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This weeks prompt is: I want you to do something nice for yourself. I do this constantly.  I'm a Scorpio, and that requires a bit of self-care.  My problem is far more letting the indulgences be occasional.  Just last week I bought myself a remote control helicopter. I'm good. Instead, I want to indulge my own whims, and write for a minute about the tragedies of people's lives. When I look

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Two noteworthy milestones: 1) The Hesychasm Prostrations have made it into my daily practice.  I've been slowly increasing the number (from 10 to 60).  Unfortunately, just before Christmas I hurt my knee, and every time I get up from laying on the floor it causes great pain.  So, rather than put it off, I've been doing another physical act of devotion: I touch the floor after every repetition of

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In response to this prompt.. Inspiration: Cuts you Up ( You know the way it throws about/It takes you in and spits you out/It spits you out when you desire/to conquer it, to feel you're higher/To follow it you must be clean/with mistakes that you do mean/Move the heart, switch the pace/Look for what seems out of place ) You know, any task needs to be cut up, after all... 1. How are you going to

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This is in response to the prompt of last week.  I'm about a week behind on this. Inispirations: Music: Furr, by Blitzen Trapper Deities: I'm gonna go with Our Lady of the Woods on this one. Moon Phase & Day: Waning, Wed. 12/21 Cleaning: I've been keeping up with my banishing, keeping things cleansed.  Sunday I did the bathrooms and took out the garbage.  Haven't really gotten through with

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Who is this I that desires transformation into something new? Is it this collection of atoms?  This bundle of cells that powers what I laughingly call "I"?  If so, how much of these atoms constitute "me"?  Is it the ones that share my DNA?  Is it the microbes that live upon me, up to 90 trillion different individual living things?  Does it include the air I breathe, once I breathe it?  Does it

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So, Charmed, I'm Sure has an experiment she wants us magical types to do.  I'm always up for an experiment.   And who doesn't like transformation?   Let's see what happens.  Deb says: Get up, get up! Don't miss this moment. Create magics great and small, mundane and mystical. Find everything you've been looking for, mysteries revealed in every form of divination and song and when you fuck it

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Mea Culpa. I ask your forgiveness, dear readers.  I have been guilty of spreading a misunderstanding. I'm very fond of saying that the word 'repent' comes from the Latin prefix re- meaning again, and peneso, meaning to think, and that it means that we are called to think again.  I've expounded on this theme at some length in various places. I'm quite wrong. 'Repent' comes from the latin Re-

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One of the difficulties I have when talking about gnosis is trying to translate the experiences I have into some form of Communication.  English is wonderful at getting across certain concepts, but sometimes you just need to use another language. DépaysementFrench – The feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country. This word, to me, explains my base state of existence.  As a gnostic,

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In our last post, we spoke of the Pleroma, and how it contains everything and nothing.  Now, let us speak of creatura, the whole of creation, distinct from the Pleroma, and what exactly it means to be distinct. What is changeable, however, is creatura. Therefore is it the one thing which is fixed and certain; because it hath qualities: it is even quality itself. The question ariseth: How did

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I've been wanting to write something, but have been lacking for inspiration.  I want to publish something every Thursday. Thus, I go back to what got me started in the first place.  These will be my meditations on the Seven sermons to the Dead.  To me, these writings are the most accessible gnostic writings out there.  Of course, they're also the most complete, and are translated from a fairly

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Too Long, O Lord, has my heart been frozen Too Long Have I seen solid ground as a virtue. Do not kindle a flame in my heart Rather, blow away the frost In a cataclysm of burning water Bring my heart to life from an age of ice Even if that life be made of furs and a flint spear, seeking elusive mammoths Too long, O Lord, have I stagnated A miasma of forgotten dreams and wasted effort Bring

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In the name of Light returning, I also summon URIEL, Dark Lord of Earth, who bringest all at last unto the Nether Shore, Companion of all who offer up their lives in the defense of others, guard this Chamber and witness the acts here taken. Come, mighty URIEL, and grace me with thy presence.The past couple weeks, I've been meditating on St. Uriel.  He gets sort of a bad reputation.  In the above

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I've gone through some changes since my last post. I've lost my job.  I'm having trouble finding a new one.  In this economy that's to be expected.  So, I'm also looking at alternatives:  Project work, industry switches, etc. Today, I had to go out and visit my old place of work.  I never liked it much.  And I went to visit the restaurant where I went to lunch, which I'll miss a lot more.

