Second Edition
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Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D.
Priest of Set
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© 2016, 2018 by Michael A. Aquino
Barony of Rachane
Post Office Box #470307
San Francisco, CA 94147
U.S.A.
http://www.rachane.org
ISBN-13:
978-1522965084
ISBN-10:
1522965084
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Books by Michael A. Aquino
[all available in both printed and Kindle ebook editions]
Non-Fiction
The Church of Satan (2 Volumes)
Extreme Prejudice:
The Presidio “Satanic Abuse” Scam
IlluminAnX: Rosicrucianism Reawakened
The Mind Trilogy
MindWar
MindStar
FindFar
The Neutron Bomb
The Temple of Set (2 Volumes)
Fiction
FireForce: A Star Wars Parody
Including: Secret of the Lost Ark
Morlindalë: Song of Illuminate Darkness
- by “The One Ring”
Ode to Esmé: Memoirs of Captain Nemo
We Break the Sword: The Nazi Peace of 1940
Autobiographical
Ghost Rides
Including: Grail Mission
Edited
Pegasus in Pinfeathers: Collected Poems 1919-1928
- by Betty Ford
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Lilith and I dedicate MindStar to our fur-, feather-, and
scale-family, to whom we owe more than we can express,
and whom we shall rejoin at the Rainbow Bridge:
Amani (wolf)
Lucifer (iguana)
Seti (black cat)
Arkte (wolf)
Lucky Canyon
Shaman (wolf)
Aslan (red tabby
(bluebird)
Shaolin (cougar)
cat)
Luna (black cat)
Shenandoah
Bandit (Maine
Majick (black
(tiger)
Coon cat)
cat)
Sid & Midge
Basil (black cat)
Nefertum
(pigeons)
Bina (Siberian
(Persian cat)
Siegfried
forest cat)
Nikki (Siberian
(iguana)
Brandy (Irish
forest cat)
Sigmund (wolf)
setter)
Oakey (turtle)
Smoky
Cecil (lion)
Ollie (cream
(Nebelung cat)
Dokey (turtle)
tabby cat)
Spirit (red tabby
Dynamite
Pandora (black
cat)
(Mynah)
cat)
Stormy (wolf)
Esmeralda (seal)
Patch (brown
Tabitha (calico
Fafnir (iguana)
tortie cat)
cat)
Fleur (mouse)
Paul (Scottish
Thurber
Foxy (dog)
terrier)
(Weimaraner)
Honeybear (dog)
Pierre (mouse)
Tsunami (tiger)
Jasmine (brown
Prince (Sheltie)
Tunyan (wolf)
tabby cat)
Rachane (wolf)
Vivian (black
Jesus Christ
Raja (cat)
cat)
(raccoon)
Rofocale (black
Layla (wolf)
cat)
Lorlelei (black
Sekhmet (black
cat)
cat)
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Table of Contents
Dedications
7
Dr. Raghavan Iyer
9
Table of Contents
11
Preface
15
Chapters
1: The Universes
25
A. Multiversality
25
B. The Objective Universe
26
C. The Subjective Universe
28
D. Subjective/Objective Interaction
28
E. Collective Subjective Universes
29
F. The Universal Course of MindStar
30
2: Conscious Existence
31
A. Consciousness
31
B. Metaphysics: Consciousness as an Entity
32
C. Physics: Consciousness as an Illusion
32
D. Inconsequence
34
3: Egypt
35
A. Confronting Ancient Egypt
35
B. Egyptian History
37
C. The Neteru
42
D. Set
46
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4: Anamnesis from “Soul” to MindStar
55
A. Anamnesis
55
B. Western Religious CSU
57
C. The Judæo-Christian Soul
58
D. Jewish and Christian Afterlifes
60
5: Anamnesis MindStar
65
A. MindStar
66
B. Fields
67
1. Definition
67
2. Life-Fields
68
3. Telos
69
4. Thought-Fields
70
C. Egyptian MindStar Emanations
73
1. Khat
74
2. Ren
76
3. Khabit
77
4. Ab
77
5. Ba
78
6. Ka
79
7. Sekhem
81
8. Akh
81
9. Conventionalist Blinders
82
6: MindStar Activity
83
A. Metaphysical Evidence
83
B. Logos
84
C. The Telos of Logos
86
D. Historical Non- Telos: Free Will
87
1. Sophism
88
2. Skepticism
89
3. Epicureanism
89
4. Stoicism
90
5. Cynicism
92
6. Scholasticism
92
7. Reformation:
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Crisis of Theological Determinism
