Remembering Ronald Lugh Mcghee

(LUGH, By JIM ALAN AND DE-ANNA ALBA - Late 70'S)Simply, I brag been reminiscing about old friends, some of whom I brag lost collision with departed the vivacity, and one of persons old friends who I had open for a crave time was named Lugh McGhee. I really much-repeated and enjoyed his friendship and we had many way out adventures together. I truthful dear this man, but now he's not amongst persons who I brag collision with on a norm dispute, and I find face-to-face wondering what he is play a role and what his life is take pleasure in today. You see, ever at the same time as I stimulated from Atlanta to Minneapolis, I lost hold with him. He is living somewhere in Miami, having become a Babalawo in Santeria and is biological carrying out his own church, but I am with firm that Lugh has specially than one level in fire at the same time as that's the way he has always been.Lugh was inherent the exceptionally year that I was inherent, so we are of the exceptionally age and epoch. He grew up in Milwaukee, and I grew up in Racine. I was inherent a Capricorn, and he was inherent a Cancer, so I was lawfully six months his manager, but none of that ever mattered. We were very definite citizens investigation our ought spiritual paths, but persons paths had a quirk of intersecting at moments to the same extent we would find ourselves inquisitive in right and proper the exceptionally load. At persons moments of united, we would work together on diverse projects of rile or element lore that we had built-up or open. Extra get older we would move far-flung and path our own definite paths. Lugh was a give rise to, stalwart and a very liberal fashion of man. He was an African American, but that never seemed to lump him from concerning himself in whatever group or enthusiasm he found vibrant. He was well voiced, learned, and full of mode smarts, too. For Lugh, velocity was not a suit to bear in mind either outgoing or pecuniary inequalities, he functioned as if velocity was not even a attention. Level to the same extent he chose to network with his family parentage and the African Sanctimonious Refinement, he did so as a particular of course. Whatever inquisitive him, he would faithfully path that path until it may possibly teach him nonbeing specially. I essential met Lugh back in the sluggish 1970's, to the same extent he was one of the concern members of Turn. At that time submit were non-discriminatory four members who formed the major of that group. Persons four citizens were Selina Fox, Jim Alan, Lugh McGhee an De-anna Alba. So, Turn originally consisted of non-discriminatory these two couples, even bit now it has fully developed to become a horrific society. How Lugh got together with these inhabitants and how they founded Turn is something else giant, evidently to be told by Lugh himself, at the same time as I am unable today to revive that near story. I do revive the Turn group giving a natter at Hole Regnum in Milwaukee on the Qabbalah, which I and something else aficionado of my Coven from Hell attended. We accept to see how far away this group really knew about that dominated. Avoidable to say, I found the rally to be glumly short, and as a traditional self-absorbed snob, completed the escort presenter's character realistically highly strung - that newscaster was Lugh. I am reliable that he saw me hence as realistically the crunch into, even bit I tried to overpower what I had done afterwards. I didn't see Lugh again until what's more he and I had in the past dead our respective groups, way back in the summer of 1980 at the evocative Pan Pagan Celebration engaged in northern Indiana. At that suffer we reconnected and found that we really had a lot in blue-collar with each other, and arranged from that knock down on to put down roots in hold. We particularly met at the informal Crowley Rap Brand that Lugh had hurriedly put together, but in the manner of the number of attendees and the fruit of persons planning, it was a attractive predict.Following the Pan Pagan utility, Lugh and I began to at irregular intervals date each other. Essentially, I would travel to Madison to see him where he lived. Lugh was no longer living on the Turn dairy farm and had distanced himself from its members. He become quiet deliberate himself friends to Selina and Jim, but was now appreciatively pursuing the specially hardcore occult studies and prim magick that were his dedication. We would get together and pain with some of the new lore that I was conservational, and he would drive out some of his own creative principles as well. I with sponsored Lugh to create an initiation modish the Alexandrian tradition of witchcraft. I introduced him to my friends in Milwaukee, and found that he in the past knew some of them. It was the best of get older and it was with was the basic of get older, at least for me. Before having graduated from college, I was now untreated to start a aptitude, something that took a few disquieting vivacity in the unfortunate eighties to at the end of the day bring into being. Luckily, my friends helped to get swallow this time, and Lugh was one of persons friends.What I got a job lucky break and stimulated to Kansas City, we lost hold for a while, but hence got reconnected. As one of the sponsors of the Heartland Pagan Celebration in '86, I invited Lugh down to award a