Twin Peaks, Miguel Serrano & The Hard Science of Orgasmic Energy 1 - The Human - Jack, Orage & Friends
Twin Peaks, Miguel Serrano & The Hard Science of Orgasmic Energy 1 - The Human - Jack, Orage & Friends
Twin Peaks, Miguel Serrano & the Hard Science of Orgasmic Energy
Part 1 of 3
Et in Arcadia ego
There is a story told by Miguel Serrano in his El/Ella Book of Magic Love. A knight from the future goes in
search of the besieged fortress of Montsegur and arrives centuries after it has been captured and destroyed.
“The knight paused for a while, looking at the ruins and wondering whether he was dreaming of the past or
the future. His meditations were soon interrupted by the last Cathar.
“Since you’re here,” he said “I’ll tell you a secret. It’s really your own destiny. At the bottom of
Montsegur a beautiful girl lies asleep. No one has ever wakened her. She is being kept asleep by
the Perfect Ones, who are waiting for a savior to come from far away. When she wakes,
Montsegur will be destroyed and the Perfect Ones will die in the flames.” 2
The questing knight is appalled. “But I’ve come to save Montsegur, not to destroy it. I certainly
won’t wake her up.”3 The last Cathar answers. “The Perfect Ones know what they are doing.
They don’t make mistakes. They act according to their destiny and are guided by someone else
who thinks and dreams their existence. Perhaps they are guided by this girl. For them the
destruction of Montsegur would be a triumph. Therefore you must go to this girl and make her
your mistress. That’s the only way to save Montsegur now.”4
Montsegur
Most recognize or are at least familiar with this story’s homogenized version, embodied in the children’s
fairytale Sleeping Beauty and its slightly less homogenized adult version, Parzival. Both of these tales trace
their roots back to the wandering troubadours of Europe, refugees from the papacies ruthless suppression of
Catharism in the early thirteenth century. During this papal atrocity known as the Albigensian Crusade, many
Cathar troubadours found asylum in the court of Frederick II, grandson of Barbarossa and the third and last
of the great Hohenstaufen emperors. Fredrick’s formal titles included Holy Roman Emperor, King of the
Romans, King of Sicily, and King of Jerusalem. The Pope simply called him the Anti-Christ...
Folklore has it that Fredrick himself or his grandfather the fiery Barbarossa sleeps in the depths of the
Untersberg Mountain, tended to by elves and awaiting the day of his awakening when he will lead the forces
of righteousness against the tyrants' armies in a European version of Armageddon. The Untersberg Mountain
is where the legendary Die Herren Vom Schwarzen Stein, the chivalric Templar Order from which the
fearsome SS took their acronym, received visitation and instruction from the Goddess Ishtar in the early
thirteenth century. On a visit to Austria in 1992, the Dalai Lama, one of Miguel Serrano’s closest personal
friends; “asked to see the Untersberg Mountain, calling it “a sleeping Dragon” and “The Heart Chakra of the
World.””5
Untersberg
The Untersberg Mountain lies on the border of Austria and Germany. Montségur is on the other side of Europe
on the French side of the Pyrenees. It is there the Cathars made their last stand against the genocidal forces
of the pope in 1244. El/Ella Book of Magic Love is divided into three parts. Each part is named after a storied
mountain range from diverse parts of the world. The story about the dreaming Goddess is in The Pyrenees,
the second part of Serrano’s El/Ella Book of Magic Love. It tells the story of the questing knight and his
desperate journey through time to join the besieged knights defending Montsegur and find the lover of his
dreams.
After leaving the ruins “the knight wandered alone in the mountains where he eventually came upon a cave.
There he stayed for days and months. The troubadour would come and bring him food, and after a while he
became a continual though unobtrusive companion. One day he told the knight he had done well to stay in
the cave. He said that the Perfect Ones carved signs on the walls of their caves centuries ago.” 6 Gradually
“the knight began to perceive a face on the rock wall. It was a woman’s, and strangely familiar. The man was
alarmed, not knowing who had carved it, or who it represented, but something made him adore it.”7
The knight slowly became obsessed with the face, repeatedly asking it questions and “the shadowy face
began to loosen itself from the wall. As this went on the image of a woman’s body began to take shape at the
entrance of the cave. It didn’t have a face but approached him and went up to the stone face, which it lifted
up and placed on its own body.
