In the icy fringes of the frozen north, on a dark and dreary day after Christmas in the final days of December 2021, I was sitting in my Honda CRV.
I was on a lunch break from my job on the Merchandising Service Team at Lowe’s, the finest home improvement store on the planet.
I called my Mom on the phone. From the rocky mountain crags of Afghanistan to the snow-swept plains of the Midwest, I needed to talk to her about the State of the World and the State of Life.
It was no secret that she was in her death throes from the dreaded scourge of Colon Cancer.
She would ultimately have another month on this earth, and while we could not see the future, we were sensing that things were not going our way.
Consequently, we were making sure we were getting everything off our chests, and saying all the important things that last a lifetime and beyond.
One thing she said stuck with me.
“Richard,” she rasped horsley, “If there’s one thing God has taught me during Cancer, it’s that it’s not about the result. It’s the intention that matters.”
WHAT’S OLD IS NEW
I have pondered her words for 3 years. I didn’t understand them then, and did not understand them for a long time after.
But now, I understand.
You see, I am not a Man of the 21st Century.
A term like Intention, with its Modern Day Mega Church and New Age connotations…it makes little sense to me.
But when you replace it with an old-time, 19th Century term, like “Spirit”, it all makes sense.
The Scholarly Community Encyclopedia defines Spirit as “…the vital principle or animating force within all living things.”
And Oxford Languages, in partnership with Google defines it as “… the seat of emotions and character.”
There are many different Spirits out there.
America’s Spirit of ‘76. Hegel’s Spirit of the Age. Marshal Foch’s Spirit of the Offensive.
But it was two Spirits that taught me the true definition of my Mom’s cryptic final words in my life.
The Spirit of Mars and the Spirit of Mercury
A KEY COMBO INDEED!
Naida of Orphiric Irrendesence is a good friend of mine. I’ve written about her work before.
What I like about Naida is that we look at things the same way. We look at things the same way because we study a lot of the same material!
The reality is, most people passing themselves off as scholars are a joke. They are party hacks posting half-baked social media posts with bumper stick platitudes “updated” for the digital age.
On the contrary, Naida understands Postmodernism, Romanticism, Esotericism, Jungian Archetypes,, Classical and Medieval Mythology, and even a little Julius Evola!
When I first started talking to her, I thought that she surely must be in early 40s, at the youngest.
It turns out, we are about the same age…late 20s and early 30s!
And while I talk about the Warrior Caste Masculine side of Mythology, Esotericism, and Human Nature, Naida talks about the Relationship Feminine side…
A key combo indeed!
THE THINNING OF THE VEIL & THE WELL DRIED UP
Before my Mom’s death and immediately after, my research into all of these topics was off the chain.
I had begun this website, Pulp Fiction Renaissance.com, in January of 2021 with my good pal James Lafond.
And I was cranking out pieces of a fact and fictional variety at a prodigious pace! Even podcasts were abounding!
My Mom’s death, and the thinning of the veil beyond this world and beyond that it brought to me, turbocharged this process.
This all culminated in my magnum opus, “The Eagle and the Snake: The Secret Key to Pulp Fiction” penned on July 25, 2022.
I had been working on the ideas in this piece for a year, and had fully developed them before my Mom’s death, running them by her on many occasions in her final months.
It is one thing to polish the ideas, and another to be able to articulate them clearly for publication, however.
My brain works faster than my tongue and my body. Consequently, the process of set-in-stone, written explanation took me another six months.
And after that…well, things dried up.
I studied Esotericism and even the New Age prodigiously after that, but despite Herculean efforts at understanding and acceptance on my part, nothing much seemed to be of use.
In fact, a lot of it was downright dangerous and destructive!
Enter Naida.
LAST OF THE ROMANTICS
I found Naida’s work through the Gornahoor website that linked a hard-hitting article of hers, “The Courageous Romantics”.
Those who know me know that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Romantic, in the mold of Lawrence of Arabia and James Bond Stockdale.
I thought there were no living Romantics left…but in finding Naida’s work, I discovered I was mistaken!
Soon I joined her Court of Love Telegram Channel, and began conversing with her.
And what I learned was quite interesting.
THE WOMAN QUESTION
You see, the Woman Question has been killing me. Nothing else in the world has caused me more consternation in my life than the Women.
They have uplifted me to the highest heights and dragged me to the lowest depths like no other force on the earth.
This has been a mystery I have been seeking to solve for years.
To have the experience is one thing. For they are the raw material.
To interpret them is quite another. For that is the final form.
As my Mom always said: “God will continue to teach you the lesson until you learn it.”
