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Inform the World
There is much criticism of language in the fad monasticism that seems to be the vogue of spirituality lately. Very Zen, and I’m no critic of Zen, but there is stuff beyond that point. Sort of like the Buddhist handling of the concept of Gods. They don’t go there, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t…
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It’s All Language
Do we choose words because of an inherent energy the sound makes (freq. etc.), or do we impart the energy to the words with our intent? Both actually. The pattern of language is in the world; birds, bees, dolphins, whales. It’s really everywhere. The emissions from quartz deposits are patterned. They are not white noise,…
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The World is Listening
The first discipline of language magic is listening, and at first you will be listening to yourself. This is necessary. As you listen to yourself, you will see the pattern and how it impacts the world. At this point, you can begin to make choices, but you can’t stop there. That’s just meditation, though that’s…
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Speak and Create
It’s not just words. Nothing you do or say is “just” anything. The energy in you to act wasn’t created by you. As it leaves you it imprints the world, and the world is a diary. Well, what have we written? What have we wrought? And why did we? The bards said “I have been…
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Theban Cypher
The script known as Theban has no clearly established origin, and little lore directly linked to it by itself. If anything, the history of the Theban script runs parallel to the history of renaissance occultism. It’s typically considered a “cypher” as it has no observable connection to any strictly linguistic script. Its structure runs mostly…
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Syncretism
Perhaps we should discuss syncretism as a religious/ philosophical/ metaphysical trend? Syncretism has a long history and transcends cultural boundaries. Monotheism tends to rule it out, but the majority of the world’s religions weren’t originally monotheistic. Like the Egyptian tradition I’ve spoken of before, and like the basis of renaissance occultism in more modern times,…
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Attune to Higher Realities
Latin and Hebrew are two of the most frequently used languages in occult philosophy, and Cabalism makes deliberate use of cyphers not even necessarily for encryption, but as a way to divine secret meaning from “inspired” passages. Their traditional poetry being the biggest body they draw from, the Book of Solomon, as well as other…
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DNA of the Spiritual Realm
In occult lore, characters, alphabets, were the “DNA” of the spiritual realm, revealed rather than invented. There is some loose evidence to support this even in modern science as they continue to study the process of cognition and more specifically “language” in the brain. You can be primed to notice elements of your environment by…
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Earliest Written Language
The earliest “written” language would have been pictographic. Cave paintings would in time become more complex, to the point where say in the work of the native tribes of the northwest, you get complex imagery, almost mandala like composite “pictures” containing a lot of symbolic imagery in the picture of a raven, say. With native…
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Evolution of Written Language
To begin with, written language or what would lead to written language, took not one form but two. The obvious pictographic imagery and what would be the earliest ideographs. Imagine for a moment you have one of the earliest cave painters. As much as they were able to depict things they saw in the world…
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Creates an Order in Our Minds
They tried to alphabetize our native Hawaiian language. Our phonetics, each and every sound and syllable, had roots in very ancient sound forms that echoed connectives to primal forces, energies, actions. I have been taught these sounds. Primordial expression. Written word is kind of like freezing sound. It was visions and ideas first, sound only came later…
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Weaving Connections
The use of written language and symbolism in magick? It’s basically a form of sympathetic magick, using the words and symbols as a likeness of the thing they wish to attract or influence. This is why written names are thought to have power. By writing a name you are taking hold of a part of…
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Talismans are Consecrated Patterns
I ponder Golden Arches as talisman. It is one. Heavenly gates? Streets of gold? I will never again look at McDonalds quite the same way. It is perhaps why people think McDonald’s food equals death. You cannot create a pattern and have it make no impact on the world. Patterns created by humans shape the…
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Transcend Limits of Spoken Language
Sumerian cuneiform is one of the worlds oldest languages, written scripts that is. In it’s original form it had around 1000 characters and no linguistic content. So to start, and maybe to add some focus, what is your familiarity with Sumeria the culture and language so far? Very little. Well, Sumerians were in the ancient…
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Sumerian Language Structure
More about the structure of Sumerian language is perhaps relevant as many contemporary thinkers and researchers would say it contains the very essence of their psyche. We do know something of their language and its structure though there is no surviving descendant form of it today. Even Latin still has vestiges in modern languages spoken…
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Effect of Language on Cognition
Perhaps a look at the basic elements of language and how that would effect cognition, and specifically as that would have effected the Sumerians. The two components of language are expressive and lexical, and it was up until recently believed that languages with compound features were unique to human beings. This is likely very far…
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Space for Creation
Sumerian language would have immediately oriented on the subject of the statement, only including the object and verb after. Ah, This I understand. I’m starting to see how words can be considered magic…altering consciousness. Yes, words can indeed alter perception. ‘The house it’s owner entered’ would be how their language was structured. Help you I…
Category: Language
It’s not just words. Nothing you do or say is “just” anything. It’s you who inform the world through language. Body language, internal dialogue that we call thinking, it’s all language, and you inform the world. You tell it. It doesn’t tell you. We express our spirit in our inner world, our thinking, which manifests in the outer world in body language and speech, but the process of language is creative. The world was created in speaking, out of silence, and the beat goes on.
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” Benjamin Lee Whorf (American Linguist 1897-1941)
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it” Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.” Karl Albrecht