tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19551053322387906682024-03-13T10:24:41.113-07:00The Hat&CauldronWriter, Magi, Artist, Taoist and Pirate;I am consistently pushing the boundaries of Magic,Taoism,Voodoo,Buddhism and The Left Hand Path and good taste for future generations to come !victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-62924187526045072542019-10-08T19:36:00.001-07:002019-10-08T19:36:46.747-07:00Lilith Lecture Given by Vincent Piazza on 10/6/19 in Austin Tex.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nuo49U2iH7A" width="480"></iframe>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-48007849199103598652016-10-15T08:00:00.000-07:002016-10-15T08:00:41.556-07:00The kaihōgyō (回峰行?) ("circling the mountain") Magical Uber Experiment On the evening of 10/14/16, From 1 pm till 4 am I planed on doing a Magical/Meditative experiment based on the The kaihōgyō (回峰行?) ("circling the mountain") ascetic practice performed by Tendai Buddhist monks. These are the full notes and results. But instead of Running I shall do it driving Uber. I will do it Fasted as required, only ingesting the Herbs Rauwolscine, Ginseng and Yohimbine at set times throughout the night. I shall sit in the Temple (My Ship) and recite the Fudo Myoo mantra constantly.<br />
-noomaku sanmanda<br />
bazaradan senda<br />
makaroshada<br />
sowataya un tarata kanman- (Homage to the all-pervading Vajras!<br />
O Violent One of great wrath! Destroy! hûm trat hâm mâm)<br />
I shall do this mentally in the jade place of my brain wile clients are in the car, and out loud or under my breath at all other times (I've done a comparative practice before, so I know I can keep it rolling in my head and hold a conversation, just not a detailed one.).<br />
At 2am I will fetch water for offering from a special well (I've picked the Mississippi river for this task, as this is going to involve working with the Cities spirit as well, and river is her well of prosperity), as an offering for Fudō Myōō.<br />
I shall don all White garb, with this color traditionally associated with death in Japanese culture and is required of the practice. I shall, as traditionally required, carry a dagger and rope with which to kill myself if I am unable to finish my practice (not to worry folks, not one monk has done so in 100 years, there is a clause that allows you to ask Fudō Myōō to suspend to practice until a later date, but you are cursed for life if you don't hold up your vow at lest once.<br />
Why am I doing this? Because I am quite Mad, naturally, but the main reason is, that anything worth doing takes you beyond your comfort zone, and this in and of it's self is worth the price.Wish me luck folks, I shall give updates as the night progresses.<br />
Stay Gold,<br />
Vincent Piazza, Esquire<br />
- swallowing a sword. The next morning he woke up coughing up blood, and long with it, his stupidity. From that day on, he was a gifted and wise student-<br />
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Fudo Myoo magical experiment: update #1.<br />
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Captain's log: 4 hours in.<br />
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I am very focused and alert turning the mantra in my mind as I drive ( fun practice tip, if you sit down and do Japa with a Mala, visualize a wheel turning in your mind as you chant, then see each word attach to the wheel as you go through all 108 beads, when done just keep the wheel spinning as you move on with your day, it will automatically play the mantra in your head with minimal effort) yet it seems that Fudo is throwing traps and snares my way to test my focus and skill. I am not hungry or tired, yet a bit light headed, have just taken my second round of Herbs.<br />
Another update in 5 hours.<br />
Stay gold folks,<br />
Vincent Piazza, esquire.<br />
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Fudo Myoo magical experiment update #2.<br />
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Captain's log:9:00 pm<br />
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Still running on a odd flaming focus, lips have become chapped and numb from chanting under my breath between rides. When I close my eyes for a moment, I can see the blue/red scowling face of Fudo superimposed over my own, and feel the cold red heat around my head. Godform assumption is not uncommon for meditation like this one. The mantra wheel that started in the back of my head, has grown unbidden by myself to encompass about one inch outside of my head, following a downward trend, nose, lips, China, through my Adam's apple, then back up to my Crown point once more. I've stopped for coffee to write this and will now take my third set of Herbs.<br />
My next update should be during the water offering at 2 AM.<br />
Stay gold folks,<br />
Till then.<br />
Fudo Myoo<br />
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Fudo Myoo magical experiment update #3. (Last one)<br />
Captain's log: 2:00 AM<br />
Gathering water from the river,<br />
a pitiful -looking skeleton appeared and said these words:<br />
A melancholy autumn wind<br />
Blows through the world;<br />
The grass waves,<br />
As we drift to the swamp,<br />
Drift to the sea.<br />
What can be done<br />
With the mind of a man<br />
That should be clear<br />
But though he is dressed up in white shirt and shorts,<br />
Just lets life pass him by?<br />
Toward 2 I dozed off on the side of my car, and in my dream I found myself surrounded by a group of skeletons . . . . One skeleton came over to me and said:<br />
Memories<br />
Flee and<br />
Are no more.<br />
All are empty dreams<br />
Devoid of meaning.<br />
Violate the reality of things<br />
And babble about<br />
"God" and "the Buddha"<br />
And you will never find<br />
the true Way.<br />
Good night folks, I believe that this ritual was a success, but only Fudo knows the truth of it, and once he tells me yes or no, I have all ready began to fail.<br />
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Thank you for coming on this oratory with me, I hope you enjoyed it as much as Fudo did.<br />
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“The world is its own magic.”<br />
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– Shunryu Suzukivictordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-65827815569513237132015-07-26T13:57:00.001-07:002015-07-26T13:57:27.199-07:00In what sense, then, was he different from the pigs?<div id="fb-root"></div>
<p>The Grand Augur, in his ceremonial robes, approached<br />
the shambles and thus addressed the pigs: “How can you<br />
object to die? I shall fatten you for three months. I shall<br />
discipline myself for ten days and fast for three. I shall<br />
strew fine grass, and place you bodily upon a carved<br />
sacrificial dish. Does not this satisfy you?”<br />
Then, speaking from the pigs’ point of view, he<br />
continued: “It is better, perhaps, after all, to live on bran<br />
and escape the shambles. . . .”<br />
“But then,” added he, speaking from his own point of<br />
view, “to enjoy honour when alive one would readily die<br />
on a war-shield or in the headsman’s basket.”<br />
So he rejected the pigs’ point of view and adopted his<br />
own point of view. In what sense, then, was he different<br />
from the pigs?</p>
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victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-4267503656511448412015-07-25T12:24:00.001-07:002015-07-25T12:24:16.167-07:00Demonology Study: Baal<p>Hello Gentle Reader, and welcome to the frist in a long line of Demonology studies I’ve planned on doing for some time now.I will only include entities I’ve worked with over the course of my practice, and I am not a “catch em’ all type of Conjurer, so the order will not follow any pattern but the one in my head.That being said, I will start with my old buddy Baal (Bael), the frist of 72 Demons in the Pseudomonarchia daemonum, Ars Goetia, Discoverie of Witchcraft, Ad nauseam…for this is often the first entity called by those young upstart conjurers with an itch to call a “Demon”.</p>
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<p>A few words about the books mentioned above,</p>
<p>In 1583, Johann Weyer wrote a treatise on witchcraft called “De praestigiis daemonum”. He included a section which listed the names and descriptions of demons called the “Pseudomonarchia daemonum”.In 1584 Reginald Scot translated the list into English in his “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”. Most of these demons found their way into Mather’s Goetia much later. But enough about all that, you came for some info on Baal, so let’s get down to work.</p>
<p>“Baell – Their first and principall king (which is of the power of the east) is called Baall who when he is conjured up, appeareth with three heads; the first, like a tode; the second, like a man; the third, like a cat. He speaketh with a hoarse voice, he maketh a man go invisible [and wise], he hath under his obedience and rule sixtie and six legions of divels.”-Pseudomonarchia daemonum.</p>
<p>This is the standard description of Baal, also known as Bael, Baël (French), Baell. MacGregor Mathers cleans it up a bit for the readers of his day,</p>
<p>“The First Principal Spirit is a King ruling in the East, called Bael. He maketh thee to go Invisible. He ruleth over 66 Legions of Infernal Spirits. He appeareth in divers shapes, sometimes like a Cat, sometimes like a Toad, and sometimes like a Man, and sometimes all these forms at once. He speaketh hoarsely. This is his character which is used to be worn as a Lamen before him who calleth him forth, or else he will not do thee homage.”</p>
<p>This is how he is known by most of the”Bell,Book and Candle” Evokers when frist starting out.He is also spoken of in Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, but he just makes a reference to the le Grand Grimoire, calls him the head of the infernal powers, then quotes Weyer.So we have established how he is known as a Demon, but Baal didn’t start that way. The antiquity of the worship of the god Baal starts around the 14th century BCE among the ancient Semitic peoples, especially among the Canaanites. The word Baal means “master” or “owner”, although it could be used more generally; for example, abaal of wings was a winged creature, and, in the plural,baalim of arrows indicated archers.Baal was common a name of small Syrian and Persian deities. The Baal we are talking about here was of Canaan. He was the son of El, the high god of Canaan(thought to be the model for YHVH, but that is for another time.). The cult of Baal celebrated annually his death and resurrection as a part of the Canaanite fertility rituals.It is said that these ceremonies often included human sacrifice and temple prostitution,but those who said such things, the Israelites, had a beef with the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century bc, to introduce into Israel her Phoenician cult of Baal in opposition to the official worship of Yahweh (I Kings 18). By the time of the prophet Hosea (mid-8th centurybc) the antagonism to <a class="zem_slink" title="Baal" href="http://ift.tt/1mLjF3s" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Baalism</a> was so strong that the use of the term Baal was often replaced by the contemptuous boshet (“shame”).</p>
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<p>To paraphrase the Baal Cycle from the Ras Shamra tablets, I turn to Alan G. Hefner-</p>
