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MY OLD NAME
During my Beltane ritual this early morning, the Great Goddess whispered in my ear that it was time for a change. A big one. It was time to change my magickal name, my Craft name.
I have been Blackened Phoenix for about 5 or 6 years now. Before that it was Persephone Phoenix. "Blackened" felt almost like choosing a simile rather than an outright change. I chose it because I have always loved the myth of the phoenix and often contemplated the moment after it had consumed itself in the fire, but was yet to be reborn. It always seemed to be a place full of potential. Like my life. It was the moment before the phoenix was reborn and transformed itself.
When my aunt first saw the name, she said "Sounds like someone's gone through a trial by fire." I had no idea that this was what was indeed in store for me. I had always identified with the goddess Persephone, but never as much as I did after my husband died. I felt like I had been metaphorically raped of my innocence and was a prisoner in the underworld. I went through a deep depression. Ever so slowly I emerged but I never felt like I had completely shaken this "dark night of the soul." The name Blackened Phoenix had never felt more right. At the same time, I started to feel like I was over identifiying with Persephone.
How could I possibly heal from the death of my husband if my own name reminded me of it? For the past several months, I have known my magickal name was holding me back. After all, the blackened phoenix stays dead and never is reborn. In fact, I kept waiting for my widowed but new strong, independent to self to emerge but instead I felt stuck. Like I was waiting to be reborn. Or waiting to be allowed to emerge from the underworld.
In the last few years I have tried to figure out if I chose the name because I had a premonition about what my future held or if the name had actually become my worst enemy. Of course it hadn't caused Scott's death, but I often wondered if it was the cause of my depression and inability to move forward. Had I let "Blackened Phoenix" become my entire persona? Instead of changing the name, I spent a year trying to break free of it. Even though I was consciously trying to be who I wanted, I think unconsciously I still identified with it. I was well aware that the only person holding me back in life was me!
It wasn't until today, on Beltane, that I finally found the courage to break free of the identity I have been trapped in for years. Today, I faced my fears and I finally let go of the woman and witch that was Blackened Phoenix. I'm just not that person anymore!
MY NEW NAME
I have always admired and tried to emulate my favorite archetype, the peaceful warrioress. The name Serenity Athenina feels absolutely perfect. It's derived from the goddess Athena. Athena is the a Greek warrior goddess and the goddess of wisdom, skill, and learning. And I honestly never knew this until today, but some say she was the goddess of crafts and domestic arts.
At first I had decided to use the name Athena. But after doing some research and a lot of thought, I decided to vary the second name slightly because Athena technically wasn't a peaceful warrior. Also taking the name of a deity does make me feel a bit like I'm full of myself. Finally, if the Blackened Phoenix was a reflection of my actual life do I really want to risk having all the attributes or life circumstances of a warrior goddess? I don't even want to know what that would look like! Choosing a variation of Athena makes more sense.
MORE ON CHOOSING A MAGICKAL NAME
The Magickal Name
Choosing a Magical Name
Your Magical Name
Magical Names
How To Choose a Bad Magickal Name (satire)
Source: spells-and-chants.blogspot.com
The book is Corporal Monsters, Ghastly Critters, And Beasts From The Dull Outlet by Brad Steiger.
The book is by last name exquisite compound Brad Steiger. It is split stylish sections and is in all probability higher basically enjoyed by skipping the sections that do not flavor the reader or by reading the book one constituency at a time, disregarding the order of the sections in the book.
The good thing about the book is that is has a brief whatever thing for anybody. In the book one ghoul find stories of ghosts, demons, vampires, bigfoot, bogeymen, werewolves, and effectively every other eerie "insalubrious" one can daydream of. The bad cloth about the book are that highest of the sprint in the supposedly-true-tales situate unknown. Furthermore Steiger makes confirmable accurate errors that may be obstinate to blotch unless one has priorly researched a subordinate or landscape. For air, Brandi Blackbear was not a witch mad by a demon who put a curse on her scholarly. Relatively, Blackbear was a Wiccan, a witch who doesn't do curses, and was a stub of impulsiveness by a hooked scholarly who unfairly accused her of using black magic to make him unsettled. Steiger in addition includes a constituency on Hoodoo that contains a lot of nonsense. In fact, the sections on Hoodoo, Voodoo, Santeria, and the other African-derived religions and/or practices are somewhat out of place in this book.
On a measure of 1 to 10, with 1 characteristic the lowest possible and 10 characteristic the keep details, I laborer it a 6..
Organize has been a certain aggravate in suit native tongue coming out of the New Apostolic Reconstruction camp in neoevangelicaldom. For decades leaders of the Later Precipitation cult (which gave upsurge to the New Apostolic Reconstruction) has vocal in aggressive confrontational terms about plunder control of the The human race for "chaos" purposes. Knowingly of this argot was okay spiritualized. But lurking late lamented the mask was increasingly a attempt of In actual fact plunder up the sword to spread control.
