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In early modern Britain, disbelief in the existence of spirits was tantamount to atheism. The overwhelming majority of people, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, believed in the existence of a countless number and variety of invisible supernatural beings. Different types of people were concerned with different types of spirits: for the devout Christian, angels and demons stood centre stage; for the elite magician, spirits originating from classical cosmologies could be equally significant while the uneducated country people placed a greater emphasis on the 'fairy folk’. Trying to make any hard and fast distinction between categories of spirits in early modern Britain is impossible because supernatural beings were labelled differently, depending on geography, education and religious perspective and definitions overlapped considerably. The term 'fairy’, for example, is a misleadingly broad generic term which, in the period, covered a wide range of supernatural entities. On a popular level there was often little difference between a fairy and an angel, saint, ghost, or devil. We find the popular link between fairies and angels, for example, expressed in the confession of a cunning man on trial for witchcraft in Aberdeen, in 1598. The magical practitioner, who was identified in the trial records as ‘Andro Man’, claimed that his familiar (described by the interrogators as the Devil) was an angel who, like Tom Reid, served the queen of the fairies. The records state 'Thow confessis that the Devill, thy maister, quhom thow termes Christsonday, and supponis to be ane engell, and Goddis godsone, albeit he hes a thraw by God, and swyis to the Quene of Elphen, is rasit be the speking of the word Benedicte.’
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits - shamanistic visionary traditions in Early Modern British witchcraft and magic (via ophidiansabbat)
A Caiman Covered in Butterflies Photographed by Mark Cowan
GOT ROBERT BARATHEON
Man has two creators, his God and himself. His first creator furnishes him the raw material of his life and the laws in conformity with which he can make that life what he will. His second creator, himself, has marvellous powers he rarely realizes. It is what a man makes of himself that counts. When a man fails in life he usually says, “ I am as God made me.” When he succeeds he proudly proclaims himself a “ self-made man.” Man is placed into this world not as a finality, but as a possibility.Man’s greatest enemy is, himself. Man in his weakness is the creature of circumstances; man in his strength is the creator of circumstances. Whether he be victim or victor depends largely on himself. Man is never truly great merely for what he is, but ever for what he may become. Until man be truly filled with the knowledge of the majesty of his possibility, until there come to him the glow of realization of his privilege to live the life committed to him, as an individual life for which he is individually responsible, he is merely groping through the years. W.G.Jordan
www.esotericaromas.etsy.com.
The Briar Rose Book of Old Fairy Tales Illustrated by Anne Anderson. T. C. & E. C. Jack, LDT. .c.1920.
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp, the better I understand its history as a place of refuge. Each ripping thorn and sucking mudhole makes it clearer. It was the dense, tangled hostility of the swamp and its enormous size that enabled hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of escaped slaves to live here in freedom.
We don’t know much about them, but thanks to the archaeologist hacking through the mire ahead of me, we know they were out here, subsisting in hidden communities, and using almost nothing from the outside world until the 19th century. The Dismal Swamp covered great tracts of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, and its vegetation was far too thick for horses or canoes. In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude or hiding from the law. From about 1680 to the Civil War, it appears that the swamp communities were dominated by Africans and African-Americans. Read more.
Anne Anderson’s Fairy Tales. Whitman Publishing Company Racine, Wisconsin. .1935.
NARRATOR: In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin’s minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.
ALL: Yay!
Scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), manuscript-influenced animation by Terry Gilliam.
Andrey Remnev
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“My paintings are distinguished by attention to detail and meticulous decorating a conditional Russian style. Other works are written in a different, more symbolic way… I tried to convey a sense of wonder, the unique experience of touching the mystery.”
Conflict in Literature
sorry I couldn’t resist
Seven Sisters secrets to be uncovered before cliffs tumble into the sea
The secrets of the cliffs at Seven Sisters are set to be uncovered by archaeologists who believe the site could be on the of UK’s most important prehistoric monuments.
The hilltop enclosure at Belle Tout is an ‘archaeological mystery’ – according to the National Trust, whose archaeologists will be starting a dig next month (September) to uncover the secrets before the cliffs erode into the sea.
They hope to find evidence of an early Bronze Age settlement. It is already known that there is a huge outer earthwork, 1.2km long, but archaeologists have yet to arrive at a date for when the hilltop enclosure was built. Previous finds are from different eras including prehistoric flintwork and early Bronze Age Beaker pottery.
