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A Martial Art
Is there any aspect of life that stands alone from all others? I think love does. Love stands with everything, separate from nothing. Death? They say we die alone. Perhaps panic…. I don’t think there are any that stand alone. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. That awareness is taken…
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Choice is Everything
I guess I consider life a practice. Do you do it daily? We all have dark moments and light moments in our lives. Ah, moments differ from movements. We do all have moments of either state, but movement tends to come from a single root, and stem out to give structure to all extending branches.…
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Dark Practice
Let’s consider a tradition others might consider almost barbaric. There is a sect of Buddhist monks that practice an unusual rite of passage, mud wrestling, and I don’t mean some pseudo-erotic nonsense. I mean they get in the mud with the initiate, and they proceed to actually fight. They fight to exhaustion, and then conclude…
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Stand Your Ground
Simple question. If you had the power, what would you do to create world peace? Could there be world peace without conflict? Could there be world conflict without peace? A deadly pandemic would create world peace. Well, at one time humanity was indeed much less populous, and conflict like we know today did not exist. Tribes…
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Angelic Dark Orders
Angel lore is very old. Some form of the concept of angel has existed in every culture. The word itself is derived from a Greek word, angelos, and was not even the word used by the Jewish culture we typically associate most of the commonly known names with. They referred to angels as Malach, the…
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Views on Angels
I think angels in general are scary, because as I understand it they don’t have free will? That sounds dangerous to me. Their will is taken up by their innate power. They are the literal avatars or incarnations of the workings of the universe itself. Like being in the military, you have to follow orders.…
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Better Than Death
There are some accounts of human apotheosis, a sort of reincarnation. Humans ascending to service in the order of angels. This is likely the origin of more than a few angels. Ezra was a human judge in life, and it was said that he passed from the world without the taint of death, becoming then…
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Exile of Lilith
Whereas the dark angels were the very divine embodiments of wrath and despair, there were orders that embodied hope and wisdom, strength and growth. But there was no split between these, no defiance of the supreme being. In fact, the original references to Satan in the oldest stories originally bore the word for sin, suggesting…
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Ethereal Beings
I always though vampires were dark angels. Ah, vrolok are spirits suffering the punishment of the grave. Without free will, would angels have something similar to a hive mind? The angels in most lore just have the equivalent of really heavy karma. They have a mind of their own, but their ultimate fate is predestined.…
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Dimensions to Suffering
Just a reminder, this is a dark metaphysics subject. I haven’t written an advisory warning yet, but no actual offense is meant. This being the type of class it is, we are talking about dukkha, but we will not be talking about liberation from dukkha, not as tonight’s focus. Perhaps some clarification… Dukkha is Sanskrit…
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Dance in the Fire
Those who teach transcendence or liberation from suffering provide practices that give us the experience of the essential or root nature of the human mind or soul. We can come to see a lasting presence for ourselves outside of any specific object of experience. See how we are one with all things and just as…
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Suffering Embraced
Some might ask why one would work a dark magick? Why one would ignore all the warnings about the dark paths of the spirit? There is a simple reason. Suffering embraced is wisdom. They accept the consequences of their action because in the unfolding of events they gain deeper understanding of the way and structure…
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Mastering the World
Those who cannot master themselves seek to master the world, but it does go deeper. Those who will not master themselves succeed in mastering the world. “And lose their soul”? No, not without falling from the path. For those who understand the role of the will in suffering, realize that their will is the same…
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Path of Suffering
Would I recommend just taking on the path of suffering for kicks? Hell, no. I mean that word seriously, HELL no. But it is possible that of your nature you gravitate to it, and you would do yourself an unnecessary disservice if you sought to follow that other path that does not express your nature.…
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Dukkha in Horror Movies
I’m learning to enjoy change. After you learn to enjoy change, you can learn to direct it. Have you ever seen the Hellraiser movies? The guy with the nails in his head? Yes. They are called cenobites. They are the disciples of the demon Leviathan. There is a truth reflected in the movie, if only…
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Spirit Manifestation
I have spoken of spirits before in previous classes, and one might get the impression that they are far removed otherworldly creatures. But today, among other things, we will explore how far from the truth that is. A famous physicist spoke of a different model of physical reality than most of us are accustomed to,…
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Vrolok Beings
Is Vrolok one specific being or a name for a classification of entity? Vroloks are a classification of beings who have no physical form as we know it. They are not discarnate humans. They are not discarnate vampires. Would that be like Sasquatches and the Loch Ness Monster? They are very much in existence but…
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Avenues for Vroloks
The most common manifestation of a vrolok is as a haunting presence of one degree or another, showing greater or lesser evidence of actually having the personality of a deceased human being. I’ve noticed that haunted houses seem to have sadness in them like a trauma that never left. These wouldn’t have sadness. They would…
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