‘Omaha…


Somewhere in middle America
Get right to the heart of matters
It’s the heart that matters more
I think you’d better turn your ticket in
And get your money right at the door“


– Counting Crows


Tonight my son, who is 15, is going to be teaching a class on the Magus Card of the Thoth Tarot deck, as a part of Thelema 101, a class he’s presenting with Harper Feist. She’ll be teaching the gematria of Love and Will in the Greek and doing some Isopsephy with people’s names. It’s going to be cool.

Listening to him prepare has got me thinking about the Magus card in general, and magicians in particular. I’ve been doing these classes on Thursdays that are about Hermetic basics, and the Magus card of the Thoth deck is totally us. All the symbols on it are the symbols of Magick. They are the tools of the Magician. Elemental, scriptorial, the things necessary to take a thought and make it manifest in the material world where it can be experienced. All the Hermetic Magick Stuff.

But guys, where is the Magician? Right there in the center. All the symbols that represent the elements circle around him. The Magus is the center of the universe, and all the things that manifest in it.

And I heard in my head Counting Crows singing about Omaha, somewhere in the middle of America, and the heart of the matter, and the heart that matters more.

The Magus is all air and Mercury, and it doesn’t talk a lot about the heart. But before the Mind of Air, or the powers of Mercury can focus on making a thing manifest using the symbols of the spiritual elements of our daily existence, there has to be something you want. Something you desire.

And that’s the heart. And it’s the heart that matters more.

To me, the heart is the source that tells us what we want, and what we like, and what we love. It beats in the middle of the Magus. It’s the source of the ideas that manifest. It’s the instructor of the mind. It’s the indicator of success and failure. It’s what tells you whether you’re doing it right. And whether you’re fucking up.

Joseph Campbell talked about following your bliss to find enlightenment. In Thelema, the phrase goes “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love is the law, love under Will.”

That love, our hearts are the only real guides we have in this path of magick that means anything. Gotta listen. Gotta be in the middle, balanced within the symbols we use as tools to make this world as we see fit.

And we can’t be without listening to the Heart.

It’s the heart that matters more.

Browsing the news feed, I found Lt. General Jay B. Silveria’s recent response to racist comments written on the doors of black human beings in the Air Force Academy’s prep school. Dude has some powerful things to say, and they are simple.

Watch it, it’s great.

But guys, this is not just a speech. This is a sermon. And I find in his words the current, the power, the force that I tap into to accomplish my great work on the daily. He’s talking about something that matters. He’s talking about it in the context of his institution. He’s speaking from moral outrage. He’s speaking from the heart about how his community, his tribe is behaving. He’s talking about doing better, being better, or gtfo.

And guys, this is what I think we’re all about in this Rosicrucian Hermetic Great Work schtick. this planet, this shared space we all inhabit, this is our “institution.” We are the leaders, the members, the followers that make up humanity. We are the people that create and experience this world. We are the owners of this existence. It’s ours.

And we have a better idea. Those of us into this thing. Our idea is better, because it is compassionate. It is clear. It is fair. It is cool, for us, for our partners and allies, and for our children. This idea is that we are something divine, who have taken on the form of mortal humanity, and that each of us is worthy of respect, no matter where that person is at in their path, no matter how stupid they might be in this incarnation, no matter how bad their decisions might be, compassion, illumination, enlightenment itself is not about being good, feeling good, or doing good.

Dude nailed it. Right on the head.

If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then get out.

I’ve been running a weekly broadcast on Facebook from the local O.T.O. lodge called “Applied Hermetics.” The goal of this effort isn’t necessarily to teach magick, or even Hermetics. It’s to talk about what we’re all about in this Hermetic thing.

Illumination – Easy as 1-2-3

This Magick thing.

Now, there are a ton of people teaching the fundamental processes of magick these days. Plenty of folks will teach you advanced methods to get laid and paid. I think Jason Miller’s courses are probably cutting edge, but many of my former students have branched out into the world of teaching magick, and they are doing a fine job of it.