What sets this project apart from previous excavations is the application of new scientific techniques such as LiDAR laser scanning, environmental sampling, Optical Stimulated Luminescence (which measures the last time an object was exposed to light) and even analysing microscopic snails, which only exist in certain habitats and give clues as to the ancient landscape. Read more.
What a lovely post.
Transcript of my lecture given at The Queen City Philosophical Society on 1/31/13
This is a copy of my lecture. It’s not word for word of what was discussed because the meetings tend to be in a discussion format, but this is what I used to lecture with and initiate discussion. Another thing to remember is that this forum is open to the public and not limited to active Masons, therefore the content is not exclusively Masonic. Also, due to my concerns of getting too abstract and not making sense to all persons present, I tried to keep it simple. Please feel free to contact me and discuss with me as you please.
- What is the most basic question of philosophy? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is certainly the most basic question because it deals with paradox, and ultimately deals with how we describe God. And as the modern spiritual teacher Deepok Chopra says, “The measure of your enlightenment is your level of comfort with paradoxes.”
The question of the chicken and the egg is a trick question. Everything you see around you everyday was at first an idea. The clothes you are wearing, the chair you are sitting in. And as an idea only can it exist eternally. For once it is created and exists in the material world, it must perish. That is the nature of the material world.
So what does this paradox have to do with how we describe God? When asked what God is, the only thing we can do is describe his attributes. The outward manifestations.
“Substance” means: “that which underlies all outward manifestations; the essence; the essential reality; the thing in itself,” etc. “Substantial” means: “actually existing; being the essential element; being real,” etc. “Reality” means: “the state of being real; true, enduring; valid; fixed; permanent; actual,” etc. Under and behind all outward appearances or manifestations, there must always be a Substantial Reality. This is the Law. Man considering the Universe, of which he is a unit, sees nothing but change in matter, forces, and mental states. He sees that nothing really IS, but that everything is becoming and changing. Nothing stands still, everything is being born, growing, dying, the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline, the law of rhythm is in constant operation, there is no reality, enduring quality, fixity, or substantiality in anything. Nothing is permanent but Change. All things are evolving from other things, and resolving into other things. There is a constant action and reaction; inflow and outflow; building up and tearing down; creation and destruction; birth, growth and death. Nothing endures but Change. “And if he be a thinking man, he realizes that all of these changing things must be but outward appearances or manifestations of some Underlying Power — some Substantial Reality.” Modern science has shown us that Matter is more of a mystery than ever, and has decided to call it energy with something causing a differentiation in its manifestations. Marcus Antonious says “The nature of the universe delights not in anything so much as to alter all things, and present them under another form. this is her conceit to play one game and begin another. Matter is placed before her like a piece of wax and she shapes it to all forms and figures. Now she makes a bird, then out of a bird a beast, now a flower then a frog, and she is pleased with her own magical performances as men are with their fancies.” This is very similar to the Hindu worldview that describes the material world as clay which is always changing its shape. The number one law of thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created or destroyed. One of my favorite quotes is from Carl Sagan, when he is leaning up against a tree, and says something like “Me and this tree here, we are made of the same stuff.”
When we look in Genesis it says that light was created twice. Genesis 1:3 “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” Genesis 1:14 “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years”
All was in balance in Paradise, and this initial ‘agitation’, as I like to call it caused the differentiation between light and darkness, but was still an effect itself. Its also interesting to note that this ‘agitation’ is described as spoken word, implying vibration. “Light — the first mentioned in Genesis, is termed by the kabalists, Sephira, or the Divine Intelligence, the mother of all the Sephiroth, while the Concealed Wisdom is the father. Light is the first begotten, and the first emanation of the Supreme, and Light is Life, says the evangelist. Both are electricity — the life-principle, the anima mundi, pervading the universe, the electric vivifier of all things. Light is the great Protean magician, and under the Divine Will of the architect, its multifarious, omnipotent waves gave birth to every form as well as to every living being. From its swelling, electric bosom, springs matter and spirit. Within its beams lie the beginnings of all physical and chemical action, and of all cosmic and spiritual phenomena; it vitalizes and disorganizes; it gives life and produces death, and from its primordial point gradually emerged into existence the myriads of worlds, visible and invisible celestial bodies. It was at the ray of this First mother, one in three, that God, according to Plato, “lighted a fire, which we now call the sun,”** and, which is not the cause of either light or heat, but merely the focus, or, as we might say, the lens, by which the rays of the primordial light become materialized, are concentrated upon our solar system, and produce all the correlations of forces.”
