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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2020 13:51:08 GMT
Apocalyptic Witchcraftscarletimprint.com/publications/apocalyptic-witchcraftThe spectre of witchcraft is haunting the West, the dead giving up their secrets. This is a ritual unveiling of these mysteries. It is a vision and a revelation of the mythopoetic structure of the Art. Apocalyptic Witchcraft is a bold project which does not seek to impose an orthodoxy on what is the heresy of heresies. Instead, it suggests a way forward. Apocalyptic Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. These are the core of our ritual practice. Dream, lunar and, critically, menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the devil, and the goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together into a single unifying vision. Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems. The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an apocalyptic witchcraft, and this is a book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of the dark impasse. Tradition is not static, it flows, and this work pours forth a vision for the future. Founded in pilgrimage and ritual, encountered in dreams and gleaned from the conversations of both doves and crows, a remarkable narrative unfolds. Its wings span from prehistory, through the witch panic and it emerges fully fledged into our present moment of crisis. It offers a witchcraft for our time.
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Post by Admin on Oct 1, 2020 15:58:20 GMT
John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World by Jason Louv
"A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee
Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor and astrologer, was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century. Laying the foundation for modern science, he actively promoted mathematics and astronomy as well as made advances in navigation and optics that helped elevate England to the foremost imperial power in the world. Centuries ahead of his time, his theoretical work included the concept of light speed and prototypes for telescopes and solar panels. Dee, the original “007” (his crown-given moniker), even invented the idea of a “British Empire,” envisioning fledgling America as the new Atlantis, himself as Merlin, and Elizabeth as Arthur.
Presenting a comprehensive overview of Dee’s life and work, Louv examines his scientific achievements, intelligence and spy work, imperial strategizing, and Enochian magick, establishing a psychohistory of John Dee as a singular force and fundamental driver of Western history. Exploring Dee’s influence on Sir Francis Bacon, the development of modern science, 17th-century Rosicrucianism, the 19th-century occult revival, and 20th-century occultists such as Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, and Anton LaVey, Louv shows how John Dee continues to impact science and the occult to this day."
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2020 1:30:30 GMT
The Cloud of UnknowingThe Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowing) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7Mvurp6xg
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 15:22:46 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 22:50:52 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 22:56:23 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 23:16:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2020 23:38:46 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2020 8:32:45 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 11, 2020 2:30:58 GMT
Rosicrucian Magic. A Manifest.theomagica.com/blog/rosicrucian-magic-a-manifestThink of an equal-armed cross, and yourself standing in its middle. You turn towards the North and begin to divest yourself of all aspects of your being that belong into this realm: your past, your roots and ancestors, your bodily strength and integrity. All things float back over this threshold that shield and contain: your skin, your bones, your blood. When there is nothing left to give to the North, whatever is left of you turns towards the East. Here you continue the process: You hand over your familiar thought patterns, your intellect and mind, your ability to speak and utter, until you no longer remember your own name. Then, whatever is left of you turns towards the South and divest the aspects of yourself that belong here: Your future, that path leading ahead, your desires and fire, and all the chapters to come in your book of life. Now the little of yourself that still stands in the centre turns towards the West. Immediately the cells of your being that came from here begin to float back over the threshold of their origin: Your emotional weave, your traumas and delights, your love and anger, and the invisible substance from which – countless times without realising – you have created, destroyed and rebuilt that fragile sense of meaning. What is left of you now, what finally returns to the centre, is nothing but a dim light. One breath of wind and your spark would be gone. Naked, vulnerable, almost unborn again, that is how your light hovers in the centre of the cross. – Then a ripple returns from the four quarters, as well as from below and above. And the spark that is an echo of your essence lights up, and unfolds into the form of a rose-bud. No roots, no stalk, no leaves, just a flower waiting to be awoken, hovering in the middle of the cross. That is the mystery of the Rosy-Cross: For standing in its centre means giving up much of ourselves; it means no longer having the luxury of being orientated by the quarters, and neither by ones own hand, heart or head. The one who has become the rose knows no directions any longer, above and below have fallen into one. All that remains is the dim light shining forth, waiting to hear the echo of Divinity. Speaking of Rosicrucian Magic is a folly for many good reasons. It’s best to be avoided to be honest. Most people – scholars and practitioners alike – quickly came to substitute it with terms such as Theosophy, Pansophy, Astronomia Olympi more rarely, or simply adepta philosophia. So if we dare to use these two often romanticised and rarely understood terms here bound into one – Rosicrucian and Magic – it is for one reason alone. Because, if properly understood, nothing describes the essence of the work better than this simple term. The four arms of the cross span the world, they uphold its necessary tides and tensions; the rose is our work. We would like this term to be understood as referring to the practical magical legacy left behind by great adepts such as Johannes Tauler, Johannes Trithemius, Paracelsus, Jakob Böhme and many other, now nameless German mystics of the first and second century of the Protestant Reformation. We are precisely not referring to any occult order, any organisation known by seal and stamp, nor even any magical lineage. We are referring to a light that came through with these humans, shining in their works and words, and which, if we chose to, can guide us again today. Rosicrucian Magic, as we like to apply the term, can be many things to many people, and yet, it is one thing above all: It is the magical work that ripples out from the rose-bud described above. Void of human motives, void of the ever hungry I, Me and Mine, void of roots and times passed, void also of eyes seeing a path.
