I bought a new book today...

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“Superstition is the tribute paid by ignorance to knowledge of which
it recognizes the value but does not understand the significance.”

“The more I see of the occult world, the more I deplore the
general absence of an impartial and scientific attitude.”

“All the gods are one god, and all the goddesses
one goddess, and there is one initiator.”

— Dion Fortune

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I would say be very careful. Magic is just the power of the mind. It does not work in magical ways. Yes through power of suggestion, illusions and focusing other's minds on something while you do something else is actually sideshow magic, real magic is something that can be very dangerous for yourself. The occult world or the "hidden" world and how to manipulate it is something that can be damning to yourself or actually advancing yourself. Just remember that positivity is a good thing. negativity will destroy your essence or at least set you back.

For example take Satanic or Black Magic. The rule is that if you curse someone and don't really mean it then it will come back on you. White Magic and the rule of thumb that is if you send positivity and then feel envious of it, then it will eat away at your essence. We are all human so.... We are gonna' feel the guilt or the envy unless you are just much higher a being than just a human.

So just please be careful and if you want to help then learn the Tarot or focus your energy on just being positive like social services and helping others without magic or magical spells.

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Aug 6, 2015 5:03:24 GMT 8 @jamie said:

I would say be very careful. Magic is just the power of the mind. It does not work in magical ways. Yes through power of suggestion, illusions and focusing other's minds on something while you do something else is actually sideshow magic, real magic is something that can be very dangerous for yourself. The occult world or the "hidden" world and how to manipulate it is something that can be damning to yourself or actually advancing yourself. Just remember that positivity is a good thing. negativity will destroy your essence or at least set you back.

For example take Satanic or Black Magic. The rule is that if you curse someone and don't really mean it then it will come back on you. White Magic and the rule of thumb that is if you send positivity and then feel envious of it, then it will eat away at your essence. We are all human so.... We are gonna' feel the guilt or the envy unless you are just much higher a being than just a human.

So just please be careful and if you want to help then learn the Tarot or focus your energy on just being positive like social services and helping others without magic or magical spells.

Oh dear... I've been a student of occult philosophy since I was 16. This is my field, my world, my foundation. I know all about what is dark and what isn't. You are preaching to the ordained.

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Magick is simply the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will (upper case W, signifying the higher divine will of the Universe/God, not the egoic will).

The maxim of Thelema has been one of the most grossly misinterpreted phrases for decades. It is this:

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law; love under Will."

Too many believe that this means to do whatever you please, but it does not. It means to do the True Will — the divinely appointed path unique to you in this life. Also, the second part of it is always left out, and yet it is the most important. "Love is the law", which means there is no greater bond than Love (Agapé). "Love under Will", which means you must make that Love the very foundation of your journey, your True Will.

So, I am well trained in these matters.

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Though we are so different in our beliefs. I do really like what you said about love.

And that yoking with personal and divine will, yeah. Big time.

Love as an action. As well as a feeling.


What a different world it would be.

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The thing for me, and Erin you know it wasn't the philosophy that I pursued it was mechanics, but it's the spirits out there. Christians are in error when they laugh off the psychic world, it is very real, and solidly biblical.

It's the sources of power that concern me. Like Erin, I was into the white occult. Even so, in the end, I needed divine protection from the top, and I still do, and rely on it.

All of what has happened in my life has been related to that. Divine appointments, transforming, the forum, friends, loved ones, home, finance, hardship, blessings, all of it, living in the miraculous.


The awareness is there, answers unfold as time opens to you.

And off topic, having a different gender is not in conflict with Christianity. It's just a different gender. There is no sin in this, but there is sin in hate. The condemning of innocence grieves the One who made them.

Some day, they may understand. Those with open eyes, hearts and ears know.

Praying for you Erin, for abundance to be graced to you.