<p>“After defeating the sea god Yam, and building a house on Mount Saphon, and taking possession of numerous cities, Baal announced that he would no longer acknowledge the authority of Mot, “death.” Baal not only excluded Mot from his hospitality and friendship, but also told him that he could only visit the deserts of the earth. In response to this challenge, Mot invited Baal to his abode to taste his fare, mud. Being terrified and unable to avoid the dreadful summons to the land of the dead, Baal coupled with a calf in order to strengthen himself for the ordeal, and then set out. El and the other gods donned funeral garments, poured ashes on their heads, and mutilated their limbs, while Anat, aided by the sun goddess Shapash, brought the corpse back for burial. El placed Athtar, the irrigation god, on the vacant throne of Baal, but Anat bitterly missed her dead husband. She begged Mot to restore Baal to life, but her pleas went without avail, and Anat’s attempts to interest the other gods in helping her were met with cautious indifference. Thus, Anat assaulted Mot, ripping him to pieces “with a sharp knife,” scattering his members “with a winnowing fan,” burning him “in a fire,” grinding him “in a mill,” and “over the fields strewing his remains.” El, in the meantime, had a dream in which fertility returned, which suggested that Baal was not dead. Afterwards, he instructed Shapash to keep watch for him during her daily travels. In the due course of time Baal was restored, and Athtar fled from his throne. Yet Mot was able to arrange another attack, but on this occasion all of the gods supported Baal, and neither combatant could gain the victory. Finally El intervened and dismissed Mot, leaving Baal in possession of the field.”</p>
<p>This gives an understanding of how Baal is linked to the alteration of the seasons and became a god of rain, thunder, and lightening. He was also popular in Egypt from the later New Kingdom in about 1400 bc to its end (1075 bc). Through the influence of the Aramaeans, who borrowed the Babylonian pronunciation Bel, the god ultimately became known as the Greek Belos, identified with Zeus.So as you can see, from Fertility to Rain god, Egypt and Zeus himself, this entity has gone through quite a few changes over the years to now be known as a simple Demon.This has been done to most of the spirits that are called by modern Art workers today ( I can bring up Beelzebub, Astaroth ,and Moloch just to name a few off the top of my head),and I’ve found that the relationship you have with these Spirits deepens considerably the more time you spend researching the Providence of the entity.They also quite enjoy reliving the taste of power most had in the past, and when you offer a Demonized Old God something from its past, they tend to be quite grateful.</p>
<p>He has appeared to me as a Frog with a crown, eating a fly over and over in a loop , and as a warrior King with a Spear raised and ready to be thrown. Often rude and full of himself (you would be too if you once held the title Canaanite God), yet quite helpful if spoken to with respect. I’ve used him for work concerning Invisibility for a client (to make certain things in his home unable to be seen, worked well for the agreed upon time ) For information on Canaanite History, he is an invaluable resource and will gift you with such wisdom if you compose a Hymn in his name and recite it during the next thunderstorm. When working with him he has asked that his Sigil be placed in interesting places as payment for services (A Newstand, Coffeehouse, and Hospital come to mind) where it can be seen by the most amount of passer-by.I’ve called him by a number of different methods, Goetic (Lesser Key and Poke Runyon’s System), the demonolatry method of S.Connolly using the Enns, as well as with my own self-made system of Conjuration and he is always quick to answer.</p>
<p>Sorces- Pseudomonarchia daemonum-Johann Weyer, http://ift.tt/1OFzsMG by Alan G. Hefner,<a href="http://ift.tt/1D1MLp1" rel="nofollow">http://ift.tt/1D1MLp1</a> Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton – Clavicula Salomonis Regis, Book 1- Aleister Crowley (Editor), Grimorium Carceris (unpublished)-Vincent Piazza.</p>
<p>Copyright 2015-Vincent Piazza</p>
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victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-52052594344447753472015-07-24T12:03:00.001-07:002015-07-24T12:03:20.782-07:00The Toad Bone Rite: A Study on the Practice<p>The Toad Bone, an object and magical tool that has fascinated practitioners for years, holds a special place in my heart and work.The reason for this is that I’ve performed it twice, once as a young man in the way taught by my grandmother, and yet again in prison with guidance from Chumbley in his “The Leaper Between”. Both bones have been lost to me by the sands of time, so in the next few weeks I plan on performing it once more. Frist, a bit of history for the uninformed. The toad bone is first written of in Pliny’s Natural History, in this huge tome of lore he tells us of the rubetæ or bramble-frog (the Classical terms for toads)-<br />
“Authors quite vie with one another in relating marvelous stories about them; such, for instance, as that if they are brought into the midst of a concourse of people, silence will instantly prevail; as also that by throwing into boiling water a small bone that is found in their right side, the vessel will immediately cool, and the water refuse to boil again until it has been removed. This bone, they say, may be found by exposing a dead bramble-frog to ants, and letting them eat away the flesh: after which the bones must be put into the vessel, one by one.”<br />
Naturalis Historia 32.18</p>
<p>Pliny tells us that after your ants have stripped your toad, more than one bone has Magical uses, so perhaps you should save them all.</p>
<p>“In the left side of this reptile there is another bone, they say, which, thrown into water, has all the appearance of making it boil, and the name given to which is “apocynon.” This bone, it is said, has the property of assuaging the fury of dogs, and, if put into the drink, of conciliating love and ending discord and strife. Worn, too, as an amulet, it acts as an aphrodisiac, we are told. The bone, on the contrary, which is taken from the right side, acts powerfully as a refrigerative upon boiling liquids, it is said: attached to the patient in a piece of fresh lamb’s-skin, it has the repute of assuaging quartan and other fevers, and of checking amorous propensities.”</p>
<p>That’s about all he tells us on the subject, and as you can see the Rite itself is not outlined at all, so the cunning man or wise woman had to work it out for themselves.As we can see from the recounting of Pliny in Agrippa’s ‘Books of Occult Philosophy’-</p>
<p>‘And Pliny reports that there is a red toad that lives in briars, and brambles, and is full of sorceries, and doth wonderful things: for the little bone which is in his left side, being cast into cold water, makes it presently very hot, by which also the rage of dogs is restrained, and their love is procured, if it be put in drink; and if it be bound to anyone, it stirreth up lust. On the contrary, the little bone which is on the right side, makes hot water cold, and that it can never be hot again, unless that be taken out, also it is said to cure quartans if it be bound to the sick in a snake’s skin, as also all other fevers, and restrain love, and lust.’ (Trans. Freake, 1651).</p>
<p>The influence of Pliny on European magic as a whole is quite clear, as Agrippa is thought of as a forefather of modern occultism. This has produced a number of variations of the Rite, and even a few that use a Black cat instead of a Toad.The black cat version of this same rite, as it is recounted in Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston,the witch is instructed to throw the cat into a pot of boiling water , and cooked until all the flesh falls from the bones. The bones are then either floated in a stream (the same as the toad’s bones) or passed under the tongue of the magician. The Cat bone in this tradition turns the user invisible, and can also be used in some powerful love spells. Most places selling this bone today are actually selling chicken bones painted black (any Voodoo shop in New Orleans will sell you one for 5 bucks, and we have way to many cats in this city for that brisk business)</p>
<p>Back to our friend the toad, Chumbley states- “that the uses and forms of the toad-bone amulet do not follow a clear linear progression through time. Its uses as a healing charm, a love charm, an animal-controlling amulet, and so forth, recur and overlap. Furthermore, the apparent distinction between its forms (either as a bone – singular, double, or multiple, a stone or jewel, or even a powder) is a matter of curious inconsistency in the historical record, with the forms at times indistinguishable and at other times clearly distinct. Adding to this complexity, the profusion of data for some periods and the sparsity in others presents difficulties, and at times leaves the search for conclusions outstanding. Nonetheless, a continuity in praxis can be seen.”</p>
<p>So as a modern conjuror, what are we looking for in our use of the bone, to heal, gain love, animal control or some other less specified ability? The frist time I worked this trick it was for control over animals (most lore brings up Horses, but I’ve found as a young man, the bone works well for dogs) The second time for Healing (Medical in Federal Prison is quite horrendous, and as a runner it came in handy). One more note should be added before we move on, Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft, states –</p>
<p>‘A frog’s bones, the flesh being eaten off round about with ants, whereof some will swim, and some will sinke: those that sinke, being hanged up in a white linnen cloth, ingender love, but if a man be touched therewith, hate is bred thereby.’</p>
<p>This gives us a dual use of the Bone, to create Love or Hate depending on the sex of the victim touched. This could come in handy, yet the fights one may find themselves in from use of the object in such a way may bring more trouble than it’s worth.</p>
<p>The Ritual, as done to control horses or dogs, is performed in this way. Find a toad alive (as an aside, I was taught by my Great-grandmother, if you happen upon a dead toad,it was a sign that it is time for you to work the Ritual with the toad after blessing it in the name of Saint who’s day it is when you find it)then bring it home.Kill the toad, and put it on a thorn bush(I’ve also found the instruction to crucify the little guy but unless you are of the Catholic persuasion, such a method is unsavory).Wait for twenty-four hours till it dries. Then bury the toad in an ant-hill( I’ve used both Black and Red, the Lore is unclear and I believe it depends on what you have on hand)Let the ants have a feast for a month, till the full moon.The day of the full moon, go to the hill and thank the Ants for their help (I leave a red apple in its place)and take the Toad Skeleton inside your home.That night as the moon rises full take the Toad Skeleton to a running stream ( you can also use a pond where 4 generations of Toads have been born, but to do so you wrap the skeleton in cheese cloth then let it float in the water ).Watch it closely, don’t take your eyes off it, or the bone will lose all power.The bone you are looking for, the pelvic or breast bone, will separate from the rest of the skeleton and floats uphill against the stream.If you use the pond, the rest of the bones will sink with the cloth and the bone that floats is the one you wish to keep.</p>
<p>I will cover more on the Toad Bone, and my plans for it, as the time approaches for me to perform the ritual once more.But for now I think that will do as an Introduction to the work… May all of your Work be Fruitfull!</p>
<p>Sources – The Leaper Between By Andrew D. Chumbley, Agrippa, H.C. Three Books of Occult Philosophy , Scot, R. Discoverie of Witchcraft , Pliny Natural History 1865 edition, Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston.</p>
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– Hakim Bey</p>
