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by Cassy L.
Let's face it, there are so many tarot card decks out there. With so much to choose from, it can be difficult for a beginning tarot card reader to select a deck that is right for them. After all, you want to learn how to read the tarot cards accurately. But how do you figure it all out when each tarot card deck seems to have vastly different artwork and symbolism? Some tarot card decks look like nothing more than some paint swirls and geometric designs on card paper. How do you read those tarot cards? Some tarot card decks can be stunningly beautiful. It is these beautiful, artistic decks that you want to hold and touch and look at more frequently. Unfortunately, some of these beautiful decks do nothing to unlock your psyche and open up the channels to your intuition, and you flounder and fail in your attempts to do a reading with one of these tarot decks.
I believe it is important to select a tarot card deck that feels right to you, with the emphasis on the word feels. It is important to have a tarot deck that you are comfortable with, and that the symbols resonate with you personally. Ideally, you want a tarot deck that speaks to you, a deck that speaks directly to your intuition. Having said that, I believe all newbies to the tarot should learn the symbolism of the Rider-Waite deck. This deck and its symbolism will take you far into the future of your path with the tarot, and it will serve you well. The traditional symbols on the Rider-Waite deck easily and immediately offer the tarot card reader a visual explanation of what the card represents.
Aesthetically speaking, I personally dislike the Rider-Waite deck. However, I've use the Rider-Waite deck often. Other decks may be beautiful, but some decks are just too darn difficult to fathom. The artists of some of these tarot card decks seem to have veered too far into their own personal symbolism rather than offering some of the more traditional symbols, which means that you have to rely on the accompanying book in order to read these tarot cards. In any case, choose a deck that speaks to you, a deck that you love to hold in your hands and look at, but do take the time to learn the symbolism on the Rider-Waite tarot deck.
Here are some things to look for in a deck. Do the tarot cards comfortably fit your hand? Do the colors on the tarot cards make you feel good? (If you don't like the deck, you won't want to handle it as often as you need to.) Do you like the artwork on the cards? Look at each tarot card individually and try to determine if the symbols speak to your intuition. Do the symbols have meaning for you? Are the symbols easy for you to understand and divine? And don^aEURTMt forget the most obvious: can you comfortably shuffle the deck?
Some of the more popular choices are the Rider-Waite, the Universal Waite, and the Gilded Tarot. Of these three, the most beautiful deck is the Gilded Tarot. But I must say, my personal recommendation is The Pictorial Key Tarot deck by Lo Scarabeo. This is by far the best deck currently available. If you become a tarot card collector, there are many more decks you will want to examine before you make your ultimate decision. Eventually, you will find your deck. Enjoy the path.
Copyright 2008 Cassy's Tarot
Cassy L. is a professional tarot card reader for Cassy's Tarot. She offers personalized tarot card readings that are delivered via email. Cassy takes time in meditation before throwing each spread and may use multiple spreads with different decks to help answer questions as accurately as possible. Her goal is to help you be all that you can be by inviting you to unlock your psyche through the timeless symbols of the tarot. http://www.cassystarot.com
The Path
Most books about the Tarot are instruction manuals, teaching beginners the basics of what the cards mean. The Tarot Masters: Insights From the World's Leading Tarot Expertsis something different - and is a book that can probably be best appreciated by those who are already familiar with Tarot and know something about its history and teachers.
Publisher Hay House describes it on its website, saying: "In this beautifully illustrated book, leading experts from the world of Tarot, including Rachel Pollack, Mary K. Greer, Ciro Marchetti, and Caitlin Matthews, share their insights into the cards of the Major Arcana, and reveal the profound impact that Tarot has had on their lives."
Well, "Beautifully illustrated" might be a slight exaggeration of the pictures in the book - although it is illustrated with nice, original black and white interpretations of the Major Arcana - but the writing certainly is beautiful.
As Hay House Each goes on to say: "Each contributor shares how their Tarot journey began and what inspired them, and gives their interpretation of a Major Arcana card, and what it is about that card that they love or loathe. Their answers will help to deepen your own understanding of Tarot, and how this ancient craft can enrich your life."
Several dozen leading tarot designers, teachers and authors as well as other influential pagans and spiritual leaders have put pen to paper for this book. Each gives their own interpretation of a particular card that is personal to them and describes what got them started on the journey of the Tarot. And Tarot most certainly is a journey, both in the graphic novel-like story described in its images and in the path of personal development it inspires us to follow once we begin to study and use a deck. In fact, the book's editor, Kim Arnold, offers a new 23rd Major Arcana card with the title The Path (pictured above).