And honestly, I’m sick of teaching magick. I have a limited spiel on the subject, really. Get into the four elements, get initiated into the Seven Spheres of the planets, take the plunge into the Eighth Sphere and learn to Hymn in Silence and become a Power. Make the freakin’ Stone. Make it into medicine, and heal the world.

I mean, honestly, that’s it. There’s a few years worth of Work involved, but it could be condensed to only a couple, depending on how fucked up you are about things. Each initiation comes with a purification period that influences your mind, body, and experienced reality. It’s a process. I hope you’re doing it.

But when you’ve done it, then what? What are you? Who are you? Why are you here?

Most of the answers to these questions get answered as you do the Work. We know we’re god-flesh-all-at-once, we know we’re here to create and experience our realities. We know we’re illuminated masters, curious Eyes looking at everything, and beaming our manifest wills into the raw potentiality that becomes our daily lives.

We get that part, it’s not that hard, really. Like the image of the levitating yogi. Tools, techniques, and making it look good. That’s about it, seriously. We just have better tools. And we make it look better.

But this kind of thing seems to be rather muddy when it gets applied. There’s confusion, doubt, and a lack of personal discipline that results in thinking we’re nuts, or other people thinking we’re nuts.

I’ve learned first-hand that you can’t just say you’re Illuminated and you’ve made the Philosopher’s Stone, and that you have all the answers that vex the average person without getting flack for it. Some people attack you for having the gumption to admit it publicly, because they haven’t got it yet. Other people attack you for having the gumption to admit it publicly, because they have it, and they don’t think you’re supposed to go public.

Basically, both those groups of people can go fuck themselves, in my humble opinion.

I worked my ass off to get here, and so did you. I’ll be fucked if I am going to sit by and pretend like I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. Fuck that shit. Life happens as I speak it into being, and I’m supposed to pretend like I’m a cube farmicle? We can do better. I can do better.

I just think it’s useful to talk to other people about this stuff. Do some exercises and relaxation meditations. Rise through the spheres. Talk shop. You know, work together to get things going, in our own lives, in the spheres that we manage, and together for all the plebes and troglodytes who just haven’t done the work yet.

It’s arrogant, and assumes a lot. I get that, and I’m ok with that.

Join me on Thursday nights, we’ll be going over Hermetics and the application thereof. Like pros. Not like noobs.

Wow, what a week, eh? I’d like to be on record as saying, “That was total bullshit, man.”

So:

THAT WAS TOTAL BULLSHIT, MAN. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, AMERICA?

Ok. That’s mostly out of my system, but I’ll probably be saying that again. Often.

Already my friends and colleagues in the occult community are facing piles of steaming feces. One woman magician living in a very blue state, in a very liberal town, had this happen:

“Yesterday in broad daylight a total stranger, a man, came up to me and told me that he could do anything he wanted to me because “Donald Trump baby” and as I walked away said “What the hell lady, you aren’t anything special.”

That’s bullshit.

Lesbians, gays, the trans community, women, and people of color and alternate religions are feeling at risk after this election. Powerless. As if the support they felt they had last week disappeared.

It has not.

We are still with you. Most of America supports gay marriage, most of America believes Black Lives Matter, most of America still thinks your gender and your sexual proclivities are your business. We still live in the country we lived in last week.

We just learned, as Harper put it, that Boss Hog lives next door, and we never realized it until he burned down the fence.

So what do we do?

REMEMBER: You have the rights and privileges to being treated decently that you had a week ago. The laws haven’t changed. The courts haven’t changed. The business policies haven’t changed.

1) File charges. Assault, harrassment, whatever you can think of. Put it in writing, make it a federal case. Demonstrate that you aren’t going to put up with that shit. Call the cops if someone threatens you. Press charges. Don’t back down.

