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Ever since the doctrine of sympathies was propounded by the Greeks and popularized in the Renaissance by Agrippa, there has been a great deal of emphasis in esoteric circles on establishing sets of correspondences. Sometimes these lists have become elaborate tables, such as those in The Magus of Francis Barrett (1801) or, as perhaps the ultimate example, Liber 777 by Aleister Crowley. According to MacGregor Mathers and all those who use him as a source (although not according to scholars such as Gershom Scholem), this sort of knowledge represents the "unwritten qabala." If so, it can hardly be said to have remained unwritten! Aside from aesthetic theoretical considerations and mystical ...
Let's face it—we've probably all fallen prey to a psychic vampire, possibly without even knowing it. It may have been a chance encounter with an energy predator that left us temporarily exhausted, or possibly along-term vampire interaction with serious wear-and-tear effects on the mind and body. Psychic vampirism is alive and flourishing in the world today. As consumers of energy rather than blood, vampires of the psychic kind exist in many guises but with one common trait—their own inadequate energy system compels them to tap into and feed upon the energies of unsuspecting host victims. The immediate results of such a one-on-one vampire encounter are anew but temporary surge ...
Theodore Sturgeon was one of the most important science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century. He is also known for what has come to be called "Sturgeon's Law." Tired of defending science fiction as a literary art form, when asked if he didn't agree that 90% of science fiction was "crap," he allegedly responded, "90% of everything is crap." I have a personal library of several thousand occult books that I've collected over the years. Many are quite old, but some were published barely a decade or two ago. Most people, unless they are collectors, won't recognize their names and certainly won't have read them. Why have they been forgotten? Sturgeon's Law. They fall into that 90% ...
What is your subconscious trying to tell you? One good way to find out is through your dreams. When we sleep, our subconscious doesn't need to battle with our conscious mind. Our emotional side is not challenged by our logic, so it's easy for our subconscious to break through barriers. But it isn't always easy to understand what it is trying to tell us. The subconscious relays messages in the form of dream symbols, or sometimes even bizarre dreams in which we are participants or observers. Think of a dream as a private movie screening of a film in which you play the leading role, or perhaps just sit in the front row of the theater. Dreaming is one of the best ways for the subconscious ...
