A Guide and Access to Paranormality
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The History and Practice of Magic by Paul Christian (1811-1877) translated by James Kirkup and Julian Shaw [The Citadel Press, NY, 1963].
This book is a Two Volume edition of the Seven Books of the classic anthology of magical practices and the occult by Paul Christian, a Nineteenth Century French savant, aka Jean Baptiste or Christian Pitois.
The “guide” is a boon to ghost hunters and those seeking access to the paranormal, using arcane methods or practices.
I, along with a few others, have indulged in some of the procedures to produce entrée to things paranormal, and they’ve worked, once in a malevolent way.
For ghost hunters, let this be a suggestion for Paul Kimball and his cohorts:
“ … communications of the living with the dead were obtained in polytheistic religions through the sacrifice of animals. A square grave was dug in which first three libations had to be pored, one of milk and honey, the second of pure wine, the third of water drawn from a sacred fountain. Then a layer of the purest wheat flower was put down and at last a black ram was slaughtered; its blood, flowing from the wound in its throat, had to mingle with the libations. The remainder of the ceremony consisted of votive prayers which promised the dead a thanksgiving sacrifice in return for their good will. Homer in the Odyssey retraces for us in this was the evocation of the soothsayer Tiresias, which was obtained by Ulysses after fulfilling rites indicated by the witch Circe. The soul of Teresias appears, drinks a little of the blood spilt over the grave and reveals to the King of Ithaca the perils which await him on land and sea, until the favour of the gods allows him to see his home again. A host of other dead people crowd around the grave, and each of them talks to Ulysses after being allowed to taste the victim’s blood. This fantastic scene has a striking effect in Homer’s poem; but it would be childish to believe it could happen in reality.” [Page 207, Bold and Italics mine]
Now my pal Paul Kimball is not going to use this practice (method) to conjure ghosts nor do I think will any other ghost hunter, but it is one way to try if one really wants to conjure with spirits of the dead.
Accessing the paranormal is not a cavalier thing. It takes knowledge that is not readily available or easy to obtain, to say nothing of the items needed to carry out such rites.
But if ghost hunters are serious about their activity, they have to engage with such knowledge to obtain their goal.
Otherwise they are playing at “ghost hunting” or other paranormal pursuits.
RR
posted by RRRGroup at
Thursday, March 28, 2019
3 Comments:
It's really not necessary to practice ancient 'arcane rites' ('dark' or otherwise) in order to achieve observable & verifiable results, though such rituals undoubtedly serve to focus willed intent on the desired objective and were obviously designed with that in mind.
The repetition of personalised, symbolic somatic acts together with controlled mental & psychological states are necessarily 'ritualised' elements of this process but there are more contemporary ways of achieving these without the need for any Denis Wheatley 'mumbo jumbo' :)
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DrDee, at Sunday, April 07, 2019
But the "procedures" DD are just splendid; the "ritual(s)" so like modern medicine, at least by my doctors.
RR
By
RRRGroup, at Sunday, April 07, 2019
Well it's all just smoke & mirrors - 'dressing up in costumes, playing silly games...'(to paraphrase Peter Gabriel)
If it puts you in the right frame of mind and helps to focus your attention on the 'job in hand' as it were then 'so be it' - knock yourself out! :)
Even Crowley came to realise in the end that The Golden Dawn system of highly stylised, ritual magic was mainly just window dressing on a Victorian middle-class melodrama with a masonic hangover that gave it delusions of grandeur.
It developed hand in hand with movements like the Late Victorian Gothic Revival and incorporated elements of the then fashionable middle-class interest in a kind of libertarian, 'pagan ruralism' (in direct opposition to the 'advancements' of the Industrial Revolution) and championed by the likes of William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement as well as the Pre-Raphaelites et al.
It was all very much a product of its time (as everything is) with the Jewish Cabbala a convenient, pre-existing mystical framework on which to base its workings and grade structures.
Crowley recognised that many of the well-heeled members of The Golden Dawn were merely 'playing at magick' and that such rigidly structured, hierarchical societies (including his own 'Argentum Astrum' Order) would be swept away with the advent of the 'New Aeon' which one could argue was simply mystical shorthand for 'Modernity' and the coming intellectual, political, artistic and scientific upheavals of The Twentieth Century.
The Gods are now the Archetypes of Jungian psychology, Ritual Magick has been supplanted by Austin Osman Spare's psycho-sexual sigilisation techniques and the spiritual & meditative states of the Great Mystics merely exhaustive physiological methods of inducing and maintaining specific patterns of brainwaves, be they alpha, beta, delta or gamma.
The Pagans & Wiccans who uphold the 'Old Traditions' (many of which were invented by Gerald Gardner in the 1950s) remind me of the TV weather reporters who insist on standing outside in hurricane-force gusts and torrential rain to inform us 'it sure is wet & windy out'.
You can, of course, transmit the exact same information a lot more efficiently and comfortably from inside your warm, well-equipped TV studio.
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DrDee, at Sunday, April 07, 2019
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