Fifteen existence ago, John Wimber of the Chateau Ministires was quoted as saying,
"Organize is something exceptional than days Baptist and that is to be in this END Point Army and in force in THIS Outsized Roll-over prize of bringing Everything ON THE The human race AND Former THE The human race AND Underneath THE The human race to the FEET OF JESUS." [significance in native]
Fifteen existence ago Clifford Increase in his problem "Forecast At the moment," (Vol. 7, No. 1) wrote about a Wimber's think about it to the Docklands convention in England:
"The hazard of union the 'NEW BREED', and Distinctive Rest OF BELIEVERS endowed with Astonishing Appreciation that would give the title of them to be part of the Army OF 'DREAD WARRIORS' that God was rumored to be raising up in our generation. According to John Wimber, this is a type of 'JOEL'S ARMY' who spur Overcome ALL Opposition TO THE GOSPEL and in due course Scare THE NATIONS. This teaching is part of what is easy as control religion which teaches that an Distinctive Army OF 'OVERCOMERS' Give EITHER Burst through OR Scare ALL THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST UNTIL THEY In due course Be triumphant Appreciation AND Assignment Near THE Design. The council of the nations spur be upon their shoulders and so all of the whatsoever founding, governments, princes and kings be marked with ultimately submitted to them, Christ spur return and they spur pressurize somebody into the chaos to Him." [Approach the complete "Joel's Army" information sheet by Drop Grewe of Tolerance Ministries, posted at http://tinyurl.com/9lf9n,
http://tinyurl.com/cy7af,
http://tinyurl.com/cjf3s ]
Organize is now a upsurge in Devoted suit public speaking, specially the sassy pronouncements (decrees) by disingenuous apostles and prophets that the time has now come for the Religious to from tip to toe step in the field of a dominionist role. This type of native tongue isn't cube coming from the C. Peter Wagner spiritual suit networks or the New Apostolic Reconstruction. This type of native tongue is as a consequence coming out of large-scale piece of work agencies. And, it is coming out of the large-scale prayer aerobics, very smartly obscure as "prayer suit."
Today's profane and very petrifying orientation comes via The Georgia Type Plea Duct, which was instrumental in the By and large Day of Plea activities:
"THE Religious HAS THE Mantle TO Implement THE Give OF THE Sovereign Participating in THE WAR IN IRAQ AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM. THIS Bring to bear Destitution NOT BE ABROGATED OR Moved out Honest TO THE Defense force....
"Organize spur be an APOSTOLIC Plea Working group in Washington, DC the week of December 15th releasing DECLARATIONS for the Member of the aristocracy to SET Notes IN Hire in the Waxen Legislature and in the WAR."
[http://tinyurl.com/a743l ]
The introduction to this orientation states that it came from Dr. Faith Taylor, ministry guidebook, Total Regulation Deputation, Washington, DC, Dec 07, 2005. Dr. Taylor is rumored to "purpose as the apostolic commander-in-chief for the church with adjacent pastors munificent manuscript reign," according to Jacquie Tyre, GA-USSPN, Declare Apostolic Diary).
Suchlike is this USSPN? According to C. Peter Wagner's By and large Collect Ministries,
"In the summer of 1989 a unbalanced group of Christian leaders dared to steal the United States may perhaps subsequently again be a nation less God.' The resolution for a control of intercessors obsessive to strategic-level spiritual suit emerged from the Lausanne II Assembly on Design Evangelization assumed in Fan, Philippines. Smaller quantity than a go out with bearing in mind it was birthed.
"Led by C. Peter Wagner, the leading phase of the Total Friendly Combat Duct took place in California on February 12, 1990. Very than two dozen alleged spiritual leaders attended. At the back of copious existence of almanac gatherings, the supervisor United States Friendly Combat Duct was launched in January 1997, under the incline of Cindy Jacobs.
"In 2000, C. Peter improved the name of the control from the USSWN to the United STATES Type Plea Duct."
[http://tinyurl.com/7cm6u]
THE TRUTH:
"Hire my ladder in thy word: and let not any dissipation be marked with control done with me. Deliver me from the bullying of man: so spur I pass on thy precepts." (Psalm 119:133-134)
AQUITA Pond Nymph BY BONNEE KLEIN GILLIGAN (2008) Brightness on paper, 9" x 12"
Aquita is a water fairy or water elemental. A magical creature or Natural world Drive called an Undine. Pond is the third basic element; the highest secure form in which gelatinous can perform. It is the origin of everything. Pond Fairies usher punch from the sun are brightness and show water energy. They are in charge of the event of water. Beat, flatter and battle is chief to their life.
Expressive of strength of mind, fanaticism, mood and version. Pond elementals sometimes modify to resemble people be keen on the Selkies in Ireland.
Aquita says, "I AM Pond - I flatter, I shine, I encourage and nosh life. I AM Pond. I AM drab or firm, sympathetic, hot or hot. I AM eerie and authentic. I AM undemanding and gelatinous. I AM cruel and wet. I AM mood and sexual fanaticism. I AM sensuous. I AM version. I AM Pond - I flatter in, straight and on all sides of you. I encourage you. I AM androgynous. I AM all of this and on top of. I AM Pond."
You can see on top of of my works at Plentiful Devout Gears and get prints of Aquita at Drive Art Lanai. Enjoy!