Modern science is trying to figure out how matter created life. Ancient philosophy inculcates the doctrine that life created matter. The unknowable first cause is ultimately unknowable. But we can speculate on the effect of this cause, because we are a product of this cause. We can reflect on our place in this world. The modern convention is that the creation of the visible universe is the beginning of all existence, when logically it can only be an effect, not a cause.
Plato describes this universe with the allegory of the cave. In his work ‘The Republic’ the Greek philosopher uses the analogy to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education.” In Plato’s fictional dialogue, Socrates begins by describing a scenario in which what people take to be real would in fact be an illusion. He asks Glaucon to imagine a cave inhabited by prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since childhood: not only are their legs (but not arms) held in place, but their necks are also fixed, so they are compelled to gaze at a wall in front of them. Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which people walk carrying things on their heads “including figures of men and animals made of wood, stone and other materials”. The prisoners cannot see the raised walkway or the people walking, but they watch the shadows cast by the men, not knowing they are shadows. There are also echoes off the wall from the noise produced from the walkway. Socrates suggests the prisoners would take the shadows to be real things and the echoes to be real sounds created by the shadows, not just reflections of reality, since they are all they had ever seen or heard. They would praise as clever, whoever could best guess which shadow would come next, as someone who understood the nature of the world, and the whole of their society would depend on the shadows on the wall. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. The Allegory may be related to Plato’s ‘Theory of Forms’, according to which the “Forms” (or “Ideas”), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. This ‘Theory of Forms’ is in turn reminiscent of the theories propagated by Carl Jung, in which he coined the terms ‘Archetypes’ and ‘collective unconscious’.
Start to think about this world, not as a concrete, static, and linear existence, but as a dynamic, ever changing, pliable and cyclic existence. When we do this, our definition for God can, paradoxically, become very simple. He is The All. The human reason, whose reports we must accept so long as we think at all, informs us as follows regarding THE ALL:
1.) THE ALL must be ALL that REALLY IS. There can be nothing existing outside of THE ALL, else THE ALL would not be THE ALL.
2.)THE ALL must be INFINITE, for there is nothing else to define, confine, bound, limit or restrict THE ALL. It must be Infinite in Time, or ETERNAL, — it must have always continuously existed, for there is nothing else to have ever created it, and something can never evolve from nothing, and if it had ever “not been,” even for a moment, it would not “be” now, — it must continuously exist forever, for there is nothing to destroy it, and it can never “not-be,” even for a moment, because something can never become nothing. It must be Infinite in Space — it must be Everywhere, for there is no place outside of THE ALL — it cannot be otherwise than continuous in Space, without break, cessation, separation, or interruption, for there is nothing to break, separate, or interrupt its continuity, and nothing with which to “fill in the gaps.” It must be Infinite in Power, or Absolute, for there is nothing to limit, restrict, restrain, confine, disturb or condition it — it is subject to no other Power, for there is no other Power.
3.)THE ALL must be IMMUTABLE, or not subject to change in its real nature, for there is nothing to work changes upon it; nothing into which it could change, nor from which it could have changed. It cannot be added to nor subtracted from; increased nor diminished; nor become greater or lesser in any respect whatsoever. It must have always been, and must always remain, just what it is now — THE ALL — there has never been, is not now, and never will be, anything else into which it can change. “Matter forms the physical foundation for all forms. Is God merely Matter? No. Matter cannot manifest Life or Mind, and as Life and Mind are manifested in the Universe, The All cannot be Matter, for nothing rises higher than its own source. Then is God mere Energy or Force? Not Energy or Force as the materialists use the terms, for their energy and force are blind, mechanical things, devoid of Life or Mind. Life and Mind can never evolve from blind Energy or Force. God cannot be mere Energy or Force, for, if it were, then there would be no such things as Life and Mind in existence, and we know better than that, for we are Alive and using Mind to consider this very question, and so are those who claim that Energy or Force is Everything.”
The All is mind, and Mind is absolutely necessary for the manifestion of observable life, just as Matter is necessary, for it is the manifold in which The All can perceive action and reaction. Like previously said, the fact that we are alive, and able to ponder questions like these are enough proof that another world exists. And exist it does, even though it is hidden within this one.
