There are over 10,000 Hells, it seems. The Mantises (Manti?) are restless. And the Hyenas are stalking. Fortunately, they’re scavengers, so most of what they stalk is safe as long as it isn’t dead.
You aren’t dead, are you?
Tag: RufusAstraCheck
Tag: RufusAstraCheck
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Administrative stuff
See that Email the Author link below? If you’ve ever used it, please note that it hasn’t worked the whole time it’s been there until now. So if you sent me any emails, I wasn’t ignoring you, or too busy. I never got them. Thanks to Fr. POS, I found this out and addressed the issue. Feel free to contact me about any posts, comments, or whatever. I made a couple of friends I IM with now through that very process.
Oh and another thing, if you leave a comment on my posts, chances are I’ll answer them in the comments below. There’s an option for you to subscribe to follow-up posts, so if you want to see my response, check that box. Otherwise you’ll forget for months and when you get back to it, you’ll want to carry on the conversation and I’ll have no idea what you’re talking about.
I think that’s everything for now.
Happy camping.
Oh, P.S. I’ve been getting a lot of “I admire your work” emails. Please do not feed the ego. It’s large and takes manly steps while walking already. The fact is most of my stuff is fun and utilitarian, but there are artists out there that deserve more credit.
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Strange Days
Nothing interesting popped up in the Mercury work yesterday. I didn’t get around to it. :sigh: Excrement occurs.
We’re living in strange days, friends and compatriots. I went off on Dude that wanted to do the apocalypse rite, and I think he’s plannig on doing it this Saturday from the posts he’s made since then. Or he’s going to off himself. He’s been vague enough to let it be interpreted either way.
To him, I say: Don’t kill yourself, you’ve got a lot of potential, and you’ll be wasting it by offing yourself. Prove you’re an Adept by facing life on its own terms from a position of authority, not as a victim. Don’t be a bitch.
Now, assuming he’s going to go through with the Enochian-Goetic working to bring about Revelations’ series of events… Time to come clean. Years ago, I wrote my own Enochian Apocalypse ritual. I didn’t know shit about Enochian or Apocalypse at the time. It looked pretty bad ass though. I tried to get other people to do it, just in case it worked, but no one was interested. Years later, I know what would have happened if I’d gone through with it: I would have gone through my own apocalypse. The rest of the world would be fine.
I know I’m not the only magician to go through that phase. It seems to hit when you’re around 25-27, coinciding with the Saturn Return, when Saturn returns to the same place in the heavens that it was when you were born. Your old boundaries of life are shaken away, and you set the stage for the next 25 years or so of your life. It can be emotionally violent. It’s a death and rebirth of sorts, but in a spiritual way.
You realize that mommy and daddy, or whoever raised you, aren’t going to be there for you forever, and you have to face the fact that your life, for the rest of your life, is what you make of it. All you can control is your own actions, and how you react to others. Faced with this awareness of our own relative powerlessness, some folks decide to end the world as we know it. Kinda selfish, in my opinion, but I was there.
It doesn’t work. Most folks who do this have nothing happen. Some folks go insane, I’ve been told. I don’t know anyone personally that went over the edge, but people I trust assure me that they know folks who ended up in the looney bin after this kind of thing. I’m sure a bit of googlemancy could turn up a couple hundred examples of people who are convinced they’ve ended the world, started the apocalypse, or done some kind of insane crap. One guy on OccultForums was convinced he was literally killing the archangels of the spheres of the Sephiroth, and literally destroying the “real” Tree of Life.
Anyway, what’s likely going to happen to Dude is he’s going to instigate more fallout from his Saturn Return, and will end up going through his own personal apocalypse. Which might be good for him, I don’t know. I know the introduction to the HGA can be a lot like that, so maybe his HGA is getting him ready for the next level.
Regardless, if he kills himself, I WILL bind his spirit into a little pot (shown right; your spirit’s home for at least the rest of my life, and I’ll likely pass you on to some other magician when I die too) and roast it slowly over coals for not listening to me. And then I’ll use him as a spirit bitch and force him to do really nasty stuff, like clean out Cthulhu’s fat rolls.
(Note, I got that badass picture up there from this web site: http://civilizer.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/yet-another-award-for-bill-belichick/)
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Administrative stuff
See that Email the Author link below? If you’ve ever used it, please note that it hasn’t worked the whole time it’s been there until now. So if you sent me any emails, I wasn’t ignoring you, or too busy. I never got them. Thanks to Fr. POS, I found this out and addressed the issue. Feel free to contact me about any posts, comments, or whatever. I made a couple of friends I IM with now through that very process.
