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and his Magical Order of the Aurora AureaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-15189343581124428672014-06-25T19:15:00.000+02:002014-06-25T19:15:28.978+02:00Should we bury secrets in the mists of Avalon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a shock today when I read how Marion Zimmer Bradley
protected her pedophile husband who committed serial sexual abuse and how her
daughter has been saying that the fantasy writer was violent and sexually
abused her too.</div>
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Like the writer Jim Hines who wrote <a href="http://www.jimchines.com/2014/06/rape-abuse-and-mzb/" target="_blank">the blog with all the details,</a> I
was a big fan of Zimmer Bradley who opened up the Arthurian mysteries to me.
The world she portrayed was full of strong feminist figures fighting against
some really unpleasant male aggression.
Now that world and those characters and world is dead to me. They are the creations of a writer who did
not mean a word of it. Her fantasy
worlds were not an expression of what she believed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is also strange is how there is a movement among her
fans to say that this does not matter, what matters is the worlds and
characters she created. Equally there are those who say that Bradley and her
husband should not be judged because the matter has been “dealt with.” Besides <o:p></o:p> Zimmer Bradley was a victim of her own mother so surely that gave her the right to repeat the pattern etc..</div>
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But a writer is, in some ways, a God, or a magician. Everything that happens in a book is a
creation of the writer. To write a novel
is to expose yourself to the reader. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Zimmer Bradley case the writer is a hypocritical god…
she is not her heroines, but the cruel abusers. She is not the struggling
feminist icons but the oppressor. Needless to say this turns Zimmer Bradley’s
books on their heads and makes them effectively unreadable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In her books it is the heroines who hold the magic and not
the oppressors and what Zimmer Bradley is effectively projecting is her own
cruelty against her magical self. She is
unconsciously aware that the two things are mutually incompatible. You cannot be a magician and be cruel to the
innocent. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now you can be a magician and an arsehole. Being a magician does not stop you being
arrogant, violent, intolerant, rude, or anything that many in the new age world
says you should not be. But there seems to be a line after all, one where you
stop being a magician and become something else. That line appears to be one of
cruelty to another person or form of life for your own aggrandisement. If you contribute to wrecking another’s life,
then like Marian Zimmer Bradley’s universe, your magical world collapses. Suddenly you lose the right to speak because
the world has seen your hypocracy. The
magic might continue, but really the spirit of it has gone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Watchers of the Dawn<a href="http://www.watcherofthedawn.com/?p=175" target="_blank"> ran a story</a> about how one of the heads of the AO
Order in Ireland had been sentenced by a court for collecting child porn. If
true and it seems to be, not only did the head of the Order David Griffin know
about the man’s convictions but also he expelled three members for daring to
complain about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like the Zimmer Bradley case we are being asked to look away
by those who are “fans” of that system. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On Facebook, the writer Fr Barabbas, who always takes the
role of Griffin’s apologist, said that it was not up to anyone to judge someone
who had already been sentenced and punished in a court of law. (Of course you could use the same logic to say that you should not judge someone who has NOT been found guilty in a court of law) Another person
suggested that the story was just part of the Golden Dawn Flame wars and people
should really be getting on with each other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But really, like the Zimmer Bradley case, the magic dies
when you hear of such things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Attached is an old article I wrote for the Horus Hathor Temple in Nottingham when I ran it. I found it on my computer this morning so I thought I would put it here. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the UK there is a term
which means something is completely untrue, or a waste of time.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is called 'bollocks' and it is considered
a rude word which you are not supposed to use in polite company.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is the complete opposite of the phrase the
'dog's bollocks' which is said to mean something very good – particularly for
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Popular culture is built on
bollocks. It sucks you into a morass of TV chatshows, <i>Jerry Springer</i> and
reality game shows. It is bollocks that television presenters can do up your
home or that you will be better if you look like they say you should. It is bollocks that you should take drugs to
make you 'normal' or that is wrong to be depressed occasionally. It is bollocks
that your flight is somehow safer because you took your belt off and let
someone sniff your trainers. Soap operas are temples of bollocks that we
sacrifice our brain, time and souls at its virtual altars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Popular culture demands not
only that we build our lives on bollocks.
We are encouraged to look away from things that are sensible and well
thought out in search of bollocks answers to everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Occultists consider
themselves outside the mainstream. They
are supposed to look at the unseen world and find a measure of reality that is
unseen by other people. But despite
this, popular culture seeps into their reality too. Despite our attempts to be outside the system
we cannot escape it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This has lead many modern
magicians to say “if you can't beat them join them” Is it possible to turn the
symbols of popular culture into something we can use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The logic is that if modern
popular symbols are archetypes it should be possible to use them to key into
the same forces that were opened by older symbols. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">However this is not as easy
as it appears. Older symbols are often
hard-wired into the consciousness of humanity.
They are based on beliefs held by our ancestors for thousands if not
millions of years. This gives the
symbols a depth which more recent symbols cannot quite match.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For a long time I followed
the view that a symbol was a symbol. It
did not matter which one you used so long as it meant something to you. In the spirit of experiment to prove this I
did two rituals. The objective was to remove negativity in a particular
area. In the first rite I used pop
culture symbols of Star Trek New Generation.
It was a great laugh, I got to
play Picard. The negativity was
visualised as a Borg cube which was destroying the area. The ritual was effective. Energy from the phaser banks was seen belting
out of the East of the temple by more than one of the temple psychics. In short
it did what was expected and was a lot of fun.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The control ritual was one
using heavy cabbalistic symbolism, neo-platonic symbolism with a bit of alchemy
thrown in. It was less of a ritual and
more of a pathworking, but it also was designed to send a burst of spiritual
energy outwards to smash up a negative thought form. It did this to the same technical standard as
the other ritual. One could say well that was proof that pop culture symbols
worked just as well as the traditional ones.
But it didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When the ritual officers
asked which they thought was the most effective they all felt it was the
classical ritual. The felt that the
symbols gave them more to grab hold of.
While the Star Trek rite amused them and intellectually they could
understand the logic of the symbols it failed to move them emotionally like the cabbalistic version. So my experiment failed, it seemed that it
was not entirely possible to root a magical system in popular culture
symbols. They were simply not deep
enough to carry it off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Does this write off then the
use of popular culture symbols within magic?
Not at all. But it is not simply
a matter of replacing your rituals with popular symbols you have to
alchemically wire it into the collective unconscious yourself. In short, you have to turn bollocks into
gold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This has been done before,
and will probably be done again in the future, with the myth of Atlantis.
Popular culture has muttered that Atlantis was a real place for centuries, but
in the 19<sup>th</sup> century the literal idea of this place really took off,
with the works of the Theosophical Society.
One of the people heavily influenced by this teaching was Dion Fortune
who became convinced that she was an Atlantian adept in a past life. She worked
with the symbol of Atlantis and made it into a system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This lead to a funny incident
in the 1980s there was a very famous collective of magicians that used to meet
around a residential centre called Hawkwood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They had heard a legend that
when Atlantis had sunk, the Solar Logos, which in Dion Fortune's system ruled
the solar system, had decided that it did not want some of the Atlantian adepts
to re-incarnate because they were too evil.
It stuck their souls on a comet with an incredibly wide orbit around the
solar system, to gnash their teeth until
the solar system was ready for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It is not clear where the
legend started from. It has all the
hallmarks of a channelling session, but it could have come from Dion Fortune's
own Inner Light. However the story got
several of these famous magicians thinking.
