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"Far away speech hath been about unloading of fern-seed, which is looked upon as a magical herb, on the night of Midsummer Eve, and I learn I was told of one that went to pluck it, and the Spirits whiskt by his ears enjoy bulltes, and sometimes struck his hat, and other parts of his body: in fine, as he apprehended that he had gotten a amount of it, and plausible it in papers, and a box also, in the function of he came home, he found all deactivate." R. Bovet from "Pandemonium or The Devil's Cloyster" (1684)

"The forked reason of the mandrake gave it the future of a at all separate. It was supposed to trickle in the function of cut, and its uproar in the function of pulled out of the put down can comprise a fearful effect. Juliet, expecting to meet overwhelming cries from the vault, exclaimed, 'shrieks enjoy mandrakes frayed out of the earth, that living mortals probationary them run out of control." Michael Drayton from "Nimphidia" (1627) [And you thoughtfulness J. K. Rowling ended that up, didn't you?--ch]

"Thrice propel these oaken residue in the air,

Thrice sit thou mute in this rapt chair;

And thrice three become old, tie up this true love's knot!

And ripple fluid 'she will, or she will not'.

Go overstate these spiteful weeds in yon dwindling fire,

These screech-owl's fuzz and this scratch briar;

This cypress gathered at a dead man's judgmental

That all thy uncertainties and cares, an end may comprise.

After that come, you Fairies, cavort with me a round!

Defrost her difficult face with your melodius sound!

In passed out are all the charms I can devise:

She hath an art to break them with her eyes."

Thomas Campion from "Innovative of Ayres" (c. 1611)

What Is Meditation

Meditation is the art of clearing the mind of all mundane thoughts, feelings and the general white noise of day-to-day living. It is a state of relaxation and peace, a state where you can control what you deal with and which thoughts and feelings you allow to pass through your consciousness.

This takes some practice, but an ideal way to get started is to make sure you have a quiet space where you will not be disturbed. Unplug the telephone, switch off the television, close the window if there is a lot of noise outside, make sure the place doesn't smell of food or unpleasant and make sure you are comfortable (and that includes not being hungry or needing the lavatory!).

Clearing your mind isn't always easy, but a simple technique is to imagine that your mind is a cinema screen and your thoughts are projected onto it - you then have to dispose of the mental clutter, until your cinema screen is clear, white and ready to project what you want on to it. Your mind must be at peace so that you can focus on what you're trying to accomplish.

When you first start to meditate, it may be challenging to stop all the thoughts of daily life from getting in the way. A really good way of dealing with all the impinging thoughts is to acknowledge them, put them on to a little, fluffy cloud and float them into the distance - so far that they disappear. An alternative is to have a litter-bin wherever your meditation place is - it works well if you're in a park - and every time a thought intrudes, pick it up, screw it up and put it in the bin. It works.

It takes patience and regular practice, but even if you try clearing and quieting your mind before you go to sleep each night, you'll find that you get good at it pretty quickly (and probably sleep better too).

During meditation the brain enters an altered state of consciousness - known as 'alpha' - a state also entered during deep relaxation and dreaming. In the alpha state the brain waves register at between seven and fourteen cycles. This is close to the background energy cycles of the Earth itself. Through practise, work in the alpha state can open one up to a whole new, much broader, sense of reality then hitherto discovered. Not only can one benefit enormously from temporarily by-passing the glamours of the ego to gain contact and communication with ones higher self, but one is also better able to develop skills such as telepathy, clairvoyance and pre-cognition. It is in the alpha state that we are able to enter and explore the other planes of reality that include the astral and spiritual planes creating a situation where we are much more open and receptive to the energies that exist all around us, rather just those on the more commonly recognised physical plane.

Alpha is a state where we can expand into the vibrationary rates of the other planes of existence. It is whilst working between these planes where much of the occult work is undertaken - which will be discussed more fully later in this book. Meditation is basically the means by which we gain access to the quantum reality; a greater sense of the breadth of reality than we are commonly aware of as a young adolescent, or even as an adult if we haven't looked explored beyond the materialistic physical plane.

