The Daily Kanga

Come in the night and I shall wait

Seek what lays beyond the sweet gentle Light

Come in the night and I shall wait

Bring them all, one after one

Come in the night and I shall wait

Seek what is within the sweet heart

of those that walk behind you

Come in the night and I shall wait

Forward and yonder, above and below

Come in the night and I shall know

Seek it, and it will be

Twilight lashings from the gentle Moon's rays 

Shines bright upon the foggy dew

Of the land of a long lost past

Memories are what Time did not forget

In any form

They are the only thing, that lasts

Once the physical has done and been

Come in the night and I shall wait

Seek it, seek them, seek us again.

There are often times in our life where we sit waiting wondering what will happen. This is a moment of apathy combined with hope. Hope that perhaps there is something more, that someone will save us. Yet it is not until we get older that we begin to realize there is no one waiting for us. No one is going to help us with our problems and that we are totally and absolutely isolated.

This is what is known as the dark night of the soul and others refer to it as the death before the rebirth. We all enter our cataclysmic state and we all wish things had never been. We may even say I never wished to be born it wasn’t my choice. Was it? How can we liberate ourselves from these dark moments? We have to want to be liberated. If our will laments being happy and finds comfort in its new companion misery how are we ever to displace it from with in ourselves?

To exorcise our apathy, our laziness, our depression, we need more than just a glass is half full attitude. Some of us even feel we need divine intervention. There are too many people out there who have had hard “luck” stories to say that things will get better or worse. We can never imagine anything worse than our current position when we are out of hope. How could there be anything worse when I have already given it all? It is this remorseless sorrow that attracts more negativity to ourselves. The music we listen to, the company we keep all reflects our internal mood. For we are more than what we were raised to be. We are a combination of those we most closely interact with and also the philosophies that we apply to our lives.

How then can I escape this hatred this lamentation? You can’t you need simply surrender to what is and what may be. This does not mean giving up, it means coming to terms with the fact we have no control over any event in our lives. It means we can only subtly influence things. We must do the best we can with what has been given us. Just as the dreamer wakes himself from the Nightmare so too must we become aware of our surroundings and conditions. In awareness we gain insight, insight to ourselves. The more we observe and study our fellow man the more we will see what makes ourselves operate. It takes an incredibly strong individual to walk this path though. To become reborn and leave our comforting wallows means to accept the consequences.

 --Taken from Excommunicate.net   Just a side note, this entry that I have excerpeted here, was created yesterday.

I do evocate and conjure thee, O spirit BAEL; and being with power armed from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by BERALANENSIS, BALDACHIENSIS, PAULMACHIA and APOLOGIAE SEDES; by the most powerful Princes, Genii, Liachidae, and Ministers of the Tartarean abode; and by the Chief Prince of the seat of apologia in the ninth legion I do evoke thee, and by evocating conjure thee.

            And by being armed with power from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by Him who spake and it was done, and unto whom all creatures be obedient. Also, I, being made after the image of God, endued with power from God and created according unto God’s will, do exorcise thee by that most mighty and powerful name of God, El, strong and wonderful, O thou spirit BAEL.

            And I command thee by all the names of God AH-DOH-NYE, EL, EHL-OH-HEEM, EHL-OH-HY, EH-HEH-YEH AH-SHAIR EH-HEH-YEH, TZAH-BAH-OHT,EHL-YONE,YAH,TETRAGRAMMATION, SHA-DYE, Lord God Most high. I do exorcise thee and do powerfully command thee, O thou spirit BAEL, that thou dost forthwith appear unto me here before this circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or tortuosity. And by this ineffable name TETRAGRAMMATON YUD-HEH-VAHV-HEH,  I do command thee, at the which being heard the elements are overthrown, the air is shaken, the sea runneth back, the fire is quenched, the earth trembleth and all the hosts of the celestials, terrestrials and infernals do tremble together and are troubled and confounded.

            Wherefore come thou, O spirit BAEL, forthwith and without delay from any or all parts of the universe wherever thou mayest be and make rational answers unto all things that I shall demand of thee. Come thou peaceably, visibly and affably, now and without delay, manifesting that which I shall desire. For thou art conjured by the name of the living and true GOD, HELIOREN, wherefore fulfill thou my commands and persist thou therein unto the end, and according unto mine interest, visibly and affably speaking unto me with a voice clear and intelligible without any ambiguity.