It seemed to them after a few thousand years the Atlantians should have
sorted themselves out and should be ready for an incarnation or two. They meditated, and prayed, about the idea
and got a good feeling about it. Those
who channelled the Secret Adepts of Power also got the nod from their contacts
for the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">So they met at Hawkwood with
a plan to do a huge ritual to save the Atlantian evil adepts. The ritual was set up, everyone was robed,
but all was not well with the bloke in charge of the ritual. He was starting to have a few doubts. What if the Solar Logos was not happy with
the idea of pulling these people back into incarnation? What if he was releasing a plague of terrible
evil on the world? The rite opened and
in the West the priestess made her contacts and poured power into the thought
forms that were supposed to draw the errant Atlantians back onto the
planet. There was a pressure
building. The Mighty Magus of Power had
broken out into a sweat. Suddenly he
knew he wanted to do this ritual about as much as he wanted someone to jab red
hot needles in his eyes. He decided
that the Inner did not want the ritual to happen and used an emergency ritual
shut down technique that delivered his fellow magicians to earth with a bump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Priestess, speaking words
of her contact, said: “Priest you have failed” and stormed out of the temple
room only to faint when she got into an outside corridor. Many of the other officers felt physically
sick and the ritual when down in legend as one of the ones which went bang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But no one seemed to have
paused before the ritual took place and thought; evil Atlantian magicians on
comets that is complete bollocks that is! Nor did they consider what would have
happened if the ritual had been completed.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The idea of the souls of
these adepts being stuck on a comet by the God of this solar system did not seem
funny or odd to them. Even if accept
this bollocks they even had to accept other things that they did not
believe. They would have to believe that
the soul could be attached to a physical reality. Further that the Solar Logos,
or Sun, might consider some humans too evil to allow them to re-incarnate. This would mean that the Solor Logos woke up
one morning and decided to abandon the law of karma for these evil sods. Adherents of this flavour of occultism are
great fans of karma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yet they disabled all of
these 'common sense' structures to accept a pop-culture myth and then allowed
it to effect them so deeply that one of them passed out when it 'failed'. Why?
Well it was all about faith. It was
serious magic to them. What
normally would have been popular culture symbols had been rooted into their
belief structure so deeply that they were wired to the archetypes. They were able to take the symbols and use
them in a way that I was not able to hit with my Star Trek ritual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This 'faith' built out ideas
in other areas. I know of four people who claim to be the priestess who guided
the ships from the sinking Atlantis to the shores of Britain. The first was Dion Fortune who invented that
version of the myth. Others have been
those who often are not aware that Dion claimed that role for herself and think
they must have done it because they are such shit hot psychics. However the Atlantis myth also developed into
a system of magic based around geometric shapes. Each shape was held to have a magical virtue
and officers in a rite were told to hold lines in this pattern. The idea was to make the shape light up on
the astral. Now this idea is really
superior because it shows that the bollocks has been refined into pure
intellectual magical gold. It is producing
something incredibly useful that could be adapted outside of that particular
system. The probably owed a lot to the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but that is not so important to the people
who are using this system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Popular culture can also
motivate esoteric people to do workings that they normally would not
consider. As the world readied for the
First Gulf War there were a number of magical groups that responded by doing
rites for victory. Some responded by
digging up copies of Dion Fortune's <i>Magic Battle of Britain </i>book which
described the setting up of wards around Britain during World War Two. What was interesting about these groups was
that they had apparently ignored the fact that the Dion Fortune defence rituals
were designed to protect Britain from invasion from the Nazis. There was no way that the Iraqi army was ever
going to fight its way through Europe to besiege Britain. But what they were
doing was responding to a stirring in the popular culture that felt that
Britain was being attacked. This was, of
course, bollocks but it added power to the working that perhaps logic alone
would not have provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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redeem a popular culture symbol so that it can be used to the same magical
level. The Atlantian working was based
on faith. The people practising were
certain that it must be true and therefore made it happen. The Gulf War working was based faith based on
war propaganda and mass hysteria. These
are things that are very difficult to mimic in the regular working of a
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thought, the reason for this is a symbol
is not a single object but a gateway to many other objects that link to single
divine idea. Look at it this way. One day a creator God, let us call him Jeff,
decides to create beer. He does not
visualise a pint of something wet, hoppy, refreshing, lager or dark beer. He thinks about everything that beer is and
conceives it as a symbol. A primal
symbol of all beerness. This image flows
towards manifestation and gives birth to other symbols that make for different
types of beer and flavour until there are legions of different types for
creation to use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Popular culture symbols are a
bottom up creation. They make links
based on other symbols. Picard is is not
wired into the Universal archetype for leadership, he is a symbol of other captains who show these
qualities. The Borg are not the
archetype of a mechanistic collective, they are based on human societies where
these ideas have gone wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But a divine idea which
attracts more ideas to it over time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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track a way to becoming archetypes over time, but the very nature of popular
culture is that it is ephemeral and will pass into history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that stop them. Equipped with a
knowledge of how these things work, it is possible to connect popular culture
symbols to more primal ones. It will
take some doing and will probably only be personal to you, but it will make
symbols from popular culture carry the same weight as those older and more
traditional ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Firstly you have to do some
internal wiring and this requires some meditation. Take the symbol that you wish to redeem and
stare at it for some time. Allow it to
create some 'ideas' in your mind. So if
we use Buffy, we allow the idea of being a chosen one roll around in our
mind. We think of a few of the
adventures she has had etc. Then try to
think what she is a symbol of.
Compare and reject those other
heroes who do not fit the qualities you
find interesting about her. So Alexander
the Great for example was a 'Chosen One' but he led armies fighting humans and
while Buffy only had a small gang fighting evil. It does not quite work. If you think that it is vital for the
archetypal 'Buffy' to be a female hero then you will have to find a heroine who
fits. Remember, you do not have to use
humans, myths and legends, gods and goddesses will all work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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'hero' then you start to look at the qualities that hero has which makes them
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with her super powers and tendency to rush into dark places to fight evil, has
enough links to be similar to the symbol of Hercules. What is it that Hercules has that connects us
to the ideas of heroism? We might generate a list – bravery, leadership, not
fleeing in the face of monsters, or being eaten by them and, above all, a
strong sense of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gets a bit tricky. We have to take these
qualities and ascend upwards with them.
The process makes them more abstract.
Generally I see the symbols as becoming geometric shapes but they
radiate feeling. Allow the shape to move
upwards and follow it in your mind's eye toward a single point of light. That light has symbolically to be damn
big. It represents the singularity of
the creator... in my case Jeff. In that
light you should see the shape changing before settling on a single shape. You might want to note that shape, before
allowing it to come back. Watch it
change, moving from primal shape, to new forms, separating out into different
beings, heroes, linking to Hercules and finally, like the bottom of a family
tree, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What you have done is link
Buffy magically to something more primal and when you use her you will find
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see if some of these symbols start to evolve in the direction that you
meditated on. You might pick up a Buffy
comic and see a story line which reflects your meditation. In magical terms it would be a good 'check on
earth' that the links have been properly made as others who work with the Buffy
image will have started to pick up on the same connections. Again that would be a matter for experiment, but
from your perspective when you tap into that image you will be free from a lot
of the bollocks that surrounds popular culture icons and rooted into a divine
reality. Because you have seen those
links between Buffy and 'Jeff' you can believe in them and because you have
felt the depth of the links between her and him you benefit from the depth of
the symbol. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This technique can be applied
to any popular culture symbol, from Star Trek to and Andy Warhol tin of soup.
But as an experiment I suggest you do a ritual using the pop culture symbols
and then try and linking an iconic set before trying something else. Take the
whole cast of Buffy, or the Bridge of the Enterprise, the Jerry Springer show,
a range of cars, anything. Then use them as magical symbols to see if you can
improve them by linking them to the Divine.
