Practical Thiurgy:  The Goddess of Ceremonial Magic – YouTube

This is actually an interesting discussion in perspectives on approaches to ceremonial magic. Learn the ancient secrets of the Goddess whose name has been hidden for over two thousand years. Introducing, the Queen of the Cosmos ….. and a discussion that brings home a need for changing perspectives on approaches to ceremonial magic.

 

 

Reconsidering the Kabbalistic Cross | Ceremonial Magick Musings

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Taking a page from Augoeides, I got it in my head that maybe we could apply dramatic ritual to other things. One of the more obvious things is both the Kabbalistic Cross and the use of the steps an…

Source: Reconsidering the Kabbalistic Cross | Ceremonial Magick Musings

Gleamings from the Golden Dawn: Sealing the directions using IAO (reblogged from Nick Farrell)

 

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Nick Farrell wrote: For a while I wondered why in the Sepher Yetzirah it refers to God by the name יהו instead of the more traditional tetragrammaton. This might be because the writer was using the name in Greek IAΩ. This name was the name given to the Tetragrammaton in the Greek translation of the Old Testament but was also a name given to Jupiter and was a mystical cry in the mystery rites. IAΩ was the letters of the sun, moon and Saturn in Greece, but it was also the first, middle and last letters of the alphabet. Translating it back into the original Greek it starts to make sense in that context. …

Source: Gleamings from the Golden Dawn: Sealing the directions using IAO (reblogged from Nick Farrell)

Reflections …

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Concerning the rule to not roam in the PARDESS, unless one has filled one’s stomach with meat and wine, it should be said to one who comes to do only what the Torah commands by law. But one who craves and yearns to learn the inner things, to know His truthfulness, is under the rule, “one should always learn Torah in the place one’s heart wishes.” And one should be very strong in one’s way and know that he will learn and succeed… and make one’s soul’s craving to adhere to knowing His Name permanently. And if one should see that the majority of the students are not so, he should know that this is right for them, so they will not destroy the sanctity until they walk by gradations. This has nothing to do with ostentation and boasting, only divisions in the soul’s nobility.

–The Rav Raiah Kook,
Orot HaTorah (Lights of the Torah), Chapter 9, Item 12

The Mystery of Fire

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“This radiance is so great that it can-not be limited by the skull and it pours out from the head, especially from the back of the neck where the uppermost vertebra of the spine articulates with the condyles of the occipital bone. It is this light pouring our in a fan-shaped aura around the posterior part of the head that has given rise to the halos of saints and the nimbus so often used in religious art. This light signifies human regeneration and it forms part of the auric bodies of man.”

― Manly P. Hall, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire

In the bible we are told that Jesus was crucified in a place called “Golgotha,” which means the”skull”. But contrary to popular belief, no actual place ever existed with this name. That tells us that this story is greatly allegorical and is referring to our thoughts being judged in our “temple,” or the pre-frontal cortex of the brain.