#Enochian cosmology

[blueheartbookclub]

"Enigmatic Wisdom Unveiled: A Journey into The Book of Enoch"

Prepare to embark on a mesmerizing odyssey through the celestial realms of ancient wisdom with "The Book of Enoch," skillfully translated by R. H. Charles. This timeless masterpiece, attributed to the biblical figure Enoch, transcends the boundaries of conventional literature, offering readers a profound glimpse into a mystical world where divine secrets unfold.

Charles's translation breathes life into the intricate narrative, guiding readers through Enoch's visionary experiences, angelic encounters, and cosmic revelations. As the pages turn, a rich tapestry of apocalyptic visions, divine judgment, and celestial mysteries unravels, capturing the essence of an ancient wisdom tradition.

The Book of Enoch, though not part of the canonical Bible, proves to be an invaluable source for understanding the spiritual landscape of its time. The text seamlessly weaves together elements of cosmology, morality, and the supernatural, creating a tapestry of thought that has captivated readers for centuries.

Charles's meticulous translation preserves the authenticity of Enoch's revelations, allowing modern readers to delve into the profound teachings that have inspired scholars, mystics, and seekers throughout history. The text grapples with themes of cosmic order, fallen angels, and the ultimate fate of humanity, offering a unique perspective on the age-old questions that continue to intrigue and perplex.

The Book of Enoch serves as a bridge between the earthly and the divine, inviting readers to contemplate the mysteries of existence and the intricate interplay between the seen and the unseen. Charles's translation, with its poetic cadence and scholarly precision, makes this ancient text accessible to contemporary readers, ensuring that the wisdom contained within continues to resonate across the ages.

In a world often dominated by the mundane, "The Book of Enoch" stands as a beacon of transcendent insight, beckoning readers to explore the boundaries of human understanding and connect with the profound truths that transcend time and tradition. This translation, with its evocative language and scholarly merit, is a key to unlocking the doors of ancient knowledge and wisdom, inviting all who dare to embark on a transformative journey through the sacred corridors of Enoch's revelations.

"The Book of Enoch," skillfully translated by R. H. Charles is available in Amazon in paperback 12.99$ and hardcover 20.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 210

Language: English

Rating: 10/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

[blueheartbooks]

"Enigmatic Wisdom Unveiled: A Journey into The Book of Enoch"

Prepare to embark on a mesmerizing odyssey through the celestial realms of ancient wisdom with "The Book of Enoch," skillfully translated by R. H. Charles. This timeless masterpiece, attributed to the biblical figure Enoch, transcends the boundaries of conventional literature, offering readers a profound glimpse into a mystical world where divine secrets unfold.

Charles's translation breathes life into the intricate narrative, guiding readers through Enoch's visionary experiences, angelic encounters, and cosmic revelations. As the pages turn, a rich tapestry of apocalyptic visions, divine judgment, and celestial mysteries unravels, capturing the essence of an ancient wisdom tradition.

The Book of Enoch, though not part of the canonical Bible, proves to be an invaluable source for understanding the spiritual landscape of its time. The text seamlessly weaves together elements of cosmology, morality, and the supernatural, creating a tapestry of thought that has captivated readers for centuries.

Charles's meticulous translation preserves the authenticity of Enoch's revelations, allowing modern readers to delve into the profound teachings that have inspired scholars, mystics, and seekers throughout history. The text grapples with themes of cosmic order, fallen angels, and the ultimate fate of humanity, offering a unique perspective on the age-old questions that continue to intrigue and perplex.

The Book of Enoch serves as a bridge between the earthly and the divine, inviting readers to contemplate the mysteries of existence and the intricate interplay between the seen and the unseen. Charles's translation, with its poetic cadence and scholarly precision, makes this ancient text accessible to contemporary readers, ensuring that the wisdom contained within continues to resonate across the ages.

In a world often dominated by the mundane, "The Book of Enoch" stands as a beacon of transcendent insight, beckoning readers to explore the boundaries of human understanding and connect with the profound truths that transcend time and tradition. This translation, with its evocative language and scholarly merit, is a key to unlocking the doors of ancient knowledge and wisdom, inviting all who dare to embark on a transformative journey through the sacred corridors of Enoch's revelations.

"The Book of Enoch," skillfully translated by R. H. Charles is available in Amazon in paperback 12.99$ and hardcover 20.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 210

Language: English

Rating: 10/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

[trippiemagic]

Hello, I was raised Russian Orthodox but always questioned my faith, I started studying Folk Catholicism and think it might be for me; But I'm just a little confused on the belief system... I think your blog is really cool and was wondering if you could shed some light on my questions.... Thank you!!! <3

Hello!!! I have to start that I am so honored you reached out to me! <3

Unfortunately, I don't have a definitive answer for your question; folk catholicism is often traditional catholicism redesigned to meet the needs of the individual or family "practicing" it! In my experience, many folk religions are kind of built in that way. For example, I was raised Evangelical-Protestant, so my view of the cosmology heavily relies on a protestant foundation, with some catholic (and Enochian) twists.

The most common, general things (and please y'all, correct me if I'm wrong) are a belief in G-d, Jesus, and Mary, and working with Saints. Ancestor veneration also goes extremely well with folk catholicism and is common in many cultural folk practices!

If you want, go ahead and DM me and I would LOVE to go through my personal cosmology/beliefs with you!