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Dirty Sexy Ministry writes: Life is running wounded, because unless we stay alone in a stall, we'll tangle with the barbs of circumstance, love, and humans. Godly life is remembering, even wounded, we can run and live and love.A lot of this post resonated with me, including: I long-ago quit worrying (most of the time) about who God moves in and out of my life.I have also quit worrying (most of

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I'm reading a book called The Time Paradox, by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd. One of the many questions they ask in this book is "What is your first memory?"My first memory is of the house on the west side. It's hazy. I was probably four years old. The house itself is green-ish, with a front porch, on a city block. There's a dog, a white dog with black ears that I'd creatively named 'Snoopy'

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Today is the third anniversary of my Ordination.I was looking at my random thoughts on the idea, here.I'm still astounded that this has happened to me. Some days, I don't know what I'm doing. The past few days have been trying to grind me down.Last Night, I was privileged to celebrate a sacrament for someone. That experience reminded me why I do this. It gave me strength. A few days ago, I

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Someone today asked me these questions: Just why is Gnosis important? How is it useful? And why bother at all?It was a good set of questions? This is my answer.Gnosis is salvation.This knowledge of God, this acquaintance with the Divine is what saves us from a world of systems, archons, and basic bullsh!t. By knowing at a deep, experiential level, that we are all part of the divine and that

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My girlfriend has a food blog. As part of her expanding into the weird, wide world of internet food writing, she's encountered a lot of people.What I've been most surprised at is the number of people who are afraid of things relating to cooking."I'm afraid of cardamon (or cumin, or saffron). I don't know how to use it, I've never used it.""I'm afraid of making my grandfather's recipe. What if

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Ok, so there are four principles to having good luck manifest in your life. The first one is Maximizing your Luck Opportunities.What does this entail? Well, there are three basic parts to this:Build a strong "network of luck"Have a relaxed attitude toward lifeEnjoy new experiences So, what does this mean?Well, to build a strong 'network of luck', you have to go out, meet people, and be

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When most people think of luck, they think of either superstition, like a lucky rabbit's foot, or chance, like winning the lottery. When they think of influencing their luck, they think of rituals or superstitions. However, at least one psychologist in Britian took some time and studied the phenomenom, of why some people are lucky and why some are not.What he found was surprising. He found

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"There has been much research proving that most viruses, fungi, and bacteria cannot live in the presence of many essential oils, particularly oils high in phenols, caracrol, thymol, and terpenes. Just a .2 percent concentration of lemon oil and vinegar can kill Staph - even the antibiotic-resitent varieties. Eucalyptus, lavender, tea tree, grapefruits seed extract, lemon and oregano essential

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I come to you, oh Blogosphere, with a question:When supporting medical care for chronic conditions with energy work, magic, etc., what sort of guided imagery do you use?I'm looking at starting some guided imagery to help someone with a chronic condition, and am wondering what sorts of imagery are effective, both for the practitioner (to get in the right headspace) and to tell to the recipient.

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I've had a hard time locating these, so I'm putting them here for easy location later. Hopefully, they can be of some help to people later.Mercury: כוכב חמה [ko-chav khamah]Venus: נוגה [no-ga]Earth: כדור הארץ [kadur ha'aretz]Mars: מאדים [ma'adim]Jupiter: צדק [tzedek]Saturn: שבתאי [shab-tai]Source: http://muqata.blogspot.com/2009/11/name-that-planet-in-hebrew.htmlI'm adding:Sun: שמש[Shem-esh]

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Be thirsty heart,seek forever without a rest.Let this soundless longinghidden deep inside yoube the sourceof every word you say.-Rumi

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Shine until the two become one.

