book: The Cult Of The Black Cube
https://b-ok.lat/book/5544934/836eec?regionChanged OK (8MB, PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/z54xd3 (8Mb, PDF)
>page 95 Saturn is not merely an Indo-European figure, or even an Indo-Semitic figure. The Saturnine deity appears in the mythologies and religious systems of other ancient cultures. The Aztecs, for example, revered Him as Tezcatlipoca, the Black Sun, a generally malevolent deity, hobbled by virtue of a missing foot which was sometimes replaced by a black mirror or serpent. Tezcatlipoca, like Sani and Saturn, was for some time considered a major god of the Aztec empire, though His reign was challenged by His brother (rather than son). The worship of Tezcatlipoca demanded daily human sacrifice, for which the Aztec empire remains infamous today. He is a paradoxical figure who is both solar and chthonic in the same moment, much like Lord Sani. Curiously, He wears bells arrayed like chains.
>page 101 In several of these cultures discussed, Saturn's physical presence in this world- his idol, if you will is said to be a black stone, cube, or obelisk. The current idol of Sani at one of his most prominent temples continues to be the black stone. The Kaaba itself, which was originally an icon of the Time deity, is another prominent example of the Black Cube. the Saturnine deity is a remnant of the primordial Chaos, which was cut/ severed from Chaos when the cosmos surged into being. The Cube symbolizes the cutting, in that its straight edges and angles are clearly artificial and non-natural. The Cube also represents the maiming and constraining of Saturn, and the prison dimension (Tartarus) to which the deity is confined. The Black Cube is simultaneously the prison and the throne of the dark god. Further, the symbol or emblem of the Black Cube appears in many contemporary art and media projects, often as a symbol of alien menace or alterity.
That book was published in 2017, so again I'm not looking to see someone talking about the Black Cube of Saturn. I'm trying to locate where it was first talked about.
This is among the first youtube vids that deals with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTh8kcCvlTY
Here's a website from 2007 that talks of a Masonic concept "blackballing" but that some lodges uses black cubes instead.
https://masonictao.com/2007/07/23/the-curse-of-the-black-cube/
Here's a site from 2009 that just updates what people have beens saying since.
http://www.yahuahreigns.com/saturn%20and%20the%20occult.html
But trying to pinpoint who first started this is not an easy task.
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/E4/E4AAFF6DAF6863F459A8B4E52DFB9FF4_Manly.P.Hall_The.Secret.Teachings.of.All.Ages.pdf
page 192
An interesting application of the Pythagorean doctrine of geometric solids as expounded by Plato is found in The Canon. "Nearly all the old philosophers," says its anonymous author, "devised an harmonic theory with respect to the universe, and the practice continued till the old mode of philosophizing died out. Kepler (1596), in order to demonstrate the Platonic doctrine, that the universe was formed of the five regular solids, proposed the following rule. 'The earth is a circle, the measurer of all. Round it describe a dodecahedron; the circle inclosing this will be Mars. Round Mars describe a tetrahedron; the sphere inclosing this will be Jupiter.
>Describe a cube round Jupiter; the sphere containing this will be Saturn.
Now inscribe in the earth an icosahedron; the circle inscribed in it will be Venus. Inscribe an octahedron in Venus; the circle inscribed in it will be Mercury' (Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1596). This rule cannot be taken seriously as a real statement of the proportions of the cosmos, fox it bears no real resemblance to the ratios published by Copernicus in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Yet Kepler was very proud of his formula, and said he valued it more than the Electorate of Saxony. It was also approved by those two eminent authorities, Tycho and Galileo, who evidently understood it. Kepler himself never gives the least hint of how his precious rule is to be interpreted." Platonic astronomy was not concerned with the material constitution or arrangement of the heavenly bodies, but considered the stars and planers primarily as focal points of Divine intelligence. Physical astronomy was regarded as the science of "shadows," philosophical astronomy the science of "realities."