              ... can be stirred and sometimes fully awakened by any of the following methods:

1. Total concentration and absorption of the mind in its source, brought on by intense study or research, or by absolute introversion; or by some state of mental quiescence, or one-pointed concentration of mental energy on a magical symbol or sigils.
2. Drugs and alcohol: “To worship me take wine and strange drugs where of  I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof.” They shall not harm yet at all.
3. Shock (in the form of intense surprise, grief, ecstasy, etc.); any sudden release of subconscious energy affects the Kundalini.
4. Ecstasy induced by music.
5. Speed, which has a tendency to loosen the astral body and thus make possible a willed influx of cosmic energy. The whirling dance of the Dervishes and the frenzied gyrations of the Voodoo practitioners induce a similar condition of receptivity to cosmic influences; this acts directly upon the Fire Snake.
6. Magically controlled sexual activity of which the Kundalini is the immediate object. This is a dangerous method and demands a high grade of initiation in the practitioner. As the Kularnava Tantra declares: “One reaches heaven by the very things which may lead to Hell.”
7. Absolute Compassion for all created things. This is the Buddhist formula par excellence; it leads to the highest trances and to that Sahaja Samadhi or state of natural and permanent self-realisation, achieved by Advaitins.
8. Aesthetic ecstasy or impersonal rapture induced by the contemplation of supreme artistry.
9. Religious enthusiasm induced by total devotion to the Absolute conceived under the form of a personal deity. The resulting obsession leads to a transcendence of the individuality and taps cosmic energy. The devotee is caught up into the ‘heaven’ of his ‘god’.
10. Violence carried to the pitch of frenzy, either masochistic or the reverse. This unseals primal atavisms, the resurgence of which leads directly to the most ancient (i.e. the original) state of consciousness which, being pure, is cosmic, un-limited.

Mmmm and can anyone tell me who might have wrote this?

Prolly not.

Hint: Name starts with K.

A man may leave his Physical Body not only because he is more or less ill and physically exhausted but also because of either extreme mental or physical pain (or because of both, since physical pain usually causes mental pain). Mrs. Eileen Garrett's out-of-the-body experiences, which began in girlhood, resulted from attempts to avoid mental pain caused by an unsympathetic aunt. The experience of 'Starr Daily', was due to physical, accompained by mental, pain. It would appear that when pain gets beyond endurance there is a tendency for the sufferer to escape it by the simple expedient of quitting his Physical Body.

This early case, one of exteriorization caused by pain, was given in Dr. Kerner's The Seeress of Prevorst:

     Georginus, persecuted for religion, was streched on the rack at Prague. He became insensible to pain and appeared so lifeless that the executioners took him down and flung him on the earth for dead. After the lapse of some hours, however, Georgina returned to consciousness.  Georginus said that, during the torture, he had had a 'dream'. He had been in a 'green and beautiful meadow', where there was a tree with 'a great deal of fine fruit and many birds'. Three men kept watch over it. Kerner said, 'He described these men and it is a remarkable fact that, six years afterwards there men, answering his description, were appointed to rule over the Church.'

This case was given by J. Arthur Hill:

     Mr. Huntley said, 'I had been under a great mental stress. I had not been indulging in psychism, had never attended a seance, nor had I been reading anything that might act as suggestion. 

    'I woke up from sleep to find myself out of the body. I was consciouse in two places (dual consciousness) in a feeble degree in the body in bed, and in a great degree away from the body. I was surrounded by a white opaque light. I felt absolutely happy and secure. 'The whole of my personality lay, "out there", even to the replica of the body. I was not conscious of leaving the body, but woke up out of it. It was not a dream, for the consciousness was in state. Indeed, I thought to myself, "This cannot be a dream," so I willed "out there!" As my spirit-self moved, so the body in bed moved. I was too happy to shorten the experience by moving further. It was very vivid. I am sure that had a feeble thread (the silver chord) between soul and body been severed, I should have remained intact. The grosser Physical Body is sloughed off for a finer one...'

