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Writer's pictureA M Graetz

The Antecedents of Genius is madness

Words by Julien Montague - The exploration of Van Gough and Hitler.


What’s the difference between genius and madness, or do they go hand in

hand. Well let’s have a look at the charts of Vincent van Goff and Adolf

Hitler. From a Vedic perspective the Nodes of the Moon, Rahu and Ketu, have

an intoxicating effect on consciousness. They are outcastes or artisans in

the Indian Caste system, and thus represent alternative systems of thought

that exist in the shadows, outside of the mainstream. When these shadow

planets activate with the physical planets they often incite pure genius,

and at other times shear madness. The sages of India say we are all

drunkards: the only thing that separates us is the quality of the wine we

drink! These two examples will show both the illuminative and delusional

power of the Nodes of the Moon which underpin and prepare the

consciousness for its ascent to the light, or descent into darkness.

“Psychic infection is a malady that has been with us throughout history.

Adolph Hitler was a genius in his ability to manipulate the masses. Hitler

believed or understood that the masses were run by feminine instinct. By

catering to the dark side of the feminine,( lilith) he roused its fears

and vengeful rage and unleashed a psychic plague that infected an entire

nation and ultimately the whole world. As a master of mass hypnosis, he

intentionally seduced the masses by making people feel comfortable with

their prejudices. Then he would whip them up into an emotional frenzy. At

the height of this mesmerisation, he could implant the most bizarre

suggestions into the unconscious and the individual isolated in the masses

was virtually powerless to resist the tide of mob rule.

Adolf Hitler and Vincent Van Goff have an almost identical configuration.

Hitler has his natal KETU in Capricornus conjunct the moon and Jupiter, in

opposition to his RAHU in cancer.

Vincent’s KETU is also conjunct moon-Jupiter but in sagittarius, in

opposition to RAHU in Gemini.

Without having to look at any of the other planets we can immediately

locate the signs of their shared madness and genius. Which immediately

addresses the ghost in the room, the nodes are not physical planets, they

are agencies of an unseen astral world, they are our nightmares, our

deepest fears about ourselves, they are phantom thoughts, they exist in

the cracks between light and shadow, they are an accumulation of all our

fears and self loathing, they know above all who we really are, because

they are the accumulation of our merit and karmic debts.

Adolf Hitler was said to have awakened his third eye from psychotropic

drugs and occult mastery in which he saw visions or apparitions of a great

asura, called the lord of nations. Hitler said that he trembled with awe

and horror in its presence. He was said to have declared war on the Soviet

Union on the asura’s instruction. From this singular encounter tens of

millions of innocent people died.

In Vincent’s case it’s long been debated what was the exact nature and

cause of his apparent madness. Many scholars have examined and detailed the

artist’s hallucinations, which Van Gogh described as “unbearable.” In the

medical records in the town archives, it is recorded that Van Gogh

“suffered an attack of acute mania with visual and auditory hallucinations

that led him to mutilate himself by cutting off his ear.”

“He might well have done this in a desperate effort to silence the terrible

noises or words that he believed he was hearing. “In the utmost

desperation, Van Gogh might have believed that by removing his ear he would

no longer hear the dreadful sounds that were driving him crazy.”

It’s interesting to note before we proceed that both men shared a love of

painting, Hitler had failed ambitions of obtaining a degree in the arts

community. Like Vincent his paintings were ignored or considered inferior.

The nodes of the moon have no actual results, they are almost completely

astral in nature, and yet they function much like the hungry ghosts in

Buddhism, they feed off neurosis and the hosts willingness to surrender to

there dark thoughts, they have no restraint, they desire to experience

vicariously, feelings and excitements denied to them in the astral world.

The nodes and the dark moon are aspects of the fallen ones, they are

psychic vampires, soul sucking agencies and insatiable cravings. They are

the antecedents of mans self loathing and hidden nature. The natal location

of the nodes of the moon can locate a souls fall from grace, our own

culpability in the plan of salvation, the barter we were prepared to pay,

to satisfy our primeval appetites.

