THE SECRET TWILIGHT LANGUAGE OF THE OCCULT BLINDS

BY PAUL DUNNE
It is a stone and it is not a stone, it exists everywhere in nature but is ignored or
despised, it is unknown and yet known to everyone, it is made of fire and water,
it is fluid without weight, it comes from God but does not come from God. (The
Philosophers Stone - the summit of philosophy)
An Occult Blind is the concealment of hidden and symbolic meanings of secret
arcane knowledge within couched terms of a Secret Language. Occult Blinds are used
to satisfy those who might be idly curious or seeking power and influence over others
and in seeking Occult Secrets will read advanced magical manuals but who will be
tricked by believing the surface meaning of the carefully written text and will then leave
satisfied thinking they have gained high level powerful knowledge and believing also
that they understand the secrets of practical occultism. In this way through the use of
the Secret Language the true meaning behind the Occult Blind is cunningly concealed
and protected so that only the most devoted occult student or genuine seeker of inner
truth will spot the hidden meanings for they have as it is said Eyes to See and Ears
to Hear for they can Read Between the Lines. In this way a whole sub system of
high level spiritual knowledge and wisdom is carefully preserved but available to all
who have done the necessary preceding groundwork. The beginner can read the most
advanced manual yet they will only pick up the surface meaning, whereas the Initiate
or Adept will get quite a different meaning and interpretation depending upon their
own level, previous experience and knowledge. It is however said that the real secrets
of Higher Occult Knowledge cannot be simply learnt from books for they have to be
tasted through experience and digested over long periods of time and accordingly the
knowledge will gestate Within and reveal deep mysteries for the seeker in the future.
Occult Knowledge and Secrets are accumulate in their net effect and gradually the
pieces of a massive mystery puzzle will come together for those devotees who persist
upon the Quest for Higher Spiritual Knowledge.
For example the Spiritual Quests for the Holy Grail, the Elixir of Life and
Alchemy and the Gold or the Philosophers Stone are all not literal quests to be taken
as they stand, in order to be understood properly it must be realised that they are
allegorical and full of metaphores. The real meaning of these Mystical and Magical
Quests is carefully hidden and concealed for they represent Magical Initiatory Systems
and Paths that are Inner Journeys whose results will be Life Changing and may bring
about a total transformation in terms of our consciousness and in how we live our daily
lives. Therein is of course a clue to the key for the fact that these Spiritual Quests exist
suggests that since the dawn of time the average human being does not live truthfully
nor in alignment with the principles of the Absolute Divinity. These Quest are all about
coming to know the Reality and Truth behind and about the very existence of man and
woman upon the Earth in relation to the smallest DNA molecule through to the entire
Cosmos itself. These High level Secrets will eventually reveal the Inner Revelation

of As Above So Below and the Lightning Flash of personal Enlightenment will bring
Unity and a connectedness to ALL THINGS within. Life is amazing but how much better
it is when you Come to Know what it is all about for then you can begin Truly Living.
Occult Blinds are employed to convey Higher Knowledge and Wisdom to
the Initiates without revealing these Secrets to the uninitiated who might profane the
Mysteries or do harm to themselves or to others. For this reason the Spiritual Path
also unfolds in stages through a series of minor Inner Initiations that will eventually
lead to the Initiation Proper and eventually to Advanced Adeptship for some. Also no
one else can Initiate you for the Initiation takes place within - it is an internal process
of personal empowerment. Much garbage is talked about with regard to Initiation and
the Blind Seeker of Truth would think it was the formal Ceremony of Ritual Initiation
that conferred power to them, however this is not the case as a Ceremonial Initiation is
simply a formal gesture that suggests Initiation may or may not have already occurred.
There are many Initiated people who have not really got a clue about Higher Knowledge
as equally there are extremely Advanced Adepts who have never been through a formal
Initiation Ceremony. Initiation can only ever take place Within us it is not conferred
or given to us by others. As the acclaimed Occultist and writer Dion Fortune once
said There is One Initiator and by this she meant YOURSELF for she also was
employing an Occult Blind as this fact was also once a High level Occult Secret. Even
today there is a gross misunderstanding about the processes of Initiation particularly in
what is termed as The Craft of the Wise a misnomer indeed in many instances that I
have seen across the years.
Nostradamus for example had to conceal his Occult activities or he would
have been tried for Sorcery by the Inquisition under their so called Divine Authority
conferred upon them by the then all powerful exoteric church authorities. The
Prophecies of Nostradamus, or Quatrains as he termed them, were all cleverly written,
encoded and encrypted into anagrams and further they were written in mixed languages
including French, Portuguese, Greek, Latin and Qabalistic Hebrew. Yet even in these
more enlightened times there is still a disturbingly unenlightened tendency for people
to attempt to read and interpret the prophecies and work of Nostradamus as it stands.
The Prophecies of Nostradamus cannot be taken at value but must be read Between
the Lines so as to speak for they are a clever and intriguing puzzle indeed. This same
practice of reading between the lines has to be applied to Hermetic Texts, Gnostic
Literature and all quality Esoteric, Mystical and Occult Literature for there are None
so Blind as Those who Cannot See. It might be added also that there are those who
cannot see and also those who will not see and this is something worth gently reflecting
upon.
Occult Language and terms are in a somewhat perilous condition today with
regards to the existing terminology that they employ. Modern Occult Language or
parlance is an idiom composed of Ancient Sanskrit terminology that has been through
Western processing through the application of Theosophist Wisdom, this also has been
merged with archaic or barbarous jargon that has its origins in the Ancient Mystery