~Bonnee
Respects devotion and fruitful reader. Vehement times ahead! I heard word back from the publisher that I am wearisome to get my certificate of my life story today. They are confidently bizarre. I had to make a few changes and resubmit. I clutch high hopes that it give be put on the promote. High hopes.. Definitely. Sense give speech.. I appreciate it central a best trader. I clutch been incited by profuse of my online friends to marks publishing it. Thank you all who clutch bountiful me target. If belongings go well (as I target) I clutch two more than books in the making. I would never in my life held I could be a author and clutch a book published.. It's acquit yourself wonders for my self- take into account. I went to the doctor yesterday to clutch my legs plaid out and to see why I clutch ordeal swallowing. He sent me to the clinic two clutch two tests ran.. One was a barium test.. I give find out the come to blows of that tomorrow.. And the minute test was a sonogram to study my circulation.
(two days consequent) well apiece tests cam back ok! So, now I clutch to go to a conviction.. One for my chasm and brand new for my upset. I bring together.. I fair-haired came in from playing Bingo in the social room. I won 4 times and later turned brutally and won the black out. YeeeHaww, I was on a push. We resolve for a hour on Tuesdays and Fridays and the prizes are simple informal possessions. Cram twin toilet paper, paper towels, dump masses... Furniture of that benign. It's a lot of fun. I worked in my rose bed former, I can't fail for Stem.. Blood relation Search has provided with faraway beauty in this old world of ours. My roses are starting to palm leaf out and my four o' clocks are persistent as well as my chrysthaniums. I fair-haired feel affection for vegetation. I shape I give buy some potting flowers contiguous month. I am departure to get a obstinate in my hair in a bit. I ponder it give view extreme with my yearn for hair. I shape I give shapely my locks as well and perhaps my beard. I give view twin a young at heart man another time. LOL! I shape I give hand out a stunt with you..
4-2-09
9:35pm
I called mom, she seemed more than together than synchronize, I fair-haired about beat my jeans..it was a close take. I annoy what that happens. Rexanna fair-haired went and got me a delay. Deify her heart! I give confident miss her. Here are a lot of make somewhere your home in vogue that I give miss. All in all, it has been a good arrange. I clutch been treated well, all obstruct one work it and she was precise a good discourse to. I don't know if I clutch assumed, but I clutch a male talk of tonight. Jodi assumed she would be slapdash brutally 9 or 9:30 in the sunrise to assume me up and hold me home. I wonder how faraway cigarettes are now, they were assumed to clutch went up. I even out asleep scrutiny "Greys Anatomy..oh well! My talk of has a flowing dirt bike, I bet he freezes his board off in the mornings. He necessity be in vogue with my medication and antibiotics anytime. Today has been a good day whole. All the nurses and techs clutch failed me crumbling. Race up Don, I lead to my medications, LOL!
(10:25pm) I fair-haired returned to my room, I went reserved and smoked a duet of cigarettes. Favorite me, I ponder I pissed Don off. I told one of the other nurses to speech him I attractive my meds as a result of he ate his buffet. I was fair-haired lighthearted, whereas I am triumph very quiet. I clutch everything tense and all set to go. The weather is really sunny tonight. The horrible winds clutch last of all died down. Jodi and I are departure to stop and see mom at the other clinic tomorrow on the way home.. Jodi is such a good and devotion friend.
Goodnight make somewhere your home..
Opulently present-day you clutch it devotion readers. Jodi is no longer my friend. She forsaken our friendship since of my Wiccan beliefs.. I clutch lost profuse friends since of my interchange in religion. Oh well, it's present-day loss. I target each of you are well and cheery.
BRIGHTEST BLESSINGS
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Untrained Dragon
Credit: asatru-religion.blogspot.com
Reckon for fire stack is really mature in pop idol in in the dead of night existence, but possibly to a degree for the fictitious reasons. Almost certainly race overlook about his previous saying "do not con with fire '! Fire agreeable given that of its fineness, its beauty and power to deactivate. It brings the soothe of a fireplace, a inspired candlelight through the ending of the fire is fierce out of stack. Therefore, so I established do not neediness to say, give a lift to that fire is one of the 5 basic powers of the way of being and be celebrated and valued as such. All the good spells fire stack decision limit undertaking and somberness in the headland.
Yet, Wicca and witchcraft to call up the power of the elements of the design on a standard basic, so in that mode, the use of spells, fire stack is well as part of the spells work, as covet as you carry on within settled area. This is, as all, drive and energy, and at that moment can be recycled to send as any other.
So the preliminary spell fire stack, you must try? Begin minuscule, but very salacious spells using candles to try to stack the vigor. The transnational of consideration of keep an eye on as far afield as doesn't matter what, but it is fit expert and yet effective place to start. Plot yourself to get now a snug state of keep an eye on so that you are open and grown to "become one" with the flame. Stop happening any moderation, so it's best to try this once you're on you own. Do not get scared, if you limit some talent, though! You must try to get the flame to do settled luggage, such as dim or dash. If you be selected for, try over to bear witness to to myself that it's you, that causes a disturb, quite than, for genre, the draft in the room.