Trinity

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Smoke and mirrors, magic and coincidences, diversion of attention to things that only appear to be real, to be where you are at the time.
It's in pausing and pulling away the veils of the mystery that surrounds us, simply because we are there.
Not everything needs an explanation, because that is a realization that may be simply the point of view that is uniquely yours, from where you happen to be.
Even pulling back the curtain of what passes for reality isn't necessary, it's just knowing the curtain is there.
Grab it and wiggle it a little and all seems like magic or something else depending on how you see it.
Knowledge of what is, isn't by knowing what each thing is, but rather the connections they each have to everything else.
The things themselves are nothing more than that, but the connections are what you should reach out and touch, even if just in your mind.
The ability to do so imparts a feeling of reality that becomes apparent that things are not what is the focus, but the connections they have.
Focus on the vastness, not on pieces of it, the things. It's what connects it all together, the threads, however you want to see it.
See the wind as it moves the leaves of a tree, not the leaves.
See the connections that bind our sense of reality together if you want to know the answers to your questions, the things that catch your attention.
It isn't about finding the things that will make you happy, it's in the ability to see and sometimes feel the connections they have, the ones you ask yourself about.
Don't focus on the stream of water, where it is, where is comes from and where it goes, focus on the currents if you want to know what that stream really is.
It's the ebb and flow of those connections that we usually see as things, and sense as a connection, close your eyes and feel what is real.
Follow those threads, those lines of connection, if you want to experience what is really there, things are merely the connections.
Nothing more than the intersections of what we sense in our self. The more those connections become apparent, so does their importance.
Rather than holding onto the intersections that are things, hold onto the connections, the lines, the flow. Fly.
Ativan

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Yes, yes...

Oh so yes.

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Something I wrote a while back that I think applies here:

Perspective and expectation determine what you experience. What one person is told will usually differ from what someone else was told regarding the same issue whether it’s a photo, a philosophy, an event or the identity of another person. We have to keep this in mind when it comes anything of importance. What is will always be what is, and varied opinion is simply varied opinion.

If God to a Christian is a personal god and God to a pantheist is the force of nature and the cosmos, it doesn’t change God. One person’s belief is no more valid than the other. They are both equally valid understandings of an absolute, different as they may be. This renders the very idea of superiority obsolete.

We are both potentially wrong and potentially right, therefore judgment is erroneous and unnecessary.

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Accepting, and understanding as best we can, others viewpoints is how we can see our existence without having to be there ourselves.
Every time we find ourselves accepting anothers point of view, without rejecting our own, we feel ourselves grow.
The ability to accept a different perspective without letting our own expectations of that interfere, is key.
Once you find that connection, you grow intellectually, emotionally.
It never ceases to amaze me when the answers precede the question, how easily that stops thinking in terms of absolutes.

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Aug 6, 2015 5:21:54 GMT 8 @illuminess said:

Magick is simply the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will (upper case W, signifying the higher divine will of the Universe/God, not the egoic will).

The maxim of Thelema has been one of the most grossly misinterpreted phrases for decades. It is this:

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law; love under Will."

Too many believe that this means to do whatever you please, but it does not. It means to do the True Will — the divinely appointed path unique to you in this life. Also, the second part of it is always left out, and yet it is the most important. "Love is the law", which means there is no greater bond than Love (Agapé). "Love under Will", which means you must make that Love the very foundation of your journey, your True Will.

So, I am well trained in these matters.

Like I said be careful still. Love and hate have a very thin line between them. It is the same with the metaphysical too.

It is extremely easy to fall into a trap when you find something that works.

The Ego is ingrained into us. It is not a bad thing but can be if it becomes out of control. I think the most prevailent example I can give is in the world of politics. The person is humbled to be elected into office and then becomes a slave to the power of the office and that feeds the ego and so on.

But we are a little different though, aren't we? If anyone can handle the ego it would be us. Since our egos and alter egos are often humbled by the way other people think of us. This is one of the reasons why I always say that being trans is a blessing and curse. Cursed in society but blessed Spiritually because we can feel both aspects of ourselves, physical and Psychological or Spiritual.

I don't think you or anyone is well trained for it but our disposition of being trans may make us more natural for it and use it for better purposes than the rest of society. We hurt so that gives us empathy. We are discriminated against and that gives us compassion. Some people hate us and that gives us strength to overcome the hateful emotions. I don't know if any of this makes any sense or not but I think you get where I'm coming from.