HermesBahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, wrote in one of his tablets: The first person who devoted himself to philosophy was Idris. Thus was he named. Some called him also Hermes. In every tongue he hath a special name. He it is who hath set forth in every branch of philosophy thorough and convincing statements. After him Balínús derived his knowledge and sciences from the Hermetic Tablets and most of the philosophers who followed him made their philosophical and scientific discoveries from his words and statements....
http://www.alchemy-works.com/incense_kyphi_dioscorides.html
You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.'
[Ibn Rumi]
'In short, my friend, build a temple [meaning a Lightbody/Hume] from a single stone.' [The alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis]
“Creeds, ritual, religion and different theologies are all derived from man’s yearning for the vast Reality beyond - and flow in the thousand different forms, fertilizing many fields, calming many communities, refreshing tired people and, at last, carrying people to the ocean of Bliss.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes
You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.'
[Ibn Rumi]
'In short, my friend, build a temple [meaning a Lightbody/Hume] from a single stone.' [The alchemist Zosimos of Panopolis]
“Creeds, ritual, religion and different theologies are all derived from man’s yearning for the vast Reality beyond - and flow in the thousand different forms, fertilizing many fields, calming many communities, refreshing tired people and, at last, carrying people to the ocean of Bliss.” Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes
Jane Rebecca Yorke was an English medium who was the last person convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Believe it or not, in 1944, she was arrested and convicted of being a witch because of claims she was defrauding the public by exploiting wartime fears. During séances with Yorke, undercover police were told to ask about non-existent family members. Yorke provided elaborate details on them (which she claimed had been provided by her spirit guide) such as telling an officer that his non-existent brother had been burned alive on a bombing mission. Yorke’s alleged spirit guide was a Zulu and she also frequently claimed to summon Queen Victoria.
She was arrested in July, 1944. At her trial in September at London’s Central Criminal Court she was found guilty on seven counts against the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Yorke was fined £5 and placed on good behavior for three years, promising she would hold no more séances. Another woman was also tried and convicted of witchcraft that year – Helen Duncan (pictured above) of Scotland – wrongly referred to as the last witch. The Witchcraft Act was repealed in the UK in 1951, but is still in force in Israel which retains much of its pre-independence law – the penalty in Israel is 2 years imprisonment.
She was arrested in July, 1944. At her trial in September at London’s Central Criminal Court she was found guilty on seven counts against the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Yorke was fined £5 and placed on good behavior for three years, promising she would hold no more séances. Another woman was also tried and convicted of witchcraft that year – Helen Duncan (pictured above) of Scotland – wrongly referred to as the last witch. The Witchcraft Act was repealed in the UK in 1951, but is still in force in Israel which retains much of its pre-independence law – the penalty in Israel is 2 years imprisonment.
“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef”
Tom Robbins
“A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived."” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Tom Robbins
“A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived."” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Like any good builder you want to work as economically as possible and that means working with what materials are already on site. And what's on-site are the major and minor archetypes/platonic forms. The concept of door/entrance/portal is universal, you'll need one of those; wall; pillar; path; all pre existing concepts...
Don't tell me what you want, tell be what you want to achieve. Then I'll tell you what you need to build meet your achievement.What is it that we need to get us to where we want to go. Or back a stage further Where do we want to go. Or back once more What drives us to where we want to go. And finally you arrive at motivation. What do you want or what do you think you need. At this point the internal diagaloge usually colapses under the sheer weight of introspection. The absolute truth is that there is no want or need. There is no grit with which to grow your pearl. There is simply nothing there. And yet there is still the impulse. And at this point you realise that you are being driven. A certain, very small, proportion of humanity are driven in this direction. It's always been this way throughout history. It is not like any other vocation. Don't equivilate it to being a born artist or athlete or politician. No, because you can be a career politician or artist and a magician. It's a strata all of its own. Many are called you have been called. How you behave from here on is will determine as to whether you are one of the few who are chosen. Magic is reciprocal. When you look deeper into magic magic looks deeper into you. How you handle publicity it from here determines whether you are going to be a magician or martyr. Magicians don't have secrets for nothing. Now back to the plot. Important point this. Remember fluffy begets fluffy. require of a circle? The best way to find this out is to describe and understand the problem/opportunity. Low magic/grit in oyster. As above so below. Biggest clue ever. If we want to know about other worlds don't look outwards and speculate in a void. Look inwards and discover what you already knew. Everything you need to know about everything you need to know is in you at a celular level. There is no reason to believe that this new land is going toi be in any way different to our own. There'll be a set of natural rules (different from our own world but nevertheless fixed) and there'll be a population, and they'll have there own proportion of heros and villians.