[jimi-rawlings]

DEZI Theistic Satanism

Left Handed Path

Urban shamanism distinguishes traditional shamanism found in indigenous societies from Western adaptations that draw on contemporary and modern roots. Urban shamanism is practiced primarily by people who do not originate in a traditional indigenous society and who create unique methods that do not follow or claim authenticity in any prior tradition. Urban shamanism traces its beginnings to efforts by Westerners to come to terms with psychoactive plant experiences using their own modern frames of cultural reference influenced by, but outside of, the indigenous rites in which plant medicine is traditionally based. Surautomatism is any theory or act in practice of surrealist creative production taking, or purporting to take, automatism to its most absurd limits. Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. An acid house party was a type of illegal party typically staged in an Art Gallery After Party between 1987 and 1989. Opium dens were typically dark, hidden, underground spaces or an Art Gallery After Party. Dazecore is an aesthetic inspired by sleepless nights and the buzz of late night/early morning thoughts. It is very closely linked to Urbancore, Geek, and Dark Minimalism, heavily influenced by artists working in the early hours of the morning and students staying up late at night working on papers. Urbancore is an aesthetic based on imagery of urban cities and street life. Urbancore is associated to real-life, modern-day society and almost always is based in recent decades. As it is a really broad aesthetic, it can revolve around city streets and architecture, graffiti, skate parks at night, urban fashion and picnics.

Invocation Occult

Syncretism with Rosier

Count as Noble Title

9th Prince of Hell

Arbiter Choir 

St. Matthieu Classification 

Sylphs

Cardinal-Mutable Lightning Air Sagittarius 

Jupiter Astral Body Heavenly Intelligence 

Enochian Magick 

DEZI Effect as a Mural Crown Invocation Sin (Invocation, Oversoul, Lightning Demigod Wing Exchange, Planetary Intelligence Natal Charts, Jupiter Evening Star Invocation, Apocalypse Text, Enochian Magick, Sensory Play, St. Matthieu Classification, Spiritual Catalyst, Cul-de-sac Drug-Crime Nexus, Solvent Levelling Effect Chemical Reaction Engineering, Habitants Monopoly, Larousse Gastronomy, Fragrance Wheel, Refus Global, Blue Ocean Strategy Series, Drug Sorcery, Reckless Abandonment, and Impulsive Borderline)

Lesser Satans (Grigori)

Sin City Angel

Mischievous over Malevolent

Fallen Angel who tempts Sin 

Incubus

War Responsibility

Underworld Fleur-de-lys: Dualism in cosmology or dualistic cosmology is the moral or spiritual belief that two fundamental concepts exist, which often oppose each other. It is an umbrella term that covers a diversity of views from various religions, including both traditional religions and scriptural religions. Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement or conflict between the benevolent and the malevolent.

It is difficult to find real women represented in sources characterized as 'Gnostic.' The few that are mentioned are portrayed to be chaotic, disobedient, and even enigmatic.[70] However, significant Gnostic texts like the Nag Hammadi place women in roles of leadership and heroism, contradicting the narrative that women in Gnostic spaces were mere victims to their circumstance.[70][71][72] The role women played in the evolution of Gnosticism is an area of study still being explored.

The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics ("matter"). A pneumatic saw themselves as escaping the doom of the material world via the transcendent knowledge of Sophia's Divine Spark within the soul. In Gnosticism, the divine spark is the portion of God that resides within each human being.

Carl Jung approached Gnosticism from a psychological perspective, which was followed by Gilles Quispel. According to this approach, Gnosticism is a map for the human development in which an undivided person, centered on the Self, develops out of the fragmentary personhood of young age. According to Quispel, gnosis is a third force in western culture, alongside faith and reason, which offers an experiential awareness of this Self.

Raguel and Sachiel are adversaries 

DEZI

[aioleis]

koʊroʊnzoʊn

"When you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you" --Friedrich Nietzsche The name of the Dweller in the Abyss is koʊroʊnzoʊn, but he is not really an individual. The Abyss is empty of being; it is filled with all possible forms, each equally inane, each therefore evil in the only true sense of the word—that is, meaningless but malignant, in so far as it craves to become real.

These forms swirl senselessly into haphazard heaps like dust devils, and each such chance aggregation asserts itself to be an individual and shrieks, "I am I!" though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust devil, brings it in showers of sand to the earth. Listen:

Infinity Symbol (666) by Aphrodite's Child

koʊroʊnzoʊn (/Choronzon/) is a demon or devil that originated within writing with the 16th century occultists Edward Kelley and John Dee within the latter's occult system of Enochian magic.

In the 20th century, this spiritual dark entity became an important element within the mystical system of Thelema, founded by notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, where he is the Dweller in the Abyss, believed to be the last great obstacle between the adept and enlightenment.

koʊroʊnzoʊn is described as changing shape, which is read variously as an account of an actual metamorphosis, a subjective impression of Neuburg's, or fabrication on Crowley's part.

Thelemites believe that if he is met with proper preparation, then his function is to destroy the ego, which allows the adept to move beyond the Abyss of occult cosmology.

'naked savage', forcing him to drive it back at the point of a dagger.

"Mass of koʊroʊnzoʊn" is a ritual with the purpose of casting the energy of one's ego into the universe to effectuate an unknown desire.

deluded search for a false Holy Guardian Angel, or anything which the magician would mistake for his own profound genius itself.

