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The Importance of Meditation for Ceremonial Magic

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Let’s begin by acknowledging that meditation is really useful even if you’re not a magician. Why? Because everyone needs more clarity, focus and all of that good stuff to be a high functioning individual.

But why would it be useful for ceremonial magic? Well, for the same reasons. Ritual work requires a very high level of concentration so that you can channel your energy or invoke the spirit’s energy. If you’re getting distracted by silly thoughts about your last meal or when Napoleon is coming to the theaters, you’ll perform a subpar ritual.  […]

Source: The Importance of Meditation for Ceremonial Magic

Introducing the Shem HaMephorash Pentagram Technique for Working the 72 Angelic Names – Rosicrucian Tradition Website

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The newest method for working with the 72 angelic names of the Shemhamphorash now revealed on Pansophers.com with an invitation to join a working group HERE […]

Source: Introducing the Shem HaMephorash Pentagram Technique for Working the 72 Angelic Names – Rosicrucian Tradition Website

The Enchanting World of Rose Gardens

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R𝚘s𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎ns 𝚑𝚊v𝚎 𝚊n i𝚛𝚛𝚎sisti𝚋l𝚎 𝚊ll𝚞𝚛𝚎 t𝚑𝚊t t𝚛𝚊nsc𝚎n𝚍s tim𝚎 𝚊n𝚍 c𝚞lt𝚞𝚛𝚎. T𝚑𝚎s𝚎 𝚎x𝚚𝚞isit𝚎 l𝚊n𝚍sc𝚊𝚙𝚎s 𝚑𝚊v𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎n c𝚑𝚎𝚛is𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 c𝚎nt𝚞𝚛i𝚎s, 𝚊n𝚍 t𝚑𝚎i𝚛 𝚎n𝚍𝚞𝚛in𝚐 𝚙𝚘𝚙𝚞l𝚊𝚛it𝚢 is 𝚊 t𝚎st𝚊m𝚎nt t𝚘 t𝚑𝚎 tim𝚎l𝚎ss 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞t𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚘s𝚎s. A 𝚛𝚘s𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎n is n𝚘t j𝚞st 𝚊 c𝚘ll𝚎cti𝚘n 𝚘𝚏 𝚏l𝚘w𝚎𝚛s; it’s 𝚊 s𝚊nct𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 c𝚘l𝚘𝚛s, 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚊nc𝚎s, 𝚊n𝚍 𝚎m𝚘ti𝚘ns. In t𝚑is 𝚊𝚛ticl𝚎, w𝚎 […]

Source: The Enchanting World of Rose Gardens

Mythos | The Four Horsemen

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THE FOUR HORSES

Here is pure mythology, in this case using horses to represent 

aspects of our human condition.

The red horse represents our emotional nature, the black horse 

represents our intellectual nature, the pale horse represents 

our physical nature, and the white horse 

represents our spiritual nature.

This is a real horse race, and it is one that goes on within us every day.

THE RED HORSE is the one that takes peace from the earth.

This horse is responsible for the pride that compels people to go to war 

and do terrible things.

You must put a saddle on the red horse. 

When our emotions get the best of us that really do take peace from the earth. 

Our earth. Our minds.

 Are not all of the wars the results of someone’s emotions run amuck?

So, the red or emotional horse getting in the lead can be difficult as we all know.

THE BLACK HORSE

The scripture says that the rider on the Black Horse held a  pair 

of balances in his hands. The balances are for weighing decisions and 

this is what the intellect or black horse does.

The scripture says to the Black Horse, do not hurt the oil and the wine.

The intellect functions in buying and selling. Making decisions.

Where it says do not hurt the Oil and Wine it is saying do not hurt 

the spirit with intellectualism. 

In the spirit realm you must think with your heart in meditation.  

Not with your head.

 Thus when the black horse gets in front we will find ourselves thinking 

and trying to figure spiritual things out instead of allowing spirit 

to flow within us as it will.

 

THE PALE HORSE

Revelation 6:7

And I saw a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was death, 

and hell followed with him.