It does make watching the shows, or car spotting a completely out of
this world experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-36830401479392245582014-06-15T13:45:00.001+02:002014-06-15T13:45:39.732+02:00Mathers' Last Word on the Golden Dawn name<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Picture was by Paola Farrell and the quote comes from my book Mathers' Last Secret (revised edition) which can be found here http://www.amazon.com/Mathers-Last-Secret-REVISED-Teachings/dp/0984675302Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-71155893090263352662014-06-08T11:46:00.000+02:002014-06-08T13:53:45.492+02:00WHERE THE OCCULT & PAGAN COMMUNITY LOST THE PLOT<div class="MsoNormal">
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The occult community is doomed to be hijacked by right-wing
nut-jobs and other idiots because it has become paralysed by its own desire to be
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Yesterday I was involved in a spat with a Golden Dawn troll
in the Nova Roma group on Facebook. Not
the occult Golden Dawn, I mean the Nazi group which has effectively taken over
the use of the name in the EU. The troll
was flooding he site with bogus historical claims about how the Jews wrecked
Greece and how homosexuality in Ancient Greece was a dreadful rumour put about
by the Jews where intimated by Greek masculinity. Ignoring him did not
help. He kept reposting because he
believed he was right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I thought the Golden Dawn was anti-Turk (and this was a
Roman group) so I made a few gags about how the Romans were Troyian refugees
and therefore Turkish. I was wasting my
time, the troll had about as much of a sense of humour as his alt.magick
counterparts in the 1990s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The point was that the Nova Roma group seemed unable to do
anything about him. If a troll like that
appeared in one of my Facebook groups he would have been banned. Scarlet Magdalene
reports that similar trolls are the bane of her existence in Greek religious
re-enactment groups but no one is taking them down either.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In all cases the neo-pagan movement is ignoring one of the
primary lessons that the Jews learnt in the 1940s. The only way to deal with
these thugs is to chase them off the streets.
In Germany the population was in fear of the brown shirts and the result
was that they ended up being accepted.
In the UK though Mosley’s Black shirts were literally chased from the
streets by gangs of pissed off Jews. The grass roots of the Nazi movement
failed. Then, as in now, the Far Right claimed
their views are being censored and that you are trespassing on their rights to
free speech. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So fucking what! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rights of free speech are intimately coupled with a right
not-to-listen. You have a right to call
me name, but in law you cannot control my reaction. So if you insult my ancestors it is not
interfering with your free speech if I curse you never to have any off-spring
or you get a terminal illness. If you
post hate-speech on a Facebook group that is your right, it is equally my right
to take you down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet in the occult community there is a fear that people are
somehow doing the wrong thing. That they are not appearing spiritual enough in their
dealing with these people. If we are all
One Thing then surely these people are just as much God as the rest of us. That might be true but a sun and a black hole
are part of the same universe, but you would not want them in the same solar
system – one is very bad for the other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My reaction to the Nova Roma troll was to leave the group,
because I don’t want to read that shit and I did not want to appear bad taking
him on. Occult leaders in particular have this problem. There is a mistaken belief that being
spiritual is being tolerant when in fact a closer connection to the flow of the
universe makes you less tolerant of those who are closer to the trees and not familiar
with their opposable thumbs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But then I thought fuck it… why should neo-nazis close down
occult groups and chase working occultists out of them. Alt.magick in the 1990s was a case in
point. When it started it was full of
really cool people – Pat Zalewski, Poke Runyon, Adam McLean, Aaron Lietch,
different groups, OTO, GD, etc. Then it
went to shit because a couple of bullies tried to assert control over it and
defamed everyone who did not do their bidding.
Since it was impossible for you to kick someone out of alt.magick
everyone just left and that level of egalitarianism has not returned in one
place again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead of trying to work with these morons, and “being tolerant”
it is really time that occultists showed that this sort of behaviour should not
be allowed. It is time that real
occultists started taking back groups from these backward types in whatever
form they manifest. Rather than
defending the criminals and their rights to be arseholes, we should be
defending ourselves from the contamination that this particular thinking
breeds. Rather than providing platforms
for Neo-nazi thought, we should be closing it down at its first opportunely
before it contaminates Adam Kadmon any further.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In short, you get the sort of community you deserve. If you
do not stand up to bullies they will continue to steal your lunch money. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The administrator at Nova Roma has banned two Nazi's from the group including the one who inspired this blog. Well done guys.....<br />
THe admin has also posted that will be the fate of any one who tries to post fascist propaganda in the group. This sort of zero tolerance is exactly the sort of approach we need.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-83600861899950501272014-05-31T18:30:00.000+02:002014-05-31T18:30:14.467+02:00ESOTERIC CODE BROKEN<div class="MsoNormal">
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In the late 18th century two prominent German esoteric masons wrote a fantasy about an Ancient Egyptian Magical Order called the Crata Ropea. The tiny book was based on classical sources and was taken literally, particularly in France. </div>
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It was influential in the development of many masonic and esoteric groups through-out the 18th and 19th centuries and its influence can be indirectly seen on modern groups such as the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis and even modern Wicca. As the knowledge of Egyptian history developed, Crata has become disregarded by those who had taken it literally and it has been largely ignored.</div>
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What Nick Farrell sets out in this book is that Crata Ropea was an example of an esoteric allegory written by two adepts to explain the path of initiation and goal posts to other esoteric experts. It sets out what happens on the path within the Western Mystery Tradition and what should happen to each individual as a result. Once you have broken the symbolic code behind the book you can see advice, guidance and direction for various points of your esoteric life.</div>
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<br />It will be one of my limited 100 copies things and available from Lulu here http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/hidden-path-behind-initiation/hardcover/product-21652868.html </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-22076889718793845792014-05-18T12:58:00.001+02:002014-05-18T12:59:28.562+02:00EMERALD TABLET CALLS FOR NEW AND ESTABLISHED OCCULT WRITERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am setting up a new magazine which aims to be a bi-annual Journal of Ritual Magic. </div>
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EMERALD TABLET aims to bring together people from different
traditions to talk about all aspects of Ritual. It will have a few
"names" and some new writers. It will be published in paperback book format and be distributed through Amazon and Lulu. An ebook version will be released a month after the paperback.</div>
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The Emerald Tablet is a bi-annual magazine printed in
paperback book format which is designed for writers to present their ideas,
research and discoveries in the field of ritual magic and occultism. </div>
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It is not
limited to one tradition, such as the Golden Dawn, but will focus on ritual
magic. It is modelled on the Occult review (only it will be bigger and come out
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Authors will be asked to submit articles of between 2-10,000 words
in each issue. They will retain the copyright of these articles and can place
them where they like afterwards. There is also no restriction on whether these
articles have been used before, if the person has copyright on them, of course.
We will take invocations and rituals, but not poetry or articles which have
long quotes lifted from other sources. I would like to keep the subject matter
as wide as possible with as many people from different traditions and groups as
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While we would like to get “names” from the occult world in the
magazine, this is also an opportunity for new writers to get in print. Proceeds
from the sale of the book/magazine will go to the Golden Dawn Legal fund, once
that fund has been filled we will be looking to support other worthy occult
related charities (if and when that happens it will be agreed by the writers).
