In the world of Western spirituality Jesus is an enigmatic figure, a force to be reckoned with. A prophet, the one labeled as the messiah, a miracle worker, a rabbi and a teacher. All of the labels form the well-known faces of Jesus. For many people Jesus is the messiah, the God who walked the earth in those days.
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Occult art and altar pieces Shem HaMephorash In Hebrew the Shem HaMephorash (or Schemhamphorash) stands for ‘The Explicit Name’. It stands for an originally Tannaitic term in describing the hidden name of God in Kabbalah. Classical Jewish mysticism versions state the name is composed of either four, twelve, twenty-two, forty-two letters or the most common,…
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Between the wind of reality and the realm of dream there are creatures we know are there. Energies and spirits we can not see, but feel all the more. They are the deities who inhabit the places we fear, long for or wish we could be. It is the wind that blows through nature. Sometimes nature itself and the earth we must stand on.
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Most people call working with the deities in the Ars Goetia ‘demon-magick‘ like it is something bad or evil. It is not. What most people call demons are deities with a free will, like us humans. They can choose to do our bidding or help us, but they can also have alternative motives, not aligning with our own. Does that make them bad or evil? It makes them more human than we like to admit. For them we are the deities, for them we can be equally scary. Seen from this perspective it is safe to say that most of the time they are willing to work with us, to help us with the question we lay before them.