And power was given to them over the fourth part of the earth to kill 

with the sword, with hunger and with fear.

 

The Pale Horse is the physical nature. 

As we all know death and hell follows the physical.

Notice how it is the physical that hungers and dies and must tangle 

with the beasts of the earth.

The physical has power over the fourth. It controls the four parts of 

our nature, if we allow it.

As the Bible says, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

And what are those four parts

The Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual and Emotional.

It is the physical that must interact with the beasts of the earth which 

are the human carnal minds which work against nature for profit and 

lead charges of war and death against the innocent.

 

THE FOUR HORSES

THE FOUR PARTS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE MUST GIVE WAY

TO THE LIGHT OF THE RIGHT SIDE WHEN 

THE SEALS ARE OPENED.

 

These symbolic horses which represent our human nature must 

be rounded up and controlled by the higher nature within us we call God.

 

AND NOW WE SEE COMING TO US      

THE WHITE HORSE

The White Horse is our spiritual nature.

It must race to the front and lead us to that inner nature of God. 

The higher power that is within us and within all human beings.

We extend the right hand of love to all.

The White Horse has taken the lead.

The Red Horse of Emotions no longer overwhelms us.

The Black Horse of the Intellect is no longer trying to figure out 

how to beat the other guy. Instead, it is absorbed with learning God’s truth.

The Pale Horse, our physical nature. In spite of the four seals 

being opened, our physical nature still struggles against the reins. 

It is difficult for us to bring it under control.

Meditation is what brings it under control. 

It is brought into the corral and no longer pulls us to the lower life battles.

We must keep the white horse up front. 

It is so important for the white horse to win life’s race.

The four horses of our mind that have been used in battles within us 

will come under the rule of light and carry you to a communion 

with the higher light force.

1.  Revelation 19:11

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

2.  Revelation 19:14

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, 

clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Sit upon your White Horse and ride to the sky. 

They’re waiting for you.

WHY WAS JESUS BORN IN A MANGER

Because the Sun in its course through the Zodiac

is born between Sagittarius and Capricorn,

between the horse and the goat.

Thus the child is born in a stable or manger.

Helen Demetriou | Venus, the Mother of Jerusalem, The Light Bringer

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“According to Eusebius, Hadrian built a temple dedicated to the Roman goddess Venus to bury the cave in which Jesus had been buried. The Orthodox Church celebrates the Dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on September 26 (Gregorian), the same date as the ancient Roman festival of Venus.”
Melchizedek was the king of Shalem also known as Shalim. Shalim is a god in the Canaanite religion pantheon, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) in Syria. William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of dusk, and Shahar as Goddess and sometimes known as god of the dawn. Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the “Evening Star”, and Shahar, the “Morning Star”.His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root S-L-M. Many scholars believe that the name of Shalim is preserved in the name of the city Jerusalem and both Shalim and Shahar were the patrons of Shalim.
This tells us that Melchizedek was the high priest of the most high God Shalim which is Venus yet when we look further back we see that Shalim and Shahar were indeed deities of Venus because they had been birthed from Venus herself whom we know to be Inanna, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Astarte, Asherah, Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary etc So in truth, Jerusalem is the city of Venus.
We call the planet Venus the morning star when it appears in the east at sunrise, and the evening star when it appears in the west at sunset, although the ancients called it Hesperus in the evening and Phosphorus, or Lucifer, in the morning. Because of the distances of the respective orbits of Venus and the Earth from the Sun, Venus is never visible more than three hours before sunrise nor three hours after sunset, and it may also surprise you that Venus can be seen in broad daylight, provided you know where, and when, to look after reference to an almanac.
-Masonic Library
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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
-Matthew 2:2
The study of Phoenician gods revealed three goddesses to be different aspects of the planet Venus. A similar trilogy exists in the Norse pantheon, but with different names. It is believed that the Phoenicians, or Canaanites carried their beliefs with them when working on the Temple for Solomon and may have affected its ultimate design.
It is said that the first known name for the city of Jerusalem was Urushalim, “Uru’ founded by “Shalem”, the name of the Canaanite god of Venus in its evening setting, but Solomon’s Temple was facing in the opposite direction, towards Venus rising in its role as morning star. We can be certain that King Solomon’s Temple was built by Canaanites who were known to worship Venus, also we can understand that Solomon had no tradition of his own to give him the knowledge of how to build a temple that was properly constructed to interface with the heavens. However it is perplexing that these Venus worshipping Phoenicians were allowed to build the house of God.
Biblical scholars have noted from passages such as I Kings 11.5 that Venus was worshipped by Solomon in her special form as the deity of the Phoenicians and he fell out of favour with God. The official worship of Venus as Astarte, the Queen of Heaven continued in the Kingdom of Judah until circa 600 BCE.
Moses created Princes of the Tabernacle and the initiations took place when the Pentagram, or blazing star was to be seen in the east. A blazing star that is referred to as a Pentagram can only be a reference to Venus which had long been associated with the pentagram because of the planet’s apparent movement around the sun when observed from Earth. It is suggested that when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in year 70 of the Christian Era, a number of the Princes of the Tabernacle managed to escape to locations across Europe. It was from these families that the men came, who went on to found the Knights Templar.
-Masonic Library
     