The authors will get a free copy. </div>
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The magazine will come out at
each Equinox -- 20 March and 22 September. The deadline for copy will be 1
February and August 4 each year. This will give us time to edit and get back to
the author for corrections and lay the magazine out. If you would like to write
for the Emerald Tablet, please get in touch with me at edfu777 at hotmail.com.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-52503301263722976482014-05-11T15:40:00.000+02:002014-05-11T15:40:02.938+02:00Why Watchers of the Dawn is important to the esoteric community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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People wonder why I am so keen on the<a href="http://www.watcherofthedawn.com/" target="_blank"> Watchers of the Dawn</a>
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Sure it are run by people who want to be tabloid hacks and are
not (it is harder to write than way than you think). They sometimes go off
half-cocked, or “sensationalize things” or fall into the realm of satire, but they are doing something that the occult
community has needed for at least a century – they are reporting news about the
occult scene. Their best items have been
actually delivered straight and have been extremely hard hitting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a saying in newspapers that news is something that
someone does not want you to read, and Watchers of the Dawn certainly reports
news that some people do not want you to know. In doing so they become an
unofficial police force for the occult world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the problems of esoteric societies is that they keep
their dirty linen locked away with secrecy and a bogus morality which requires
you to keep silent even after a group or its leader has committed some form of
atrocity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the 1980s, I was a member of an Order which had a serious
sex scandal which saw a large chunk of senior members leave in horror. What
followed were allegations of magical attacks and other silliness in which their
verbal and magical assaults at each other continued and off for decades. No one
knows about it because no one ever talked about it publically. The protagonists
were never named and shamed and the Order continued largely unreformed by the
scandal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If the same event happened today, someone would leak it to
Watchers of the Dawn and the whole thing would have been public. The leaders
would have had to have done something and it would have been resolved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some group leaders have committed extreme atrocities and people continue to join their groups unaware what they are being sucked into. The Modus operandi of a failed and insecure leader is to make a legal threat. One group leader used to warn a student that they had consulted their solicitor about something they had said in a bid to silence them and another one said that they had even consulted the police about how to handle one offish student. All this is straight lies, but because people have a fear of facing a lengthy and expensive court case, or worse, being arrested and going to jail, the bullied student will back down.</div>
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The world would never find out what was going on but the
group, and the reputation of the leader was maintained.With Watchers on board, at least there is an avenue for
people to go to so that others might be warned. Watchers also stops other
groups from spinning their actions quiet so effectively or trying to peddle
snake oil to the gullible.</div>
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It is not without its faults. These guys are not real
journalists and rely a little too much on what people actually post on the
Internet, rather than digging out the real story. However, they have had some
results. Recently David Griffin hid the death of his Praemonstator Jorge Hevia
III for months until Watcher of the Dawn reported it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Jorge had been the legal muscle behind the Trademark wars
and it was clear from the posts which followed Watcher’s Obit, Griffin felt
vulnerable without his free lawyer.</div>
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Mysteriously the day
after Watcher reported the news, David claimed he had a new lawyer and lots of
cash from an unnamed donor from Malta so he could finally felt “legally
protected” comfortable about writing the obit that Jorge deserved. If Watchers
had not written, the story it is likely that Jorge’s death would have gone
un-noted by the order which was shaped by his legal protection.</div>
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For all the claims that Watchers news is divisive, it did
force David to do the right thing and announce the death of his number two.
Whatever fears he might have had about confirming the news, it was the decent
thing to do, otherwise it gives the impression that your service to an order is
not at all noticed if you fail to be useful to a group, you are forgotten. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am aware of a case of a sexual abuse case in one order
which is being handled properly mostly because of a fear that the case will be
leaked to the Watchers and it could blow the credibly of one chief. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That is EXACTLY the sort of unofficial police force which
did not exist in the 1980s or earlier which, if it had been around, reporting a
blow by blow account, it would have been impossible for some of the atrocities what
were committed in the 1990s to have been glossed over in the way they were. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is also possible for some leaders, who have foul and
backward attitudes to realise that if they want to be seen as walking a
spiritual path, they should not using a rival’s terminal illness as an attempt raise
cash for their own pet projects. Nor will they get away with giving bogus medical
advice, or expelling people from groups for not doing what they are told.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Each teacher and order has to be able to have good reasons
for their actions and be confident of presenting them in a public forum and it
is sites like Watchers that will help to keep them clean.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My only worry about them is that they do not seem to try to
get the “other side of the story” before writing. I know they have a lawyer
working in their team, but the lack of balance does not sit well with me, even
if the guys say “no comment” you have to at least ask them their side.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the meantime, it is up too occultists to work with his
new force… maybe it will make the lives of students better in the long run; in
the same way that a free press was so good for democracy. When the Press became less free, politicians were able to get away with murder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-38577288244361589312014-05-02T20:50:00.001+02:002014-05-02T21:00:48.895+02:00Watcher of the Dawn has a new siteIt seems that Watcher of the Dawn has gone up market... as much as an upmarket occult tabloid can get. It looks good... but guys you really need to shorten your sentences. Tabloids are more punchy.
Check out the link <a href="http://www.watcherofthedawn.com/" target="_blank">here </a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-62996192411400690002014-04-15T16:52:00.001+02:002014-04-15T18:24:09.525+02:00Magical Machine -- The Golden Dawn Vault in Colour limited edition book out now.From the blurb<br />
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“The creation of a vault is a rite of passage for any Modern Golden Dawn Order. Creation of one a Herculean task and it requires a knowledge of as much of the Second Order material as possible. It is a moot point if you can ever be a real Golden Dawn Order unless you have made one.” </blockquote>
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The<i> Order of the Golden Dawn</i> had a magical machine which used colour to create a magical effect within its Adepts. The construction of a vault was the key to understanding the Golden Dawn system of magic. However, it remained a closely guarded secret and before the development of the computer creating one was a work of art which required a deep knowledge of the colour magic of the Golden Dawn. Few vaults have been built in the modern era and, thanks to the secrecy surrounding the original magical order, many have been constructed on using colours or ideas which have not been right.<br />
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In<i> Magic Machine</i>, I have provided full colour drawings of what a vault should look like and offers readers of what will be for many will be a first glimpse of the Golden Dawn’s magical machine.<br />
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I have also provided a method of how to use the vault walls and other material in a practical way without needing to construct a full sized model for yourself. He gives techniques for exploring the Inner heart of the Magical Golden Dawn.<br />
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This is not a book for beginners, but for those wanting to work deeply with the Golden Dawn system at the adept level. It fills a gap in the Golden Dawn magical knowledge in the 21st century written by someone who has actually built one himself.<br />
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Only 100 copies of this book have been made.<br />
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Apparently it might be a bit controversial because there are some who think that this information should not be made available. It is 56 pages and in full colour you can order it by pressing the button,
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-38276729391395137482014-04-06T18:12:00.001+02:002014-04-06T18:24:33.852+02:00A REAL MAGICAL BOOK<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For years, I
have wanted to create a magical book; something that you can use as a magical
tool. The idea has been around since the middle ages. The Ars Notoria would
provide you with a diagram, or a magical seal on the left hand side which you
would meditate on while saying a prayer on the left hand side. Now a Canadian
occultist Fra Alim has managed to create a Golden Dawn version of what I always wanted.
It has taken him ten years hard work and meditation and getting a copy is a
real honour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inside, Alim
has taken several different aspects of the Golden Dawn tradition and built
specific diagrams which unlock those particular ideas. On the right hand side
are the parts of the ritual, or prayers which unlock the seal and are used as
part of the diagram meditation. To a muggle these are simply beautiful diagrams,
but to a magician the seals manage to take you places both intellectually and
astrally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In combination with the prayers or meditations you are taken to
places which depict different aspects of reality as seen through the lens of
Tiphareth. This is only possible if the artist, in this case Fra Alim, has an
experience of those particular states. If someone who had not experienced these
states had created such a book, the doors would lead to lower astral or simply
intellectual ideas. These seals take you to spiritual visions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Particularly
useful are his seals for the Spheres on the Tree of life. These would be very
effective if used ritually by placing the book in the east and opening it on an
appropriate page to bring in the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">sepherotic</a> power for the ritual or to prepare
the magician before they start a ritual. It would be useful for a Heirophant to
meditate on the Malkuth seal and meditations before attempting to initiate
someone into the 1=10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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itself appears to have a life of its own. Paola became very attached to it and
it seems to like her a lot. It lets you discover something new about the Golden
Dawn when you open a page at random. It is a strange and beautiful experience. I
have favourite pages one includes a much better version of the Qesheth for the
portal grade than the GD or the SM came up with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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work is still personal to him, so he is understandably reluctant to give it
out, and certainly not to anyone below a certain grade within the tradition. However,
if you are real spiritual seeker within the Golden Dawn and under the rose you
can seek him out on Facebook for a chat. If you are lucky, he might let you buy
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Many people think if you do the GD ritual as if it were a
perfectly performed play it is enough to archive spectacular magical
effects. Such people advocate turning
the GD into a sort of Masonic order. But
with respect to those who <i>do</i> attempt to do Masonic rituals in an
esoteric way, the GD is a MAGICAL order were the mere performance of a rite
will simply produce a minor effect where there is an overt dependence on the
superficial symbols of the rite. If it
were all about play acting we would be better off taking part in the Importance
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You will have heard me talking about the ritual taking place
in the Judgement Hall of Maat, none of this is mentioned in ‘the script’ it
is part of the astral or inner workings
of the ritual. Too many details about
this I cant go into, but these involve the manipulation of different Egyptian
godforms in a sort of twilight between the material and the spiritual
realms. The Hierophant builds up these
godforms and causing them to vibrate at a particularly frequency by using
calling their names in an ancient language.
