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Gnosticism: (from Greek gnosis, "knowledge") Any of a set of wildly diverse spiritual traditions that emerged in the ancient world around the beginning of the Common Era. Their exact origins are the subject of violent disputes among modern scholars, but Greek mystical traditions, Zoroastrian dualism from Persia, Jewish teachings, and early Christian ideas may all have played some part in generating the Gnostic movement. Their history is difficult to trace, since Gnosticism was violently opposed by the Christian church. Except for a collection of Gnostic scriptures recovered from Nag Hammadi in Egypt, nearly all the information we now have about Gnosticism thus comes from its bitter ...
This practice is called primordial meditation because it unveils and reveals our bornless being and innate goodness, which is the very essence of enlightenment. In Kabbalah, the highest name of God is Eheieh, which means “I Am” or “I Shall Be,” and alludes to pure or primordial being. In many Christian Gnostic practices, the breath becomes the vehicle of the light-presence and the direct expression of the power of our supernal soul. Thus, primordial meditation using the breath as our focus may facilitate the enlightenment experience as well as activate the powers of the soul of light in us, resulting in psychic and spiritual gifts. When you meditate ...
Natural Magic: One of the two great divisions of Western magical practice, the other being ritual or ceremonial magic. Natural magic deals with the magical powers of physical substances—herbs, stones, resins, metals, perfumes, and the like. It has generally been much less controversial than ritual magic, and has been practiced openly even at times when even a rumor of involvement in ritual magic was enough to cause imprisonment and death. The principle governing natural magic in the Western occult tradition is the great Hermetic axiom "As above, so below." Every object in the material world, according to this dictum, is a reflection of astrological and spiritual powers. By making ...
Recently I received an email from Louise, who had just lost her husband of forty-five years. He died suddenly and unexpectedly from what was ruled to be a heart attack, although he had been having shortness of breath for several months and had even been sent to a lung specialist not long before. Louise was beside herself. They had been together since they met in 1961. This was definitely the worst experience of her life and the only thing she saw that might account for Dan's death in his horoscope was transiting Pluto opposing his natal Sun. For an event of such magnitude there would certainly have been more than that one transit indicating trouble. Dan's progressed horoscope should ...
