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Since witchcraft is considered a religion of nature, the first step on how to learn witchcraft is to learn the religion itself. This will help you understand the basic dogma and beliefs of this religious practice.
What comes next is to examine the magic of witchcraft. When exploring the magic, you need to understand fully the key principles of casting circles, invoking God and goddesses, raising the energies, and finally closing the circle.
Everyone can actually become a traditional witch for as long as you have an interest in finding a nature-based spirituality, studying magic and magical techniques, and practicing magical skills to achieve mastery.
To increase your focus and concentration, you have to perform some visualization and meditation exercises. Other important things that you should know on how to learn witchcraft include learning to gain strength from the sun, moon, stars, and the earth and to be calm and quiet when hearing the voice of God/goddesses.
You can start your basic spell with you own moon ritual. You do not really have to follow the rituals you read on the
If you want to know more on how to learn witchcraft, you should also learn about the book of shadows. It can be any book or notebook where you keep all the information you learned about witchcraft. It is where you put the answers to all the questions on the practice of witchcraft, herbal information, magic spells and even the history of witchcraft. It has been said that the Book of Shadows has more power when written by hand. But nowadays, some Wiccans or witches have a so-called "Disc of Shadows."
Another tip on how to learn witchcraft is to read all the available resources you can have to know more about the practice. When it comes to rituals, you have to design on your own to make it more meaningful for you. In a dedication ritual, you have to dedicate yourself to the craft and decide to live in closer harmony with the earth and nature. In this ritual, you make a commitment not just to yourself, but to the Divine as well.
Moreover, before working with magic and spells, be sure to understand first what are they, where they come from and what are the ethics involved.
You can also gain more help and guidance about witchcraft from seasoned witches. You can actually get more information on many available web resources about the practice of witchcraft.
Carolyn Anderson is fascinated by magic and witchcraft and would like to share some great resources that you might be interested in. To learn the secrets of witchcraft, check out Witchcrafts Greatest Secrets. Also check out Power Of Conversational Hypnosis, a great tool to learn conversational hypnosis and influence people.
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For the past decade or so we have been inundated with reports of priestly sexual abuse of young people. We have been privy to the airing of much dirty laundry, and we've watched as bishops have tried to dodge accusations of dereliction of duty. Non-Catholics have often taken delight in these reports - not the abuse itself but the humiliating effects on the Catholic Church itself. As we make our way through Holy Week, Martin Marty highlights the Pope's request for forgiveness. In a very unscripted way, the Pope has taken responsibility and declared that these acts of abuse are acts of evil. My hope is that this is the beginning of a new day, but we must all keep in mind the frailty of our communities, for it is not merely the Catholic Church that has seen scandalous behavior. I invite you to take a read.
Pope asks for forgiveness
by MARTIN E. MARTY
Monday Apr 14 2014
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Holy Week in the Western Christian calendar is a time for Christians to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, and seek to amend their lives. A billion believers will be doing all that in the five days ahead. Some may do it in their churches, some in other places of their choosing, and more in their own heads and hearts.
Leaders of many different churches are encouraging their fellow-believers to ask God and other humans for forgiveness. One of these leaders made headlines this week because of his extraordinary role, gifts, status, character, and celebrity. Thus: "Pope Takes Responsibility for Priests' Abuse Scandal (New York Times, "April 11) and "Pope Asks Forgiveness for Priest Abuse Cases" ("Reuters, "April 11).
Predictably and understandably, leaders of organizations protesting the ways of bishops and others who fall far short of atoning acts and becoming accountable, made headlines of their own. They dismiss the Pope's words as mere words, and keep their suspicions high. Their cause deserves attention, but the Pope has to be heard first. What astounds is the way in which he addressed the topic.
We have heard the language of many bishops and other leaders whose scripts are vetted, if not written, by diocesan attorneys, which means that few took them seriously. We have also heard many abusers who, along with other miscreants, whisper that they "made mistakes." (One wishes that "I made a mistake" could be banished from serious records: apologies for "mistakes" are meaningless.)