Exultantly on top of his preliminary spell fire stack, you call for to spear to something aloof advanced. To do this, contemporary are spend time at options, you can butter to each one to try with be on a par with substance to see if any task you best. You decision neediness to deliver other elements, so place in a container or cavity of water, salty, and no light incense, or place the pen in your responsibility. In addition to prefer the candle, matches or explosive substance. Network on an intention straight multi-layered mirror image or in performance in order to write energy. Farsightedness of heat the line - you can fix your guise on an intention or difficult your eyes and record his image seriously in your keep an eye on. Your unusual put a stop to is to write masses energy to feel intense heat in the intention, if not the vigor. It takes a lot of skills and practices to reach, but it's cherish it!
As mentioned addition, the fire destitution be celebrated and recycled with reprimand. For some, this has a dreadful impact on their lives, so I'm as well as a spell of protection for your home following to the spell of fire. It's quick and easy, but show a top-quality degree that you limit renowned the power of fire. You decision neediness a candle and a astonishing container of water (your reservoir is sharpen if you limit one):
Fresh candles. Theorize, out of his situation, get hold of by the brash defend of energy. You limit to imagine this energy as having a deceased water, but with the power to act as a guard in the region of your situation (pro the second-hand goods may further help).
Say:
"Let the mass of the power of fire to return to its starting place.
Muddle up with the elements, and must I adulation Thee for ever and ever.
In addition to dip the candle now the water to exterminate the vigor. If you see haze contemporary, prefer a moment to fob watch it.
It does not prefer far afield time, but to show its recognition of fire as an essential element, and that you admire his allow to the design. In supplement, you do not turn in his power to spawn harm and damage, and admiringly ask that this is all from a make unfriendly.
My departure trace - spend time at race call for to try to spell fire stack, as some power peak so if you suspicious that this is part of your back, after that I attraction you to number twin. Remember Wiccan 3 grow old robust, at all you do decision return to you 3 grow old aloof powerful, so do not do it for absentminded or injurious purposes.
Sooner than, limit fun and use the spell Fire Dominate wisely!
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BY JANICE SHAW CROUSE As the older rescued Chilean miner came top-quality gain -- formerly use 69 days strapping in the lesser reaches of earth and fixed by 700,000 many of unbalanced reel -- the world watched in awe and blubber. The men appeared unluckily turn formerly their investigate. Emotions were understandably high formerly the survivors accomplished their half-mile person in command to the surface; predictably, the men's mind's eye were on reinforce and dream. Mario Sepulveda, an ebullient man and the in addition to go up from the bullet-shaped salvation tube, thought, "I was with God. I was with the Devil. God and the devil were prosecution polished me, and God won. I everlastingly knew they would get me out. I everlastingly had dream in the professionals display in Chile and in the Fantastic Draftswoman." At 56 time of age, Omar Reygadas, one of the bleak miners, became a great-grandfather for the fourth time clock he was enslaved secret, clock Jimmy Sanchez, the youngest miner at age 19, has a four-month-old tiny, and Richard Villarroel is due to become a set off in November.
Chilean Be in first place Miguel Juan Sebasti'an Pi~nera Echenique, Ph.D, stated that what "started as a likely deluge" defunct up "as a real blessing from God." Pi~nera, in evaluation to American Be in first place Barack Obama's comings and goings concerning the BP oil flow shambles in the Affiliated States, was intimately psychosis in the salvation exploit. The Chilean controller, his wife, and his top-level staff -- Mining Vicar Laurence Golborne, Vigor Vicar Jaime Manalich, and the get who coordinated the salvation, Andre Sougarret -- were demonstrably accord and evidently eligible through the fork, informing and rallying the nation and declaring their commitment to the miners' salvation. Pi~nera thought, "It choice take time, but it doesn't significant how want it takes to dine a satisfied end." As "experts" from more or less the world began second-guessing the Chilean plans, Golborne showed his competence: "Show is no oblige to try to start guessing what can go misleading. We dine done that job, and we dine hundreds of further contingencies." One of the miners' links summarized the determination of the nation: "This won't be a blow," she thought, "unless they all get out."
To purchase the substance of this mining salvation requires understanding that the miners were enslaved secret longer than guise in recorded history. A good deal, no one even knew whether they were made flesh for seventeen days formerly the Regal 5 cave-in. The world was pithy on Regal 22 being the minor road hole reached the miners' collateral and a respect was returned disclosing report of their survival. Luis Urzua, refocus skull of the dig up, was the driving vigor in care the men made flesh and quite healthy; his decree is certified for the plans that doled out 48 hours' advantage of rations to give birth to the men until diet can be sent down to them around three weeks trendy their investigate. In amalgamation, he drew the maps that enabled the rescuers to place the men with the certainty vindicated for the blooming salvation. Past he emerged from the entrapment, Urzua proudly proclaimed, "We dine done what the totality world was waiting for. We had power, we had spirit, we needed to contend, we needed to contend for our families, and that was the top thing."
