Month: February 2016
Forward to the Gutter Bible
Perhaps the less said
about this book the better. The publishers were tempted to release the tome
without comment, but the realization that few would understand the volume in
and of itself, precluded this route.
For our purposes, the
story begins on June the 21st, of the year 2010, when the magician
Frater Zentra El wandered the late night streets of Manhattan in a state of
deep chemognosis. Upon spotting the book lying in the gutter, he at first
mistook it for one of his own magical journals, which are kept in similar
composition books. To his surprise, it contained magical wisdom far deeper than
he previously understood.
Who actually penned the
Gutter Bible? That remains a mystery to this day. It could simply be the
ramblings of an escaped mental patient. Perhaps the writer had some magical
training, perhaps not. It could have been transmitted by a goetic spirit, or
dropped through the cracks in reality. Close examinations have determined only
two things: that it is written in at least three different languages, and that
the author probably identified as female.
The only certainty is
that the writer, whatever it may be, touched something beyond most people’s
limited understanding of the universe. Spend just a few minutes examining the
pages and you’ll find yourself in a state of gnosis[1].
Deep examinations finds passages of psychological and emotional significance
that go beyond what a “stable” mind can comprehend.
For this purpose alone,
the Gutter Bible would be worth years of intensive study. Simply using it as a
portal to gnosis itself leads to spectacular results. Thankfully, some have
delved deeper.
Upon retrospect, this Scribe
cannot believe that when, and where, and most importantly, who, found the Gutter
Bible can be mere chance. This wisdom wanted to be found, and it chose a
Prophet[2]
capable of understanding the importance of what he received, and the ability to
use it. For after months of study, the Prophet, by means of divination and
illumination, came to a momentous conclusion. That what he possessed was the
basis for that which has been sought after by magicians for decades if not
centuries. He found a cipher to create a system of pure magick for the modern
era.
Since the dawn of
civilization, when the shaman was usurped by the priest, magick has been
polluted by religion and materialism. Since that time, magick has devolved into
an intellectual pursuit, with the roadmaps for understanding the underpinnings
of reality created by philosophers and viziers. They, consciously or subconsciously,
created systems that reinforced their religious and political agendas. Over
time, magick became enslaved to Judeo-Christian philosophy in the West, and Hindu-Taoist
philosophy in the East. No matter how revelatory the nature of any system’s
basis seemed to be, it still contained the elements of the theology understood
by its founders.[3]
The Gutter Bible has the unique advantage of being truly “found” wisdom that
bypasses the filters of previous revelations.
The Prophet’s recognition
of these properties is perhaps the greatest gift to magick in generations.
Emergent Magick
What the Prophet did not
do with the revelation is perhaps more important than what he created. He did
not perform an in depth intellectual analysis of the text. He did not seek
translation. Nor did he attempt to find the writer on the physical plane for
further clarification.
He realized that the only
true path to understanding the wisdom contained was through magick itself.
Enlisting the aid of the Seer, Soror Panthera, they plumbed the depths of the
Gutter Bible using divination, evocation, and invocation. Through their magick
they opened the door to a cosmos both frightening and awe inspiring, and
found an entity of purest magick.
This Scribe encourages
you to do the same. To find a name or a passage in the Gutter Bible, and make
it the source for your own magical workings. Don’t try to analyze
intellectually what you have read before you seek your own revelation in a
gnostic state.
To help facilitate this,
we include the base methods used by the Prophet and the Seer, and a fraction of
their own findings. We call this system, Emergent Magick, and have founded an
Order specifically for the practice.
Please email emergentmagick@gmail.com
for information on further updates to this volume, new publications, and places
to share your own findings.
The Scribe Frater
Threskiornis
February 12th,
2016
[1]
For our purposes, gnosis refers to alternate states of consciousness used for
magical purposes.
[2] Frater
Zentra El
[3]
For example, while Thelema claims to be the revelations of Aiwass through
Crowley, Crowley could only relate the wisdom through his own understanding of
Egyptian and Christian symbolism.
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Advice?
So I have some books with poetry in them and I got the idea to read Djehuty poetry as a daily offering (provided I have the spoons to do so), but my favorite book of poetry that I own is one that I used to read out of for Apollon whom I currently don’t worship anymore. Do you thing Djehuty would be upset and/or offended if I used the same book? Should I use a different book just to be safe?
Stop worrying about what is and what is not respectful. Just do it with respect.
Thoth, lunar god of wisdom, writing, magic, and tons of other things. (+ detail)
Damn, it took me so much time. oo
Two of the largest books I own, Dr John Dee’s Spirt Diaries on the left and the ‘Draconian Grimoire’ or better known as the Dragon Book of Essex, the second volume in Andrew D. Chumbley’s Trimagisterion.
“O’ Sethos! Rise up and remember!
Recall the Promise once stain’d in red upon the primal dust of Earth!By baying dog and moon-beam, by lantern, stave and upright stone
Come fathom the starlit heights of Heaven in the Old Dew-pool of Cain.Come ring the blood round with the Serpent,
Come turn the skin of time,
Come pace about the corpse of Abel,
here break the Fate of Mortal Man!Here cast forth the Visions from Yesterday, from Tomorrow, unto Today.
Here open the Way for the Crooked Path, for the Pathway forever to be!O’ Sethos! Rise up and remember, ‘Til Thy Namesake, the Man of Light, is born!”
Imagery and text from “The Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft” by Andrew D. Chumbley (3rd Edition), 6019 Anno Lucis.
Praising Thoth in the course of every day:
O gods who are in heaven,
O gods who are in earth,
westerners, easterners,
come, that you may see Thoth crowned with his uraeus,
when the Two-Lords are established for him in Hermopolis,
that he may govern the people!
Rejoice in the Hall of Geb at what he has done!
Praise him, extol him, give him hymns!
– this god is the lord of kind-heartedness,
the governor of entire multitudes.
Now every god and every goddess,
who shall give praises to Thoth on this day -he shall found their seats, and their offices in their temples
in the Island of Fire!Hail to you Thoth!
I am the one who praises you,
so may you give me house and property!
May you establish me, create my livelihood,
in the land of the living,
as you have made them to live in the Island of Fire!
May you give me love, favours,
sweetness, protection,
in the bodies, hearts, breasts of all mankind,
all patricians, all folk, all sunfolk!++++
May you strike down my male and female enemies,
dead and living.
These are to be spoken by a man when he has offered to Thoth,
– justifying a man against my (sic) enemies
in the council of every god and every goddess!For he is the chief of every god and every goddess,
this being what the great Company of gods has decreed for him.* Quoted from: L.Jackson “Thoth: The History of the Ancient Egyptian
God of Wisdom“ (”Hymns to Thoth from a Wooden Writing Board“, first published by B.Turaeff in german translation)
‘Shadow Consciousness’ One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. #Jung