<p>Nearly everyone interested in magic and the LHP has a certain fantasy about who they would like to be when they begin practicing. Let’s be honest: we all want to be something more, especially if we’re practicing<br />
magic. For some people the end goal is transcendence or divine union., those on the Left want to be a God or Immortal. Of course, some of us would be happy just being millionaires and having a horde of Zombie-slaves to unleash on our enemies (yes ,I’m talking to you Necromancers out there,just put the skull down and back way real slow.). At times, I would just love to be Kane, and not have worry about anything but my next meal and my staff flute…</p>
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<p>So ask yourself: “Who do I want to be?”</p>
<p>Some things are out of the question, but others are not. Being a half-human half-reptile that breathes fire is not something you’re capable of doing in this lifetime, I’m sorry.(but if you figure out the trick of it, Please let me know) However, more human roles can be adopted and dropped as time goes on. Not only do these roles teach you how to deal with other people, or get them to open up to you, but they also begin to teach you more about yourself.</p>
<p>We typically see ourselves as one stable personality, but that’s bullshit, we often actually adopt different personalities in different situations.New Faces for new people in our lives.Some call them Masks, or Shades, and the difference between doing this subconsciously and doing this magically is that you consciously adopt a new mindset. You can create vastly different personae, each with different names and styles.This has been covered by a number of occultists over the years.One Technique I picked up is to “set” a persona or Mask into a piece of clothing ,or jewelry. This is not hard to do, but you have to get deep into your own head to make it take.</p>
<p>First, find someone with the persona you would like to assume, the great thing about this is that it doesn’t have to be a real person.It fact your first few times trying this avoid using real people that you know, as it can have unforeseen side-effects for both you and the person involved.</p>
<p>So let’s use Batman, Brave, Strong, Rich but also a bit crazy and obsessive.No one wants to be Batman all of time (or perhaps you do, no judgement here pal)But for an hour or two walking in a bad part of town, The Bat of Gotham might come in handy.</p>
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<p>Now find an object that reminds you of Batman, I suggest something you can take off and put on quickly.Now for the work. Spend an hour or two a day, for one week, with your object on, watching or reading about Batman.When you put the Object on, say to yourself, in your best Batman voice “I’m Batman”, then sit down and watch the film, read,or play the video game of your choice.Every five or ten minutes, when you see or read Batman, touch the Object and say to yourself once more “I’m Batman”when you’re done with the film or book, take the object off, say your full name once, and put it away where you won’t see it till your next hour session.</p>
<p>By the end of the week, you may notice you kind of look forward to your batman time and want to prolong it.Resist the temptation, your trying to cause an Archetypal link between you and and what the collective unconscious thinks Batman is.This can cause insanity and obsession if taken too far.But it is rare to take such a thing so far as that if you have a solid Meditation practice (and if you are a practicing Adept of any Path,you should.)</p>
<p>On the 7th day,Sigil the name “Batman” (or whatever name you choose to use) with the “Spare method”, cast the circle of your choice,and sit with the object in your lap and the sigil before you, wile chanting the name Batman,bringing up thoughts of the caped crusader in action over and over from the scenes you studied that week. “Pour” them into the object,if it helps, see your head open up and the thoughts pour out of your head,on to your lap and into the object.</p>
<p>Do this until you start to tire, put the charged object down and stand,repeat your full name three times to disconnect the persona,and close your circle.You now have a stored Persona in a Object,you should let it set for a day your two before use,but you may be surprised at what you can do with such a bit of power.Just remember,no matter how well you convince your subconscious mind that you ARE superman,flying is not a part of the gift this object can give you.But a sense of strength and bravery,or, if a young lady used Marilyn Monroe,true glamor and sex appeal. A more advance form of the rite can be done with an Angel or Demon,using a seven day calling of the entity,each day infusing the Object with more and more the the spirit’s essence.But the chance of Obsession and loss of your own Persona is much greater by using a spirit,so I would suggest you proceed with caution.</p>
<p>Hope you all enjoyed this small cantrip, I’ve been busy with my upcoming trip to Atlanta, but will write more soon as time allows…</p>
<p>Stay Gold….. Copyright 2015 Vincent Piazza</p>
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<p>“A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step,”<br />
wrote the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, as sage advice to<br />
fellow travelers on the Taoist path. The renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell often referred to the first stage of<br />
“the Hero’s Journey” as “the call to adventure,” a step that<br />
all of us must take, many times in the course of our lives.<br />
The cautious first step into the unknown, however, is<br />
typically accompanied by fear—so much so, that it can<br />
immobilize us, make us want to refuse the call, rather than<br />
answer it. This part highlights our departure from the<br />
known into the unknown, from the familiar to the unbalanced brave new world we now find ourselves in, and the<br />
common dangers of getting stuck or lost on the way.</p>
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<p>Over the next few weeks I will be dropping little bit of information about Pluto (although we all know its true name is Yuggoth).</p>
<p>“Among the structures tentatively identified in this new image are what appear to be polygonal features; a complex band of terrain stretching east-northeast across the planet, approximately 1,000 miles long …” said New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern. “After nine and a half years in flight, Pluto is well worth the wait.”</p>
<p>This is the latest from NASA, a photo taken by <em>New Horizons</em> on July 9, 2015 approximately from 3.3 million miles (5.4 million kilometers) away from the dwarf planet, with a resolution of 17 miles (27 kilometers) per pixel.</p>
<p>In “Out of the Aeons” by H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, there was an ancient land or province on Earth called K’naa where the first people…</p>
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victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-70521850301430126542015-07-17T18:50:00.001-07:002015-07-17T18:50:28.600-07:00H.P. LOVECRAFT DREAMS THE NECRONOMICON, AND THE BOOK DREAMS OF YOU<p><a href="http://ift.tt/1VcCsV5"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-371" src="http://ift.tt/1JnWYco" alt="Ustino-necronomicon-2" width="300" height="230" /></a> The Necronomicon is the most infamous book of magick (whether real or fictional)ever to crawl into the mind of man. first mentioned in Lovecraft’s 1924 short story “The Hound”, written in 1922, though its purported author, the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred, was spoken of by HPL a year before in “The Nameless City”..It makes an Appearance in “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”.But,the greatest amount of information about the Necronomicon appeared in “The Dunwich Horror” (Summer 1928). The following passage is especially powerful:</p>
<p>Nor is it to be thought…that man is either the oldest or the last of earth’s masters, or that the common bulk of life and substances walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth’s fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man’s truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones where Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again. (“The Dunwich Horror,” 170)</p>
<p>Let me start this line of research by Quoting HPL from _The History and Chronology of the Necronomicon_.<br />
“Original title Al Azif-Azif being the word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) supposed to be the howling of demons”.”Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaa, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished in the time of the Ommiade Caliphs, circa A.D. 700. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia-the Roba el Khaliye or ‘Empty Space’ of the ancients and ‘Dahna’ or ‘Crimson Desert’ of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by<br />
protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written… Of his madness many things are told. He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem or city of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind”.</p>
<p>Later it is said the Al Azif was translated into Greek under the Greek title Necronomicon (the title is definitely not in Latin as is often claimed). This title is translated as “the Book (or image) of the Practices of the Dead”; Necro being Greek for “Dead” and Nomos meaning “practices”, “customs” or “rules” (as in astronomy). The title Necronomicon absolutely does not translate as Book of Dead Names (as Colin Wilson has mistakenly and<br />
repeatedly stated). In order for it to mean Dead Names it would have to be Latin/Greek hybrid (besides HPL flatly indicated the first translation is the correct one). Still later (possibly in the 1200’s) it was translated into Latin but retained it’s Greek title. The Latin text came into the possession of Dr. John Dee in the sixteenth century. Dr. Dee made the only English translation of the Necronomicon known.(True,False,who cares! It makes the book all the more enticing to the Lovecraftian Scholar)</p>
<p>And so that is the Mythos about this Tome of Horror and Wonder,and what HPL writes about the Necronomicon is filled with actual Arab myths and magickal techniques,Lovecraft was quite the bibliophile who Loved Arab mythology when he was a Lad.According to the theories of Ryan Parker, Lovecraft Almost certainly had an unprinted, probably rare, book (or some other form of manuscript), on Arab myths or magick. This is the most economical explanation as to how VERY OBSCURE information on Arab magick could appear in his stories. I quite agree with this idea,the rare information, The Elder God names and use of Ghouls (or Ghuls in Arab myth) in his writing all point to HPL having info unknown to his contemporaries.</p>
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<p>Alhazred visited the lost city “Irem of the Pillars” and encountered many strange magicks in that empty place. HPL said that Irem was in the middle of the Rub al Khali.This is just the tip of the sanddune when it comes to similarities between fact and HPL’s “Fiction”. “Irem Zhat al Imad” (Irem of the Pillars) is the cities name in Arabic. The Arab stories say that Irem was built by the Jinn under the direction of Shaddad, Lord of the tribe of Ad. This is very similar in description to the Hebrew “Nephilim”. The Muqarribun (a name for Arab magicians) , whose traditions predate Islam, believe that Irem is a locale on another level of reality, rather than a physical city like New Orleans. The “Pillars” in “Irem of the Pillars” has a hidden meaning. Among Arab mystics pillar is a code for “elder” or “old one.” Thus “Irem of the Pillars” is really “Irem of the Old Ones.”<br />