    We must never forget how limited our knowledge must always be, and in what unexpected ways it is likely to develop. If our human civilization endures, the physics of the future a few centuries hence could well be as different from the physics of today, as the latter is different from the physics of Aristotle. The greatly extended range of knowledge to which we shall have access by then will perhaps enable us to incorporate in a general synthesis, in which each will have its own place, the whole body of physical and biological phenomena. If human thought, which by that time may have had its powers extended by some biological mutation, can one day rise to those heights, it will then perceive in its true perspective, something of which, no doubt, we have no idea at present, namely, the unity of the phenomena which we distinguish with the help of adjectives such as 'physico-chemical', 'biological' or even 'psychic'.

---  The above is an observation by Louis de Brogile of the occult significance of androgynous emblems such as Zeus Arrhenotholus, Bacchus Diphues and Baphomet, as it bears a direct relation to the newly evolved psychosomatic structures which we see emerging in humanity today.

Unless one be asked, one must not explain to anybody, nor must he answer a person who ask improperly; let the wise man, though he knows the answer, behave among men as if  he were an idiot.

---- Laws of Manu, II IIO

It is extraordinary how the formula of Hermes Trismegistus holds throughout; Magick is the but the extension of the microcosm in the macrocosm.  And as the macrocosm is the greater, it follows that what one does by magick is to attune oneself with the Infinite. 'In myself I am nothing: in Thee I am All-self. Dwell Thou in me! and bring me to that Self which is in Thee!' consludes the great prayer of the Rosicrucians.

This, however, explains why those who meddle with magick out of curiosity, or who try treacheries on magicians, find themselves in trouble.

The Magician is an expression of the Will of the Universe: the meddlers rebel, and suffer. To oppose a true Magician is as silly as to put your hand on a circular saw in motion. But the handless blames the saw.

I know of one modern Master who has been often attacked.  In every case the attacker has come to absolute ruin.  One woman came to him, a woman old and sly, and wormed herself into his confidence.  He knew her for an enemy, and trusted her absolutely. He left her his chequebook duly signed, and she embezzled his money.  He left his wife in her care, and she tried to corrupt her.  By and by, it became obvious to the woman that the Master knew everything. He only smiled, and continued to trust her. So, she went down with meningitis, and there was an end of her.

In such a case the only mistake the magician can make is to defend himself in the normal manner. He leaves his castle; he will be slain. You must not go onto the enemy's ground. Perfect love, perfect faith, perfect trust, and you are unassailable. But use the weapons of the flesh and you are lost.

"Fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure. Be thou therefore without fear, for in the heart of the coward virture abideth not" --Neophyte initation ritual of the G.D.

   On the threshold of masterhood, one loses one's Ego forever. Thenceforth, the man exists only as a vehicle for an Impersonal Master; he lives his own life, and does his own duty, but the Master in him doesn't care what happens to him. Which can be seen in the example below:   

The other day a young lady came to consult me. I gave her about a thousand dollars' worth of information. She asked me what I was going to charge. I said: "Nothing; regard me as a bank account on which you can always draw." She said: "But you must eat!" I answered: "I do not see the necessity."

   Another important attainment is that of the traveling in the 'astral body.'  This, too, I practiced hard. I was able in time to make my presence known to a person at a distance, by sort of instinct. Soon, I got it so that I could be both seen and heard. I have not yet been able to impress inanimate objects, for I gave up this class of work as not essential to the Great Work. For instance, when I was in Honolulu I had a long talk with a girl in Hong Kong. I described the town, and her house and room, with accuracy, in great detail. She, too, saw me and wrote down my remakrs correctly. But I failed to knock a vase off the  mantle, as I wished.

The point is this: To 'get into the astral body', really means to allow the consciousness to rest in a vehicle of fine matter, and, detaching that from the gross body, to move about. But, this has it's drawbacks. One is no longer at all on the material plane, but on the astral plane, and one must not expect to see material things. This is the blunder made by 'physical clairvoyants' and the cause of their constant errors! No; for physical clairvoyance, or for action at a distance, somewhere on the astral, one must pick up ready material as a basis for a sort of 'incarnation.' Thus the girl I speak of had burnt incense specially to give me a body visible and tangible and audible. But, incense is not strong enough to make a body mechanically solid. It becomes sensible to the eye and ear of a living person, as cloud is, but not strong enough to resist pressure.

---Excerpt of Aleister Crowley's  The Revival of Magick