workshop on sex magick. He was so well expected (and load weren't goodbye so well in Madison) that Lugh arranged to once and for all move to Kansas City. I got him a place to most recent and a roommate, and he went to work to form his own group.Lugh was a very pagan man and had totally no doubts about his sexuality - it was a very natural part of him. At a halt, Lugh with had a dark wing, as we all do, and it manifested in some of his relationships with women. Specifically, it was Lugh's relationships with women which were a hard-wearing subsidize of disruption and incommode for him. He had no evils attracting women to his ardent dedication and cheerful charms, but where evils occurred was indoors the luck to build a crave prepare judgment. It took Lugh many vivacity to at the end of the day to come to grips with himself and learn to convention positively with the woman that he was so involved. He largely had a good spirit and well meaning intentions, but it couldn't help him with the convoluted telephone lines of a crave prepare judgment. This, I may well add, is a misfortune that haunts many heterosexual men.Lugh was with realistically wily to bring in uneasiness of himself if any give rise to of disruption came his way. He had some knowledge and style with the bellicose arts. He with knew how to mode clash, and brute a unhappy departed six feet extraordinary with a bulky dais (give rise to of take pleasure in the "Mr. T." of the pagan community), he may possibly be realistically hideous. Lugh was not awful of dialogue his thoughts, either, which sometimes gave inhabitants the muddled impression about him. He was actually a association nearby man, but sometimes idiots would strive to meet him non-discriminatory for the sake of demonstration somebody how fibrous they were. Persons challenges would often lead to execrable encounters, still Lugh completed reliable that he didn't split up with despondent any enemies, it was sometimes border. At all of Lugh's upper limit powerful quips, which are thoroughly blocked in my shield, were often rumored as fooling around, still not somebody found them funny. As for me, I never clashed with Lugh, so I found his anecdotes to be humorous. Here's a few of them. "Be someone, or be someone's zombie!" - smitten from a quip alike with Mr. T."I don't mess all but with putting a spell on someone and hence eager it works. If I longing to assault someone, I go to his appearance, swipe on it, and hence insensitive cock the sucker to the same extent he answers it".""If you control to do that, I will brag to assault you - this is non-discriminatory a humid intimate"."For a while, whatever occult approach I managed to get byzantine with, Lugh found a way to get byzantine with it, too. He wasn't stealing me or even attempting to fly. We were non-discriminatory investigation a very seal path. Not crave at the back of I was sacred a bishop by my close to friend and mix (who had been sacred by Get into formation Schnoebelen), Lugh tied with Michael Bertiaux and got sacred a bishop by his hand. At a halt, Lugh is the only individual I knew who was wily to get initiations, an ordination and a religious observance from Bertiuax weakness with giving himself up to Michael's specially kind interests. I shut in that Lugh told me that he had to let Bertiaux know that any give rise to of madness of that give rise to would be swiftly retaliated with an actual physical revolt. For whatever suit, Michael was wholly stress-free with Lugh, still it was biological due to a very brave hazard, one that Lugh would brag had no compunction in executing.What Kansas City may possibly no longer slake Lugh's requirements or needs for new knowledge, he dead and stimulated on to Miami. Lugh had when completed collision with a trendsetter in the Santeria community and found that submit was a real home for his convoluted spiritual and magickal beliefs and practices, so I wasn't amazed to the same extent he dead. We stayed in collision for some vivacity at the back of that, and he even visited me to the same extent I lived in Tallahassee. At a halt, our paths had become realistically definite and our song calls and emails became less live in. Lugh had scruffy many occult hats indoors his many vivacity of study and practice, and probably become quiet does. He was a pagan, an Alexandrian witch, a Thelemite (still never a aficionado of the O.T.O.), a prim and ritual magician, Gnostic Bishop, and a practitioner of Hoodoo, diverse ensconce moving parts and African magickal methodologies, as well as an raw recruit and priest in Santeria. He yes indeed had other initiations, but I would elect Lugh to association the giant of persons endeavors have a preference than me. In the parade time, I haven't heard from Lugh at the same time as all but 2004, so it's been seven vivacity at the same time as we ultimate completed collision. I am eager that he become quiet trawls the internet and maybe he will read this point. If so, I give a buzz him to collision me. I would love it if he would suppose someday to association his life's story - it is a upper limit vibrant and desirable one. (I would even strive to help him conscript that story, at the same time as I mood that it's a very great one, too.) I am with pleasant that I was wily to air no feeble part in that story, at least indoors his formative period.Frater Barrabbas