2) Pepper spray in self defense. Make them suffer. The cost of pepper spray did not increase as a result of the election yet. Go get some. Use it. Make a stink out of inappropriate interactions. Defend the rights you’ve achieved.

3) Magick:

Magick has always been the resort of the oppressed. The Goetia, arguably, is the non-freeman’s access point to the education we were denied by society. It is the equalizer. It is the invocation of the invisible powers of creation and maintenance of the universe we experience to protect us and to provide the privilege society would deny us.

First thing: Next Tuesday at dawn, or in a Mars Hour, make yourself the “Sixth Pentacle of Mars.” Draw the seal in red ink on some virgin parchment, and on the back put the First Pentacle of Mars, the one with Gheuriel, Ifiel, Barchafiel, and Madimiel on it. These are the four spirits (in my understanding of this stuff) that will actively work to achieve the intent of the Sixth Pentacle on your behalf. Light some incense and a candle in front of it, offer a shot of whiskey to it once a week, and tell them to continue your defense. If you want a metal engraved version of this, properly consecrated, I’ll be making them next week.

Next: Start doing Jupiter rites. Conjure the spirits of Jupiter at least once a month on Thursdays, and request Health and Wealth, and the Favor of those in positions of authority over you. Pay attention to opportunities afterwards, and use your resources. People will like you, and they won’t even stop to consider why they like you. They will listen, and your influence will just grow, naturally. You’ll find yourself in a position of authority, you’ll be respected, and you’ll be able to help others.

Then: Keep doing the Great Work. Make yourself better. Talk to your allies. Get better tools. Develop a cadre of invisible friends that give you the tools to change the world as you see fit. Jupiter spirits for wealth and prosperity and the favor of kings, Martial spirits for defense and offense, Venus spirits for love, harmony, and the community of support you need. Mercury spirits to break through obstacles and bring you transactional forutnes, Solar spirits to purify yourself and the world you live in. Saturn spirits to build your foundation, guard your borders, and rain death down upon your enemies. Lunar spirits to look good doing it.

It’s Work, it’s a process, but stake out the ground we’ve claimed, and don’t let them take it away. We’ll have to be more vocal, more adamant, we’ll have to write letters to representatives, protest, fight, and make a stink of things in the streets, in the office, at the coffee shops and fast food restaurants. We’ll have to call the cops, call H.R., deal with the backlash against us, and keep on making strides towards liberty and justice. We’ll have to drag all the scared disenfranchised mouth-breathers with us into the bright future kicking and screaming until they learn that equality and respect works out for them personally much better than their mental and financial impoverishment ever did.

Same as last week, but more apparent.

But remember:

We got this.

I really have to ask, what the hell is wrong with people?

I disagreed with some things one author at Scarlet Imprint said in one piece that was presented in one place without, when I read it, any other context.

Yesterday I get informed that people are taking that one thing and turning it into some kind of fucking crusade against the entire corpus of their work. People are bashing all the authors, all the books, everything they’ve done.

Look, grow the fuck up people. Nicholaj Frisvold did some amazing work, and he’s getting panned? Seriously? What’s next, Gordon White? Jake Stratton-Kent? Scarlet Imprint has been a vehicle for many of this generation’s best writers to present information to the community that has changed our lives, and how we understand and work with magic itself. They are a huge resource, and the occult community owes Scarlet Imprint a huge debt for the positive impact they have made on our understanding of magic.

Yet some people have lost their entire sense of proportion.

There was a time when you could call someone on bullshit and not have the entire world come crashing down on people’s head. You could have civil discourse. You could criticize one work without criticizing the people who wrote it, and having that get turned into the demonization of everyone they ever worked with.

But those days are apparently gone.

I don’t like *the way* Peter Grey made his points in the Forging of the Body of the Witch presentation. I don’t agree with some conclusions he reached in Lucifer Princeps, and I don’t agree with some things he said in Red Goddess, either, I experience Babalon a lot differently.