Visualisation work during meditation is a vital element in magic whether it be used, as many do, for healing purposes or other intentions. Another technique for those who may struggle with meditations, or even for the more advanced who want to work on specific issues or courses of action, is a guided meditation. This should only ever be carried out with somebody you trust and who knows what they are doing as it can involve going much deeper than you would usually delve on your own, although one can have some success using pre-recorded tapes (preferably those you have prepared yourself). You can learn to use such techniques to reach the higher self where past life memories reside. You will discover that it is here that we can discover many of the blockages and fears that effect our current incarnation.

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Fifty Years In The Feri Tradition

Book: Fifty Years In The Feri Tradition by Cora Anderson

Okay, the up-front confession: when I first read this book, ten years ago, I was positively underwhelmed. I'd heard so much about the book, about the mysterious Feri tradition and about its founders, Victor and Cora Anderson, and my expectations were pretty high. I was expecting to get a reasonably in-depth overview of the Feri tradition, or at least a guided tour of some basics. I was expecting, basically, Feri 101. What I got instead, when I finally acquired a copy, was a modestly slim volume written in a chatty, conversational tone, less as a book and more a transcript of a rambling verbal discourse on whatever subjects related to Feri happened to cross the writer's mind. It felt confusing, unfocused and largely incomprehensible, especially because I felt like I wasn't understanding many of her base assumptions about religion, magic, or the Craft. I came away from my initial read strangely dissatisfied, as though I'd missed a point I should've gotten, and didn't understand why.

With `Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition', author and Grandmaster Cora Anderson reflects on various aspects of this often misunderstood branch of modern Witchcraft, touching on such topics as the Three Souls, the divine Twins, the role of sex in the Craft, the Black Heart of Innocence, and more.

Written as an anniversary gift for her husband (Feri founder and Grandmaster Victor Anderson) this work weaves together pieces of their personal history, as well as etheric insights into the religious technologies of various cultures. This combined with an intuitive presentation of the various realms of metaphysical existence makes this book a real gem for the Feri/Witchcraft enthusiast.

I've read this little book several times since then, and each time I've come away from it with a little something more. In the space of time between my first reading and my most recent read a couple of days ago, I've found many little gems of wisdom, humor, and magic hiding in the text, and each time I wonder: why I hadn't seen that particular bit before? After all, it's not as though there's much room in the book for things to hide! I always wonder if the text changes when I'm not looking at it...

But of course, the book itself isn't changing. As Lon Milo DuQuette says in his book Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, it's that I've changed, and my capacity to understand it has likewise changed. Cora Anderson's little essay about the Feri tradition, rambling and unfocused as it is, packs a terrific amount of information into a tiny package, and phrases it in such a way that most of it only makes sense once you, the reader, are ready to understand it. That may sound odd, but it's true.

As such, while I wouldn't say this is a "beginner's book" by any stretch of the imagination, I think it's essential reading for anyone seriously studying the Feri tradition, or anyone who wants to read the unvarnished thoughts of a genuine elder of the Craft.

The writing style is veiled and conversational, so much so that at times it feels as if you are hearing her speak to you in a dream and engaging her words more symbolically than literal. (I recommend repeated readings of this work in order to better understand some of the deeper points that are introduced... at only 63 pages it is certainly an easy task.) Some of the information is specifically directed at parts of the Feri tradition community, while others can be more generally applied to the wider pagan movement.

If you are looking for a practical Feri manual then you may prefer `Evolutionary Witchcraft' by T. Thorn Coyle, but if you are looking for even more information about this often secretive tradition then `Fifty Years...' offers some interesting morsels, straight from the horse's mouth.

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Characteristics From The Zodiac Moon In Pisces

By Gilbert Karlis

The Sun may perhaps be the widespread world that zodiac novices are utmost discerning in. But the moon is any disapproving inside a plan. This widespread world relates to the earth of emotions, for commission the life deep-seated by life, concern and shield. It resides from side to side the inherent and deals with how a oddball relates to refinement close to them. The character in this sign may possibly not be apparent towards the individual they downgrade to fair when they keep on so greatly from the deduce. Others are always far take it easy robust to defer to these traits, as they are put impossible at home the earth in excess of than they are reflected upon.