So we can see that Irem is located in the Rub al Khali just as our buddy HPL said it was. To the Muqarribun the Rub al Khali also has a “hidden” meaning. Rub al Khali translates as “the EMPTY Quarter.” In this case Empty refers to the void and is a close analog of the Abyss in the Tree of Life/Tree of Death system of the Qabalah/Qlippoth .Rub al Khali is the “secret” door to the Void much like DAATH in the Qabalah. To the Muqarribun, this is the Gateway to the “city of the Old Ones.”HPL made many references to a gate connected with the “Old Ones.” He also wrote<br />
that the Old Ones were from Outside and linked them with the “infinite void.” By making these claims about the “Old Ones” and connecting them to Irem and the Rub al Khali Lovecraft tapped into the very core of ancient Arab magick. HPL must have done some serious research into Arab magickal and mystical traditions to have found such obscure info.there are many other examples in which Lovecraft borrowed from Arab and Near Eastern mythology.The Deep Ones and Dagon,who is an actual Philistine deity that appears as a giant fish- man,is also known as the Babylonian Oannes. Oannes (Dagon) was the head of group fish-men Priests who did rituals in his name for sea-side villages. The Ghoul is another tell tale sign that HPL was digging deep from Arab Lore.Found in Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by Lovecraft,it is shown as a once human creature with a canine appearance. Ghouls feed on the human dead or even occasionally live humans.The ghouls of lovecraft’s tales are based on the ghuls of Arab magick. In Arab lore ghuls are again semi-human creatures with dog-like faces.The Arab ghul lived in lonely and deserted places feeding on the dead.It is said a powerful magician can transform into a ghul. The ghuls are associated with a homophagic diet (eating humans), necrophilia, and magickal transformation.There is no question in my mind that this is the source of Lovecraft’s Ghouls.</p>
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<p>Now I bring to your attention a few of HPL’s Letters about the Necronomicon,this may give you a better understanding of how desperately he wanted his fellow writers to think that it was all made up.Why would he do such a thing,well read on and I believe it will be made clear to you.</p>
<p>To Edwin Baird (February 3, 1924):</p>
<p>At one time I formed a juvenile collection of Oriental pottery and objects d’art, announcing myself as a devout Mohammedan and assuming the pseudonym of “Abdul Alhazred”—which you will recognise as the author of that mythical Necronomicon which I drag into various of my tales.</p>
<p>To William Frederick Anger (August 14, 1934):</p>
<p>Regarding the dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred—I must confess that both the evil volume & the accursed author are fictitious creatures of my own—as are the malign entities of Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, &c. Tsathoggua & the Book of Eibon are inventions of Clark Ashton Smith, while Friedrich von Junzt & his monstrous Unaussprechlichen Kulten originated in the fertile brain of Robert E. Howard. For the fun of building up a convincing cycle of synthetic folklore, all of our gang frequently allude to the pet daemons of the others—thus Smith uses my Yog-Sothoth, while I use his Tsathoggua. Also, I sometimes insert a devil or two of my own in the tales I revise or ghost-write for professional clients. Thus our black pantheon acquires an extensive publicity & pseudo-authoritativeness it would not otherwise get. We never, however, try to put it across as an actual hoax; but always carefully explain to enquirers that it is 100% fiction. In order to avoid ambiguity in my references to the Necronomicon I have drawn up a brief synopsis of its ‘history’… All this gives it a sort of air of verisimilitude.</p>
<p>To Robert E. Howard (May 7, 1932):</p>
<p>As for writing the Necronomicon—I wish I had the energy and ingenuity to do it! I fear it would be quite a job in view of the very diverse passages and intimations which I have in the course of time attributed to it! I might, though, issue an abridged Necronomicon—containing such parts as are considered at least reasonably safe for the perusal of mankind! When von Juntz’s Black Book and the poems of Justin Geoffrey are on the market, I shall certainly have to think about the immortalisation of old Abdul!</p>
<p>To Robert E. Howard (August 14, 1930):</p>
<p>Regarding the solemnly cited myth-cycle of Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Nug, Yeb, Shub-Niggurath, etc., etc.—let me confess that this is all a synthetic concotion of my own, like the populous and varied pantheon of Lord Dunsany’s Pegana. The reason for its echoes in Dr. de Castro’s work is that the latter gentleman is a revision-client of mine—into whose tales I have stuck these glancing references for sheer fun. If any other clients of mine get work placed in W.T., you will perhaps find a still-wider spread of the cult of Azathoth, Cthulhu, and the Great Old Ones! The Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred is likewise something which must yet be written in order to possess objective reality. Abdul is a favourite dream-character of mine—indeed that is what I used to call myself when I was five years old and a transported devotee of Andrew Lang’s version of the Arabian Nights. A few years ago I prepared a mock-erudite synopsis of Abdul’s life, and of the posthumous vicissitudes and translations of his hideous and unmentionable work Al Azif…—a synopsis which I shall follow in future references to the dark and accursed thing. Long has alluded to the Necronomicon in some things of his—in fact, I think it is rather good fun to have this artificial mythology given an air of verisimilitude by wide citation. I ought, though, to write Mr. O’Neail and disabuse him of the idea that there is a large blind spot in his mythological erudition!</p>
<p>As you can see,he suffered from a case of “Me Thinks He Doth Protest Too Much”,and it has often been proposed in some Occult Circles that HPL Dreamed of the Book and that it is sitting in the Astral Plane just waiting to be read by the next Dreamer/Magician/Madman or Fiction writer.For now,I will leave the truth of this up to you my gentle reader.In my next post about the subject,I will try and examine THE NECRONOMICON, HPL and the effect they have both had on modern Horror culture and Film (Evil Dead anyone <span class='wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-smile' title=':)'>:)</span> )</p>
<p>Until next time,“Be careful, you ––! There are powers against your powers – I didn’t go to China for nothing, and there are things in Alhazred’s Azif which weren’t known in Atlantis!” (“The Last Test,” HPL)</p>
<p>Sources:The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, edited with a Foreword and Notes by Leslie S. Klinger (Liveright).Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H.P. Lovecraft by S.T. Joshi.The Necronomicon Information post by: Ryan Parker</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Many of you who read this blog are also on Facebook and are members of many Occult/satanist “groups”<br />
I have had arguments with people many times but it takes a special kind of pseudo Satanist to make ask my self what the fuck is wrong with them?<br />
these pseudo Satanists hate it when you prove them wrong in a debate by using facts and definitions. they hate it because you make them look like fools and they can no longer use their misinformation on you to control your mind.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">We all have our own view of Satan/Satanism and we each should be walking our own path not a path paved by someone else and this is something that seems to bother people when I bring this philosophy up in many of these groups.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Today I was having a civilized conversation with someone regarding the…</p>
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victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-16893323028355620572015-07-15T20:53:00.001-07:002015-07-15T21:16:07.488-07:00A Daoist Time Manipulation Ritual<a href="http://ift.tt/1CIsVis" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="river" class=" size-full wp-image-363 alignright" src="http://ift.tt/1Ofy8Qk" /></a>Taoist Sorcerers have always been deeply concerned with time.The late Han through the Six Dynasties time period was one of political chaos and social turmoil. Constant warfare, rampant epidemics, and natural disasters were perceived as symptomatic of a continuing cosmological crisis: the various cosmic cycles and the natural harmonies were disordered, leading to the disasters and depredations which inflicted suffering on the population.(much like today) Scriptures from this period abound with descriptions of the sorry state of humanity and are filled with eschatological foreboding of the end of civilization.<br />
The solution advocated by Daoists was twofold. On the one hand, Daoists were urged to adhere to a moral and ethical path, which called for following the precepts of the Dao as presented in a number of texts. On the other hand, they championed ritual that would enable humanity to reestablish the original harmony within time. If one were to follow this twofold program, one would be able to change the course of events in his or her favor.In this post I will examine the ritual to summon the Eight Archivists (bashi ), spirits of the Eight Trigrams, which exemplifies working with time in Daoist ritual. This ritual is, first and foremost, a ritual for the mastery of time. I will focus on the ritual for summoning Eight Archivists as it appears in the The Upper Scripture of the Five Ascendant Talismans of the Highest, Limitless Great Way and the Self-Generating Perfect One (hereafter shortened to Five Ascendant Talismans), one of the original Lingbao.Note, that as of yet I’ve not performed this ritual,for it is quite difficult to do correctly,but may write a version of it that is able to be performed with out the insane requirements of this one,but not until I try and work this ritual as closely to true form as I can.<br />
In the rite of summoning the Eight Archivists the herb employed, zhang ju , more commonly known as zhanglu, or shanglu , is used for its psychoactive qualities.Modern researchers identify it as Phytolacca acinosa,“Masters of the Dao always plant this medicinal herb in the garden of a Silent Chamber. It leads one to communicate with the spirits.”These effects occur not only when the herb is ingested but also when the roots are carved, as during the preparatory stage of the ritual for summoning the Eight Archivists. At this stage, zhangju roots are carved into human shape, while the adept contemplates the forms of the spirits of the twelve chronograms . This causes the spirits to appear, indicating that the active ingredients may be absorbed cutaneously. Intriguingly, this use of the herb was still known in the early-Qing:<br />
“Those of the left Dao carve the zhanglu root into human shape, and utter incantations to it. It enables one to know calamity and fortune. It is called Spirit of zhanglu. Medical books say to take the leaves of shanglu and dry them in the shade for 100 days. As you pound it, not yet eating it, lie down and think of things which you wish and they will immediately appear by themselves before your eyes. Two aspects are supernatural in these perfect plants, their moving the Yin pneuma and their possibility of imparting much knowledge. Small men will be transformed in a flash. Ghosts and goblins by the hundreds will be expelled.”<br />
As you can see,this has a number of analogs in Western Occultism and ritual,not to mention that south American use of psychoactive Plants,but that’s for another time and post.So here we go….<br />
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THE RITUAL FOR SUMMONING THE EIGHT ARCHIVISTS<br />