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I've been coming across prayers. I have some friends who are having bad times, going through disturbances and tribulations. I post this for you, and for myself. For I see myself in the first section of this prayer.Edit: Apparently, I missed the end of the prayer. Also, I put in a bit of history about it. Sir Francis Drake Prayer Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with

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Immortal, Eternal, Ineffable, and Sacred Father of all things, who is carried on the chariot rolling without cease, of the worlds which rotate always. Ruler of the Etheric Plain where Your throne of power is exalted and from whose heights Thy formidable eyes discover everything and Your beautiful and saintly ears hear everything. Harken to Your children whom You have loved from their birth

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"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!In esoteric updates: Writing a paper on Christology, playing with my voices of the saints playing cards, and thinking about what Jason Miller and +John Mabry said about being paid for your services and how to offer them.

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I'm beginning to understand why esoteric aims are undertaken in silence.Most of the people out there are not sympathetic towards the aims of the esotericist. That's simply the way it is. Also, participation in internet forums is a drain on your energy. At least, on my energy.Sigh. I've met some very knowledgeable and informative people. I've also met some obstinate curmudgeons. Sometimes in

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I've just put a google voice option over on the right hand side of my blog. You need to enter your phone number for it to work, but it's sort of an interesting little gadget.I'd love to have any of the people following call this blog and just say hi, just so I can see what you sound like.I'll make a real post here shortly.

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Yesterday being 9/9/9, I decided to do a bit of working with Yesod.I did the standard opening I've been taught, and called upon Gabriel to take me up and show me what I needed to make the desires of my heart become reality.Gabriel showed me the baseness, the elementary nature, and confusion which were the desires of my heart. I'd been all hyped on the luck aspects of the day. I wanted things to

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I finished consecrating my fire wand! Afterwards, I walked the dog, then went upstairs and wrote 700 words and researched a bit and planned out the rest of the piece of writing I'm working on.This has been really good for reminding me what my passions are, and where my priorities should lie. I'm fairly easily distracted, but with this accomplished, I think I've got a better handle on what I

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I have completed the construction of my fire wand, finally. I'll be consecrating it this weekend/next week, either on Sunday or Tuesday. Haven't decided which day is more auspicious, yet.I'm about to start taking Golden Dawn degrees (about = sometime this year I get my 0=0). I've gotten on a GD forum, and they're perplexed that I've started with my weapons already. I'm simply working on them

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Of a sort. Qualified Bacon Success .

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Brother R.O asks: Very cool. Can you describe what the experience of TEX was like? For me, it was like the air got really dense and thick, like I was held tightly in the fist of God.For me, Tex was an endless vista, with fountains of water. It's hard to describe, but it looks sort of like those artist's renditions of alien worlds, with fountains that go from a mountain of icy slush into the air

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So, Tuesday, May 5th, in the evening, I went to Holy Sophia Lodge, expecting to take in a lecture on Enochian Magic. And I did. The Magister of our lodge talked about The Hieroglyphic Monad, and how it is the basis and relates to all of Dee's future work. It was all intensely interesting and historical and related the Trinary to the Quaternary and the Septenerary.Then he set up the altar, and

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Since the last time I posted, I have made a lunar talisman and my air dagger under the direction of the HGA.They're both startlingly effective. I've been able to clean out a bit of the sphere of luna, and the air dagger is, well, simply awesome.Today, I tried the LBRP, using the air dagger for the quarter of air. Where before I was using a breath of air, this was a tightly focused tornado. The

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I don't dream very often. It's a side effect of the sleep Apnea, I don't get to be asleep long enough to dream. Last night, I was at the sleep study, and when they put the mask on me, I was dreaming a ton. I don't remember most of them, except the last one.I had the gun from Portal (I've never played Portal, just know the concept and have heard the song at the end about a gazillion times). I

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As I did my moving meditation, I asked my HGA to take me to see the Sphere of the Moon. We flew over the 32nd path, and below we saw the ferryman, and the tree of life, as we circled the path. We came to the Land of Dreams, and I saw before me Gabriel, his trumpet in one hand, a spear in the other. He told me I was welcome, but to move further, I needed a ring of silver, his name engraved upon