Traditions of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea, Qabalistic Hebrew, Mediaeval Alchemy and

bastardised Latin. Added to this adventurous esoteric language melting pot is also
terminology from modernist Christian Mystical literature, psychological terms, the
principles of Cosmogony, and increasingly new terms from physics and metaphysics.
Thus Occult Language, terminology and parlance is pretty much a complex study in its
own right even with the matter of Occult Blinds put to one side. It is no wonder that the
Adepts say even today that The Mysteries are well guarded and protected. The Occult
Language in its own right is a kaleidoscope philosophy which requires much sorting out
before it will even reveal the beginnings of a coherent and meaningful pattern. When
Kenneth Grant for example wrote that the Alchemists Metals were living substances
he refers to the erotic secretions especially those of women, this in turn is a pointer to
the Mysteries of Tantra or The Yoga of the West. Whilst Kenneth Grants late mentor
Aleister Crowley referred to the Elixir of Life in his book Magick In Theory and Practice
as The highest form of the Eucharist is that in which the Element consecrated is One.
It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither
hot nor cold, neither male or female. So Crowley was referring to the Eucharist or
Christian Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ as the united sexual fluids and
secretions of man and woman during sexual intercourse. Yet how many Christians
that attend the conventional church would realise what exactly they were religious
celebrants of and how many of the clergy would also know the significance that they
were celebrants of the reproductive life force. Odd then that prudishness has often ruled
unrivalled within the Christian Church for its celebrants perhaps do not practice that
which they are preached as a belief system.

The Secret Occult Language has many names such as the Green Language
(Langue Vert), the Language of the Birds, the Twilight Language, Closed Language.
Twilight in Sanskrit is Sandhyabhasa and this too is a secret name for the Twilight
Language of esoteric terminology in which Tantric Knowledge and Sacred Texts are
recorded, it is also sometimes termed as Intentional Language as it can often lead
to several different interpretations. Sandhyabhasa itself is said to be an amalgam of
Sanskrit and Bengali language. Very similar Hidden Language as already alluded to is
included within the Bible and can be interpreted and made use of through the Qabalistic
System of the Tree of Life. Alchemists, Occultists, Tantrics, Gnostics, Hermetic Heretics
and the like have long written down their mysterious secrets in carefully couched
and veiled terms that may only be grasped by those understand the symbolic hints,
prompts and guarded explanations - this being the reason why Initiation Rituals are
or at least should be guarded and secretive. In the East menstrual fluid is spoken of
as Red Wine and the Lingam and Yoni are called Thunderbolts in Tibet (the Bell
Ghanta). Many advanced occult secrets are hidden within Gematria or numbers. Also
in Taoist Wisdoms the Uterus becomes the Deep Veil and the Vagina becomes The
Mysterious Gate and other terms such as Union of Skilful Means and Profound
Cognition may offer esoteric insights - this being a secret codified term about the
transmission of secret techniques and images that are based upon sexual energy or
Kundalini - it is a way of referring to the sexual union between a Man (Means) and a
Woman (Cognition) who are Adepts, all very highly secret stuff whose real significance