The ritual begins by marking out the ritual space, which at this stage extends beyond the home:<br />
You must mark, around your home, the eight directions and the twelve chronograms. At each chronogram direction and to the left and right of the gate plant the zhi herbs of spiritual communication, fourteen shoots in total. Take the memorial-like diagrams of the Eight Trigrams to make the Mysterious Cavern Talismans of Numinous Communication at the eight directions. Place the five talismans of ascendance in the center of the room, on the central roof beam.<br />
The ritual space is therefore marked on the outside by the twelve markers of time. Note that at this point these markers of time are outside the home. Inside this circle are placed the eight talismans signifying the trigrams, the Xuandong tong ling fu.The five Lingbao talismans are hung on the central roof beam.<br />
In the next stage the ritual space is moved inside the home: Purify the hall, making it a pure chamber, mark the eight directions and twelve chronograms. Take the zhangju roots, fourteen in all. First, place those of the gate in front of the hall outside the doorpost, so as to forbid the hundred evil spirits from being able to enter and oppose [the ritual]. Then, take the twelve [plants at the] chronogram points, beginning with yin , to the front of the hall. Each is carved into a human [shape]. [Plants on] Yang [chronograms] are to be made into males, [those on] Yin are made into females. Place each inside the hall at their respective chronogram point. At each point dig into the ground, making holes [deep enough] so that their heads are level with the ground.<br />
This completes the emplacement of the ritual space. The instructions now turn to the time element of the ritual:<br />
On the fifth yin day of the vernal equinox, pick orchids and, in the center [of the ritual arena] make an infusion [with the flowers]. Wash [yourself with this]. On the fifth mao day take the brewed chrysanthemum and boil it to a broth, at the place of yin and mao. On the next day pick the zhangju stalks. Just as you are about to pick them, purify the [ground at their] side. Of small mats make fourteen seats for them. Light incense, and worship each with wine and dried meat. Bow repeatedly and say the incantation: “Zhangju beings, of pure and uncorrupt bodies, protectors of the twelve pneumas of the palaces,40 communicators with spirit numina, now I shall unite my spirit officers with you,41 be your companion and travel with you to some famous mountain’s south face. If called you must respond, if asked you must reply. Neither of us is to deceive the other in this [contract]. We join tallies as a covenant.”(Notice the conjuration technique,sounds like something straight out of a 18th century grimoire ,Hmmm?)<br />
After presenting wine, the adept is to carve the roots into human shape, naming them and distinguishing male from female. Now that the twelve images are ready, the ritual enters its climactic stage. This is the first mention of the East Well (Dongjing ) constellation, which marks the beginning of the ritual cycle:<br />
At dawn the next day when the heaven points to East Well, and the sun is before the door, kneel and say to yourself: “Your descendant, so-and-so, has taken this day to bathe.” Then, enter the room and set out the zhangju. At the advent of each of the “days of the five ascendances” take a brush to draw the talisman of the day. Make the five talismans in accord with the method. In ten days you will be finished. Then light incense and sacrifice to each zhangju at its chronogram position. First, using their names call out this incantation: “Lord so-and-so of Numinous Communication. Now, together with you I guard the twelve chronograms.” After sixty days they will respond to you. When the twelve days of sacrifices are over, at the following dawn light incense, and retain in mind the eight Archivists, recalling their surnames and personal names. At the same time take “dried white flowers” powder and ingest a spoonful of it in the hall so as to make your body spirits and the archivists unite in companionship.<br />
This completes the procedure for the first stage in the ritual cycle. From this point we seem to be entering into the realm of ritual time played out on the divining chart:<br />
At the following occurrences of the East Well day, unfasten the talismans and always take them when you wash. When finished, return and refasten them. The next day, again, take them out according to this model. When all five washings have been completed, a period of 124 days will have elapsed. All the spirits will have arrived. You will have heard their voices or seen their shapes as on the charts. At dawn the next day worship them below the doorpost. The spirits will then speak with you. You must ask the Eight Archivists about seeking the methods of spiritual transcendence and long life. The archivists will enter the heavenly lodgings for you to examine the registers and tell you. If initially you lack a life record on the transcendent registers, and are far removed from transcendence, it is fitting that you cultivate and revere the Archivists, in order to garner wealth and extend your life by three to four hundred years.<br />
As you can see,the final preparatory stage of the ritual is reached when the zhangju plants are harvested and carved into human shape. This part of the ritual proceeds according to a precise timetable. On the fifth yin day after the vernal equinox the practitioner is to prepare an orchid infusion and wash. On the next day, the fifth mao day, he is to boil this infusion and place it between the markers of yin and mao. On the next day the plants are picked. On the following day, defined as the day of East Well, the actual rite of carving occurs and subsequent communication starts.<br />
The day of East Well is a crucial date for the ritual. East Well, a constellation of eight stars in the southern Palace of the Vermilion Bird, is the twenty-second Lunar Lodge.49 In calendrical terms it correlates to the second month of summer, in which falls the summer solstice. The timing of the ritual follows the passage of the sun among the twenty-eight lunar lodges. Depending on the actual day of the sexagesimal cycle on which the spring equinox falls, the fifth yin day after the vernal equinox would fall 51 to 60 days later, almost a month before the summer solstice. Within two days, we are told, the sun rises in East Well. This makes good astronomical sense. Although usually associated with the summer solstice, the East Well constellation actually covers a wide swath of the heavens. The sun enters it a month before the solstice in the median period of the fourth month.50 In temporal terms, the constellation covers three fortnightly periods.The ritual of Summoning the Eight Archivists, which incorporated the symbolism of the East Well, demonstrates the synthesizing process by which the Lingbao scriptural and ritual tradition was formed,this shows the Daoists’ rejection of popular practices as theological,and taking a more Left Hand Magical outlook. First, the unity and formlessness of the Dao transcended all popular deities,and it was often thought passe to worship anything at all. Secondly, moral and ethical precepts were intended to transcend the taboos related to demons and ghosts terrorizing the populace. Thirdly, the petitioning ritual that the Daoists used for spirits was to replace popular sacrifices to Gods or Deities.<br />
I will try and cover more on the East Well and The Eight Archivists as I do more study and work with the rite as I understand it (now to find some zhangju roots,anyone is San Francisco want to take a trip to Chinatown for me?),but for now I think that is a good taste of it for the evening.Till next time,Stay gold.<br />
Sources: Nathan Sivin, “Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time”, Fabrizio Pregadio, “The Representation of Time in the Zhouyi Cantongqi, Nickerson,“Shamans, Demons,Diviners and Taoists”,Marc Kalinowski, “The Use of the Twenty-Eight Xiu as a Day-Count in Early China,David Pankenier,“The Cosmo-political Background of Heaven’s Mandate”.Gil Raz,Time Manipulation.<br />
Copyright 2015 Vincent Piazza<br />
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THE Penumbra said to the Umbra, “At one moment you<br />
move: at another you are at rest. At one moment you sit<br />
down: at another you get up. Why this instability of<br />
purpose?"<br />
“I depend," replied the Umbra, “upon something which<br />
causes me to do as I do; and that something depends in<br />
turn upon something else which causes it to do as it does.<br />
My dependence is like that of a snake's scales or of a<br />
cicada's wings. How can I tell why I do one thing, or why<br />
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Chuang Tzu one day saw an empty skull, bleached, but still preserving its shape. Striking it with his riding-whip, he said: “Wert thou once some ambitious citizen whose inordinate yearnings brought him to this pass?--<br />
some statesman who plunged his country into ruin and perished in the fray?--some wretch who left behind him a legacy of shame?--some beggar who died in the pangs of hunger and cold? Or didst thou reach this state by the natural course of old age?"When he had finished speaking, he took the skull and, placing it under his head as a pillow, went to sleep. In the<br />
night he dreamt that the skull appeared to him and said: "You speak well, sir; but all you say has reference to the life of mortals, and to mortal troubles. In death there are none of these. Would you like to hear about death?"</div>
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Chuang Tzu having replied in the affirmative, the skull began: “In death there is no sovereign above, and no subject below. The workings of the four seasons are unknown. Our existences are bounded only by eternity.<br />
The happiness of a king among men cannot exceed that which we enjoy."<br />
Chuang Tzu, however, was not convinced, and said: “Were I to prevail upon God to allow your body to be born again, and your bones and flesh to be renewed, so that you could return to your parents, to your wife, and<br />
to the friends of your youth,--would you be willing?"At this the skull opened its eyes wide and knitted its brows and said: “How should I cast aside happiness greater than that of a king, and mingle once again in the<br />
