In this episode, we continue with Peter Mark Adams's outline regarding Magick! How Gordon White made me understand how you cannot understand "history" without acknowledging Magick. We hear from Robert Bauval and his big big question! Why did the ancients go to so much trouble? The Comic order, more Kybalion, As Above, So Below, some Ficinno for good measure, drinking in the power of the sun, and sympathies and correspondences.
Next, we touch on the "blueprint of reality" and how it is critical in understanding Magick in Human History...and look at Planetary Magick to understand the concepts! Finally, how does Astrology actually work and making Talismans with fussy planets.
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I hope you remember the idea from the last episode that Peter shared with us "that the cosmos is organized & moved by cosmic intelligences", even if you have not yet embodied them or grocked them as Chance hates me saying. The reason is that we are going build on this and BAM things up here.
As Gordon White made me understand when you start looking at the story of history with Magickal eyes, things get real interesting real fast... and so as we move to Peter's next point, I just want you to keep it in mind... "that the cosmos is organized & moved by cosmic intelligences."
So to kick this off, we will visit Episode One of Magical Egypt Season 2 where the brilliant Robert Bauval, who has been MIA for too long, has a compelling segment. I saw a picture of him at Christmas with Graham, and he looked great, which soothed my heart as much as I have been worried about him.
In Season 2, Robert starts quoting all the amazing alignments, measures, and statistics about the great pyramid...if you are not familiar with them, then how are you even listening to me hahahaha, anyway suffice to say there are too many of these things for it to be a coincidence! You can also look at the work for Ed Nightingale, which is completely underrated in my opinion as he shows all kinds of crazy alignments for the Giza Plateau! We have a Symposium talk with him about it, and it is mind-blowing stuff!
Anyway, back to Bavaul, he asks the question not how they did do this...but WHY? I think that is HUGE. A teacher once told me, the Quality of Your Questions Determines the Quality of Your Results, and at the end of the day, I think the "why" is a much more juicy question, as today we COULD possibly rebuild the pyramid with our technology if we had to, but would we include all of these crazy measurements? I think not because, in our prison paradigm materialistic culture, we have forgotten the WHY, why they did it in the first place! Which is why I loved Buaval's question!!!
So!!! Since there is a fine line between idiocy and audacity, I will attempt to answer this HUMUNGOUS question, and then you can decide which one I actually am! This may take a few episodes, and I may be ultimately idiotic, but when I tied these ideas together in my head, I got really excited, so I hope you will too!
Let's start with what Peter says...that follows on from the last episode.
"The second point is this view of the cosmos (that the cosmos is organized & moved by cosmic intelligences) gives rise to the idea that there is a cosmic order, that all lower forms of life mirror the higher cosmos and are causally related to it. So there's a continuum from the highest to lowest levels. And this cosmic order, therefore, provides a blueprint of reality. And this notion of a blueprint is critical to understanding the function of magic in human history..."
AGAIN BOOM, but we are going to have to unpack that....
The first bit of what Peter talks about is in the Kybalion. Principle #2 - The law of correspondence establishes that there is harmony between the planes and that everything, all planes of existence, are connected and in correspondence. Therefore, the macrocosm is in the microcosm and vice versa.
And this is better know as As above so below.. duh duh duh! We say it all the time eh...
One of the people Peter Mark Adams seems to appreciate is Masilliius Ficino, so since I like Peter's stories, Ficino is probably worth listening to too as well!
Marsilius Ficino explained:
I have said elsewhere that down from every single star (so to speak Platonically) there hangs its own series of things down to the lowest...Under the celestial Serpent or the entire constellation of the Serpent-bearer, they place Saturn and sometimes Jupiter, afterwards daemons who often take on serpent's form, in addition men of this kind, serpents (the animals), the snake-weed, the stone draconite which originates in the head of a dragon, and the stone commonly called serpentine...By a similar system they think a chain of beings descends by levels from any star of the firmament through any planet under its dominion. If, therefore, as I said, you combine at the right time all the Solar things through any level of that order, i.e., men of Solar nature or something belonging to such a man, likewise animals, plants, metals, gems and whatever pertains to these, you will drink in unconditionally the power of the Sun and to some extent the natural powers of the Solar daemons. [Ficino, Three Books on Life, Bk. III, Chap. 14]
Very very cool eh! Everything is thus part of multiple chain of spiritual sympathy and correspondence connecting and interpenetrating all levels of reality. But let's not forget this part....
"And this cosmic order, therefore, provides a blueprint of reality. And this notion of a blueprint is critical to understanding the function of magic in human history..."
