Thank you brother for making this video and for allowing me to re-post it here!
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This is a video I did for local musician, Patrick Miller. It is my first attempt at a solo project from start to finish, including my first attempt at editing. It was a great learning experience, and I’m grateful for all the input I received from teachers, friends and colleagues. Aside from certain scarcities imposed by the nature of the preproduction process (where it was lacking, that is- the biggest lesson), pretty much everything that you see (and hear) here was intentional and contributes to the story line. I welcome any and all comments, positive and negative. Thanks!
Mishlen writes:
We have one guest room with the necessary things and a big private bathroom. It extends to the kitchen and also has a separate entrance. It is for pagans only and the cost is 25.00$ a night per person. This is part of our magickal service to the community at large.
To make reservations, contact Mishlen and Lu
Tristram Burden’s short stories, poetry and articles on contemporary occultism and self-transformation have appeared internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies. This is his debut novel, a finalist in the 2006 Project: Queerlit contest. He currently resides in Bath, England where he’s recording his first album and writing a TV series in-between working on his second novel.
Art by J.M. VonKotterhausen
QBLH
http://www.lightofthegnosis.com/qblh.htm
“Those who have felt the pull of destiny to become more than they are, are invited to study, learn, and apply the ‘Gnosis of Regeneration.’
· No dues are exacted!
· Members are encouraged (but are not required) to develop their own individual Magickal System along established Alchemical principals. (Magickal systems, like mathematics, aid one in working with and describing the Universe. But the system is NOT the Universe).
· No Initiations are performed nor Grades conferred for attainment (In reality initiations can not be conferred by anyone other than the personal Higher Self).
· One QBLH purpose is to help an individual far enough along the way so that they don’t need an Order, and can Work on their own.
· A group or Order is like a cell; it must divide. Nothing endures very long on this Plane of manifestation. In the end only the Inner remains.”
Horus/Maat Lodge
http://www.horusmaat.com/HMLFAQ.html
“The foundation of the Horus/Maat Lodge took place on the New Moon of April 26th of 1979, at a gathering of Soror Nema and the members of the Grove of the Star & the Snake. Our goal was to form a loose constellation of Thelemic Mages devoted to spreading the evolutionary energies of the Double Current 93/696, as free as possible from the type of authoritarian hierarchy that is so common in occult organizations.”
KIA Illuminated Adepts
http://kiamagic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Open_Source_Sorcery
“Open Source Sorcery (aka Open Sourcery) is a movement dedicated to the sharing of knowledge and experience among those who practise arts of sorcery of various traditions. Partly this is facilitated through the use of this and other occult wikis that have information released under the terms of an Open Source or Creative Commons license. The idea is that rituals and knowledge can be shared, adapted and improved by all. Whilst the webmaster reserves the right to moderate the amendments if necessary, there is nothing to stop anyone taking any of the material and posting it elsewhere, including in another wiki, and editing as they desire, so long as they too publish it under the same terms and conditions.”
Servants of the Star and Snake
http://www.wild.net.au/sss/
“The SSS exists to share the things we have each discovered in our own private Circles with each other, much as a professional group of scientists will meet occasionally to share what is going on with their research in their own laboratories. We do this for professional growth, curiosity and, of course, a certain degree of fellowship.”
Assembly of the Knowledge and Wisdom of Solomon
http://www.mindspring.com/~hellfire/bishop/points/points2.htm
“The ‘trigger points’ or ‘power points’, known as points chauds in the system of Gnostic Voudon as taught by T Michael Bertiaux and developed according to his methods, with due consultation with other sources, are an attempt to expand upon the empowerments and their corresponding points on the human body developed at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st. As stated the authentic tradition may be reasonably postulated to have originated in ancient Sumer, Akad and Babylon, with heavenly correspondences to each degree of initiation in a complete circular system of 360 degrees, of which the 90 degrees of the Rite of Misraim (Egypt) represents only one fourth of the original.”
Legba Lodge
http://legbalodge.110mb.com/index.php?p=1_2_About
“Our primary research interests at this time are applied spiritism and theurgy (both understood as protocols of interaction with noncorporeal consciousnesses/intelligences), sexual magick, subtle bioenergetics (the trajectories of energy that underlie such phenomena as points chauds, the wheel of the year, and the teachings of Juan Matus in the works of Castaneda, among others), and esoteric engineering.”
Autireba Lodge No. 11
http://gnostikoi.net/?act=page&id=175
“[The] Rite has transformed from its freemasonic roots into a gnostic and “shamanic” system of the empowerment of points chauds (hot points) on the body of light, influenced by the metaphysics of gnostic voudon. This practice claims to lead to acceleration and realization of the Great Work and as such is sympathetic with the Gnostic Church’s work. Additionally, the Rite shares some of its history with the Gnostic Church in its French experience of early XXth century. Still, both bodies are independent and the systems can be fully worked separately.”
Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis
http://www.egnu.org/wiki/About_Our_Philosophy
“We believe that everybody has gnosis, just as Buddhists believe that everyone is enlightened from the beginning. It’s just that we’ve forgotten, and may need a little assistance to remember. Nobody can give or transmit to us what we already have, but a little help from our friends can help us remember what we already know.”
Ormus Lodge
http://www.lightofthegnosis.com/ormus.htm
“Ormus Lodge is both traditionalist and futurist in scope, maintaining a genuine respect for the ancient teachings while simultaneously being exploratory and innovative. We view the light of the gnosis as a continual, dynamic stream, stemming back in antiquity and flowing ever forward throughout the aeons.”
The architecture of today’s anarchist movement can be described as a decentralized network of communication, coordination and mutual support among autonomous nodes of social struggle.
During a bit of random reading today I happened across the above quote from Uri Gordon’s PhD thesis Anarchism and Political Theory: Contemporary Problems. The thesis has since been made into a book entitled Anarchy Alive!
Replace “anarchist movement” with “Congregational Illuminist movement” and “of social struggle” with “striving towards illumination” and this is an almost word-for-word summary of Free Illuminism, down to the use of the term “nodes”. An interesting syncronicity, but not surprising as one can imagine the vocabulary of many different types of non-hiearchical, anti-authoritarian, decentralized movements might share some equivalent descriptions of basic principles.
You should check out these books by Denny Sargent (aka Aion) of the Horus/Maat Lodge.
Clean Sweep: Banishing Everything You Don’t Need to Make Room for What You Want.
I would just like to point out a wonderful website created by my dear friend, magickal advisor and brother in the Work - Donald Correll. The website is called Bran’s Island.
Consider visiting for Free Books, Art, Poetry, Gothic Horror, Sci Fi, Forgotten Fantasy, Folklore and Legends. Also be sure to check out Donald’s own work in progress, the Road to Great Cthulhu.
Donald is also selling CD’s of the entire contents of the site. If you are interested in supporting this work or purchasing a CD please consider sending him an email.
