Month: September 2011

Magick Working Journal

Since I am using tumblr for my dream journal why not take it one step further and use it for my magick working journal as well?

9/23

Realized that my muse needs a place to sit and join me for meditation and ritual. I will lay out my black padded circle for her. 

Decided during meditation today to work on breathing and visualization. Using four-fold breaths, I imagined roman numerals floating just in front of my forehead. Burning blue on the inhale, burning red on the exhale. I was able to keep this going for some time but realized that it prevented me from relaxing my mind enough to receive visions. 

When I stopped counting I was immediately visited by Baphomat. I was sitting beside him around a fire. He kept trying to give me something and eventually I was able to reach out and take it. It was a book which at the same time was a yellow flower. 

I am taking this as him advising me to learn more about the natural world. There may be more to it. 

Finished with banishing. 

Dream Journal

I’ve decided to blatantly steal from people I follow on tumblr like Haksenhaus and others, in hopes I’m more consistent with my dream work.

9/22-9/23

Note: I know that this dream is in no way historically accurate.

I dreamt I was a commander of the Allied troops in charge of retaking Amsterdam from the Nazis. After we took part of the town, the Germans encamped on the other side. Every few hours, we would find a corpse. Sometimes dress it in a Nazi uniform and float it down the canal towards their camp in hopes of convincing them we were slaughtering the prisoners and dissidents. Or goal was to lower their morale by making them think we were butchers.  

Later, I met with the German commander and he was obviously appalled by our actions. Mission accomplished.

Some of my men disagreed with the plan. For my part I found it damn funny. It wasn’t like we were actually killing people, just using corpses of those already dead for the greater good.

As a side note, this is the first time in three days I didn’t dream about my last job, which I consider a vast improvement.

Jack T. Chick – “The Trick”

Jack T. Chick – “The Trick”

systemofaclown:

1. “Then our father [Satan] can again smile upon us with his true love and blessing”.  Oh, ok.  Apparently this is some Candy Land version of Satanism where people (A) actually believe Satan is a real guy, and (B) think he LOVES them.  I’m not an expert, ok, but I don’t know any group that thinks of Satan this way.  Most people seem to think he’s a real dude, or at least a concept of a dude, which represents evil.  Almost anybody with any amount of occult knowledge understands that he is a god-form, like any other, and represents certain ideals or aspects which a person might want to use to their advantage. 

Most importantly, Satan represents freedom from seeking the authority and approval of anyone other than the Self, and about putting ones own needs in the forefront.  It has very little to do with morality.  Anyway, Satan is basically an amalgamation of a bunch of different beings representing fertility, creativity, illumination and self-actualization.

2. “Remember what happened to Bobby last year.”

What happened to Bobby last year, Johnny?  Huh?  WHAT HAPPENED TO BOBBY?!?  If, as the previous panels suggest, he ate a poisoned, razor-blade laden apple, do you think maybe the other parents wouldn’t let their children go trick-or-treating?  “Oh, it was an isolated incident.  Bobby bleeding out into his own mouth and dying in the street, that was like ONE kid.  I think little Susie and Jeffery should be okay.”

Then again, they never say, do they  Maybe Bobby simply found some children in Jack Chick’s twisted little world that didn’t have names ending in a “y” sound, and realized that not everybody in the vicinity was raised by whitebread middle class robots.

3. Apparently Satan-Approved™ candy causes kids to be able to think for themselves.  Nah, that can’t be it.  What KID in his RIGHT MIND wouldn’t want to go to church and also eat lima beans and watch the news instead of cartoons?

Or MAYBE your kids are fucking DEEPLY TRAUMATIZED by the horrendous death of their friend and their own injuries, and have renounced the so-called loving God that allowed it to happen and you didn’t spot it because a wooden 2×4 with carpet and a face glued to it would be a better parent then you.

At least Brenda had the sense to suspect THE OBVIOUS.  What are we being told here?  That only WITCHES and EX-WITCHES have a clue about anything? 

4. Think we might not know what we’re talking about?  Read these other books, which we JUST HAPPEN TO PUBLISH.  Don’t bother reading anything not printed by Chick Publications.  They could secretly be the devil’s minions.  Especially Catholics.

5. Satan “decided”?  Wait, wait… I thought that only HUMANS were given free will.  Doesn’t that imply that anything Satan “decided” was in fact by God’s exact design and intent?  And we’re supposed to worship and trust this unbelievable asshole?

6. Jesus created the universe, and then came to earth to destroy Satan’s power, never minding the facts that the earth and Satan are both IN the universe, and therefore created by Jesus.  I am sure that Satan’s power was just an oversight, thus requiring his fateful visit to earth. 

7. See, at this point Brenda should have just dropped the act and straight up iced Becky and everybody else in that place.  Satan would have loved that, don’t you think?  And I’m sure the world-spanning Church of Satan could have covered it up.  But instead, she just leaves the tale altogether, and – HOORAY JESUS!!  – Christianity wins again.

Dear Twitter Friends

You may have noticed that I have not been following twitter. In fact, the only thing I post on twitter comes straight from my tumblr feed. I’ve met a few really cool people on twitter. Especially @friendlydemon, @chickgonebad, @frater_puck, @mjamesblood, @catvincent, and folks I am forgetting to mention.

When I first heard about twitter, I thought to myself, “You take the most limitless form of communication and make it so you can only post 140 characters? That’s fucking stupid.”

But not being the kind of person that just writes things off, I tried it. I honestly tried it. I enjoyed it at times. I appreciated the way it parsed information. I marveled at it’s ability to track trends. But it still failed to be the way I wished to communicate. I can’t make an intelligent comment in 140 characters or less. 

So all you folks on twitter, I’ll miss you. I really hope you some on over to tumblr. I know some of you already have. Its so much better over here. If I want to post a picture, video, or link, I post it directly. If I want to write something long or short, doesn’t matter. I hope you give it a try.

Blessed be, 93s, and all that

Quero Regnum

I/III/I