About this time last year I was lookin for a long lost friend online . . and the daemonic succubus that is named Google told me he had in fact died in '08 . . damn . . so I scavenged through my belongings and found the last letter he ever wrote to me in '05, which discussed topics that I had not been familiar with at the time (but knew one day i'd be in to so consequentially saved the letter knowing it would end up being a breadcrumb trail as I go traipsing through the chaotic vortex that is esoteric studies) . . . In the letter He talked about concepts from the Qaballah and the sphere known as Da'at to tarot, to death and resurrection - he was a weirdly intense kinda guy . . at that time I had NO IDEA what the hell he was talking about. .
He told me I had to learn about Promethea. . . So, I picked up a set of the series last summer and lost my brain over the implications and coincidences that story takes the reader through . . It's like a compendium of occult and esoteric technologies that span all space and time . . the symbolism in that series is INCREDIBLE. . Unless you're tuned in to that sort of thing it may go over your head a bit. . and the weird thing is, I ONLY appreciated Promethea because for the year prior I had started reading Crowley and learning about weird death goddesses like Ereshkigal, and had begun unraveling the mysteries of Tarot and Hebrew Alephs and all these concepts. . . Only took me 6 years to get with the program from the time my friend first told me about it . . .Better late than never I guess, fuck!
Ever since I read the book, I see little seeds of Promethea all over the damn place and i'm left feeling pretty amazed someone was able to pull that much information through into a lil ole graphic novel series.
Anyone else have the same sort of experience with Promethea? Minus the whole long lost dead friend google deal, thats shitty, and I hope your path is better then that!
Cheers and Bless!
-Eva