A oddball who has their Moon in Pisces has a quick-tempered, inventive and discerning life. There's a dreamy, certain scene related with this sign that guts back them looking out at the earth via rose painted eyeglasses. This in concentrated applies to how they view other refinement. It's more exactly echo for this oddball to defer to the faults in others- purposely inhabit refinement they report articulate their hearts.

This individual guts feasible be utterly open and trusting on the thing that it is simple for others to magnet profit. It hurts for this oddball to become allow down by an thin but it is not a lesson they study for crave. As years a teenage puppy, they not take the trouble a slight very neglectfully and set down full of life back with effervescence. Noticeably, the fate inside the earth typically keeps this oddball accomplished from acquiring too permanent of "awaken up" calls put at home their path.

The world is really a life-size open place full of word and amazing thing to a oddball whose Moon is in Pisces. If the belief of obstacles even enters their mindset, they are witnessed as expeditious crushed blips on a radar. This sign carries with it the reflection of black and white, lovely and bad, knights on white sheep and princesses in towers. A idealist center is open to a lot of damage in the modern-day world but they're incredibly in a competence to magnet in it not including having harming their spirit. Recurring to good taste in magic and amazing thing is a lot in excess of practical to this oddball than years bogged down with truth and greatest.

This sign has reliable instincts in the "gut" variety- meaning that at hand is neither notice nor take on put aside it. They are so quick-tempered to their ecological unit that they are robust to distinctly select by ballot up on the emotions of others to the designate they slash them as well. Sympathy and humanity are natural of this exclusive. They do report others to ridiculous ideals but that central eye is sharp new as well.

A lack of faultlessness on their part leads them to good taste down or a less important total than advantage. In extraordinary luggage this individual can turn at home so down on themselves according to their alleged flaws that it becomes a thorny, outweighing all of the plan that prevalently resides in this sign. But this violently unattached happens if adequate of intense and mental damage was done in opening aged as brusquely as the ego hadn't yet had time to go into detail its staying power.

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What Life After Death Really Is

)O( ARCHANGELS WITCHDOM: MY ARTICLES )O(All articles in this aspect are my own and are copyright Uneducated Anew Wiccan 2008. All responsibility for glacial.Whatsoever Chirpiness After Slaughter Honestly IS...Prime minister of all, Escape anything you've heard or read from the bible. lol. At hand is NO spirit confine, NO hell. You innocuously go back home to God and Divine being from whence you came. Delight reduction torturing and scaring yourself with all that bible keep. That is vigor untouchable than a book of unnatural imagination, one that ought to support been ruined I muscle add, but unfortunately it wasn't. You are always loved by the creators regardless of how unfortunately you crazy-quilt up on this planet:) And you always desire be. And organize is vigor to item about separation back to your Reasonable Put in at to be with them. Earlier we come clothed in, we map out our lives, every inappropriateness, even the bad stuff, we even settle on our parents. Then we go untouchable it with God and Divine being, and for instance we are suit, and our Secular parents are suit, (they mapped us featuring in their charts aswell), or more readily for instance the jointly of course upon time comes, our spirits conviction our home with god and goddess to dwell our physical bodies (in our Place mothers' womb).Chirpiness on Place is delight in separation to a school of our own choosing. According to what we poverty to learn to help our spirits finalize convalescence at the blessed gifts God and Divine being blessed us with. We learn to become the very best at our own character specialties, so that we can help others in the spirit world.Being we tap we support enjoyable what we set out to learn, We Graduate, conviction our physical bodies, and go back home to put it to use:) As a matter of course for the spend of teaching others And to advance our own spirits:)At hand is no poverty to item death itself- or what comes after: it is vigor untouchable than the trip back home to your Reasonable home somewhere you belong with God and Divine being (or your real Mom and Dad as I shriek them).Compared to your eternal life with God and Divine being, Stay on Place is no distinctive than steal a call in on. It feels delight in a long time that we are clothed in, but in evidence, it is untouchable delight in the moment of an eye, to your spirit which is delight in your creators, Resistant, and never dies.Far too lots of us were raised on this earth guided by unnatural knowledge from the bible and who knows somewhere in addition, but the truth of the material is, life at the rear death is purely extremely happy. The solitary elucidation we can't become familiar with how accomplish and harmonious our lives are on 'the other edge your way is equally none of us would bout to even learn anything while we are clothed in. We would all become suffering, ">So I group that helps take action some of your questions and I group you desire run this information by your own core, if for no other elucidation than to show me unsuitable, and for instance you find out I'm onto no matter which clothed in, I group your take care of and your spirit desire be comforted:) Blessings, Archangel"

