Arcthuris 3

Arcthuris 3
I myself am astounded at how much there is in Arcthuris. After five years' study of 594 in libraries, I found so much, and was so pleased, aesthetically, with what I found, that I thought I had found most things, had plumbed the page to the bottom or near bottom. But with the enormous power of search engines, I can find much more in much less time, although online search has some limitations compared with libraries. For instance, I don't have access to the OED, which JJ seems to have swallowed whole. His appetite and memory for words is enormous. But the Bodleian has gone or is going on Google.
Thuris, Gk, window, audience window of king or court officials, embrasure in battlements. Thuris cognate with through? Through occurs three times on fw594.
Thuris, diminutive of thura. Thura, door, window shutter, royal court or court of lovers clients disciples, beginning, entrance, sluicegate, entrance to soul. Cf Hermes, god of thresholds. Cf Janus [ = Diana = Artemis = Arkas = Arthur]. Did Jesus say I am the door? I can't remember.
Thuris, OHG, giant, daimon, etc. Ie, Being full of energy. Thor, the Zeus of the North, giantkiller, god of thunder and lightning. Thuris day, Eng, 1517, Thursday, Thor's day. The rune thorn, Proto-Germanic *thurisaz. The rune thorn: Alone am I to ward against danger, never do I falter. Cf Bearward. Thorn means defense, destruction, enclose, protect sacred enclosures, conceals entrances, testing, challenge, conflict, gateway, hidden danger, concealment puzzle, misfortune, evil, cruel, pain, chaos, natural forces that can damage or kill, sudden danger, attack, weapons, hostility, war, wounding, injuries passion violence male sexuality, fire, blackthorn, oak, leek, red, intense, searing, sharp, awakes the will to act, activity, active mind, sword, polarities. Cf All good things are hard, Plato. No pain, no gain. Frost giants, [frostbite?] Thor's hammer rights wrongs, defends weak. Cf Dah. Cf Artemis. Cf Arthur. Thorn causes sickness to women [menstrual, childlabour?] The gist seems to be extreme yang, a sharp sudden painful shock. The Prussian army, Blitzkrieg, shock and awe, corporal punishment in schools, torture, ambush, military element of surprise, would be under the rune thorn. With protective enclosure, cf Thuris, Boeotian Gk, 1970, ['an old verb'] fenced around. Cf Apollo, etym, enclosure, Apollo-Artemis protective gods of cities. Cf Artemis-Apollo-Ursula arrows.
Thus, thuris, L, frankincense. Hence Arc thuris is arc of frankincense. Frankincense implies sacrifice offering burning, returning something from body to spirit [smoke], using fire to elevate sacrifice to god. Which implies interface of worlds. So thuris is metonymic for all efforts to go from finity-self to infinity-self, to scatter brand. The god, in casting off limitation, is inflicting it on those 'below' - so that they too can go from finity to infinity, can have a shell to break open. Brand, ie, bran, husk, shell, brand, phallus, little man, finite self, limitation, polarity bias, yang not yin, cf Gallus, fw594, selfcastrating priest of great goddess, = HCE-ox, Bran as grain of wheat being eaten by great goddess, = drop merging with ocean, brand as mark, mark as distinction, distinguishment, either-this-or-that, brand as sword, torch, sword and torch are symbols of death, physical extermination and psychic determination, spirit, Word, purification through illumination or truth, scatter brand implies scatter seed, seed is limitation, microcosm, that which must die to live, brand as Ibsen's Brand, who is energetic but limited, narrow, etc.
[JJ had fire first, then brand, which then 'freed him up' to change the weak dawnlight to dawnfire, fw594, JJ not wanting to waste words - which makes the presence of three throughs on 594 all the more significant. This dawn page is all about interface of opposites, passing from old self to new self.]
Symbolism arc, arch: dynamic, moving life and growth, victory, strength. Arc de triomphe. Joan of Arc. Arch is also gateway.
Symbolism of frankincense. [Frankincense is free incense, incense that gives off smoke freely, abundantly.] F is sweetsmelling. Used medicinally. F, as one of three gifts to Christ, signifies esp. his spiritual side, virtue, aroma of sweetness, role as high priest [gold = king, myrrh = human, suffering, the myrrh plant has thorns]. Myrrh and F are resins that bleed from trees, and this bleeding is aided by incisions, symbolic of flow of love, increased by wounds. F signifies Christ perfuming world with his spirit, healing, antidote to poison of sin [error]. Incense clouds are equated with pillar of smoke that guide wanderers. Sky fw594.01, Da, cloud. Newel, fw594.01, Eng, pillar. The Temple is called hill of F. Arc of F is close enough to be hill of F. Solomon's beloved's breasts are hill of F. So altogether F = everything divine, sublime and fine. [But use of incense in religion is letter not spirit, theatre not spiritual experience. It is an effort to be spiritual, an ersatz spirituality. It is a material portrait of spirituality, not spirituality.]
