tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post3395208568885612752..comments2024-02-20T09:54:37.105-06:00Comments on Talking About Ritual Magick: September 25/26 - Twin Cities Pagan PrideFrater.Barrabbashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-77415566089700694042010-09-18T17:31:28.019-05:002010-09-18T17:31:28.019-05:00@Louis - thanks for the info.@Louis - thanks for the info.Frater.Barrabbashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-50091552017372304912010-09-18T11:39:11.892-05:002010-09-18T11:39:11.892-05:00I wish you well on your fiction writing. Here'...I wish you well on your fiction writing. Here's something you might want to consider. National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. During the month of November you write the first draft of a novel...50,000 words minimum. I'm gonna try it this year. If you want to check it out their website is http://www.nanowrimo.org/<br /><br />LouisLouis Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11923177174035103590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-64139888625598043042010-09-15T09:32:17.659-05:002010-09-15T09:32:17.659-05:00@Serapis - Thanks for the comments. Writing fictio...@Serapis - Thanks for the comments. Writing fiction has been a dream of mine for quite a long time. However, a quick note, what I said about vampires in my article above represents my opinion about the fictional genre of Gothic horror and has absolutely nothing to do with any actual groups or individuals who are practicing a form of occult vampirism, which is another topic altogether.Frater.Barrabbashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-61022776862640412262010-09-15T00:41:29.849-05:002010-09-15T00:41:29.849-05:00PS. Vampire stories are getting a bit tiring (ther...PS. Vampire stories are getting a bit tiring (there are so many..) but I will be interested to have a read when its done, the main character sounds cool.<br /><br />Good luck with it.<br /><br />I have a concept for a story I would like to write, a post apocalyptic occult pesudo-biography, like a future version of the dreaded Necronomicon (LOL), or the story line in Abramelin, the journey of a future magician piecing together the mystical secrets of the ancient lost civilization of Am-E-Re-ka, of course the grimoire part would have sigils pulled from circuit boards, and other tech stuff, computer OS and hardware history turned into cosmology. the fabled god like power to communicate to any one any where using the secret ritual of the intarweb, lots of silliness, but also some actually usable stuff.<br /><br />The concept was heavily influenced by a book called 'The hotel of the mysteries' were a future archeologist finds a hotel and interprets it as some burial chamber.Serapishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12008276029461158529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-62130513871959867162010-09-15T00:27:36.005-05:002010-09-15T00:27:36.005-05:00"Everything Out of Nothing" Indeed cosmo..."Everything Out of Nothing" Indeed cosmology is the true foundation of all religious and especially esoteric traditions. Unless you know the how and why of the creation, you have no knowledge of how to interface and work with the universe.<br /><br />All of the ancient mystery traditions performed a reenactment of some part of the cosmology with each of there major rites and corresponding myths.<br /><br />I believe that the most important rite one should work, is a self initiating where the main object is to ritually recreate the cosmic order according to your own vision.<br /><br />Like Marduk in Enuma Elish, reconstructing the cosmic order after the great battle with Tiamat and the preceding generation of gods, or the Olypians after Zues overthrow the Titans, or Odhinn slaying Ymir and the Jottens.Serapishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12008276029461158529noreply@blogger.com