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2020 21:33:41 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2020 11:17:55 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2020 11:22:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Oct 30, 2020 10:38:03 GMT
UR/KRUR Magic for Grown-ups: The Work of the UR Group BY JOSCELYN GODWIN www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/magic-for-grown-ups-the-work-of-the-ur-groupIn the consensus view, magic belongs (if at all) in Disney films and Harry Potter books, and adults who actually believe in it are stuck in infantile or medieval superstition. It does not help that the most famous magus of modern times, Aleister Crowley, was a sex maniac and a drug fiend.1 Nor does the later development of Chaos Magick inspire much hope, with its dark, postmodern metaphysic. To most sane people, whether or not they have a spiritual outlook, magic is best left alone. This would also have been the attitude of the “Gruppo di UR,” a group of Italians led in the late 1920s by Julius Evola and Arturo Reghini.2 Their magic was not for the casual, the credulous, or those excited by the cool or the weird. It was for those dedicated to “magic as science of the I,”3 a concept that I will try to explain below. Although the group’s activities were private, involving only a handful of participants, they shared them with the world in a monthly journal, called first UR and then KRUR. The print-run, estimated at a thousand copies, suggests a surprising level of interest in Fascist-era Italy. In its three-year existence, UR/KRUR published 142 articles under 23 different pseudonyms, making it one of the twentieth century’s richest compilations of esoteric material and instruction. English language readers had access to the UR Group’s work in 2001, with a translation of the first of the three volumes.4 I helped with its preparation and promised that if no one else could be found to translate the other two, I would do so after I retired. Eventually I had to keep my promise. The second volume will appear in February 2019, and the third, hopefully, before another eighteen years have gone by. iapsop.com/archive/materials/ur_krur/
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2020 6:27:52 GMT
A Treatise on White Magic (Alice Bailey)
The goal of all the work of an aspirant is to understand those aspects of the mind with which he has to learn to work. His work therefore might be summed up as follows:
1. He has to learn to think; to discover that he has an apparatus which is called the mind and to uncover its faculties and powers. These have been well analyzed for us in the first two books of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
2. He has to learn next to get back of his thought processes and form building propensities and discover the ideas which underlie the divine thought-form, the world process, and so learn to work in collaboration with the plan and subordinate his own thought-form building to these ideas. He has to learn to penetrate into the world of these divine ideas and to study the "pattern of things in the Heavens" as it is called in the Bible. He must begin to work with the blue prints upon which all that is, is modeled and molded. He becomes then a student-symbolist, and from being an idolater he becomes a divine idealist. I use these words in their true sense and connotation.
3. From that developed idealism, he must progress even deeper still, until he enters the realm of pure intuition. He can then tap truth at its source. He enters into the mind of God Himself. He intuits as well as idealizes and is sensitive to divine thoughts. They fertilize his mind. He calls these intuitions later, as he works them out, ideas or ideals, and bases all his work and conduct of affairs upon them.
4. Then follows the work of conscious thought-form building, based upon these divine ideas, emanating as intuitions from the Universal Mind. This goes forward through meditation.
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