Couple people have asked, so I’ll tell you.

Joe doesn’t tell you what you have to believe. He just helps. Like Mother Theresa.

Joe’s been treated badly by Christians, personally. So have most Pagans. That’s bullshit. Jesus wasn’t like that. I want to remind Pagans of the message of Christ, that God loves you no matter what. No matter what.The Bible says God revealed himself to Pagans through their poetry and their philosophy (Acts 17:22-28). The Bible says Melchizedek was the forerunner of Jesus Christ, and guess what folks, Melchizedek wasn’t Hebrew, didn’t worship JHVH, and never heard of Jesus. He just worshipped “The Most High God” (Hebrews 7). It also says Christianity is for Christians and that only God (the holy spirit) can convert anyone. Our job is to love our neighbors as ourselves. That’s it.

So in part, I’m trying to make up for my ignorant brothers. (Paul calls a lot of people “ignorant brothers” in the Bible. They’ve been around as long as Christ.)

Also, Jesus said that when you visit people in prison, you’re visiting him. I don’t do that. I don’t have time, or even the inclination. But I have money, thanks to God’s revelations about working with Goetic spirits throughout my life. That’s something I can send out.

Another thing is compassion. I am an asshole, as many of my readers know. I don’t like people in general. As individuals, most people are alright, and have some redeeming qualities. As a whole, we’re an evil lot. I think prisoners are mostly there for good reason, and probably deserve worse. But I’ve been in jail a couple times. It sucks. I deserved it, and probably worse. I had a mommy and daddy to bail me out. They knew me better than the judge or cops did. They knew more about me than just the crimes I had committed. They saw past the criminal to the human underneath.

The key to the Great Work is found in “Knowing yourself.” As a result, we tend to spend a lot of time being pretty self-centered. But the thing about the Great Work is that what we learn about ourselves is applicable to other humans too. It’s a Solar understanding, or was for me. Some folks get it at Venus.

Regardless of where we learn it, we learn to see past the crime to the man who committed it, just as we learn to see past the our focus on Growth and Diminishment, the Devices of Evil, the Guiles of Desires, Domineering Arrogance, Daring and Rashness of Audacity, Striving for Wealth by evil means, and the Ensnaring Falsehoods of the realms of form as we ascend through the Spheres and Work with the Celestial Intelligences. I’ll go into detail about those in the future,they’re from the Divine Pymander, sections 24-26 if you’re curious.

But the point is, as we perform the Great Work, ascending and descending in power as outlined in the Emerald Tablet, it’s supposed to change us. It changes me. I don’t just see criminals who deserve their punishment, I see myself and all the times I fucked up. I see in Joe all the people, my mommy and daddy, my kids, my online friends and father-in-law, all the folks who are there for me in spite of my bullshit, who give and help and guide and teach and show the way when I’m lost and miserable.

Does it matter that he’s a pagan? No, it doesn’t. He’s someone I was lucky to meet through Fr. Bonehead’s friendship. Since I know him, and I know he’s doing something worthwhile, I’ll spend some money on that. It’s no big deal, really. I give to other charities too. Cops who get shot, Firemen who get burned, Vets missing limbs, Breast Cancer (the boobies you save may be the ones you love!),  and my Mom’s fundy Christian ministry that focuses on getting abused women from Islamic countries to America where they can’t have their noses cut off for burning dinner. Sure, they preach the love of Christ a lot as they’re helping these women, but honestly, that’s not so bad. A loving God is what they need to know about most, imho; Mom’s got her issues, but she knows how to teach about the Love of God.

I hope it’s coming across clearly. It’s a mixture of love, respect, thanksgiving, compassion, and a degree or two of guilt. Joe doesn’t guilt anyone. He was born and raised pagan, and he doesn’t use the kind of Christian guilt tactics that I used in my previous post. That’s great for him, but I’m not above motivating people to give out of guilt for being an asshole. Even a shitty thing like guilt can be turned around and used for good. That’s the main lesson of the Great Work anyway. Turn the shit into something useful.

Couple people have asked, so I’ll tell you.

Joe doesn’t tell you what you have to believe. He just helps. Like Mother Theresa.

Joe’s been treated badly by Christians, personally. So have most Pagans. That’s bullshit. Jesus wasn’t like that. I want to remind Pagans of the message of Christ, that God loves you no matter what. No matter what.The Bible says God revealed himself to Pagans through their poetry and their philosophy (Acts 17:22-28). The Bible says Melchizedek was the forerunner of Jesus Christ, and guess what folks, Melchizedek wasn’t Hebrew, didn’t worship JHVH, and never heard of Jesus. He just worshipped “The Most High God” (Hebrews 7). It also says Christianity is for Christians and that only God (the holy spirit) can convert anyone. Our job is to love our neighbors as ourselves. That’s it.