Here's the problem: we have the licence to reside for an unknown but finite period of time, the length of which will be decided not by ourselves, in a land the rules of which we barely understand. We know that we will, sooner or later be ejected into exile, into another land which may or may not exist and of which we have only heard scant rumour. No one that we know has ever returned from this land and the stories that we have heard of messages being received from ejectees are vague and conflicting. Yet modern science tell us that not only is there a strong possibility that other worlds exist but that there may be an infinite number of other 'other worlds'. Human beings being gifted with even more curiosity than meercats naturally want to know more. Over recorded history (and presumably unrecorded history as well) Tradition presents both the
[1] protection [2] pressure vessel [3] a launch-pad
It's your magical career path
Personall my temple is strictly functional. Stripped down Bauhouse style. No twiddly bits. And therin lies its beauty.
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
Winston Churchill
http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/cubism/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
Don't tell me what you want, tell be what you want to achieve. Then I'll tell you what you need to build meet your achievement.What is it that we need to get us to where we want to go. Or back a stage further Where do we want to go. Or back once more What drives us to where we want to go. And finally you arrive at motivation. What do you want or what do you think you need. At this point the internal diagaloge usually colapses under the sheer weight of introspection. The absolute truth is that there is no want or need. There is no grit with which to grow your pearl. There is simply nothing there. And yet there is still the impulse. And at this point you realise that you are being driven. A certain, very small, proportion of humanity are driven in this direction. It's always been this way throughout history. It is not like any other vocation. Don't equivilate it to being a born artist or athlete or politician. No, because you can be a career politician or artist and a magician. It's a strata all of its own. Many are called you have been called. How you behave from here on is will determine as to whether you are one of the few who are chosen. Magic is reciprocal. When you look deeper into magic magic looks deeper into you. How you handle publicity it from here determines whether you are going to be a magician or martyr. Magicians don't have secrets for nothing. Now back to the plot. Important point this. Remember fluffy begets fluffy. require of a circle? The best way to find this out is to describe and understand the problem/opportunity. Low magic/grit in oyster. As above so below. Biggest clue ever. If we want to know about other worlds don't look outwards and speculate in a void. Look inwards and discover what you already knew. Everything you need to know about everything you need to know is in you at a celular level. There is no reason to believe that this new land is going toi be in any way different to our own. There'll be a set of natural rules (different from our own world but nevertheless fixed) and there'll be a population, and they'll have there own proportion of heros and villians.
Here's the problem: we have the licence to reside for an unknown but finite period of time, the length of which will be decided not by ourselves, in a land the rules of which we barely understand. We know that we will, sooner or later be ejected into exile, into another land which may or may not exist and of which we have only heard scant rumour. No one that we know has ever returned from this land and the stories that we have heard of messages being received from ejectees are vague and conflicting. Yet modern science tell us that not only is there a strong possibility that other worlds exist but that there may be an infinite number of other 'other worlds'. Human beings being gifted with even more curiosity than meercats naturally want to know more. Over recorded history (and presumably unrecorded history as well) Tradition presents both the
[1] protection [2] pressure vessel [3] a launch-pad
It's your magical career path
Personall my temple is strictly functional. Stripped down Bauhouse style. No twiddly bits. And therin lies its beauty.
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
Winston Churchill
http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/cubism/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
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