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The sun came out. Many things were brought to light. And it was good.What? They can't all be deep.Psalm 36 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. He

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Yesterday definitely was the Futility.I was trying to get a lunar talisman done for the new moon (today). Stuff kept piling on, and I was resisting doing it. Arguments, fights, scheduling conflicts, distractions. Finally I realized it was futile. I wasn't going to wrap my head around it that day. And, it eased. I dealt with the issues before me, which were immediate but not necessarily

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The more I practice magic, the weirder it gets. I'm definitely taking Israel Regardie up on his advice, and getting some therapy as I go along. I've done a bit, and the therapist regarded it as a nice way to explore my subconcious. I have ceased to take that view. While my HGA is definitely linked to me in some way, it's just as definitely not part of me. New avenues of exploration have

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Tuesday: I met with the Magical Lodge, and we chatted about this, that, studying, etc. We're reading "Western Mandalas of Transformation" by Soror A.L., and I've been digging it. It's an interesting work, with a lot of cool stuff in it.The parallels of my day to the Science card are obvious. Study, learning, interest, etc. Psalm 9I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell

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Over here, Frater R.O. argues that everything happens for a reason.Over here, Jason Miller says that's poppycock, and not everything happens for a reason.I was just thinking about this myself (Thanks again, Abrimelin Synchonicity!), and so thought I'd add my thoughts.They're both right.(Wait, what?)Ok, I'm a non-dualist, so it's perfectly rational in my view for both perspectives to be correct.It

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Yesterday was a day of doing work: Shopping, cleaning, mailing materials. Not a lot of reflection, rather a day of manifesting passions: Food, order, service.So, not a lot to say. Just a good, productive day.Psalm 8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength

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Today was a working day. I finished a project that's been sitting on my ecclesiastical desk for quite a while. I did a little shopping. I took the dog to the park, bought some new candle holders for the altar for mass.Ideas that have been stewing around for a while were given form, the purpose of this card. This is the path that connects the Supernal Triad to the rest of the Tree of Life, the

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Card Drawn: 9 of Wands, image coming shortly.The Deck shows 10 flames behind 9 wands, 8 crossed diagonally with 1 in the midddle. It's the moon in Sagittarius, "The weakest of the planets in the most elusive of signs." Yet the card is named "Strength". It's the strange equilibrium of stability and change. One must continue moving in order to keep things stable, stop and you fall over (

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On Friday, I was supposed to have 2 social occasions. I went to the first, had no energy for the second, and so went home. I didn't feel well.When I got home, I felt better. I wonder if this is part of the Abrimelin working, where you're supposed to be a little retiring while it's going on. I wanted to read, and whole up in my house, and not sit and chat with old and new friends and drink

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The Princess of Swords, Earth in Air. Yesterday, I thought about what I want to do, where I want to go. I want to go to San Francisco, and that's my eventual goal. However, the timing is not right. I've been apprehensive as I watch my responsibilities here grow, and the opportunities out west diminish. My industry has been hit hard, and there will be a lot of folks with skills comparable or

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Abudnance. I've had much in my life. It has been rich, filled with good friends, surprising betrayals, wonderful experiences and times when things were bleak, joy and heartbreak. And I've loved it all. It continues to this day, where I have so much I almost don't know what to do with it.It's strange how right now, at the beginning of this process, everything seems to be a problem, every day

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My prayers on Tuesday were quite short, but I did find it interesting, the day of Mars, I got Strife. It's important to remember that strife is not always a bad thing. It is the struggle of opposing forces. A lot of energy is both created and expended in strife, represented by the ten flames coming out of the center of the card. It can be a source of creativity, a source of wealth. Times

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The Ace of Disks. The Source of all materialness. My relationship to the material isn't the best: I've been finding out I don't take care of my material form enough, and it's starting to show. I've been broke, bankrupt, lost my house, and generally made a lot of poor decisions financially. I've bought things I don't need, and generally wasted my money.I'm turning that around, slowly. It's

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Read about it here!See pictures here!Watch video here!

