Impressions on Iron Gates Chapters Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven
Impressions on Iron Gates Chapters Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven
Nadezhda Summons Her Underworld
These two chapters, twenty-six and twenty-seven, are really one continuous episode. The reasons for their breaking apart were perhaps due to an interruption of the writing process, an intentional numerological move to satisfy the needs of total chapter number, or to divide the operations into atomic units divined only by the minds behind the work.
Nadezhda, having applied to the torture center to serve herself as an officer in “applied intelligence”, also known as TORTURE, finds herself in the increasingly telling position of an inmate. Past a humongous female secretary who processes her according to her stated name, she is led deeper and deeper into the torture center, past officially known areas, down to an underground area in which a female cult member wearing a cowl that completely hides her face receives them.
Apparently, this liaison between torture center and commandant cult is not well-known, but she, Nadezhda, as an intelligence agent and decoder, suspected as much. She just expected to be doing the torture rather than being the subject of it. She is not particularly strong and only dreams of the involvement she will have in the torture center and how it will propel her “career” under the auspices of the commandant. All her dreams are coming true, just not how she expected.
In simple terms, this is a karmic development.
In different terms, this is also what all Western occultists are warned against.
It isn’t only about being careful about what you wish for, but rather, knowing how to engineer your requests, your expectations and having a clear understanding of the consequences of that which you seek.
Lest you end up like Nadezhda, in a cold cell, awaiting the ministrations of the most depraved and cynical torturers in the name of a cruel goddess in the flesh, an authentic cult of death and destruction, not unlike that which fills the coffers of the bankers, arms dealers, and human traffickers of today’s world.
That world will one day come to an end through technological development and the higher will of a more effective humanity. And such a future in which we overcome self-chosen suffering is a work in progress, one that requires more advanced methods of direction, of healing, and of training yourself for resilience and increased independence.