You too, good luck with your writing. I would say your quality is pretty on par with any other writer I have read writing in the genre you would probably fall into- the Spiritual/Scientific speculative Nonfictiony type genre.

I have seen your writing improve quite a bit through your blog.

Good luck with the seed planting. Hope your garden grows true, good, and beautiful.

“Well, there is this book called “The Book of Lies: the disinformation guide to Magick and the Occult

Its a collection of articles about Magick and it features several Magickal Artists. So it reminded me that there is a magickal element to my artwork, because as a kid I believe I was channeling my ancestors and these archetypal figures, possibly Odin. You know how I would draw all of these old Viking dudes? I was probably channeling Odin. I even drew many of these Old Vikings with one Eye missing. Which I didn’t know then, but that’s related to one of the sagas, where Odin plucked his eye out.

One writer believes that Odin was an actual person, who has left ancestors among the descendants of Germanic peoples, which confers magickal abilities through the bloodline. There are possibly latent DNA codes involving magickal abilities that areactivated through trauma.

So anyway, I would draw in a receptive state, with no preconceived planning and just channel things. I was often in a magickal state as a kid, kind of spacey, which is the state to access other dimensions. I came pretty close to death several times as a child also, contracting pneumoniaand bronchitis, which could be viewed as a type of initiatory shamanic sickness, that activated the latent DNA codes.

So there are several artists like this, in the book.

So this one magickal artist, Spare, developed the idea of creating “sigils” which I shared with you once. Do you remember? They are little pictographs representing a thing you wish to manifest.

So That was further developed by a contemporary Comic book writer, named Grant Morrison. He created a “hyper sigil” in the form of a series of Comics. He then manifested in real life what he created as fiction.

The operating principle, I believe, is that magick occurs on a quantum level. Everything is energy that level. So you can channel these energies through Art and cause them to manifest in the mundane world, which is more dense. So its a way to shape your reality. You plant little seeds on a quantum level, which can gain energy and grow through larger and larger economies of scale.

So that’s it in a nutshell. That is what I am doing.

You can’t reconcile it. If you want to move into extremely liberal and syncretic forms of Christianity, like what Jung and Steiner professed then you are probably right. Mystic strains, like William Blake etc. But that’s Heterodoxy, not Orthodoxy.

But Bible Thumping Christians will quote Leviticus, when it comes to Magick. You can say “Oh, those are just modern fundamentalist Christians, that have distorted the ‘original spirit’ of Christianity.”

But I would have to disagree. Its the same Spirit that inspired the passages in Leviticus. They know what they are talking about. Its an epistemology of “from authority” its hostile to divination, experience and things like that. Magick is the same now as it was in ancient times.

You could say that everything operates on Magickal principles, and that Church authorities have always operated on them and I would agree with that. But there are very mindful of eliminating competition and keeping the people from being spiritually sovereign.

As for giving up magickal art for Christianity, I know why you say that. Dogmatic morality was (and is) a big damper on creativity for me, but funnily enough, I can also see magickal creativity as a longstanding part of Christianity. Look at the old bibles, like the Book of Kells, and Hildegard Von Bingham’s works. Hell, even Jung’s Red Book is full of Christian themes. There’s no real dispute between the two, I’d say, except for using magick to non-christian ends, but that’s a case of how you use the tool, not the tool itself.

I am reading a couple books now:
“Ascension Magick”

Also The Book of Lies

I want to get serious. I don’t want to just be a dabbler. I feel I have some magical ability naturally, so I want to channel that in a constructive disciplined way that is also specific to me.

in the “Book of Lies” Grant Morrison really interests me in how he created a “hyper Sigil” through his comic book writing. There are a lot of Artists featured in the book also. Art has been a magickal path for me my whole life, and interestingly, when I was a born again Christian for a while I instinctively new that I needed to give it up in order to be a good Christian.

plus I am planning to do “The Great Work” of alchemy. I have become very aware of my aura and several chakras and the energy of others and how this energy interacts but I cannot say that I am able to use this knowledge constructively at this point. I would like to.

Plus I have befriended some local people who are either Native American or sympathetic to Native American Spirituality and are into shamanism.

As for ““immanetizing the eschaton” vs. contemplating emptiness” I think it just depends which side of the line you’re standing on when it all comes crashing down. :)

Does this mean you’re taking up The Baptist Head’s stuff? Between that and the magicKal, I can see it being a possibility.

It’s all good, so long as we finally end up not not here.

He wasn’t an ascetic was he? He doesn’t strike me as one.