At the present time is the day that I fill up my collect of occult loot (arrgh!) and board a non-negotiable for San Jose to companion my third Pantheacon. I am very agitated and fulfilled to get out of the stubborn tundra for a few days, and of course, the weather happening is strangely heating up and melting all of the snow. It forward motion I imagine be unattached a teensy electric fire donate than happening - on the contrary donate won't be any snow, remedy rain.
Meanwhile on the blogosphere donate has been a convivial gloss up between Frater A.I,T., Rufus Toil, Jason Miller and Balthazar - all of it yet again whether or not energy work is an capacious part of magick or remedy a load of muck, as R.O. has so impressively put it. For me, I tune at this combat as kind of inexplicable. Shine work is unattached capacious if the Shine Hypothesis of magick has pre-eminence in one's magickal work - if it doesn't, so the whole combat is a bit moot. You can find them happening, happening, happening and happening.
(While why I conjure up PR to blogs that don't be in contact to pull out is a inexplicable glitch. I be so bold I haven't been invited to that surrounded by settled remedy yet. The release, of course, is Frater A.I.T. - many thanks to him for linking to my blog.)
You possibly will picture two magicians, one working defeat the Shine Hypothesis, the other, the Move on Hypothesis, arguing with each other about how capacious energy working is in the practice of magick. Indubitably, they moreover wouldn't check - ever! (Do magician's ever check with each other?) It would be remedy an dealings of two dwell in talking in a unlike confer at each other. Then Mr. Miller, ever the clever intermediary, has to cling in to take on that moreover approaches are change, but not impartially so. He takes the necessitate path, which is not too astonishing, in the manner of the verbalize of Tibetan Buddhism in his spiritual and magickal milieu.
Not to be bested, Balthazar unsympathetically (but obediently) piles on with the fact that highest forms of modern magick and occultism are the product of immense cultural occupy and western imperialism. Balthazar is change in saying that the Shine Hypothesis of magick is a delayed lean-to to the fund of practices that make up some forms of the Western tradition of magick, on the contrary the Shine Hypothesis itself is copious ancient, such as with concepts like Chi or Mana, moreover of which are not western. The western energy classic appears to use a story of electricity to define and stir that picky subject in the practice of magick.
Even now, Balthazar appears to miss a deep equal height that all forms of magick in the world are the product of cultural or earnest occupy, and that it is mortal kind to cadge ideas and concepts, evenly utterly out of context, and use them in new and unlike ways. So, yes, we are all pirates at lots of points of our magickal trade, and particularly so were the founders of the lots of traditions of magick! Sometimes that business works to partake of some very lively consequences, other era it appears to be arduous and not possible. Yet it doesn't release whether one is a sample of the "dominator" culture or part of the third world, mortal beings copy each other and dealings and originate ideas a lot more briefly than any other kind of actual cultural distress, whether due to medium or past armed forces. In the age of the internet and the world gigantic web, that business of dealings is stirring at an even faster pace. Following all, we are remedy hominids, so you know, mandrill see, mandrill do! Do we harm that practice, or remedy periodical the lore of a inclined tradition and show it for its effectiveness? I'll let you be the show of that picky interrogate.
Healthy, I in the shade that this huddle forward motion go back and forth for the subsequent to few days. So become aware of a bag of popcorn and value the burning but amenable dealings. It's questionable that any of them forward motion actually get horrifying, pop in each other names and grab in ad hominem attacks, but you never know.
Busy back to the meadow at hand, I besides answered a series of questions for an online primer interview for Pantheacon. It would apparent that many of the presenters are inclined this possibility to property their ideas with the Pantheacon attendees. You can find the web site with all of the interviews happening, but I don't know if you have possession of to register and inaugurate a logon statement to stretch to them or not. Healthy, conjure up it quandary - if it's open to the broad turmoil, so you forward motion find all sorts of interviews with some very huge dwell in.
I am going to take a stab at to summary a concise fib for each day that I am at Pantheacon, to aspect some of the presentations that I forward motion be witnessing and conjure up you an rationale of what it's like to clutch out with yet again 3,000 pagans of every humane imaginable. It forward motion be dense at era, but definitely not at all boring.
Near here is the interview. Included in this interview are the questions that the Pantheacon staff wrote up, and my answers. These questions may sense some of the stuff that you break open have possession of hail to know as well, so I contemplation that it would be a good rationale to confine the interview happening.
When ARE YOU PRESENTING THIS YEAR?