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<a href="http://ift.tt/1O7lvGW"><img alt="hell" class="size-full wp-image-349 alignright" src="http://ift.tt/1CBTFRT" /></a>The belief in demonology as it existed during the Elizabethan period, and the time of Shakespeare,was a subject that, from its very nature, could not be settled ex cathedra, and consequently the subject had to grow up as best it might, each writer adopting the arrangement that appeared to him most suitable. It was an era of change. The nation was emerging from the dim twilight of mediaevalism into the full day of political and religious freedom.Arthur Hacket, with casting out of devils, and other madnesses, vehemently declaring himself the Messiah and King of Europe in the year of grace 1591, and getting himself believed by some, so long as he remained unhanged. It is solemnly recorded in the Commons’ Journals that during the discussion of the statute against witchcraft passed in the reign of James I., a young jackdaw flew into the House; which accident was generally regarded as malum omen to the Bill. Extraordinary bravery on the part of an adversary was sometimes accounted for by asserting that he was the devil in the form of a man.This is no mere dramatist’s fancy, but a fixed belief of the times. Sir William Russell fought so desperately at Zutphen, that he got mistaken for the Evil One.But the semi−sceptical state of thought was in Shakespeare’s time making its way only amongst the more educated portion of the nation. The masses still clung to the old and venerated, if not venerable, belief that devils could at any moment assume what form soever they might please—not troubling themselves further to inquire into the method of the operation. They could appear in the likeness of an ordinary human being, creating thereby the most embarrassing complications in questions of identity; and if this belief is borne in mind, the charge of being a devil, so freely made, in the times of which we write, and before alluded to, against persons who performed extraordinary feats of valour, or behaved in a manner discreditable and deserving of general reprobation, loses much of its barbarous grotesqueness.There was one rough but popular classification into greater and lesser devils. The former branch was subdivided into classes of various grades of power, the members of which passed under the titles of kings, dukes, marquises, lords, captains, and other dignities.(see the Lesser Key,Dionysius the Areopagite,Johannes Wierus and The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage for a greater understanding of these titles<i>)</i> Each of these was supposed to have a certain number of legions of the latter class under his command. These were the evil spirits who appeared most frequently on the earth as the emissaries of the greater fiends, to carry out their evil designs.The more important class kept for the most part in a mystical seclusion, and only appeared upon earth in cases of the greatest emergency, or when compelled to do so by conjuration. To the class of lesser devils belonged the bad angel which, together with a good one, was supposed to be assigned to every person at birth, to follow him through life—the one to tempt, the other to guard from temptation so, that a struggle similar to that recorded between Michael and Satan for the body of Moses was raging for the soul of every existing human being. This was not a mere theory, but a vital belief,as the use made of these opposing spirits in Marlowe’s “Dr. Faustus,” and in “The Virgin Martyr,” by Massinger and Dekker,show quite well.</div>
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Another classification, which seems to retain a reminiscence of the origin of devils from pagan deities(and is well known to any Magician or wytch worth their salt these days), is effected by reference to the localities supposed to be inhabited by the different classes of evil spirits.</div>
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According to this arrangement we get six classes:—<br />
(1.) Devils of the fire, who wander in the region near the moon.<br />
(2.) Devils of the air, who hover round the earth.<br />
(3.) Devils of the earth; to whom the fairies are allied.<br />
(4.) Devils of the water.<br />
(5.) Submundane devils.<br />
(6.) Lucifugi.<br />
These devils’ power and desire to injure mankind appear to have increased with the proximity of their location to the earth’s centre; but this classification had nothing like the hold upon the popular mind that the former grouping had,as the King and Queen was all the rage at the time (and still is with the Little Prince hitting the UK Tabloids with such regularity).</div>
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Of the twenty devils mentioned by Shakespeare, four only belong to the class of greater devils. Hecate, the principal patroness of witchcraft, is referred to frequently, and appears once upon the scene. The two others<br />
are Amaimon and Barbazon, both of whom are mentioned twice. Amaimon was a very important personage, being no other than one of the four kings. Ziminar was King of the North, and is referred to in “Henry VI. Part Gorson of the South; Goap of the West; and Amaimon of the East.(this is not a hard and fast correspondence with Magicians then or today,so please bare with me, my dear Magical correctness police,I promise all of my papers are in order <span class="wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-smile" title=":)">:)</span> ). He is mentioned in “Henry IV. Part I.,and “Merry Wives. Barbazon also occurs in the same passage in the latter play, and again in “Henry V.A fact that does to a slight extent help to bear out the otherwise ascertained chronological sequence of these plays. The remainder of the devils belong to the second class.Nine of these occur in “King Lear”.One Dr.Harsnet gave such a highly spiced and entertaining account in his “Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures,” first published in the year 1603. It is from this work that Shakespeare took the names of the devils mentioned by Edgar, and other references made by him in “King Lear;” this gives us a true look at the subject of possession by Devils at that time,and even today much of this holds water in occult circles .A comparison of the passages in “King Lear” spoken by Edgar when feigning madness, with those in Harsnet’s book which seem to have suggested them, will furnish as vivid a picture as it is possible to give of the state of contemporary belief upon the subject of possession,something I will try and do at a later date.</div>
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Shakespeare, in “The Comedy of Errors,” and indirectly also in “Twelfth Night,” has given us intentionally ridiculous illustrations of scenes which bring vividly before us the absurdity of the methods of diagnosis and treatment usually adopted for Demonic Possession:</div>
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Courtesan: How say you now? is not your husband mad?<br />
Adriana: His incivility confirms no less.<br />
Good doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;<br />
Establish him in his true sense again,<br />
And I will please you what you will demand.<br />
Luciana: Alas! how fiery and how sharp he looks!<br />
Courtesan: Mark how he trembles in his extasy!<br />
Pinch: Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse.<br />
Ant. E. There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.<br />
Pinch: I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,<br />
To yield possession to my holy prayers,<br />
And to thy state of darkness his thee straight;<br />
I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.<br />
Ant. E: Peace, doting wizard, peace; I am not mad.<br />
Pinch: O that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!<br />
After some further business, Pinch pronounces his opinion:<br />
“Mistress, both man and master are possessed;<br />
I know it by their pale and deadly looks:<br />
They must be bound, and laid in some dark room.”</div>
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But “good doctor Pinch” seems to have been mild even to feebleness in his conjuration; many of his brethren in art had much more effective formulae. It seems that devils were peculiarly sensitive to any opprobrious epithets that chanced to be bestowed upon them. The skilful exorcist took advantage of this weakness, and, if he could only manage to keep up a flow of uncomplimentary remarks sufficiently long and offensive, the<br />
unfortunate spirit became embarrassed, restless, agitated, and finally took to flight.</div>
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So much more could be said about Shakespeare and the Occult that it would take a whole book to write it all,and much greater writers than I have already written books on the subject,so I will stop while I’m ahead.I leave you, faithful reader,with these lines….</div>
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“That not a worm is cloven in vain;<br />
That not a moth with vain desire</div>
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Is shrivel’d in a fruitless fire,<br />
Or but subserves another’s gain,”</div>
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(I haven’t even touched “Macbeth,”That’s for a much longer piece.)</div>
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Sources: “The Witches in Macbeth,” “The Demonology of Shakspere,” the New Shakespeare Society in the years 1877 and 1878.”The Globe Edition of the complete works of Shakespeare” August 3, 1998 (Author), Howard Staunton,ELIZABETHAN DEMONOLOGY by:THOMAS ALFRED SPALDING, LL.B. 1880.</div>
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Interesting shop find ,Vodou Spirit Bottle from Haiti, the African tradition of warding off evil was adapted to trapping the spiritual essence of everything from an animal to a love object inside the bottle. Once trapped inside, it was believed, the spirit was at the command of the keeper – in many instances a Bokor Vodou practitioner intent on doing harm, but just as often a spirit bottle might be kept by an amorous suitor eager to make a certain loved one cleave only to him or her.<br />This bottle is of unknown Providence and is filled with Hair,a photo and a Vévé spell on parchment.It feels very Petro to me(Petro lwa are associated with the color red) and does not have the milder Rada lwa energy to it at all.I have a working relationship with Carrefour and so plan on asking him on Sunday.Maitre Carrefour (Met Kalfou or Kafou in Creole) and Cimetiere (Semetye in Creole), Master Crossroads and Cemetery, form along with Simbi Makaya the Petro triumvirate of magicians.Often you must go from Crossroads to Cemetery, and Crossroads asking Cemetery for permission to pass.And just so no one is confused,Legba Petro is not Met Carrefour. Legba Petro is the "path" or <br />
aspect of Legba who opens the way for the Petro lwa....But that is for another post,at another time.<br /><br /><br />victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0New Orleans, LA 70116, USA29.96536609999999 -90.06299890000002529.937854099999988 -90.103339400000024 29.992878099999992 -90.022658400000026tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-47753445212481142002015-07-11T07:21:00.001-07:002015-07-11T07:21:39.307-07:00An Entry for the "The Conjuration Of Victor Dee Strider" Video Contest...by:Underwater Drone.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OMPl3uPKti8" width="459"></iframe>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-47936815387097308072015-07-11T06:58:00.001-07:002015-07-11T07:07:32.020-07:00A new Entry for the "The Conjuration Of Victor Dee Strider" Video Contest....Function<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6x2wnizD34M" width="459"></iframe>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-32876617759622264262015-07-11T06:55:00.001-07:002015-07-11T06:55:22.558-07:00Lodge<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OCj4GCpmx8E" width="459"></iframe>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-86133063937578985212015-07-10T19:52:00.000-07:002015-07-10T20:55:32.945-07:00A review of Spring(2015) -By:Vincent Piazza<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0zoEEAEafv8/VaB6xDpCjdI/AAAAAAAAAw4/qBBck8kM1do/s1600/129827_ori.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0zoEEAEafv8/VaB6xDpCjdI/AAAAAAAAAw4/qBBck8kM1do/s320/129827_ori.jpg" width="216" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spring_2015/">Spring�(2015) - Rotten Tomatoes</a><br />
- Directed By:Aaron Scott Moorhead, Justin Benson<br />
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Such a fantastic movie.Part love story,Part Lovecraftian mystery,with some Horror thrown in just for spice,at just the right times.<br />