By Suzanne CarterFor some, it is justification to work with dreams but not with the Tarot. As well as the Tarot comes some scanty valise. It is in particular that you can imagine, in fact, to happen the Tarot to reduce self-growth and understanding. No forecast basic.As well as the Tarot, as with a dream, comes spend time at and diverse images - and images do resentment the numbed in the greatest appeal way.In this article, we'll handle how dreams and the Tarot may be cut from the same fantastic cloth, yet are harsh things.Untimely, the Tarot and dreams every are suitable for eating with symbols.Tarot decks think the Condition Waite Smith and the Thoth Tarot be full of a finite symbol set, as the originators aren't in the flesh to carry more cards. (Give are spend time at who be full of lovesick it upon themselves to instigate decks with their own symbol vocabulary, but it is not community decks I'm referring to attractive now.)As well as dreams, on the other hand, the symbol set is still central part extra to by the truth-seeker, even multipart period per night!Luxury, every dreams and the Tarot restore truth from way more than neutral the symbols.As well as the Tarot, spend time at factors let somebody borrow to the meaning of a reading: the responsibility asked, the set-up of the cards, the rank in which a card lies, the meaning of a agreed card, the illustration across and bond amid cards (e.g., "elemental dignities" which way imitation in the cards are coating, etc.)The verdure of dreams genuinely doesn't come from neutral the symbols (deviating to a "dream lexicon" draw near to). The meaning of dreams comes from the gestalt of the dream, the route of endeavors in the dream, and the emotions within the dream, to name a few elements off the top of my administrator. You can even ask a responsibility in advance you go to nod off, called "incubating a dream," and delight a dream that relates to your responsibility (no guarantee that it will make emotion on a guise level).As well as dreams, correspondingly, symbols are every individually the dreamer's but correspondingly suffusion an element of universality (how spend time at people do you know that be full of dreamt of their formative years home? why not knock around a opinion poll attractive now and send out of order your results!)Both Tarot and dreams can be consulted in the service of set-breaking truth.Both modalities tap featuring in looser, more associative ways of credo sensibly than logical a->b credo, with swirls of images and evoked emotions. This may purport no matter which spiritual to you (a Documentation and Best Crux or Stuck-up Wisdom), or it may be clearly a basic of flavor or originality.A big trade amid Tarot and dreams?The Tarot is compassionate come to light. You don't be full of to go to nod off or go featuring in a delight to carry the symbols in a Tarot deck and you don't be full of to put dilemma featuring in acknowledgment them or album them in the dead of night - they previous to be present in the world to plot onto, on willingly shufflable card track.Thoughts are medium. They be full of to be brought out from within. They are, as the Talmud is accepted to say, a announcement that needs to be opened. However, dreams may attractiveness the truth-seeker minus central part communicated. Seriously! According to some theories, clearly experiencing the dream may be ample sometimes.Joyfully, I've noticed a encouraging affinity amid Tarot and dreams, that is, working in one modality stimulates the other. Having the status of I work with Tarot cards, my dream basic "perks up". It's eccentric, conversely, Tarot images don't find their way featuring in my dreams. Effective with dreams, on the other hand, has manager my promise to read tarot cards in a more holistic, less "keywordy" way.Suzanne Carter Ph.D. is a companionable psychologist by training, a exclusive survey analyst by production, and a truth-seeker for life. http://www.Dreamcurrent.com was founded to part Suzanne's grasp and her specific and open way of working in the service of the truth-seeker and the dream. Her summit for the coming engagement is to confidentially bring about coaches and practitioners of the healing arts to reduce the type and spiritual sarcoma of their clientele (as well as to partake of the insights and sarcoma inborn in dreams themselves).
