Codex of Locations · The outer darkness and its moats

The First Moat: the Scalding River

The river of dying memories.

The riverch. 36

“The river of dying memories caustically scalds, splitting the skin into peels of cuticles.” It is “cauldrous with thick tar boils, their substance being the decay of reminiscence.” The demons call it “the burning black sludge liquid of withering remembrance.” Yaldabaoth crosses it on a bridge of his own bound angels.

By the first moatch. 21, 33

Leviathan sweeps down “from the moat of the hell beyond” (21). Saturn is “resonant in sickness by the first moat, and its rings, like the first encircling darkness around creation,” hide on the seventh day (33).

Note: Limbo lies between the first moat and creation.