That doesn’t mean the man is shit, his work is shit, his partner is shit, the entirety of everything he’s done is shit. Christ, we’re writers, we make things to read, and like any craftsperson, some people will like our work, others won’t.

But if you don’t like something, don’t like the thing. Don’t try to ruin it for everyone else. In the original critique of the single piece I made, I closed the piece with respect to the people who get something out of that approach on purpose. People get to do what they want to with their bodies, their spiritual path, and their lives. That was entirely my problem with *some* of the things he was saying.

And when you read it with the “sister pieces” of his presentation written and presented by Alkistis Dimech, you realize that they aren’t intentionally saying things to oppress women, their intent is the same as every other writing magician I know, to free people from the traps of their own minds so they can reclaim their personal power.

The worst thing I can say about Peter Grey is that in one piece that I’ve read, I found his choice of words and the implications of those words disturbing because he sounds like too many of the voices people hear growing up that tell them they aren’t good enough, and they aren’t good enough because of their bodies.

It’s ok for me not to like what he wrote there, and it’s ok for me to like other things he does, and it’s important to be able to have civil discourse about things that you disagree with.

I offered Scarlet Imprint a chance to talk to me about all this stuff, and they said they had no interest in it. Then they accused me of deliberately misinterpreting things because I have previously expressed disagreements with Peter Grey. I think that’s ridiculous, but I understand, when you see the shit people are doing on social media over this. They’re angry and upset, and it’s apparently all my fault, but whatever.

They suggested I needed to make a retraction and apologize, because of what other people have turned this into. I disagree. My critique of his presentation stands. There are probably holes in my critique that could be filled with a conversation, but that isn’t going to happen.

But people need to back off on attacking Peter, Alkistis, and the authors of Scarlet Imprint. There is no need for a witch hunt and wild accusations. If you don’t like his approach, don’t use it. If you do like it, and it works for you, go for it.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Really.

Last week I saw an interesting article on what makes a witch a witch, “Forging the Body of a Witch,” by Peter Grey. Written in the language of a true bard, this essay is packed with rich language, complex sentence structures, and a turn of phrase that brings powerful images to the mind and heart. It was a fascinating read.

After getting past the prettiness of the words, though, I started thinking about what he was saying, and it really started to bother me.

First he was saying witches are basically broken:

My proposition is that witches are un-made by the social process, by the constrictions that distort the body of desire and are played out in a landscape of lost dreams. Witches are not only born and made, they are undone. They retreat, out of fear and out of necessity.

And the cures he suggests? Don’t be fat. Move more, don’t be still, society tells you to be still, but the witch’s body moves (but later he says you have to be still, but it’s different when he says it, because then you’re tied up). Have you tried vitamins? Herbs? Be more sexual, sexually liberated, but really, it’s women that need to hear that:

To celebrate the erotic furor that has always been condemned as witchcraft and that characterises female sexuality and female sexual response in particular. That is not fetishising the female but stating corporeal and historical matters of fact. Jouissance in the sense of Cixous, rather than Lacan, is the essence of witchcraft. Men can also learn these skills, though that is less common because for the most part, they do not need to.

Note he says he isn’t fetishizing the female, but then he goes on to say that an active actual witch is someone who is thin, fit, lithe, erotic, and into BDSM for the spiritual aspects of it, really.

Any resemblance to an adolescent male’s ideal sex slave who is somehow empowered by her submission and embrace of the icons of actual slavery is entirely coincidental, I’m sure.

And he goes on to talk about how witchcraft of this type was, after all, the product of the dungeon. The mythos, the cosmology, the entire foundation was based on a warping of the idea of the Sabbatic Goat, an idea that was created in the minds of sexually repressed Christian torturers, who then broke the bodies of women, with penetration and blood, and bondage, and pain, until the women adopted the fantasies of these psychotic men as their own, their broken psyches longing for the release of the flames.