95
8. Secular Negative Free Will
98
9. The Enlightenment:
Secular Positive Free Will
101
10. Secular Emotional Free Will
105
11. Free Will:
Religious Curse to Secular Obliteration
109
E. Historical Non- Telos: Determinism
110
1. Empiricism
112
2. Dialectic Idealism
114
3. Will to Power
118
4. Dialectic Materialism
122
5. “Mind Control” and MindWar
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126
7: “Death” Demystified
129
A. From Terror to Transformation
129
B. Who Owns Your Body:
130
1. State?
131
2. Religion?
131
3. Profession?
132
4. Psychiatry?
133
5. Family?
133
6. Familiars?
134
7. Yourself!
134
C. Materialism - “The Big Black Sack”
135
1. The Conceit of Atheism
135
2. The Timidity of Agnosticism
138
3. The Prison of Physics
138
4. The Taboo of Metaphysics
139
5. Inadequate Alphabetics
140
6. Symbolism
140
7. Orwellian UnWords
143
8. Sacking the “Sack”
145
D. Profane Religions
148
1. Extrapolating Ignorance
148
2. Procrustean Prescription
149
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3. Sometimes They Come Back
151
a. Reincarnation
151
b. Resurrection
153
(1) Necromancy
154
(2) Zombification
155
E. Posthumous Pageantry
156
F. Monolithic Anamnesis
156
G. Neter-Xertet
160
H. The Two Paths
162
1. The Right-Hand Path
163
2. The Left-Hand Path
164
I. Meta-Morphosis
167
1. Khat-alyst
169
a. Khat-alepsy
169
b. Khat-astrophe
169
2. Ab-solution
169
a. Ab-sense
170
b. Ab-sence
173
J. Prescience
175
1. Prudence
176
2. Practicality
176
3. Pageantry
177
8: Sic Itur Ad Astra
179
A. States of Life
179
B. Sensory Deprivation
185
C. MindStar Visions
188
D. The Emperor of Dreams
193
E. The End of the Beginning
194
Afterwords: The Sphinx and the Chimæra
199
Bibliography
267
Index
281
About the Author
287
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Preface
What the dead had no speech for, when
living, they can tell you, being dead:
The communication of the dead is tongued
with fire beyond the language of the living.
- T.S. Eliot1
What is conscious existence? As humans experience
it, what is its significance to them? And does it have a
consequence?
These questions are not only at the core of human
introspection, but dictate both individual and group
beliefs concerning reality. Such beliefs in turn both
encourage and constrain behavior. If, for instance, you
regard your incarnated physical life as the complete
extent of your existence, you will tend to conduct yourself
much differently than an immortal being only
temporarily linked to a physical body.
Closely related to this problem is the question of
purpose: Do humans have one, and if so, whence comes
1 MindStar was written by a dead man, in that I came extremely close
to physical death from cancer during 2015. That lent a special
motivation and urgency to creating this book, in disregard of pain
and exhaustion, in order to make its contents available to suitable
readers within this physical environment. Had it been written by a
living man, it might not have been tongued with fire.
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it? Assumptions concerning this also channel thoughts,
statements, and actions of both individuals and groups.
Indeed so fundamental are these two issues that all
else can be seen as mere footnotes to them. Physical
science focuses on discovering and deciphering the
machinery of the Objective Universe (OU), and takes
great pride in its [insistently-claimed] objectivity in doing
so. And yet all such knowledge of external mechanisms is,
in the final analysis, pointless unless related and relevant
to conscious experience of it. If someone is not there to
apprehend and appreciate it, the entire OU can emerge,
exist, and exmerge as mere happenstance. If it is not of
interest to some perspective consciousness, it is irrelevant
whether it exists or not. [My efforts to write this book are
wasted, and the book itself inconsequential unless you
read, understand, and apply it.]
My companion book MindWar includes an
examination of what I term “thought architecture”.
Humans are normally both ignorant of and unconcerned
with how their thoughts originate and are structured.
They “just think”, and that is all there is to it.
But that is not all there is to it. The interface between
the consciousness (alternately “the mind”) and the
physical senses (body mechanisms receiving disturbances
from and changes within the OU) is the brain: an
electromagnetic/chemical machine which processes raw
sensory inputs into either predetermined/recognized
patterns or new experiences modifying existing patterns
or forming the bases of new ones. Overwhelmingly -
about 95% of the time - this is a passive process occurring
in the subconscious. 2
An additional 5% rises to the attention of
consciousness to require active consideration:
2 Cf. Leonard Mlodinow, Ph.D., Subliminal: How Your Unconscious
Mind Rules Your Behavior (New York: Pantheon, 2012).
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algorithmic thought. This results in deliberate
decision-making, and also in assignment of the input to
an existing or new pattern into which it did not fit
automatically/subconsciously.
MindWar is a manual for practical applications in the
OU, so concentrates on the identification and control of
pattern and algorithmic thought. It is thus a book about,
and a concept of [OU] science.
There is, however, a third element of thought
architecture, only briefly mentioned in MindWar for the
sake of thoroughness: conceptual thought. Also called
“creative” or “divine”, this identifies thinking which is not
the product of OU externalities and the brain’s sorting,
recognizing, and classifying mechanisms. It comes into
existence in pure uniqueness: what Plato termed nœsis,
or “enlightened intuition”. It is not a construct of the OU;
rather it generates its own “subjective” universe (SU). As
each such thought is discrete, an individual experiencing
such will apprehend consequently numerous/unique
SUs, all of which, in varying degrees of arbitrary
importance, coalesce into a comprehensive SU (CSU).
In addition to serving as the “mirror” of the
individual’s existence and unique identity, the CSU also
functions as an inexorable and inescapable filter through
which interactions with the OU must pass. If input from
the OU is not intelligible to the CSU, it is simply
disregarded [if it is detected at all] as “noise”. 3
Humans are most commonly familiar with this
phenomenon as “not wanting to hear” or “tuning out”
3 The electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) ranges from a theoretical
“long wave” the length of the OU to short, high-frequency waves a
fraction of the size of an atom. While the extremes of the EMS are
theoretically infinite, for practical scientific measurement the range
extends from 0 Hz (hertz = cycles per second) to 10 picometers (a
picometer being a trillionth of a meter). Within this vast range of EM
radiation (EMR), the conscious human senses can detect only the
tiny ranges of visible light, heat, and audible sound.
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information in conflict with their accustomed CSUs.
Particularly entrenched and rigidified instances are often
called “sacred cows”, and on a more comprehensive scale,
“religions”.
The academic and scientific community prides itself
on existing intellectually only within the OU, indeed to
the extent of rejecting any SU as an inconvenient and
annoying obstacle of “irrationality” to be overcome,
ridiculed, and ignored. Nevertheless such puritans have
done nothing more than substitute an established-
consensus SU to override individual ones. This becomes
“accepted” science [or as disciples would prefer to say,