Occult of Personality

❤️ Ike Baker https://youtu.be/u-vlNvjpM8U?is=_qYMgZ1CX12tlYIL

New podcast! Georgina Rose — polytheist, ceremonial magician, and Thelemite, and author of Planetary Theurgy: Ascent Through the Seven Veils — joins me to talk about what it actually means to have a spiritual path with a trajectory, rather than a vague collection of borrowed practices. We get into her rejection of psychologized, watered-down approaches to magic, her critique of New Age spirituality’s shallow eclecticism, and why she believes discipline and even transgression are essential to real gnosis rather than obstacles to it. https://youtu.be/3wq8w-3Q9Mg?is=I8foZGwzAFlQrYSA

No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good. - Hermes Trismegistus 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕪

HERITAGE EDITIONS Passport to Magonia Jacques Vallee Throughout history, people have reported the observation of unidentified aerial objects. Descriptions of landings made by these objects are commonplace, and many accounts inform us of the physical characteristics and behavior of their occupants. But investigators have neglected to recognize one important perspective of the phenomenon: the fact that beliefs identical to those held today have recurred throughout history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime. https://tradition.st/passport-to-magonia/ Collected Works John Dee This volume contains a selection of Dee's major works, including the Hieroglyphic Monad, Compendium Heptarchiae Mysticae, Rosie Crucian Secrets, Enochian Calls and the first three books of the Mysteriorum. Also included is the short work Tuba Veneris, or the Little Book of the Black Venus, attributed to Dee. https://tradition.st/collected-works/

From Thomas Vaughan’s Lumen di Lumine

"It is not outer reality that silence reveals, but our own innerness. Silence is essentially a surrender to the holiness of the divine mystery – whether we use these words or not. An atheist, calming his or her spirit in the peace of silence, is irradiated by the same mystery, anonymous but transforming. We are to listen. To what? To silence." ~ Sister Wendy Becket, Meditations on Silence

And now you can set out on the way."

From: 'Views from the Real World: Early Talks of Gurdjieff' "To a man who is searching with all his being, with all his inner self, comes the unfailing conviction that to find out how to know in order to do is possible only by finding a guide with experience and knowledge, who will take on his spiritual guidance and become his teacher. And it is here that a man’s flair is more important than anywhere else. He chooses a guide for himself. It is of course an indispensable condition that he choose as a guide a man who knows, or else all meaning of choice is lost. Who can tell where a guide who does not know may lead a man? Every seeker dreams of a guide who knows, dreams about him but seldom asks himself objectively and sincerely—is he worthy of being guided? Is he ready to follow the way? Go out one clear starlit night to some open space and look up at the sky, at those millions of worlds over your head. Remember that perhaps on each of them swarm billions of beings, similar to you or perhaps superior to you in their organization. Look at the Milky Way. The earth cannot even be called a grain of sand in this infinity. It dissolves and vanishes, and with it, you. Where are you? And is what you want simply madness? Before all these worlds ask yourself what are your aims and hopes, your intentions and means of fulfilling them, the demands that may be made upon you and your preparedness to meet them. A long and difficult journey is before you; you are preparing for a strange and unknown land. The way is infinitely long. You do not know if rest will be possible on the way nor where it will be possible. You should be prepared for the worst. take all the necessities for the journey with you. Try to forget nothing, for afterwards it will be too late and there will be no time to go back for what has been forgotten, to rectify the mistake. Weigh up your strength. Is it sufficient for the whole journey? How soon can you start? Remember that if you spend longer on the way you will need to carry proportionately more supplies, and this will delay you further both on the way and in your preparations for it. Yet every minute is precious. Once having decided to go, there is no use wasting time. Do not reckon on trying to come back. This experiment may cost you very dear. The guide undertakes only to take you there and, if you wish to turn back, he is not obliged to return with you. You will be left to yourself, and woe to you if you weaken or forget the way—you will never get back. And even if you remember the way, the question still remains—will you return safe and sound? For many unpleasantnesses await the lonely traveler who is not familiar with the way and the customs which prevail there. Bear in mind that your sight has the property of presenting distant objects as though they were near. Beguiled by the nearness of the aim toward which you strive, blinded by its beauty and ignorant of the measure of your own strength, you will not notice the obstacles on the way; you will not see the numerous ditches across the path. In a green meadow covered with luxuriant flowers, in the thick grass, a deep precipice is hidden. It is very easy to stumble and fall over it if your eyes are not concentrated on the step you are taking. Do not forget to concentrate all your attention on the nearest sector of the way—do not concern yourself about far aims if you do not wish to fall over the precipice. Yet do not forget your aim. Remember it the whole time and keep up in yourself an active endeavor toward it, so as not to lose the right direction. And once you have started, be observant; what you have passed through remains behind and will not appear again; so if you fail to notice it at the time, you never will notice it. Do not be over-curious nor waste time on things that attract your attention but are not worth it. Time is precious and should not be wasted on things which have no direct relation to your aim. Remember where you are and why you are here. Do not protect yourselves and remember that no effort is made in vain.

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Remembering Gordon White after I read this morning about his recent death. White died while traveling in Peru. He will be remembered fondly for his brilliant mind, quick wit, and magic, of course. He was one of the most interesting people I interviewed because his life was so full. Not only magic, but business, gardening, travel, politics, and more. Gordon lived a very interesting life and touched so many people. While I didn't always agree with his opinions, I always respected his work. Travel well, Gordon https://occultofpersonality.net/episodes/podcast-162-gordon-white.html

“So there are two bodies in man, one composed of the elements, the other of the stars; therefore, these two have to be well distinguished from each other. In death the elementary body is buried together with its spirit, the ethereal ones are consumed in the firmament, and the spirit of the God-image goes to Him of which it is the image. "It is necessary that we should seek and knock, and thereby ask the Omnipotent Power within ourselves, and remind it of its promises and keep it awake, and if we do this in the proper form and with a pure and sincere heart, we shall receive that for which we ask, and find that which we seek, and the doors of the Eternal that have been closed before us will be opened, and what was hidden before our sight will come to light." ~ Paracelsus

“The modern crisis is not political. It’s ontological. People no longer perceive reality directly; they inherit prefabricated emotional reactions and call it consciousness.” https://scottmallett.substack.com/p/before-the-door-of-this-age-closes