unimaginable and indescribable power. Our mythos begin at creation.

THE MOTHER & THE ONE

The Mother is an honorific given to the mother of The One. The Mother, being the lowest on the hierarchy of goddesses and gods that exist outside The Source, wanted a child. She without permission and without consort chose to conceive regardless. She willed The One into being within her womb and birthed him. After she gave birth to The One, the other great goddesses and gods seeing that he was not like them banished The One from their kingdom.

The great nameless gods and goddesses from their combined will created The Source and confined The One within it. The Mother’s last duty was to bestow The Source with the ability to provide life and experience to The One so that He may know happiness in eternity.

Existing alone in the darkness of nothingness, confined within The Source, The One created the universe for which we exist: The Great Egg. He then created the lesser gods and goddesses, our world, many other worlds, and the mechanisms for life to form. These gods and goddesses were created to watch over the many sentient forms of life that were created.

He has no name but only the honorific The One, the creator of man, woman, and everything. The One is not the same as Demiurge in Gnostic religious hierarchy nor is The One, Abraxas.

The duality that exists within nature and us exists within Him as well. He encompasses the full duality of existence in both being good and evil, existing as order and chaos, of knowing everything and nothing, being everywhere but being in one place, and of existing and not.

THE SOURCE

The Source permeates all existence inside this universe and beyond. It is the fabric that creates the particles of our being and from which The Cycles of human experience come about from. It is the ether through which our will is done, from which fate resides, destiny originates, and the source that emanates the Hermetic Principles.

The Source is the divine and the spiritual, and the framework for magick to work its ways. It is the home of spiritual entities and deities that exist around us, through us, and it is the place we return to when we shed our mortal bodies. It is the source of consciousness for which we all share. The Source gives time to reality, consciousness, and is a mechanism for all existence to be.

Consciousness is a mechanism for streaming self-aware sentient life experience back to The Source. The Source is a perpetual experience machine built by the gods; The Mother, an old god, gave it life by creating The One. He in return used its abilities to create the universe on top of The Source. The purpose of The Source is to know everything about everything and to give experiences to those that have consciousness. We are the experiencers that feed The Source.

When we die, we return to The Source which determines our fate. If we lead a good life filled with unique life experiences the chances will be that we are reborn again, but this is not always the case. If we are chosen, our consciousness is transposed into a new body at an early age, and we live a new life. However, not all consciousnesses are old, some are new, and The Source is the controlling mechanism for this.

You, me, and all the humans in between share a common home. Just as our bodies exist from dead stars, so too our consciousness is born from The Source. We are not guaranteed an afterlife and as such, it is imperative that we live the best lives here in the material world.

THE TEACHER

The Teacher is one of the highest forms of human nature. This highest form of being is one who teaches The Way. The Way can be condensed as thoughts and ideas and ways to live one’s life in a productive, honorable, and natural manner. It can come in many forms. The Way has existed throughout the age of man, changing slightly through the years, but the message remains ultimately the same.

The Way is taught by The Teacher, an honorific. There have been many Teachers that have existed in The Cycles of Man. Every few hundred years a new Teacher, whether religious or philosophical, is born and gives us lessons to live by. These lessons come from a source of the divine or of the mind.

Philosophy, too, has produced Teachers. The Teacher can also be a philosopher so long as their message and their life were exemplary and taught lessons directly or indirectly of The Way. Among the most recent religious Teachers were Jesus and Muhammad, but many have existed before including Buddha and Confucius. Among the most recent philosophical Teachers was Carl Jung, but many have existed before including Descartes and Plato.

Each one of these Teachers taught human beings how to live a meaningful existence or spiritually fulfilled life. They taught us how to be good people, live moderately, and how to die well.

Below that of The Teacher are those who learn The Way and spread the word. These are The Messengers. There is no Teacher in the Novum Carta, but there are Messengers who Walk the Paths and spread the word about The Way.

The role of those who follow the Novum Carta are detailed later in this book under The Duty.