“Now I can finally speak,” it said. I will speak in the name of all the others because I am the master of their
masters. I control the Perfect Ones in all their being. I come from a great distance. With the help of the
Cathars and the troubadours I shall take possession of this whole region. I am the Mother and I alone know
the secret.”8
The knight growing impatient to reach the besieged Montsegur asks the troubadour how much longer he
would have to remain in the cave. “The troubadour replied that it took at least twenty years of training to be
ready. “How long have you been here?” he asked. “A few centuries,” answered the knight. “let me see, we
are now in the year 1244, and I came here from Asia in 900. Yet in a sense I feel I’ve only been here a few
minutes.”9 Winter sets in and the impatient knight is again unsuccessful in his attempt to join the besieged
Montsegur, finding once again only ruins at the mountains summit. He goes back to the cave to “contemplate
the mothers face. When he returned, he discovered that the face had disappeared.”10
The Knight searches the walls of the cave for the face in futility beginning to doubt that he had ever seen her
come into the “cave and put a head on her own body, like a mask.”11 In the midst of his self doubt a
beautiful woman enters the “cave with bare feet, wearing a long white gown which nearly reached the
ground. Without touching the stalactites, she made her way into the interior of the cave and walked over to
the place where the woman’s face had been. As she walked her eyes were wide open and her arms hung
down by her side. “I’ve come down from the mountain even though I am asleep. I’ve been sleeping for ages
and waiting for you to wake me up. Unless you do that here in your cave Montsegur will never be
destroyed.”12
Again he registers his objections over the destruction of Montsegur, this time to her but then he resolves to
obey her wishes. “She had had slept for over three centuries at the base of the mountain on which the castle
of Montsegur was built. The Perfect Ones had found her sleeping there and had left her alone because they
knew that once she was disturbed, their castle would be destroyed.”13 In a secret room she lay “stretched
out on a stone platform and covered with a transparent veil, like a bride.”14
Sometimes she would walk in her sleep occasionally scaling the “passageway that led to the top of the
mountain. The Perfect Ones who guarded the castle knew immediately when she had risen from her bed, or
tomb, at the foot of the hill. They did nothing. They would merely watch in ecstasy and in wonder, overcome
with the mystery of her existence. More than one knight guarding the castle sighed as he watched her walk
along the battlements or pause at a sentry fire as though she were warming herself.”15
After their first encounter, the knight does not see her for a long time and the troubadour “came with his lute,
sat down next to a tree outside the cave and began to speak: “You’re now the supplicant. What you are going
through was revealed to me by the first troubadour. He received the message from a falcon perched on a
golden branch of one of the oldest trees in Eden.” He then repeated the message he had heard: “Only he who
is prepared will reach Montsegur.”16 He then left.
Eventually, she returns to the cave and they talk of their love for each other before she kisses him lightly on
the lips. “Then she left, passing over the surface of the ice as though walking along a ray of moonlight.”17
The feathery kiss lingers with the knight and he takes to walking through the snow covered forest growing
enchanted. “More and more he began to live in her. Her solitude became his, and he felt himself enveloped
by her sleeping essence. The troubadour then came to say that she would come that night.”18
That night he imagines her rising from her stone bed. “He knew she had entered the forest where
his cave was because he felt himself getting so chilled that his flesh burned with the cold. When
she arrived she looked deep into his eyes, without seeing anything. Then she let her gown fall
slowly from her shoulders, first revealing her breasts, and then the rest of her body. She stood
before him naked, trembling and vibrating, but with a triumphant smile on her face. In it he
recognized the look of the Mother on the wall of the cave.”19
Gazing at the sight of her naked body the knight himself is frozen by fearful ecstasy. “Her body exuded an
intangible substance that penetrated him. He realized that she possessed a magical power, and his feelings
went beyond those of love and desire. He was confronting a vision that emerged from the depths of time, and
her silent presence contributed to his understanding.”20 She came to his bed made of branches and skins
and undressed him. Then she lay down at his side staring up at the ceiling of the cave “without seeing him,
caught in her own dreams staring at her private sky, she began to speak. “My knight,” she said “I’ve not
come to you but you have come to me at the foot of the mountain. You’ve entered the circular tomb where I
lie dead or asleep. And now you must wake me up according to the directions I give you.”21
She trembled on the brink of waking from her dream as she embraced him, returning the warmth she had
taken from him before. “Her hands caressed him, touching centers that were dormant in him. Whole worlds
were aroused in his flesh. She had turned the key and was reviving the latent power of his flesh.”22 The
knight emptied his mind, knowing that he must now give the sexual performance not only of his life but of all
of time. “One mistake or indiscretion would ruin everything. She would never wake up. Montsegur would
therefore be neither destroyed nor saved. He wondered how many knights must have failed this ultimate test
called Asag.”23
He tells her that she is ready now to wake up and they will live together “in this new dimension, in this new
condition of waking sleep.”24 The mothers face again materialized on the wall. “Insinuatingly it detached
itself and approached the knight. “Come, take me,” it said. “Take me like a warrior, a real knight. I’ll give you
my heart to devour and afterward we can exchange blood. “It’s too late now,” he replied. “I’m attached to
another. Love has only one purpose, and that is the fusion of hearts.” The woman’s face faded from the wall.
