In Search of Crowley's Hidden God

 

Well I read the whole book and I still have not clue who the hidden god is. Be honest with you I am still clueless after reading this book. I will say that the gist of the book involves the raising of the kundalini serpent and how sex magic can change things. Magical children can be born from magical operations using sex on the full moon . No children will be born but magical entities will be about. Full moon is the best time to do this.

By the way we are in a different age. Having left the sacrificing god of Osiris and Jesus behind we are in the age of Aquarius where Set, Horus and Ra Khorr Khurit is the god This is when we fight for ourselves and we shake the shackle of the group mentality and look for ourselves.

The book covers many things from Voodoo, Tantra, Hinduism and several takeaways from Egyptian magic and religion.Definitely not a book for beginners. No

The Master of Horrors Guide to Becoming a Better Writer

 

The Master of Horror has written a witty anecdote for the would be writer who wants to pursue the craft of writing. The book is part memoir, part instructional with anecdotes thrown in.

Stephen King started out in the Maine and New England areas.He was raised by a single mother. Don’t know if he ever met his father. Mr. King tells of his adventures with his older brother who would persuade him to follow him along on sone stunt that would get both off them into trouble. Mr. King also tells about his adventures writing for sports boards, high school and college paper. He also tells how he wrote stories that got rejected by some short story mags then how he made it big with Carrie, a book he almost threw out in the trash but was fortunately saved by his wife Tabitha.

Now for the instructional part. Every writer needs a tool chest from which to pull forth their tools to do a writing job. The first tool is vocabulary. A writer needs a rich vocabulary in order to write colorful stories. The next tool is grammar. A good author needs to know the rules of grammar and how to use them. Some writer read the rules and make it work due to brevity.
Another thing Stephen King urges is get rid of adverbs as much as you can.

A good writer will have the self discipline to write every day. He advised a starting number and he himself writes whole bunch everyday. If you want to be a writer you got to lock yourself in your room and write. The next thing a writer has got to do is read a lot. Stephen King takes a book with him where ever he goes. Reading other authors gives you style to learn from and tactics to imitate plus it also helps you fi9nd your voice .

Stories write themselves. He advises to let it unfold and the author just write it down as faithfully as possible. He does not believe in outlines or developing a plot on a plot chart.

He also writes about finding agents and how to get your work published. I really liked his approach because it is freestyle and does not constrain the writer to use outlines or plot charts. While this book may not make you a great writer it will definitely give you tips on how to improve.

Cannabis Spirituality

What do you get when you add cannabis with meditation? Why you get Wake, Bake and Meditate . The author starts off with informing the reader about Cannabis 101. The author describes the different strains and what kind of spiritual work the different strains are good for. Indica strains have more THC and CBD and tends to be real good for relaxing and mellowing out. Some meditation , especially trance dance are more upbeat and energetic hence Sativa is good for this joined of work. The author goes over the basic of dosing and different ways to consume THC.

Tahe next section talks about individual mediation . Before launching into meditation with cannabis, the author covers pre meditation routines. Setting and set are important. The set is what you go into the session with. The setting is the environment you are meditating in. Journaling helps set the intention for the meditation session , it also helps to write about it afterwards.

The first meditation are individual meditations. The first few times the meditator will meditate two to three times with a guide. After doing the meditation 3-4 times then you are ready to try the meditation with the aid of cannabis. Some subjects for meditation finding your bliss, setting up a spiritual retreat, meeting the feminine and masculine divine.

These meditations carry over into the group work.  All the meditations have a script that can be recorded for going into the meditation.There are somehealing mediations both for disaster and real health problems.

The end finishes off with recipes and instructions for decarbing your herb. The recipes are pretty good. If you are a beginner in meditation or cannabis you might want to check this book out especially if your infusing your spirituality with cannabis.

Son of The Dragon by Victor T.Foia

 This is historical fiction about the childhood of Vlad Dracula .

The story starts off with a young boy named Theodore who has dreams of the Dragons son taking over and redeeming Wallachia. He is presented to church officials and no utility but his prophecies do not bring them much pleasure. He gets royally bad treatment.

Fast forward several years and you have Vlad and his brother Marcus coming of age. Boys turn to men following a ritual hunting where they are supposed to bring down a boar. Marcus kills his boar but Vlad has to get his own to kill. Him and his father go out hunting and they come across a ruined burned out town and church . It is something Dracul, Vlads father failed to mention. There is also i an accursed forest where bandits hide and maraud merchant.

While Vlad is out hunting a Bison with Dracul his father he finds out a horrible truth about his grandmother who became a nun at a monastery after something horrible had happened to her. It is also here that Vlad learns the truth about a prophecy involving him.

After the hunting trip Dracul takes Marcus and Vlad to Hungary in order to participate in a tournament. Hungary is not to be trusted. Hunyadi is a military governor and ruler of Transylvania . A real power broker. He is setting up for a crusade against the Turks. But he has designs on Wallachia.

Vlad wants to join the crusade but has to prove his worth by killing a Turk. Just so happens that 4 Akincis are doing a slave raid. Vlad is daring and takes on the Turks. His next visit is to the Sultan. While the book may not be factual it is historical fiction that may have happened.

