The Manifestation of Kali in Universe as an Astrophysical Anomaly
By Persona Navitae 353.
                There is no light, nor any motion.
                There is no mass, nor any sound.
                Still, in the lampless heart of the ocean,
                Fasten me down and hold me drowned
                Within thy womb, within thy thought,
                Where there is naught-where there is naught!
                   From "Kali", by Aleister Crowley
               
   In the beginning was the KAOS water, the pure creative force of
undivided being. Crowley called this "Nuit", which ssems to be the
combination of the sky goddess "Nut" with the chaos God "Nu", or
"Nun". This was the potential for mani-festation before the dream of
Siva, before the suffering of Sophia that coalesed into the mist of
dark reality. This primal force exits in a perpetual state of
non-being, always edging toward being. A binary movement sets up from
this tension of pre-creation, from a state of collapsed oneness, to a
state of open potential. This is the struggle between Siva; the force
of perfect order, and Sakti; the force of pure chaos. In Siva is the
need to collapse to stable systems, the continual drive for one-ness
that uni-fests as the point monad of Kether on the Tree of Life. In
Sakti is the need for continual creation, the pure fertile need to
populate Universe with the divine sparks of mani-fested
intelligence. From these two forces arises the numinous
Androgyne. This force exists at the beginning of physical creation,
from its parthenogenic fullness it emanates across the Pleroma of the
void, and down the Tree to Malkuth.
   This mythos is at the core of the unconscious and of many creation
theories. From the bliss of Androgyny comes the suffering of Maya,
illusion. This is the illusion of multi-verse. Sophia, the divine
mother of the Gnostics, was concieved of as Androgynous but she broke
away from her partner and concieved the physical universe as a
polarised order. The result was the creation of ignorance, the
demiurge Yahweh.
   From the primal Nuit is created Babalon, and from her is Isis, but
what of Nepthys? She is hidden; present but unseen. Felt but rarely
named. In Indian theosophy divine Sakti exists as the primal energy
behind the static monad, Siva. She is Nuit in Thelema, and her
creation on the mundane level is Kali. In many systems they are
considered one, which is rightly so. The job of Kali is to devour the
ignorance of static non-creation and re-create Universe with new
potential for mani-festation. Left to its own, Siva would freeze up
Universe in a cage of entropy. This is known to physicists as the
"Heat death of Universe". Heat is not a substance, not an energy. It
is a process, "The transference of energy by virtue of a difference in
temperature".  When all forms of energy, Sakti/Kali, have been
equalibriated then no more growth is possible. Any divine sparks left
in such a state would no longer develope, all life would stop.
   The Heat Death is only one scenario. It would seem possible that
Universe could go on perpetually if there were some way to re-create
it. All matter/energy would have to be sucked back in and thrust out
in another "Big bang". This "devouring" is well known to devotees of
Kali. In early myths she is known to devour the demons who would upset
the balance of space-time. Kali is the Goddess of time, Kala. In time
all things die and are re-born. In time all ignorance is replaced by
divine Gnosis, if we accomplish nothing else in life we cannot help
but learn. Experience is the great teacher. At the end of time there
is no manifested existence, just the Satchidananda of bliss-being-
consciousness. Kali offers the bliss of Gnosis with one hand which
holds the Sangrail, freedom from fear with another raised, with a
third she holds the sword that destroys Universe, and with a forth she
holds a head to remind us that all situations will change, death is
the constant force of new life. She is naked because she has no veils
of illusion, and to remind us that the secret of re-creation is in
sexual bliss. She is black because she is beyond human comprehension,
this also ties in with the freudian devouring mother, who is in the
realm of shadow, we all will be swallowed by Kali in the little death
and the greater ones. She dances on the corpse of Siva, who has over
extended himself in the attempt for divine Order. However, her dance
has aroused him even in death and she stands over his erect penis to
accept the seed of new creation.
   In the early 1930's Edwin Hubble concluded that Universe is
expanding, and even in the 1920's evidence existed of such
expansion. It has been postulated that if there is not enough mass in
Universe then it will eventually suffer the heat death of Siva. If
there is enough however, then it is possible that the expansion will
slow down due to the drag of continual gravational forces that all
matter posseses, and eventually return to a single point where the
explosive forces of the dynamic interplay of matter/energy will cause
a new expansion.
