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Historic and technical errors are laziness. But in occult systems, sometimes variations in theory and practice come off as "errors" when the author probably wants to slip their stuff through, if they are new, and then gloss it so they sound credible. I think the main problem is that the so...

I can only say what I sense from the sigil. It has someone's sexual intent projected into it, but it also has a bunch of tense energy. This is the kind of energy coming from a conflicted individual or one with maybe a bit of sexual trauma. One has to ask themselves, do succibi and incubi feed off of...

For me, Lucifer was the first individual, or rather the spirit of individuality. For that spirit to be a self apart from Self, it needed disconnection. That makes it alienated and technically insane because Self or Spirit is the center of any angelic being. When an angelic being specializes in divor...

Omni = everything/all

Centrik = centered (the k is to distinguish it from the physical/geometrical concept, like the difference between magic and magik for some).

I tend to go for the style of Norse Rune Magicians. If you can carry it in a pouch on your belt, then its fine.

So if someone seeks to cause me ill, I should not obstruct them. That sounds too simplistic, so let me see if there is a somewhat deeper meaning here. As for the Thelemic concept, presumably, Love under Will means do whatever, even if you tear the limbs off of little babies, but do it with love. Per...

My approach is that for the mystic as well as the serious occultist, morality, ethics and the like are very real. It's just that they are not understood or worked with as the concepts defined from the perspective of socialization and culture. For example, if an attitude and approach to reality promo...

Qabbala as an oral tradition, and before it was even called that can be traced to the time of Aberham (four thousand years ago), whereas the 2D Tree of Life and the corresponding lore dates from the European dark ages. And then you have the Christian Cabbala of Athansius Kircher around the 17th cent...

One reason for not changing my views without very good reason, is because I have encountered too many people full of shite, either deliberately deceptive or just mouthing out their neither regions, that the words "open-minded discussion" have lost any sense of meaning. If one almost sees e...

It all depends on what he really calls "God". That aside, in the Greek (original) the wording is "deliver us from the evil one" (ala risei mas apo tou poniru- doesn't support Greek font), so there is no issue in the prayer itself, but how the Catholic religious authorities altere...

Its not a "Law", let alone the "Law". If it were, there would be reprisal for breaking it. I would say its simply the healthiest route when the Thou is real, as opposed to a psychic fragment, imposing authority or conditioning pattern (program) running the show. The Desire nature...

I think its a practical matter. Experience teaches to work within limitations. The creative occultist uses those to define their practice and make it more tangible, as opposed to wasting time and energy on every variation of "what might be". Nothing is impossible, but probability varies. W...

I think the works of John Lamb Lash are worth looking into where Sophia (the feminine side of the Christic Aeon and Essence of this planet) is concerned.
[metahistory.org has a good collection].

Seems much of this thread belongs in a big parenthesis. Let me get to the OP. Someone tries to summon an "angel" whose "name" is Camael (KMAL in english transliteration). The name can be interpreted as "How much of El?" or "as if out of El", which gives it a s...

The "Yin And Yang" you refer is also applied at a most fundamental level and preceding the tree as part of the eternal cycle : The feminine 'Yin' would represent passivity, nothing, or negative existence with the masculine 'Yang' being the polar opposites of those. Technically a feminine ...

Many here have declared that material transfer to another plane isn't possible. They quickly dash to substances to alter the mind or to astral projection. Why? Because they personally fail to literally manifest material? Because they personally fail to jump dimensions? This makes them assume it's i...

Let me do some paradigm translation here, since these appear to be Thelemic terms...a modern play on Egytian esoteric terminology. I differentiate between the void and the abyss. The first is what you would call Nuit, or the womb/field of infinite potential. You can call it Yin-field or aether, as o...

1. Existence as well as non existence occurs within a non linear time construct, i.e. an outermost cycle, or eternity, as opposed to a finite linear system such as this universe we now exist. 2. The cycling of eternity is subject to periods of non existence. No space, no time; neither any movement ...

Reading a handful of books for a year or so before starting 1-2 years of basic training is not that hard. I guess learning to go into some light trance state like hypnosis, to learn to manifest events that are on the verge of manifesting anyway and to vizualize takes even less than a year or two, d...

Funny you should mention Enochian. The Goetic Art of the Lesser Key of Solomon is unlike other grimoires of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It includes Qabbalistic elements those systems don't have. The text provides some instruction on how the spirits are to be addressed and organized, but the pra...

1. What are the characteristics of a "spiritually enlightened/ascended master/ God" Wholeness of being. Integral consciousness, integral desire/will, integral body/mind/soul with full energy activation. Being without desire is fragmenting a part of self, so I would not include that. We ar...

It's been a while since I chose it, but I think it comes from a famous quote from The Book of the 24 Philosophers (in Latin Liber XXIV philosophorum):

“God is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere”.

That's cool. I thought about it myself when I saw I was somewhat veering off topic, but...lazy. I agree. No offense to the original poster, but I find it baseless as well.

They are people. That means there are decent ones and nasty ones. The nasty ones can be very very nasty, and some are solitary and some form groups (covens). I've met both types and have been the target of a number of the nasties who are predatory for a variety of reasons. I would say that the ones ...

Right. But other than space and time, unless you go for abstract diagrams where any variable is spatialized, that can get confusing I think. I read somewhere that two dimensional depictions became popular during the advent of Christianity and Islam when statues were prohibited. Interestingly the fir...