Category: Spiritual/Mystical
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So you say you want deliverance from JUDGEMENT DAY?
Advertisements [copied from my Facebook post] I’ve spent most of my religious life agreeing with theologians that if Judgement Day exists, either for the world or for an individual, such a Day is terrible, something to be dreaded. How many of us see the end goal of faith or practice as some sort of escape,…
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CONVINCED
Advertisements What does it take to win someone over to a point of view? Observation can do it, certainly. Our ability to look at behaviors and come up with ways to describe or characterize them is a useful and common talent. It accompanies sound mental processes in harmony with reliable senses. Reason and science take…
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Practice: What Makes It Perfect?
Advertisements DISCLAIMER: In what follows, I can tell that my Christian religious background heavily flavors the material and my perspective expressed therein. I have tried to make the focus more general, to turn it into a subject from which different followers of religious or spiritual traditions can benefit. But again, my thoughts are shaped by…
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Is It Supernatural, or Just Unknown?
Advertisements A Post About Magick, Mysticism, Revelation, Inspiration, Consciousness, and Your Secret Self NOTE: In this post, I will use words like “just” or “simply” in the sense of “this is all that might be going on here,” or “there need be nothing more elaborate at work here than this.” Do Not Be Fooled: That…
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After Much Delay, a Personal Update Post
Advertisements In the month or so since my mathematical studies have more or less taken a breather, partially by my choice in connection with the return of my wife from extended grandmotherly visits to the kids in Maryland and New York, I fell out of the habit of daily blog posts, mainly because I also…
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The Star
Advertisements Far, far more distant than Venus, its light not reaching us for uncountable years… Crowley’s card brings it close, almost immanent, associates it with that planet so close to us… He did not understand intergalactic distances as we do, but still, he might have understood something of the speed of light, the immensity of…
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A Belief/Unbelief System in Search of a Name
Advertisements What do you call someone who believes that everything that is genuinely real, is real regardless of what they (or anyone) believe? I.e., they do not believe that what/whether/how they believe has an influence on what truly exists. Because I sometimes think such a belief/non-belief system appeals to me intellectually, but there are still…
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Deliberate.
Advertisements My dreams are more spiritual and symbolic lately, and this seems to be a deliberate change. She is active, she is moving, she is present, she is, in some sense, something, she is, in some sense, Someone … She is still here, and I am glad, and filled with expectation. [I submit the following,…
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The Apostate Creed
Advertisements We believe in one God, the Father, Almighty, of all that is, seen and unseen, superior and inferior, favored and disfavored, supreme to govern and suitable for slavery. We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, whose own religion, nationality, and ethnicity do not concern us very much, He being the Only Son of God,…
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The Addictive Nature of Inspiration/Enlightenment
Advertisements After a month or more of inspiration literally changing my sleep and dream cycles and infusing my life with curious but incredibly pleasant and effective creative energies, I have reached a point that I have seen in books and heard in conversations and with which I am quite familiar: the return to normalcy, more…