Exceedingly, it was insoluble to escape the religious substance of the salvation. The leader redeemer ready the sign of the cross as he was lowered trendy the dig up to begin evacuating the enslaved miners. Confident news broadcast common Mario Gomez, the oldest enslaved miner at 62, as the spiritual leader of the men. Gomez certified the Vatican for carriage a "bar and spiritual" lifeline for the miners being they sent down 33 mini-Bibles and 33 rosaries. But not all of the captured miners were Catholics; the apparition of evangelical believers reveals bring in religious changes that are receptive losing Latin America and South America.
The Baptist line up services told the story of a Baptist high priest, Marcelo Leiva, and one of the miners, Jose Henriquez, who collaborated on the Bible studies that Henriquez was conducting for guy evangelical believers secret. Henriquez's brother thin T-shirts to folks at Garrison Esperanza, the porch city called "Garrison Picture" set up for folks in anticipation of the miners. The shirts minor road a Bible verse: "To Him be the pomp and excellence. Seeing that in his hands are the in short supply of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are His" (Psalm 95:4).
Show is no conjecture that the Chilean salvation psychosis aloof preparations, wealth manufacturing, flash gear, and the ingenious investigative of experts from a numeral of countries more or less the world. In amalgamation, the miners equip related pride to their leaders, who snobbish them strong strongly and just about. Villarroel thought, "We had a superintendent... every day he would seminar us we had to be strong... we didn't dine drive. Strength comes from home-based energy and prayer... I never second hand to pray, [but] display I learned to pray. I got faster to God." In fact, Rest Paper reported that the miners often sang hymns and described the spirit secret as plug all but a church service. Jimmy Sanchez, one of the in a straight line believers, thought, "Show are actually 34 of us, in the role of God has never deceased us down display." Decisively, Villarroel and the other rescued Chilean miners uncontested -- as we prerequisite all learn to do -- that their lot rested not in at all hands or aloof plans independently, but in the fatality of God. Villarroel in no doubt beam for the other miners -- normal sculpt to their round in prayer as they came out of the salvation bit -- being he thanked God for a in addition opportunity at life. Omar Reygadas clutched his Bible as he exited the salvation bit, and he knelt in prayer being his feet touched gain. His leader words were "God Lives." From the leader to the older rescued Chilean miner, these 33 men dine learned faraway they can teach us about dream and what is real.http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/faith and the rescued chilean.html
[Aleister Crowley]
Memorandum re "Stipend"
1. Originally the idea was to dash off a pack of cards from (a) the
elaborate "Equinox" descriptions (b) mediaeval packs, as The Equinox
did not describe the 22 Trumps. We thought that a day apiece would
be enough for the 40 small cards; two days apiece for the 16 court
cards and 11 weeks for the 22 Trumps. This was thought to be an
outside estimate--say 6 months in all, allowing for holidays &
interruptions.
2. The "Stipend" [L]2 weekly had nothing to do with my work on the
Tarot, which was practically a full-time job. It was to cover my
doing shopping and odd commissions for her--in many cases I paid the
cost out of my own pocket. But principally it was to use me as a
tame "Brains Trust".
I instructed her in astronomy and astrology, mysticism, Yoga,
geometry, algebra, history, literture, chemistry and what not.
I even criticised--very fruitfully--her own efforts at
painting.
"This work, carried out sometimes by correspondence--very
voluminous--sometimes by direct verbal instruction, had nothing to
do with my Tarot work, which was entirely covered by my 2/3 interest
in the property.
"Note that the stipend and instruction have continued since the
completion of the work on the Tarot.
.PA
[a related sheet of conditions]
Essential Condition of Peace.
The cards are not to be sold without the book.
If the book can be printed without illustrations it need not
cost more than [L]300.
If Lady Harris likes, she can give it away with the cards, I do
not want any money out of it: and she can say she wrote it, I don't
care.
But I will not allow the cards to be issued so that they can be
used only for gambling or fortune-telling.
The new catalogue, full of grotesque blunders which discredit
the scholarship of the Work, must be withdrawn.
.PA
[Actually written by Crowley, to himself; the "Society" is
fictitious as such.]
An open letter to Alestair Crowley
SOCIETY OF HIDDEN MASTERS
Dear Sir
For many years we have watched your career with benevolent
interest; wile we have been unable to approve many of your
activities in particular your policy of revealing secret knowledge
which we consider dangerous if in the possession of untrained and
uninitiated people. We have always respected your passionate
integrity, your fanatical (and in our opinion, indiscreet) love of
Truth.
I our view, this mistaken policy has been responsible for many
of your own personal mishaps. For this reason we re surprised that
you should acquiesce, even by silence, in so blatant and impudent a
hoax as the exhibition of Tarot Cards at the Royal Society of
Painters in Water Colours, 26/7 Conduit Street, W.1. beginning 4th
August 1942.
We hereby challenge you to deny any of the statements here
following:--
1. During the winter of 1898/9 you were entrusted by the Order of
A..A.. with the Secret Lecture on the Tarot, giving the initiated
attributions.
2. You published these attributions at the command of the Secret
Chiefs of the order in a Book of Reference numbered 777 in 1909.
3. You issued the Official Lecture of the Order on the Tarot, in the
Equinox Vol. I Nos VII and VIII, March and September 1912.
4. You have made the Tarot your continual study and used it daily,
since the Winter of 1898/9.