The Pope did not say he made mistakes, though he knows he makes them. Refreshingly, he used the word "evil" for the perpetrators of child sexual abuse, and he talked of his personal responsibility for the way the church handled the cases. In other words, he spoke in terms of commitment, and not mere reportage.
He will be tested by parents of priest-abused children, adults who were once victims, and all the agencies who represent children-abused or not-in the church. Listen: "I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil... to personally ask for forgiveness." At last we are getting classic, non-bureaucratic, non-managerial confession and language of resolve.
"Sightings" has rarely addressed this subject, for a number of reasons. First, for non-Roman Catholics to point fingers can obscure their own churches' flaws. (The week of the Pope's confession I received word from our local Lutheran bishop about radical action against a pastor who broke his marital vows and sexually misused women in the church.)
Other reasons: Catholics who are helping set their house in order are more credible and helpful than non-Catholics would be in helping bring about a better future. Pope Francis took major first steps with his personal word, spoken informally and without script, and he will be busy for the rest of his pontificate with following through.
Can one legitimately speak, as does the Pope, of one's personal guilt in an instance like this, where others notably sinned?
Those who understand Catholic theology or, for that matter, biblical theology recognize that they can and should. In the Hebrew Scriptures, recalled by Jews last week, the whole community (=tribe? family?) suffered when individuals in it were errant. The New Testament speaks of believers sharing life in the "Body of Christ,' the church. When one suffers, all suffer. When one has reason to rejoice, "the many" can rejoice and join in supportive action.
For the Pope, all this is more than a catechism lesson: it's life.
RESOURCES:
Povoledo, Elisabetta. "Pope Takes Responsibility in Priests' Abuse Scandal. New York Times", April 11, 2014, Europe.
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Mantras involve chanting to create special vibrations, sounds of the universe that create something from nothingness, that move energy from the unmanifest to the manifest.
If you recite a mantra out loud, its special pattern of vibrations creates its own effects, and can create events in our current physical realm. Reciting the mantra mentally creates a mental vibration, which then becomes more abstract. Ultimately it takes you into the field of pure consciousness or spirit from where the vibration arose.
So a mantra is a very good way to transcend and go back to the source of thought, which is pure consciousness. This is why specific mantras are recommended - because of the specific vibrations they induce.
The mantra I use, and that I recommend for achieving synchrodestiny, is the simple mantra "SO-HUM"." This is the mantra of the breath, if you observe your breathing you'll hear "SO-HUM" as air moves in and out of your lungs. As you inhale, the sound of that vibration is "SO"." And as you exhale, the sound becomes "HUM"."
With your eyes closed, inhale and think the word "SO"; on the exhale, think the word "HUM"." Gradually, both the breath and the sound will become quieter and quieter and quiter, and the breath becomes so quiet that it almost seems to stop. By quieting your breath, you quiet your mind.
When you transcend, the mantra "SO-HUM" entirely disappears, and your breath pauses momentarily. Time itself comes to a stop and y ou're in the field of pure consciousness, the nonlocal domain, spirit, the ground of being.
~from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
BY DEEPAK CHOPRA
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The Societas Magica is an organization dedicated to furthering communication and exchange among scholars interested in the study of magic, both in the positive contexts of its expression as an area of necessary knowledge or religious practice (as in early modern occultism and contemporary paganism), and in its negative contexts as the substance of an accusation or condemnation (as in sorcery trials, and many philosophical and theological accounts, both early and late).
The interests of our membership include, but are not limited to, the history and sociology of magic; theological, and intellectual apprehensions of magic; practices and theories of magic; and objects, artifacts and texts either qualified as magical by their creators, or forming the substance of an accusation of magic by others.
The Societas Magica was originally established in 1994 by Richard Kieckhefer, Claire Fanger and Robert Mathiesen for the purpose of sponsoring sessions on the history of magic in the middle ages at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan. However the activities of the Societas have expanded with its increasingly diverse membership, and our interests are not limited to the medieval period. We continue to sponsor sessions both at the Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo and also at other academic conferences as proposed and organized by members.