Symbolism thunderbolt: punish, water, fertilise, power, fortitude, defiance of danger.
Arc, Fr Catalan Romanian Valencian, bow. Cf Artemis. Arc, Fr, arch. Arc, Catalan, thornbush. Cf thuris, thorn. Arc, Eng, portion of circle, electric arc [cf lightning, Thor]. Cf cromlech, curved [ie, strong] stone.
Thuri, Aymara [Bolivia], steady strong solid stable firm established. Cf artemes, Gk, safe and sound. Although it is unlikely that JJ knew or cared about Aymara thuri, it is interesting to see it 'works'. Can there be something in the sound that conditions its uses, whatever the language? Yes, that is what onomatopoiea means. For all JJ's incredibly advanced play with meanings, he never seems to forget the sound value. Arcthuris has a special sound value. The confrontation of that k sound followed by the thur is very powerful. Much stronger than arcturus, which can be said without particular emphasis. Arcthuris is the sort of word someone doing magical incantations would be pleased to have. Arcthuris is the shock meeting of the hard and the soft.
Arctur, fw621.8. Arctura, 494.13.
Arkas is also culture hero of wine, and the cart, cf Charles' Wain [Wagon]. People seem to have chucked all their culture treasures, and culture heroes, at Arcturus. Which of course makes sense. Hunting, ploughing, wagoning [the wheel]. Arkas, Arthur [Arthur's Haunt], Kallisto-Artemis. In India, the seven stars of the great bear are the seven sages or rishis. And the root of rishi is [so I read] - bear.
Harold Bayley, who doesn't always give his evidence, says that Ak = great, in Karnak, Carnac [great cairn, great gathering of stone], Menak [a great stone at Carnac, men is Brythonic stone], Cormac, archos, aktor [Gk chief] archon, magnus, maximus, Akrea [Juno, great Rhea] Merodach [Assyrian Jupiter] and oak [sacred to Jupiter, certainly is the great tree]. So perhaps we can say that arc is indistinguishable from ideas of greatness. Bayley says that thur is Old Scand, Phoenician and Chaldee for bull, and that there is a bull's head on Thor's chest. He says that Asur was said three times at Nineveh, like Holy holy holy. And he connects Asur and azure, the blue of the heavens. All this in general makes sense: great things would tend to associate with other great things, including with the fiction of gods.
But the human hunt for greatness is telling, it shows a consciousness of apparent littleness and weakness, which consciousness can only exist by contrast. Animals don't seem to have it, animals don't have a complex about being weak or little, mice and antelopes just get on with it and get eaten when they have to be. This obsession for greatness suggests that humans feel uncomfortable in littleness, in finity, in partness, which suggests they have a buried memory of being infinite. And this urge to have friends in high places, even to the point of having imaginary friends in high places, works two ways, depending on which end of the thunderbolt, which side of the thorn barrier, you are. And reliance on friends in high places works against selfsufficiency, responsibility, activeness, spontaneity, consciousness of one's own powers, freedom. Svadesia, 594, selfsufficiency. Know thyself means Experience your self, your Self, the worldseed you are, hidden by your bodily apparent self. Be still and know I am god means the same, Ignore for a moment the messages of the bodily senses, and ignore the constant film and chatter of the mind, which is based on bodily sense experience, and experience yourself, the infinite energy that is running, managing, operating, maintaining, repairing, feeding this almost infinitely complex body, which is consciousness energy existence, formless timeless changeless ever'streaming'. Everstillstreaming. [Identity of kinesis and stasis, coincidentia oppositorum.] Be! 594. Riverrun. Atman as evars, fw596. There is a knack to it because it is no longer a subject-object experience, as we are used to, but a subject one. Which is the meaning of the eye-sun [identity of subject and object] on the good old dollar bill, at the peak of the pyramid, the peak experience. Bar, Persian Gaelic, god good heap hill summit peak chief leader etc. There is another knack to it, because it is not form, as we are used to, but utterly formless. We give ourselves unthinkingly to experiencing outwardness otherness, this and that, the formed, and never take time to experience the experiencer. Hence the reminders. The outis-zeus [=nothing-god], the neither-this-nor-that. 