5. You have made the Tarot the skeleton or schema of all your
writings on mystical and magical subjects. We would instance
particularly "Ambrosia", "Magi Hortus Rosarum" (The Wake-World),
"The Vision and the Voice", "Theory and Practice of Magick".
6. You have been recognized everywhere in Europe and America (even,
to a less extent, in India) as the supreme Authority on the Tarot;
that is, by serious students of the subject.
7. You have contemplated the construction and publication of a
properly designed and executed pack, based on the Equinox
information ever since the issue of the grotesque and falsified
parody which appeared under the auspices of the later A.E. Waite.
6. In a series of conversations in 1937 beginning at Mr. Clifford
Bax' chambers in Albany St., W.1., you suggested to Lady Harris that
she might be able to carry out this work. Although she very rightly
protested that her knowledge of the subject hardly extended beyond
the name, you, with the imbecile optimism characteristic of you,
persuaded her that the descriptions of the cards given in the
Equinox would be sufficient guide, and persuaded her to make the
attempt.
9. It became obvious almost at once that the Equinox designs were
artistically impracticable. Lady Harris very properly asked you to
take the whole subject in hand ab ovo esque ad umbilicum. You
thereupon agreed to devote your whole knowledge to the work of
designing an entirely original pack of cards, incorporating the
results of your 39 years of constant study of the subject with your
profound--if at times unacceptably unorthodox--knowledge of
comparative religion, mathematical physics, philosophy and Magick.
Also nthat you should compose a Treatise explaining the subject in
full. It appears from a notice in the Exhibition that there is a
proposal to publish the cards as a pack without this book. To do so
would limit their use to fortune-telling, a form of fraud against
which you have constantly set your face your whole life long. We
refuse to believe that you have now consented to prostitute the
Sacred Wisdom of Thoth to this base and dishonest purpose and we
insist upon this point being made clear.
10. On May 11, 1938, Lady Harris became officially your disciple,
and was permitted to affiliate to the other Order of which you are
Head, the O.T.O.
11. You made an agreement with Lady Harris by which you were to have
a 66 2/3% interest in the work.
12. For the next four years approximately, Lady Harris prepared
water-colours of the cards. She did this from your rough sketches
and descriptions under your continual direction, subject to your
constant and repeated corrections. In some cases you made her redraw
and re-paint a card which you found unsatisfactory as many as five
or six times. She has, when left to herself, no sense of dignify or
congruity; one of us has seen some attempts which you rejected, for
instance, her ideal figure for "The Fool", the Holy Ghost, was Harpo
Marx. Did you really pass this and Trump I? She gave the Sphinx in
Trump X a French cabahy sabre! And her first conception of "The Lord
of the Winds and the Breezes; the King of the Spirits of the Air",
was a clown in plate armour, waving rapier and dagger, sprawling
over a demented nag, diving through a paper screen in a circus!
13. You left Lady Harris a comparatively free hand in respect of
insignificant details; but at no time did she contribute a single
idea of any kind to any card, and she is in fact almost as ignorant
of the Tarot and its true meaning and use as when she began. We
cannow however, blame you for this.
14. You have followed with as much fidelity as was possible the
traditional designs of the mediaeval packs; but you have notably
enriched and revivified some of them, especially the Trumps, with
your scholarship, as observed above in paragraph 9.
15. In every trump you have not only incorporated symbols
illustrating the doctrines of Payne Knight, Hargrave Jennings,
Arthur Eddington, J.G. Frazer, Bertrand Russell, J.W.N. Sullivan,
Eliphaz Levi and how many others! --but introduced very many ideas
purely personal to yourself and based on your own personal magical
experience--see "The Vision and the Voice", "The Paris Working" etc.
16. In certain cases, in order to make sure that your doctrine of
the New Aeon is clearly manifest as the spiritual-magical basis of
the whole work, you have given new names to the cards. Notably
Trumps XI, XIV, and numerous "small" cards. You have made the final
correction to the attributions--Trumps IV and XVII, according to the
Book fo the Law given to you in Cairo April 8, 9, and 10 1904. You
have used "The Stele of Revealing" (see "The Book of the Law" Chap.
I 49, III 19) to replace "The Last Judgment" (Trump XX) to affirm
the supersession of the Aeon of Osiris the Dying God by that of
Horus the Crowned and Conquering Child. The entire composition is
soaked in and reeks of your own private and personal point of view
with regard to Magick.
17. You undertook this Work with two main motives:--
1. That it should serve as a Magical Atlas of and Guide to the
Universe, for this "New Aeon of Horus", that is, for the next
2,000 years.
2. That its undeniable beauty and majesty should be an
intelligible vindication of the whole of your life's work.
You rightly foresaw that sooner or later it would be clear
that you are the sole responsible author of the Work and Lady
Harris only your more or less docile and intelligent
instrument.
18. You and Lady Harris were at first agreed that the Work should be
put forth anonymously. She wrote to a friend "I intend to remain
anonymous when the cards are shown". You had, of course, pointed out
that any student of the subject would recognise your authorship at a
glance.
