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is the quintessential female androgyne, the phallic woman. ... female androgynes are comparatively
rare but, when they occur they are more deadly than the males” (O’Flaherty, 1982, p. 236) But we
ought never forget that the tantra master has mastered the magic art with which to put the deadly
energy of the woman to use in his own pursuit of power. Let us also not forget that at the end of the
eschatological fire occasioned by the doomsday mare (Kalagni/Candali/Kali), it is not she, but rather
the yogi as ADI BUDDHA who ascends the world throne.
It is particularly striking that in the myth of the mare the apocalyptic fire comes out of the water. (The
fiery mare is to be found in the depths of the world’s oceans.) If we interpret the story from the
viewpoint of the tantric initiation this origin may become more comprehensible. This concerns,
namely, a phenomenon which is known as “burning water” in European alchemy. Water, originally
feminine, is ignited by the masculine energy of fire and then functions destructively. In the old Indian
legal codex of Manu we can also read that, “Fire is born of water, as is seen in the case of lightning
and the mare fire” (O’Flaherty, 1982/1988?, p.214).
Once ignited water behaves like some sort of cosmic fuel and serves the masculine as a destructive
energy. On the macrocosmic level the yogi makes use of the “submarine fire” of the mare to dissolve
the old universe with its help, just as he destroys his old bodily aggregates on the microcosmic level
with the help of the candali. Thereby, the “death” of the ocean and of the feminine with it is
preprogrammed, since when the doomsday mare has burnt up all of the seas it ultimately destroys
itself, just as in parallel the candali collapses and quits the tantric stage once the tantric combustion
procedure is concluded.
The doomsday mare and the apocalyptic fire, Kalagni, represent the same destructive energy, it is just
that one is to be found in the depths of the sea, the other in contrast at the roots of the of the world
mountain Meru, there where the fires of hell burn. When the time has come, Kalagni rises up out of
the lower layers and step by step burns down the world, the planets, and the stars. Just as the yogi is
weighed down with past karmic debts which he must cleanse with a baptism of fire along his way to
enlightenment, so too, according to the Kalachakra doctrine, the debt of many millennia weighs upon
the stars and planets. Therefore the heavenly bodies must also undergo a total purification by fire. The
same is true for the twelve months and the zodiacal signs which correspond to them. They are
likewise blemished with a special nidama, a type of karmic stain: the star sign Capricorn with
ignorance, for example, Leo with desire, Scorpio with rebirth, and so forth (Banerjee, 1959, p. 166).
Inexorably and cruelly, Kalagni lets the whole universe go up in flames. Along with the stars the
inhabitants of heaven are also burnt out, the Buddhas and the gods; with the earth humanity and all
other living creatures are also consumed by fire. The elements dissolve themselves — space, air, fire,
water, and earth. The entire creation sinks into a sea of fire. In the macrocosm only a few “galactic
seeds” remain, which form the starting material for a new world (Tayé, 1995, p. 41). The sole element
which survives this apocalypse is wind, that is, in microcosmic terms, the breath of the tantra masters
(ADI BUDDHA). In the next cosmic epoch it has an effect on the remaining “galactic seeds” and
creates a new universe from them. [4]
The myth of eternal recurrence
The myth of the world fire, which dominates the Kalachakra Tantra, was originally at home in the
Greek and Oriental cultures. The majority of orientalists assume that it came from Iran. From there it
penetrated the Indian cultural sphere and became linked to, among other things, Buddhist systems of