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Sunday, I set up my prayer room for the Abremelin working. I've got a couple things to help guide my prayers and meditations: A bible open to psalms, and the Thoth deck. I'm sure I'll add more to the altar as I progress, and as I read the preparations for these next six months. This is the first card I drew. Princess of Cups. I'm reminded of creature comforts, and how the material world can

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Well, it's been an ecumenical week for me this week.I've been wanting to get to know some of the folks in smaller churches around my area, so on Thursday, I went to a Spiritualist service. They were all very nice people, and I broached the subject of an ecumenical worship building with them. They seemed interested.I have another group in mind, the Madison Sufis, who might want to invest in an

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Saturday 12/27 at 9:31 AM was apparently a conjunction of Pluto and Mars, which are related. According to one of the Magisters in my order, Pluto can be seen as related to the True Will, and Mars the manifestation thereof. He told me to keep it in mind at 9:31.So, I did.I performed our ritual for the Elixir of Virtue, which is a method of calling down the planetary energies into a vessel (

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http://eighthsermon.blogspot.com/2007/01/dec-31-but-he-that-is-greatest-among.html

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http://eighthsermon.blogspot.com/2006/12/dec-30-love-is-fulfilling-of-law.html

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Dec. 27 - He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God.

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I present to you a series of older posts about the 12 days of Christmas. I hope these meditations are useful and spiritually refreshing.December 26: Behold, I make all things newIn re-reading and performing this ritual, I am reminded that although buried under a ton of snow, and the world around me seems fairly lifeless, this is a time for renewal. This is a time to recharge, reawaken, review

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http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/11/saint-diet.htmlThis author also draws attention to the link between what goes on in our bodies and what goes on in our manifestations of spirituality. She prays less, is less kind, is less patient, when she is tired, unhealthy, and overbooked. Shocking, I know. But it's good to relate that time and again.Overbooking is a temporal manifestation of an

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I'm working on my earth pentacle. You can see a finished one here.Mine may not end up looking exactly like that, but similar.I decided to make mine out of a piece of maple tree that my landlord had cut down, to give the senseless act of 'trimming the tree' (in which he proceeded to cut down all the branches on one side so it's lopsided and ugly) some sort of beneficial meaning.I cut a small

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11. Tat: By God made steadfast, father, no longer with the sight my eyes afford I look on things, but with the energy the Mind doth give me through the Powers. In Heaven am I, in earth, in water, air; I am in animals, in plants; I'm in the womb, before the womb, after the womb; I'm everywhere! But further tell me this: How are the torments of the Darkness, when they are twelve in number, driven

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I'm sorry there's been a lack of posting. I've been writing other things, and just haven't had time for profundity or time to write about it.So, I'm gonna ask a question. You can either answer here, or on your own blog if you want. Please list in the comments if you answer it on your blog, so I can either subscribe or just read it.The Question: When you experience gnosis, how do you

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There's a lot of tendency among Gnostics to compare Jesus of Nazareth to the other great teachers and religious founders of history. I was listening to a lecture this morning on Early Christianity, and the lecturer brought up a good point.Lets take the 4 major religions that have identifiable founders: Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.Islam was founded by Mohammed. He had visions for

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I'm not sure what it is, but I notice a lot of preoccupation by gnostic ecclesias with their lineage and origin. I was just reading a couple of foreign language gnostics (Sucesion Gnostica Apolostica and Plerormon [caution- Loud Dead Can Dance song when you visit]), and I notice that there are long bits about the lineage and ordination of their bishops and how far back they go and etc. I'm not

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So, I'm listening to a lecture on Early Christianity (by Prof. Luke Timothy Johnson of Emory University), and he goes into four possible inadequate definitions of what a religion is.A descriptive definition of religion can be approached from four definitions: Membership in a group, ritual behavior, belief or doctrine, and/or morality. I thought it would be interesting to approach Modern

