'..."the modern spirit" in music is in reality the spirit of Antichrist.'

Peter Warlock, August 9th, 1918

'Shang Ti has given his command! Uphold the orthodox, dispel the heterodox...'

(Tun Chia Ceremony: Mao Shan Taoist tradition.)

'We must be ready for an immense event in the divine order which we are travelling towards with an accelerated speed that must astound all those who watch. Awesome oracles have pronounced already that the time is now.'

Joseph de Maistre


Metaphysical Axiomata ~ Nigel Jackson

1. To attain the Centre is to be Priest and King, restored to mans primal estate in Paradise.

2. At the Wheel's Centre the Motionless Mover where the unity of Knowledge and Power is realised as actionless activity.

3. Adam and Eve tended roses in Paradise, which was their observance of the Divine Cultus.

4. The Heart is the interior cavern of uncreated Light, royal temple of the Eternal Word.

5. Knowledge is Liberation, realisation of the Eternal Word as transcendent Self.

6. The building of the Temple is the emanation of the Heavenly Man, its destruction his Fall, its restoration his Regeneration.

7. When man tasted of the Tree of Good and Evil he was precipitated from Unity into duality and dissonance, from Harmony into the conflict of contraries.

8. Salvation in the Eternal Word delivers man from multiplicity to Unity, regenerating Man from becoming to Being.

9. The Misguider is centrifugal seperation from the authentic principle of Being, that which lures us in dispersion from the Centre.

10. Every sin is the instrument of its own affliction, every sin contains its own expiation.

11. Equality is antagonism: hierarchy is harmony.
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This is the video channel for the c.o.t.b. / VIA SOLIS multi-media video art project featuring Nigel Jackson, Patricia Jackson and others.


With roots extending back to early activities in the avant-garde milieux of late 1970s-early 80s Manchester post-punk and analogue electronica, Patti Jackson and Nigel Jackson's multi-media video art project c.o.t.b./VIA SOLIS combines an aesthetic of medievalist art-folk with the plangent austerity of 20th century English classicism to generate a unique strain of sound inspired by the folk-song collections of Cecil Sharp, the contrapuntal compositional harmonics and Pan-Celtic mystique of Peter Warlock, the Catholic Symbolisme of Joris Karl Huysmans and themes drawn from certain metaphysical streams, invoking inspiration from the doctrines expounded by such luminaries as Rene Guenon, Joseph de Maistre, Louis Charbonneau-Lassay and Frithjof Schuon. Nigel has written several well-received papers on the life and work of Peter Warlock which have seen publication in a number of journals over the last decade in addition to a wide-ranging oeuvre exploring a diversity of topics from European folklore to Irfanic mysticism and as an artist specialising in traditional and medieval symbology. Recent years have seen him shift into a new phase of creative work combining the media of music, poetics and video art to transmit a powerful symbolic content as a corrective theriac to contemporary mal-du-siecle and a spiritual weapon against the adverse influences which predominate during the Kaliyuga. This enigmatic grouping has gained a reputation as one of the most arcane manifestations of esoteric musicology to have emerged from the Manchester underground: the work of c.o.t.b./VIA SOLIS exemplifies musical textures founded upon real instrumentation wherein archaic, crystalline resonances of zither and harpsichord radiate through elusive mist-tides of electronic atmospherics to the pulse of the tabor, to reify a mood or musickal-aesthetic 'mode' focussed via the lens of a creative-visionary sensibility attuned to the sacred topographies of Primaeval Syrie, sensitive to the subtle forms emanating from the interior Earth of Visions, from the illuminant peak of the cosmic 'Mountain of Victories', paradaisical reverberations from the realm of Hyperborean Albion...'I am as a Garden, the like of which will never exist...'

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'...Hieratic art unites a whole race in one spiritual feudalism.'

Eric Gill


'There is nothing that can be truly and well done or made except by the man in whom the marriage of the Sacerdotium and the Regnum has been consummated...'

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

'The soul must rise to the realm of symbols/ Only then can art give joy to the spirit.'

Frithjof Schuon

Symbolist-Artizan, Musician, Video-Artist.

'The true religion was born on the day that [all] days were born...The vague conceptions [of the ancients] were no more than the more or less feeble remains of the primitive tradition.'

Joseph de Maistre

"Bees...are an image of souls which can and know how to lift themselves on the wings of contemplation."

('La Vigne Mystique'.) St Bernard of Clairvaux


'The invocation of the heart is like the humming of bees...'

Ibn Ata'illah