Yet, koʊroʊnzoʊn might merely be the whisperings of obsession borne from a misguided quest for a spurious Holy Guardian Angel, or any phantom mistaken by the magician as the echoing grandeur of his own hidden genius.

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koʊroʊnzoʊn lurks in the Abyss, he is Lord of shadows and darkness. He helps you look deep into the dark parts of your personality and mind to free yourself from your past. In many paths his function is to destroy the ego, which allows the Magician to move beyond the abyss of occult cosmology. In truth we do not cross the abyss once but many times in life, whenever we under take serious shadow work and self-reflection, or go through an initiation or rite of passage. It's the rich and powerful cycle of spiritual death and rebirth.

Each time we cross we integrate more of our shadow, as we cyclically uncover profound truths and revelations as we reflect in the dark mirror of our soul. Here koʊroʊnzoʊn waits for us, to guide us through the Shadow Lands.

The abyss can be a scary place, it is meant to be.

"Everything is superfluous and resplendent. The filthy iridescent puddles of diesel, the wreckage plagued by rust, the desperate vegetation crawling with parasites in the cracks of the concrete."

Here the shadow lie we don't want to face but know we must to evolve. A Magician has to make this inner journey through their lives to be at their full potential. There is no turning back. This Powerful attunement calls on the practitioner to remove their ego and gaze at themselves without flinching to explore their own dark side. koʊroʊnzoʊn will work with you to fully merge with your shadow self and be able to explore your memories and emotions and transmute negative feelings into positive energies to absorb that will increase your personal power in the present. Work with him to destroy your ego, let yourself flow as a Magician. Experience the power of death and rebirth. For confronting your inner demons, with koʊroʊnzoʊn at your side, learn to accept them and forgive them and use their energies to make you stronger as he helps you heal your past wounds. As master of the abyss, koʊroʊnzoʊn is Lord of the Shadow realms. He will work with your shadow to integrate it back yourself and turns the shadows cruel whispers into positive reflections.

[zenosanalytic]

I haven't read the books but I HAVE watched the HBO series, and I can say that the series' cosmology(god being usurped by a human who became an angel and took on the name Metatron, then enforced a tyranny on all of reality) is a fusion of Jewish Enochian apocrypha and Gnosticism(specifically: Metatron in HDM is a fusion of the Enochian Metatron and Gnostic Yaldaboath).

VERY Bscl: Enoch's a character in the bible whose fate can be interpreted as being translated into heaven while still alive. Jews who took this reading developed a mythology around him being the "Most Holy" person ever, eventually becoming an angel due to his holiness, and then coming to out-rank all the OTHER angels by becoming "The Voice of God", Metatron, again due to his holiness. Eventually this belief got extreme enough that Jewish religious authorities even started pushing back against it as verging on heresy(it's been awhile since I watched it but I THINK This Is Dr. Justin Sledge's Video On Enoch/Metatron? It's a really interesting topic!).

But Anyway, tl;dr: Christianity grew out of the same esoteric(and syncretistic) Jewish traditions as Enochianism was an older example of, so I just assumed he was swapping one Jewish esoteric strain for another as the foundation of The Church in Lyra's World. Completely writing Jewish ppl out of existence is still a Bad Look tho(and like: are there ANY Jewish analogues on ANY of the other worlds? I can't remember seeing any in the series. Obvsl there are Jews in Will's world since that's OUR world, but we never meet any. Also-Also can I just say: Hilarious that, with all that's different, Texas is just THERE, somehow XD).

Something occurred to me about the HDM universe... I'm not sure Jesus exists? The Magisterium is obviously meant to be Christianity. They're clearly an Abrahamic religion, and the language they use is Christian-inflected rather than Jewish or Muslim (priest, church, Inquisition), but now that I think of it, I don't think they ever use the word Christian. I also don't think they ever mention Jesus. The whole point of Jesus was that he died to forgive people of their sins, right? You wouldn't think you'd need to cut children's souls out to clear them of original sin in that case, or they'd at least mention why accepting him isn't sufficient. While I am not up on my Bible verses, I don't remember anyone referencing anything past the Old Testament either.

So is the Magisterium somehow an evolution of the medieval church without the whole Jesus thing? And that leads me to my next question, what's going on with Judaism?

[normal-horoscopes]

How do you view beings such as Choronzon or the Guardian of the Threshold? Entities that serve as obstacles on the magician's path? Should I consider them simple metaphors for my own ego or something else/more?

I think it depends on the cosmology you're working with. An Enochian will interact with the idea differently than a thelemite.

Personally I feel that Phenomena is phenomena, and I think you have to look at a concept like Choronzon from as many different lenses as possible, as extension of the ego, as foreign intelligence, as hallucination, and everything else in between.

[triste-le-roy]

"Study the various maps of consciousness created by Mag!cians [magicians / magickians] who have in times past made careful study of the interior domain and left us with charts of human conscious states - often personified by various, gods, devils, demons, angels and symbolic beings - that show increasingly more subtle detail.

Familiarise yourself with the basic shamanic three worlds model, the four-quarter elemental model (which shows up everywhere – from the four archangels and the four evangelists in the Bible, to the Four Worlds of Qabalah, the Four Quadrants and the Transactional Analysis personality grid), the various 8-stage models of Buddhist consciousness (which are even more finely-grained upon closer inspection), Timothy Leary’s “Circuits”, Spiral Dynamics and Chaos. Study the ten spheres of the Qabalistic Tree of Life (this can become the work of a lifetime but it’s well worth it), the 30 Aethyrs of the Enochian system, the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching divination system, the 78 cards of the Tarot deck etc.