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Now, recognize the technique?A slow tearing down, a removal of all hope, a dissolution of the ego. "I can do nothing, Lord, without you." The psalms of the medieval grimoires serve the same purpose.And then, A building up, a granting of power, a force for change in the world. The conjurations of the medieval grimoires show much the same effect. "I am above ye in the Most High."It's the

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For those of you unfamiliar, there is a professor of mathematics at Tulane in New Orleans by the name of Frank J. Tipler. He has the interesting idea that all information will be reconstituted at the Omega point, when the universe collapses back on itself in "the Big Crunch", some 30 billion+ years from now.I was just reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Charles Sheffield, who uses the theses of

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http://witchdoctorjoe.blogspot.com/I have to recommend this site. The author is slowly going through the tarot deck, using it as an ink blot to examine his own psyche. If you've ever wondered what the Tarot is useful for, now you know.I've also added others to the blogroll on the right. Welcome To Jason Miller, Rufus Opus, and WitchDoctorJoe. They're all doing the work(tm), and they all have

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All of a sudden, I have a bit of respect for the Hallmark corporation, who've decided to pursue a developing market rather than blindly pretend it doesn't exist.The people who've given us such holidays as "Sweetest Day" and totally taken over a favorite saint's holiday, are showing us that gay people can by pre-canned sentiments, just like everyone else.While I am ambivalent about the company, I

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Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being. If you become my disciples and pay attention to my sayings, these stones will serve you. For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."Now what the heck does that mean?It's often a gnostic assumption

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Thereupon one of the priests [of Neith, in Sais, Egypt], who was of a very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children(1), and there is not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what he meant. I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary

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Jeg ser vi har noen lesere fra Norge. Jeg vetkan svært lite norsk. Dette er en Google-oversettelsen. Jeg beklager. Jeg vil prøve å lære mer, og kanskje legge på den litt.Rett min grammatikk dersom jeg gjør en feil.I see we have some readers from Norway. I know very little Norwegian. This is a google translation. I'm sorry. I'll try to learn a bit more, and maybe post in it a bit. Please

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I was listening to a lecture on Goethe's Faust, and the lecturer talked about how this was a completely new (at the time) conception of the purpose of man. In most previous conceptions in literature and philosophy, the focus of existence was on being. Cogito, ergo sum, as Descartes has so famously said and many have parroted.Faust, in his deal with Mephistopheles, he agrees that the devil can

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The Gospel of John starts out:εν αρχη ην ο λογοςThe word λογος Logos, is usually translated as "Word", but I just found out that Logos can also be translated as "The point of a legal case". If two persons are having a dispute, the point of that dispute is indicated by the word Logos.I think it is interesting that, in the Gospel of John, the first statement tells us that Existence has a point. It

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So, what do you think? Better, or worse?

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us three great evils-idleness, vice, and want." - The Turk from Candide, Chapter 30These are definitely three great evils of the Modern World. They are not sins, really, but evils: want can be inflicted by nature as surely as man, as can

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Yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. Two very different characters.St. Paul was intelligent, well written, theologically grounded in Judaism and Greek Logic, and a persecutor of Christianity until he had a Gnostic Experience of the Christ. The First Gnostic, his life changed by a mystic vision. He'd never met Jesus, and so his is the first experience of the Christ we

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One cannot achieve the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel by blindly following the procedures outlined in a book. ... While I certainly do not wish to downplay the importance of [The book fo Abremelin or Liber Samekh], I must voice my belief that most successful invocations of the H.G.A. are executed by individuals who have not perfomred either of the above rituals. Indeed,

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As a member of the clergy of the Apostolic Johannite Church, I am very happy to post this:It is with a healthy measure of relief and joy that the ApostolicJohannite Church applauds the decision of the California Supreme Courtto overturn the ban on same-sex marriages.Throughout its history, the Apostolic Johannite Church has remainedcommitted to the principles enshrined in both Canon Law and

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Today, I had a bit of a shock.I'm listening to a book named "Imperium" by Robert Harris, on the way to work. It's the story of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, who was a Senator and major orator in the last days Roman Republic. It's not always the most flattering of books, as it's told by one of Cicero's slaves, and the slave seems to view Cicero with a clear eye, for the most part.The shock

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This is a test from my treo.