Oh and another thing, if you leave a comment on my posts, chances are I’ll answer them in the comments below. There’s an option for you to subscribe to follow-up posts, so if you want to see my response, check that box. Otherwise you’ll forget for months and when you get back to it, you’ll want to carry on the conversation and I’ll have no idea what you’re talking about.
I think that’s everything for now.
Happy camping.
Oh, P.S. I’ve been getting a lot of “I admire your work” emails. Please do not feed the ego. It’s large and takes manly steps while walking already. The fact is most of my stuff is fun and utilitarian, but there are artists out there that deserve more credit.
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Spirit Names, Spirit Names, Get Yer Spirit Names Here!
Well, it’s been damned near a month since I posted here last. I feel rather badly about that. Still, life does go on. 🙂
First of all, let me point you to an awesome compendium of over a thousand spirit names from a multitude of sources, quite possibly one of the most useful things I’ve found in a long, long time:
http://www.pdxnet.net/resrev/Angels.html
I don’t know the gnostic who is responsible for this, but god bless him or her.
In other news, I HATE my angel book. I deeply apologize for ever having started the damned thing. If you’re waiting for it to be finished, if you’ve emailed me that you’re interested, I can only say I’m sorry, and I WILL finish it, eventually, but it’s taking longer than anticipated because it turned out to be real WORK. Not just some Saturday afternoon type fest.
And in yet other news, I’ve recently created a spreadsheet that is useful for generating the names of the Good and Evil Genius of any electional chart using a part of Agrippa’s Book 3, Chapter 26. Specifically, the part that says:
“There are also the Arabians, and many others, and some Hebrews, who finde out the name of a Genius by the places of the five Hylegians, and making projection alwayes from the beginning of Aries, and the letters being found out according to the order of Hylegians with the Astrologers, being reduced into a known order, and being joyned together, make the name of a good Genius: but they draw the name of an evil Genius from the opposite Hylegian places, projection being made from the last degree of Pisces against the order of signs. ” (from Joe Peterson’s Esoteric Archives)
As a result of the wonders of modern technology, I can generate the names of Good and Evil Geniuses relatively quickly for times past, present, and future. Well, actually, only past or future. The present just slipped away yet again. 😉
Due to the holiday budget crunch, I’m looking for a way to turn this into a revenue stream. If you’re interested in learning the names of the Good and Evil Genius of any given time, feel free to email me at FrRedactumOpus@gmail.com, and I’ll send them to you for $5.00 through paypal. As long as you have a credit card, I can invoice you through paypal, so no worries. No cash, check, or money orders at this time.
Please include the time, date, and location for the the enterprise you’re referencing. Time zones would help too.
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Heading for the Red?
Words words words. I just deleted a huge old long post about how I’ve slipped in my Work, and replaced the Great Work with Working for money. After a lengthy discussion on sin, repentance, and how that works as a magician, after detailing out plans to get right with God through magic and balancing out my spheres with rituals, I had to face something uncomfortable. The only reason I wanted to get right with God was still so that I could get the money.What a pain in the ass.
How do you kill the Golden Calf? How do you stop lusting for results, if you’re only trying to stop lusting for results to get the results you lust after?
It’s totally absurd. I can’t stop wanting money. It’s good stuff. It buys good stuff. It solves a myraid of problems. Instead of turning away from wanting money, I’ve got to find a way to focus instead on the Great Work and getting money. I have to get in harmony. Integrate the passions for payola with the passions for God. To celebrate God in money, because it is, after all, an emanation from him as much as anything else is. It is what it is.
So, fuck it. Back to Bune. He’s always pulled my fat out of the fire. I’ll let him take care of the money, and I’ll just go back to focusing on the Great Work. I’ll just quit spending the money I get from my magic on stupid shit. Be fiscally responsible. I’ll Work with Tzadqiel on that aspect of my spheres, because as long as I’m being irresponsible, no amount of funding that irresponsibility will result in Wealth. But I still need the money to get out of the hole I’m in. Ignoring that would be pretty stupid. Sure, I’ll start by cutting back expenses, going through the steps that all the financial gurus say to do (which is basically spend less than you earn, frickin’ duh), but when it comes to generating the wealth, I’m still going to stick with the spirits.
