She Continues
This one’s going to be dense, I suspect. I had several notions regarding the nature of initiation, and I’m going to walk through how Peter Levenda gave me several notions and to gesture at where I have gone, in part because of Levenda. Bibliographic Initiations & Alchemy In The Tantric Alchemist,[1] Peter Levenda looks at […] … Continue reading…Alchemy, Enchantment, Initiation
“this great idea fructifies within him so vigorously that he is compelled to colonise mentally, as a vigorous nation colonises physically.” –Dion Fortune, The Training and Work of an Initiate (28, emphasis mine) Empire, colonial Otherworlds, and self-possession, I guess. Occasionally I try to come at Fortune again, but there’s something rather–well, English about her. I wonder […] … Continue reading…[NB: Fortune, Otherworlds, The Dead]
Recent readings, spirit entanglement notions, books of spirits, and HGAs & Intermediary Spirits/Gods… … Continue reading…[NB: Recent Affairs & Notioning]
I ponder the leviathan and myths and the Otherworlds. When you are working on your culture and your practice— Does it promote toxic masculinity (or toxic something-else)? Does it exclude other myths, peoples, art? Is it monological & promote instrumental reason? Does it treat the earth & people & nature with respect, even reverence? Do […] … Continue reading…[NB: Further Leviathanic Notes]
I was reading Marie-Louise von Franz’s Alchemical Active Imagination, & I’m only thinking how everyone wants to be who they imagine themselves to be—who they want to be? Achemy, via Dorn & the Jungians seems very much to be focused on male ejaculation: matter as feminine, embryonic, and form as male seed cast into form. Before “God” […] … Continue reading…[NB] Jungian Alchemy
My mentor framed transfiguration as an action often occurring in art, wherein otherwise mundane events were transformed in a way to lend them significance and meaning, rendering them, as I would term it now, as enchanted. He framed this process as akin to a ray of light infusing the otherwise mundane experience or object. … Continue reading…Light, Shadow, Darkness (3)
What are the gods? Here’s the thing: I think we have several answers, and several of them mingle. Of course, any such answer is speculative and subjective. However, if Talker mediates our experience of the world and Otherworlds, then Talker’s conception(s) of the gods matters. Sometimes the gods, Fetch, or God-Self may hammer some message, […] … Continue reading…Gods & Mirrors
For me, the point isn’t transcendence, which I see as abandoning this reality and life (or trying to). The point is to live here as yourself, as who you wish to live and act as. Either path is pretty damn difficult: the problems that Body encounters, finding yourself ignorant of or divorced from Fetch, having […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God Soul, and: Part 7: And—
Talker as a talker uses language, uses stories, and we use stories to assemble Talker. (Really, Talker assembles Talker from stories.) Some folks like to say Fetch likes symbols, and they mean sigils, visual symbols, things like that—but Talker loves textual symbols, words, stories, and more. Of course, I’m not saying anything peculiar to esotericism. […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God Soul, and: Part 5: Reweaving Talker
Many traditions divide the soul/self into a variety of parts, elements, and so on. Those familiar with the GD system know that they adapt and steal a qabalistic model: Neschamah—the highest part of the self, that which the soul aspires towards Ruach—the middle part of the self, that which relates to the mental faculties Nephesch—the […] … Continue reading…Body, Fetch, Talker, God-Self, and: Part One: Introduction & Body & Fetch