   One method to determine if Universe has enough matter to halt the
expansion is to add up all the luminous matter. Matter exits in
particular, stable energy states. If extra energy is added to a
system, then the matter present would tend to jump to a higher energy
state. Every element has very particular states it prefers and will
not reside in any others. This is the rule of the Siva- Order force in
Universe. All chaotic energy states will either jump to a higher
state, and stay there as long as the extra energy does, or it will
ignore the extra force.  When there isn't enough energy to maintain
the element in this state, it drops to a specific lower state and
sheds the excess energy. When this happens we see it as a burst of
light which will be specific to each particular element. By examining
the luminous evidence, astrophysicists can determine how much matter
is shedding light.  According to older theories all matter radiates
light, and this could be used to determine how much matter was in
Universe.  Through these studies, it was found that there is only
about 2% of the necessary amount for re- creation.
   In 1933, Fritz Zwicky discovered that galaxies were moving much
faster than they should according to the accepted theories.
Speculating from the amount of matter found through the luminosity
present, he found that galaxies should be breaking up.  The obvious
conclusion is that there is more matter present than can be seen. This
substance became known as Dark Matter. Since then numerous experiments
have been devised to test this theory.  Vera Rubin showed that
galaxies rotate as fast at the outer rim, or faster, as they do in the
inner. If they are less dense at the outer edges, as the luminosity
indicates, then they should move slower. Jeremiah Ostriker and James
Peebles showed that without extra matter, galaxies would develope
gravitational anomalies that would cause them to collapse into other
forms than the spiral we usually see. It seems likely that there is
Dark Matter in Universe, and estimates now indicate that it could make
up as much as 95% of all physical creation.
   What is this Dark Matter? Nobody knows, but there are many
theories. Sub-atomic particles, so small they don't radiate visible
energy, Neutrinos, Magnetic Monopoles (one sided magnets), and
Gravitinos (bundles of gravity, in the same sense that Photons are
bundles of light) are prime candidates. So far neither Magnetic
Monopoles, nor Gravitinos have been found.
   Arcane knowledge povides some answers assuming we ask the
questions. If Isis is "Infinite Stars, Infinite Space", then what is
Nepthys? Being the opposite side of Isis we have to assume she plays a
part in Universe. And, if Kali's re-creation of Universe is possible,
then can we see it in the process? The answer to both of these lies in
the Dark Matter. In "Mumbo Jumbo" Ishmael Reed referred to "Dark
Isis". I found this very intriquing at the time, and later found the
connection in Isis's dark twin, Nepthys. She is dark (like Kali)
because she is hidden, manifested but unseen. In his book, Reed
speculated that she became dominant when Isis was shedding lunar blood
(sacred to Kali), this is when the unfertile seeds are being
disgarded. For the aspirant this is a time of great power, and
danger. Nepthys is the goddess of the night magicks, the red magick of
Vamamarg somtimes refered to as the "left hand path". Hers is the
force of re-creation which is so vital to the growth of the
aspirant. IAO, Isis-creator, Apophis (Set, husband of
Nepthys)-destroyer, and Osiris-re-creator. In Tantra, Kali is all
three. She gives birth to Universe, devours it when all life has
expended its energy, and re-creates it from the seeds of the old
Universe.
   It's uncertain whether there is enough Dark Matter to cause the
collapse of Universe, but clearly if there is a chance, it is in this
manifestation of the Dark Goddess. Her body is the body of matter that
lies "between" known spaces and stars, her power is felt in the pull
of matter itself, "Love is the law, love under will" is the axion of
gravity where all particles seek to unite with all others. Her books
are written in the night sky, her rites are the rites of ancient
humans awed by the power of the Great Sleep, and equally awed by it's
power of re-creation.  If Kali/Nepthys manifests at the end of time,
it will be as the mouths of numerous black holes, each larger one
devouring the smaller, uniting in one undifferientiated monad of
space-time, not only matter sucked in but the net of creation on which
it resides as well. In the Dark Matter is the new creation.