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On free will and determinism
I now have conclusive proof that all things are predestinated, at least through July of 2038.
As we know, the present is what it is. Whatever happened before definitely did happen, and it caused what we are currently experiencing. If anything was different in the past, now wouldn’t be what it is. Therefore everything that has happened must have happened for this to be what it is.
If Free Will were more than an illusion bred from ignorance and fear of the future, then the future could not exist until all things that we are still in the process of choosing had already been chosen. If anything came to us from the future, that would be conclusive proof that the future did indeed exist, and therefore the present potentials have already been reached.
I have in my inbox proof that there is a future. I have received emails from July of 2038. Apparently, some time in the next thirty years, they will not only master sending messages through time, but they will also cure erectile dysfunction and perfect genetic manipulation of male genitalia, leaving them with a surplus of viagra, cialis, and herbal supplements to enlarge a specific part of the male anatomy. They are selling them to us in their past to still be able to turn a profit.
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Path of the Psychic
I got the most polite spam ever this morning. I moderate with Frater AVAD the yahoo group RealMagick. It’s a slow list lately, but it’s fun. The membership is broad, and topics include anything related to the practice of some form of magic, no matter what form that might be.
The email I got was polite and to the point. Guy said we might find his site interesting, so I checked it out. It’s a basic introduction to being a psychic. The information is presented clearly and concisely. It’s well written. It doesn’t get too deep, but it covers things in a general way that give the readers what they need to do further research if interested. I haven’t looked at all the pages, ut the ones I saw were impressive to me. Not that they were detailed, but that they were simple. It’s a brilliant study in minimalism, in a way.
The link is here:
http://www.pathofthepsychic.com/
If you’ve ever wondered if you’re a psychic, you might benefit from it. I’m definitely going to adopt some of the techniques he used to present the information. Speaking as a technical writer, this is how you should present introductory material.
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Coping with Difficult Times
Times can tough. Mercury is retrograde, and will be until tomorrow. He’s still going to be “slow” until November 1st. I’ve found that Mercury Retrograde seems to affect my communications negatively, specifically at the very beginning and very ending of the retrograde motion.
To mitigate the effects of Mercury Retrograde, as with any other astrological influence, you as a magician can appeal to the Intelligence or Archangel of the Sphere. You can also make a talisman for the planet when it is favorably situated in the heavens, and then tap into that power when the planet goes retro, or is combust, or whatever.
Last week, when I needed to communicate clearly with multiple Intelligences of multiple spheres, I took advantage of the placement of Mercury in the heart of the Sun. The boost of the solar forces overcame any negatives caused by Mercury’s retrograde motion, and as a result, the communications were clear and crisp. I was fortunate in the timing there, it wasn’t planned out or anything.
Another way to mitigate negative influences is through communion with the Intelligence of the Sphere. I use the Archangels of the Spheres as assigned by Trithemius in the Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals. Today is Wednesday, Mercury Day, and in the hour of Mercury I will be using a talisman I made last year when he was dignified. I’ll be conjuring Raphael here in a couple minutes, mostly to get the effects of Mercury’s transition from Retro to Direct smoothed out. I’ll also ask what might be going on in my own sphere of influence under the influence of Mercury that needs to be checked into. Sort of a Status Report from the VP in charge of Mercury.
I’d use the Box I made, but I don’t have a metal Mercury Talisman. I need to make one. It should be made out of Pewter, since pewter is a mercurial blend of metals. It’s also soft and easy to work with, and has a low melting point. Brass, bronze, or other mixed metals take on the properties of Mercury as well, according to Aaron Leitch. I trust him, he’s a veritable gold mine of information.
If they’re interesting, I’ll post the results later.
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Reminder: Today is Really Samhain
Last Friday was Halloween, but as Lavanah reminded (or in my case, “taught”) us, today is the day that Samhain should be falling on.
ERGO! Re-review last Friday’s blog post and see how that works out for you on a day when the sun is cross-quartered; if you didn’t see the spirit you were looking for, try it again today when the veils between the worlds is truly thinnest.
And really, shouldn’t we go trick-or-treating all over again? And light the candles in the gourds?
Not me, I’m a Christian… but we’re not THAT far removed from you heathens. Scrape a little of the Holy Roman Patina off, and voila!
Anyway, I should get candy. That’s all I’m sayin’.
