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Night Guides Message
Exactly which spirits are your night guides, your influences in the night side of nature, that is unique to you. But no matter how well versed in the light you are, the night side will come to you as well, and if you just rush through it, ignore what happens in that stage of your…
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Cosmic Power Brokering
In brief, what are your thoughts or experiences on magick? A state of mind I’ve been used to for many years. That it doesn’t come from thin air. It’s in your blood. It’s a way of looking at interconnectivity. A responsibility. Yes. It is response ability. All of these are true. Is there a mechanism…
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Types of Sorcery
There are many schools of sorcery, from those practiced in Mesoamerican culture, to the Obeah men of African tradition, to Arab Sha’irs. It’s actually a long list each with its own culture of sorcery. In modern western society, we are most familiar with a bastardized form of Semitic sorcery. Semitic meaning having its origin in…
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Politics of Sorcery
How do the different types of sorcery differentiate themselves? By types of spirits they deal with or techniques used? Mostly by the types of spirit, spirit cultures. The maho-tsukai of China focused on what their culture considered dark kami, and though they might have been able to prepare a talisman for the repulsion of a…
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Sorcery Examples
To use an example from Semitic sorcery. In Semitic sorcery if you wanted to cause jealousy between a married couple, you could communicate with the spirit known as Ashmedai who was a notorious horn dog, and his behavior in their life would cause them to split. That is an example of negative sorcery. I don’t…
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Personal Orientation of Magick
Today we are talking about black magick. Everybody knows about the concept, and everybody seems to have a different idea of what it is and what it is about. What are your thoughts on black magick? You mean as a practicing witch? Certainly, if that is your point of view. White/ black/ red/ gray magic,…
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Power as the Reward of Virtue
We all undertake our actions on the background of an awareness of god or a god like concept. Even if you call your god “truth”, you still have some idea of what it is all about, and why anything you’re doing actually matters. Now what contrasts black magick from white magick is not something as…
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Enlightened Power
Shall we discuss enlightened power? Today’s seekers of power are just looking for excuses for acting on short sighted impulse, so they are burned by their own power because they are too hasty. Remember earlier I said that the black magician see’s power as the evidence of truth? Well, where people go wrong is seeking…
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Fire of Magick
In white magick, the focus is on the communal network, on sharing and helping and trusting, healing and communicating shared beliefs. The white magick pattern is like a spider web. Everything connected to and reinforcing everything else. Star spider dancing. Yes. That is white magick. That is all magic, I thought. All energy. It is,…
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Avoid the Blindness
Isn’t everything part of the truth? Everything is part of the truth, but people often miss chances to see it because their point of view is showing them something others call a lie. The nightmare is just as enlightening as the dream, but we are told just not to think about nightmares, to put them…
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Root Temptation
In this event, we have been discussing the dark side of metaphysical practice. Today specifically we will discuss the temptations you may have heard mention of whenever you have talked with people about these things. I will open by asking, what do you perceive temptation to be? Something put before me that I desire, but…
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Masters of All
We seek to rise above the facts of life and petty nature, declaring ourselves as special and worthy of dominion over all else that exists, if not openly and consciously, then reflexively by seeking self-satisfaction in life. And if this were true, wouldn’t the world work exactly as we expect it to? I am sure…
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Understanding in Being
We have in our being an understanding of our whole nature, and a reference point for understanding the entirety of nature itself. We research things because we want to. We build things because we want the tool or means to our end that our “industry” produces, and we are working with what is effectively a…
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The Universe is Participating in You
Now there was a reason for all my commentary on human potential earlier, because human potential is not by definition human. It is not limited to humans. Can we even state clearly what it is to be human? People always try to diffentiate humans from animals but they never agree on what it is, and…
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We Can Shape the World
In any exercise of power there is the potential for distraction. This is why they say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. To date, humanity doesn’t deal well with having very many choices. They forget where their truth and their strength come from. They fall off the side of the cliff face because they…
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What is a Nightmare?
Let’s start with a question which is very often a good start. What is a nightmare? A bad dream. Frightening imagination. Any fearful situation. All true. In fact, how do we tell when we are dreaming? Sometimes the boundaries of dream and awake are not easy to see. Interesting and true. The defined boundaries are…
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Blurred Boundaries
Dream experience seems to defy physics, but how did the dreaming mind come to be able to make up such seemingly illogical events as occur in our dreams? Memories of before this existence? It comes from another plane that doesn’t have the same restrictions? Basically yes to both statements. There is a grammar the mind…
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Nightmare Characters
Notice how time works in your dreams? Almost non existent. Because it’s non-existent, as we define it, even while we are awake. We think we have a dream at the end of the day while we sleep, but even viewed in waking world terms, that part of your brain that dreams still dreams while we…
Category: Dark Metaphysics
There are very few frank and well reasoned discussions of the dark side of metaphysics. So I thought a class focused on the darker side of metaphysics might serve a valuable role.
What I classify as dark actually falls into what might be called the “shadowed” real of the already occult. This series on Dark Metaphysics is not for indulging anyone’s morbidity. Nor will I advocate the egotistical behaviour associated with many posers to the dark side. It may mirror for you your own path, and thus teach you more about your own way, and you may discover that it is your personal way.
What do you want to know about the dark side?
“The laws and descriptions which make up the literature of occultism can never be a substitute for experience. They indicate directions in which experiment may be made, and in many cases their validity may be known quite promptly to those who will pursue their indications with resolution and energy. They are not intended as a field for … speculation.” Hugh Shearman, An Approach to the Occult