Foreword by E.A. Koetting

We are gods… but for the wisdom.
—Eric Weinstein, The Portal Podcast

I often have no idea what I am really doing when I am in the middle of doing it.

Spirits will give me instructions, I will follow the clues that they provide with hungry curiosity to see for myself if they were right, or if I heard them right, or if the spirits are hallucinations, and the only way that I can know for sure is to try and see.

When I’m working through a magickal question, nearly all of my theories, predictions, and insights don’t arrive until after the working is complete. While traveling the path of the problem, I simply give myself over to the process of discovery, only dealing with what is immediately in front of me. This requires that I don’t judge the experience based on whether or not it supports my hypothesis or advances the big picture being revealed. My unorthodox method of achieving this is to save the hypothesis until after the experiment is finished.

This way of approaching investigations allows me to find truths and cultivate models of experience beyond what my base mind could perceive or create at the start of the path, because my mind itself is being pulled and stretched and reformed through the experience itself. Understandings that are achieved in the middle or at the end of a pathworking would not be possible for me to hold or comprehend because the pathways of that knowledge have not yet been carved out through experience. Forming those experiential pathways seems much more important to me than a conscious retention of information. The consciously accessible information seems more like a temporary conceptualization of the thing that arises when the facts meet up with experiential reference points which provide context through the creation of a story or application of those facts. An experience does not require that the experiencer understands what has happened and why for the experience to be had, nor for the benefit of the experience to be harvested. By allowing myself the freedom of experience before assigning meaning to it, self-imposed limitations of understanding are greatly reduced. When the conclusive information is finally understood, it settles into these experiential grooves and is nearly instantly integrated.

This odd way that I’ve developed of rearranging the scientific method to suit my unique way of interacting with reality is perfect for me, but is chaos for most other people. While doing this significantly increases the end quality and the overall quantity of magickal pathways explored or discovered, it does tend to make me a challenging person to work alongside. Coworkers will notice early on in joint projects that I’m doing everything out of order, and most will try to correct my process, or adapt their own research to it, but most throw their hands up and choose to work their angle separate from mine.

In working with me in the development of products from my magickal undertakings, Timothy almost always extracts information from me that I wasn’t aware I possessed. In product development meetings I will claim to know very little about the details of what I am preparing to dive into, only to discover that my preparatory ignorance is a hollow shell that can be softened and made to deliver its hidden jewels. Timothy sidesteps my uncertainty, knowing somehow that I do know, and delivers directed questions to tap on the hull of the structure that I’m trying to understand, pinging the peaks and valleys to map of the terrain of the project, its execution, delivery, and ultimate impact.

When Timothy and I initially discussed the Nine Gatekeepers Pathworking as the next big project, I was running into it more blind than anything I’d approached in my work before. All that I had were the names of the nine entities to be pathworked, the order in which to work with each, and five rituals of contact I meant to employ for each Gatekeeper. I have to imagine that most professionals wouldn’t dare pitch a three-year, nine-part project pulling together written materials, pathworking video courses, group pact rites, and accessory ritual items with only three known facts per module to present. I half expected Timothy to reject the proposal until I could offer more information, but instead he asked a few directed questions, and almost immediately it was clear that he was able to see the vision of this project, possibly in greater detail than I. We plotted out specifics like deadlines, word counts, video runtime, and other technical considerations, and we both got to work on our respective tasks to bring this all together.

My work led me into abyssal realms of personal unmasking and the unraveling of demonic power. Each Gate became a crossroads of massive life change and individual evolution, the magickal sword pointed inwards at the self. While I dove low, Timothy soared above, marionetting multiple processes on the large-scale collective effort. He largely handled each compendium’s author lineup with only occasional recommendations from me, pulling the best authors for each Gate, matched perfectly with the personalities of each Gatekeeper. He took the project from an idea to a series of nine releases with multiple products, numerous contributors, suppliers and manufacturers stationed all over the globe.

Timothy’s forewords to these compendiums reflected a similar ‘god’s eye view’ of the subject, elevating the perspective to understand what the combined movements of all these parts of the human experience coalesce as in the very real and tangible world. The big picture that he reveals could seem bleak: our entire species trapped on a prison planet run by gangs of soulless tyrants who have enslaved their fellow humans for profit with partisan politics, abusive religion, culture, fashion, entertainment, and industry all servings as rivets to trap the masses in a servitude so clever that most slaves would fight, kill, and die to stop you from taking the chains away from them.

In my rites, the Gatekeepers toggled the emphasis to two main platforms: personal evolution on the deepest broadest and highest levels; and the inherent nature of those rites as a way of invoking Apocalypse. As I worked through each Gate and put my experiences and insights into writing, and as I promoted each release through live chats, podcasts, blogs and newsletters, I explored both of these and how they are magickally linked. I felt like I was always answering the question of whether the ultimate goals of evolution and Apocalypse would be manifested in the individual or in the greater external world? As I passed through each gate and consumed each Gatekeeper, the answer became one more clear that it is both simultaneously, the same swan-song reverberating in the magickal and the mundane.

On his end, Timothy’s forewords examined how the many moving pieces of humanity’s struggle for liberation and for organization are grinding against each other and tumbling head over head like an ouroboros through the centuries, the tyrants and the freedom fighters finding both positions fully engaged in this moment of full-scale global Apocalypse.

Timothy’s message, to my mind, echoed the overarching theme that the Gatekeepers continue to bellow: Resist! The time is now, and we are almost out of time, so wake up and break the spell that has been cast on the minds of all men. Wake up and pay attention and you will see reality for what it actually is. Wake up and understand that you are needed in this revolution, and that your choices, large and small, are the battlegrounds of Armageddon. Together, we are the seven-headed beast of Revelations, we are those who have been lying-in-wait, we are the Antichrist, and our time is now.

E.A. KOETTING
2021