In the natal chart of Vincent van Goff, Mercury the trickster, the

archangel Gabriel who appeared in a holographic vision to the prophet

Muhammad, is exactly conjunct the dark moon or queen of hell lilith in

aries. Lilith like the nodes of the moon isn’t a physical object either,

it’s a mathematical, it’s a holographic frequency or point in psychic

space, It embodies the very essence of the goddess Lilith, the first wife

of the biblical Adam, she is the mother of Cain and perdition. In a natal

chart the Black Moon -Lilith represents a person’s primitive impulses and

behaviour in their rawest form, and so when it’s aspecting mercury, it’s

designed to manifest some other worldly consciousness. Mercury is the

weaver of own psycho myth story lines,

In the birth chart of Adolf Hitler, his Lilith is conjunct an exalted Venus-

Lakshmi and Mars the god of war in Taurus. In order to understand the

trauma of the fall of the angels from the pleroma, and in turn Adams exile

from eden, we need to understand that his first wife Lilith, is a

creature with an independent soul.she is the first apostate, the first

heretic, the first rebel or revolutionary, If we have any doubt about who

we are, or how we got here, we have to own these tendencies in our own

psyche, in the allegorical story of her Union with the king of the devils

Asmodeus, and seed origins of our own twisted thoughts and perversions. And

if we are in any doubt the implications of how that manifests in human

destiny, then let history be our instructor, it’s been a bloodbath, and

it’s all us, and yet these demons also coexist with our inner angels, with

better choices, with hope and forbearance, with joy genius and paradoxical

opportunities. That’s the truth about us, we are our own demons and angels,

and it’s a balancing act, because we can be both in the same instance, and

yes we can trace the root cause or antecedents of these tendencies in our

birth charts, we can do that because we designed it ourselves, we mixed the

good and the bad in ways that seemed in plausible and then owned it. We

didn’t sook or blame it on satan, we confessed that we are our own

Perdition, our own salvation.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who had a seemingly cursed moon-RAHU

conjunction in sagittarius, believed that if you looked deeply into the

human psyche you would discover that beneath our vanity, and the masks we

display, we are the only animal severed from our instincts and hence, the

sickest species ever to have walked this earth. “We have learnt better. And

yet the diabolical exists, it can’t be denied, it bubbles in us, and while

it can remain dormant or comatose or contained in most people, it only

needs a trigger, a pied piper to incite mass suicide and mass destruction.

Nietzsche's whose contempt for humanity has been noted, was yet of the view

that man for all his contradictions and diabolical urges is uniquely placed

to use these light and dark powers to literally overcome himself and his

flawed human nature. In essence, an Overman is one who has superseded the

bondage of the human condition and reached a liberated state — one of free

play and creativity. And that’s not some sort of metaphysical return to the

pleroma, in actuality the fall was a conscious choice, a rebellion against

an insufferable undifferentiated state of consciousness, yes it’s a hard

one to get, but to be honest too much light, can just be too much …. From a

psychological perspective one can begin to grasp the profound message which

jumps out of the pages of the book of JOB. That dialogue between Yahweh and

his brother Satan, or his doppelgänger, encapsulates the raw truth about

who we are, and why we perceive the gods as reflections of our own divide

nature, I’ve seriously underestimated how profound a psychological

instrument the Old Testament is in the way it owns the turmoil and inner

war that rages in our psyche. It never denied that Yahweh was a god to be

feared. And yet as our notion of the gods is always evolving, as is the

precarious nature of life itself, what we get with the JOB story is a

great evolutionary leap forward, in that all of a sudden it’s the man who

adorns the cloak of divinity, in his suffering and forbearance a man

overcomes his lower nature, and we can see this later with the carpenter

Jesus, at some point we all need to wrestle with our inner demons. And yet

of course the most terrifying truth is that everything about us remains

probable. As much as we might like to exorcise our inner demons, the truth

is that we have from the beginning-less beginning struggled with our

choices, and that will never change. There are no gods, there is no pleroma

and yet here we are at the coal face of an extraordinary cosmic drama, each

of us with a seed fragment of that semi divine essence dealing with its

gifts and cursed as best we can.

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