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Just wanted to make sure all my readers know about the Johannite Forum over at Johannite.org. Come on over and lets get talking up a storm.

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The following is an article by a good friend of mine, Donald Donato. I found it in the flotsam of the internet, and it is republished here with permission.Becoming a JohanniteSt. John of Patmos by Hieronymus Bosch There are some friends and readers who want to know what all this business about Johannites and Gnosticism really means to me. The first thing that people ask is the Da Vinci Code

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I've been meaning to post more, but you know, I just haven't had the urge, lately. I've had little flashes of Gnostic thought, but nothing profound.I have been reading Christian Theology, by Alister McGrath. It's been a little odd, because I've been sick, so some of it is not sinking in as well as it should have. However, I did read an interesting section on Scripture and Narrative Theology.Mr

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My medatative/blogging skills leave much to be desired.I'm so excited about the stuff going on with me, I don't have time usually to do the meditations. Ah, well. To err is human. Next year.

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I missed posting on the first day. Mea Culpa.My meditation yesterday was brief, but useful. The theme of "Behold! I make all things new!" resonated with me. I realized several things about myself, and the reasons why I was taking some actions that puzzled the folks around me.Today's Theme deals with practicality, the senses, and ambition. It's a good theme for me today. Got some practical

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Merry Christmas, everyone.This year, I will be posting links to the 12 days of Christmas meditations, which I wrote up last year. Last year, I was able to only do a few of them, and wanted to lay them out without my thoughts and feelings on the issue.This year, I'll be posting a link to the next day's meditation, as well as my thoughts and feelings on the meditation for the current day. If you

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The Pope has said of Atheism:It is no accident that this idea has led to the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice; rather, it is grounded in the intrinsic falsity of the claim [That man can create justice where God has not-Fr. Scott]. A world which has to create its own justice is a world without hope. No one and nothing can answer for centuries of suffering. No one and nothing can

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After a dearth of posting, I think I'm ready to start writing again.Christmas is coming up, and I usually post the esoteric 12 days of Christmas. Perhaps I'll start to include a little more practice with the theory.

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I got tagged by my friend and donkey-wrangler Donald at In Puris Naturalibus. I'm supposed to tell you what I was doing ten, twenty and thirty years ago.For those who are mathematically challenged that would be 1997, 1987 and 1977, respectively.1997: According to my resume, I was an access programmer in Metairie, LA, just starting to get interested in Theology, hanging with a prophet, and

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Translated Via Google from Spanish, so the English isn't quite right. I think you can get the gist. The letter is from the OSTMJ, the Sovereign and Military order of the Temple of Jerusalem.The Templar Mystery monopolizes attention before the judgment that will reveal the Vatican Thursday 4 of October of 2007 EFE ROME. - The mysteries that accompany at their service by the Temple and to their

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A blogger by the name of Madcap asks some questions in the course of discussing Nietzsche as a Gnostic. I won't speak to Nietzsche as a Gnostic, as I've not read enough of the German Philosopher to have an informed opinion. I do have an uniformed one, but that's neither here nor there.The questions:Do Gnostics, as you define them, think that humanity can come to a point in time where things

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I tend to forget.I forget there's a reality we don't see, and even when we only access it quickly and even half-heartedly, it still has an effect. The invisible light shines through us, whether we can see it or not.Yesterday, we did a very, very fast ritual. There was rain, not sun. There was an inability to light a candle, keep the incense going. Nothing worked right, it seemed. We dealt

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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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A vision I had three years ago.I kept vigil in the Cathedral, hearing the words of Isaiah before the Rising of the Lord, when the Lord came upon me.And he took me up, and I saw the peoples of the world spread below me. Above their heads was the mark of the Holy Spirit, the tongue of flame seated on their forehead.And the flames formed the Christ, and I saw that all the elect formed the limbs of

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