This work I find makes it easier for me to see them clairvoyantly during
the main working. These godforms are
‘Golden Dawnised’ images of the Ancient Egyptian God in particular colours that
are designed to enhance their power in the working.<o:p></o:p></div>
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teaching says that there are three basic levels to the universe. The first is the material, the next is the
astral level which is at right angles to this one and is the realm of
imagination and dreams. Finally there is
the divine level which is where the realm of the gods and goddesses or just God
depending on your tradition.<o:p></o:p></div>
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comes from the divine level and therefore to call power into your rites you
need to build an astral bridge between the group on the material and the
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What the
hierophant does along with anyone else who is sitting on the top table in the
East is visualising a halfway house on the astral in their imagination. This temple is populated with Egyptian gods
and goddesses and these act as channels for divine power. This halfway house is
then placed over the top of the physical temple.<o:p></o:p></div>
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godform work was considered top secret and would only be know to the highest
grades in the group. The layout of the Inner Temple and the various depictions
of the Gods and Goddesses used were kept in a single coloured scroll or book in
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Usually when a temple closed this scroll or
book was the first to be destroyed to prevent anyone getting access to the
group’s egregore. For this reason anyone
can perform rites that have been published, no one can claim to link to the
original group. They build new godforms but they will never have access to the
original egregore because these will never be the same or visualised in the
same way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The godforms
provide the halfway force between the Earth and the spiritual forces you wish
to attract, but the godforms we have formed does not yet actually draw much
force to it. The Heirophant has built a
circuit and are is yet to power it up.
To do so the Heirophant ascends spiritually to the highest level they
can and draws down spiritual energy into the thought-forms created. <o:p></o:p></div>
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the ritual where the Heirophant says: “By names and images are all things
awakened and reawakened” you will notice that he does the sign of the enterer
but does not do the sign of silence until a few seconds afterwards. It is during this point that he or she is
powering up the circuit.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-67490942763129158352014-03-31T14:32:00.004+02:002014-03-31T14:32:53.904+02:00Star Trek Ritual<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The Golden Dawn cipher manuscripts were used to create the Golden Dawn rituals. They provided the skeleton for all the rituals from 0=0 to 4=7. However Mathers was looking at the ritual through a late Victorian Masons eyes, he could have easily have created a different ritual. What would have happened if the Cipher manuscript had been found in the Star Trek universe? Newly created from the cipher manuscripts is the Star Trek opening (and it really is created from the ciphers with a little tweaking). </i></span><br />
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<i>All assemble put on uniforms, communicators, etc.</i><br />
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<b>Captain</b>: Officers of the Bridge, assist me to accelerate this ship to warp speed.<br />
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<b>Communications officer: </b>Hailing all hostiles to leave the sector:<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: Security see that the ship is properly shielded and protected.<br />
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<b>Security Officer</b>: I have scanned the sector and have found no enemy vessels. The ship's shields are fully functional, captain.<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: Who are the bridge officers.<br />
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<b>Head of Security</b>: They are the Captain, the First Officer and the Head of Security.<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: What do they have in common?<br />
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<b>Head of Security</b>: They all are members of Star Fleet and obtained top grades. They also have American accents and are men.<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: What are the other officers?<br />
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<b>Head of Security:</b> The Communications officer, the Science officer and the Medical officer.l The Cheif Engineer is at his station off the bridge.<br />
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<b>Medical Officer:</b> I am in the South the point of over emotion and arm waving. I carry the tricorder which makes a sound like wibbly woo and I scan the candidate to see he does not have klingons.<br />
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<b>Science Officer: </b>I am in the North the point of coldness and logic and I wear the pointy ears and the symbol of raised eyebrow. I look into the little box and I scan the potential candidate with cold facts.<br />
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<b>Communciations Officer</b>: I am inside the door, and I talk to strange beings with my clunky earings. I announce that beings are ignoring our hails, and that the universal communicator is broken. <br />
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<b>First Officer:</b> I wander freely about the bridge and reconcile the science officer and the medical officer. It is my task to lead the away teams, but also to rescue the captian when he insists on going on an away team. I shoot first and ask questions later.<br />
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<b>Security Officer:</b> My place is in the west and I wear the red teeshirt of office, which means that I am usually the first person to die. I carry a phaser which is usually set to kill.<br />
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<b>Captain: </b>My place is in the super comfy chair with the buttons and I rule the bridge. I am power, light, mercy and wisdom and I rule the ship in the name of Star Fleet.<br />
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<i>Science officer purifies with cold Logic and Science. Raises tricorder and says: </i><br />
"The needs of the many out way the needs of the few it is logical."<br />
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<i>Medical Officer consecrates with emotions. Raises tricorder and says:</i><br />
"Damn it, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!"<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: Warp speed<br />
<i>Everyone lines up in the North East and circumabulates three times.</i><br />
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<b>Captain</b>: We are at warp factor three let us give reference to our creator. Face screen and say:<br />
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Holy art thou Gene Roddenberry<br />
Holy art thou who created the Star Trek Multiverse<br />
Holy art thou who created the mighty “The City on the Edge of Forever” episode<br />
And also the terrible Wesley Crusher (shake head slowly)<br />
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<b>|Captain: </b>Communications officer I ask that you declare that the ship is at warp speed.<br />
Communications officer: In the name of the Captain I declare that the ship is at warp speed and the Kingons flee away.<br />
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<b>Captain</b> Phasors<br />
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<b>Securty </b>On<br />
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<b>First Officer</b> Stun<br />
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<b>Security </b>Boldly<br />
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<b>First officer</b> GO<br />