Ok so could the Ancient Egyptians have been making a blueprint of reality in order to do something Magickal?
Cant, you just smell the slightest sweet aroma of what the hell might be going on here? of "WHY" they went to so much trouble with these alignments? But how might that work!
An excellent place to start to understand this then is a type of Magick called Planetary Magic. For that, I am going to refer to the most outstanding work of Christopher Warnock and his book The Secrets of Planetary Magic. Christopher Warnock's book is an excellent introduction to traditional planetary magic, as he is a leading astrological magician and a master traditional astrologer. It contains insights gleaned from a decade of practice and study of conventional planetary magic and is an excellent introduction to traditional astrological magic. He also teaches classes that I hope one day to take! Put it this way..I have an app on my iphone that gives me planetary hours and days, so I am dabbling : )
Well, let's be honest, I wear gold horns and frankincense when I talk to the sun : ) hahahah
Anway.....I believe that if we understand the basic idea of Planetary Magick, we will start to make some headway! So here goes...
To quote Warnock, "The first and most important secret of Planetary Magick is the existence and reality of the spiritual realm. Magick and astrology depend on the spiritual connection of all things. Without a firm grounding in the spiritual, planetary magic will be weak and ineffectual.
OK, we already know that the materialistic paradigm prevents us from acknowledging the spiritual realm But, still, we also know this was not the case for all of humanity, and that the sages know about it, and that Chance and I did a The Great Work Documentary that discusses it, so all we need is a bit of a mind slip as they say in Rocky Horror to get there!
Continuing on.... "The process of creating a talisman is normally viewed as the process of charging them with some form of energy, but it appears to be more effective to view the process as an interaction with spiritual beings. It is the process of ensoulment, as we invite the spirit to dwell in and vivify the talisman."
So let me elaborate...one of the reasons for using planetary magick is to create a talisman, a good luck charm, for example. So to make an appropriate good luck charm, you may want to steep yourself in the energy of Jupiter for example, as the vibe of Jupiter is associated with the principles of growth, expansion, healing, prosperity, good fortune, and miracles. So that is a good one eh!
So what Christoper is saying here is that typically magicians see the making of a talisman as the process of charging the talisman with Jupiters energy, like charging a battery but, Christopher says to think of it more as an interaction with a spiritual being. Think back to Peter's point that the cosmos is organized & moved by cosmic intelligences.
Christoper agrees,
"It is helpful to conceive of the planets as individual persons with their own distinct personalities. We grasp their nature, the more swiftly if we understand theirs likes, dislikes, moods, qualities etc."
He goes onto say that...
"Planetary spirits demand to be approached on their own terms and in particular at their preferred times...you cannot make a talisman whenever we want. It has to be astrologically auspicious to the planet involved."
Hence my iphone app!
Those trapped in our prison paradigm culture who believe in Astrology, if you have even thought about it, probably assume that the influence of the stars and planets must be that of matter or energy of some kind of electromagnetic field or ray emanating from the planets themselves...and this is curious as there is simply NO scientific evidence for that at all hahahaha
There is no evidence that there is a material cause for the influence.
However, again, the ancients were not so handicapped and were aware of spiritual realms. They believed in 3 domains, The divine, the celestial, and the material.
Warnock continues...
"The universe was seen as one big unified Being bound together with spiritual sympathy and correspondences. Matter was less perfect and thus imperfectly reflected the spiritual forms or divine or platonic ideas, considered the ultimate reality. Material things were created and then passed away, where the spiritual was eternal by contrast!
Each of the 3 worlds interpenetrated and informed the others eg The Divine Idea of Justice, appears in the Celestial world as Jupiter and in the material world as judges, lawyers, and lawmakers. This is what is called the law of correspondences...
So we have gone full circle, it seems...we have the cosmos organized & moved by cosmic intelligences, giving rise to a cosmic order, and this cosmic order provides a blueprint of reality, which is critical to understanding the function of magic in human history... and we see that planetary magic relies on cosmic intelligences within a cosmic order who demand to be communicated with in specific ways.... and who are willing to ensoul, if asked nicely a talisman say, or a temple perhaps, or maybe even a pyramid or entire Giza complex maybe....
maybe...
So I bet you are thinking...oh that crazy Vanese, you think because the moon is in a certain place it actually effects ANYTHING on earth, get real...well in our next episodes, I am going to provide you with hard evidence from actual materialistic paradigm scientific research scientist who have found that it does! We will also hear from John Anthony West, and Schwaller DeLubicz, Gordon WHite and more Peter Mark Adams, so stay tuned my lovelies it is gonna be good!
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