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and unique connection to their children, which gives them the hallowed status in tradition
of being the members of the Distaff Line , or the means by which Ancestral Spirits
return to incarnation. It was the red line , the blood or womb line of the Mother s
family that the dead used to re-enter serial time in the form of reborn humans; this is a
deep mystery that is central to the importance of the deep feminine.
The Masculine Mysteries
The Masculine mysteries have been mostly discussed in the preceding sections; only a
touch up is required here. The Masculine mysteries revolve around the Fire, and the
descent of the Fire-bringer into the realm of mortality, its (His) merging, incarnation,
trials and ordeals, and finally death, rebirth, and triumph. The lord of Fire and Light, the
Son of the Father, cannot and does not triumph without the force of the Feminine to act as
his firm basis, his ultimate source, as well as the perfect objects of his love, and finally,
as his healer and redeemer, as we shall se.
Of course, the Masculine mysteries have their origin in the primal figure of the Horned
God, the Father; and Fatherhood, in its most deep and basic sense, is an important theme.
Fertility mysteries, linked to the sign of the phallus and even to lightning, rain, and
thunder. But these mysteries, that of organic survival and propagation, are only the first
layer; the emergence, evolution and entry of fire and light, and therefore cunning and
crafting, into mankind and the human world, is the central focus.
Blacksmithing, a traditionally masculine task and art, was the best overall Metaphor and
representation for Masculine craft, for using creativity, will, skill, and Fire to shape the
raw ores of the earth into precious metals and treasures. This is a great metaphor for
Man s ability to use the Fire and the Word to shape the world, to be a creator himself, and
not just a created or birthed being.
The Son of the Father, or the Lightbringer s fall into matter, the descent of his
sanctifying and awakening flame into the common clay of mortality, is also the point at
which he enters into the human experience, and has to undergo, not unlike the Daughter,
all of the vicissitudes of Fate, and all of the terrors and wonders of the entire Fate of
humankind.
He sacrifices himself to this, that a greater emergence may follow, a greater regeneration,
that he may be rise in greater glory, purified and glorified by his ordeal. His sacrifice into
matter and into the fate of Life and Death is a higher harmonic to the sacrifice of the Ego
or lesser self to the greater, darker and unknown Self in the Underworld Initiation, and
like the Underworld Initiation, it is not fully over until the circle is completed and the
glorified essence returns to its source.
Sacrifice in this sense is the true heart of the Male Mysteries, and it s many mythological
harmonics are easy to see, especially, as I said before, in local sacrificial king cults ,
wherein the localized focus was on the regeneration of crops and animal life. These
things should be seen as just miniature expressions of the regeneration of time and the
whole world, and all its inhabitants.
When the Child, or the Son of Light, first emerges, He is often mythologically stolen,
killed, or threatened, in such a manner that he disappears and is plunged into the chaos,
the unformed darkness of the underworld/Otherworld, or is simply hidden away. His
rescue or rebirth, and subsequent preservation, only happens when the Dame, in the form
of Dame Wisdom, takes action to preserve him and assure his return- in Greek
Mythology, the Child Dionysos, after being dismembered by the forces of Chaos in the
form of the Titans, has his heart taken by Athena, (Wisdom) and from her, the Heart is
given to safekeeping, where it is used to regenerate the Baby boy, that he may grow up
and return triumphantly to redeem and regenerate all.
In this manner, the Divine Feminine acts as the assurance of the survival of the Child, just
as, in earlier times, only women could assure the survival of any child.
The Housle, Mystery In Substance
Now that I have laid down the necessary notes for a deeper understanding of the Housle,
we can begin the heart of our discussion.
The Housle is the ritual or sacrament that embodies all of the ideas and mythology that I
have spoken of so far. In doing so, it is also the symbolic, (and more timelessly speaking)
the actual culmination of the universal pattern.
The reason why this is so is deceptively simple- because in the Housle, the mythology,
and all its symbols and metaphors, And the essence of the beings behind them, becomes
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