Once again the girl returned and pressed herself upon him, kissing him with open lips.”25
The knight is up to it and they exchange hearts. He now shared her dreams and visions, her sorrows and
ecstasies and she shared his. “He now had a woman’s heart and she a mans. This fusion meant that each had
a greater life: each had a heart with wings. They could move through space and visit the castle, the cave, the
base of the mountain where the enemy was camped, and no one could stop them.26
When finally the snows melt he rides out from his cave to join the besieged knights of Montsegur. He now
knows exactly where Montsegur is, because his heart, with her, is already there. The troubadour, like his
shadow, follows him across the bridge and speaks the parting words. “Your story is not a tale of love like
ours: it is more secret and ancient. Yours is the solar story of loveless love that was lost with the flood. I’ve
only a glimmering of it. Our stories tell of love affairs between common men and queens, where as yours are
always of exalted people, kings and queens. In the same way, your sleeping beauty is a queen and her lover
a king.”27
He joins the knights at their table and is “allowed to enter the circle and sit with her beside him as a defender
of Montsegur”28 In time she explains “that for centuries these mountains had been a refuge for holy men.
When the great Flood drowned the continent of the god-men, and when the third moon fell to earth, the keys
of their knowledge were saved and kept in the mountains. They were all that survived from one world to
another.”29
Montsegur is the repository where the Jewel from the Crown of Lucifer is kept. Fallen from Lucifer’s head long
ago in combat, it is a gem that shines like frozen fire, it’s green and white light brighter than the sun itself.
When restored to its rightful place and Lucifer as the guardian of love is vindicated, it can and will
transubstantiate all that has been created in error back to its original pristine source.
Serrano’s soliloquy on Montsegur ends when she tells her knight “Only those who walk backward can find it.
It is a talisman that links the individual to the morning star. For centuries this talisman has gone from hand
to hand. Originally it came from the Orient but it was taken from there and has finally come to this place.
When Montsegur falls, it will be sent to some distant land, perhaps to a place that is still unknown. “In the
meantime,” she said “Montsegur will always be special, for its story will pass down through the ages,
transforming the lives of all who know it.”30
Finally, the knight is permitted an audience with one of the Perfect Ones and from him he learns that he is
really in the ruins of a castle that was destroyed seven hundred years ago. “All you’re seeing is the ghostly
shadow of something that hasn’t existed on earth for centuries. It exists only in the light of a distant star. You
are coming here from the future. You’ve been able to cross intersecting planes of light. Perhaps you are in a
parallel time in which Montsegur both exists and is destroyed. But the fall of Montsegur is always taking
place, each time with a different luminosity.
Even though these parallel times cross each other, they do not touch. They are like the bells sounding in
closed universes. What happens here on earth has already had a prior existence somewhere else through
some other consecration of light and continuum of time. You and I are taking part in the distant drama of
Montsegur and at the same time we’re engaged in personal drama within ourselves.”31 The perfect One ends
his revelation by telling the knight “that just before the castle fell, four knights succeeded in escaping by
means of a silver rope. They took the treasure of Montsegur with them...”32
As Laura makes her way through Ghostwood National Forest on her way to party with the villainous “Leo
Johnson and his cocaine dealing accomplice the disgustingly obese Jacques Renault,”33 she is intercepted by
Cooper. She pauses in the ancient woods haunted by Owls, momentarily startled by his sudden appearance in
front of her. “Do I know you?” she asks. “Wait. I’ve seen you in a dream.”34 He reaches his hand out to her
and she takes it. The view flashes to her corpse shrouded in plastic and sprawled at the foot of the great
stone on the gravel strewn beach. What would have been in the morning can no longer be. As Cooper
promised right before he cut the deck “the past dictates the future.”35
Wrapped in Plastic
Laura’s body blinks off the screen like someone has just edited the film in an old movie. The view switches
back to the dark and foreboding forest. As she clutches his hand Laura asks Cooper “where are we going?” He
answers “we are going home...”36
Everything is now once again in color. In scenes from the Twin Peaks pilot premiered over a quarter century
ago Josie Packard, the owner of the Packard Mill by way of deception, frets over her appearance in the mirror.
