#the agdistine order

[flamingkorybante]

I was THRILLED to join my friend Luxa on Lux Occult Podcast Episode 70 to talk about Spinoza and the Sexy Dangers of Pantheism, Transdivinity & Agdistis! Won't you give it a listen?

https://anchor.fm/luxa-strata

https://linktr.ee/LuxaStrata

Rocket https://www.instagram.com/eyeandy/ joins Luxa to talk about Spinoza, Pantheism, the idea of a Transcendent vs. an Immanent divine (and what that translates into for humans). What does this look like when religious philosophy is translated into political doctrine? We also talk about Kabbalah (with a K), and why the Mysteries (with a capital M) must be experienced somatically rather than cognitively. Rocket shares about Jewish Mysticism, the upcoming Trans Rite of Ancestor Elevation https://trans-rite.tumblr.com/ their work with Agdistis and some of the mythology surrounding the godform whose gender was just too much for the Olypians (and how this ties into they mythology surrounding Dionysis). There’s a a tasty poetry snack created via cut-ups and gematria by Keats Ross of We the Hallowed https://wethehallowed.org/ which was used to find the track order for the audio offerings of Fuck Around and Find Out pt. 2 the digital mixtape (of which tracks are featured). There are also updates about the Green Mushroom Hyphosigil Project https://greenmushroomproject.com/. Much Love!

[flamingkorybante]

Announcing: AMA with Rocket and Alder of the Agdistine Order! - Saturday June 17th, from 5-7 pm ET

Hello all! Saturday June 17th, from 5-7 pm ET, we will have an AMA with Rocket and Alder of the Agdistine Order.

Description of the Agdistine Order:

The Agdistine Order is a liberatory spiritual project working to build a transcendent mystery tradition that meets the needs of modern transgender and gender nonconforming practitioners. It honors the Anatolian mythological figure of Agdistis, a nonbinary Earth daemon with a powerful appetite for pleasure, and strives to provide practitioners with tools for transformation of trauma, shame, and dysphoria as well as a shared focus for ancestral veneration. This is accomplished through a mix of ekstasis and enthousiasmos, using both ancient and modern techniques. The Order is a work in progress, with particular attention on crafting effective rituals, while also not forming the bad kind of cult. The dramatis personae of The Order include Dionysos, Cybele, and Attis, all of whom had mystery cults in antiquity, but far as we know, Agdistis has never before had a mystery cult of their own. You don't have to be trans to venerate Agdistis but we make no guarantee that you won't be trans when they finish with you. If you'd like to do the reading before the AMA and come with questions, you can find the essay, "The Passion of Agdistis: Gender Transgression, Sexual Trauma, Time Travel, and Ritualized Madness in Greco-Anatolian Revival Cultus," first published in "Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries" in 2018. The piece includes very frank discussions of transphobia, transmisogyny, violence, and sexual assault, so please take care while reading.

Some info about Rocket and Alder:

Rocket is a cultist and mage of the Agdistine Order and the founder of the Anarcho-Surrealist Wizard Brigade, fully dedicated to 1) Cybele Magna Mater, and 2) being the weirdest pervert in the mystic groupchat and the weirdest mystic in the pervert groupchat. On the clock, Rocket can be found destroying the institution of marriage and teaching at law schools, and the rest of the time, they write poetry compulsively, glue rhinestones to things, organize with other leftist weirdo Jews, and push the flesh to its limit for art, magic, and pleasure. Rocket’s writing can be found in the Queer Magic Anthology, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, the Texas Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Advocate, and the Brill journal of Religion and the Arts, and Rocket can be found on Tumblr at @ flamingkorybante and in meatspace on a trans commune on unceded Lenape land. Alder Knight was raised as an animist and got into witchcraft in 1998. They began their work with Dionysos in 2012. As neither a classicist nor a reconstructionist, they rely heavily on divination, personal connection with the divine, and trial and error in their Dionysian practice. They are an herbalist and a rootworker, with a focus on local plants and a light touch, and they prioritize using their skills and resources to seek out healing, community resilience, collective liberation, and the ecstatic. A mystical experience in 2014 propelled them into intensive work with the transgender dead, which culminated in the annual Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation, @ trans-rite on Tumblr. Similarly, a mystical experience in 2015 planted the seeds of what would become The Agdistine Order. Their day job is in clean energy and climate education, and they live with Rocket and others at the all-trans intentional community they co-founded in 2018 on unceded Lenape land. You can find them on Tumblr at @ thegodwhocums.

Looking forward to this AMA! Mark your calendars!

[flamingkorybante]

Thinking about the parallels between the stories of the creation of Agdistis and the creation of Attis. The Great Goddess is injured by a traumatic event; a shard of Her breaks off, is incubated by the earth, is born as another entity, Agdistis. That entity is then injured by a traumatic event; a shard of them breaks off, is incubated by the water, is born as another entity, Attis.

[flamingkorybante]

Btw I reblog so much content about how (bad) cults work for reference so we can start a cult without doing any of that.

[flamingkorybante]

Hail Agdistis! I made the daemon a new shrine out of garbage, hammered my thumb, cracked my knee, fell on my face, and made an accidental blood offering trying to wrestle this giant fucking stump into place so I hope they like it. 🙃 when we did divination to see where in the woods they wanted it, they picked a spot that was full of litter and broken glass, and when I was like, are you sure? It's full of trash? they were like, of course, darling, that's also what I like about you.

[flamingkorybante]

I like surrender. That's what everybody wants. If you believe, but you don't surrender, it means you don't understand.

Agdistis, 1/18/19

[flamingkorybante]

I am being boiled like a frog in the sea of my own sexual discomfort.

@oncebittentwiceborn, re: Agdistis

[flamingkorybante]

Dilation

 Dozed in the back seat of a cab and woke up alone in my head again, cold and resentful as a hangover. Without the feedback loop of your bright eyes, possession slips away, the insistent pounding trickling into quiet until I can just nearly believe it's all my imagination. The hurtle of the days is different for you and me and it's different for You and Me, uncertain strands that ricochet off each other and dance apart in a relativistic shimmy, yearning endlessly towards the next instant of violent, hot intersection with a pull that latches in the meat of my gut and in yours. When the light of it laminates you, all other faces turn to smudged clay, voices an intolerable buzz. My eyes slide off them to you, only you, always you, the way our timelines haul us crashing together. Alone in my head, alone in my singular slipstream, I want, I want, I want, the particles of my self are whirled towards the next collision. Months apart and I want to touch your shoulder. Millenia and I ache for your weight against mine. Knock me down, bite my forearm, God, I feel this need, limnaos, brother-not-brother, are you there?

[flamingkorybante]

Did Agdistis remember being Cybele? When Attis appeared did they think "oh no, not again?"

Could it be that the Goddess's exhortation that Attis be devoted only to her/them and never have sex with any human was an ultimately futile attempt to protect him from a fate like that of Agdistis?

Plato mapped his divine hermaphrodite story onto this second iteration, but then, that guy mapped his divine hermaphrodite story onto anything that would hold still long enough.

From "Cybele, Attis, and the Mysteries of the "Suffering Gods" A Transpersonal Interpretation"

Thinking about the parallels between the stories of the creation of Agdistis and the creation of Attis. The Great Goddess is injured by a traumatic event; a shard of Her breaks off, is incubated by the earth, is born as another entity, Agdistis. That entity is then injured by a traumatic event; a shard of them breaks off, is incubated by the water, is born as another entity, Attis.