Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic of Western occultism, since I've been indulging in Ross Nichols' poetry of late, is The Cosmic Shape, published in 1946, which contains his brilliant essay "An Examination of Creative Myth," which discusses the need for nature-myth and ritual as a counterbalance to the artificialities of modern life, and his related Arthurisn poem-cycle "The Cosmic Legend," as well as other poems of his and his fellow poet James Kirkup. He clearly discussed these ideas with his good friend Gerald Gardner; those ideas ended up playing a central role in the creation of Wicca as well as the transformations of 20th-century Druidry. Here's a bit from "The Cosmic Legend": 

I have made my ceremonies; the crisis
comes. None may reproduce, no water flow,
until the sword is from its sheath pulled.
Only I, the medicine-man Gawain, instructing 
at midnight Galahad, the pure one of 
spring -- only I can save you, faithless 
with the fallen leaf. I prove to you,
O my dead people, once again that
I alone am your strength.

In the first ray beating touching on the centre altar-stone
to the eye prepared at vigil-end, the vessel of the sun,
cup and heart, to Galahad. 

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Comments

Re: Ego Issue

[brendhelm]

I'm wondering if either:

1. He isn't actually doing the workings himself, just promulgating them for others to use and suffer as he sees fit,

2. He is taking the blowback, he's just not recognizing it for what it is (e.g. attributing it to bad luck, or as an enemy attack)

Re: Ego Issue

[ecosophia]

It could be either. I've watched people go through the most astonishing mental contortions to avoid noticing that they were suffering the predictable blowback from their own actions.

Re: Ego Issue

[open_space]

I also recall an anon saying that someone was working to make it difficult to see the stupidity of doing those workings or something like that so maybe Hughes' own ego is being fed to mess up with him so that someone can keep using all the energy gathered against them.

There is a video of him doing the bind trump working on Youtube too so I think he is doing it and possibly him being used the same way that the parasitic fungi cordyceps uses ants to turn them into Zombie ants and spread spores.

Re: Ego Issue

[(Anonymous)]

Dear gods. From the Bind Trump working: "That he may do no harm
To any human soul"

Now, if you've got Hughes creating a large number of insane workings and publishing them, and the Magic Resistance gobbling them up, what's the most harmful thing they could do from the perspective of a die hard Trump supporter? Learn.