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Is there an ET connection to the mystery of Jesus? Was the famed carpenter from Galilee actually the Son of God, or a mere itinerant Rabbi preaching Temple reform, or a cunning anti-Roman revolutionary-or was he in fact a 'Gnostic', whose wisdom and teachings were so radical that a vast authoritarian religious structure was erected to contain and suppress it?
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"In 1209 an army of thirty thousand knights and foot soldiers from northern Europe descended like a whirlwind on the Languedoc [Pronounced, Lang-doc']-the mountainous northeastern foothills of the Pyrenees in what is now southern France. In the ensuing war the whole territory was ravaged, crops were destroyed, towns and cities were razed; a whole population was put to the sword. The extermination occurred on so vast so terrible a scale that it may well constitute the first case of "genocide" in modern European history."
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"The Inquisition arose out of an effort by Pope Innocent III to stamp out a large heretical sect in the south of France known as the "Albigensians." Innocent III had called for a special Crusade in 1209 to enter France and wipe out the sect. The five-year war, which ensued, devastated the region. Ten years later, a new Pope, Gregory IX, continued the action. He placed the Dominicans in charge of investigating the Albigensians. Gregory gave the Dominican Order full legal power to name and condemn all surviving heretics."
"The inquisition helped breed a social reaction of violence to non-conforming ideas that the world has not yet fully escaped."
"Albigensian" and "Cathar" were essentially generic names. In other words they did not refer to a single coherent church, like that of Rome, with a fixed codified, and definitive body of doctrine and theology...in general the Cathars subscribed to a doctrine of reincarnation and to a recognition of the feminine principle in religion. Indeed, the preachers and teachers of Cathar congregations were of both sexes. At the same time the Cathars rejected the orthodox Catholic Church and denied the validity of all clerical hierarchies, all official and ordained intercessors between man and God. At the core of this position lay an important Cathar tenet-the repudiation of 'faith' at least as the Church insisted on it...the Cathars insisted on direct and personal knowledge, a religious or mystical experience apprehended at first hand. This experience has been called 'gnosis', from the Greek word for "knowledge" and for the Cathars it took precedence over all creeds and dogmas. Given such an emphasis on direct personal contact with God, priests, bishops, and other clerical authorities became superfluous."
"For the Cathars men were the swords that spirits fought with, and no one saw the hands. For the Cathars a perpetual war was being waged throughout the whole of creation between two irreconcilable principles-light and darkness, spirit and matter, good and evil. Catholicism posits one supreme God, whose adversary, the Devil, is ultimately inferior to Him. The Cathars, however, proclaimed the existence of not one god, but two with more or less comparable status. One of these gods-the 'good' one was entirely disincarnate, a being or principle of pure spirit, unsullied by the taint of matter. He was the god of love."
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"The majority of Cathars seem to have regarded [Jesus] as a prophet no different from any other-a mortal being who, on behalf of the principle of love, died on the cross. And the cross-at least in association with Calvary and the Crucifixion-was regarded as an emblem of Rex Mundi, [Archon] lord of the material world, the very antithesis of the true redemptive principle. Jesus, if mortal at all, had been a prophet of AMOR, the principle of love. And AMOR, when inverted or perverted or twisted into power, became ROMA-ROME, whose opulent, luxurious Church seemed to the Cathars a palpable embodiment and manifestation on earth of Rex Mundi's sovereignty."
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What exactly was the 'Grail'? Was it, perhaps as tradition would have it, the chalice from which Jesus served the wine at the 'Last Supper', and which also caught his blood at the Crucifixion?
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Or, was the Grail Chalice a metaphor hiding the shocking secret that Jesus was by no means celibate and, in fact his 'Holy Blood' was secretly preserved through future generations beginning with the child he may have sired with his wife-Mary Magdalene?
Or, in an even broader context, could the Grail mysteries be metaphors for the 'Divine Sophia'-ancient lost 'Goddess' theologies that revered the 'feminine' aspect of Deity?