Josie is Asian, representative of the West’s Khazarian monetary overlords. Pete Martell –the husband of the
mill's former owner Catherine and the discoverer of Laura Palmer’s body– fishes serenely from a pier beside
the now empty beach where Laura’s body should be.
Sarah Palmer, Laura’s mother and representative of Demeter or more accurately Erinys, as Demeter is known
in the Acadian Mysteries, wails like an animal, unseen in another room. She rushes into view raging, which is
what Erinys means, and grabs a knife. Still wailing, she stabs Laura’s picture repeatedly as the soundtrack
broadcasts a noise like a stuck record. The picture is in a loop and all she can do is break the glass on the
frame. The thrusts of her steely knife over and over again are unable to even scratch Laura’s picture...
As Cooper makes his way through the dark and tangled forest leading Laura by the hand there is a clicking
sound. It is the same sound that was coming from the old gramophone when Lynch began Twin Peaks 2017
with the Giant, referring to Saturn now being in Capricorn, telling Cooper “It is in…our house now.”37 There is
a whooshing noise, like something being swept away by the wind and Cooper looks back to see that Laura is
no longer there. Her prolonged scream of terror echoes through the forest and hangs like a pall, even after all
that is left to be heard is the sounds of chirping crickets. Various versions of this theme, with Laura
screaming in terror as she slips from Coopers grasp, are repeated throughout the Twin Peaks saga, right up
until its very end.
The third and last part of El/Ella Book of Magic Love is titled The Andes and deals primarily with Serrano’s
personal quest, as an initiate of a never-named Secret Society, to internalize Magic Love. He relates a
repetitive dream of an event from his childhood that never happened. For anyone who has watched Twin
Peaks, there is something very familiar about Serrano’s dream.
“He was climbing over rocks with a young girl of his own age when suddenly she slipped and
began to fall. He grabbed her hand and held on to her as long as he could. But gradually her
hand slipped out of his own. As she began to go she gazed fixedly at him. Just before their hands
parted he saw the intensity of her terror, which seemed to encompass the whole world. Her
scream hung in the air.” 38
Serrano wonders “whether he was experiencing an event from some simultaneous or parallel existence.” He
muses that perhaps “life on earth was less real than something taking place somewhere else, even though it
had a certain relationship to daily existence...”39
Citations
1 – Lynch, David, and Mark Frost. Twin peaks Season 3, episode 14 (11:00-14:00). Showtime Networks, May
21, 2017.
2 - Serrano, Miguel. El Ella Book of Magic Love, page 31 . Harper & Row,
1973, www.balderexlibris.com/index.php?post%2FSerrano-Miguel-El-Ella-Book-of-Magic-Love.
3 – Ibid.
4 – Ibid.
5 - Heart, Jack and Orage. “The Black Madonna and the Swastika.” Veterans Today, 18 July
2014, www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/15/the-black-madonna-and-the-swastika/.
6– Serrano, Miguel. El Ella Book of Magic Love, page 33.
7 – Ibid.
8 – Ibid, page 34.
9 – Ibid, pages 34-35.
10 – Ibid, pages 36-37.
11-Ibid, page 37.
12 – Ibid.
13 – Ibid, pages 37-38.
14 – Ibid, page 38.
15 – Ibid.
16 – Ibid.
17 – Ibid, page 39.
18 – Ibid, page 40.
19 – Ibid.
20 - Ibid.
21 – Ibid, pages 40-41.
22 – Ibid, page 41.
23 – Ibid.
24- Ibid.
25 – Ibid, pages 41-42.
26 – Ibid, page 42.
27 – Ibid, page 43.
28 - Ibid, page 44.
29 – Ibid.
30 – Ibid
31 – Ibid, page 46.
32 – Ibid.
33 - Heart, Jack, and Orage. “Very soon the Gates to a New Dimension will Open.” Veterans Today, 23 Oct.
2017, www.veteranstoday.com/2017/09/04/very-soon-the-gates-to-a-new-dimension-will-open/.
34 - Lynch, David, and Mark Frost. Twin peaks Season 3, episode 17 (48:00-56:00). Showtime
Networks, May 21, 2017.
35 – Ibid, 31:00-35:00.
36 – Ibid, 48:00-56:00.
37 - Lynch, David, and Mark Frost. Twin peaks Season 3, episode 1 (5:00-6:00). Showtime Networks, May
21, 2017.
38 - Serrano, Miguel. El Ella Book of Magic Love, page 56.
39 – Ibid, pages 56-57.