Illuminist Lodge

We have decided to let the listener fall directly into our Worlds and to offer little or no supports. There is a specific type of Justice that is installed in the interior shrine of those who fall out of this world into Her Majesty’s bright home in the Counter Earth. This recording is visited by six researchers into Her Majesty’s Artes and Sciences: Timothy McLoughlin, Hazel Cline, Jennifer Starks, Benjamin Herning, Sean McLoughlin, Tim Ruth in order to let the Hyperborean Sun to shine into The Shaking Tent. Contact us to collaborate.

Track 1: In The Mine of Hesphaestus

What can “saying” contribute to the Presence of The Craftsman and His Guild? A Master gives us “a model” and an “imaginal blueprint” or “map” for effective building and traveling. It seems clear to us that no matter “who” The Hyperboreans are, what is always necessary is for one of us to cross the line between the known world and unknown lands. When “google maps” seems to have conquered unknown lands by “naming” every place what remains unexplored and never conquerable is the lands of Psyche’s reality. More than ever the controlled borders of thought, identity, and limits of what it means to be alive need to be loosed. Psyche’s total reality extends to include all possible levels of existance. In “total” Reality interspecies contact, communication, and pollination occurs. When a “creator” or “gift giver” places a “spirit object” on the border of the known it acts as a magnet and gift by “acknowledging” the other, by honoring the rejected lands and their inhabitants. The mechanics of the imaginal world here operate as instructive maps for crafting “gifts” in subtle matter to draw forth the outpouring of being from both directions, we coagulate a gift basket for spirit, we dissolve a form and restore the primary soular vitality. Either way the encounter is approached, it is the longing and desire for “contact” that draws forth the superabundant manifestation (or sublimation) of the archetype. What needs to occur is a change in the tamed orbits of our species consciousness and attention. Is this a demiurgic action? Is it Martial, Venusian, or Hermetic? This action, is actual, its being is achieved by the emergent activation of its fullness. When the craftsman finishes the “masterpiece,” he lays it on the border as a gift and it pulls all the orbs into a new harmonic rotation. Each master and apprentice take up this function, on each level, and it is accomplished. This audio track by The Animist Lodge is a gift basket layed on the border. We “image” the sound of the master’s workshop and his helpers as they pound out the cosmos on a forge and dissolve the old one in bowls of mercury and melted snow.

Archival material from Ruth/McLoughlin as DeNagaas, new sounds from The Animist Lodge, soundings by Timothy McLoughlin, field recordings and utterance by Benjamin Herning.

https://animistlodge.bandcamp.com/track/the-mine-of-hephaestus

Track Two: Spirit One

A sound calls forth a wind, again and again. Utterance is a call and the response here is recorded as it overwhelms the microphone, a gust of wind, a rushing forth from the active elemental quarters.

What is a haunted house and how does it become haunted? When a householder hires the wrong wandering Orphic Priest to lay the spirit to rest, the result is a crowded house, an accumulation and layering of living and departed spirits, mingling in desire, longing, memory, wishing for peace.

One potent use of the magnetic microphone is to remove things from one world and by recording them removing them from time and place. One a sound is recorded it exists in a liminal world, outside of time, departed. Can we move the dead by recording devices? When we play their sounds do they get a better chance at finding the way out? This also takes the right Orphic Priest, one who relies upon the powers that be to do what is right and natural. If your priest is a performer or mesmerizer, a gold coin collector, a fanatic then the rites will fall on dead ears. Nothing will happen and you will be haunted, hunted, hounded by the restless hordes. But if the priest is attuned and naturally initiated he can within himself find the bright road of memory for all of the spirits who long to ride out of here. Open the microphone, end time, end place.

Spirit One is a spirit tonic. Music that is not for people. We offer it on the boundary between to the powers that be, in gratitude. Timothy McLoughlin provides utterance and sounding from a cottage in Baltimore.

https://animistlodge.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-one

Track Three: Spirit Two featuring guest researcher Hazel Kline.

Hazel Cline is a person that we have never met in person but her vitality travels in truth. We made a call to Her and she provided a powerful response.Below is an example of Her.

The spirit tonic we collaborated on moves something across thresholds, something that must happen, it brings wings as a gift and adornment.

https://animistlodge.bandcamp.com/track/spirit-two-featuring-hazel-cline

Track 4: Tranquility Peak 1888

When Jennifer Starks unleashes modular animist power in her shaking tent it is a lightning bolt, an owl, a wise presence peering into a cauldron and through you into this place. What does it mean to look through a body? Old time, old masks, old wars, old invocations get washed away and a silver silk thread is left vibrating in a way only silkworms and blacksmiths understand. When Pythagoras comes out of the ground there are fumes of fire and brimstone that rise up around his form, like the salt and brine of the sea when Aphrodite’s shell opens.

Ruth/McLoughlin as DeNaagas: beats and CB, Starks: Synths

https://animistlodge.bandcamp.com/track/tranquility-peak-1888

Track 5: The Shaking Tent

In The Shaking Tent the medium is bound and left in silence. They travel, like the recorded sound, outside of time and place, outside of the known, looking for buffalo, lost scouts, places to plant, new mountains, new rivers. When the visitors arrive the tent begins to shake, the rhythm of their presence changes the worlds, opens doors, obscures communities from detection, brings omens and oracles. They also unbind the voyager, the one who seeks for the mass of humanity and animals, he is unbound by the shaking, trust the shaking, trust the shaking King.

https://animistlodge.bandcamp.com/track/the-shaking-tent

That is all from these researchers, a report, a scolding, a sealed hope and salt, a reminder that the miraculous creation of images doesn’t come from you and they are not for you. The streaming services of Persephony generate content as Her presence dictates and always has. You should step aide, let it go, light her a candle, offer something at the border of the known, listen for the response, enter the Lodge.