is known only to Initiates of a certain calibre and degree. This being much the emphasis
of the point of the Secret Language for nothing can be taken to mean exactly what it
says at a surface level - it has to be regarded at a far deeper level and then the inner
truth of the matter will be revealed and the Higher Mysteries may begin to become clear
over a longer period of time.
The Twilight Language is especially constructed and structured language that
works upon more than one level or indeed many levels, indeed it is fascinating to think
that Magicians and Occultists throughout the ages have formed their own Mystical
Language. It is an obscure language with a set of surface meanings as well as a
possible whole series of concealed or hidden meanings. It is the concisely structured
language which teaches the Mysteries of All things and Unveils the Most Hidden Truths
if you can interpret it aright. The Twilight Language is pretty much universal in its scope
and it is said to be the Most Spiritual of all the languages.
The writer David Ovason suggested that this Secret Language also known as
Green Language can be translated into French to read as the Langue Vert. Now in
French he suggested that as Ouvert means Open if you convert Ouvert to Vert
then you get the opposite meaning which can be interpreted as The Closed Language.
Thus we might conclude that this Secret Language is an overt way of offering
something concealed and couched within innuendo or inference. The Occult Secrets
are cleverly concealed within their own meaning. Nothing then in written Occult Sacred
Texts and Magical Instruction Manuals should ever be taken solely at face value. The
more malicious of the Occultists such as Aleister Crowley for example actually used
the Twilight Language in a very misleading manner. Crowley firstly used filthy and
lewd metaphores to scare away the weak and the prudish from Magical work, also he
put in extremely dangerous pitfalls for the unwary on the basis the Adept would spot
the Occult Danger whereas the Inept would get into very serious trouble quite quickly!
However, Crowley saw these Dangerous Blinds and misuse of the Twilight Language as
quite legitimate as ultimately in his view people got the form of Enlightenment that in his
opinion they most deserved. That is the real importance of being aware of Occult Blinds
and the Twilight Language - to use a legal term Let the Buyer Beware!
How then might this Twilight Language be structured? Well I myself for example
use capitalisation where a CAPITAL LETTER would not usually be appropriate for I am
giving a particular word enhanced EMPHASIS!!! Anagrams can also be used such as
AMORC which means The Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rose Cross which holds
the secrets of Ancient Magical Orders going back to Hirams time in Ancient Egypt, the
Ankh or Key to Life, the Rose and the Cross, the Rose with 32 petals representing the
32 Secret Paths of the Tree of Life - a Rosicrucian is Born Again or an Initiate. 32
Paths is a Qabalistic Blind for there are 22 Paths and 10 Spheres upon the Tree of Life.
A word or phrase may also be Reversed for example Am I to find God in a DOG?.
Logical words can be substituted for illogical words thus the odd sound of the written
text would alert the reader that something secret was being said or implied. Anything
out of context in an Occult Book is noteworthy and worth deeper consideration. Missing

letters or extra letters in words are also significant for the esoteric writer is emphasising
a point - they are giving Know-Ledge about Dis-Ease if you get MY ddrr-iifftt. The real
meaning of Twilight Language can be extremely complex indeed. A very subtle trick
was to use a word that either sounds like or mimics another word e.g. Reading this
article could bring you a real PAIN meaning Reading this article could bring you a real
GAIN. Old or outdated phraseology can also be Twilight Language for example The
modern Briton would read this article would be immediately noticeable to an Adepts
Eagle Eye. Qualifying words can also be important for example The Eagle Eyed
Mage realised the significance of the Eye on the Tarot Fools leather satchel. If the
lower case where used where you would expect to see upper case lettering then again
someone is perhaps emphasising a point. Unusual abbreviations might also be pointing
the way to arcane knowledge.
This Twilight Language might seem to be a real pain to the seeker of Occult
Secrets but it can also be really helpful once you learn and grasp how to spot and
interpret an Occult Blind. When you can spot a Blind straight off then Higher Knowledge
is immediately highlighted and available to you to use or discard in accordance with
your own Taste, Discernment and Discretion. MY ARTICLE IS FULL OF LIES THAT
ARE TRUE.

After Word : "MY ARTICLE IS FULL OF LIES THAT ARE TRUE." might have been appreciated
by Crowley who once wrote a "Book of Lies" it of course means that nothing on the
Physical Plane can be an Absolute Truth for so much lies behind it upon the Inner
Planes that even explanations of the Truth here on Earth would ultimately be Lies upon
a Higher non physical Plane. To present your own version of the Truth you have to
produce an approximation in language, archetype or symbol that other people might
possibly be able to relate to themselves, but ultimately what is presented can never
really be the real whole truth of the Matter. Truth is "Experiential" and at best we can
only ever present an approximation of it. When we find these "Experiential Truths" we
also find that ordinary language cannot accommodate them adequately and we cannot
simply write down the Truth for others, so Experiential Truths have to be couched
in terms. Intuition is a higher ability than psychism and Intuition is simply put JUST
KNOWING - the "Inner Tuition" as Adepts might say in the terms of the lavishly rich and
avante garde Twilight Language.