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- Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:22 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: Using a single tool or index finger for all rituals?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11629
Re: Using a single tool or index finger for all rituals?
I tend to go for the style of Norse Rune Magicians. If you can carry it in a pouch on your belt, then its fine.
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:06 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: I am declaring a new Law.
- Replies: 45
- Views: 18306
Re: I am declaring a new Law.
So if someone seeks to cause me ill, I should not obstruct them. That sounds too simplistic, so let me see if there is a somewhat deeper meaning here. As for the Thelemic concept, presumably, Love under Will means do whatever, even if you tear the limbs off of little babies, but do it with love. Per...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:48 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A question for Mages and Mystics
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8389
Re: A question for Mages and Mystics
My approach is that for the mystic as well as the serious occultist, morality, ethics and the like are very real. It's just that they are not understood or worked with as the concepts defined from the perspective of socialization and culture. For example, if an attitude and approach to reality promo...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A new Tree of Life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11681
Re: A new Tree of Life
Qabbala as an oral tradition, and before it was even called that can be traced to the time of Aberham (four thousand years ago), whereas the 2D Tree of Life and the corresponding lore dates from the European dark ages. And then you have the Christian Cabbala of Athansius Kircher around the 17th cent...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: Reason and Unreason
- Topic: Why is it so hard to change your mind
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5906
Re: Why is it so hard to change your mind
One reason for not changing my views without very good reason, is because I have encountered too many people full of shite, either deliberately deceptive or just mouthing out their neither regions, that the words "open-minded discussion" have lost any sense of meaning. If one almost sees e...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:20 pm
- Forum: Theologies
- Topic: Pope Francis wants to change the Lords prayer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7646
Re: Pope Francis wants to change the Lords prayer
It all depends on what he really calls "God". That aside, in the Greek (original) the wording is "deliver us from the evil one" (ala risei mas apo tou poniru- doesn't support Greek font), so there is no issue in the prayer itself, but how the Catholic religious authorities altere...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:14 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A question for Magicians
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3044
Re: A question for Magicians
Its not a "Law", let alone the "Law". If it were, there would be reprisal for breaking it. I would say its simply the healthiest route when the Thou is real, as opposed to a psychic fragment, imposing authority or conditioning pattern (program) running the show. The Desire nature...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:59 pm
- Forum: Ancient Magick and Mythologies
- Topic: What makes Practicioners believe in limitations
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9711
Re: What makes Practicioners believe in limitations
I think its a practical matter. Experience teaches to work within limitations. The creative occultist uses those to define their practice and make it more tangible, as opposed to wasting time and energy on every variation of "what might be". Nothing is impossible, but probability varies. W...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: Gnosticism
- Topic: Who is Sophia?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13207
Re: Who is Sophia?
I think the works of John Lamb Lash are worth looking into where Sophia (the feminine side of the Christic Aeon and Essence of this planet) is concerned.
[metahistory.org has a good collection].
[metahistory.org has a good collection].
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:25 pm
- Forum: Angelic Arts
- Topic: Warned not to Summon Angels?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 39032
Re: Warned not to Summon Angels?
