tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post2868797395791696951..comments2024-02-20T09:54:37.105-06:00Comments on Talking About Ritual Magick: Abramelin Lunar Ordeal - Second Weekend - Attribute of AirFrater.Barrabbashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-89706339963285188882009-12-02T00:20:43.793-06:002009-12-02T00:20:43.793-06:00(continuing Part 3 - last insert)
Angel Ophaniels...(continuing Part 3 - last insert)<br /><br />Angel Ophaniels guidance is priceless. I smile with deep gratitude for this Being who carries the sword of counsel. It seems he might belong to Lord Saturn's Lords of Karma in some way. In the way you responded, it seems that facing Ophaniel's "justice" will gain you the humility necessary to proceed into the higher spheres - without which the ego alone bars the way.<br /> <br />My personal occult philosophy will say that visitations with Ophaniel will offer gains in the afterlife. Once we stand on the other side - just as you did in your "out of body" intra-dimensional travel into the angelic realm -we experience the "fires" that burn when forced to review our life. Angels stand by, watching compassionately and without judgment while the fires burn as we clearly see all of it (say those who have gone and come back to tell). We see and re-experience all the good deeds and misdeeds done. Facing an angelic "conscience" as you did while still having a bodily form on this side of the veil appears identical. It can offset "the fires that burn," if once having seen, we change and thereby gain a measure of transformation in our personal instrument (physical etheric, astral and mental vehicles). Hopefully then it becomes clear to aspiring Magicians the importance and necessity of such disciplines as daily reflection and "the nightly review" for legitimate spiritual progress. We rely upon such processes to shed the layers of unconsciousness and unawareness that cause our daily life and relational miseries, and to bring our motives (thoughts, words and actions) into the full light of day. It has been said that the True Magician is the Soul - the Higher Self. Our lower vehicles of expression (etheric, astral and mental) must stand so purified that a free rapport with the True Magician Self is made easy. Standing purifed (a life long process), sure footed upon pure motive, and when equipped with useful skills, we can suddenly find ourselves standing and working side by side with those Spiritual Elders who work and cooperate for the larger purpose - for life on earth and Earth Herself. I thank you for the inspiring thoughts that have arisen in me as a result of reading your journal sharings.<br />...<br />Charis Kai AleitheaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-26196874753038979602009-12-02T00:19:13.656-06:002009-12-02T00:19:13.656-06:00(continuing)
I loved Angel Yehoel's wisdom fo...(continuing) <br />I loved Angel Yehoel's wisdom for the necessity of intense devotion and love as an approach into the field of Deity/The Bornless One. This corroborates my own understanding of making progress upon the Path and making the approach to one's inner God Self. I too learned the very hard way that dryness and over- intellectualism will be the result if the scientific aspects of occultism are not balanced with and built upon the foundations of the mystic, which is to say, love and devotion (the soft line rays of love-wisdom (Ray 2) and devotion and idealism (Ray 6), and the other soft line ray of Beauty (Ray 4)). I too had created an imbalance in my approach when I stopped my devotional practices and prayers after too many years of intense intellectual focus to develop and stock my mental body. It was necessary, but the imbalance was not necessary. I actually forgot how to pray because I had become so studious and intellectual and scientific. I missed the visitations of the soft line angels who spoke kindnesses into my ears and who brought the beauty of flowers in their many forms into my life. And my outer life began to reflect this. I didn't have a sensed "joy of living" that used to accompany my energy system. I discovered that you cannot be a real occultist and make genuine progress on the Spiritual Path without the two side by side - it is the yin and yang, the feminine and masculine together, an undivided polarity, an indivisable unity - this is the suchness of the universe. The polarities simply refine their nuances and subtlety, until one reaches and touches and eventually identifies with the dimension of Monadic Unity - the Bornless One - where ALL is, contained. Progress is made by unifying lesser polarities and principles into greater and greater wholes, greater and greater Unities. Ad Infinitum. The Bornless One is the highest Unity for the Divine Human. But there are many higher non-human unities and hierarchies once the Divine Human dimension is left behind. What a grand adventure IT ALL IS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-72200064568306563982009-12-02T00:15:52.120-06:002009-12-02T00:15:52.120-06:00Yes, I read this and am very encouraged and inspir...Yes, I read this and am very encouraged and inspired by your contact and subsequent quality of messages and information. It is readily apparent how incredibly valuable this working has already been for you. I imagine that all who will read your journal history of these workings will also be inspired. <br /> <br />I find it of great interest that some of what Angel Yehoel conveyed to you I have also raised in various ways regarding the ego-self-centered orientation of many modern magicians. Magic is a path of Power and Power is what attracts the many. It is seductive because it is a real thing - it courses through one's energy system and makes one feel strong and in control and on top of the world - but it also feeds the ego and creates a separation from the rest of humanity and the mundane world. "I am someone "special"" because "I secretly work magic and know how to gain supernatural power." I recall now some information I had read and mailed you many years ago (written by a wise Tibetan Master expressly for the western Disciple and the incoming 7th Ray Souls who so love ritual magic). He said that the "old" ways of working magic - that of conjuring up genii and spirits, working alone in a magic circle, unconsciously motivated by power (or curiosity) - would serve little for spiritual progress, would not touch the higher purposes of the Soul, and would only increase the dangers of moving the magician toward a darkened path that is increasingly difficult to return from, incremental as that movement is and therefore unnoticed. What is missing in this scenario are motives of releasing more Love into the world, and working creatively on behalf of universal purpose. He went on to say that the NEW Magician and newer magic will be worked in groups on behalf of and for the purpose of a larger whole. Notwithstanding the value of rightly motivated individual work in a magic circle. I was struck by your account of the angel revealing to you the good that would come from sharing individual discoveries with your brethren because this then begins the kind of new magical work that the Tibetan spoke about. Like you I sense much fruit would be born for "the discipline of magic" by seeing it whole, and, I hope you don't mind me adding, the higher motives for working magick in the first place must be held foundational (examples stated above). I sense that the latter would be revealed by the Soul of the Group assembled if individual motives are pure. <br /> <br />The apparitions you describe of color and form sound beautiful, and the energies present were clearly transformational. ALSO, I am so happy to know that they showed you further "refinements" in text and process. PLEASE DO let me know when those refinements are ready to be shared!!!