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“I bring thee the flower which was in the beginning, the
glorious lily of the Great Water!“

– Hieroglyphic text from Denderah

One can find depictions of the blue lotus flower in almost
every Ancient Egyptian temple and much of the sacred art.

The blue lotus was a symbol of rebirth as the flower closes in the evening and re-opens every day of its life-cycle.

In one of the
Egyptian creation myths a blue lotus, son of Nun and Nuit, emerges from the
primordial waters and opens, creating the world.

It is also interesting to note that the blue lotus when
ingested has mild psychoactive properties not unlike MDMA. A favorite Egyptian pastime
was to drink wine that had been steeped in dried lotus flowers.

In my visions I sometimes see the scribe-priests of Khemenu,
after a long day copying and creating scrolls, walk down to the banks of the
Nile to enjoy the cool air. They would sail on small barges, drinking the blue
lotus wine late into the evening. As Nuit revealed her glory above they would participate
in what gnostics later called the, “Feast of Love.”

Today, on the sixteenth day of September, 2018, the first
day of the Feast of the Cyprians, I have completed the first draft of the book,
“Emergent Magick.” For over a year-and-a-half my beloved Thoth has been a
guide, an inspiration, and at times a harsh task master. So I bring to him this
offering of a crystal blue lotus flower, in gratitude for his aid in this great
accomplishment.

Praise Djhuety!

Now the hard work begins. Editing, lay-out, more editing,
re-writing, more editing, and production. It needs to be the best I can make
it, in honor of all those who inspired its creation. Stay tuned, as we will be
asking for help in the coming months with all that is necessary to bring the
book to print.

Revised Foreword – Emergent Magick

“It was right in everyone’s face.
Tyler and I just made it visible. It was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Tyler
and I just gave it a name.”

–
Fight Club (1999)

Have you ever been to an
outdoor music festival? Saw the masses of people all moving to the same music?
Felt the connection, knowing you were with The People now, and this is has it
has always been? Asked yourself, what breaks this connection when the lights go
down and the band leaves the stage?

Have you been to Burning
Man, or one of the many regional burns? Saw the flames lick up into air? Felt
the ecstasy of release and jubilation? Succumbed to the moment? Have you ever wondered if it could have a
deeper meaning?

Have you ever been to a
good party? On a camping trip around a campfire, or a bonfire in the backyard?
Witnessed the organic flow of the conversation? Been a part of the vibrations
of emotion and shared experience? Sensed the timeless quality of the night?
Felt a deep bond with all in the circle? Have you asked yourself, why do our
daily lives not feel this way?

This book is for you.

Because the answer to
these questions is magick. It’s really magick. A timeless art practiced by our
ancestors, and it has never really gone away. From the tribes of Africa, to the
Egyptians, the Greeks, the witches’ fires in the Middle Ages, magick ruled the
minds and hearts of human beings. It ruled their world. And every time someone
figured out a way to sell it, it lost some of its power.

It’s time to take it back.

In 1987, when Samuel
Weiser unleashed on the world the first mass market version of Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J.
Carroll, it included a flow chart that expressed the progress of magical
traditions. The chart declared the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of
Thanateros (IOT) as the culmination of all other magical tradition that
proceeded it. While the creators of this book would argue that the progression
of magick is decidedly non-linear, the chart does elegantly express the idea
that magick is not moribund in ancient tradition. That as a living, breathing
art form, those that practice it learn from what has come before and make
improvements. Certainly Carroll did not presume that the IOT and Chaos Magick,
as it would come to be called, would be the final destination of that
progression. Nor do we presume what lies within to be the last word on magical
practice.

It is the next step.

Emergent
Magick presents the
distilled learning of a multitude of magical practitioners who have worked in
multiple systems. It represents the cutting edge of magical thinking. If you
find the contents of this book familiar, it’s because they are things that many
practitioners have been saying for years. Sadly, we have found few books that
actually express these ideas concisely. All too often, magical tomes contain
in-depth explorations of a single paradigm, or worse yet, lists of spells
expected to work like recipes.

The creators wanted this
tome to be useful to a rank amateur with only a passing interest in magick. But
we haven’t “dumbed it down.” We advise those with no experience to consume this
book slowly, and do not shy away from researching while reading any concepts
you may be unfamiliar with. At the same time, experienced practitioners should
not just skip the “how-to” sections of this book as they represent the
application of the new theories put forth.

We hope that at the very
least this book generates worthy discussion on new magical theory. For those
who have just joined the ranks of the magi, we salute you.

Frater Threskiornis, 16670,
“Ego Sum Legio”

Scribe of the Order of
Emergent Magi

9/16/2018

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American Folkloric
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Chaos Matrix: https://www.chaosmatrix.org/

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Podcasts

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Occult of Personality

Scroll of Thoth – The Podcast
of Emergent Magick

Emergent Magick: History

EMK also draws influence
from the counter-culture of the 1960s, particularly the psychedelic movement. Timothy
Leary, Aldus Huxley, Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test, and the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, all espoused the use
of psychedelics in the creation of neo-tribal societies based on community and
individual freedom. This philosophy is perhaps best summarized in the works of
Terence McKenna, and his “stoned ape” hypothesis. McKenna suggested that great
advances in human evolution took place due to our species’ use of psychedelic mushrooms,
and that a return to their use, along with tribal spiritual values, are key to
us returning to Earth-based principles and avoiding the catastrophes of global
war and environmental destruction. In our view, the great social experiment of
the 1960s led to massive advances in rights for women and minorities, and
universal enfranchisement. The reaction of the totalitarian right ended that
progress abruptly. EMK seeks to refine the methods used by those earlier
counter-culture heroes and lead that experiment to its fruition.