Cultivate a working knowledge of the many gods, demons and angels of the world’s religious and mythic traditions. Read up on the various forms of Mag!c practised by shamans, witches and sorcerers over the centuries and even millennia; Australian Aboriginal dreamtime ideas, Hindu cosmology, pre-Buddhist Bon Po sorcery, Gnosticism, Wicca, Enochian Angelic Mag!c, Goetia, Voudon, Crowley’s Thelema, Spare’s Zos Kia, Satanism and the dark side Typhonian schools, the Chaos curent of Carroll, Sherwin, Hine. You must be willing to absorb and synthesize of all this contradictory information into your own personal prismatic worldview.

Subscribe to New Scientist or Scientific American and maintain a good working knowledge of cutting edge developments in science. String theory, multiverse theory; all the frontier disciplines are fertile ground for Mag!cal metaphors, speculation and practise." —Grant Morrison, Xanaduum, "Beyond the Word and the Fool Part 3" (2022)

[reikikabbalah]

Kabbalah Ultimate Guide: Key to Your Inner Power (2021)

Kabbalah (also called Kabalah, Cabala, Qabala) is a Jewish tradition that deals with the essence of God. It is frequently translated as "mysticism" or "occult knowledge." Kabbalists believe that God works in mysterious ways, whether it's through a sacred text, an experience, or the way things work. Kabbalists, on the other hand, believe that actual knowledge and understanding of that inner, unfathomable process is possible, and that this knowledge can lead to the deepest connection with God.

The Zohar, a compilation of written, mystical interpretations on the Torah, is regarded as Kabbalah's foundation. The Zohar, written in ancient Aramaic and medieval Hebrew, is meant to lead Kabbalists on their spiritual path, assisting them in achieving greater degrees of communion with God.Kabbalistic philosophy is frequently regarded as Jewish mysticism. Its adherents prefer to see the Creator and Creation as a unified whole rather than separate entities, and they yearn for closeness to God. Because of the tremendous mystical sense of connection that Kabbalists believe exists between God and humans, this longing is extremely strong. Every person's soul has a hidden part of God that is waiting to be unveiled. Even mystics who hesitate to express such a strong merger of God and man find divinity pervading all of Creation, blurring the lines between God and the universe. Moses Cordovero, a Kabbalist, writes: “The essence of divin­ity can be discovered in everything, and nothing exists save It....It exists in each existent.”

History of Kabalah:

Throughout history, historians of Judaism have identified numerous schools of Jewish esotericism, each with its own set of interests and ideas. The Kabbalah as it was known in the 12th and subsequent centuries. To avoid the pitfalls inherent in mystical experiences, Kabbalah has traditionally been primarily an oral tradition in which entrance into its teachings and rituals is conducted by a personal tutor. Insofar as it claims secret knowledge of the unwritten Torah (divine revelation) that was transmitted by God to Moses and Adam, esoteric Kabbalah is also "tradition." Though the Torah remained the central foundation of Judaism, Kabbalah provided a means of directly addressing God. It therefore provided Judaism a theological dimension, while some saw its mystical approaches to God as dangerously pantheistic and heretical.The origins of Kabbala can be traced back to Merkava mysticism. The euphoric and mystical contemplation of the heavenly throne, or "chariot" (merkava), seen in a vision by Ezekiel, the prophet, began to grow in Palestine in the first century CE (Ezekiel 1). SeferYetzira ("Book of Creation"), the first known Jewish treatise on magic and cosmology, was written between the third and sixth centuries. It presented creation as a process involving God the Creator's 10 divine numbers (sefirot; see sefira) and the Hebrew alphabet's 22 letters. They were claimed to make up the "32 paths of secret wisdom" when taken together.

The 12th-century Sefer ha-bahir (“Book of Brightness”), a significant tract of early Kabbala, had a deep and enduring influence on the development of Jewish esoteric mysticism and on Judaism in general. The Bahir not only understood the sefirot as playing a role in the creation and maintenance of the universe, but he also incorporated concepts like soul transmigration (gilgul) into Judaism and strengthened the foundations of Kabbala by giving it with a rich mystical symbolism.The Sefer ha-temuna (“Book of the Image”), published in Spain in the following century, established the concept of cosmic cycles, each of which provides a divine attribute-based interpretation of the Torah. As a result, Judaism was portrayed as a religion with changing truths, with a different Torah for each cycle, or eon. Spain also produced the legendary Sefer ha-zohar ("Book of Splendour"), a book with a sanctity rivaling that of the Torah itself in some places. It included mystical theories on evil, salvation, and the soul, as well as the mystery of creation and the roles of the sefirot. After their exile from Spain in 1492, Jews were more interested than ever in messianic expectations and eschatology, and Kabbala gained widespread acceptance.

Lurianic Kabbala also had a considerable impact on the ideas of modern asidism, a social and theological movement that emerged in the 18th century and continues to thrive in small but substantial Jewish communities today.By the mid-16th century, Safed, Galilee, had established itself as the undisputed center of Kabbala, and it was here that one of the greatest of all Kabbalists, Isaac ben Solomon Luria, spent the last years of his life. Luria's influence was only equaled by that of the Sefer ha-zohar, according to Gershom Gerhard Scholem, a modern Jewish Kabbala scholar.The “withdrawal” (tzimtzum) of divine light, so creating primordial space; the sinking of illuminating particles into matter (qellipot: “shells”); and a “cosmic restoration” (tiqqun) that the Jew achieves via an intensive mystical life and unrelenting combat against evil. Shabbetaianism, a 17th-century Jewish messianic movement, was justified using Lurianic Kabbalism as justification.