And this is the mythos he suggests we embrace, including the methodologies. A return to a thing that never was, the adoption of a view of female sexuality that was foisted on them by men with red hot irons, who tortured, maimed, and finally killed those whose intelligence and psyches they had shattered.

I don’t see how that witch is a model for today’s women. Embracing an ideal that never was? That happens to be a sex slave, or sure looks like one?

I think today’s witches can do better.

What if your power as a witch had nothing to do with how you look, how you fuck, or don’t fuck, whether you believe new age theories of the vital importance of vitamins and herbal supplements, and whether or not you want to be tied up and spanked to enlightenment?

What if your power wasn’t measured according to a standard of a 14-year-old male’s ideal submissive bound sex toy? What if…

And this is kind of wild, I know…

What if you’re actually already powerful?

Regardless of your body type, if you can achieve an orgasm when you want to, what if that was ok, and there’s no need for you to subscribe to a narrative of innate brokenness that can only be redeemed and healed through pain? What if you weren’t really robbed of a childhood of innocence and bliss and purity because it never existed?

What if you’re actually fine, but you’re just tired because life can be hard sometimes?

Meh.

Hermetics teaches that we already have the power to do what we will, we just forget because we get distracted. Remembering that is the point of the Work. You don’t have to lose weight, take magnesium or witchy herbs, or be a nymphomaniac spewing crotch fluids on everything in sight to prove you’re a strong independent human who don’t need no other human, even though you’re trying to live up to (usually) his standards anyway.

You’re already powerful. You can change your entire life today, by making different choices. Where you work, who you work with, your career path, whatever. You can go to another country. You can leave the family and friends you’ve had all your life and go on an adventure. You can join a coven, take up new forms of magic, write a book, start a blog, volunteer in a political campaign, start a stand-up comedian career, clean out your basement, or order an amazing pizza. You have the power to change your entire world, every day, and the experiences you have in that day.

And you can use spells and rituals and curses and hexes and blessings and sabbats and equinoxes and solstices and community and politics and whatever you feel like to aid in that, by sitting still, or moving, as you see fit, when you see fit, as you see fit, regardless of whether anyone else sees your work as fit.

You can do other things with that mind of yours walking around in that body of yours, you powerful witch you, and it’s the doing of other things that makes a difference.

So yea, if Peter’s article speaks to you where you’re at, and you found something valuable in it that you want to pursue because it’s actually what you want, then great. You have the power to become a lean mean vitamin chewing herb taking BDSM scene queen machine, if you want that, and more power to you if you find what you’re looking for in that path.

But your power isn’t about your sex. It’s about what you do with yourself.

A few months ago, a client asked me to make him a Spirit Pot for an entity from the Lemegeton’s Goetia. I bought the ingredients, and before I put them together, he canceled.

This morning, I was doing some Work with Bune, and I got the urge to take those ingredients and swap them out for a Bune pot to send out into the world. An inspiration, if you will.

Putting thought to word to deed, I did.

So here’s a Bune Spirit Pot. It started out as a small box from Amazon, ivory colored and trimmed in brass. It received a generous amount of hyssop and high john root, some dried raisins, some amethyst, and a piece of coral I found on the beach in Florida. I was also compelled to include a raw copper ingot I had laying around, something I made a while ago before I started ordering my copper disks from online stores. Of course, it has the engraved seal of Bune (the one that works best in my experience) on a copper disk inside.

Duly consecrated, the spirit invoked and quite happy in the home I’ve made it, I am happy to offer it to anyone who wants it. I only have one, but I could make a couple more if there’s an interest, but it takes me forever to get around to it.