Here is one of my favorite quotes: Blavatsky - “The infinite and uncreated spirit that we usually call GOD, a substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality. God thus is the primary substance, the rest, the secondary; if the former created matter with a power of moving itself, he, the primary substance, is still the cause of that motion as well as of the matter, and yet we rightly say that it is matter which moves itself. “We may define this kind of spirit we speak of to be a substance indiscernible, that can move itself, that can penetrate, contract, and dilate itself, and can also penetrate, move, and alter matter,”
Blavatsky - “The highest “head” contains the Trinity in Chaos, out of which springs the manifested trinity. En-Soph, the unrevealed forever, who is boundless and unconditioned, cannot create, and therefore it seems to us a great error to attribute to him a “creative thought,” as is commonly done by the interpreters. In every cosmogony this supreme Essence is passive; is boundless, infinite, and unconditioned, it can have no thought nor idea. It acts not as the result of volition, but in obedience to its own nature, and according to the fatality of the law of which it is itself the embodiment. Thus, with the Hebrew kabalists, En-Soph is non-existent , for it is incomprehensible to our finite intellects, and therefore cannot exist to our minds.”
En-soph can literally be translated to the ‘no-thing.’ Now, this is not, from my point of view, Atheistic. For the oldest philosophical and religious doctrines describe the Universe by creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing). But, there are misconceptions about the word ‘nothing’. First, we must establish what ‘nothing’ is. Everything in existence, at some point is formless, it is no-thing. existing only in Spirit. “the primitive substance is eternal and unchangeable. Its highest revelation is the pure, luminous ether, the boundless infinite space, not a void resulting from the absence of forms, but, on the contrary, the foundation of all forms, and anterior to them. But the very presence of forms denotes it to be the creation of Maya, and all her works are as nothing before the uncreated being, SPIRIT, in whose profound and sacred repose all motion must cease forever.” Spirit is nothing, for it cannot be said to exist. The Buddhist doctrine of annihilation illustrates beautifully: “Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.” In the Zohar, En-Soph is ‘the One, and the infinite Unity.’ But as I said, it is also called the ‘no-thing’. And this my friends is the ultimate paradox. God is everything and nothing at the same time. Everything is nothing with a twist.
Works citied: - The Kybalion - The Bible - Wikipedia - Isis Unveiled by H.P. Blavatsky
Fiction Suit
A “fiction suit” is an idea popularized by Grant Morrison, and involves a creator inserting themselves into a piece of fiction they have created. For example, Morrison has stated that the character of “King Mob” in the “Invisibles” was a suit worn by him within the fictional world of that comic.
This approach could also be taken in the fiction or narrative known as “real life”, where someone deliberately creates a multitude of different fictional personas as part of their life and art.
The images of Aleister Crowley above show him as a Poet, Mountaineer, Ceremonial Magician, Taoist, Sufi, Freemason etc.
David Bowie is another example of someone who took conscious control over their own narrative and the personas they chose to enact.
Taking this another level up, we can look at the use of “Assumption of Godforms” in Theurgy, where we consciously try to meet a God halfway, by enacting its attributes and allowing ourselves to let go and melt into their presence.
Improvise from the script society and your culture (psychology) has dictated to you. Start planning and then implementing some plot twists and changes in your character.
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” - From “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman (1855).
Did You Know?
“On July 25, 2013 in the city of Madrid Spain the Catholic Church declared open war on transhumanism. The occasion was a meeting , the XVIII International Science and Life Congress. The result of this meeting, the so called Madrid Declaration on Science and Life, outlines the church’s stance and opposition to transhumanism, going further to oppose the use of reason and science in the betterment of life and society, and calling for the creation of an extra legal international court and advocating the use of violence and kidnapping. The goal of the proposed court being to try scientists for crimes based on the Church’s mistaken anti-scientific beliefs such as creationism and divine will. The meeting was expressly held to discuss “science, humanism and post-humanism” but the declaration goes beyond a mere evaluation of these ideas from a theological or religious perspective, calling for the creation of an “international criminal court before which those experimenting with human life, understanding it as a mean of production, or simply destroying it in the early stages of its development, be accountable.” ~ Well, well… I am sure, they (patriarchal priests) are pissed off right now…. Is it why they sent on Western-people nazi-islam?