The name "Kabbalah" technically refers to literature that first appeared in medieval Spain and southern France in the 13th century. However, outside of academics, the name "Kabbalah" is used to refer to all types of Jewish esotericism.Kabbalah was a popular and widely practiced esoteric knowledge tradition until the start of the modern period, however there were restrictions on the age and relative piety of initiates. It included ancient Talmudic investigations of biblical subjects, stories of ecstatic descents to God's throne, massive creation myths, tremendous messianic zeal, and forms of pietistic ritual and practice that gave rise to groups that still affect Judaism today.Following the haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, many Jews saw the Kabbalah as at best an embarrassing relic of a more credulous era, and it fell into contempt among Europe's increasingly secular Jews. The Kabbalah, on the other hand, has recently witnessed a huge renaissance, with widespread secular and religious interest in it and certain schools reaching out to non-Jews in unprecedented ways.

Difference between Kabbalah vs Hermetic Qabalah?

Now lets see what is Hermetic Qabalah it is a type of Kabalah Hermetic Qabalah is a Western esoteric tradition incorporating mysticism and the occult (from Hebrew (qabalah)'reception, accounting'). The essence of divinity is a key preoccupation of Hermetic Qabalah, whose idea differs significantly from that of monotheistic religions; in particular, there is no rigid division between god and humanity as observed in monotheisms. The Neoplatonic belief that the manifest cosmos, of which material creation is a part, arose as a sequence of emanations from the godhead is held by Hermetic Qabalah.It is the ideology and framework that underpins magical organizations like the Golden Dawn, The lemic orders, and mystical-religious societies like the Builders of the Adytum and the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, as well as the Neopagan, Wiccan, and New Age movements. The Hermetic Qabalah is the foundation for left-hand path orders like the Typhonian Order to study Qliphothic Qabalah. In the European Renaissance, Hermetic Qabalah evolved alongside and merged with Christian Cabalistic participation, evolving into Esoteric Christian, non-Christian, or anti-Christian schools in the contemporary age. It is influenced by a variety of sources, including Jewish Kabbalah, Western astrology, Alchemy, Pagan religions, particularly Egyptian and Greco-Roman (from which the term "Hermetic" is derived), neoplatonism, gnosticism, John Dee and Edward Kelley's Enochian system of angelic magic, hermeticism, tantra, and tarot symbolism. Although Hermetic Qabalah differs from Jewish Kabbalah in that it is a more openly syncretic system, but it shares many concepts with Jewish Kabbalah.The Neo-Platonic, Sufi, Hermetic, and Christian Mystical Sources have enhanced the main system, which is known as the Hermetic Qabalah. Qablah is more than just a collection of facts. It's a technique for teaching the mind to think practically and in relational terms. Aspirants can use this technique to awaken their awareness and solve the ultimate questions about nature, God, the Universe, and man's soul.In the European Renaissance, Hermetic Qabalah evolved alongside and merged with Christian Cabalistic participation, becoming variously Esoteric Christian, non-Christian, or anti-Christian across its various schools in the modern day. It is influenced by a wide range of sources, including Jewish Kabbalah, Western astrology, Alchemy, Pagan religions, particularly Egyptian and Greco-Roman (from which the term "Hermetic" is derived), neoplatonism, gnosticism, John Dee and Edward Kelley's Enochian system of angelic magic, hermeticism, tantra, and tarot symbolism.

Mystic Kabbalah & Esoteric knowledge:

Jewish mysticism is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of theories about the Godhead, as well as practices and beliefs that go beyond the requirements of traditional Judaism. The term Kabbalah refers to a type of Jewish mysticism that emerged in Provence and Catalonia in the 12th century CE. It was concerned with the inner structure and processes occurring within the divine realms, the metaphysical dynamics of which the Kabbalists attempted to influence.

This phenomenon was distinct from the older Ashkenazic mystical traditions, which were primarily concerned with rigorous piety and interpretive techniques applied to official Jewish texts in order to reveal their hidden layers of meaning. It was also distinct from magical traditions, which were primarily concerned with subduing supernatural forces and harnessing them to effect physical change. What these various strands of hidden Jewish traditions have in common is a belief in the supernatural power of language.

The Hebrew language has a divine origin, according to Jewish tradition. God creates the world in Genesis by pronouncing his will; thus, language has the ultimate creative potential. From antiquity to the present, this viewpoint has served as the foundation for the majority of Jewish mystical and magical traditions. One of the earliest Jewish mystical texts of Hellenistic provenance, Seferyetsirah, which scholars date between the 2nd and 7th centuries CE, describes the process of creation as taking place through the 22 Hebrew letters and ten cardinal numbers.Early on, SeferYetsirah received magically oriented interpretations that explained how to imagine and possibly repeat the divine process of creation by manipulating the Hebrew alphabet, resulting in the creation of a golem.  Giving a golem a name was thought to animate and control its body, while erasing the name was thought to annihilate the creature.

Any name and its designated object are directly linked in Jewish mystical tradition, so the name reflects the nature of its object. Every entity has a linguistic equivalent – a name, and God is no exception. The highest form of knowledge in some medieval Ashkenazic mystical works, as well as in some types of later Kabbalah, concerns the divine realms, with the names of angels and the divine being the most important.