So in part, I’m trying to make up for my ignorant brothers. (Paul calls a lot of people “ignorant brothers” in the Bible. They’ve been around as long as Christ.)

Also, Jesus said that when you visit people in prison, you’re visiting him. I don’t do that. I don’t have time, or even the inclination. But I have money, thanks to God’s revelations about working with Goetic spirits throughout my life. That’s something I can send out.

Another thing is compassion. I am an asshole, as many of my readers know. I don’t like people in general. As individuals, most people are alright, and have some redeeming qualities. As a whole, we’re an evil lot. I think prisoners are mostly there for good reason, and probably deserve worse. But I’ve been in jail a couple times. It sucks. I deserved it, and probably worse. I had a mommy and daddy to bail me out. They knew me better than the judge or cops did. They knew more about me than just the crimes I had committed. They saw past the criminal to the human underneath.

The key to the Great Work is found in “Knowing yourself.” As a result, we tend to spend a lot of time being pretty self-centered. But the thing about the Great Work is that what we learn about ourselves is applicable to other humans too. It’s a Solar understanding, or was for me. Some folks get it at Venus.

Regardless of where we learn it, we learn to see past the crime to the man who committed it, just as we learn to see past the our focus on Growth and Diminishment, the Devices of Evil, the Guiles of Desires, Domineering Arrogance, Daring and Rashness of Audacity, Striving for Wealth by evil means, and the Ensnaring Falsehoods of the realms of form as we ascend through the Spheres and Work with the Celestial Intelligences. I’ll go into detail about those in the future,they’re from the Divine Pymander, sections 24-26 if you’re curious.

But the point is, as we perform the Great Work, ascending and descending in power as outlined in the Emerald Tablet, it’s supposed to change us. It changes me. I don’t just see criminals who deserve their punishment, I see myself and all the times I fucked up. I see in Joe all the people, my mommy and daddy, my kids, my online friends and father-in-law, all the folks who are there for me in spite of my bullshit, who give and help and guide and teach and show the way when I’m lost and miserable.

Does it matter that he’s a pagan? No, it doesn’t. He’s someone I was lucky to meet through Fr. Bonehead’s friendship. Since I know him, and I know he’s doing something worthwhile, I’ll spend some money on that. It’s no big deal, really. I give to other charities too. Cops who get shot, Firemen who get burned, Vets missing limbs, Breast Cancer (the boobies you save may be the ones you love!),  and my Mom’s fundy Christian ministry that focuses on getting abused women from Islamic countries to America where they can’t have their noses cut off for burning dinner. Sure, they preach the love of Christ a lot as they’re helping these women, but honestly, that’s not so bad. A loving God is what they need to know about most, imho; Mom’s got her issues, but she knows how to teach about the Love of God.

I hope it’s coming across clearly. It’s a mixture of love, respect, thanksgiving, compassion, and a degree or two of guilt. Joe doesn’t guilt anyone. He was born and raised pagan, and he doesn’t use the kind of Christian guilt tactics that I used in my previous post. That’s great for him, but I’m not above motivating people to give out of guilt for being an asshole. Even a shitty thing like guilt can be turned around and used for good. That’s the main lesson of the Great Work anyway. Turn the shit into something useful.

Ever wonder what a person attempting to call a sub-lunar spirit (like from the Goetia) should feel like if they haven’t done the extremely easy and basic work of getting in touch with their HGA?

For serious. Joe thanked me on his blog. I sent him less than 3% of what I make in a week, and he’s the one that has to go to prison to help people.

I don’t care what you people believe, whether you’re Christian, Pagan, Atheist, or Buddhist. You’re a human, and so are they. Help. Contact Joe to get info on helping his prison ministry a bit. Do something for someone else.

Joe says I gave him the most he’s gotten from outside the ministry.
That’s some sorry-ass bullshit. Take a buck or five out and mail it to Joe.

This is like the most basic money magic on the planet. You want to make some quick money? Give a little away to a good cause. It ain’t rocket science. You plant a seed, it grows the fruit it came from. The basic formula of magic, take a symbol and do something symbolic with it. Fuckin’ shit, man. Give some money away, and wow, it comes right back to you with interest.

I get a couple hundred people a day through here. Most of you are rich Americans. (No, not me, you say. I’ve got car payments, or tuition, or books to buy. Bullshit, you’ve got more money in your COUCH than some of the folks that email me from Brazil. Hell, you have a couch!)

Each of you take a sec and go through your change cup. You’ve got enough in your car to make a donation that would get those prisoners a smoke, a book, or something that reminds them that they are human and that there are other humans who give a shit about them just because they’re human. You don’t have to pay for everything Joe does alone. Send a little. Someone else will send a little too. But if you send NOTHING, you’re an asshole. A cheap asshole. You spent more on your wand/crystal ball/latest Llewellyn Book than you’ve given to charity this year.

