I was summoned to a criminal court as a juror.
In every case I tried to free every accused that came before the bench, in hopes of obtaining karma to a small degree. When the momentum of the group found anyone guilty - I would use every device I knew to envelop them with protection. I hope I was able to make a small change, but group-think is often too powerful.
Yeah well, I would prefer the courts be in my control, at which point I could cause them to leave me alone at the behest of my willpower. This has failed to materialize. I'm ready to believe that I have power over them, and to engage in those methods which will do so. That is why I am here.
So I came to the forum asking for protection from police and courts. Well -- I have been in a court for the entirety of the month of March. I suspect tomfoolery on the part of some clever person here at the forum. Would anyone here like to step forward and tell me something ?
Well he's auto-tuned in that vid, but yeah. 7.3m views on that.
Well anyways, yeah. So you have to imagine Carl Sagan's distinctive voice saying in his slow, declarative manner:
@Carl Sagan said
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"... a triumph of Secular Humanism, Science, and Reason over the superstition of religions. blah blah ..."
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He was doing some creative history re-writes there. All of the major scientific advances of the 16th and 17th centuries were all made by occultists.
Giovanni Pico Dela Mirandola wrote an opinion editorial piece in 1486 AD. Its title was Oration on the Dignity of Man. Historians see this single paper as being so important as to deem it the "Manifesto of the Italian Renaissance". Allow me to quote the very beginning of the oration. What appears below is literally the first two sentences from the start of the oration.
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Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. And that celebrated exclamation of Hermes Trismegistus, ``What a great miracle is man, Asclepius'' confirms this opinion.
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Two sentences in, and Hermes Trismegistus and Asclepius are already mentioned by name. At the bottom of the oration, Mirandola carries on about Zoroaster, heaping only the highest praise on him.
(for the un-initiated. Hermes T was an Egyptian priest, and Asclepius was one of his disciples. Zoroastrianism was the major religion of Persia for over 9 centuries, up until the 7th century, where they were conquered by a Muslim caliphate. The modern symbol for medicine, which is two snakes wrapped around a winged staff, is the staff given to Asclepius, sometimes called the Staff of Hermes. The symbology used to represent Zoroaster is indistinguishable from the winged disc of Horus.)
European culture suddenly exploded in scientific and technological upheavel in the next 100 years following Mirandola's oration. Doubtlessly you have all heard the common historical story that the reniassance was a "revival of greek learning". This is the biggest lie in history.
Tycho Brahe, Michelangelo, Mirandola, Giordano Bruno, Paracelsus, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton --- all were Hermeticists, and many of them were practicing alchemists. In 1574, Kepler gave lectures in the middle of the day at his university on the subject of Hermetic cosmology. On the History Channel, they pretend as if Newton were riding a white horse in colorful suits when he was formulating gravity, optics, and mechanics. But they depict his interest in alchemy as a superstitious vice. They show him doing alchemy in the darkness of his basement late at night in tattered robes. The fact of history is that Isaac Newton himself did not separate alchemy out from anything else he was doing. Even the quote-un-quote "hard science" he was doing he himself considered alchemical and/or occult knowledge.
Some Italian friar in 1570 AD started running around writing about how the "sun is a star" and that there are an "infinite number of stars" in the sky. Where did this obscure friar get these ideas? Did he get them from The Bible? Absolutely no. He got these ideas from Egyptian cosmology, in particular the conception of Nuit. In 1600 he was burnt at the stake for being a heretic. His name was Giordano Bruno.
Historians and history has white-washed all of these facts out of their books. Due to religious sensitivities, Hermes's name is erased out of history, as Zoroaster's name has been. Basically, "good ol'" Christian or agnostic teachers could not tell their school children the names of Egyptian priests. The motivation for this cover-up was simple. Because the JEWS OF EXODUS were the good guys, the civilization they were escaping from must have been evil as well naive about the universe! Hermes and Zoroaster are too inconvenient to a Euro-centric, Christian-centric worldview. School teachers could not name Egyptian priests because then the school children would become curious about them and want to know more.
Like many of you probably reading this post, you were lied to about what the renaissance was in Europe. You were lied to about the scientific revolutions in medicine, cosmology, astronomy, and physics of the coming years. I was too. And I think what hurts the most is that Carl Sagan lied to me. He lied to me about Johannes Kepler. For me personally, Sagan is probably the biggest betrayal.
The wisdom of Hermes was deep and vast. After spreading out of Egypt, this wisdom skipped right over the bearded rabbi who sacrificed goats to yahweh only to have their precious temples burnt to the ground by Assyrians and Babylonians.
@Jim Eshelman said
"What exactly are you looking for?"
More discussion on hermeticism.
@Diluvium said
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"One must have Chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
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The chaos that Nietzsche writes about is not at all similar to the Chaos of the occult traditions. This is very important. Nietzsche was concerned with some "dionysian scream" that was related to suffering and reception of the message. (this is the main thesis of Nietzsche's first book, Birth of Tragedy). The CHAOS in occult traditions is very different. It is not the emotional chaos of philosophical nihilism. Nor is it some sort of state perceived in meditation. Rather CH-A-O-S is dealing with some aspects/correspondences of material reality. It concerns itself with aspects that are vulnerable, weak, brittle, capable of being broken into parts and so on. After that the metaphors start to run thin and specifics are needed. A person has to begin to explain their motivations for being interested in revelations of the secrets. The motivations can be noble - but in my case, not the business of this forum.