     
Venus is represented by the pentagram, hexagram, heptagram and octagram. For a time, a pentagram was the official seal of the city of Jerusalem and it was also the symbol of the Pythagoreans.
In later times, it was used by medieval Christians to symbolize the five wounds of Christ, and figured in the heavily symbolic Arthurian romances. In medieval times, the pentagram represented the proportions of the human body.
In alchemical texts, the four elements (in Latin)- flatus, ignus, aqua, terra, superseded by light, or divine energy- illustrated the process of creation, and the biblical motto Fiat Lux, or, “let there be light.” Venus and the pentagram is the symbol of the Light Bringer, the Morning Star who is also known as Lucifer in Latin and Phosphorus in Greek.
This Venus, this Morning Star, is the same star the Jesus called himself and it is through Venus that all of the elements of Jerusalem, David and Melchizedek are connected. The star that rose out of the House of Jacob is both David and Jesus and that star is Venus and that scepter was passed on as the divine seed from the bloodlines of Jacob, through to David, through to Joseph and then to Jesus himself.
In many icons you will see Mother Mary associated with the star which symbolizes Venus. The church fathers were well aware that Mary manifested from her previous known names of Venus which grew out from ancient mesopotamia. Venus has always been the Queen of Heaven, Earth and the underworld and she has always been known as the mother of the sun, who is the dying and resurrected fertility god which is again, another connection with the original name of Bethlehem.
She is Venus herself who produces the messenger of light who comes to Earth to bring the Christ Logos which is the divine Word. As the Mother of the Mysteries, it is through her son that the world becomes enlightened should they choose to follow his Way which leads straight back to her, which is the soul.
By Helen Demetriou, taken from
https://sanctarosablog.wordpress.com/…/the-star-of…/

The Pagan Side | THE FIVE FOLD KISS

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The five fold kiss is series of ritual kisses given at initiation, and as a portion of the Great Rite ceremony. The kiss is usually done male to female, or female to male, though this is not always the case. It is only performed within the circle. It is also a ceremony that is sometimes ritually acted out between the High Priestess and Priest to mark the respect shown between the God and Goddess.
*FEMALE
The High Priest kneels before the High Priestess and gives her the Five Fold Kiss; that is, he kisses her on both feet, both knees, womb, both breasts, and the lips, starting with the right of each pair. He says, as he does this:
“Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these way
Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar.
Blessed be thy womb, without which we would not be.
Blessed be thy breasts, formed in beauty.
Blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the Sacred Name”
For the kiss on the lips, they embrace, length-to-length, with their feet touching each others. When he reaches the womb, she spreads her arms wide, and the same after the kiss on the lips.
*MALE
The High Priestess kneels before the High Priest and gives him the Five Fold Kiss; that is, she kisses him on both feet, both knees, phallus, both breasts, and the lips, starting with the right of each pair. she says, as she does this:
“Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways.
Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar.
Blessed be thy phallus, without which we would not be.
Blessed be thy breasts, formed in strength
Blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the Sacred Names.”
For the kiss on the lips, they embrace, length-to-length, with their feet touching each others. When she reaches the phallus, he spreads his arms wide, and the same after the kiss on the lips.
-Farrar, Janet and Stewart; “Eight Sabbats For Witches”; Robert Hale 1983
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Rosicrucianism | Microcosm and Macrocosm — Rosicrucian Fundamentals

