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PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path The Magical Diary Sometimes it is helpful to keep a diary of your magical experiments and research. Such a diary should include the date, perhaps even some astrological data (or anything else you think may have a relationship to what you are doing). This is also a good time to begin recording your dreams - at least the important ones - in a dream diary. Your dreams can tell you a great deal about yourself, and may sometimes reveal premonitions. Dreams are personal. Don't fall for the commercial 'dream book' gimmick. Affirmations The mind is always open to suggestion - especially the subconscious. Most of the time we censor any suggestions according to the model; but one way to break through the censor is with repetition. An affirmation does this exactly. By suggestion, we mean any statement which is capable of affecting your model. Usually suggestion is in the form of a positive statement (such as the hypnotist's patter - " You are becoming sleepy"). An affirmation is the same kind of thing - a positive suggestion, which you repeat (affirm) to yourself aloud or silently (for example, "I remember my dreams"). If there is some quality you wish to change or develop within yourself, an affirmation is ideal. Repeat it several times every day at several different times throughout the day, especially when you go to bed. Affirmations are subtle and may require a few months to work. Use them for changes, not miracles. Simple Banishing Technique Visualization is another important method we use to influence the subconscious. A good example of this is the simple banishing technique which follows. Banishing is used in magick to 'clear the air' of negative 'vibes' and interference... Visualize a strong white light flowing out the top of your head, flowing down around you and covering you. At the same time imagine you are throwing away any 'problem' vibes. Maintain the visualization for a half a minute or longer. Good way to help you handle your emotions, and to control worry or anger. Review Questions What is a microcosm? List the four worlds. Explain. What is an affirmation? Give an example. Book List Geoffry Hodson, Theosophy Answers Some Problems of Life. Marc Edmund Jones, Key Truths of Occult Philosophy. Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic. Nelson & Ann White, The Wizard's Apprentice. Beatrice Bruteau, The Psychic Grid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Hansford, 4/88 Mysteria (818) 353-8891 (modem) PO Box 83 Tujunga, CA 91042 Copyright (c) 1988 by Phil Hansford. This article is licenced for free non-commercial distribution only. http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules....ame=News&file=index&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1 (188 of 284) [12/25/2005 12:22:22 AM]

PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path (23 Reads) comments? General information: The Celts and Saxons: A Barbarian Conspiracy Posted by: Nyxks on Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 01:54 PM Author: Gjoll Hobkynsson Many people in Western society are familiar with the legends of king Arthur and the quest for the grail. To the Christian and Pagan peoples alike he is claimed as an icon of spiritual values. There are many opinions about his origins and the academic debate will continue for as long as there are academics to debate the ins and outs of Arthurian lore. Historical records are unfortunately not very detailed in their description of this semi-mythological warlord and theories are circulating as to who it may have been in Welsh genealogical records. Whatever the truth about king Arthur, it is difficult not to be impressed by this Celtic legend that has been incorporated into a Christian myth by Normans wanting to support any culture beside their enemies the Saxons. The Normans successfully invaded England in 1066 C.E. They were keen to undermine the Anglo-Saxon culture of the previous rulers. The Normans took the Arthurian legends to France where they were also popular among the Bretons. Brittany in Northwest France is a province taken back over by Welsh invaders and is a rare example of invading Celtic armies against the westward flow of European population pressure. The Arthurian legends are popular among the modern Druidic orders especially the Welsh and Cornish. They are Nationalistic and see king Arthur as a saviour of the Brythonic people. It has even been suggested that Arthur is a sleeping lord who is waiting to be woken by the sound of supernatural horn. Upon waking from his long sleep Arthur ride with his knights to rid Britain of the Saxon invaders. Some say Arthur resides in the fairy otherworld where he is healing his wounds. As such he nearly becomes like an avatar and there are even some people who claim to be Arthur reincarnated. Merlin is a popular role model for modern Druids as well. But both Merlin and Morgan le Fay have been borrowed without asking by modern Wicca. Celtic Wicca is an entirely modern invention, the religion of the Celts was Druidic. Wicca is an Anglo-Saxon word. Although there were wise women and female druids, they were not called Wiccans. Gawain the green knight, Lancelot, Queen Gwenhyfar and other characters are often related to other Celtic mythological archetypes that offer interesting glimpses into what Celtic religion could have been like before the influence and persecution from Christianity. Now all of this is a lot of fun unless you happen to be a Saxon. It seems that the Angles, Saxons and Jutes are viewed in this mythology as a plague. They were barbarian raiders, uncultured and outside the Roman Empire and Romano-British civilization. A fair and just king named Arthur will rise again and wipe out the Saxon plague. So what does this mean exactly? If king Arthur reincarnates and starts relocating the Saxons then where are they going to go? Their original tribe-land has been taken over by other peoples. Lets say we allow the fair and just king to commit a single case of genocide and all the Saxons are destroyed in England. (Hey didn't we just have a war err police action in Eastern Europe to stop this sort of thing?) This does not mean they will have their country back. Having wiped out the Saxons is Arthur going to also kick out those who are of African or Asian descent? It's no fun being on the losing side. True the people of lower Germany including the Anglo, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians did move into land occupied by Romans in Britain, but this was 1,500 years ago. Surely they would have naturalised by now. True the English have dominated and oppressed their Celtic neighbours but this is a different group of people than the barbarian Saxons. Modern, white English people are a mixture of European bloodstock. The Danes, Normans, French and Germans have all migrated there at some time. The Celts followed exactly the same path when they migrated to the British Isles from Gaul, Western Germany and Spain. Irish mythology tells how the Celtic Milesians invaded Ireland from Spain, subjugating the Fir Bolg natives and previous invaders the Tuatha de Danann. The Tuatha de Danann are a semi-mythological race, who are often associated with the elves and the otherworld now. Fir Bolg is used to collectively describe three races: the Fir Bolg, the Fir Dhomhnann and the Gailion. This has been related to the Belgae, Dumnonii and the Gauls suggesting that Gallic Celts had settled from the continent possibly even passing through Southern Britain as those Celtic tribes were also recorded in Cornwall, http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules....ame=News&file=index&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1 (189 of 284) [12/25/2005 12:22:22 AM]

PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path<br />

The Magical Diary<br />

Sometimes it is helpful to keep a diary of your magical experiments and research. Such a diary should<br />

include the date, perhaps even some astrological data (or anything else you think may have a relationship<br />

to what you are doing). This is also a good time to begin recording your dreams - at least the important<br />

ones - in a dream diary. Your dreams can tell you a great deal about yourself, and may sometimes reveal<br />

premonitions. Dreams are personal. Don't fall for the commercial 'dream book' gimmick.<br />

Affirmations<br />

The mind is always open to suggestion - especially the subconscious. Most of the time we censor any<br />

suggestions according to the model; but one way to break through the censor is with repetition. An<br />

affirmation does this exactly. By suggestion, we mean any statement which is capable of affecting your<br />

model. Usually suggestion is in the form of a positive statement (such as the hypnotist's patter - " You are<br />

becoming sleepy"). An affirmation is the same kind of thing - a positive suggestion, which you repeat<br />

(affirm) to yourself aloud or silently (for example, "I remember my dreams"). If there is some quality you<br />

wish to change or develop within yourself, an affirmation is ideal. Repeat it several times every day at<br />

several different times throughout the day, especially when you go to bed. Affirmations are subtle and<br />

may require a few months to work. Use them for changes, not miracles.<br />

Simple Banishing Technique<br />

Visualization is another important method we use to influence the subconscious. A good example of this<br />

is the simple banishing technique which follows. Banishing is used in magick to 'clear the air' of negative<br />

'vibes' and interference...<br />

Visualize a strong white light flowing out the top of your head, flowing down around you and covering<br />

you. At the same time imagine you are throwing away any 'problem' vibes. Maintain the visualization for<br />

a half a minute or longer. Good way to help you handle your emotions, and to control worry or anger.<br />

Review Questions<br />

What is a microcosm?<br />

List the four worlds. Explain.<br />

What is an affirmation? Give an example.<br />

Book List<br />

Geoffry Hodson, Theosophy Answers Some Problems of Life.<br />

Marc Edmund Jones, Key Truths of Occult Philosophy.<br />

Marion Weinstein, Positive Magic.<br />

Nelson & Ann White, The Wizard's Apprentice.<br />

Beatrice Bruteau, The Psychic Grid.<br />

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />

Phil Hansford, 4/88<br />

Mysteria<br />

(818) 353-8891 (modem)<br />

PO Box 83<br />

Tujunga, CA 91042<br />

Copyright (c) 1988 by Phil Hansford. This article is licenced for free non-commercial distribution only.<br />

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