<br /><br />{because my response is too long I have to divide it into two or more posts)<br /> ......<br />Charis Kai AleitheaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-50545897324963941412009-12-01T19:25:28.848-06:002009-12-01T19:25:28.848-06:00NIGHT #2 - OFANIEL
On Saturday night, Barrabbas ...NIGHT #2 - OFANIEL <br /><br />On Saturday night, Barrabbas and I had distinctly different experiences during Ofaniel. <br />During the latter part of the mass, I became paralyzed on the left side of my body. My left leg went numb. It was not asleep. I had no muscle control. My left hand, arm and shoulder were tingly and numb. I had no muscle control on the left side of my face. My face felt like I was coming off of Novacaine shots. I could only talk out of the right side of my mouth. <br /><br />By the time Ofaniel was fully invoked I had no capacity to move on my left. My right side was just fine. But it wasn't scary. <br /><br />Ofaniel said that he really did not have a lot to share with me because things were fine. Just keep doing what I've been doing. Only thing I needed to be aware of was not to pay attention to anyone who told me to just do divination during a certain moon phase. He indicated that attention to such minute detail is not necessary. Also, I need to do divination more often. <br /><br />In comparison/contrast to the instructions that Barrabbas experienced, I'd just like to share that it has always been my nature to volunteer, give food/clothing..etc. and be involved in non-profits. I found it interesting that something that was so very much in my nature was a detail that was given to him as instruction. <br /><br />Selfishly, I'm looking forward to wrangling him into some community volunteer projects in 2010.Grace Victoria Swannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06503682527620107990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-65159229877763624292009-12-01T19:23:43.243-06:002009-12-01T19:23:43.243-06:00As in the previous week, Fr.Barrabbas and I were p...As in the previous week, Fr.Barrabbas and I were positioned in different parts of the room. However, I did participate more in the actual preparations for the invocation thanks to a restful Thanksgiving. <br /><br />To set intention in preparation before each working, I write an imago in my journal. This tends to speed things up for me with regards to receiving information. <br /><br />Unlike the first week, however, I began to write during the mass. Specifically the instructions that came out were changes to be made to the mass ritual itself, which is said in preparation for the Seraphim/Cherubim invocation. I typically am "hands off" when Frater Barrabbas writes a ritual. He's accustomed to his ways of doing things & I've acknowledged things as "his territory" and I've got "my territory". (Makes for a peaceful household. ha!) <br /><br />Nevertheless, the instructions I was given were pretty extreme. The first night, minimal information for improvements were given. The second night, two pages of notes/changes were received. The mass, as it has been, apparently is too "exclusionary" and "inappropriate". Fortunately, Barrabbas was given some of some of the changes also, during the saying of the mass. So...it appears we're all on the same page. <br />During the invocation of Yahoel, I was given some additional instructions about a holiday gift I need to present to someone & how it should be handled. The gift is to a person I do not know that well. I was grateful for the details! <br /><br />Then my mind went blank. A colorful sky at dusk appeared above my head -- deep blueish, purple with clouds moving underneath. The clouds were rippling as if air were blowing hard. The sky began to have an eerie presence -- like during an eclipse. Sand -- from no where -- lifted up around me and began blowing against my skin. It was soft at first and then the wind picked up. The sand, now brushing briskly, suddenly felt like someone had a metal yard rake pressed against my skin. It felt like my face, and arms were being ripped of their flesh. It was difficult to walk & I looked down and there was a skull in the sand in front of me. <br /><br />I became scared. In my mundane life, I was offered an opportunity to visit Jordan in February 2010. I figured that this whole thing was a warning about not making the trip -- so it jarred me further. As if the sand ripping my skin weren't enough... I told myself that I would not leave the country. Oddly, in my journal I wrote Palestine -- rather than where I was invited -- Jordan. I was assurred that other opportunities for travel would be plentiful in the future and that something more attractive would open up. <br /><br />After coming to peace with what had just happened, a few other things occurred -- flash images that at the moment don't have any bearing or meaning. <br /><br />Then a face appeared. It was Yohoel. Apparently having scared the bejeezus out of me in attempting to communicate how he "normally" would have, I froze. ("Hello!!!..my skin was being ripped off!!) <br /><br />He had eyes like a wolf and his face appeared like a tree trunk meets the Frankenstein Monster. We sat in the woods, by a campfire and chatted. It was a lovely, warm chat. He kept poking a bonfire with a stick...and ashes rose with the air...up and out of sight. <br /><br />For aid in determining "True Will" he advised to "just write". It seems that many of us are gifted with the talent of revelation of truth through words. This isn't forethought, researched stuff -- just freeflowing desire. He said: "The actions to take are not revealed -- for that is the puzzle. The gift is 'the bigger picture'. And the details do not matter if one is walking the path with eyes forward and one's body following the actions." <br /><br />The energy of this Seraphim felt like that of an old friend.Grace Victoria Swannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06503682527620107990noreply@blogger.com