Emergent Magick – Ancestors

Much
of the mythology we know today comes from what has been well preserved. For the
most part, what gets preserved in any culture are things important to the
ruling class. The major gods and goddesses and their stories were certainly
known to the commoners, but for the majority of people, household gods, local
heroes, and ancestors played a more important role in daily life. Any Roman who
had the means kept a room in their home for the ancestors. Many households in
Ancient Egypt and Greece had a small shrine to venerate important family
members that had passed. Even after the spread of Christianity, the cult of the
saints informed public life more than the scripture itself. Ancestor veneration
is well entrenched in almost every human culture.

Frater T rambles about magick while he’s high.

That spell is a homonym should be the first clue. To cast a spell is to make the words. The Word has always been the most powerful magick sapiens use. It is not unique to us, but we seem to use it par-excellence. And we are, of course, the only species that writes. Words allow us to have extremely complex thought patterns.

Mighty is Djheuty, who is master of the Word.

And by far, the best thing we learned to do with words is tell stories. People will always stop and listen to a story. Make it entertaining. Use the old spell. The Monomyth. The hero has a thousand faces, but the story remains the same. The call to adventure… The descent into the underworld… The promise of rebirth….

So yeah, as my gnostic friend says, “Write your own story. Live your own myth.”

Emergent Magick: Purpose

In the end, any magus that continues to practice the art will eventually shift their practice away from Operative Magick to Illumination. Illumination starts with finding one’s True Will, but often includes exploring the nature of the universe the magus is a part of. The realization of universal consciousness is a good start, but to truly internalize such an idea requires repeated altered states of consciousness. The absolute acceptance of the unity of consciousness remains elusive for most of us. No ritual or spell, no single exercise can lead a magus to true realization. It requires a lifetime, or some believe, lifetimes to accomplish. The Protocols of the Order of Emergent Magi state, “EMK is the slow magick; the long invocation.” EMK accepts that a magus does not manifest their True Will in any given moment, but creates a life that embodies it.

Liber F.pdf

Completing a course in
Liber F, and continuing to practice these exercises, helps protect the
individual from the perils of being a magus. Before you discount that statement
as hyperbole, we have already put
forth that taking mind altering substances can be a key to magick. Few would
argue that drugs don’t take a toll on the individual mentally and physically.
To believe you can do these things without any ill effects is the epitome of
hubris. Like much in this book, Liber F is simply our take on practices that
have been used for thousands of years and proven to work. Having the ability to
stick to a routine, calm your mind, and control impulsive thoughts goes a long
way in helping prevent addiction and other complications.

It may seem incredulous,
but doing magick can lead to bizarre and often self-destructive thought
patterns. To believe what the majority of society tells us simply does not
exist places stresses on the mind and tends to isolate an individual socially.
To be constantly contemplating spiritual questions, (Why are we here? What is
the nature of the universe? What is truth?) can lead to obsessive behaviors.

We do not take this
lightly because we have lost friends to mental illness. While no hard data
exists, those who practice magick have noted that magi do seem to suffer from
psychological conditions more frequently than the general population. Consider
Liber F to be a vaccination against those maladies. In fact, a magus should
make routine a priority in their day-to-day lives. So when you do occasionally
participate in activities far outside the norm, you can easily recover. This
will make it that much easier to hold down a job, provide for loved ones, and keep
social ties outside your magical circle.

Part of what sets Liber F
apart from other courses of this kind is that it encourages the magus to start
working with a group as soon as possible. Those who work in substance abuse
treatment have proposed that the opposite of addiction is not abstinence, but
connection. Those who have strong social bonds and favorable living conditions
are able to recover from addiction and are less likely to become addicted in
the first place. This applies to other mental compulsions as well. EMK favors
group magick not only to create better magick, but so that each magus has the support
network they need to prevent harm caused by the dangerous work of magick
itself.

Emergent Magick – Ancestors

Our ancestors also compel us
to learn our history, especially important for the magi. Just a brief survey of
your ancestral culture is most likely to unearth a rich magical tradition. We
have been led to believe that our current societies had been swiftly converted
to monolithic faiths, instantly erasing eons of animist and pagan traditions.
Nothing can be further from the truth. Vestiges of the old ways live on
everywhere if you know where to look for them. From Catholic grandmothers
burying statues of saints in the yard, to Baptist hoodoo practitioners driving
away evil spirits with salt, to the seer stone used by Joseph Smith in the
founding of the Church of Later Day Saints, the magick of our ancestors
continues.

If you dig a little
deeper, you find that many of our traditions come from much older, pagan roots.
Many Catholic saints were once pagan gods or folk heroes. Our holidays correspond
with celebrations of our pagan ancestors. All of them believed in magick. Your
ancestors will teach you this.

THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS

We have had some debate recently on the spirit of various plant psychedelics compared to synthesized substances like LSD. I think the answer lies in perspective and may answer some nagging questions. The hole in Terrance McKenna’s “stoned ape” hypothesis has always been a lack of known psychedelics available to early man in certain regions. But I think we are once again discounting our ancestors’ ability and ingenuity. LSD is derived from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye. While direct consumption of ergot can cause hallucinations, and we have many historical examples of this, it is also poisonous. Yet, Albert Hofmann is quoted as saying, the ability to extract the psychedelic compounds from ergot were, “well within the range of possibilities open to Early Man.” So in essence, LSD is most likely a direct lineage of the shaman’s medicine as used in the West. Northern African and European prehistoric hunter-gatherers did have access to a psychedelic compound. This is another way in which EMK attempts to re-make the esoteric tradition of the West.