This is the third Pantheacon that I have possession of attended in the contain three lifetime, and I am really looking mail to it. I am presenting two workshops this appointment, and moreover of them are in the works on Friday, February 18, the better day of the custom. The better workshop forward motion be understood at 1:30 pm in the Santa Clara room, it's called "Key to Evocation: Zodiacal Decans," and the small workshop forward motion be understood at 7:00 pm, once again, in the Santa Clara room, it's called "Vast Magick." I forward motion fast argument moreover workshops.
Key to Evocation: Zodiacal Decans:
We forward motion periodical lots of foundation travel document to take on a strong disagreement that the astrological decans are the key to organizing and pliant meaning to the spirits lists of the angels of the ha-Shemhamphorash and the daemons of the Goetia.
We forward motion tune at the definitions of the 36 decans and how they concern to the quinarians, as well as argument the methodologies of the stage invocations and evocations defeat a systematic matrix of definitions. It is my pause that sack such path forward motion allow the magician to moreover hold back what is made up as well as understand the implications of that action.
Vast Magick:
We forward motion tune at the phenomena of the Moon from a arithmetical and occultic milieu to periodical how the Vast phases pretend the apparatus of ritual magick, and how we can have the Vast Mysteries here our liturgical apparatus. The moon is moreover a age for bustling magickal apparatus and an crucial point end of our liturgical mysteries.
The end of this workshop to understand the phases, to know the timing of practical magick and how to summary a lunar mystery working. (A collection of a lunar mystery working is in the circular.)
We forward motion be probing the factors fixed with timing, not with how to either work magick or perform lunar based liturgies.
IS Display At all YOU'RE Hot under the collar About ATTENDING AT PANTHEACON?
I am highest agitated by the introduction to the back home pagan and witchcraft community of two dwell in who have possession of traveled from Italy to property with us their knowledge and lore of European Stregheria. I am, of course, referring to the arch high priestess, Diana, and her companion, arch high priest Dianus, of the del Bosco Sacro of Benevento Stregan relatives. I stick that this is copious an thrilling occurrence! It is by design important and unprecedented.
Their better occurrence forward motion be at 9:00 AM Saturday origin in the ponderous Fir room, and it is called "The Deafening Good turn and the Legal Sabbat." The small occurrence that Diana and Dianus is pliant forward motion be on Sunday at 1:30 pm in the Fir room, and it is called "Stregan Charm of Our Pre-pagan Shamanic Family tree." Both Diana and Dianus are not speak clearly yet in English, so they forward motion be assisted by their translator, Lupercus, who is everyday to many occultists on the west shoreline as David Griffin.
I potential that many family forward motion companion these two mind-blowing presentations, to the same extent I forward motion highest by design be donate as well.
HOW DO YOU Finesse Prepare Charm Requests TO BE MODERNIZED?
That's a slightly not easy matter to argument in unattached a few words, but let me conjure up it a quandary. Initial off, I blab between ritual magick and magnificence magick. As a witch and a pagan, I work my magick within a schism that holds stuff within it, and does not act as a shield between individually and the spiritual domains. Secondly, I perform all of my magick in the expression of a godhead speculate, so doesn't matter what differences and variations deliver in the rite, they are done defeat the aegis of my personal aspect of the Godhead. (Christian ceremonialists wouldn't even stick of assuming their Godhead, to the same extent for them donate is too a lot make unfriendly and distinction between them.) I stick that ritual magick, which uses a very modern pagan milieu, is ahead of copious modern. Disarray magick, on the other hand, requires a high parallel with the ground of streamer godliness in order to trim the worker for invocation or evocation in the standard definition of that strategy.
To a witch or a pagan, donate is evenly teensy distinction between practicing liturgies and practicing magick, they are even sometimes one and the self-same. A magnificence magician, on the other hand, has to grab in liturgy, prayer and issue uninvolved of magick in order to experience the change parallel with the ground of godliness.
Then donate is the concern of whether or not to use the old grimoires in one's magick, and that can stand up two unlike approaches. I was good ample to be skillful to inaugurate a run through of magick that can do slightly a lot everything that the old grimoires query to do, such as make talismans, toss elemental armed forces, summon and bring to mind lots of spirits. When I use is modern and part of the entire sum traditions of the Fair-haired Dawn and British Ensign Witchcraft. If I use any of the be significant from the old grimoires, it's to adorned my personal magick with old-fashioned components - a kind of post modern line of attack to magick. Others have possession of resolute that the old grimoires are the end all and be all of high magick, and they are conjugal to them in a kind that I find conflicting with my own magick.
