Category: Occult

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On Jizz Magic

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I’ve come across several references in the past few days on how some occult texts were deliberately obfuscated (duh!) by changing the texts to make them refer to blood sacrifices and murder to make them seem MORE (socially acceptable? Palatable?) than the sex acts and fluids they actually meant to refer to, because writing about such “immoral” topics back then could lead to serious social and legal problems. And of course, the true initiates recognizes this because they’ve been “initiated.” To this day very few texts refer specifically and explicitly to the sex acts and fluids involved in certain rituals. It’s Heroic Alterity all over again, where in that text everything is a veiled allegory for autofellatio. It’s as if semen is considered such a powerful and magical substance that consuming it is at the top of the occult to-do list. I’d love to find some direct, unobfuscated texts that go into that topic in detail. Is it only your OWN semen? Is there power in consuming others’ semen? What about planting it unbeknownst to the person doing the consuming? I’m sure some occultist has put down some theories on this. A quick google leads to some jizz science, how the roots of jizz worship lie in the the alchemical search for phosphorus: https://gnosticwarrior.com/magic-fire-semen.html And then there’s Glenn Scheper’s classic work on the cloaking of autofellatio references through the ages. You might find it by searching for “Heroic Alterity.” I never thought I’d see the day where Scheper’s work, which I discovered in the early 2000s, was debated amongst “internet scholars.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Autofellatio/Archive_4 As mentioned previously in my Magia Sexualis post, there ARE some documents out there with oddly specific recipes and instructions.

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The Finger Doth Point

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I found this lovely “article” from 2013, it appears to be from a publication/website called End the Lie, which I know absolutely nothing about and apparently no longer exists. What is clear is there is an argument going on about the OTO and Crowley between two people with very different takes. Some lovely points are made in the article, but more importantly I was introduced to a reference to Florence Scovel Shinn, which has officially piqued my interest. That is all… for now…

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Ranting on the Inaccuracy of Ranting

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I sometimes enjoy reading some of the shorter conspiracy-theory rants I find in the land of orphaned PDFs. It’s good to get a bird’s-eye view of the various perspectives promulgated by the various players in the world stage. And wasn’t that the purpose of the Illuminatus! trilogy? To bombard us with so many conflicting conspiracy theories so as to immunize us from all of them? To force skepticism? Today I came across yet another anti-Freemasonry rant. It seemed a bit long at 28 pages, but I started slogging through it anyway. The title: Freemasonry: The Worship of Lucifer, SATAN Part 1 of 5. Of course, from the title I already recognized the angle and didn’t expect to find anything earth-shattering. Of course, I was unsurprised. A section on the use of the five-pointed star wandered predictably into the one-point-up-good vs two-points-up-bad trope. You know, the whole Baphomet/Goat of Mendes thing. And to a non-immunized mind, or one already prone to defense of simplistic evangelical Christian dogma, this is probably effective. But they added and unnecessarily specific detail which ruins their point for those who are paying attention. Oh, the conspiracy folks love their numbers and math: It should be noted that from the way the pentagram is normally seen (one point up, two down), rotating the pentagram 33 degrees you get a Satanic Pentagram. 33 is the highest degree there is in Freemasonry. This didn’t sound mathematically or geometrically correct to me, so I loaded a pentagram image into GIMP. By using the arbitrary rotation feature, I determined that the actual rotation required to turn a one-point-up pentagram into a two-points-up pentagram is 36 degrees, not 33, which makes perfect sense (360 degrees in a circle / five points in a star = 72 degrees, and half of that will move a one-point-up into a two-points-up). I won’t even get into the 33 = highest degree claim, because it’s nuanced; also, it has been mathematically invalidated by the wrongness of the first premise.

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Astral Planes, Oddly Specific

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When reading all things astral — astral travel, astral projection, astral planes — my biggest complaint is usually the vague, undefined nature of the reference. Rarely does one get a real sense of what an astral plane looks like, feels like, etc. Not so in this document, found in my non-astral digital travels. This document so thoroughly described the astral planes that my curiosity has been engaged to a surprising new level.

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Summary: Magickal Angels: Instant Contact with the Angels of Power

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The sad truth is that most occult books are 93% fluff. They start by telling you why you need what they’re selling you, then they maybe give some examples of how it’ll work, and then if you’re lucky, they give you concrete info on how to make it happen. This one, by Damon Brand, is no real exception. I think I was 50 “pages” in before I got anything useful, but to be fair, this book was formatted for an e-reader, so the pages are SMOL. First, it basically says to visualize lightning as the connecting medium when summoning. This makes sense. Lightning is very powerful, and it’s an easy thing to visualize. Then it declares itself to be kind of piggybacking off of, and correcting, The Miracle of New Avatar Power by Geof Gray-Cobb. Typical Hebrew “corrections.” Arzel is a shortcut to Raziel, Ankar is Nah-Kar, etc. Gives a few very simple rituals to perform. Importantly, it claims there is no karmic backlash. Then specific guidelines on constructing the requests, which is important. State your main intent, what you wish to manifest, how it will make you feel, a synopsis of the problem, and how you will cooperate (the promise). Ooh, then there’s a nice aspect, a positive surprising plot twist. He goes on after describing the ritual, and adds that it’s also good to share the results of your requests. I braced myself for the occult gofundme equivalent, but no, he also means to share the magickal power itself, to work that request into the closing seal, to share the power with so-and-so, or “whoever needs it most.” Weirdly, he puts the “how to use this book” section AFTER describing the ritual. So I might have just read/skimmed the meat of the book. He says to begin the working on a Thursday and continue it for eleven days. Oddly specific. Yep. It goes into a final detailed summary of the Master Ritual, then the entire rest of the book is a dictionary of the angels you’ll be working with. Quite a handy little book, if working with angels works for you.