Nietzsche simply tends to attract too many 20-something white men with "chips on their shoulders" so to speak. Nietzsche fanboys I call them. They are drawn to his light because they find the idea of Will-to-Power to be seductive. One could assume this motivation is due simply to their boyish aggressions. (And in a delightfully amusing twist of irony, those fanboys are aware of nothing about what having Power really means.)
@Zalthos said
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Does anyone have an opinion on where his works stand within Crowley's paradigm?"
Just getting into Nietzsche now? Twenty four years old. Hmm.... If you are still at a "Nietzsche-stage" - I would suggest that you don't know what are you dealing with when it comes to Spare.
Where to start? Hmmm well, whether you are male or female will significantly alter your relationship with Spare's writing.
There is too much Kabbalah on this forum, and not enough Hermeticism.
I'm planning on making a wand from ash wood, with 7 rings of various metals. Would this be the best instrument for Mars-related evocations?
It seems that every time I talk about Gnosticism with a different person, I come away with a different definition of gnosticism.
Can the Temple lay the controversial issue of gnosticism to rest?
For ceremonies, Eshelman suggests tracing the hexes and pents with your instrument.
What is the best object for an instrument? What do you personally prefer?
It's Zos again. I found something already.
www.forvo.com/word/%D7%A1%D6%B0%D7%A4%D6%B4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D6%B9%D7%AA
I am looking for a Hebrew Text-to-Speech app.
Google translate does this for many languages, but not Hebrew. I downloaded Mbrola Tools and installed two voice libraries. But the Mbrola window does not accept copy-pastes of Arial font set to Hebrew script. My operating system allows my keyboard to change to Greek, Hungarian, and Icelandic, but not Hebrew.
Any pointers?
@Phoenix said
"A quicker way to go about it would be to get a bunch of mercenaries to constantly follow you around (although that might attract the attention of the CIA so you might not want that). Or just go make your own country and create your own culture and laws."
Going overseas is crucial. I intend to use all the non-magical methods available, such as being outside of the jurisdiction of the police, in the aim of evasion. So yes. However, I need an additional edge against being able to spot and evade the gaze of NGOs. This is not so crazy, as there are nations which lack an infrastructure of a police force. I will require protection against what little police forces exist there, especially since they probably are not bound by Miranda rights. Active military persons are outside of the jurisdiction of civilian courts, even the courts of the nations in which they are occupying.
I will be armed, and I expect those working with me to be armed as well.
@Takamba said
"Breaking the law and revolting are two different acts. I don't believe any of the above was a "knee jerk" reaction."
Let me correct you on this. There was a kneejerk reaction. There are several posts in this thread clearly demonstrating the logic that goes: *"If a crime is committed, then it follows that someone will be hurt." *
That logic has been used at least twice in this thread by more than one person. It is a fallacy, because it presumes a bunch of background premises that are not true in the world. It requires that all laws exist to protect people from harm. I showed that this is not the case. I could give more examples. Yes, it was a kneejerk reaction.
@Takamba said
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If you want the political power and clout you describe, use the same magick that those who have it use. Crowley describe very detailed descriptions of how to write letters, organize movements, and get elected as a magical act of Will (he also described making brownies, but that's a power of another substance).
ps. I'll add that the ingredients of the type of magick that gives on political power and freedom is in the three Cs. Charisma, Conviction, & Cash."
Well Crowley himself was only a few feet away from being hit by a German bomb. I will disagree with your statement of Charisma, Conviction, & Cash. It seems that what you are talking about is manipulation. I'm talking instead about Power in a phenomenological sense.
(If I may opine on the subject of power since I have an audience), I would suggest that political power comes from the power of violent force. I do not see the police, judges, and prisons as having any moral, spiritual, or intellectual superiority over me. The only power they have over me demonstrably, is to threaten and coerce me through the use of organized violent force. It is the only power they have over me.
I believe that the police and courts are not protecting people per se, (because look at their use of tasers and pepper spray.) What they may actually be protecting is a certain form of culture that forces itself on issues of monogamy and the raising of children. A person whose goal in life is different from this paradigm finds themselves attacked, labelled a pariah, or even imprisoned in some cases. Since the goal of many cultural laws is the protection of a certain lifestyle, it does not follow at all that violating those "morays" necessarily entails hurting another person. People who may have a vested interest in the culture (single mothers, for instance) will twist the issue to make it seem as if any deviation from their life goals is a necessary harm to a person. Such people would have it so that their lifestyle is the only valid lifestyle for everyone else too. That is common kind of arguing strategy we may see used by someone in this thread sooner or later.
This kneejerk reaction that I'm seeing here perhaps needs some perspective. It is definitely not the case that all laws of nations are created by intelligent, thoughtful, deeply caring people who want to protect others. There are many laws in many nations that are simply rammed through legislatures or exist because of backward religious traditions. I would contend that laws exist in the western world that are really on the books for no other reason than they were used to appeal to a christian conservative voting base.
An example that I would give for this would be women who are not legally allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Or women who are not allowed to go to school in Afghanistan. Who could believe these laws exist for someone's protection? That would be silly.
I would assume that many people here would champion women in those countries who tried to subvert these ridiculous laws. I would also assume that many of you would like to see them overturned.
Where can I learn more about Kamael? And also, what is the Greater Invoking Hexagram Ritual of Mars?