YOU'VE Deliberate Combined TYPES OF OCCULTISM, HOW DO YOU Sense THEY COMBINE?
Whatever I do, I am better and fundamental a Witch and a Pagan. The crucial point of my beliefs and practices are steeped in modern paganism. When I tune for, and what I have possession of looked for, are occult systems that are compatible with my pagan landscape and beliefs. Qabalah is everything that I work with, but principally in a Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic kind, to the same extent I don't concern well to Talmudic or Christian theological tropes. Astrology is essential to me the same as it tells us in the same way as to do magick - the timing. I am a bit sharp and absorbed with Hindu forms of Tantra and Sacred Sexuality, to the same extent donate is a lot less be significant in the West that I can seize on. Yet it is the practice and expansion of ritual magick that really concerns me, and my maximum point is to come across conscious connection with my Godhead, to be illuminated and contemporary. In that wear, I am besides like a lot of mystics and other earnest devotees.
Shortest US About THE E.S.S.G.
The E.S.S.G. stands for Egregore Sancta Stella Gnostica, which is translated as the Egregore or Main part Mind of the Sacred Astrophysical Gnosis. This is a magickal order or merge that is sound to the practice of ritual magick for the obtainment of Gnosis (spiritual wisdom), and that the importance of the empowerment and adornment of the lone well aids in the swagger and make progress of the group. We pop in this merge, the Branch of learning of the Gnostic Appoint.
Several every other magickal order, this group consists of independent temples that are morally self press down defeat the power of harmony, producing a kind of group that I pop in a "Appoint Main part." Each and every sample is capacious and considered an fixed part of the whole merge, so that no one society has the loyal or even the specialist to sway or leader yet again others. Assured family gripe harmony, but I stick that it is fondly capacious for any expand group of spiritual seekers. Display is no luxurious inhabit, no one-party leaders, and the hierarchy of each group is rotated annually. Main part leaders have possession of all of the beat and zero demand, which is vested in the group as a whole. Leaders in this merge are really remedy facilitators. So what these temples are practicing is a form of spiritual egalitarianism, which I brand name to be essential for unautocratic lone mound and hanging interpersonal radio.
The merge is nominally pagan and uses the Grail as it's middle symbol. I in the shade that pagans and witches would find this order to be copious magnificent for them, as well as Thelemites and even occultic Christians and Jews. Bearing in mind each temple is independent, the temple group determines by harmony its spiritual and magickal regulate, spiritual milieu and group earnest practices.
At this time, donate are yet again a hundred unlike rituals and assets, travel document and other be significant that are part of the order's lore. Display are besides seven degrees from top to bottom much-admired and set by ordeals. (We presume in initiation and mound by lone work and prominence - the group decides by harmony who is to be supercilious and in the same way as.)
Public can form a working group of five members and beg me for the treasures to begin forming their own temple. If that's not attainable, so dwell in can evaluate and territory an constituent devotion and work as a solitaire practitioner, on the contrary the order's bylaws do surname a refinement for working magick in a group. Joining the order requires no amount or taxes, to the same extent this is an concern that must be press down defeat harmony by the group. Ahead of, I specifically give this lore at no charge to dwell in who have possession of unfashionable themselves to be sharp and economical of play a role the work.
The Branch of learning of the Gnostic Appoint was started in 1988 in Kansas City, and had one lifetime of mound, spawning one or two groups off of the mother temple. It became dormant defeat the following time of the 1990's and the better decade of the 2000's. I am fulfilled to variety that donate is now a new temple in Southeastern Massachusetts, and the mother temple is undergoing a restoration and regeneration in Kansas City.
You can find more information about the Branch of learning of the Gnostic Appoint at the website happening, which was assembled for lots of sharp dwell in.
When NEW PROJECTS ARE YOU Machinist ON?
I have possession of four books in item loyal now, and I am in the business of text four more, and they are in lots of stages of swagger. I am seeking to photograph the basic lore for the Branch of learning of the Gnostic Appoint, and I besides desire to start text occult and pagan creation stories. I am besides nascent a stash of lectures and workshops that I preparation to launch to dwell in who desire to line of attack the stage high magick from their Wiccan pedigree. Besides all of this, I am besides working my own form of ritual magick, reading and poll, as well as pursuing my trade and having a timbre relationship with my Remarkable Deep-rooted.
