A while ago, I burned a Table of Practice into a piece of craft wood and stained it a nice pale oak color. It turned out nice, but I never got around to actually using it. I tend to use The Box mostly these days. Seems a waste to just keep it around, so it’s up for sale if you’d like to have it. Some of you may recognize it from the pictures in the Modern Goetic Grimoire.

It would come in handy for the Hermetic Merkavah course too.

It measures 5.5 or 6 inches across, I can’t remember and the ruler is ALL THE WAY in the other room. I’m including the crystal ball stand I made with it, but you’ll have to supply your own spherical stone to put on it. The pic below shows MY stone on it, and you totally can’t have it.

$45 buys this Table of Practice and scrying stone stand for your very own. If you’re interested, drop me a line. I’ve only got one, so it’s first come, first served.

 There’s a Star of David with a Yod in it, a Pentagram, a Maltese Cross, and IHVH inside the stand, and the names of the four Archangels around the outside in Celestial Script.

Is there, when you really think about it, any other kind?

After due consideration, it is with a heavy heart that we must come to the inevitable conclusion. While they have provided a level of amusement, and potentially furthered some few of our overall goals, we must weigh their meager contributions against the fundamental discord brought by their practices.

When they first appeared on the scene with their “chaos magick,” they presented themselves as an enemy of the conformist traditional approaches to the occult that most of us represent. Over the years they tried to gain respectability, and have come to be almost accepted, or at least tolerated as co-representatives of the Great Work by most of us. However, the inherent cognitive dissonance demanded by their approach to occult manipulation of events has always left them weakened in actual practice. Their internal schisms have left them splintered. Their comparatively weak results have left many of their own adherents disillusioned. The Ice Magic wars and the split between RAW/Timothy Leary Immortalists and the IOT/Peter Carroll Pact over the “immortality pill” has left them without even a cohesive front. There isn’t even a single figurehead bearing their standard.

These so-called “Justified Ancients of Mumu” were brought into the fold in hopes that they would reach the conclusion that their approach is juvenile and ineffective. I believe that those who will learn from their mistakes have, and the remaining adherents have already attained the degree of wisdom and insight that they are capable of attaining. It is time for those who have moved beyond the limits of belief system shuffling and have found the true power of magic in their personal Work to join the traditionalists among us and leave behind forever their affiliation with these miscreants.

I accept the “Information Model” as a valid representation of “Truth,” and hereby move that adherents to that approach be exempt from the disaffiliation.

For the rest of them, there is little hope of transcendence. Their crippled spheres of influence are too small to be of much use to us overall. In recent months, I’ve personally spent as much time breaking false programming resulting from their influence as I have furthering the transcendent enlightenment of humankind. I find that more and more students have come to me using the vocabulary of egregore and servitor, and have even found their viral memes retroactively manifesting in traditional tomes. John Greer, who has done us all a great service in translating the Picatrix with Christopher Warnock, recently demonstrated the degree of infection they have brought by weaving their philosophical tenets into his dissemination of the Alternate View we have crafted. His reference to “Hagbard’s Law” will, unfortunately, lead more people to read the diseased harmonic tome they used to infiltrate our culture. Another crop of magicians will inevitably be infected by their crude and ignorant approach to the forces of chaos and order, resulting in more loud-mouthed inexperienced chaoates muddying the streams and causing more distraction.

It is a dangerous weakening of the potent forces we represent in this plane.

Continued sanction of their practices by traditionalists will result in a repeat of the 1990s. Do any of us want to face that mindset at this stage of our Work? We know the 30-year cycle is repeating, as it always does, and the 1980s have about run their course. We can’t afford to have that degree of potential Workers distracted by the infectious madness of Discordia. While it is inevitable that the repetitious cycle will result in some renewed interest, we must make a concentrated effort to limit this madness.

While they claim to not want to upset the apple cart, and while they pretend not to want to cause any harm, they are clear in their actions that if one doesn’t like what they’re going to do, one had better watch out because they are coming through. We are left with but one option.

It’s time to kick out the JAMs.

You were warned, it totally says “Political Post” right up there.

Why would an anti-war president, one whose personal convictions lead him to want to end the war entirely, today, send more troops to Afghanistan in a near mirror-image of the surge policy used by his predecessor, who everyone hated?

Because he’s GOT TO.

Conjure up Michael and the Prince of Persia, if you don’t believe me. They’ll tell you.

Is Obama an idiot, or a highly intelligent man? Based on what I know about him, he’s not an idiot. If he’s reaching the same conclusions Bush reached about fighting wars over there, then there’s probably a reason for it.

That said, I still think he should start bringing the troops back home now. Doesn’t anyone else remember the role Afghanistan played in bringing down the USSR? It’s a death trap, a money pit. Fuck that shit.

[Edit: Ok, so he was for the war in Afghanistan. I hope he wants out now.]

I am thankful for a lot of things, but at the top of the list where the blog is concerned are my readers and the personal friends I’ve made through this medium and other online forums. You guys are a constant source of inspiration in my life. Thanks for everything.

I sit in the basement office with no windows, often not even aware of whether it’s day or night, especially since daylight savings time changed. It’s usually while the kids are asleep or are playing with friends, and I’m relatively free of interruptions. I sit in here reading magical tomes, reading blogs and emails, doing magic, and writing out my thoughts and experiences as I go along performing the Great Work.

Yet I’m not alone; I have a plurality, a social network of magicians also performing the Work a few keystrokes away. I understand about us being a family unit, brothers and sisters spread throughout every continent on the planet, except Antarctica. No one practices magic in Antarctica. It’s too freakin’ cold. Seriously.

So, it’s to readers, writers, and to all my brothers and sisters of the Work that I offer my thanks. May your days be as fulfilled as you make mine.

Martialis asked what we should do about the Christian extremists like the ones praying death on Obama…

Magic. We should do magic.

Gaap to release the spirits they’ve bound to their missions, Michael to enlighten them with the true message of Christ and to defend their victims, Cassiel to bind the bastards, Sammael to strengthen the warriors on the front line and to bring swift and just victory, Raphael to heal and to confuse their minds, to disrupt their communication network, and to bring a permanent Merc. Retro effect into their lives so they’re too busy trying to figure out why nothing works right to pray, Anael to keep their prayers from reaching fruition, Gabriel to enshroud them in harmless fantasies.

Conjure Purson to reveal any local hotspots of prayer warriors, conjure Paimon, Aimon, Oriens, and Egyn to confound their lives, call upon their daimons to drive them into the true presence of God where they will see their actions for what they really are.

Ideally you’ll be healing them so they not only stop what they’re doing, but begin to help instead. Ideally you’ll be in a position to love them completely and take responsibility for aiding in their enlightenment.

But it’s better to do something than nothing, so just do something.

There are 100 people following the blog now. Woohoo! That’s only counting the people with Google accounts.

Whether you “follow” or not, may your holidays be blessed with peace, enlightenment, and joy. And no stupid relatives making inappropriate conversation at the dinner table.

Oh, and may Bune bring you many riches, plus some left over! I’ll light a candle this weekend for you.

Thanks!