Quotes

Thoth is the Greek rendering of the Egyptian name Djehuty or Tahuti. Thoth was also identified by the Greeks with their god Hermes and was called Hermes Trismegistus to distinguish him from the Greek form of Hermes. The title Trismegistus, meaning “three times great,” is a Greek translation of the Egyptian expression, pa aa, pa aa, pa aa, meaning “the great, the great, the great,” which was often applied to Thoth. He was also sometimes called “twice- great” […] There are even texts that describe him as “eight times great” or “nine times great” The main cult center of Thoth was Hermopolis, which is now called el-Ashmunein. His totem animals are the baboon and the ibis and he is often represented as a man with the head of an ibis.
One of the most important deities of ancient Egypt, he was credited with being a creator god […].
Thoth is the god of wisdom, “lord of the divine words,” and patron of scribes and physicians. […] It is Thoth who is said to have devised hieroglyphic writing, but his role as lord of the divine words probably means more than this: It was Thoth who prescribed the correct practices and appropriate forms of ritual to be carried out in all the temples and the sacred texts used there were written by him. In discussing the importance of Thoth’s writing, Patrick Boylan […] quotes from a hymn that describes Thoth as “he who has given words and script, who makes the temples to prosper, who founds shrines, and who makes the gods to know what is needful (i.e., sacrifice and ritual).”
Thoth is one of several deities to whom special magical powers are attributed; the source of his magic is his great knowledge and his command of words – how to use and pronounce words with magical effectiveness. His medical knowledge is closely connected to his magical abilities.  […]
As god of justice, reason, and balance, Thoth has an important role in the judgment hall of Osiris – where the heart of the deceased is weighed in the scales of Maat to see if he or she is of sufficient moral integrity to be allowed into the blessed afterlife, to live with the gods. He helps Anubis weigh the hearts and carefully records the verdict on his scroll. The text also shows that Thoth “doeth away with opposition and fighting” in that he resolved the dispute between Horus and Set. […] All scientific learning and sacred wisdom was attributed to Thoth, so in principle he was regarded as the author of the great books of knowledge, medicine, sacred texts, and spells that were collected in the temples and handed down for generations. In much later times, the Greek Hermetica were attributed to him under his name of Hermes Trismegistus […]

Daily adoration of Thoth

O ye gods that are in heaven, O ye gods that are (on earth)! (Ye southerners, northerners, westerners), easterners, come and behold Thoth, how he shineth forth in his crown, which the two lords in Hermopolis have set in place for him, in order that he may execute the governance of mankind. Exult in the hall of Keb over what he hath done. Adore him, extol him, give him praise. He is the lord of kindliness, the leader of the entire multitude.

Then follow a promise that for all gods and goddesses who will thus praise him Thoth will furnish their chapels and their altars (?) in their temples, and a prayer of the writer that Thoth may give him an house and possessions and sustenance; he is to cause that he be loved and praised… and pleasant and protected with all people, and that his enemies be overthrown.

Magic and Mysticism-The Will To Self-Mastery and The Will To Surrender are two sides of the same coin. As it is often the case, pseudo Mystics see Magicians as power hungry individuals uninterested in love. These “mystics” see themselves in the service of love and humanity. In fact their attempt at superiority by appealing to those who neither love or use power is proof of their lack of both.

Much of what goes on in our heads does not belong to us. It is inherited from our family and our culture. This is nowhere more evident than in economics. We have a system of value that is mostly unaligned to our spiritual or magical values because they come from an economy that is just simply not built for our benefit. As such, any journey toward finding meaning or value in our lives must begin with an understanding of the value system we have inherited. The mystic and science fiction author Philip K. Dick refers to this as the ‘black iron prison.’ This is his description of the worldly forces of government, economics, and culture, all largely invisible, that trap us in a small and fixed vision a reality. But the borders of our cell are arbitrary. They only imprison us if we allow them to. And so the first step in freeing yourself from prison is recognizing the bars.

The absence of the goddess is the sign of the presence of the witch. She is not external, but is enfleshed. The wild goddess has passed through the city of whoredom and has emerged intact as the witch on the heath. There was never one goddess of witchcraft, but rather a thousand Ishtars: milk white, blood red, lamp black. There can never be orthodoxy. We are simultaneously possessed, annihilated, and forever outside of Time. She is immanent. She dwells within us.

The difference between magick and therapy is that, for magick, truth lies in experience, whereas therapy is concerned with questions of “meaning” and “interpretation”. The therapist traces the meaning of symptoms back to the unconscious, over and over again. In other words, issues on the surface are exposed as being the product of issues hidden at a lower level. It is all “about” issues. Magick, on the other hand, enables us to experience issues directly as something else—as a “demon”, an “angel”; as something other.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the order in the world is assumed to be the result of the “living creator of the life of the world” […], namely, the “enlightened” Sun-God Ra. The latter is also called Re or Ammon-Ra, Ammon stands for “hidden”. His firstborn son is the god Theut or Thoth. Thoth is the most powerful god in ancient Egyptian religion for he is acknowledged as “the master of divine words”. More specifically, he is associated with the thoughts of his father, Ra. Ra’s thoughts are “hidden”. Thoth is the one who is able to speak his father’s thoughts and thereby bring them into the light (the light in turn is again associated with Ra). He can do this because Thoth is the god of speech, and through speech he can make the hidden truth and wisdom clairvoyant. Because of this, he is also the god of wisdom, and knowledge is understood to be of a linguistic nature. It is thus in ancient Egyptian times that the cultural intuition emerges that speech is both a vehicle for thoughts as well as an instrument to refer to (the truth about) the world. Both thought and knowledge are therefore language-based.
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In Egyptian mythology, the sun shined upon the whole of its creation, thereby emanating a hidden truth or order which was made linguistic and thus literally audible and comprehensible by Thoth. This order, and eventually the capacities associated with the god Thoth, would be called the logos by the ancient Greek philosophers.

Witchcraft throbs with a lunar menstrual rhythm. When we look at the acts and tools of the craft: the doll, thread, knot, needle, loom, wheel, poison, plant, chant, hearth, fire, home, it is an inevitable conclusion that these are female mysteries and have been since the dawn of time. But the hunt and the rites of men are also presided over by this pre-eminent figure as Mistress of the Beasts, whom the sorcerer, or devil, is beneath, and these separate streams flow together in the sexual conjoining of the full moon Sabbat.

This new generation are drawn into increasingly ‘dark’ expressions of witchcraft as, following the logic of teenagers, it seems more authentic. It denies access to adults. In a sense they are correct to pursue taboo as a source of power; problematically they do not orientate their practice in context and therefore remain trapped in their own ego projections rather than being engaged in meaningful work. Regardless, they out number you a thousand to one and they are trying to do something – we should applaud them for this at the very least.

In foreign policy Obama has repaired relations with allies, brought troops home from the un-winnable wars of his Republican predecessor, prevented a nuclear Iran, created international coalitions to tackle international issues, and sought to uphold America’s values and maintain its moral integrity by allowing refugees made destitute from our own policies to seek asylum here in America. Yet despite all this, Republicans somehow say, America’s foreign policy has neither been more mismanaged nor America’s position in the world been more at stake.