These are going for $275, and I’ve got one made, and the stuff to make two more, but that’s it. Three total available, I’m trying really hard not to do deficit selling these days:

Now for some Bune Spirit Pot fun…

I sold one of these Bune pots to a client on request, and after he’d received it, I got the following messages from him on Facebook:

Hey all you dads, hope your Father’s Day was awesome. I got to speak to most of my kiddos, and to my own Dad, and that was pretty great. We had “good speaks” as Harper likes to say. Connected, joyful, in-jokes, self-deprecation, the occasional ayyyyyyy, and terrible puns. It was awesome. I can die tomorrow and trust I did my part to make the world better JUST by having the kiddos I have.

But today I’m thinking about another thing.

Dads have a power we don’t like to own, because it’s scary as shit:

Every dad is a Magus… to their kids.

Every word we speak is a seed, and it falls on the most fertile of soils, and it stays with them for the rest of their lives. I hear my dad when I work on a car, or go fishing, or every time I screw up in life’s projects because I forgot to ask, “What do I do before I do this?” But I also hear him telling me how proud he is when I do well, even if he doesn’t even know what I’m up to. I got lucky like that.

I’ve talked to people a lot over the years about how they view the idea of “God” as a divinity, and as I’ve gotten to know them, I’ve learned that every one of them have an understanding of “God” that aligns 99.999% with their understanding of their fathers, in real life.

We shape reality with everything we do, as dads. We make the next wave of feminism with our choices with our daughters. We shape the politics of our nation by example. We lay out the framework of the next generation’s experience of the Patriarchal Archetype of Divinity, just by playing shitty guitar to them when they’re falling asleep, fighting the system for them when they’re being wronged, believing them, listening, and loving them because they are awesome.

So dads, and father figures of any type, don’t forget to be cool.

It matters.

Below you’ll find a link to an interview I did this weekend with John R. King, IV, also known on the internet as “Imperial Arts.”

John and I go back about 20 years, and have had our share of shenanigans. When we met he was mostly a chaos magician, and then 20 years later when we ran into one another again, he was still sort of a chaos magician at heart, but he’d applied it to his life and his studies, as if the tenets of Chaos Magick were for real.

And it worked out really well for him.

While I disagree with a lot of his interpretations of systems, and practices, I really enjoyed talking to someone with his depth of devotion and practice. I think his real-life views on the spirit-conjure path we travel will challenge many people’s opinions, and also demonstrate a thing about the people who Work with grimoires has been proven true across the course of interviews with people I’ve done lately:

In the end, whether we consider what we are doing to be “going by the book” or not, we all create our own system based on our experiences, and its effectiveness, regardless of the opinions of detractors, is only going to be determined by one person:

The Magician doing the Magick.

Also, whoever said I should get some music intro involved, it wasn’t a lot of fun.

So without further ado, here’s the interview:

Nine or ten paragraphs in, I get to the point, sorry, but there’s reasons.

This post is about what is best for the good of humanity. TL;DR – What’s good for humanity is Magick, the Great Work, Gnosis, Illumination, Enlightenment, and getting together as practitioners to remind ourselves that WE DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

And we’re planning an event related to that. And it’s not the royal we. So, on with the first things:

At a recent O.T.O. event, I got to hear Dr. David Shoemaker say something that has stuck with me. He was discussing the Guf-Nephesh-Ruach-Neschemah parts of the soul, and he was talking about the evolution of consciousness over time. Specifically, he said in a couple thousand years, we’ll look back at the people of our time as savages who lived primarily from the Ruach instead of from the Neschemah in the same way as we today judge historic peoples who acted from the Nephesh and Guf as savages.

Our society shows records of when our laws and customs were Guf (or the physical body)-based, primarily; clan warfare for resources, marriage that treated the participants like property, laws based on preserving the property of dynasties that provided for the well-being of the bodies of the tribe, and the leaders of the tribe.

Then the concerns about the Nephesh took prominence, and it was not just property that mattered, but the affairs of the heart, the emotions, the feelings that became of value to society in the Romantic periods. Divorce became functional and useful, because the welfare of the body was more of a given as we evolved socially. Marriage became an expression of the feelings of the heart, and the emotional wellbeing and safety of the participants with the introduction of the prenuptual agreement.