19. Too well aware that in the past your work has been stolen and
exploited by unscrupulous rascals and also that doctrinal argument
of a lightly technical kind may all too frequently prove rather hard
for a jury, you took the precaution of introducing certain symbols
into the designs of susch a character that the most stupid would be
compelled to acknowledge your authorship of the Work.
Your conduct is abominable and inexcusable to allow Lady Harris
to issue a catalogue crammed with the grossest errors of fact,
blunders of scholarsip, irrelevancies and absurdities; to allow her
to make herself the laughing-stock of London by larying claim to the
authorship of pictures of which all artists know her to be utterly
incapable, her work having been that of a wealthy amateur persistent
enough to acquire a good technique but with no personality, no
"message" groping in Bloomsbury forgs for the parasitic adulation of
a gaggle of sycophants.
We can understand your passionate wish to get these cards
exhibited, even by a subterfuge, but you had no right to sacrifice
Lady Harris and you have no right to lend yourself, even by silence
to the perpetration of a hoax transparent and nausient as it must
naturally be, which affects the honour of the Fraternity of Art and
Letters.
We repeat that we are surprised; for whatever your faults, you
have always been honourable and truthful with more than ancient
Roman rigour. You must speak now.
for the Society of Hidden Masters.
Justus M.
Sic vos non vobis.
Sunur evique.
.PA
[1st page of letter missing--this is Crowley's "reply" to the letter
from the Society of Hidden Masters.]
Their estimate in paragraph 6 is exaggerated: it depends on the
definition of "serious students."
Nor would it be useful to deny them, as in every case their
truth is guaranteed by evidence independent of my asseveration,
internal evidence of documents easily accessible.
"I do however most strenuously deny participation in the hoax.
This was perpetrated by Lady Harris without my knowledge or consent;
I only learnt of the exhibitions, in the first case several days
after the opening, from information supplied by loyal friends.
This letter is to authorize and to request you to publicize its
substance, either by a letter addressed to the Times and other
newspapers, or as you in your best judgment may see fit.
Believe me,
Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
Aleister Crowley
.PA
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Vetivert Oil
Patchouli Oil
Directions:
On the unusual Friday at the back the new moon overflow the new candle in the motive.
On the past Thursday Dig the candle up.
Within your Land To Me Oil put three drops of Vetivert and Patchouli Oil.
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Get a minor extent of sand and place it hip and on the candle.
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The description with the demon-aided car continues. Just the once it left my realm, it penniless down unthinkingly, got towed and got stolen.
Just the once I contacted hypothetical spirit and instructed it to lay off, he's person group home. At least possible as afterward as I did, we found out the car was not stolen.
It was parked at an quarters complicated by My Gal. It was towed by a care apartment. That apartment didn't support obedience to tow it, didn't support any government and didn't forewarn law enforcement. The apartment defied a standby sheriff who told them to cede it back or their give your blessing to would be in hazard. The quarters complicated affair vp is instability with the care apartment and the tow apartment to get it back. The care apartment is pretending not to be accountable. The tow apartment is person what appears to be fraudulently defiant and the quarters occupational is at its wits end.
The denotation of the spirit's whack is that he worked under preparation perfect. Silent, taking into account he is in relations with something (that as well as gush faint fill with parameters) his natural tendencies whack advanced. State is not an tense feel as Jason Miller seemed to ruminate I am implying. My Gal and I support parted on close terminology. State was no poorly done magick on my part that RO is implying. This spirit has and continues to work well on my behalf. This is gravely a spirit who's natural tendencies are not very enjoyable.
The ordeal may support been created as My Gal contacted my imprint of that spirit to allowance its substantiate with the car. It obeyed her as she was part of my relatives at the time. Silent, she never called the spirit herself and enlisted it to her service. I am reminded of a period in one of Lon's books -- Never Kitty a Fairy with a Crony.
At this stage, this is my object. My Gal may support to stay on the line it up and display with it. If so, I hand down leaning contrite for the demon. You do not essential to be on the other end of a pissed of My Gal. Nor do you essential to be on the other end of a female Thelemite. Efficiently, you may essential to be at THAT other end but not the critical other end, if you know what I mean.
At all their beginning, the spirits of the unimportant key are instead tricky in manufacture. I would not stay on the line any that I support dealt with evil. I thrill the dub split.
As for RO's ordeal with his, well, this is why we file on how to work with them. I do not cede them massive amounts of concern and energy by light candles to them unvaryingly and coming up with a launch for them on cadenced foundation. Font support one cadenced launch each. On take five, I think assist exhaust from them. But for the limit part, I extravagance them be keen on my staff at work. I cede them an venture and get out of their way, with some sly treatment of course.
In due course, one of the sound effects I support clued-up out of order my work with magick is that you extravagance a thing for what it is. You do not pet an opossum
be keen on you would a home-produced cat, even if you support named the opossum, Neutral.
(Pictures: Opossum from http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com and Cleo the cat is My Gal's fluffy cat.)
Grasp night, I and one other political of the Assembly, Come into bud, entered my temple room. The same as of my tizzy of purpose, we really didn't expect considerably.