Phoenician Kabbalah

 Be prepared for a different history of the Kaballah . It is also one that I find interesting even if I do not believe it entirely. According to this work the Kaballah was created by the Canaanite Phoenicians. The person who wrote the Kabbalah or brought the tradition to mankind as Enoch. It was a mystery school that was founded before events in the Bible took place. It was shortly after the flood.

Enoch was given a tradition and he set off to Mount Hermon to set up a 9 chamber temple. From their the Phoenicians would spread their word. This differs from the standard Judaic view. The Phoenicians or the sect of Asayas believe in one god but did not have the same laws the Israelites did. The Israelite version of god seems to want more animal sacrifices while the Phoenician version wants agricultural sacrifice.

The book also presents an alternate way of looking at history. Since the Bible does not have much archaeological proof behind it, there are many who think that it is inaccurate. The belief here is that the Kingdoms of Judea and Israel were not in existence and the the mythology only came to life during the Babylonian exile. The nation of Judea or Israel was an invention of Persian and Babylonian priesthood when they did this they changed their Kaballah and even the god names.

The Phoenicians called their high god El, which was adapted by the Hebrew Israelites. THe Hebrew god was called Yahweh who was a minor water god or a Kenite god. Yahweh is connected to Enki or Ea of the Sumerian pantheons. Yahweh worked with water to save the Israelites.

He was also the god that created the world that trapped human souls. It is our objective to break free of this material. Prison. There were early sects of Christianity who believed that the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the god of the New Testamanet . The Old Testament god was evil and created this world.

The book draws heavily to from Freemasonry, Theosophy and Helena Blavatsky. THe author believes that Enoch along with the great white brotherhood was tasked with enlightening people to break away from the material prison.

THe book also relies upon Unverified Personal Gnosis. The author meditates on the Sphirote and the Phoenicians letters and he conveys the meaning of his mediations.

Jewish theology and history mesh with Canaanite/ Phoenician theology and history. Abraham was the first Jew yet Noah and Enoch are credited with opening institutes of spiritual learning by Jews no less. Paleo Hebrew letters are identical to Canaanite letters. Many of the God names come from Canaanite lexography. Hiram Abiff helped Solomon build his temple. Northern Israel was strongly influenced by Phoenician architecture. This book proves to be an interesting read

Werewolf Stories from All Over the World

 The wolf is liminal figure bordering between light and shadow. On the one hand they are fierce predators who can be hazardous to those wandering about. The wolf also keeps the natural balance and puts a check on other animal populations often feeding on the aged, dying and the sick.

The werewolf is another character based on the wolf but even more terrifying. Rumors of large wolves ravaging livestock and people abound in. European folklore all across the the continent of Europe. There are many ways to transform into a werewolf. There are different were creatures in different countries.

The African nations have wear hyenas and wild cats. In China and Japan you have were tigers. Some theories behind what is called lycanthropy exist. Some think it is a delusion. Someone mentally ill or,deluded and goes around acting like a wolf. There are other who believe that during trance states the souls leaves the body and can assume an animal form.  There are people who believed that they have seen others transform fully into wolves.

How does one transform into a werewolf. For starts let us throw out the full moon motif. Some of the ways people transform is by being cursed by a witch to assume the animal form,sometimes for periods up to 7 years. Others embrace this change by donning a wolf skin or a pelt of a wolf and that will transform them into a wolf. Some believe that a sorcerer has several animal shapes at their disposable.

In certain European countries werewolves are synonymous with witches. Witches too can shapeshift into different animal forms and travel through the night. In Norse mythology part of the soul is an animal soul and it has different forms. People being transformed into wolves or other animals are found all over the world.

Yet not all werewolves are bad some like the benadanti help the people by retrieving grain from Hell so the people can consume it. Bands of wolf warriors used to roam the forests of Europe dedicated to Odin they wore wolf skins and acted a lot like wolves and legend has it they turned to wolves.

The book yields over many stories from folklore illustrating the points above . However , deeper analysis would have been nice.

Urban Faeries

 Kay lives a very unstable life. Her mother Ellen is in a rock band that plays in low level bar and she gets waisted almost every night. Things take a sudden turn when Ellen’s boyfriend Lloyd gets violent. He is hauled off and the two move back with Ellen’s mother.

Back in the old town where she grew up she reunites with old friends, both faerie and human. Hanging with her human friends she joins a party and summons a plastic horse to life. A boy named Kenny sees it all and puts the moves on her. Getting away and lost in the woods. In the woods she comes across Royben . An injured faerie knight from the unseelie court. He also killed one of her faerie friends. No human believes her when tells them about faeries.

After helping Royben she hooks up with Cornelius and she explains her adventure. He looks up all the faerie lore. But something happens, she is loosing her glamour and finds out she is a Fae changeling. They traipse around the unseelie court. After a narrow escape the adventure begins. Although a human is a tithe given as a sacrifice to the unseelie court for seven years of freedom, why is she a pixie given over as a sacrifice.

And so the adventure begins. Friends struggle to release her and then later on she must rescue her friends from the Unseelie court. As the adventure continues with forays into the seelie court, it is learned that there was a complicated conspiracy ignited by the Queen of the Seelie court. THe ending has the iron bite of irony. Get ready for some plot twists