Without giving away too much,the film is about a guy named Evan,who has lost his mother and father to hard luck,then his job from a bar fight.He is such a sadsack that he can't even have a pity-lay thrown his way with an old girlfriend after his mom dies.So his best friend (who got him into the fight with the word Cock-Holster,we needed to see more of this guy,but perhaps in part 2!)Tells him he needs a new outlook on life.So, he decides to go to Europe on an unplanned vacation and that is where he runs into a mysterious beauty named Louise. Louise works in a lab , only comes out at night,Only wants to have sex and keeps Evan guessing. She evades questions and pictures, says she does not love him and just wants to be with him on her terms.You think you may know where this is going,but the truth is,you have not a clue.The camera work, the scenery, the landscapes were so beautiful but at the same time set the tone for the secrecy of the country.And that's the whole point of the movie,a secret that is slowly being unwrapped,like a flower..and if you watch this film you will know what I mean by that statement.<br />
When you finally start to put 2+2 together and find 5,you and Evan will try to put everything you two have learned into place,but you,like him, more then a few times in this film,may have a hard time wrapping your head around the terrifying secret that Louise is hiding. This is a horror movie about love and you only fall in love one or twice in a lifetime,and as Evan proves,you just don't get a choice sometimes.If your looking for a film with heart,Tentacles,and a secret that will make you shake your head in wonder, this is just the flick you've been looking for.Two Claws Up!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Hello Everyone! Now is your Chance is to be a Part of The Left Hand Path Film "The Conjuration Of Victor Dee Strider" We start Filming on July 19th,and I've had a ton of interest from those who want to be an extra,but live much too far to be in the moive.So this is what we would like to do,send us an up to 2 minute clip of you doing something Horrific,disturbing or of you doing a Left Hand Path R</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">itual,and if we like what you send us,we will put it in the Film as one of the main Character's Hallucinations ! Email your submissions to info@hiddenlefthand ,You can also PM them to me direct or upload them here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VincentAPiazza?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>VincentAPiazza?ref=aymt_hom<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>epage_panel</a> Or Here<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Left-Hand-Path-Productions/899108070155943?ref=aymt_homepage_panel%2CGood" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>pages/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>Left-Hand-Path-Productions/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>899108070155943?ref=aymt_ho<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>mepage_panel%2CGood</a> Luck,and I hope you enjoy the Film!</span>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-28769108957097242202015-07-09T11:18:00.000-07:002015-07-09T11:18:23.678-07:00Character Study:Lilith<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The next in my series of character analysis for the upcoming </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Left Hand Path </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">movie “The conjuration of Victor Dee Strider”.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seductress, heroine, murderer,<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 19.5px;">chaos Goddess, seduction and Lust personified, ungodliness in the best way. in her every guise, Lilith has cast a spell on humankind.</span></span></h2>
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<b style="color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">The earliest surviving mention of Lilith’s name appears in Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree, a Sumerian epic poem found on a tablet at Ur and dating from approximately 2000 B.C.E. The mighty ruler Gilgamesh is the world’s first literary hero; he boldly slays monsters and vainly searches for the secret to eternal life.a In one episode, “after heaven and earth had separated and man had been created,” Gilgamesh rushes to assist Inanna, goddess of erotic love and war. In her garden near the Euphrates River, Inanna lovingly tends a willow (huluppu) tree, the wood of which she hopes to fashion into a throne and bed for herself. Inanna’s plans are nearly thwarted, however, when a dastardly triumvirate possesses the tree.Then in steps Lilith: “Inanna, to her chagrin, found herself unable to realize her hopes. For in the meantime a dragon had set up its nest at the base of the tree, the Zu-bird had placed his young in its crown, and in its midst the demoness Lilith had built her house.” Wearing heavy armor, Gilgamesh kills the dragon, causing the Zu-bird to fly to the mountains and Lilith to flee “to the desert.”Originating about the same time as the Gilgamesh epic is a terracotta plaque, known as the Burney Relief, that some scholars have identified as the first known pictorial representation of Lilith. (More recently, scholars have identified the figure as Inanna.) </b></div>
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Lilith’s association with the owl—a predatory and nocturnal bird—bespeaks a connection to flight and night terrors.At times she will send an owl to watch over a woman she cares for and has taken under her "wing".The Tetragrammaton is considered “the name that comprises all” (Zohar 19a). In the Bible’s burning bush episode of Exodus 3, God explains the meaning of the divine name as “I am what I am,” or “I will be what I will be,” a kind of formula for YHWH (vuvh), associated with the Hebrew root “to be.” The whole of the Torah is thought to be contained within the holy name. In The Alphabet, Lilith is one of the few Goddesses who know these syllables, and can crack open Paradise with a word. So Lilith flies, having gained power to do so by pronouncing EL's avowed name,and found out things about YHVH that were never meant to be uncovered. In The Alphabet of Ben Sira her destination is the Red Sea, Just as the ancient Israelites achieve freedom from Pharaoh at the Red Sea, so Lilith gains independence from Adam by going there.YHVH tells Adam that if Lilith fails to return, 100 of her children must die each day. Apparently, Lilith is not only a child-murdering Goddess but also an amazingly fertile mother. In this way, she helps maintain the world’s balance between good and evil.A very Left Hand Path act indeed.Three angels are sent in search of Lilith. When they find her at the Red Sea, she refuses to return to Eden.To prevent the three angels from drowning her in the Red Sea, Lilith swears in the name of God that she will not harm any infant who wears an amulet bearing her name. Ironically, by forging an agreement with God and the angels and using the name, Lilith demonstrates that she has power over YHVH and can Bind him to her will.And she can,and often does Bind EL,Angels,Demons and foolish Magi to her will whenever it pleases her..A parable by a daughter of Lilith, Judith Plaskow Goldenberg shows another view of Lilith. At first Goldenberg’s fanciful tale follows the basic Ben Sira plot line: Lilith dislikes being subservient to Adam, so she flees Paradise and her absence inspires God to create Eve. But in Goldenberg’s retelling, the exiled Lilith is lonely and tries to re-enter the garden. Adam does everything he can to keep her out, inventing wildly untrue stories about how Lilith threatens pregnant women and newborns. One day Eve sees Lilith on the other side of the garden wall and realizes that Lilith is a woman like herself. Swinging on the branch of an apple tree, a curious Eve catapults herself over Eden’s walls where she finds Lilith waiting. As the two women talk, they realize they have much in common, “till the bond of sisterhood grew between them.” The budding friendship between Lilith and Eve puzzles and frightens both man and deity.And that she does,</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #7c705e; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">proud and willful, claiming equality with Adam because she was created from the same dust,any Man with a pompous need to rule fears her,and all Woman secretly adore her.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">She is also called “The Howling One.”and</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #7c705e; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> is noble in her rebellion against male and Deity domination.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">irresistibly seductive,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">wantonness and Wisdom with wings and claws,S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #7c705e; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">uccubus.,Mother,Goddess,Whore,She is every woman we love and hold dear.This is our Lilith!</span></b><br />
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victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-85183286263898375332015-07-09T06:26:00.000-07:002015-07-09T06:26:42.714-07:00A Look at the Left Hand Path without rose tinted glasses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To do that, I needed to see a plausible reason why anyone would hold such a theory as the ONA held. I could see little plausibility in what the most of the writers on the subject said was the obvious reason.Unable to see either the obvious meaning or make any sense of the attributed obvious doctrine that those who knew the ONA saw, I felt like the youngster viewing the emperor's new clothes. Was I meaning-blind? Was I narrow-minded? Should I just accept that fundamentally different kinds of things could be reasons for LHP thinkers? How could I discover that liberating truth unless I had that elusive direct access to the gossamer threads of meaning that others seemed to see? But try after try, I could only see characters. No aura, no shimmering flashes of meaning met my <br />eyes. The challenge was to understand what else it could reasonably mean. Anton,Webb,Flowers,<br />my instinctive assumptions abut these gentlemen are realistic. An expression has a meaning,but only to the writer holding the quill. Luciferianism proposes a theory of what that meaning is.And so does Satanism.Hell,even the dictionary is only a theory. A translation of a passage presupposes the translator's theory; it is not evidence for it. <br />When we adopt different meaning theories we attribute to the writer different beliefs. If I say that the Entity Lucifer (archetype, tupla, eidolon,take your pick) means dog and you say that it means horse, I attribute to the writer the belief that there is a dog over there and you attribute to him the belief that there is a horse over there. An interpretive theory of a language is more <br />plausible when it better explains the beliefs it attributes to those who wrote it.<br />The standard theory attributes an incoherent, mystical, irrational set of beliefs to most on the Left Hand Path.If you put a group of Satanists and Luciferians in a room with a bunch of American Zen and Tibetan Buddhists,you could hardly tell them apart,other then the fact that one group hates Christians and the other Buddhists. That, and not appeal to unity for change within ones self,is the unifying Flag for the Path these days.And it is a waste time to hate those who hold you in such contempt.Mock them,have a joke and a smile ,then sit down and do your own work toward Godhood and Immortality.And that work on the Path can only be done within yourself,not outside pointing fingers at those who you despise.<br />Suppose a defender of the standard Left Hand Path thought says,“The rules of life are not to be found in Korans, Bibles, Decalogues and
Constitutions, but rather the rules of decadence and death. The “law of
laws” is not written in Hebrew consonants or upon tables of brass and
stone, but in every man’s own heart. He who obeys any standard of right
and wrong, but the one set up by his own conscience, betrays himself
into the hands of his enemies, who are ever laying in wait to bind him
to their millstones. And generally a man’s most dangerous enemies are
his neighbors.”
