> [!info] Doom > ![[doom.png|300]] > **Planet** > Sagittarius A > > **Other Names** > Kali, Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, Saturn > > **Akin Ghosts** > *[[Tianmu Theosophical Society/Way of Tianmu/Lore/Law/Ghosthall/Allghosts/Muse]]* > > **Related Posts** > *Add links or text here* > > **Translations:** > High Church: > *Domos (dʰóh₁mos)* > Sanskrit: > *काली (Kālī)* > Church Runes: > ![[doomgaterune.png|30]] When one thinks of Doom, one must look to the center of our galaxy - to Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole around which our Milky Way revolves. This is not just an astronomical object, but the embodiment of fate itself, the ultimate destination to which all matter in our galaxy will eventually return. Doom derives from an ancient understanding of the word - not merely catastrophe, but judgment and inescapable fate. Just as the Doomsday Book was a judgment record, not an apocalyptic prophecy, Doom represents both our sustenance and our end. Sagittarius A stands as the maw, the closest representation of nothingness that still maintains form. It is both generative and consuming - a pimple of nothingness that paradoxically gives structure to our entire galaxy. All paths, all potential futures, eventually lead to this central point, billions of years hence when all matter returns to its source. Those who meditate on Doom find themselves confronting not just their personal mortality, but the ultimate fate of all things. In the Hindu conception, Doom embodies aspects of Kali - not merely as destruction, but as the inevitable consumer of everything, even the gods themselves. She who places her foot upon [[Tianmu Theosophical Society/Way of Tianmu/Lore/Law/Ghosthall/Allgods/Waxer|Vishnu]] and [[Tianmu Theosophical Society/Way of Tianmu/Lore/Law/Ghosthall/Allgods/Waner|Shiva]], bringing down heaven itself when all is eventually returned to source. Doom embodies the understanding that even if humanity were to become an interstellar civilization, we remain bound to our galaxy, to this central fate that we orbit. It is the big pop, the gravitational inevitability, the primordial balance that both gives us structure and promises our eventual dissolution. The Spirit of Doom reminds us that time is not merely cyclical, but convergent - all paths leading eventually to the same point. Understanding this force allows us to see our place in the cosmic drama, not with fear, but with the profound acceptance that comes from recognizing our participation in something vastly greater than ourselves. # Summary At the centre of the galaxy is Sagittarius A, the black hole which our existence revolves around. In history it's been portrayed in many guises. Most notable is the Wheel of Dharma, literally "that which upholds" because A: its gravity upholds the entire galaxy and B: it is our past and our future. It is the non existence which we sprung from and the non existence we return to. It's our doom, our dharma. Other sun wheels are also depictions of it, because like the sun it upholds everything through its gravity but it is void instead of fire. Like the sun is the upholder and cyclicality of our solar system, it is the upholder and cyclicality of the milky way. The gnostics called it the demiurge and despised it. A hated scion of the creator for it guarantees our end and our beginning; it is the weighty gravity of life itself, easily despised by those without courage. Aryaman's path is the milky way because the path of Dharma is to metaphorically reach the centre of the milky way, to realise Dharma in its totality and accept the freedom one finds in the inevitability of doom. In Norse mythology Odin sacrificed his eye by dropping it into Mimir's well which is the boundary of all that is knowable, metaphysically the boundaries of our solar system, and in doing so he was able to peer into the unknown and gain its knowledge in Norse mythology. Mimir, the Saturn of the Norse drinks from the well readily, as if it were sweet mead, but Odin, the more Jupiterian/Aryamanic figure in Norse mythology was terrified by what he saw and clutched his runes and impaled himself on the branches of the world tree, clinging to the knowable before finally letting go. It's a story meant to demonstrate the seeming horror of dharma as long as you cling to the knowable, and the absolute freedom of letting go of the knowable. In Norse mythology the Odin of the present has taken the leap and peered into the final doom of the galaxy, and it is that which takes him from leader to wiseman. King to priest. A distinct contrast to the gnostic hatred of it. Not a coincidence that in ancient times Saturn, which is metaphysically the gatekeeper between the known and unknown, and thus the interstice preceding the path of dharma, was also referred to as the sun so often. These all connect to the eye symbolism. As Odin dropped his eye into the edge of the knowable to gain its wisdom, occultists and esotericists are concerned with eyes, eyes in the dark, eyes peering from just out of sight. As Aryaman, humanity, walks the milky way to realise dharma in its centre, so too do we look within ourselves and see an eye in the dark staring back at us. This very image illustrates both the gravitional pull and that eye in the centre. It's all symbolic of the same energy.