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The writings of occultism are replete with references to both of these terms, but many such references seem extremely vague and obscure.
The confusion of the terms “God, Deity, Creator and Absolute” make the definitions given extremely contradictory, as also the indiscriminate use of the terms “Universe, Heaven, World, Cosmos, and Chaos.” That the medieval Kabbalists understood and differentiated them is certain, but the manner in which they have employed them in their writings leaves much to be desired.
The usual expression, “the Microcosm of the Macrocosm” applies equally to the reflection of the Greater in the Lesser in all the kingdoms of Life and Creative Manifestation. The use in which these terms will be employed in the Rosicrucian teachings will be as follows:
MICROCOSM – Man
MACROCOSM – God. (Solar)
MICROPROSOPUS – Supreme Being (Universe)
MACROPROSOPUS – Absolute (Cosmos)
The following are some of the attributes of the differentiations as given in the Kabala and Hermetic Writings:
Microcosm— The Lesser World, or Man
* One of the two Tetragrammaton.
* The Heavenly Man, the Manifested Logos.
* The Triangle in the Square ; the Sevenfold Cube.
* The Male-Female.
* Man, a compound of Intellect and Matter, is the Microcosm of the Macrocosm or Great Universe.
* Medieval Kabbalists, following the Jewish, also called Man the Microcosm.
* Ancient philosophers called Earth the Microcosm of the Macrocosm, and Man the outcome of the two.
* Macrocosm and Microcosm, the Universe and our Globe are the dual characters of the Universal Matrix of Cosmos personified.
* Represented by a Pentagon. Pentagon within a Hexagonal Star, the Macrocosm.
* Triad or Triangle becomes Tetraktys, the sacred Pythagorean Number; the Perfect Square and a six faced Cube on Earth.
Macrocosm— The Greater World or God.
* Absolutely Perfect Square or Tetraktys in a Circle.
* AIN—the Negatively Existent.
* God,—Universe; Solar System.
* Represented by a Hexagon.
MICROPROSOPUS & MACROPROSOPUS
Microprosopus
* Universe; Supreme Being.
* Ateh—”Thou,” Ani—”I” when speaking.
* The Lesser Countenance.
* Supernal Adam.
* Six of the Sephiroth.
* The Crown, Kether.
Macroprosopus
* The Greater Countenance.
* The Vast Countenance.
* The Great Face; in Chaldean a pure abstraction.
* The Word or Logos.
* Cosmos, in form of a Man.
* Adam Kadmon.
* Hua—”He,” the Hidden and Concealed.
* The whole ten Sephiroth represent the Heavenly Man or Primordial Being Adm Oilah. Adam Anilah. Arik Anpin.
* Six and Five, Male and Female, Hexagon and Pentagon.
* Hua, Ateh, and Ani—A—Aleph is the ending of one and the beginning of the other two, the connecting link as it were. It is the symbol of the UNITY, and the unvarying idea of the Divine operating through all these. But behind the Aleph in the name Hua are the letters – and n, the symbols of the numbers six and five.
* Man’s resemblance.—The Microcosm of Man resembles the Macrocosm of the Universe in all its aspects except that of external form.
* Man’s midway position.—Thus Man occupies a unique place in the Arcana of Nature—he stands alone midway as it were between the long ages past when his involutional development began, and the untold ages to come, when his evolutional processes shall be accomplished.
* Man, the key to all worlds.—Rosicrucians therefore regard Man as the embodiment of all conditions objective and subjective, and find in him the key to worlds terrestrial and celestial, material and spiritual, seen and unseen.
Our first contemplation of Man, objectively, reveals three conditions:
1. A visible organism.
2. Evidence of an actuating power or motive force.
3. Evidence of a directing intelligence operating from within.