The book entitled, "Not In His Image", by John Lash (Chelsea Green Publishing Co. 2006) offers a brilliant, 'in-depth' study of the lost "Goddess" ideologies-Gnostic texts and cosmologies examining their relationship to contemporary Western Civilization and global ecology. Within this body of formidable research Lash reveals an alternative account of Old Testament history that suggests the Holy Bible may in fact be a chronicle of ancient extraterrestrial intrusion and intervention in human development. Was the human race actually subdued by extraterrestrial invaders, falsely masquerading as deity, during the days of Abraham in the book of Genesis...?
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What could lost pagan, 'Goddess' religions and theologies of remote antiquity possibly have to do with the modern mystery of UFOs? Perhaps more than we might ever dare to imagine...!
In the year 1947 the possible reality of extraterrestrial intrusion into our world burst upon public awareness with two dramatic events. First was the Kenneth Arnold sighting near Mt. Rainier, when his eyewitness account of strange flying craft coined the phrase 'flying saucers' in the national press; and second was the famed saucer 'crash' reported by U.S. Army personnel at Roswell, New Mexico. Since that point in time, the enigma of 'flying saucers', or Unidentified Flying Objects, has become intrinsically interwoven into our modern culture. Yet, that very same year, halfway around the world in Cairo, Egypt, ancient documents revealing a "full and coherent account of alien intrusion" that could be traced back to early Bible times, was being translated by scholars of Gnostic theology.
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Two years earlier, in 1945, an earthenware jar was dug up in a cave west of the Nile near the village of Nag Hammadi. Contained in this jar were papyrus scrolls or codices wrapped in leather of Biblical texts dating back to around 400 AD. They appeared to be the only surviving fragments of a much larger body of work; the equivalent perhaps of finding a mere handful of pages left from a lost 'Encyclopedia Britannica'. Yet it appears these texts were secretly hidden in a last ditch effort to keep them safe and preserved from a deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy the vital information they contained.
Translation of the 'Nag Hammadi' Scrolls reveals a body of early Christian teachings that are considered 'Gnostic' in character. In other words, these texts contained 'Gospels' that had escaped censorship or revision by the Church of Rome, and that repudiated the authority of orthodox Christian doctrine-posing a theological threat, which clearly provided a motive to keep them hidden.
Gnostic (from the Greek gnosis, meaning 'knowledge') thought insisted upon direct and personal, first-hand religious or mystical experience with Deity, and vehemently rejected dogmas, creeds and clerics or any superfluous intercessors between man and God-an unwelcome posture for Vatican authority.
Yet contained within these lost texts is an exotic description of the origins of Earth and the human species that serious religious and Gnostic scholars dismiss as mythological 'science -fiction'-a fantastic and disturbing description of cosmology that reveals an intrusion upon Earth humanity by malevolent, parasitic extraterrestrial invaders, who use Earth humans as puppets in a vast, unseen game of deception and domination.
"As above, so below." The Gnostic perception of the universe would tell us that just as a biologist sees minute living creatures swarming in a drop of water through a microscope, the swirling galaxies seen through an astronomer's telescope are also living beings! The entire universe is a vast living consciousness with individualized nodes of living consciousness existing within it.
In the most simplistic terms, the Gnostic cosmology describes the central sun of our particular galaxy as a living entity-intelligent light plasma. The 'arms' that extend and swirl out from that central sun are like 'children' of that core awareness. These plasma extensions reach out to the periphery of the galaxy where solid matter is formed, and this is where the 'play' of material creation is acted out. These conscious extensions stretch out and form solid worlds and living beings in infinite variety to express their own individual 'dream' of creativity.
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Planet Earth first originated as a 'metamorphosis' of an intelligent stream of light plasma extending from the central sun. That stream of light was "SOPHIA"-a feminine emanation. Impulsive Sophia was so enraptured by her dream of creation that she plunged into the realm of physical matter alone, without her balancing male consort. In doing so, an accidental aberration occurred. Within Sophia's dream of creation was an ideal 'intention' for living, intelligent creatures that would become humans. For that intention to properly manifest, it needed to blend with organic matter. However, in her brash impulsive plunge, the sheer force of plasma outpouring impacted with inorganic matter, creating an aberrant species that could never properly manifest Sophia's vision for the human species!