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Might Is Right.</i>And then the Luciferian points his finger and utters with spittle flecked lips.<i>
</i> "But it's not a failure of our interpretive theory that the Satanists seem irrational. They in fact are!" This simply <br />begs the question,where is our unity outside of Hate? If they add, "Look, here is what they say," and produce a copy of Might is Right, they then rely on the very theory that is in dispute. Suppose a Setian may add, <br />"The Satanists may reason differently from the way we reason,we are an evolution of that theory,something more intelligent,refined." I simply ask how they could know such a thing. "Well, look at the Satanist!" That begs the question again,don't look at the Left Hand Path label you think is "less" then yours,spend sometime looking at yourself and see we all want the samething. The only way to confirm the "it doesn't matter if our beliefs seems irrational" hypothesis is to show that on no plausible interpretive theory can we make sense of it. Nothing, of course, can force one to give up bad theories. But if it is a better theory, we ought to adopt it.So lets start coming up with better theories,ones that support the Luciferian,The Satanist,and the Setian (not to forget the Theistic and Atheistic of all those branches of thought)But,this is just one Luciferian's thoughts on the subject,and I can only speak for myself in this matter. Copyright 2015 Vincent Piazzavictordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-12390829508166809272015-07-08T14:47:00.000-07:002015-07-08T14:47:07.273-07:00Character Study:The Angel Senoy<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The Angel Senoy,not much is Known of this mysterious being.Thought to have been trapped</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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to Adam. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in
lascivious demons. The angels ordered Lilith to come with them in the
name and by the authority of the most high El,<br /> but she refused.Cold,Angry about his long imprisonment,he is filled with visions of a time long past and how he may once again protect the world from Lilith and her plans.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"> Devout
Hebrew couples will put a warning notice above their bed to thwart any
efforts she makes to "steal" their "children" (semen) during copulation:
Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangeloph! Adam ve-Chavvah! Chotz Lilith! (Chavvah
is the name "Eve" in its original Hebrew form, and Chotz Lilith means
simply "Out, Lilith!")<br />For infants, all that is needed to summon the
protection of these three is an amulet inscribed with their names and/or
images placed somewhere near the bed or sleeping area. This is done for
the first 8 days after birth if the child is male, and the first 20
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
only true symbolic references ever used for Senoy , Sansenoy, and
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Snvi, Snsvi, and
Smnglof"... they are shown here:</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"><br />Snvi: (believed to be related to Michael...)<br /><br /><img alt="user posted image" border="0" src="http://www.megadriel.com/symbols/black/senoy_hebrew_black.gif" /><br />--------------------------------<br /><br />Snsvi: (Believed to be related to Gabriel...)<br /><br /><img alt="user posted image" border="0" src="http://www.megadriel.com/symbols/black/sansenoy_hebrew_black.gif" /><br />--------------------------------<br /><br />Smnglof: (Believed to be related to Uriel...)<br /><br /><img alt="user posted image" border="0" src="http://www.megadriel.com/symbols/black/semanglof_hebrew_black.gif" /><br />--------------------------------<br /><br /><br />-Here is an amulet bearing their images... <br /><br /><a href="http://megadriel.com/symbols/seal/lilithamuletsenoysanssem.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="user posted image" border="0" src="http://www.megadriel.com/symbols/black/lilithamuletsenoysanssem_thumb_black.gif" /></a><br /><br />They
are seen here as abstract creatures, the amulet was used to drive away
Lilith and her Sisters(the Lilin). Their names can also be seen on
their chests in the above picture...<br /><br />Also, the symbol of the
Lilitu coil... (one of Lilith's symbols) is said to be useful in
summoning these</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"> three if used correctly... but is primarily used to
summon Lilith herself, or her Lilin for assistance or sexual rites.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"> Holy,Insane and quite sad in his unfortunate situation,Senoy struggles against what he feels is unjust and cruel.Terrified of being trapped once more,he will not give up his freedom easily.</span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span style="line-height: 100%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This is our Senoy! </span></b></span></span></span>victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-69067337798067339182015-07-08T07:49:00.001-07:002015-07-08T07:49:33.087-07:00The Left Hand Way and the Five Thieves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I Observe the Left Hand Path, <br />I Attend to the activities of my Magick, And that is all there is to do,attend.<br />The Path has Five Thieves; <br />One who perceives this prospers. <br />The Five Thieves are in the heart-mind. <br />They extend to and even affect my life. <br />The canopy of space and time is in my hands. <br />Ten thousand transformations arise from my body. <br />The innate nature of the Left Hand Path is the shedding of humanity. <br />The human heart-mind is the pivot. <br />Establishing the Sinister Way,stopping movement,watching time tick. <br />Enables the settling of of a time and place that knows no start or end. <br />When the Path manifests killing power, <br />It moves the stars and shifts the constellations. When the Way manifests killing power. <br />Dragons and snakes continually emerge. <br />When humans manifest killing power, <br />Heaven and earth are overturned. <br />When the Path and the Way join and manifest, <br />The ten thousand transformations have a stable base.<br />
here are ingenious and awkward natures— <br />They can be subdued and concealed. <br />The aberrations of the Nine Cavities,of what you want,or what you think you need. <br />Are in the Three Essentials; <br />They can be aroused or stilled. <br />When fire arises from wood, <br />Calamity manifests with certain destruction. <br />When treachery arises in the moments of your life that once made sense, <br />Time moves with certain destruction,and Lucifer teaches you a valuable lesson.<br />Those who know this practice cultivation and refinement,the striping away of self; We call such people Left Hand Path Adepts. victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1955105332238790668.post-25786403263454606762015-07-07T20:51:00.002-07:002015-07-07T20:51:21.942-07:00Character Study:Samael<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The next in my series of character analysis for the upcoming movie
“The conjuration of Victor Dee Strider”.Prince of the demons, and an
important figure both in Talmudic and in post-Talmudic literature, where
he appears as accuser, seducer, and destroyer. His name is etymologized
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= "the venom of God," since he is identical with the angel of death,
who slays men with a drop of poison ('Ab. Zarah 20b; Kohut, "Angelologie
und Dämonologie," pp. 69, 71). It is possible, however, that the name
is derived from that of the Syrian god Shemal (Bousset, "Religion," p.
242).Samael the husband of Eisheth Zenunim, Na'amah, Lilith and Agrat
Bat Mahlat, all being 'angels' of sacred prostitution,is a smooth
operator,the Epitome of class and the "chief of Satans". As the
incarnation of evil he is the celestial patron of the empire of Rome,
with which Edom and Esau are identified,and now that America has taken
the stage,he walks the land and does his business anew.Cool as a block
of ice, He flies through the air like a bird and, while the ḥayyot and
ofannim have only six wings, he has twelve, and commands a whole army of
demons.Never without wit, or a velvet word to say,his lips drip with
the sweetness of poison,and Victor is no match for this Angel.<br />
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He
is the serpent, carnal desire,and the angel of death all rolled into
one.He and his demonic host descended from heaven to seduce the first
human pair,and he is still seducing to this day. He planted the vine,
the forbidden tree of paradise,and loves to give knowledge to man
whenever he can.Was one of the leaders of the angels who married the
daughters of men,and now will go down to a suburb of Atlanta on a
Wednesday and pick up a soccer mom just for fun.Black suit,Black
tie,crisp white shirt is what he prefers these days. He presides over
the second "teḳufah" (solstice) and the west wind of the fourth teḳufah,
as well as the third day of the week.He is so bloody powerful The spot
in the moon is supposed to have been caused by the evil stain of his
work. Rabbi Isaac states:<br />
'Truly I shall give you a hint, that the
reason for all the jealousies which exist between the princes mentioned
above, and the [other, good] princes which belong to the seven classes,
the classes of the holy angels which are called 'the guardians of the
walls,' the reason which evokes hatred and jealousy between the heavenly
powers and the powers of the supreme host, is one form which is
destined for Samael, and it is Lilith, and it has the image of a
feminine form, and Samael is in the form of Adam and Lilith in the form
of Eve. Both of them were born in a spiritual birth as one, similar to
the form of Adam and Eve, like two pairs of twins, one above and one
below. Samael and the Eve the Elder, which is called the Northern one,
they are emanated from below the Throne of Glory, and this was caused by
the Sin.'<br />
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is unknowable,the last word in Sin and corruption,and a class act in
all things that he set his hand to,Eve couldn't resist him,nor will you.
This is our Samael!victordestriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08518914118578197248noreply@blogger.com0