Body, Life, Mind.—The first of these conditions we commonly describe as the BODY, the second as the LIFE and the third as the MIND. Careful analysis shows the error of these concepts. Spirit—Principle.
Rosicrucians teach that MATTER is the external manifestation of an internal or invisible “PRINCIPLE.”  That “Principle” is SPIRIT.  Everything that exists, visibly or invisibly, objectively or subjectively, MUST HAVE SUBSTANCE.
Force.
—The modus of its operation is FORCE.
—MATTER may be termed the external manifestation of SPIRIT substance, in other words, CRYSTALLIZED SPIRIT.  Matter, crystallized Spirit.
—SPIRIT may be regarded as Matter, so sublimated and etherealized as to be invisible and intangible.  Spirit, sublimate Matter.
—PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE.
Grades of Density.—As there are many grades of density in Matter, so there are many grades of density in Spirit.  Life.
—The FORCE by which and through which SPIRIT manifests itself as Matter or through the various so-called phenomena of Nature, is LIFE.  Therefore, LIFE may be termed the visible expression of SPIRIT POWER.
Universal Principle.
—Rosicrucians define it as the UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE, the activity of UNIVERSAL SPIRIT OR PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE.
Note — Life is present everywhere, in a stone or plant as well as in an animal or Man, and there is nothing in Nature which is entirely destitute of Life; because all things are a manifestation of the ONE LIFE or ONE FORCE which fills the Universe. In some bodies the activity of Life is so slow that it may be looked at as dormant or latent, in others it is rapid; but a form which is deserted by the Life Principle ceases to exist as a form.
ATTRACTION, COHESION, GRAVITATION, etc., are all manifestations of Life, while in animals this activity progresses toward a state of self-consciousness which culminates (is perfected) in Man. To suppose that Life is a product of the mechanical or physiological activity of an organism is to mistake effects for causes, and causes for effects.
—Man is an ABSOLUTELY SPIRITUAL BEING, who by the operation of SPIRIT POWER, UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OR LIFE ; has, by a specific process, CRYSTALLIZED his external substance into a form of MATTER known as his DENSE or PHYSICAL ENVELOPE or BODY.  Man a Spiritual Being.
—This “specific process” is INVOLUTION.  Involution is defined as the Descent of Spirit into Matter, or the process of crystallization whereby Spirit attains a vehicle for visible manifestation, expression, or contact with other objective conditions.  Involution.
—It has been written that everything that exists, either visibly or invisibly, must have substance. The one reality that can fulfil the requirements of this substance is Spirit. Therefore Spirit is the UNIVERSAL SUBSTANCE. It is the Cosmic Ocean in which all things from Universes and Solar Systems to Man are but its crystallized forms.  Universal Substance.
—As the ABSOLUTE exists, it must be Spirit. We are told by theologians that “God is a Spirit.” The ABSOLUTE and Man, both being spirit, are therefore of the same substance, but vastly differentiated. Man being the Creature, leaves the primacy to the ABSOLUTE or Creator.  Absolute and Man, both Spirit.
What, then, is the differentiation?
—The ABSOLUTE is the essence of all potentialities in the Cosmic Root Substance. Man is the individualized, self-conscious, differentiated Spirit at the other extreme of the long line of Spiritual Hierarchies, Angelic Hosts, Logoi, Gods of Solar Systems, and the Lesser Spiritual Powers which intervene.  Absolute, an Essence.
—Man is thus Divinity incarnated in Humanity.”  Divinity and Humanity.
(c. 1922, by Plummer George Winslow)