On the Trail of a Jinn

Jinn Hunter: Book One: The Prism by Tahir Shah
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A strange robbery takes place in the bank at New York were millions of dollars worth of gold melts away and is gone. Oliver who is a math genius can find pattens out of anything and use it to solve problems. His life is about to change. In the realm there is an upside down pyramid that houses all the rogue jinn who terrorize the world. It is guided by Morrocks. Neqsuimus is the most powerful jinn of all and he has escaped.

Right about this time people all over the world are going crazy and acting irrationally. Oliver’s uncle Sinan, owner of Ozymadias and Sons gives him a paperweight.Oliver travels through the dragons eye. In the realm of the Jinn Oliver realizes that he is part of a tribe called Jinn Hunters. Their job is to collect rogue jinn and return them to the prison but Oliver is hardly prepared.

So his training begins in the Crednta. Training is grueling but he is hardly prepared. If he accepts the job to bring down the Jinn what are his odds of surviving? Good question. Read the books and find out.

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Writing From Ursula K Leguin

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ursula is a well known fantasy / science fiction writer, this book is a collection of essay written about a variety of subjects. She is no longer among the living yet her wisdom reaches out from beyond. One of the things she tackles is this positive thinking in regards to old age. Some people like to to say that you are only as old as you think you are. Nothing could be further from the truth. Old age comes with wisdom and many times aches and pains as the body breaks down. Age is not just a number. Youth is seen as a magical time like it is a time of innocence thst had some enlightenment attached to it. It is is not a virtue to remain as a child. We grow old for a reason. We are supposed to be more mature and more responsible. We are not supposed to stay the same.

She does address her cat Pard. He is a fun trouble maker with a sense of style all his own. Not much of an outdoor cat still he likes to run out every once in a while but soon he makes his way back home. He likes to hunt Beatles and mice and he enjoys playing with them in her Oregon home. The cat does not hunt to kill but rather it is instinct and he likes to play with them like toys. He brings the author mice as a gift because that is what cats do in the wild.

Does this make cats cruel. No , in fact only humans can be cruel because they have developed enough of a brain to enjoy being cruel.

It’s is great book with common sense anecdotes. I wish there were more like it. Enjoy

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Drug Addicts Do What Though wilt

Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Drugs like cocaine and heroine can I have an immense impact on individuals and their families. I should know as I have had family member lose their battle to drugs. By and large cocaine and heroine are not drugs that you can normally control/ but rather they control you. Crowley himself was addicted to heroine. None the less this is still a work of fiction.

The story or diary begins with Peter Pendragon being released from the Air Force after a major world war. His uncle leaves him lots of money. One evening he goes to a a fancy resturaunt/nightclub where he get introduced to Lou , his future wife and cocaine. The man doing the introducing is King Lamus who people have mixed emotions about . Lou is a great singer and she immediately captures Peter’s heart . The cocaine makes him feel exhilarating as there is nothing that can stop him. After there marriage they take a honeymoon in France then in Italy.

In France he and his wife get into heroine. It takes the edge off the coke. It also helps them keep focused. When it comes to heroine though things soon dissipate into self loathing and neglect . Heroine addicts don’t bathe and their clothes are often unkempt. Due to impurities they tend to age prematurely.

But this book is not about drug addiction or the dangers there of. This is a book about Magick and spirituality. King Lamus takes the couple too the abbey of Thelma where they learn about spiritual developement and finding and doing their true will.

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Amalgamation of Chaos and Tantra

Ultraculture Journal: Essays on Magick, Tantra and the Deconditioning of Consciousness by Genesis P-Orridge
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Jason Louv is fantastic. At a young age he is written some books and put out his own compilation which is what I am reviewing. Granted i read one of his works earlier and liked it even better. What transpired in this compilation is a mixture of magic stores and travelogues through different lands. Many of the spiritual world deal with Tantra and Chaos Magick.
Travels in India are typical. Backpackers go through places like Kathmandu,Nepal,Kashmir and other places in India. Saddhus or holy saints are everywhere. Having renounced the material world they shift their focus toward the spiritual. Practically naked ,dressed in rags and covered with ash these holy men rely on donations. Some great Saddhus spout some great spiritual knowledge. These Saddues make great psychological role models in their understanding of the mind and how it creates our reality. “Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wrote in I Am That. When talking about magic k Jason does a nice job of doing away with conspiracy theories and how we have become divided as a result. We did it for them. It was not done to us. The biggest conspiracy, after all, is perpetrated by all of us, when we agree to be afraid of each other, to separate ourselves into subgroups by belief and inclination. Ultimately we are the only ones who can do it to ourself. We are our own god. Real magic happens when you drop the bullshit and remember that you’re God. Just like everybody else. No ritual required.
God is not some thing outside yourself. Rather as the old saying goes , God lives within. We are God among God. There is not a being you can meet, from the lowest vibrations to the highest, that is not God also, and worthy of your respect. God is at play with God, a dazzling field of consciousness for you to remember yourself in. Since i am my own god and everyone is their God it would make sense to adapt a policy of live and let live. The ultimate path to freedom comes from this revelation. When you stop trying to make decisions for others, stop trying to control them, or save them, then they cannot make decisions for you. And then you’re free, to express your essence as you will.
Perhaps the biggest trap our thought processes and spirituality has ensnared us in is the need to improve our selves morally and intellectually. Now it is not a spiritual challenge to grow in either one really it is a matter of effort. The evolution of man is not the intellectual and moral betterment of all. It is the liberation from measured time.
Here is one gem I plucked from the book, it is an invocation to Choronzon.
Through the pearl of inverted synthesis; Do I STIR AND CREATE thy Nether Might! By the inexorable midnight sun oblivion, Poised on the edge of Anthrax Horizon; Do I CALL FORTH AND INVOKE thy Nether Might! With the wicked blade, forged of the triumphant Aphex Loa! Do I WIELD AND ENACT thy Nether Might! To the annihilation of the love supreme ingested within the tunnel of agape; Do I BECOME thy Nether Might! The dawn of light calls forth by the essence of chaos. By the waters of Nether Night is the EGG supplanted in the mind. WE come beyond the edge; infinity. Through the pearl of inverted synthesis; Do I STIR AND CREATE thy Nether Might! By the inexorable midnight sun oblivion, Poised on the edge of Anthrax Horizon; Do I CALL FORTH AND INVOKE thy Nether Might! With the wicked blade, forged of the triumphant Aphex Loa! Do I WIELD AND ENACT thy Nether Might! To the annihilation of the love supreme ingested within the tunnel of agape; Do I BECOME thy Nether Might! The dawn of light calls forth by the essence of chaos. By the waters of Nether Night is the EGG supplanted in the mind. WE come beyond the edge; infinity. Hail Choronzin