The original intention of Sophia's dream did successfully blend with organic matter and proper humans came into being, yet they were now challenged to confrontation by their aberrant cousins who use subterfuge to divert humans from their true potential on planet Earth. And Sophia, not only formed Earth from her dream-she actually became Earth! Gnostic texts tell us that goddess Sophia literally morphed into the living planet herself. Earth is Sophia. In other words, Earth is the living mother of all humanity.
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The subsequent unfolding of human history is the conflict drama between Sophia's intention for human expression and its accidental, mirror competitors. Only when humans ultimately discover this vital truth and overcome their adversary will they achieve Sophia's divine dream for their destiny.
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And how do the Gnostic texts describe this 'adversary'? Referred to as "Archons", (pronounced; Ar-kon, Greek, meaning magistrate, or-the Authorities.) they come in two distinct types-an aggressive reptilian humanoid and smaller, passive creatures resembling a 'prematurely formed fetus'! "Bizarre as it may seem, a solution to the most baffling enigma of our time was fully elucidated in sacred writings almost two thousand years ago. In the matter of the ET/UFO enigma, the Gnostics were ahead of everyone today. Way ahead."
"At first the Archons have no habitat. They swarm around like an insect colony blown savagely across interstellar space...This anomalous species comes into existence prior to the time when the earth emerges by direct transformation of Sophia's own divine substance. Archons are Sophia's offspring in a sense, but in an entirely different way than humanity and other organic species are. They do not emerge from her divine substance, Organic Light, but from [relatively inert, not inherently alive matter]. They are a freak species of inorganic composition, but they are alive and conscious in their own way."
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From among the Archons a reptilian leader ultimately emerges, who "is androgynous [and] rapidly assumes a markedly male, macho posture. He now takes charge of the extraordinary situation produced by Sophia's plunge...Arrogant by nature [this] Demiurge deems himself to be at the center of creation, lord of all he beholds. Gnostic texts state plainly that [Demiurge]is insane, a demented god, or imposter deity. The Demiurge is indeed a sort of god, a cosmic entity in his own right...but he is a self-deified inorganic phantom deluded about his own identity. This is not meant as a figure of speech... the Gnostic materials clearly show...the Archons as real, physically existent inhabitants of our planetary system, who wrongly attempt to penetrate our biosphere. God exists, but he is insane. And he works against humanity..."
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"Gnostics warned that we coexist in a planetary system with a demented entity who can access our world through our minds."
And, Gnostics tell us, that through the human mind, the Archons were able to impose their most cunning deception-religion. By manipulation of religious ideology, the Archons are able to covertly substitute their mind-set into human culture.
"Gnostics detected the humanized face of the Archons in all authoritarian structures and systems that deny authenticity and self-determination to the individual."
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Surely it is becoming more obvious that something undefined-just beyond our perceptual grasp-is working 'against' humanity and even the planet itself. Primitive, petty, Bronze-age disputes in remote antiquity fought with swords and spears over religious rivalries and territorial claims seem quaint and provincial, from our New Millennium point of view. But for these same conflicts to rage on mindlessly for four-thousand years, now fought with today's high-tech, mass-destruction weapons, suggests a profound pathological disorder in the human psyche that must be identified and treated before this malignancy engulfs our species altogether.
Gnostics would argue that, over the centuries, the proliferation of rival religions, political structures as well as modern corporate structures are each nothing more than microcosms of the Archon's original social control construct for human domination. These structures mimic the Archon mind.
According to Gnostic theory, the Archon's major initiating intrusion into the human realm is documented in the Old Testament book of Genesis, with the appearance of Jehovah to the patriarch, Abraham.