Abulafia's prophetic Kabbalah required extensive physical and mental preparations, as well as years of study by each potential practitioner. Although it required a thorough understanding of the accompanying procedures, the use of names in Jewish magic was far more democratic. Anyone could follow a procedure detailed in multiple manuals or cookbooks, and success was solely dependent on strict adherence to the formulae. As a result, divine, angelic, and even demonic names were used for a variety of purposes. Manuscript sources abound with spells and adjurations demonstrating the widespread popularity of all types of magic among Jews, whether therapeutic (aimed at healing), learned (aiding in knowledge and memory), or even aggressive (used to subdue a person to someone else's will).

While the majority of mystical and Kabbalistic teaching was aimed at understanding and influencing the supernatural realm, magic was thought to provide immediate effects in the physical realm. Interestingly, many medieval and early modern manuscripts contain both Kabbalistic and magical texts, confirming the widely held belief that language was capable of affecting changes on various levels of creation and beyond. Each miscellaneous Kabbalistic manuscript captures a complex web of connections between speculative (elite) Kabbalah and practical (popular) Jewish magic.

The Jewish mystical tradition is rich and diverse, and Jewish mysticism has manifested itself in a variety of ways. Moshe Idel, a scholar, categorizes Jewish mysticism into two broad categories: moderate and intense. Moderate mysticism is philosophical in nature. It is an attempt to comprehend God and God's world, with the ultimate goal of influencing and changing the divine realm. This type of mysticism incorporates many aspects of traditional Judaism, such as Torah study and commandment observance, and imbues these activities with mystical significance. Intensive mysticism, on the other hand, is primarily experiential. In order to communicate with God, intensive mystics engage in nontraditional religious practices such as chanting and meditation.

The first forms of Jewish mysticism appeared in the first millennium's early centuries. The most common early form was Merkavah mysticism. Merkavah mystics sought to comprehend and experience the vision of the divine throne described in the first chapter of Ezekiel's biblical book. Another type of early mysticism was concerned with delving into the mysterious methods by which God created the world. The most important work of creation mysticism, SeferYetzirah, describes the creation of the world through the arrangement of letters and numbers.

Traditional mystical concepts continue to pervade mainstream Jewish thought (for example, the concepts of tikkun ha-olam, or world repair, and tzimtzum, God's self-limitation), and texts of mystical origin have infiltrated Jewish liturgy (including LechaDodi, the Friday night hymn welcoming the Sabbath, and other liturgical poetry). Furthermore, academic study of Jewish mysticism has flourished in recent decades, owing largely to the work of a single scholar, GershomScholem. Scholem discovered and interpreted numerous mystical manuscripts, shedding light on the origins and evolution of Jewish mysticism.

Can Kabbalah used for healing!

Sharon Brock's Kabbalah, a branch of Jewish mysticism, has regained popularity after a brief surge in the 1970s. But are its tenets relevant to health-care providers? Dr. Tsvi Bar-David, an interfaith chaplain in San Francisco, believes the answer is unequivocally yes. On May 12, he explained to UCSF students how health care providers can use Kabbalah facets to heal. The UCSF Jewish Students Association sponsored the lecture.Kabbalah, which means "to receive" in Hebrew, is a nearly 2,000-year-old belief system about the nature of divinity, the creation of the world, and the role of humans. Kabbalah, as described in the 13th-century book The Zohar, or "Book of Splendor," includes meditative, devotional, mystical, and magical traditions, which is why it is considered an esoteric offshoot of Judaism. Bar-David took a practical approach to Kabbalah in his lecture, explaining how the Ten Sefirots of Light and Darkness can be used for healing. The Sefirots are three-dimensional conceptual spheres that are specifically arranged in a treelike formation in a theoretical space between heaven and earth.

The other spheres are arranged in this contraction-versus-expansion pattern, implying that happiness is attained by striking a central balance between the two sides. The concept of wisdom - or layer of wisdom - is balanced between Binah, which means orderly intelligence and analysis, and Chochmah, which means boundless knowledge and insight. Waiting is a concept or layer that balances Hod, which means restraint and reflection, with Netzach, which means persistence and steadfastness. On a clinical level, the spheres can be used as diagnostic categories, according to Bar-David.Health care providers can assess where their patients fall on this map and recommend behaviors to mitigate the problem. For example, if a woman shows smothering love to her husband and becomes co-dependent, she is displaying too much Chesed and needs to restore balance by setting boundaries, or Gevurah. "Balance is the key to happiness," says Bar-David. "A significant part of healing occurs when patients have the words to describe their behavior and how they are feeling." This map establishes a common language of communication "According to Kabbalists, this map represents the path that the world took when it was created, beginning with the top layer, EinSof, which is the infinite divine and beyond human comprehension; moving down to the first sphere, Keter, which means the will or desire to be a parent; and continuing to the Yesod, or male sexual energy; and the Schechinah, or female sexual energy. Another basic tenet of Kabbalah is that man was created in the image of God. As a result, when people heal themselves, they are also healing God, every other person on the planet, and the earth itself, according to Bar-David. "When I am able to heal my own wounds,'I'm also helping the world and repairing God,' said Bar-David, adding that "from a Kabbalistic standpoint, the journey of health is a very different journey."

Can practicing Kabbalah bring you closer to God!

