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  • SIRP and Signs

    SIRP and Signs

    The Meditation Group is now two groups, since we grew to 9 and the room was getting a little cramped.  There was also the issue of the new members not having gone through the same process as the previous group of 5 (the Qesheth working mainly) and so we now have 2 groups meeting fortnightly for a while.  The intention is to develop some of the ritual work further in the older group and to go through the Qesheth again in the newer group, with a view to coming together again in the new year.  As usual in these things, with the shake-up a couple of people took the opportunity to re-assess their own work and we said goodbye to them, at least in terms of the Meditation Group.

    So far we’ve been using the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP), so the next step seems to be to get the Superior Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram (SIRP) in place before moving on to the Hexagram and Rose rituals.  To that end, the following details or diagrams of the SIRP are being posted here for members mainly:

    SIRP 1, SIRP2, Signs1 and Signs2

    Ah yes – and someone was asking about Harpocrates (Horus) – the wikipedia page is here

  • The Three-Letters working

    The Three-Letters working

    The meditation group has begun a new cycle of activity following an influx of members that took us from our regular 5 to a regular 9.  In order to advance this first ‘series’ of workings on the tree (the QShTh, Qesheth working) I decided to add in a specific element which would involve each individual creating their own ‘guide’ for the tree.  The intention is to allow the intuition of the participant to be activated and given body and voice in such a way that the participant can hear their intuitionistic response and use that in addition to the basic outlines of colours, tone and symbology that I might give them.  During the Qesheth activity the bottom supernal is explored and so we are using this also to create the three-letter guides, each letter being activated by a specific pathworking focused on either Yesod, Netzach or Hod, where Yesod gives us a face, Netzach gives us blood and Hod gives us voice.  The order of visiting was Yesod – Netzach – Hod.  The three pathworkings are given here:

    Yesod, Hod and Netzach

    This is, of course, an experimental working and so anyone else wanting to use it it most welcome to, as well as most welcome to leave comments or give feedback.

  • Marc Ngui | Drawing ‘A Thousand Plateaus’

    Marc Ngui | Drawing ‘A Thousand Plateaus’

    Marc Ngui | Drawing – Art

  • Continuum and Continuing

    Continuum and Continuing

    Continuum publishers have informed me and my co-editor that the collection of essays on Kant and Deleuze we were working on these last few months is to be released next June.  Go to the Continuum website for the details of contributors and a brief blurb…

    This news, of course, reminds me that I have been neglecting the blog and intend to start posting notes again soon.  I’ve been deep into Deleuze’s Leibniz book and reading Gasset on Leibniz as well, so have been enfolded in folds and foldings.  Notes to come soon.

  • Meditation group – Malkuth to Yesod

    I work an immanent model of the tree, rising up its pathways and growing into the tree.  Practically this means beginning from Malkuth and working towards Hod, Yesod and Netzach in the first instance (the ‘lower supernal’ or first triangulation).  The core of this first triangulation revolves around the 21st path from Malkuth to Yesod, the Tau path, in which there are three moments – Malkuth itself, the path (World) and then Yesod.  Three is the magic number of the tree.

    The temple of Malkuth is approached from a wood, in which we begin.  The greens and browns of the forest, the lushness of life and the tree itself offer our entrance into the trance pathworking.  Coming out of the wood we move onto a grass plain, mountains in the distance, birds in the air, water flowing somewhere near us, we can hear it, and the temple of Malkuth sitting amidst the growth and green of the plain, surrounded and watched over by the archangel of this realm, Sandalphon.  Given time to form its image as we cross the grass towards the temple, we see the four steps leading up to the platform where we find the entrance, the four steps reminding us of the four worlds of the Kabbalah, the platform itself enabling us to pause after climbing the steps, giving us time to acknowledge the motto of Malkuth carved above its entrance, the motto ‘Know thyself’, the motto of Socrates.  As we push open the door the black and white tiles of the floor and the flickering firefly of the Ashim fill our vision and surround us as we step inside.

    The following pathworking is the first in a new series of travels on the tree.

  • Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

    Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

    Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life
    http://youtube.com/v/y1feEqgRZQI
    We’re about to begin teaching again and as usual I have a 2nd year class on Existentialism. This helps get us into the mood..

  • ANTIBOTHIS

    capa_antibothis2 A new issue of Antibothis is out, worth a look I’d say since Issue 1 had some curious pages that lingered…

    “…showcasing a variety of ideas that  are a genuine alternative to the dogma of conformity, the commitment to disconnect the cables of corporhate  coolonization, disinverting cultural reality through the dissemination and dispersion of alternatives vortices of  information and infinite chaotic propaganda, speculation, simulation, stimulation, to revolutionize the dynamics of life in a total process of cultural transformation, reclaiming our guts and revolt in the name of imagination in  opposition to a toxic life of low awareness, herd mentality and programmed though, infecting human minds and alter their behaviour…”

    ANTIBOTHIS

  • Pictures from the Collegium trip to Italy

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    The first pic is from inside the Collegiums’ lecture space (the Academia Illuminati if I remember right), the second from the black heart of the fantastic Burri exhibit that is in Citta and the third of the Umbrian hills.  It’s hot here today…

  • The Henge and other matters

    I don’t write enough on here about my own practices, perhaps I should, perhaps I shouldn’t, but my partner writes and so something of my own Solstice is wrapped up in the words she sews, so scoot over and read the words of the Morrigan…

    hagiography » Blog Archive » The Henge and other matters

  • Holocasting/Fly

    Flames flap in the wind as standards
    marking spaces in which they with
    little thought of tomorrows passing draw
    slight succour from yesterday’s loss.

    The sun sign silhouetted amidst black
    shadows falling across the nightline
    dances in the skylight crimson
    dresses of evening dinner and wine.

    Thundrous roars peak and molotov
    cocktails speak freely of time
    and light utterances so easily spoken now
    in words that will never be found.

    Deep red mist opens the ayes of augmentation.  Each
    yes sign given tales of telling impedimentation. The
    sentiment sweeps low and fierce, nipping at the shin
    up the pole they go, deep violence coloured rags to
    the bull, whips round their ears, leather smell.

    Withdrawn, withered looks, stealing hearts
    souls flight broken in the backbone of tipped
    wings with feather light frequency folds curls
    through the air in which, like liquid, the fly
    flaps again against the flowers blow.

    (more…)