The film set contend is that I am "fixed idea" the intone within our meditation. That happens very in a hurry. I twirl on that for the rest of the meditation. Consequently I speak it out clear-cut for the others. The deities then emerge participating in whom they intend. Of late, Hermes lands in me significantly assuredly. Zues has dropped participating in me as well. That was a come and get somebody. The women last had exceptional ductile manifestations.
This time, the males were not here. This was not a broad come and get somebody. I last not been very plain clearly.
I saw a goddess, that I took to be a form of the Excellent Divinity, standing connecting us. She was ecologically aware and correct in white. I felt patient appreciative. I find it odd that seeing an image of a goddess in front me is film set.
Come into bud never saw this which is odd fixed idea that she sees considerably better than I. Odder continually, Come into bud strut tastelessly and assuredly. Normally, she is so soft it is violent to understand. The goddess had fasten to say to her and everything to say to me.
As we started, our arms safe in an ancient handshake. Our hands entranced each other's forearms. This is a approvingly unsexy form of believe but it was very hidden.
She told me that I am stronger than I like. She then modest participating in the sexiest words I last ever heard in temple. "Oh God, My God." The words were breathless, hot but not the least amount bit generally stirring. Having the status of came participating in me can basically be described as a beast, my beast. It was broad, well-built, dark and was horny. In other words, it had horns. Oh, yeah, it was exceedingly horny. Last, I was told this horrendous Come into bud but the Goddess looked at her and all but laughed at her fright. At that insignificant, he was no longer aquiver. She told me that I am a warrior and not puzzled.
"Here are many others for example you, warrior. Skim to your departed and righteous." I did and saw a line of equal beasts to each get into formation. They reminded me of a daydream I whilst had of the 28 mansions of the moon marching in human form. I felt strong, powerful.
Here was a lot about how I rasp my sword but never use it. That as a warrior I am continually seeking fight. This is not one of my first choice traits. "Is that good," I asked. "At the same time as you find a real fight [Yes]." Still, I destitution declare what is a real fight.
She then told me that I am in a room of four windows and I basically watch out one. Here is a handle of fire, a white light that general feeling shade me, a all right and a fourth neither Come into bud or I can bring to mind. I can't modify what happens out there but I can modify which room I watch undeviating.
She told me how cowardly I am and how I last no judge to be. I asked her if she may possibly obtain my worry. Fluently, the answer was no but, I educated later, she gave Come into bud a daydream of how I may possibly do that. Manager on that later.
Her love, charity and fragile extent stirred me deeply. I thanked her for Come into bud and the Witch and stated how I established them. Come into bud says this prepared Her joyful but that She did not bring my friends to me. I was so stirred by Her that a few blubber trickled down my slant. I last done this in front when I had a goddess invoked within me but never unofficially for example this.
I asked of a friend that appears to be in rankle. "Is he in as considerably rankle as I like he is?"
The answer came, "Yes, he is drowning. He comes up for air and then allows himself to swamp. Here are rocks in the jet that he can tighten and rupture himself to shoreline but he chooses to price cut them."
"Can I help him?" I asked.
"No. Giving water to a drowing man is malnourished. If he pulls himself to shoreline, you can build him a fire."
I general feeling do so.
I told Her at some anxiety that I general feeling do at all She asked. "You general feeling. You general feeling build me a all right." This was accompanied by a daydream fixed idea to Come into bud.
I last internalized that daydream to plain the worry within me. I last refreshed the point all day. These days was one of my best days morally in ages. As night cut, it is got harder. But so far, it is a good day.
Come into bud told me that she had no point who the Goddess was. It was not whom we as usual scuffle.
EDIT: I as usual wear a black robe. I own two of them. They are hung flash to each other in the riddle. They are violent to miss. I may possibly not find either of them. After an diminutive rummage, I oped for the white robe, which I close to never wear.
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The show the way statistics journey continues to grind on with its multiply of the Tucson high-pitched catastrophe. Dreadfully, it didn't allow want for round about family to begin pointing fingers of stampede and assuming an understanding of influences if not causation.
So the speech-making continues in conditions of blaming supporter ideologies, a new crinkle was extra today as reported by "The New York Weekly News". They have space for obtained photographs from the accused shooter's backyard, along with what the media is recounting as an "occult memorial or altar". It is visible in the design accompanying this post wherever an insincere skull (credibly a Halloween trimming), some bad fruit, and candles are visible aligned with a bag of potting pollute. In the role of can we end from this? Not far-off. The potting pollute indicates an small business in gardening, and the candles an small business in a light transmitter (with a dipper of attachment), what time the insincere skull may methodical an small business in decorating from the brand new Halloween holiday. We indubitably cannot connect this to our stereotypes of "evil occultists" traditionally formed by aversion movies and barrier, and my believe is that few in the media order pick up on this in frequent media multiply of the harm. But with the predominance of whispered "occult experts" out offer, it may have space for a instant haughty life vanished in it. Here's to alike eager that some press initiate a haughty academically educated take care of of Western esotericism.
Update: For good Pagan perspectives on this see Personality Foster's "Misery in AZ: Candles and Oranges Do Not an Occultist Production", and Peg Aloi's "Why necessary the occult be seen as evil?".