"In the Gnostic perspective the Archons are not only mind parasites-delusional nodes in the human mind, considered quasi-autonomous psychic entities, if you will-they are cosmic imposters, parasites who pose as gods. But they lack the primary divine factor of...'intentionality, creative will.' They cannot originate anything, they can only imitate, and they must effectuate their copycat activity with subterfuge and stealth, lest their true nature be detected."
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"Hence [posing as Jehovah, the Archons] offer Abraham something that already belongs to him as a member of the human race. The earth has already been given to humanity: it is the precious habitat [dreamed] by the Goddess Sophia...The Archons approach Abraham with a fake deal, promising him possession and domination of the terrestrial realm, but this is not compatible with Sophia's...divine intention. The earth is not a territorial prize but a precious setting where the human species can realize its innate genius, its capacity for novelty, acting within the natural boundaries set by the Goddess."
"The Demiurge of the Old Testament is an arrogant, demented pretender who claims that humans are "made in His image." These four words are the corporate motto of patriarchy. Branded on the human soul, "Made in His Image" signifies the total enslavement of humanity to an alien, off-planet agenda."
The seeds of this enslavement spread over the ensuing centuries like a virus through patriarchal Judeo/Christian ideologies and Islam, which essentially serve as the models for modern Western Civilization's political structures-brutish, authoritarian hierarchies designed to dominate, rather than serve their respective populations. And rather than responsible stewardship of our planet's well being and natural resources, in keeping with humanity's opportunity to co-evolve with Sophia, modern political and corporate hierarchies see the planet as a lifeless rock to be plundered, tortured and exploited for greed and profit.
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MONOTHEISM: THE GREAT UNMENTIONABLE EVIL
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is MONOTHEISM. From a barbaric bronze age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved-Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are "Sky-God" religions. They are, literally, Patriarchal-God is the Omnipotent Father-Hence the loathing of women for 2000 years in those countries afflicted by the 'Sky-God' and his Earthly male delegates. The Sky-God is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on Earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe, but for all of creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately TOTALITARIANISM is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the Sky-God's purpose." Gore Vidal
Knowledge of a sentient, living earth has been maintained and revered by indigenous peoples around the planet: from Australia's Aboriginals, to the native peoples of both North and South America, as well as the tribes of Africa. Yet over the centuries, the expansion and conquest of Christian European nations have systematically exterminated and marginalized these cultures, deliberately and effectively silencing their awareness of the Goddess reality, and the unseen menace of the Archon dominion.
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"... And, considering what the world is now, with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression, and so on. Man is still as he was. Is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive. And, he's built a society along these lines." Krishnamurti
And yet the Gnostics would argue the world we see today does not show the face of true human, but rather the insane, homicidal face of the manipulating Archon madness that distorts it. Perhaps humanity now confronts its ultimate challenge to actualize its divine and greatest potential-the power of its intentionality.
"This power was expressly given to humankind to allow us to detect and resist Archontic subversion. In a sense, the Archons are present in the cosmos to test us so that we are certain to make optimal use of our divine endowment. The supreme attainment of our humanity requires facing our inhumanity (our Archontic side) and dis-empowering it, but not disowning it."
In the Gnostic texts even Sophia herself warns the evil Archon Demiurge, he will ultimately be defeated by the humanity she created. It is our destiny...!
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THE ARCHONS: ALIEN INVADERS FROM SPACE
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Emerald Rose is an energetic, North Georgia Pagan Celtic band who play both traditional tunes & original songs derived from the Celtic tradition. The songs are high-energy, spirited, & often "eclectic" - but always sung 2. Fire in the Head - fast-paced "mouth music" piece with Celtic shamanism theme; 3.
Lucky Man - the old Emerson, Lake, 4. Green Hills of Garland/Gallagher Lass/Ferrets Nose - original jigs; 5. Red Haired Mary - a traditional ballad transformed to modern pop; 6. Pagan Girl - pure pagan pop; 7. Come by the Hills - a beautiful traditional Irish ballad; 8. Johnny Cope - a rousing Scottish fighting song; 9.