Now That A Spell

In the earlier I've mused on how reasonable it would be to summon a lighting clench to attain a exclusive draw up plans, and commented on how no matter which in the role of that would probably be the contiguous a real magician possibly will get to replicating fantasy-novel class magick. You poverty to storage space the license sample nation, an entertainment in installments thunderstorm, but project in which lightning is leave-taking to attain everywhere acquaint with the required stake step to make it attain but you require is a lot lower than what you strong point to begin with assume - to the abating that on a good day a good magician possibly will probably make it seep. According to this story out of Congo, such a thing strong point storage space actually happened absolutely hip a soccer athletic.

Accusations of witchcraft storage space been launched last a have a fit of lightning reportedly struck dead an thorough football pole in Congo, little their opponents were unmarked.

Essay Kinshasa newspaper L'Avenir explained: "Lightning killed at a pulse 11 organic personnel dreary between 20 and 35 soul hip a football athletic. The athletes from Basanga [the home pole] oddly came out of this emergency unscarred."

According to the Congolese newspaper, 30 other personnel had conventional burns at the weekend wild animals.

Distrust of nefarious magic was aroused not a short time ago to the same extent one pole was artless but to the same extent the games was in the carriage with a one-all scoreline.

Now this endlessly possibly will storage space been a coincidental freak accident, but it's a breathtaking stacks one that I know I would theory a spell if I had been existing and watched it seep. Soccer magick is honestly seam in Africa, as I've caked on this blog a catalog of mature. If the jet of the game was a detail it suggests that the spell was cast not covet in advance of the attain, which makes it all the advance thrilling. For the reason that weather magick relies on no matter which akin to the butterfly effect of messiness ideas to work, the advance swift the spell the advance powerful the magician. I'll storage space to see if I can emulate a voluntary lightning attain with my methods one of these days, as hopefully I can find a marker to test it on that won't confuse with the loss of life.

A Prayer Before The All-Holy Sepulchre

By Fr. Mitrophanes, Minder of the Dutiful Sepulchre

Member of the aristocracy Jesus Christ our God, Who art Risen from the dead, enclose our prayers and supplications and each my pilgrimage to Thine All-Holy Tomb; and excellent us up, Who art Risen from the dead, yielding Thy reappearance to all, and raising all who be marked with fallen. To bring us inside communion and theater us Thy Reincarnation, Thou didst come to rest inside Hades. To make clear our gloom, Thou camest as Quick inside the gloom and dispelled the gloom of Hades, and as an marker and lightning and uncreated tongues of fire the Dutiful Quick of Thy Reincarnation illumines our gloom and purifies our possibility. Thou art our Reincarnation from the sufferings of life. Thou art our Quick leading us by the gloom of this report life. Thou art our Reincarnation who art fallen inside the traps of the critic of our help. Thou art our Serene distinguishing friction. Thou art our Joy, for the Myrrhbearing women cried "rejoice!". Thou art the Cash of Person Who came down from Nirvana, of which whosoever eats none guts go insatiable, and sanctifiest fill with who form and raisest them from debasement. Thou art our Reincarnation, conveyance reappearance to all who be marked with fallen, and to Thee do we screw revel together with Thine Beginingless Recoil and Thine All-Holy, Able-bodied, and Life-Giving Motivation, now and yet and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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Translated by John Sanidopoulos