Every human action on earth, according to the Kabbalah, has an impact on the divine realm, either advancing or impeding the union of the Shechina and the Holy One, blessed be He. God is not a static being, but a dynamic becoming. God is incomplete and unrealized without human participation. It is up to us to actualize the divine potential in the world.

God needs us. Be aware that God fashioned everything and is within everything. Flashes of intuition will come and go and you will discover a secret here. If you are deserving, you will understand the mystery of God on your own.In the flow of the holy spirit, one feels the divine life force coursing the pathways of existance, through all desires, all universe, all nations, all creatures. By cleaving in love and full awareness to the source of life, the soul shines from the supernal light, and all feelings, thoughts and actions are refined. The essence of faith is an awareness of the vastness of Infinity.

Conclusion:

According to Kaballah Not transcending the body, but bringing body and spirit together is the highest spiritual achievement. To do so, however, you must let go of the beliefs that erect barriers around the Infinite and recognize the body as a source of holiness in and of itself. Kaballah is basically a holy process of connecting with got and finding out ones inner self and connection with magical power that one has on himself. It is a spiritual connection that can heal you physical and mental health by connecting with god. That finds the god who is  inside everyone of us. And it creates the believes on oneself and the connectivity between god and us. And makes you believe that god is within us and we can interact with him whenever we want we just need to focus and find it out in our inner self.

[mittensmorgul]

Any thoughts on the differences between ghosts and demons, since Hell has been busted open but it's pretty much just ghosts topside (except Belphie). It can't just be time in Hell as the deciding factor - unless Jack the Ripper's been haunting people for awhile and just recently got his soul sent to Hell. Crowley's the only demon we really have a timeline for... I wonder if souls "choose", like Dean's "choice" to get off the rack and take up the knife when he was in Hell...

So... I don’t honestly have more than random guesses to go on here, but this is one of those cosmological things I tend to obsess over at 3 am, so I decided to take this directly to grey’s chattybubbles, and we had an interesting chat about it. I’ll just put it here because our rambling entertained me, and heck, maybe someone else has something to add...

Warnings for incredibly dubious math below the cut :’D

mittensmorgulI gotta say, your ask message is something I've been thinking about since last week, but jack the ripper's ghost has made it 100000x worse >.>I'm just gonna... ramble a bit in your general direction and see if we can come up with an answer either of us finds reasonable >.>Maybe it's a frogs and toads situation. All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads?i.e. all demons once were human souls, but not all human souls can or will become demons

mittensmorgulI don't know if it's their choice as to whether they become demons or not, or some other unrelated metaphysical process. But I've wondered this for a while about how crossroads demons develop red eyes while "regular demons" don't. So what makes a crossroads demon vs a run of the mill demon?

grey2510right

mittensmorgulI know it's not the same question, but it's in the same family of questions :'D

grey2510one of the things I was considering was what made them go to Hell in the first placelike someone who made a deal - for whatever reason - is someone who knows to look for loopholes and ways out of a shit situationand if your options are "be tortured" or "not be tortured"...

grey2510could also explain how crossroads demons are made... maybe the crossroads demons all made deals as humansit's a self perpetuating systemwhereas some psychopath serial killer would get sent to hell, but might not have the deal-making acumenif that makes any kind of sense

mittensmorgulI always had assumed that the torture was part of the process, and that happening in Hell was what turned a soul into a demon, you know? But if Hell is mostly just ghosts being tortured for their sins for eternity, rather than being tortured into demons within a relatively short span of time (one would think 140 earth years should do it...) maybe only some souls are even able to become demonsor there may be a specific process involved to turn them-- like witches who pledge themselves to a demon like RubyAnd Crowley, who made a deal and then ended up a crossroads demon

grey2510yeah

mittensmorgullike maybe there had to be a bit of something supernatural already staining the soul to make them eligible :'D

grey2510because we know it must have been a relatively short turn around for Crowley - in earth years, he died 300 years ago, but he was turned demon in enough time to know Naomi and refer to Mesopotamia (which doesn't sound modern) and to establish himself as King of the Crossroads

mittensmorgulBecause if it was just a matter of a choice, I don't think very many people would choose "torture" over "do this and you can become a demon which is bad but heck it's not torture"

grey2510yeahunless they truly believed they were guilty (but that's more of Lucifer the show's version of Hell)I don't have an answer but I thought Spiders George might have a few thoughtslol*georg

mittensmorgulyeah, and Crowley has STUDIED STUFF. I mean, he knows Enochian, knows all the major players, knows tons of unrelated lore and weapons and all sorts of stuff (including magic he presumably learned as a human)So he's been a demon (or at least not just some poor tortured soul in Hell) for a very, very long time to have been "King of the Crossroads" in a leadership position even at the beginning of the serieshe didn't spend 140 of those years languishing as a soul in Hell

grey2510yeahand he had it in with Lilith

mittensmorgulyeah, this is all just random thoughts, but I don't know if canon will ever make a statement on it one way or another.