This book will take you to high of monastery in the Himalaya all the Way to the lows of a magical working in a basement. Remember the words of guru are horse pucky, be your own Guru.

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Genesis of a Hero

Bone Music by Christopher Rice
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This could well be the genesis of a new super hero. When she was young, both her and her mother were abducted by a couple who took pleasure in murdering people. They were a married couple of serial killers. Both Charlotte Rowe and her mother were abducted . Charlottes mother was murdered and her body buried after being burned in a furnace. Young Charlotte was raised by them until she was 7 years old. She never witnessed the killings, she only turned on the furnace while the couple did the murders.

After she was 7 years old she was rescued by police. Her father exploited her predicament by selling books and making movies. Later on she would get tired of it and move with her grandmother to Altamira outside of San Diego. When she got older she moved to Arizona. While her dad was making money off her experience she was followed by a guy named Jason. A fan, a nut job .

A mysterious man named Dylan acts as her therapist and gives her a new drug to try. Jason somehow finds where Charlotte is living. A confrontation takes place and Charlottes journey begins. Killing stalker and drug dealing bikers , Charlotte finds herself in the middle of a big mess . Returning to Altamira she hooks up with a former high school bully now turned cop, an attorney and Marty and old townie.

Together they keep ahead of the company and find another killer to stop. The drug Dylan gave her makes her super strong. What happens next?

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The Terrible Tome of the Al Azif

Tales of the Al-Azif: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology by C.T. Phipps
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Al Azif or the book of insects if a forbidden tome brought into human consciousness by the mad Arab Al Hazred. The Mad Arab picked it up in some divine revelation after being banished to the empty quarter in Yemen. The revelations are derived from the sound of desert Cicadas. Apparently insects are the oldest beings around and have seen everything since the beginning of time. Therefore they have wisdom.

Al Azif comes from the Cthulhu myths written by HP Lovecraft. It has such a following that systems of magic have been based on it and other authors have written their own adventures in the Cthulhu mythology. This book is a collection of such tales. The first story tells how the Mad Arab first obtains the Al. Azif with his uncle. Another story deals with Henry Stubbs in finding the Al Azif. Another story has Elizabeth Dee going to Cairo in search of the book and fighting a group of assassin to stay alive and get the book. Don’t think that Cthulhu is confined to the Middle East. There are cave in the New York Hills where a cult sacrifices people to be taken over by insects. Once again the Al Azif is a source of power.There is a story about a 7 foot wooden cockroach that people pay to see. Instead of just seeing a Steven foot cockroach they get possessed by evil insects. Finally there is an apolylyptic at the end.

The Al Azif is the forerunner to the Necronomicon. It can be used to grant wishes but like the monkeys paw it’s all twisted and comes with a terrible price. The book is indestructible and if the pages get destroyed then the information can travel to another book.

The Cthulhu mythology deals with evil but not demons and devils rather it is about like being coming from another dimension to take us over. Occult means can be used too stop them. But they are really alien like.

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Revival of Norse Culture

The Northern Dawn: A History of the Reawakening of the Germanic Spirit: From the Twilight of the Gods to the Sun at Midnight by Stephen E. Flowers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

In modern times there has been a call to revive the ancient Germanic culture. By Ancient culture the Heathen or Pagan past is what is meant. So the research begins to recover this lost German past, before it was Christianized.

Has the Germanic culture been completely lost to the process of modernity and Christianization? Author Edred Flowers says no it has not been lost. In fact it has not even been buried. It is still alive and kicking.

One of the places it is still alive is in the literature and folktales. In the Ancient poetry, bard songs and even fairy tales the Germanic ideas still live on . Germanic Literature focused on heroism and overcoming great opponents. The literature put an emphasis on bravery and martial courage.

Christianity was not supposed to be a violent religion or at least not one of warfare. If so then where did the tradition and ethos of knighthood come from? From the Norse ideology, of course.

As Christianity crept into Europe it had to exist side by with Heathenism Often times Roman Christianity absorbed so much German culture that it became Germanized. One example of this is the Helmand which rewrites the story of Christ and his twelve apostle. In the Heliand Christ is depicted as a warrior.

Many Saxon laws originate from the Germanic time and in many an instance have remained unchanged. Customs and tradition of Ancient German culture were retained in the courtly and secular level.

It wont be hard to revive Germanic Heathen culture . It might not look the same as it once did but still there is enough of it alive.

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