Month: August 2012

thedarkest-of-lights:

I like to re arrange my altar often because I like to keep the energy flow smooth and not let it get static. I will often change the arrangement to relax for example if I’m up set or stressed out I will clean my altar or change the altar cloth.
In this new arrangement I added a new set of pillar candles I purchased at Michaels and I added the gold altar cloth for new beginnings.

loudandadulterous:

from Babalon and the Beast:

Lilith is etymologically “The Woman of Night”; but is diverselydescribed by different authorities. To one she is, “from the head to the navel, awoman —- from the navel to the feet of her, a man”. To another, “lovely shape thatconcealeth a black monkey, even as a figure that draweth with her hands smallimages of men down into hell” (_Liber Ararita_ II, 10). She is also the “first wife ofAdam” i.e. the succubus who visits in their sleep those boys and men who have notpreviously purified themselves by Right Coitus. The whole world of demons was infact created (according to Rabbinical tradition) by the nocturnal pollutions of Adam.This is a true parable. For every sexual act produces its natural effect on all planes.All forms of spiritual experience may be obtained in this manner, according to theMagical Knowledge and Skill of the Operator. And there is always a Child begotten onsome plane or other, as the conditions of the experiment decide.:

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The religion being created here is a goddess worship; the feminine holding three relationships available for the male; maternal, sibling and concubine. That his concubine is called the „magdalene‟ (η Μαγδαληνή = 8+595 or 603-by AIQ BKR: 9 [the Moon]); the word coming from the Hebrew root for watchtower indicates that she becomes his „tower‟ or „fortress‟ … it is she that should be elevated as great or magnificent. Note the Priestess of the Gnostic Mass is set on the „summit of the Earth.

If you find yourself becoming curious about the nature and origins of the magical powers you are slowly and very, very painfully cultivating, remember this famous anecdote about the English philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Russell once gave a public lecture on the structure of the universe. Afterward he was approached by a woman who told him that he was a very clever young man but much mistaken in his thinking, because everyone knew that the world was flat and sat on the back of a turtle.
When Russell asked her what the turtle was standing on, she replied, ‘You’re very clever, young man, very clever. But it’s turtles all the way down!’
The woman was wrong about the world, of course, but she would have been quite right if she’d been talking about magic. Great mages have wasted their lives trying to get at the root of magic. It is a futile pursuit, not much fun and occasionally quite hazardous. Because the farther down you go, the bigger and scalier the turtles get, with sharper and sharper beaks. Until eventually they start looking less like turtles and more like dragons.

Lev Grossman – The Magicians

(this is an amazing book)

newageofhorus:

This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of Abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. And because she hath made her self the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. Not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory.

Beautiful art thou, O Babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued their strength. For in that union thou didst understand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night!

Aleister Crowley