'The highest pitch of absolutely nothing'. Ie, the utterly formless, characteristicless [or allcharacterness], that is infinite energy, the sungod that is wholly present 'in', wholly present as, each and every atom and creature. The paradox of this life is that everything is nothing [sound and fury signifying nothing] and the nothing is everything. The O. The opening of a fw word from nothing to everything is a performance of this paradox. Humanity is uniquely the being that is enabled [enables itself] to experience lostness, so it can know foundness. We kill the HCEs, like Parnell, Christ and Socrates, because of our lostness. The HCEs are created by our need to be found. Humanity must never be entirely found, or it would become unable to experience being found. It would be stuck in heaven. And humanity must never be entirely lost, or the point of being lost would be lost. Hence our many barriers, resistances, to intelligence. 'A stubborn stiffnecked people'. 'They have ears but do not hear' 'You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time'. 'Most people would rather die than think, in fact they do'. 'There are only two infinite things, stupidity and the universe, and I am not sure about the universe'. 'What luck for leaders [the most pleonectic] that people don't think'. [What a pity leaders don't think]. 'If they knew they were blind, they wouldn't be blind', Isis. 'Small things are easier for people ... good things are hard'. 'There are a 1000 striking at the branches of evil for every one striking at the root'. 'Straining at [out] gnats, swallowing [ie, ignoring] camels'. '[Which is why] one beast, even Dane the Great, may treadspath', fw594. Noel's Bar, fw594. Noe, Fr, Noah. Bar, Persian Gaelic, god fault dung hill heap chief. Noah curses Ham [for lacking filial solemnity, Ham laughs at Noah, the inventor of drink, drunk]. 'If you've tippertaps in your head or starting kursses' fw594. But this sungod attack, blackening Ham with his sunrays, is an injection of energy into Ham, and Ham becomes the leading dancer and singer of humanity [spirituals, Jazz. Dune's battam, fw594, contains the 1920s song and dance Black bottom. Turnkeyed trot, fw594 contains the 1920s dance Turkey trot. And Gaunt grey ghostly gossips [the killed, the dead] growing grubber [bigger] in the glow, contains reference to John Brown's body lies amouldering in the grave [but his soul goes marching on], a song of the Am civil war, in defense of Blacks]. Noah makes Ham 'servant of servants'. But servant of servants is a title of the Pope, and Jesus washes the feet of the disciples. The last shall be first. The rich get soft [and drowned in the labour and cost of defending their plunder] and the poor get busy. And society, 'it is just about to, it is just about to rolywholyover', fw597. The third world is coming up in percentage of world wealth by 10% every 30 years. From 44% in 1987. [Kyklos, v45, p237-258.] And accelerating. 98% of wealth and 98% of population by 2100, if we get that far. And when the third world are on top [again] it will be their turn to be rolled over [unless we aim for fairsharing, the North Pole of this dizzy wheel of misfortune, nightmare of history]. We have now reached the extreme of folly, of selfharming, when even we [will soon] see we have gone too far, and the future will swing back towards sense and golden age. Dah! Arcthuris comeing! Suvarn Sur! [golden hero].
It is a GREAT story! Tune in next week for the next exciting episode, and all that.
I have omitted to say that Arcturus is in Hindi mythology the Outcast. And JJ has waither, fw594, Scot, hunter, outcast, wanderer [with patient serving waiter]. Who gets all three cheers. Wherever a barrier is set up, any distinction, separation, excommunication, the outcast returns, hence trouble. Noah's cursing of Ham is ultimately futile. The outcasting of the third world is in the long run futile. Nothing is an island. National boundaries are 0.01% barrier, 99.99% gateway. 0.01% separate, 99.99% conjoined. The worshipped, praised and eaten bear, bull, cow etc returns. Rubbish cannot be thrown out. I hear that there is a mass of rubbish the size of Texas floating in the ?Pacific. The dropping of 600 tons of depleted uranium is the ultimate faith in the nonreturn of castoffs. Bran, Fr, castoffs, throwouts. Bran, Eng 19th C slang, bread. Bread cast on waters.
Arcturus is hunter, herdsman, oxdriver, ploughman, law, or hippotamus goddess keeper of evil big bear. All of these have a common idea. Outcast is a little different. But we have always cast out the teachers, who have the 'supreme cheeks' to imply that there is something to our advantage that we don't know, namely that people will floor you if you spit on them. JJ took himself off, to save them the trouble of 'tearing him apart themselves'. His 'silence', such as it was, and his exile, were selfprotection. His cunning was in order to talk without being caught. Confucius, Solomon, Buddha got by, and Lao Tzu made it out, but Bruno, Parnell, Christ, Socrates were not so lucky. As JJ said himself, when still young, he was a man of 'timid courage'. In the modern rise of blacks, of women, of the Irish, of India, of comparative religion, JJ saw signs of the times. The outcast return. He was sad that WWII postponed the return of JJ in Fw.
Arcthuris: Arthur, Arcturus, arc, incense, door, thorn.