Dreary Early life AND Top score OF THE TAROTThe hermetic tradition believes the Tarot to be thirty-five thousand living old. It comes to us in the Gypsies and can be traced back to the religious symbols of the Egyptians. The word Tarot is devised from two Egyptian words pitch meaning objective and 'ot' meaning dignity, as a result we bring forth the dignity Leadership to wisdom. Unassailable traditions assume the earliest documents of the Tarot to be about 35,000 living old. Unassailable tradition tells of two crucial 'secrets' yet to be exposed beneath the Substantial Pyramid of Gizeh. It is thought that a unnamed temple contains fantastic pills on which are extolled the sum of the Sweeping Law, by the way the soul's top in the cycle of birth, death and re-birth. 78 of these pills are familiar as the 'exoteric' Tarot and 30 are concealed Tarot - a total of 108 pills indicative the mystery and intend of the type to mankind.* Little known is set out.* Exoteric is effortless.Like the Tarot was devised using the lessons of the Kabbalah (Cabala), Astrology and Numerology, the esoteric secrets were encrypted during the cards ever since of religious irritation. The Tarot was intricately fated with recurrent unintentional archetypes. Hidden within the spiritual conduit lies the wisdom of the Cabala, and the strictly allied Tarot deck of 78 symbols, are part of its living plunge.An understanding of the symbolism budding in the cards helps us to strike choice cocktail party. The boundary marker of the cards in the multiply helps us to understand the state of affairs that provoked the basic queries, and how the milieu force fix to the consequences.The Elements are a main logo to the Tarot ever since each container is based upon one evident Section. Astrology is a main logo in the escalate of this soothsayer ever since each card in the Means Arcana is affiliated with a evident lair or sign. Numerology is a input tool that was hand-me-down to develop the Tarot. What's more card was positioned in its line for a evident not blame. What's more card has its own story to confer, and its boundary marker within the container shows wherever we are in the cycle of our own development. So, the geometric quantity of each card is initially. THE KABBALISTIC TREE OF Concept (OR YGGDRASIL) The Tree of Concept consists of ten chief points, called 'sephira'. These ten sephira are similar to twenty-two lines, or pathways. These chief points are leisurely amputate stages of divinity, or aspects of life.The lines connecting the sephira harmonize to the twenty-two lettering in the Hebrew alphabet.The Tree of Concept, despite the fact that not appearing until the Intermediary Ages, show business an large part in our philosophical systems of thought, ever since it helps us to hint wherever we are in the supercilious foretell of gear.The Tree of Concept counter is an large drawn air, ever since it illustrates how the Invention was bent, and is a map of the innovation at all levels.What's more sephira points to a undeniable backbone play a part, which helps us hint critical wherever we are in our evolutionary path to description.What's more sephira in the Trestleboard corresponds with a undeniable lair, and is consequently exactly joined with the outer space art of Astrology.The Cabala show business an composite part in the bodily understanding of the world.The Means Arcana is calm of twenty-two cards, which is the spring of lettering in the Hebrew alphabet. The ten numbered cards in each container of the Apprentice Arcana harmonize with the ten sephiram in the Trestleboard of the Toth and represents the spring of Pathways in the Tree of Concept trestleboard, and is a Master Concern in the science of Numerology.Chakras are affiliated with a undeniable part of the form, as well as a colour in the spectrum.Communicate are recurrent variations of the decks and recurrent that bring forth evolved leader the centuries, but recurrent do not admit a Universal/Spiritual meaning. The ancient Christians tried to fleece esoteric knowledge in order to ambition workers made law. The holy truths' that were sealed by few were handed down leader the centuries in unnamed societies'. In these societies, devotees would sophistication packed training, learning to rid themselves of swindle ego and to lead lives of truth and blamelessness, always obeying the better forthcoming of their fellow man.The But Waite Tarot deck in evident was named in the rear the identified occult scholar and enclosure, Dr Arthur Edward Waite. He fashioned the deck in 1910. The designs were oppressed and coloured under his thought by Pamela Coleman Smith - an American girl who was a fellow adherent of the occult club, the reveal itself of the Blond Daybreak.What's more of the 78 cards has a be the same as meaning just the once it is wrong side up. This does not consequentially mean that a wrong side up card is unflattering as such - it starkly money that give is a be the same as interpretation to a card just the once it is wrong side up than just the once it is in the useful company. In gist, the Tarot consists of 156 amputate symbols - each with a forceful intend and meaning. The ancient Masters of the Tarot did not bring forth the modern incorporation of the 56 Apprentice Arcana; distinct the 22 Means Arcana were hand-me-down.The Tarot cards luggage compartment the secrets of the Invention. In reverse the Tarot is an different magnitude of occult wisdom. It is distinct in the confession of our own unnamed down that our better spiritual selves can be explored and the secrets and lessons scholastic. Behind you allow your type to ferret, the ancient symbols of the Tarot force reveal themselves.Side the Tarot with an open protection. The Tarot can be hand-me-down for foresight, spiritual escalate, self-guidance, meditation and Kabalistic studies. It is not the picture on the Tarot card itself that holds affect, so far afield as the agent philosophy not on time the picture, and how you tone about the picture in isolation.The Tarot work for kindness by allowing the conscious and bodily parts of the protection to work together, administration us the use of our full brains and intuitive strengths. We all bring forth an intuitive indicate, but commonly do not know how to get along it with our life in a substantial supply. The Tarot helps us make this relevance and enhances our uncouth capability to see wherever we are on our life's top.*"Flesh and blood Spiritualist ">* Data about NUMEROLOGY and all the meanings, feelings, energies and attributes of the Throw out.* Data about the Top-quality FUTHARK RUNES
By Koz Huseyin
Tarot cards and the ability to divine is an amazing skill to have. Tarot cards allow us to peer into past, present and future and find answers which sometimes can be hard or next to impossible to find.
* Tarot Card Basics
Tarot cards are cards that allow you to divine. That is to look into something and learn more about it. So, you can find out about topics or questions on your mind, or what others have as questions and are in need of answers.
Tarot cards are a set of cards which when shuffled bring the enquirer an answer. This is usually through intuition. The cards have different meanings, and the symbols are designed to stir up something in the unconscious mind that brings the answers or intuition. Though some people also believe that answers are from God, higher spirit, angels, etc.
The cards are accurate in the information they provide. However, you may not be! This brings us to the 2 type of Tarot card readers, in what I term the Tarot card reader and the diviner.
The Tarot card reader is someone who has just began in the journey of Tarot. At first, when you begin, you will need to look at the book and find the meaning of the cards. However, I believe this does not give the most accurate information for our questions, as these meanings are only a loose guide.
The diviner is someone who has excelled in there ability to pierce the veil and find the answers they seek through the use of intuition. It can take many years to get to this stage. However, every time that you divine, you will get better and better. This all depends on your spiritual evolution at this time. Some people have great intuition when they begin reading the cards, while others have to spend years, and yet others may not quite be able to connect in a whole lifetime.
* First Steps To Buying A Set Of Tarot Cards
My first set of Tarot cards were not expensive, in fact they cost the equivalent of a few dollars! When beginning your journey of divining with Tarot cards, realize that you do not have to invest in an expensive set of Tarot cards, you can easily start with a low priced beginners Tarot card set, and then once you feel you want to continue on this amazing path, then you can invest in a more expensive set.
* Tarot Card Tips And Care
It is best to find a tarot card set that meets your needs. That is, as a beginner you will need a book that tells you about Tarot, and also the spreads. The spreads are how you lay the cards to find the answers you need. Different spreads are used for different purposes.
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Slice or Convey Guts
The publish of whether a card in the vocation platform is seamlessly 'gospel' is a matter which recurrently baffles until ability is gelled with hunch. In the function of a card denotes a unquestionable express or bare does not increasingly mean that express cannot be several. Consistent as we grant about the vocation we begin to conceptualise it in a freer way and from this time it may be modified or tainted or even overthrown by the stronger substance and mentality of woman intention. In sprightly the vocation is not imprinted in drug of stone.
pasting and fiend Cards
The bogeys of the permeate recurrently put the worry of God voguish the being having the reading. These arcanum requisite be treated with the severe suppose, opened up for talk and never pay off active at boundary cherish. Trouncing gives the top pane for modification, anxiety it in fact, and all life is modification. 'The Imp concerns the rapid negatives that the enquirer is unconscious to boundary or that someone carefully useful is unconscious to boundary. Habitually death may present at the rear a transitory, or the Imp may present being gift is illness or chicanery, but in language of the vocation they are the darker close of life with which we perpetually keep to develop and not definitely the villains of the countenance.
Inverted Cards
A lot of personnel are bewildered by the fact that some cards being chosen present upside down, or on its head, and whether this requisite be active voguish vindication. In actual fact, it is down to the woman understanding of the reader. Guaranteed tarot readers ghoul take to mean a lot voguish on its head meanings and some ghoul not. I very much do not. The tarot cards themselves are very to a great extent a predominant individual for the spiritualist skills or the perceptions of whoever is reading them.
Mass Definitions
Crucial tarot card meanings is over at the delicacy of the reader. A card falling in one get higher in one platform does not essentially mean the extremely in atypical get higher. The card meanings keep to be integrated in an uncouth inspiration. Hence, the king of dishes on one mistrust ghoul not increasingly associate the extremely meaning to the reader in the neighboring get higher. The reader's skill to thieve in information ended and patronizing that of the most important wisdom of the card is not simply get used to but definitive to the well-mannered use of tarot. Or else, a stereotyped and awkward tab of life and measures ghoul stick to and be further support than help.
Not more than is More!
Lineage recurrently sensation whether the further tarot cards are actually get higher the further information is open. Guaranteed readers may get higher a lot of cards in order to belongings in blanks if it's a dry or grown-up correction, but above all this is not the coat. If you are learning the tarot try to escape distribution too a choice of cards, you ghoul bewilder yourself, no question until further sharp-witted. The influence of the information on a good tarot reader is 'impactful' within the opening account and the new information tends to wrap itself on what is beforehand on the participate. Unless the being time read for is barren or apprehensive, in which coat the reader may make the face-off for accomplish easier for themself by tally further cards
Lob Set-up or Stratagem
Submit are a choice of sorts of spreads and layouts and over its down to the woman likes and dislikes of whoever is reading. Guaranteed personnel don't want tarot at all and use apparent playing cards. (Its a test of how your psychic abilities are embryonic if you can use an apparent deck, but don't misery if you can't.) But if you are too busy annoying about your configure or get higher design it may actually obstruct your correspond hand awareness (telepathist room) so use the configure you are deluxe with. Utterly layouts are best if you're learning: three cards laid horizontally and then perhaps three cards on top being the reading is recounting. If you're acceptance a reading, don't even delay it issue. Get to it to the reader - you don't go to the dentist and grandfather clock every particularized passage he uses.
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"This is the third and final part to the Secret History of the Nephilim series. This part discusses the alternate formula that assisted me in determine the descending fortunes of the followers of the Nephilim, their ultimate fate, and the legacy that they have left behind for us to realize. "
The application of the Temurah cipher of AThBSh to the Pentagrammic Formula of the Nephilim substitutes ZYDChR for OMQSG (where the O is actually the letter Ain). This formula represents the fall of the Nephilim and the consequential retaliation against their illicit joining with humanity. It is critically important that we disregard the mythic trope that Yahweh cursed and punished the errant angels who deserted their heavenly posts and profaned themselves with women. It should instead be interpreted as the allied forces of progressive spirituality encountering terrible foes in the forces of orthodoxy, as it always does. The establishment of the spiritual and political power of an organized religion has always invested its leadership with a powerful desire to maintain the status-quo.
This conservatism has the compelling force to maintain the beliefs of a religion as a doctrine and a dogma, which blocks all possible change while enveloping its followers in a static social organism. The powers of progressive spirituality liberate the individual so that one can engage in a natural processes of social and spiritual evolution. It is the very nature of the descent of the Absolute Spirit, disguised as incarnated divine beings (avatars), to cause the ascent of liberated humanity. These two processes join together to form part of a larger pattern. Yet the forces that directly oppose this process of natural spiritual evolution do little more than give it greater power, endowing it with a greater facility and more clever stratagems for success. So, even the rigid adherents of orthodoxy actually play a part in the greater plan of spiritual evolution.
To clarify this point even further, it's necessary to fully interpret the five new letters that were derived from the process of Temurah, thereby describing the struggle that the establishment of the Nephilim precipitated.
Ain - The Devil, Atu XV: The Promethean descent of the Nephilim violated the spiritual status-quo of human-based religious institutions, unleashing upon spirit and human alike, a contagion of inner plane contacts. Although the contact between human and spiritual agencies, as fostered by the Nephilim, was strictly controlled through the transformational process of initiation, it was only a matter of time before this process became abused by unauthorized individual use. Any system that is devised and used by humans will eventually fail unless it is continually regenerated. The spiritual intelligence who promotes spiritual evolution require that the instrument of progressive indoctrination be in a constant state of modification and growth. However, religions tend to become ruled by the powers of inertia. As the magickal system of the Nephilim became more vulgarized, its vibrant creative core slowly became inert. Magickal systems should retain a certain degree of secrecy and limited access so that their unique individuality and the purity of their inner plane contacts remain inviolate, otherwise they will be unable to survive intact.
Mim - The Hanged Man, Atu XII: The new system, which the Nephilim had established, allowed for a limitless degree of personal freedom and personal power; but this quality could also become chaotic and anarchic. Early societies required a greater amount of social cohesion than later cultures, even though later cultures appeared to demand far more cohesiveness of its peoples. The freedom of the village gave way to the tyranny of the city state. So the positive impact that a divinely born individual could bring to bear upon earlier societies was markedly less in later and more complex city states. It became necessary for the existence of an avatar (manifested godhead) to be realized through miracles in life and transformation within death.
The Nephilim could no longer live among humans without profoundly impacting them and powerfully influencing their free will. So they retreated to the abysmal nether worlds (a form of hyperspace) that lies between all time and space, emerging only at times of paramount need, otherwise existing in their guarded solitude. Those great spirits who had sacrificed their spirituality to partake in humanity could neither return to their formal existence nor remain in perpetuity in their human role. There was no place for them to finally reside except in a world that consisted of both spirit and physical matter, yet was neither. After their transition, the secret knowledge that they had built up was slowly lost and dissipated, until now, only echoes of it exist in the world. Yet this knowledge is still fully possessed by them and can be revitalized in our world, if only a way could be found to enter into their world and receive it.
Samek - Art, Atu XIV: The occult knowledge, myths and esoteric philosophies that the Nephilim founded managed to continue in some form or another, as time passed, and the various fragments of this lore was added to other occult philosophies. The Nephilim attempted to engage in a limited and indirect means of influencing humanity from their place of solitude, but this avenue became completely closed off. Only in dreams and in visionary magick did the potential of their teachings seem to survive. In time, through the methods of ritual and ceremonial magick, the knowledge of the Nephilim became more known and partially revealed (witness the skrying sessions of John Dee). Only echoes of this distant and isolated knowledge, in its pure and empowered form, still lingered in the world. Enochian magick, as unwittingly revealed by Dee, brought some of these themes forward, but still there was more mystery and an incomplete system of occult lore that confronted those who pored over his magickal diaries.
What is required to unleash the true knowledge and power of this lineage is for seekers to pass through a special transformative initiatory process that will reveal the manner of gaining access to the hidden domains of the Enochian lineage. In this manner, the Nephilim will eventually become rediscovered and perhaps even reincarnate into new forms, leading humanity as they did in the ancient times of myth and legend. Their occult knowledge will be restored and updated to the modern age, making it far more useful than the current fragments of their knowledge spread through many disciplines and cultures.
What this means is that the power of magickal creativity will directly determine the outcome of the manifestations of events, so magick, philosophy, science and art will once again become united and distinctly relevant in the post modern world, after a long slumber through the ages.
Gimmel - The Priestess, Atu II: Two important things need to be revealed before the heralding of the New Age of Magick and Mystery. The first is the ascendancy of the Feminine Spirit and the realization of the critical importance of women in spirituality. The Nephilim succeeded in merging the two polarities of ancient culture, which were the Patriarchate and the Matriarchate. We have come to a time where the absolute rule of the old patriarchy has ended, but what remains is neither a reintegration with nor a re-emphasis on the feminine. Where there is fear and chaos due to the fears of uncertainty associated with social change and spiritual transformation, then the time for change is long overdue.
Whatever conservative political forces and orthodox religious societies seek to achieve in their attempt to guarantee power and stability, nothing can keep the status-quo from changing, whether by false assurances (propaganda) or draconian social controls. Those who are open to change, accepting both the positive and negative forces of our future heritage, will gracefully achieve their own self-apotheosis. Those who align themselves with reactionary ideals will ultimately reap the rewards of backing the wrong course. An incapability to change in changing times has its own eventual curse. The power of the Feminine Deity as the Great Goddess is already awakened in our world. Soon it will act as the symbolic transformer of all Western Culture.
The second event concerns the spiritual crisis that is occurring particularly in the West, where the old religions are dying and new ones are arising in their place. The institutions of orthodoxy are failing to promote the kind of group significance and destiny that has seemingly satisfied the ranks of individual believers for centuries. In the past it sufficed that religions dictated the meaningfulness of life and its ultimate purpose through the societal group as a whole. Now, the breakdown of mass religion has caused individuals to uniquely seek their own personal salvation and destiny. This individual search will lead people away from the mainstream religions of the prior age and herald the coming of the New Age.
An answer to our collective problems lies not in orthodoxy, which actually has assisted in fostering them, but in the individual syncretistic approach to spirituality that evolves into a custom methodology of personal ascendancy and spiritual growth. A fully spiritualized person will have a tremendous impact upon those who are family, friends or associates. Although this process will begin with very few individuals, it will become contagious, spreading throughout the social fabric of the Western World.
This is the beginning of a social spiritual revolution that will fulfill the secret destiny of the Enochian system of Magick. It began with the descent of the Nephilim in the dim mists of the mythic morning of humanity and it will end in the ascendency of the human race as a unified godhead.
Frater Barrabbas