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<b>Captain</b>: Where<br />
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<b>Security: </b>no one<br />
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<b>Captain: </b>Has gone<br />
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<b>First Officer:</b> Before<br />
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Make signs at captain's chair and make a vibrate a shhhhhhh noise.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-27403134531806346982014-03-26T17:29:00.002+01:002014-03-28T22:40:50.156+01:00A Golden Dawn Lingo translation guide<h3>
<i>A long time ago a friend of mine Clive Harper published a list of what people in the Servants of the Light really meant when they said certain phrases. I thought I would update it for the Golden Dawn tradition. I might add to it</i></h3>
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This is a Golden Dawn oral tradition: I made it up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li>This is a Golden Dawn tradition: Don’t blame me I didn’t make it up.</li>
<li>This is a Cabbalistic tradition: Don’t blame me, god made it up.</li>
<li>The Golden Dawn used to do it this way: My old temple used to do it this way.</li>
<li>They are an independent order: No one wants to go near them.</li>
<li>They are an independent temple: We only count them as members when we want to
look like a big order.</li>
<li>We have a Golden Dawn lineage: Our chief once met Israel
Regardie in a bar.</li>
<li>We are the only ones with a Golden Dawn lineage: We have no
lineage.</li>
<li>We do not care about Golden Dawn lineage: We have no
lineage.</li>
<li>We have AO lineage: We do not think you are quick enough to
research that we have no Golden Dawn lineage.</li>
<li>We follow Paul Foster-Case’s approach to the Golden Dawn: We
hide in the cellar when any mentions anything about Enochian.</li>
<li>We follow Anne Davies approach to the Golden Dawn: We claim that we are the successors to the
Golden Dawn in the hope that people will join us.</li>
<li>We follow Chic Cicero’s approach to the Golden Dawn: We have the biggest and prettiest wands.</li>
<li>We take an Alchemical Approach to the Golden Dawn: We don’t
know what we are doing so we cover it up with impenetrable quasi-alchemical
terms which sound good and mean nothing.</li>
<li>We prefer to follow a Wiccan approach: We do not do exams and
our chief adept has been arrested for indecent exposure.</li>
<li>We follow the Sun approach:
We don’t care who rules us so long as she has big tits.</li>
<li>We follow a more pagan approach: Our meetings start two hours late.</li>
<li>We teach sex magic in the higher grades: If you are pretty, you will go from 0=0 to
7=4 in a year and be sexually assaulted by the Chief Adept or the second Adept
in the post ritual Jacuzzi.</li>
<li>We are Open Source:
We never do anything unless it has been blessed by Richard Stallman.</li>
<li>We follow the masonic approach: Our temple members are all over 60, we don’t
do godforms or magic, we have a dinner afterwards and refer to women as “the
ladies.”</li>
<li>They are influenced by Crowley: They have wife-swapping parties after temple.</li>
<li>They are overly influenced by Crowley: They have wife-swapping
parties after temple and never invited me.</li>
<li>It is in the black brick edition: I am making it up and do not want you to
check.</li>
<li>It is in the doorstop edition: I am making it up and really do not want you
to check.</li>
<li>It is in Zalewski’s book: I am making it up and I really,
really do not want you to check.</li>
<li>(S)He performs black magic:
He performs actual magic and it scares the shit out of us.</li>
<li>(S)He is taking a sabbatical: He was caught poking one of his students and
is having to lay low for a while.</li>
<li>(S)He has been told to practice the Abramelin method and
report back: We wanted to expel him/her but we thought it was better to tell
them to do this and hope they never came back.</li>
<li>I am the re-incarnation of Mathers and you are the
re-incarnation of Mina: I really hope you are impressed, do not know your history
and want to sleep with me.</li>
<li>We agree with what Regardie said about psychotherapy before
joining: You are nuts and need a lot of
therapy before we let you in. </li>
<li>All our new teaching is in the 6=5 and 7=4: We are using photocopies from the Regardie
book, the only people who hold 6=5 and 7=4 are the Chief adept and his mate and
it will take you 20 years before you find out and by then we will have shifted
all the secret teaching to the 8=3.</li>
<li>The answer to your question is above your grade: I don’t know.</li>
<li>This ritual was above your grade: Who the hell let you do
the bornless one?</li>
<li>That was a hard ritual: God I need a drink.</li>
<li>That was a heavy pathworking: I dozed off in the middle what happened?</li>
<li>It is unusual for us to get that effect: The candidate’s head does not normally rotate
and nor does ever get hit by projectile vomit.</li>
<li>That was an unusual method of consecration: We didn’t think
anyone could get the stolisties cup up there.</li>
<li>We normally don’t allow the Heirus to do the sign of the
enterer on the circumambulation: The sheshkababed hegemon and Kerux was
difficult to explain to the nice policeman.</li>
<li>(S)He fails to understand Golden Dawn history: (S)He does not do what I tell him.</li>
<li>(S)he does not respect the Order: (S)He fails to see how I
ever got a 7=4.</li>
<li>He is autocratic: I am autocratic.</li>
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<i>For those who want the
background of what I am commenting on have a look at the <a href="http://watcherofthedawn.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/a-a-boss-revolting-rovelli-unleashes-his-inner-tosser/#comments" target="_blank">watchers of the dawn</a>
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As I started to work with underworld deities I started to
warm to some of Crowley’s material and was starting to care less about some of
the doubts I had about Thelema. But
recently the antics of three “high profile” Thelemites have led me to question
where that religion is going. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>I know that the behaviour of three does not define a
religion</u>, but these three have managed to come up with something which is
nothing short of an atrocity based on their no doubt deep conviction that is
what Thelema says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My main focus is really the point which was posted on the
LVX/Nox <a href="http://lvxnox.com/index.php/drama-pjr-and-kraig-s" target="_blank">blog </a>that contains this quote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Liber AL clearly instructs Thelemites to display strength
and not care for the weak. To try and add a humanistic tint to the second and
third chapter of the book is folly, as they are as clear as day to the true
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In other words, the three people who attacked Don Kraig
while on his death bed were doing so because their religion was instructing
them not to care for the weak. Somehow caring for the weak means that strength
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However, such a creed is anti-evolutionary. It is the
philosophy of the wolf-pack where the weak are left to die because they will
slow the rest down. Humanity has moved past the point where strength is defined
as the primary reason to rule. As a result, we have inventions and technology
which have been created by people who would have been left for dead by societies
that are more primitive. If this really is Thelema then it is clearly not a
modern religion, in fact is on a par with those other Bronze Age religions that
it claims to replace. It calls on people not to “waste money” on the Stephen
Hawkings of this world when we should be giving it to more healthy football
players. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The idea that “might is right” has been discounted as
anti-evolutionary by most civilisations – its last paragons were the Germans,
Russians and Italians in world war two and the colonial powers before
that. Just because someone is strong
does not make them right, nor does it mean the weak should have been euthanized.