So many of you are so thrilled that you helped get a black man elected, oh yay for you; you voted. You want to talk HOPE? In prison, the hope is that you get out with your ass in tact, with as many teeth as you came in with, and hell, alive would be nice. 

Think about being a pagan in prison, where murderers with one tooth and nazi tattoos are the only people who’ve heard of FUTHARK, and you really don’t want to talk to them about the Goddess, because it gives them a bulge in their pants. Think about a Wiccan priest coming to visit you in that hell, to talk, to teach, to listen, to give you care packages, to bring books on your faith. THINK about it. Use those visualization skills you’ve honed saying “AGLAH” a thousand times while drawing invisible blue pentagrams. Do something useful with it. Put yourself in another’s shoes for a sec.

Picture it.

And then GIVE JOE SOME MONEY. Hell, he takes donations online at this site:

http://veritaswicca.com/CarcerVia.html

You can get the address by dropping him a line at that link, and you can mail him some money if you don’t have a credit card. Take six quarters and an envelope to the grocery store, buy a stamp and get the cashier to give you a dollar for the quarters. Send him a buck and a note telling him your sorry for not helping more, because you damned well should.

And Christians: He’s doing what Jesus told YOU (and me) to do. We ain’t doing it. Least we can do is support him.

You may remember the Geomantic Tumblers I recently purchased from Witchdoctor Joe (lord don’t let the check bounce [Edit: too late. Sending cash.]). I’ve been using them as single-roll indicators. Ask a question, roll, check the meaning, and go with that as an answer. It has worked well enough (100% accuracy on things I can prove), but it’s not that different from flipping a coin.

The other day, talking to Fr. S.L., a brilliant man, prone to long monologues on political topics, but otherwise a decent fellow (for a liberal), the subject of the geomantic tumblers came up. He said I needed to make four rolls, get the Mothers, then get from them the neices and nephews and uncles and step-cousines twice removed… I didn’t know what he was talking about, if you can’t tell.

It seems there’s an actual divination method associated with Geomancy that I had no idea about! Checking Joe’s instructions, I found that I was supposed to be looking for more details on geomancy from certain sources. Ignoring my arcane Googlemancy techniques, I decided to simply go to the web sites Joe suggested.

From one of them, I think it was Greer’s site, I found a link that generates all the family members you need to do a reading (like Agrippa details in his On Geomancy book) based on the values of the four mothers you put into the program. You throw the tumblers four times while thinking of the question, recording the results of each throw. Put the values of each row into the sixteen blanks, and click “Generate Points” and wha bam! Instant results, witnesses and Judge included!

So, having learned this technique for getting more detailed readings, I have already employed it to my advantage. Asking questions about various topics covered lately, I found the Arbatel spirits are Celestial and Terrestrial combined, a bit of both; I found that today’s job searches can generate new work in the price range I’m looking for, but it depends on meeting with the right people. (I did some Mercury Work with the Box to ensure I met the right people.)

Anyway, it’s a nifty addition to this magician’s tool kit, and I can’t thank Joe enough. Buy lots from him.

Frater Ararita418 (whose Public Identity has yet to be established) is the friend I mentioned in last night’s post. He has provided a web page with a link to his discussion on Angel Magic, titled “Courting Heaven’s Messengers.” He’s a well-spoken, refined brother. I am highly respectful of his scholarship, knowledge, and understanding of angelic magical systems. While listening, I’d find a thing he said that I’d disagree with, and then later he’d go over it in more detail, and I’d realize he agreed with my experience after all. It’s interesting to hear other people’s interpretations of things that confirm in odd ways what you’ve experienced.

So, click here and have a listen:

http://www.geocities.com/ararita418/angelclass.html

For some personal background, I met Ararita418 around the time I made contact with my HGA. He witnessed the changes I went through, and has been able to provide me with insights into what I’m going through as I go through it over the past three or four years. He’s a Merkavah fiend, and has developed several lessons that he teaches on Angel magic. I can’t wait for him to get into the demons, but he’s being wise and waiting for K&C.

He talks in this piece about the grimoire The Sword of Moses, and it reminded me of Fr. POS’s dream of receiving a Sword after doing the Enochian magic with EXARP. I’d like to see those two get their heads together and compare notes some time.

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?

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?

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?

In the post from 10-30-08, I suggested using the concentric circles I posted and the names of God, Archangels, Seals, etc. of each of the sphere’s aspects to perform a Kinetic Meditation.

In retrospect, I should have checked the graphics better. For one thing, there are too many circles. For another, the Names of God are wrong. :sigh:

Anyway, this is the corrected version. I corrected it in the other post, so there’s no real evidence that I was ever wrong, but for those who tried it and ended up getting nothing, or something just not… quite… right (sorry about your finger exploding, not my fault, you should double check this stuff yourself!), here’s the corrected graphic: