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What four months back I chomp started experimenting with the Border line Placement (later than Regardie's utter on Innovative Falcon's CD) two times a week and chomp had some mild belongings. Now I'm reading Gerald Suster's 'Crowley's Apprentice: The Cosmos and Textile of Israel Regardie' where Regardie is quoted saying that if the MP is done bend in two broadsheet for some time one can become one's own 'Hierophant'. I fit into I'll chomp to heighten my work with the Border line Placement.Now to my questions:1) What's your own experiences practicing the MP?2) How repeatedly do/did you do it?3) In the book, Francis Sovereign is quoted saying that the MP cannot rouse the Kundalini when it brings down energy somewhat of up. This is disputed by Suster who argues that the conclusive imagination where energy is ineffectual up to the frivolity chakra through inborn cascaded arrogant the practitioner is inflammable the Kundalini. Any thoughts? posted in Israel Regardie - 0 replies
Chic and I arrived in San Jose, California on Thursday, February 16 for Pantheacon 2012, the premier occult, pagan, and esoteric convention in the U.S. The theme for the event this year was "Unity in Diversity." This was our first year attending Pantheacon, but it will certainly not be our last. It was a fabulous event where we were able to reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
In addition to ourselves, presenters included Selena Fox, Weiser Books, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Starhawk, Ellen Evert Hopman, Mary Greer, Patrick McCollum, Jason Newcomb, Steve Blamires, Luisah Teish, Max Dashu, Michael Smith, Athena Wallender, Amber K and Azrael Arynn K, Sabina Magliocco, Rachel Pollack, Sam Webster, Lon Milo DuQuette, T. Thorn Coyle, Margot Adler, Carl Neal, Tony Mierzwicki, Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor, Orion Foxwood, Penczak, Brandy Williams, Skye Alexander, R. J. Stewart, Diana Paxson, Don Frew, Melanie Marquis, Sylvia Braillier, Llewellyn Publications, Gus diZerega, Kenny Klein, Z Budapest, Lupa, James Wanless, and Donald Michael Kraig.
With Elysia Gallo, Llewellyn Senior Acquisitions Editor for magical books
Action shot with Rachel Pollack
Chic's Lecture on Israel Regardie
With Chic and Lon
With Chic, Lon DuQuette, Sam Webster, and Joe Max
Don and Holly Kraig
(Don Kraig's review of Pantheacon 2012 is posted on the Llewellyn blog.)
On Friday we perused the Vendor Room and saw more magical jewelry, clothing, and ritual items than you could shake a wand at. Later that evening we represented our slide-lecture on "The Rosicrucian Vault: A Compendium of the Universal Unity." Like all of our lectures, it was very well attended (with 100+ people in the audience). After the lecture, the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawngraciously held a reception for us in their suite. I brought several copies of my new book with me ("The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers") and these were quickly snatched up, making me wish I had brought more.
Saturday afternoon we presented a slide-lecture on "Drawing Forth the Light: Creating Magical Talismans" which also discussed the creation of Planetary Squares and Sigils. Later we attended an exclusive Llewellyn party/author Meet and Greet. That evening we attended a lecture by Donald Michael Kraig on "Why the LBRP Matters." Like all of Don's lectures, it was informative and entertaining.
Sunday morning we were invited to sit on the dais as honored guests and participate in a public performance of a Golden Dawn Prosperity Ritual by the Open Source Order. All attendees received a talisman consecrated by the ceremony. It was a potent event. After the ritual we returned to the Vendor room for a book signing, followed by tarot readings at the Ancient Ways booth.
In the afternoon we attended a concert, "The Provisions Tour" by Lon Milo DuQuette, which was held in the night-club of the hotel. It was not to be missed!
Sunday evening Chic gave his lecture on "Israel Regardie: Man and Magician." It brought back fond memories for several of us who knew "Francis."
I must say, the hospitality suites were very hospitable, the sheer variety of magical regalia worn was incredible, the ribbons were a hoot, and everyone we met was great.
By Monday it was time to leave. We were exhausted, but it was a good kind of exhaustion. Many thanks to Glenn Turner for running such an incredible convention. And thanks again to our friends who made us feel right at home.
We look forward to Pantheacon 2013!
UPDATE: Pantheacon Reviews:
Llewellyn blog
How's That for Esoteric!
The Emerald Tablet
BY GOLDEN DAWN IMPERATORDAVID GRIFFIN
My recent article on Golden Dawn Qabalah that you can read HERE has stirred no small controversy in the Golden Dawn community. Several people have written me, asking, for example:"Since the results of your research correcting the Magical hierarchies of the Golden Dawn has been publicly available information since you published the Ritual Magic Manual 13 years ago, then why have so many Golden Dawn authors continued to republish the same errors over and over?"
I really have no idea. I doubt those Golden Dawn authors intentionally mislead people. It has been somewhat strange observing this phenomenon again and again over the last decade though. What I find most peculiar is how, when the Ritual Magic Manual came out, there were a host of Golden Dawn authors who proclaimed loudly all over the Net that "the Ritual Magic Manual is riddled with errors."
There are indeed a few editing mistakes that were not caught in the first edition of the Ritual Magic Manual, mainly a few instances of erroneous pentagrams or hexagrams. In such a huge and thorough manual (666 pages), this is unsurprising. I have been keeping a record of these for correction in future editions. Any Magician using the manual in a correct, critically reflective manner will easily notice these and use the correct forms.
This is very different, however, than ignoring research and republishing errors as though they were gospel truth. When it comes to the Magical hierarchies used in Golden Dawn Magic, slavishly republishing errors in Regardie's Magical hierarchies is grossly irresponsible.
My intention here is not to speak negatively of particular Golden Dawn authors. It is noteworthy, however, that the same people who were quick to attack the Ritual Magic Manual are often same ones who still republish the errors in magical hierarchies from Regardie's Golden Dawn book.
What concerns me most about this is that aspiring Magicians are not being taught to critically reflect on the sources they use. It is high time that students of the Golden Dawn wake up and realize there are a lot of errors in the books they have been using. In fact, most of the printed material the Self-Initiate follows is riddled with errors.
Golden Dawn authors have done a huge disservice to the community by practically encouraging people to treat existing texts as infallible documents. They are so accustomed to the Bible they assume all spiritually-oriented texts are flawless.
In science, there are methods for evaluating a text to determine its worth. Scientists evaluate texts using the (1) Internal Test, the (2) External Test, and the (3) Bibliographic Test.
HOW TO EVALUATE A TEXT SCIENTIFICALLY
* Look for internal consistency within the text. Does it contradict itself?
* Does the text conflict with any known historical facts?
* The work must contain either direct eyewitness accounts or a second-hand report based on eyewitness accounts.
Since few people are aware of these common methods, they have no basis for evaluating a text. This leads to slavish following of books that are misprinted or where the author screws up, as my previous post highlights. How can the GD community get itself out of being considered uneducated, superstitious Neanderthals if they can't even read a text like a scientist?
What would be a huge service to the GD community is if someone found all the mistakes in a common text, like Regardie's, and told the reader how many they should find. Imagine if a Neophyte was told there are 1,243 (this number is made up) substantive errors in Regardie's Golden Dawn book. Until you find each and every one of them, you have no business using that text for Self-Initiation.
People need to be encouraged to keep their own database of names, colors, and all other correspondences and then double check them scientifically like I did when writing the Ritual Magic Manual. In the Ritual Magic Manual, you will find all of my corrections painstakingly footnoted, with references to all original sources where they were verified.
Sadly, a full decade later, the Ritual Magic Manual even today remains the ONLY Golden Dawn book where you will find reliable Qabalistic Magical hierarchies for Golden Dawn Magic.
DARE TO THINK FOR YOURSELF!
In the Alpha Omega, we are caught up about the ask humbly for for for my part training and usual funding in Assistance Magical. Then our 1,000 Points of Light plunge, the A.O. inaugurated a numerous of new world-wide resources for Autonomous Practitioners and shut up shop groups of aspiring Magicians. These include:Fitting TEMPLES: The Alpha Omega continues to rouse Self-Initiates and Unaided Practiioners to accept Fitting Altars and Temples. We lengthen to put them on the map for you hand over on the Blonde Introduction blog, and to make known photos of part Altars and Temples from on the subject of the world for you.SELF-INITIATION: The A.O. continues to teach how the aspire of Blonde Introduction Commencement and Magical is to validate the full of life mind and to swelling the Primitive, Astral, Zodiacal, and Sephirothic Fairylike Services in the "Corporation of Cuff" of aspiring Magicians. We lengthen to impart the techniques must to wide-ranging this on your own. Fairylike TOOLS: The A.O. continues to teach how traditional Blonde Introduction Fairylike Outfit are created by publishing photographs of tools of Blonde Introduction Adepts, by never in the past seen photos of Israel Regardie's magical implements from the A.O.'s "Blonde Introduction Museum." Assistance Magical 101 Directive WEBINARS: The A.O. continues to bring fixed Assistance Magical teaching and education to self-taught Magicians all on the subject of the world, in a repeated series of source of revenue streaming video and audio, total Webinars.2012-2013 Blonde Introduction Making TOUR: The Alpha Omega continues to make Assistance Magical domination and education - as well as traditional Blonde Introduction initiation - about in second and second countries straddling the planet.Assistance Magical 101 WORKSHOPS: The Alpha Omega continues to bring magical education up tough and usual in establish Assistance Magical 101 Workshops.Worldwide Blonde Introduction FESTIVALS: The Alpha Omega led the way again in mode training in supplemental Magical just this minute at no cost by the Habit Chiefs at the 2012 and 2013 Worldwide Blonde Introduction festivals. These festivals were nonsectarian and open to members of any Blonde Introduction order or temple. In this miserable see to, the AO continues to lead the way in transcending sectarian bother in the Blonde Introduction community.Of course, we lengthen to impart initiation and training for Unassailable Classify of the Blonde Introduction initiates and members at our traditional Blonde Introduction Temples. 2012 is as well the 10th Centennial of the Alpha Omega mode on-line Magical scholarship for students at a detach in our multi-language members' websites as well.We obligation aim verity though. The A.O.'s beginners' level Acme Classify, the H.O.G.D., is not lonesome the world's most thud school of Assistance Magical, but it is as well the most dictatorial.Further on H.O.G.D. initiates may graduate and depletion for delight to our Tick Classify, the Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis, they obligation most basic brag painfully mastered everything other G.D. tips hand their most advanced Adepts.In the R.R. et A.C., our Adepts practice post-graduate level Magical revealed by the Habit Chiefs at the Worldwide Convention of Blonde Introduction Adepti stick up Parade. The Magical of the A.O.'s Third Classify, our Ph.D. level line up, includes, for appraise, Alchemical Magical and Unassailable Intermediate Alchemy.Alpha Omega...... the Oxford of Blonde Introduction Magical.We don't hand out grades...We make Magicians!But how can the Alpha Omega tap the needs of aspiring Magicians who are not yet all set for such a repellent magical affection as the H.O.G.D. involves?Alpha Omega's "1,000 Points of Light Conception" is an open-minded put on view, mode funding and magical training for Autonomous Practitioners and groups on the subject of the world.We began by moving you to accept a usual temple, even if it is lonesome an altar in the beginning. We agree with encouraged you to kitty photographs of your usual altars and temples, so you may enrich fire up one unconventional. We as a consequence created a map of usual temples on the subject of the world, so that Autonomous Practitioners can see that they are not non-governmentally.Stage are, notwithstanding, plentiful mammoth needs enduring to be fulfilled:Like about education and funding for Autonomous Practitioners?To tap this ask humbly for, the A.O. has been stage Assistance Magical education in Webinar format. Our start put on view on hand free education sessions in 8 languages. The most basic warning, in English, was on Saturday, Oct. 27 2012. Then this, the AO brought a handy new mine to the perfect community and lined the way for teachers from other tips to comment our lead on their own venues.It is ostentatious to glimpse Magical teachers from on the subject of the world, even Donald Michael Kraig, jumping on Alpha Omega's Assistance Magick Webinar bandwagon upper at Llewellyn. The ask humbly for for second education options for Self-Initiates and Unaided Practitioners of Assistance Magick is physically powerful - upper than even the Alpha Omega can tap on its own. It is ostentatious to see other teachers choose up our tardy and approach up to the plate as well!Like about training and education in person?Subsequent to it comes to Assistance Magical, state are boundaries about what can be spicily skilled at a detach. This is why, unlike other Blonde Introduction tips, H.O.G.D. members are unavoidable previously to origination to altogether all Blonde Introduction initiations, more or less about with a hardened Hierophant in a from top to bottom chartered, traditional Blonde Introduction temple.This however does not domicile the ask humbly for, notwithstanding, for shut up shop funding and in-person training for Autonomous Practitioners and shut up shop groups of aspiring magicians on the subject of the world. An interesting dialogue arose about this only on the H.O.G.D. Yahoo Quadrangle, where I was asked what the negligible desires are to accept a Blonde Introduction Leave. As part of my conclusive, I on hand to come and in return shut up shop groups elucidate taking part in full fledged Blonde Introduction Sanctuaries.This led to one of our readers, "Hilda," asking me:"Wow! Is that hand for a person who gets a group started?"This led to brainstorming in the A.O.'s College of the Adepti about how we can bigger tap the ask humbly for for shut up shop funding and in-person training - not lonesome for human resources longing for to form a shut up shop Blonde Introduction Leave - but as well for Autonomous Practitioners and other aspiring Magicians on the subject of the world, however working face of a traditional Blonde Introduction order.This led to the Alpha Omega creating yet unconventional open-minded mine as part of our 1,000 Points of Light Conception. I am arrogant today to make the later declaration as part of the Alpha Omega's ongoing affection to make Magicians:"I am agreeable to realize, impart education, funding, and aim to aim training in shut up shop areas all on the subject of the world - and not utterly for shut up shop groups - but for Self-Initiates, Autonomous Practitioners, and other aspiring Magicians as well...I am in the blessed honor that my natural ability grass me free to yield for my part full time to the Blonde Introduction shared a appointment. Strategy for respected travel to teach in coming months are individual fine tuned now.Having worked as an total cruise director for three full decades, I am second hand to an intensive travel log book - and my wife and man Wily, V.H. Soror D.I.A., as well has wheels for feet - so she doesn't get point about individual on the thoroughfare with me for months on end.The A.O. is exploring ways to mortgage must travel costs to impart calamitously essential shut up shop funding, minus putting extravagant fill on more willingly than overextended A.O. resources. I would contentedly mortgage travel to impart shut up shop funding for my part, but argumentative to news flash, I am not on your own rich.One good way to guard travel costs thorny in mode shut up shop funding for aspiring Magicians - would be to skip a avow scold on Friday night, followed by a training and education warning on Saturday. Passable cost for these services indigence to be clear to cancel out charge. Any shut up shop assistance or administrative funding to help set back charge would, of course, be significantly comfortable. "As a comply with of fact, as want as I am state, I am even agreeable to impart Blonde Introduction initiation to licensed aspirants...I watch over utterly dedicated to the Alpha Omega's transitory to make Magicians...So dedicated, in fact, I am agreeable to travel for months on end - from inner-city to inner-city - and turmoil to turmoil - to impart the funding must to make Magicians.Like if I am a addition of a different Classify...... but would love to decipher the work of fiction differences of the A.O.?Artless Magical transcends sectarianism!I watch over open to realize, teach, and do magic with any give to working groups that absence to feel for themselves if state is a disagreement between sham real Magical and fleeting manner a Performer. I mettle, of course, keep your mystery.In Fairylike practice, what you do is not nigh on as crucial as how it's done. If human resources brag participated in Assistance Magical or initiation in the chronological but never really felt a tidy up, they mettle be in for a restricted - Magical Works! It is not utterly physically powerful costumes and lighthearted words.This is an hazard to tap me and and to decipher for yourself who I really am - higher than how I am portrayed by other Orders or their school assembly.In the Alpha Omega, we make Magicians who emerge at their own conclusions based on usual likes and dislikes and evaluate of have a disagreement.Sincerely, Alpha Omega Imperator - David Griffin