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On that point, if these three Thelemites had a “right” to
say what they did about Kraig because “he was weak and they were strong” surely
they should have had said the same thing to the founder of their religion
Alistair Crowley. While Crowley was fit at one stage of his life, his health
declined rapidly in middle age. He was a drug addict and suffering from severe
asthma. He was weak, and so, by the book of the Law as interpreted by these
three he should have simply died.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This idea of being strong while others are weak, of forcing
your ideas onto others at the expense of common decency is the hallmark of the fundamentalist
Christian. Westboro Baptist Church considers itself presenting its truth even when common decency suggests they should shut up. What is the difference
between picketing a funeral because dead soldiers “are faggots” and defaming
someone while they are on their deathbed. Both acts are ennobled in the minds
of their perpetrators based on their own interpretation of scripture. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the case of Christianity there is a reason for its
evolutionary backwardness – at its fundamental level it was drawn up 2000 years
ago and re-interpreted several times to make it fit into the politics of the
time. Thelema lacks that excuse -- it is
a new religion; free from politics, a pope, or anything external to itself
which can cause anti-evolutionary behaviour. So why then has it generated
followers whose attitude would be welcome in the ranks of Westboro Baptist
Church? That something Thelemites need to worry about. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Humanity does not need another religion which calls for
another people to dominate or be unpleasant to another. We had those and they always lead to genocide
and intolerance. Therefore if that
doctrine is not what Thelemites consider as being part of their faith, then
they have to do their best to distance themselves from them. Just like Westboro is a problem for
Christians, these three should be a problem for Thelema.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What was telling in the Kraig incident was that the
Thelemites were surprisingly quiet – the antics of these three were upsetting
only to people outside their religion. The three became convinced they were
right and went on the attack. Posting more of their hatred publically and
attacking those who disagreed with them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where were the Thelemites who disagreed? If these three are
wrong in their interpretation of the Book of the Law then why aren’t people
pointing out their error? Why is it left
to outsiders to be horrified that a modern religion can go this way? If they continue to permit this sort of
anti-evolutionary thinking, they will end up in same position that Christianity
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When Westboro stands up with its
hate placards it re-enforces what many people believe about Christianity anyway
– that it is a bunch of right-wing conservative nutjobs who have nothing to say about real life. Too many like Paul Joseph Rovelli, Leilah
Publications and surgo at Lux Nox and your religion will die out as outsiders like me realise that they really do not believe in such horrible things in the 21st century.,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-1133959317042397682014-03-18T15:58:00.002+01:002014-03-18T15:58:58.407+01:00Don Kraig has died<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background: white; line-height: 17.25pt;">
<i style="line-height: 17.25pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">It is with great sadness that I announce that Donald Michael Kraig took his last breaths last night (3/17/2014) and died. He has crossed over to Summerland and is finally no longer suffering. The type of cancer he had was just too aggressive for us to do any more treatments and his body finally gave way. He did not suffer. He simply slipped away in his sleep.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">In lieu of flowers or cards, please consider donating to the fund below to help offset medical expenses and, now, funeral expenses.</span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">At a later date to be named, there will be a memorial service celebrating his life and what he meant to all of us.</span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">Namaste,</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;">Holly Allender Kraig</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 17.25pt;"> </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Last night Don Kraig lost his battle
with pancreatic cancer. He went out fighting with a large number of his
friends, students, and legions of readers alongside him. This is the way it
should have been. Not only do occultists fight for every inch of life, what ever the odds, but Kraig’s books inspired many to start magical work and there
are many of which owe their magical careers to him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">There will be some who feel that the
magic that they did to keep Don on this planet failed and they would be partly
right. The magical reservoir which helped him through the last stage of his
illness appeared to allow him to have a peaceful end unlike many who suffer
from pancreatic cancer. It seemed that it really was his time and the fates had
spoken and it was not a situation that magic had a right to change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">However, there was something more at
play here. More than 1000 people that I know of were regularly doing regular healing
workings in many different traditions, for a variety of different reasons. All that energy sat on the astral helping him
through what was a very painful illness.
It was there in such a supply that as he stepped into the Astral he
would have known it and felt it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> It was a magical send off for a modern occult
hero. Over the weeks that Kraig’s friends fought for him, he knew that he was
loved, wanted and appreciated. You
cannot want more from a life than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">This is the sort of exit that few in
the occult world have received. Many die unknown, unmourned and unappreciated;
their books yellowing on second-hand book shops. The fact that so many gave
their power to help him, is a sign that they wanted him to stay. The fact he went out fighting with so many
alongside him was a sign that this was a special person. Someone who is more than human does not go “gently
to that last good night” if they feel that they have work to be done. Don did
not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 17.25pt;">Kraig wrote a book which has been in
every occult bookshop and most occultists bookshelves for more than 20 years. It
will remain an occult classic he probably had more inside him which will be up
to his students to bring through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">We do not learn about how important
individual sparks are until they are gone. The collective grief already
appearing on Facebook is mourning that vacuum inside ourselves that the departing
spark leaves. We all did our best to try to change that, but it was time that
Don left this story to go on to a new one. At least he knew that he was wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It will be held on the outskirts of Las Vegas Nevada and will feature speakers on Wicca, the Golden Dawn and General Magic.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-5153352662349157082014-03-17T21:59:00.000+01:002014-03-17T22:44:44.309+01:00Heal the Sick and that freely<div class="MsoNormal">
There are moments when I find myself out of sync with the rest of humanity and the occult community. I heard that Don Kraig was sick and I thought, lets rally occultists to do a regular healing ritual for him. Someone else thought raise some cash for him so he that he does not have to worry about medical costs. A group started on Facebook and all seemed quite reasonable. It seemed normal. It struck me the world was better off with Don Kraig in it.</div>
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But apparently in this modern world this attitude is wrong. The head of the Gnostic Church of L.V.X Paul Joseph Rovelli said Don Kraig was a fraud. Since Rovelli could afford expensive medical insurance, so Don Kraig should be able to. Instead people should be giving money to his Gnostic church which was “giving money to the living.”</div>
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A publisher of what appeared to be “right on” books Leiah Publications said that we should have been giving money and healing to Steve Hyatt who was dead a long time ago and never asked for any.</div>
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All of the above people were American and suffering is not part of the American dream. Suffering is a reminder that their system really does not work and only helps a handful of people who are lucky. At the other end of the scale you have people who think that everything is divided into race and whatever race you are not in is somehow privileged.</div>
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But what is lost here is someone is sick, help him out in whatever way you can. Magic or money it does not matter. It is what you do for a fellow human, even if they are not your friend. Now I do not know Don Kraig. In fact, I must be one of the few magicians on the planet who have not read his books. He knows a few friends of mine and has been decent when I have written to him and he asked for help generally. It seemed natural to help.</div>
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This is not saying “ I am right” and these “other guys are wrong.” It is that there is a rightness in helping people when they need it. Sure, there are times when it is best not to help, and there can be some real moral dilemmas here, but when someone is physically sick and they can’t do to help themselves, which is when others HAVE to step in. </div>
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It is possible that while emphasizing the individual we have lost side of the other. We have become narcissistic. In doing so we have lost the reason why we do all this. We are sparks of an infinite being and the sum is always greater than the whole. In helping others when they are helpless we are assisting evolution. </div>
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Or maybe that is just old fashioned, maybe we should be just giving cash to occult organisations or investing in our new shallow Apple inspired consumer culture religion. Maybe we should be only doing magic for ourselves while inspiring others to join our Orders to uphold our fragile egos upon blankets of grades, and lineages. Or maybe it is time to say, fuck it, others are a manifestation of me I will help them in what ever way I can, when I can.</div>
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A few blogs have appeared attempting to discredit Pat Zalewski, and to a lesser extent my own involvement with Whare Ra. You might find long winded blogs out there penned by people who have never even visited New Zealand, let alone talked to Whare Ra people. They all insist that Pat, Christine, or Tony, or myself had nothing to do with Whare Ra and attempt to prove it.<br />
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One of the weird things I have noticed about the Internet is that you find a lot of Black is white comments, which deny things which I actually saw and took part in. When it comes down to it, these comments are usually written by those who do not have any real connection to the Golden Dawn and have lineage envy.<br />
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I have written a chapter in my book <i>Beyond the Sun </i>about my Whare Ra involvement and will add some more details when it becomes available through Skylight Publishing next year. Pat has recounted his experiences in the above video which makes for some jolly interesting viewing. Pat points out that people claim that he does not follow the "Whare Ra way" as if they were experts. However the temple did not run like that. Every senior adept had a view about what was going on and each of them taught their students accordingly. Pat had Jack Taylor who was the most experienced Hierophant in GD history holding the job in Whare Ra under Mrs Felkin. The fact that Pat was trained AFTER the Whare Ra has closed is meaningless, in fact he received a better quality of training than some Whare Ra people received in the 1970s. Training continued after Whare Ra closed its doors and there were even some initiations carried out. Must of the ritual techniques could be clearly seen in the Order of the Table Round.<br />
To add to Pats video I would say something that many modern Golden Dawn people would not understand. Chances are to be a member of a REAL golden dawn order might not be the fantasy you want.<br />
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In Whare Ra you were a student and you knew your place. This whole having to listen to students pontificate intellectual knowledge or demanding grades was unheard of. When you were ready for a grade you were told to take a test. If you could not do a lesser ritual of the pentagram ritual you would not get to 1=10. Getting to 5=6 meant that someone thought you were special. Those who reached the 6=5 and 7=4 had proved themselves over years of service to the Order and not because someone thought it was the right time. This would create an order which sounds good on paper, but with the "kids of today" would find autocratic and limiting. <br />