Seems much of this thread belongs in a big parenthesis. Let me get to the OP. Someone tries to summon an "angel" whose "name" is Camael (KMAL in english transliteration). The name can be interpreted as "How much of El?" or "as if out of El", which gives it a s...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: Kabbalah
- Topic: The Tree of Life
- Replies: 201
- Views: 366500
Re: The Tree Of Life
The "Yin And Yang" you refer is also applied at a most fundamental level and preceding the tree as part of the eternal cycle : The feminine 'Yin' would represent passivity, nothing, or negative existence with the masculine 'Yang' being the polar opposites of those. Technically a feminine ...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: Chaos Magick
- Topic: Spell to life in a Paralel Universe
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8865
Re: Spell to life in a Paralel Universe
Many here have declared that material transfer to another plane isn't possible. They quickly dash to substances to alter the mind or to astral projection. Why? Because they personally fail to literally manifest material? Because they personally fail to jump dimensions? This makes them assume it's i...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:23 pm
- Forum: Kabbalah
- Topic: The Tree of Life
- Replies: 201
- Views: 366500
Re: The Tree Of Life
Let me do some paradigm translation here, since these appear to be Thelemic terms...a modern play on Egytian esoteric terminology. I differentiate between the void and the abyss. The first is what you would call Nuit, or the womb/field of infinite potential. You can call it Yin-field or aether, as o...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:54 pm
- Forum: Kabbalah
- Topic: The Tree of Life
- Replies: 201
- Views: 366500
Re: The Tree Of Life
1. Existence as well as non existence occurs within a non linear time construct, i.e. an outermost cycle, or eternity, as opposed to a finite linear system such as this universe we now exist. 2. The cycling of eternity is subject to periods of non existence. No space, no time; neither any movement ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 2:02 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: Questions about magick
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7898
Re: Questions about magick
Reading a handful of books for a year or so before starting 1-2 years of basic training is not that hard. I guess learning to go into some light trance state like hypnosis, to learn to manifest events that are on the verge of manifesting anyway and to vizualize takes even less than a year or two, d...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:46 pm
- Forum: Theistic Satanism
- Topic: Goetia
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4655
Re: Goetia
Funny you should mention Enochian. The Goetic Art of the Lesser Key of Solomon is unlike other grimoires of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It includes Qabbalistic elements those systems don't have. The text provides some instruction on how the spirits are to be addressed and organized, but the pra...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: Individual Spirituality
- Topic: A list of questions for you all
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8314
Re: A list of questions for you all
1. What are the characteristics of a "spiritually enlightened/ascended master/ God" Wholeness of being. Integral consciousness, integral desire/will, integral body/mind/soul with full energy activation. Being without desire is fragmenting a part of self, so I would not include that. We ar...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: Kabbalah
- Topic: The Tree of Life
- Replies: 201
- Views: 366500
Re: The Tree Of Life
It's been a while since I chose it, but I think it comes from a famous quote from The Book of the 24 Philosophers (in Latin Liber XXIV philosophorum):
“God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”.
“God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”.
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:04 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A new Tree of Life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11681
Re: A new Tree of Life
That's cool. I thought about it myself when I saw I was somewhat veering off topic, but...lazy. I agree. No offense to the original poster, but I find it baseless as well.
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: Ancient Magick and Mythologies
- Topic: Witches
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7898
Re: Witches
They are people. That means there are decent ones and nasty ones. The nasty ones can be very very nasty, and some are solitary and some form groups (covens). I've met both types and have been the target of a number of the nasties who are predatory for a variety of reasons. I would say that the ones ...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A new Tree of Life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11681
Re: A new Tree of Life
Right. But other than space and time, unless you go for abstract diagrams where any variable is spatialized, that can get confusing I think. I read somewhere that two dimensional depictions became popular during the advent of Christianity and Islam when statues were prohibited. Interestingly the fir...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: Modern Era Magicks
- Topic: A new Tree of Life
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11681
Re: A new Tree of Life
I prefer the 3D redering of the ten sephroth as described in the Sepher Yetsirah. The latter is usually translated as Book of Formation/Creation, but you can also render it as Manual of Shaping. The names along the 2D "Tree" of Life- and there is more than one kind of Tree, and more than o...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:59 pm
- Forum: Reason and Unreason
- Topic: Metaphysically understanding the destruction of people
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5728
Re: Metaphysically understanding the destruction of people
Done. Thanks for that.
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:10 pm
- Forum: Workings, Spells, Incantations and Rituals.
- Topic: Spell caster
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3925
Re: Spell caster
I agree with borealis. But you don't really need to be a spell-caster per se. There are energy and consciousness practices, that if done with commitment and diligence over time- depending on innate disposition and getting the nuances- tend to increase intuitive insight and "energy" sensiti...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:02 pm
- Forum: Divination and Mantic Arts
- Topic: Is anyone achieving "practical" results from divination?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 34264
Re: Is anyone achieving "practical" results from divination?
This is what troubles me, too, i m studying occult for helping saving the people i care and love.... but most of them wont listen anything, they go their own direction even if their gut feeling tells its wrong, and i m not powerful enough to influence them in a deeper level. so, maybe finally what ...