Another gem of wisdom that applies in ways I did not expect.
ONE SIMPLE THING
Naida revealed some interesting things to me in the course of our conversations.
She did this from her own experience and research, in collaboration with the research work of her friend and fellow top-notch scholar, Claire Nakti.
What follows is her hard-won wisdom, straight from the horses’s mouth…coupled with a synthesis of my own research and experience.
The reality is, the thing that separates Romantic Realationships from Platonic is one simple thing…
Sexual Attraction.
And when it comes to Sexual Attraction, two spirits prevail: one Angel, one Devil…
The Spirit of Mars, and the Spirit of Mercury.
THE SPIRIT OF MARS
“When woman is born under Mars,” Naida explains, “It doesn’t make her a man, it makes her actually something like male fantasy.”
How exactly does this play out?
“Mars women are often what men love in women,” Naida goes on, “Sexy and feminine but with guns and fierce and will catch a fight but also nurturing and wild.
“Mars is very open,” Naida summarizes, “Mars loves the physical experience of sex, doesn’t need ‘romance’ or ‘love’ (like the average woman). She is heated, and her libido is more similar to men’s. She prefers penetrative sex.”
This Martian Sexuality in Women makes for the Ideal Partner of the Indo-European Fighting Man.
This is because the Martian Spirit’s upfront Sexual Nature in Women perfectly matches the Confrontational Warrior Ethos of the Indo-European Fighting Men!
In fact, this was the entire point of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ premier Pulp Fiction tale: John Carter and A Princess of Mars!
“Mars is soft and receptive, nourishing but severe,” Naida summarizes.
The perfect compliment indeed.
But another, more sinister spirt lurks…
THE SPIRIT OF MERCURY
“Most women’s sexuality naturally isn’t Martian but quite Mercurial,” Naida goes on.
“Mercury is creative, engaging, and can be ‘frozen’. She needs some warming to unlock creativity. Mercury is a child. Infantile.”
And unless the Ice Queen is unfrozen, trouble ensues…for there are darker elements within Mercury at play that weaponize it’s inherent engagment and creativity.
“Mercury is neuter,” Naida explains. “She loves to ‘play, but doesn’t love penetration/male gaze.
“Mercury is the male serpent,” Naida reveals. “Mercury is manipulation, spreads gossip, and has a fidgety, anxious, analytical nature. She excels at making teas and herbs. Magic is Mercury.”
And this magic is of a dark, deceptive variety that destroys both Men and Women alike.
“They are very competitive with other women,” Naida explains. Mercurial Women “spread gossip”, as Nadia articulates, to cut other women down for daring to embrace the honest Martian Sexuality over the deceptive Mercurial.
Name-calling by Mercurial Women abound against the Martian, and against any Mercurial Women who seek to melt themselves from their Icy Prison and embrace the Martian Fire.
Terms like “Bitch, Slut, Whore, Sex Object” carpet-bomb the landscape of Femininity into a crater-scared hellscape.
“Mars is oddly much kinder and gentler in spite of being outwardly harsh,” Nadia notes.
“People are mean to Mars, so Mars is nice.”
THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES
We must face a sad truth.
Whether Athiest of Religious, Material or Spiritual, Left-Wing or Right-Wing…the Mercurial Spirit dominates Womankind today.
And it is weaponized to keep Men and Women alike enslaved, with a hive-mind hierarchy of cold, cruel Mercurial Witches at the top.
And the con job to pull the wool over our eyes goes on every day.
Lucky for us, Naida explains a key way to spot the deception out in the wild:
“That ‘nerdy’ stuff, whimsy, their whole personality being ‘I love autumn’,” that is a tell-tale sign of the Mercurial. “And it is the most evil person you’ve ever met.”
“That whimsy aesthetic, disney princess stuff is evil,” Naida reveals.
“I mean if you are a little girl, fine. But a Woman, age 26 being into that, ‘selling’ that as her identity, that’s a demon.
“It is death, refusal of reality.”
WHAT MOM AND SAMUEL KNEW
Well, there you have it, my friends…
The Spirit of Mars, and the Spirit of Mercury.
It explains exactly the secret that God told my Mom on her deathbed, who in her final days revealed it to me.
The Intention…the Spirit is what matters. For just as God told my Mom, He likewise told the Prophet Samuel many years ago in 1st Samuel 16:7b:
“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
It’s a wild, wild world out there.
Don’t fall for the deception. Look to the Heart, for that is where the Spirit lives.
The Intention.
Pulp Fiction Power to you, my friends!
Sincerely,
Richard Barrett
12-15-2024
Written at 5:14 PM, somewhere in the USA…
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