Today we live in a world that values the Ruach, the intellect that analyzes and determines the value and worth of our choices rationally, recognizing the needs of the body, and of the heart, but also the consequences of pissing everything away on a poorly-thought-out emotional decision.

Sometimes, and mostly. There are pockets of hold-outs, and sometimes we still screw it up, because this is a practice, a process, not a science that works out the same way every time.

But one of these days we’ll be a society that is founded on the principles and values that come from the Neschemah. We’ll be operating from that image-of-god part of us, or that god-particle consciousness, or that Enlightened/Illuminated state, and we’ll all still have struggles, but not these struggles.

Not people getting murdered because of what they choose to do with their genitalia.

The whole hetero-normative thing is a hold-out from the guf-consciousness. We had to pass on genes to the next generation, we had to have 6 kids to make sure 2 survived to replace us and maybe grow more of us a few hundred years ago. But the global body-consciousness is over that genetic track, and we’ve overpopulated, and are killing our environment in ways that will kill us all. So we have queer traits popping up to control our production of offspring. It’s natural and biological, and normative behavior in most of the animals on the planet. When a species overproduces, we get fabulous gays to make up for it. It’s normal Guf-stuff, really, but our culture hasn’t caught up yet.

And in truth, every culture that has thrived has eventually developed a normative queer aspect to it, guys, so let’s quit pretending it’s unnatural, and start maybe just culling the folks with problems with this fact from the herd? I’m down for a three-strikes-and-you’re-out law for homophobes, for the good of humanity.

And that is what this post is all about.

The good of humanity.

I got a ping from Tony Silvia, a Gnsotic friend who hosts Talk Gnosis regularly yesterday, asking what we can do as magicians to stop this shit. I was all “Mars, Saturn, The Lightning of Jupiter!” when I read it at first, but I stopped.

And thought a bit.

And realized STOPPING the shit that happened at the Pulse nightclub is exactly what we’re trying to do on a global scale for all humanity.

Tony does it with Gnosticism.

I do it with Hermeticism, and the Ecllesia Gnostica Catholica, within the A.:A.: and O.T.O. It is the purpose of the Great Work of the Rosicrucian systems, it is the outcome of the production of the Philosopher’s Stone. It is the Panacea to all ills that plague mankind upon the Earth.

The idea is that as we raise ourselves, all those we interact with have an opportunity to be raised with us. It’s the same boon extended to the demons by some medieval magicians, as I am raised, so shalt thou be raised, or peace between us forever or whatever. It’s the boddhisattva vow to not go on until everyone else gets it, to be the tutor until everyone manifesting is on the same page with the same short cuts as everyone else, no one left behind.

It’s the compassion for everyone else who suffers brutality, and also for those who suffer being brutes.

We do magick to make the world better. For us, through us, by us, yes, but not just that. Our lives, we see eventually, are better when everyone else’s lives are better. So we magick for them. We solve (Salve) their problems, and let their solutions coagulate around them. That’s what we do as magicians. We Solve the problems.

Tony is working on an Event. It will be Sunday June 26th. It will be geared towards getting the planet’s human population to kick things up a notch, and to be better to one another. To fix the things in us plural that result in us singular being total fucktards. Including, but not limited to the kind of things that unfolded in Orlando.

So whatever belief you are, whatever path you follow, if you think the world could use some enlightenment, a little illumination, join us on Sunday the 26th. I’ll post the details of the rite I’ll be doing, he’s putting together more stuff.

Anyone else interested in throwing other hats in the ring with the same aim, by all means, let’s do this.

Kick the world up a notch, get the rest of ’em to catch up and lap us, so we’re trying to catch up with them, instead of getting them to catch up with us.

Do your part, magicians, to change this world a bit. Add some momentum to the evolution of the population.

Sunday.

June 26, 2016.

Illuminate the World.