Merry Mayfolk - an upbeat May song with a universal message; 10. Castle of Arianrhod - mysterious delving into Welsh myth 11. Freya, Shakti - praise for the Goddess in her many forms; 12. Unfinished Business - jazz jam with bozouki 13. Hills of America - an anthem of the Celtic diaspora. It is the bands desire to help keep the Celtic musical heritage alive and carry it on into the future.
With music like this, the longevity of Celtic music is assured!
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Canadian researcher Alan Watt is a charming old curmudgeon with interesting insights on the nature of power structures. He's essentially the Internet version of the old cat in the bar who'll spin you some wild yarns if you buy him a round or two. Like those types, he also wings it a lot, but I think he has nailed it when it comes to the guiding religion of the ruling class. I'm paraphrasing, but during one blurb he said something to the effect that ruling class is not Jewish or Catholic or Protestant or Islamic- it is Masonic. To that I would simply add that it's not Freemasonic, per se, but the ancient Masonic system we've looked at here in the past. By this I mean a system in which promising young people are tapped and groomed into an initiatory system in which power is gained through a graded series of steps, acknowledged by a corresponding series of rituals- awards, citations, etc.
Again, the fraternities, think tanks and senior societies are all based in this model, and are far more powerful and influential than the Freemies, who were essentially created for the servant and middle classes.
What brings all of this up? Well, if you have any familiarity with Masonic symbolism at all, you will be punched in the face with it when you spend any time in the cities of power of the Western World- New York, Washington, London, Rome, Paris, etc etc etc.
I spent some time in New York on Wednesday night (Beltane Eve) for a business event. I was late for said event because, as Synchronicity would have it, there was a fire in the tunnel for the 33rd St PATH train. I had to take a detour to- wait for it- the World Trade Center. Now, I haven't been to the WTC since a week or two before 9/11. Lower Manhattan was a major part of my psychic landscape and the events that surrounded 9/11 threw my entire life into chaos for several years. It sounds ridiculous, but I couldn't bear to see Ground Zero, especially now that I am aware of the incredibly powerful mojo still at work there (which is the topic of a future post). But Fate forced me to face my fears, probably because I needed to see this...
...the hundreds of Eye mosaics at Chambers Street Station. I don't recall those being there before 9/11. I'm not sure what the official explanation of them is, but the esoteric meaning is unmistakable. In any event, I walked by Ground Zero and saw just another construction site. I feel weirder now about it than I did when I was there.
Anyhow, I ended up at Columbus Circle, which I hadn't seen in ages. It's now home to the gargantuan Time Warner Center, which is a hell of a lot more impressive than in this photo. Notice how the center building lines up with the obelisk in the fountain. A brief glance at some of the Timer Warner logos should tell Secret Sun readers all they need to know...
Breathtakingly audacious, aren't they?
I don't believe the Columbus Circle location is remotely accidental, either. In addition to the obelisk we see there, there's also the extremely puzzling Maine Memorial, an ostensible tribute to the USS Maine that was extremely controversial in its day. Here we see an angel holding the globe looking towards the Maine Memorial, which shows a goddess barreling towards the obelisk. Who is the goddess?
That's actually a good question. On the face of it, she appears to be the virgin goddess Athena, identified with war. But the goddess on her chariot also bears a strong resemblance to Cybele, who we looked at in the analysis of The 40 year Old Virgin and Solaris. The shell shape of her cab identifies her with Aphrodite, who we saw in relation to Eternal Sunshine. She rides with three horses, perhaps indicating that this is a Masonic variation on the Triple Goddess.
As always, I recommend that any Synchromystics go and see these landmarks for themselves. It's an entirely different experience to see this symbolism lording over the everyday hustle and bustle. I can't imagine Imperial Rome was much different at all.
Anyhow, my journey took me down to the Christopher St. Station, but the PATH was still closed. I ended back down at the WTC, and was somewhat chilled to notice the klieg lights and the sounds of heavy machinery at a late hour. For some reason, I flashed back to the silly midnight seances I took part in as a kid in the Gloucester Cemetery. I have no idea why.
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