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Someone has made the bizarre claim that this blog somehow means that I think that Golden Dawn Lineage is important. It seems the story has been picked up by<a href="http://watcherofthedawn.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/comedy-gd-leader-hopes-to-misquote-his-way-out-of-lineage-vacuum/" target="_blank"> Watchers of the Dawn </a>who asked me for a comment. My regular readers will be pleased to know that I did not have a brain hemorrhage and start renouncing everything I have ever said in my books about this particular side show. <br />
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http://watcherofthedawn.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/a-a-boss-revolting-rovelli-unleashes-his-inner-tosser/<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-59251013403455618772014-02-18T15:15:00.002+01:002014-02-18T15:15:24.294+01:00Creating your own Angels<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example you can look at your chart and mix the name of the Shem angel which rules the decan that a planet is found and create your own unique angel for that planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Say you have the moon in the first Decan of Gemini. The Shem Angel for that decan is YMB the Lord of Words. The Moon is ruled by Gabriel. GBRIEL גַּבְרִיאֵל. If we were to mix these two beings, we would get GYBMRBIEL. This would be pronounced (using the mystical method in the book) as GiYoBeMeReBeYoAeLa. This then would be your personal moon angel, as it would take on the nature of both the decan and the planet. It would not take much to realise how useful that would be magically. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">There is a lot in this book which could provide you with a very detailed and simple way of working with Angels. It is selling quite well so you might want to get in fast. I am only releasing 200 of them. You can see more about it by clicking the link </span><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/the-shem-grimoire/hardcover/product-21451554.html" style="font-family: IM_FELL_Great_Primer_PRO_Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/the-shem-grimoire/hardcover/product-21451554.html</a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></div>
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I sent out a couple of pre-release copies to reviewers to have a look at the Shem Grimiore so that they could give readers some unbiased insight about what it is about. The first came from Morgan Drake Eckstein and can be seen <a href="http://gleamingsfromthedawn.blogspot.it/2014/02/the-shem-grimoire-by-nick-farrell-book.html" target="_blank">here </a><br />
Morgan gave it five out of five stars saying that this book is meant to be used.<br />
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This is BY FAR Nick Ferrell's best book. I was lucky enough to read an advanced copy and the content is amazing... I have read every book on Shem work that I can find and this one goes to the top of the list. The information on the Hebrew letters is all you need to know about them and how they affect tarot readings. The background on the Shem itself is very comprehensive. However the part of this book that will keep you pulling it off the self over and over is Nicks Shem ritual itself. Based on the Golden Dawn Z-formula I am completely in love with this ritual! In fact I believe this Shem ritual is actually worth twice the price of this book. Its not for beginners though. It's long, intense and I am sure it's effective. The only drawback to this book is it's limited to 200 copies... luckily I ordered three.</blockquote>
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Sales are going well and I do not think it will be around for long. You can buy it here<br />
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Introduction<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 10<br />
Chapter One <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Magical Language And Tarot<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14<br />
Chapter Two <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Divine Name Of 72 Names<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>60<br />
Chapter Three <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Understanding The Shem Through Ecstatic Kabbalah<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>69<br />
Chapter Four <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Magical Language And Tarot<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>77<br />
Chapter Five <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Using Sigils<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>95<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>110<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Concerning The Art<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>111<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Concerning the Circle<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>112<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Confession of the Exorcist <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>117<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Of the Dagger and Wand of the Magical Art<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>119<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ritual Of Evocation Of A Shem Angel<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>133<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Creation of a Talisman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 146<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Transformation Ritual <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>155<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Leo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 161<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Virgo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>175<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Libra<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>189<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Scorpio<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>203<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Saggitarious <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>217<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Capricorn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>231<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Aquarius <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>245<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Pisces<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>259<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Aries<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>271<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Taurus <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>287<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Gemini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>301<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Angels of Cancer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>315<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>About the Author <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>332<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>About the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>333<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">This book was
compiled from my notes and diaries and so is not exactly orthodox. It uses the Golden Dawn system of magic in
its highest aspects and includes papers on consecrating tools for this
particular work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">What I found
interesting was that besides requiring me to tinker with the Tarot system, the
Shem Angels suggested that they were the key to not only understanding your
chart but how to work with it to be who you are supposed to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">The Shem system
I worked on says that the 12 areas of your life are controlled by 12 Shem
guardians. Understanding those areas of
your life involves talking to them. In addition, while your life is under the
authority of the seven main planetary spirits these are specialised according
to the deans of your chart and have unique angels appointed to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">This could mean
some big changes for personal rituals as it is possible to get into the details
of why some rituals work and some don’t
and to talk to the beings that are making sure that it does (or doesn’t).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">This book has
burnt me out and I am not going to do any more for a while. There is a lot in it and it is a really
serious book. It is 333 pages and on a
larger format than I normally use. I
think on that basis it is the largest book I have ever written It is packed
full of diagrams, sigils and woodcuts.
This is mostly because I always wanted to create a magic book (of the
sort you see on Buffy).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">I have released
it as a limited edition hardback and there will only be 200 made. Many people have said that they want it and I
have sent out a couple of copies for reviews.
It will be my last one for a while, I also have been thinking if this
will be my last “practical” Golden Dawn book as I am more and more moving from
that system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">You can buy the
book here <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/the-shem-grimoire/hardcover/product-21451554.html">http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/the-shem-grimoire/hardcover/product-21451554.html</a>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-60762725907181929612014-01-18T18:02:00.002+01:002014-01-18T18:03:53.511+01:00New limited edition book out <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have released 100 copies of this new hardback on Lulu (see <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/nick-farrell/what-my-heirophant-should-have-taught-me/hardcover/product-21405702.html" target="_blank">link</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The blurb says:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">"One of the problems that many people on the occult path face is that few people will actually tell them them the rules. They blunder through making mistakes and having bad experiences because no-one has told them otherwise.. They might fail to see some crucial signs about a group that they want to join, or not be told the implications of their magical actions.
The Chief Adept of the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea, Nick Farrell, has gathered a set of magical statements which can answer all the sorts of questions you should be told by your teachers but were probably afraid to ask. These cover a range of issues starting with elemental theory, to always take the batteries out of the smoke detector before doing a ritual.
This book is a limited edition and only 100 copies will be sold."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is unusual in a lot of ways in that I asked those on Facebook what they wanted to read. I have written two such titles before, and they have meant that I have been able to pay the rent in a pretty tricky time.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I quite like this book because it gives practical advice and is designed for people to dip into. Some of the issues are things which have come up on this blog.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198094991381684617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8458080909001903011.post-23616356525021252232014-01-13T18:07:00.000+01:002014-01-13T18:07:07.791+01:00Invocation to Mercury <i>Written to fulfil a vow to Mercury for intervening for me. Feel free to attract his attention with it. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Invocation to Mercury </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I call upon the great translator of the word from which all creation was formed. Mind of the One Thing </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come forth from you home in Of Mount Kyllene in Arkadia. Be present amongst your sheep, of which you are the great shepherd. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come forth Champion of Akakesion who rules the marketplace and the crafts. Who teaches the way of business, and upon whom all fortune rests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guide, Minister, Messenger who brings the highest to the lowest, and the lowest to the throne of the One Thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Messenger of the Blessed Ones who holds the map of the universe in your caduceus and knows the all the ways, even to the darkest Hades. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guardian of the three-fold cross-roads, Slayer of Argos, the Trickster, Contriver whose mind and tongue can destroy all. Wily, Shifting, Many-Turning, is your name, patron of writers and magicians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will invoke thee by thy name ERINNES, the giver of good fortune for that is what you have done, and I will tell others of your powers so that they shall lean upon thee as I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For you are a god amongst gods, one of the seven mighty ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come forth Pronaos and lead us into the portico of your Mysteries.</span></div>
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