grey2510I'd be surprised if they did

mittensmorguland Jack the Ripper was I believe Eugenie's pet Evil Thing in this episode, so I don't know that this wasn't just a random "I'm gonna use this because it sounds cool! Screw canon!" moment for her or what

grey2510especially since we have BL canon acrobatics

mittensmorgulyeah

grey2510yeah - I could really care less about Jack the Ripper but if that's her current chew toy, have fun

mittensmorgulI think Ketch is her current chew toy

grey2510well him too

mittensmorgulwhich I'll take over Lucifer or Nick any day:P

grey2510haha I was just about to say that

mittensmorgulbut yeah, as far as understanding the cosmology and metaphysics, if it's just BL canon I tend to ignore it as much as possible unless we get secondary confirmation of a thing from another writer

grey2510yeah - although we do have a little bit of outside of BL since it was introduced in 15x01but that could have just been the other writers tossing a shiny object to her

mittensmorgulwell the oldest of those other souls from hell that we saw was 15 earth years, the Woman in White.Which... I could buy she wouldn't have been "demonized" yet.

grey2510yeahalso - Lizzie Borden we don't know for sure because our Lizzie ep wasn't actually Lizzie right?

mittensmorgulShe was a deeply traumatized ghost for decades before being sent to Hell in 1.01yeah, it was a fake haunting, and Amara eating people's souls

grey2510rightbeen awhile since I've seen that season

mittensmorgulBut nothing in canon clarified if it was lizzie borden with the ax anyway, we just assume it was

grey2510truebut yeah - Constance still being a soul and not a demon makes sense

mittensmorgulAnd if it was, we don't know if that was scripted, or something someone thought would look cool and costumed that way

grey2510yeah

mittensmorgulBUT! I do think it's likely that most souls don't become demons, otherwise there would've been a heck of a lot more of them. And like we've been running out of angels, Hell was running low on demons by s13even by s11, after amara ate her way through a lot of them

grey2510trueit still does make you wonder what it is that makes some souls "special" enough to become demons

mittensmorgulI've always found it weird we don't really see a lot of "brand new demons"

grey2510....still waiting for Bela to show up and be like fuck all y'all

mittensmorgulBela should be queen of the crossroads. She made a deal, dealt with the supernatural, and deserved better.

grey2510seriouslyshe'd be the natural successor - she was pretty much the human equivalent before she got dragged away

mittensmorgulyep

grey2510i know this is also just early season weirdness, but there was never anything else about different types of demons like the shadowy things that Meg called

mittensmorgulthough I'm 99% sure the show can't afford Lauren Cohan, and I'm not sure they'd bring back Bela without her. Though as a demon she would by necessity be wearing a different meatsuit...

grey2510yeah - they could put her in anyone

mittensmorgulYeah, the Daevasand the Acheri demon we saw exactly once in 2.21 >..

grey2510or why wispy the pilot was doing his thingoh yeah that was the girl looking thing right?

mittensmorguland good old Specky from 1.04 with his airplane fetishyeah

grey2510i'm just going to assume that they were things that other hunters/lore called "demons" because they didn't have another name for them

mittensmorgulyeah

grey2510anyway, it would be fascinating to know what exactly the soul to demon process is all about

mittensmorgulbut human souls, twisted into demons, seems to happen by a very specific process. Like it must be done TO the soulit's probably all on the demon tablet >.>

grey2510haha probably

mittensmorgulbut they mentioned there were several BILLION souls in Hell, which seems... rather a lot... I just looked it up... about 55 million people die every year.

grey2510that's a lot of big numbers

mittensmorgulso about 20 years for a billion people to die

grey2510so not my area lol

mittensmorguland I assume the vast majority of them do not go to Hell

grey2510lol ok - i'm glad you did the math (i've been grading freshman papers all day so my brain is kinda fried)do you watch the Good Place?

mittensmorgulI mean if even Ken Lay gets into Heaven, then we have to assume the VAST majority of people who die won't go to Hell

grey2510yeah

mittensmorgulno I haven't seen it, but I've watched through tumblr :'D

grey2510the rules seem pretty laxah gotchai was going to make a reference to something that happened last season but didn't want to ruin it for you

mittensmorgulso if even 1/10 people who die end up in Hell, it would still take like 200 years for a billion souls to accumulate. Or 2000 years if only 1 /100 people go to Hell

grey2510so assume a few centuries to get a billion

mittensmorgul(and the death rate has not always been as high as it is now, with 8 billion people on the planet, compared to 2000 years ago, you know? so that's more math than I'm actually willing to do :P)

grey2510lolyeah spn's hell rules seem to be "made a deal" and "totally evil person"murders, rapists, etc.not much in the middle

mittensmorgulyeahbut the population of the earth even 200 years ago was less than 1/10 what it is today, so the death rate would've also dropped by that much, making it take that much longer for hell souls to accumulate.Point being, if there are that many SOULS in Hell, and not just demons, then apparently not every soul DOES become a demonand I REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHY NOW

grey2510haha

mittensmorgulGAH

grey2510it's been bugging me too, so i guess we can suffer together

mittensmorgulokay, I really wanna copy/paste this as the reply to your message, because I feel like my non-answer is a good answer

grey2510fine by me

mittensmorguland maybe we can have other people pitch in ideas :PI'm pretty sure this is the sort of thing Canon will never explain in detail, but it's exactly the sort of thing I personally wonder about the most.

grey2510so where did we land? something done specifically to the soul that turns them, but then also the question of whether there's something about the soul that makes them a viable candidate for the transformation?

mittensmorgulyeah, that's succinct. :'D

grey2510and then if crossroads demons are former deal makers

mittensmorgulalso if they've made a deal either with a crossroads demon, or as a "borrower witch," as they've been called by other witches in canon

grey2510or something else about them that determines what kind of demon they'll be come*become

mittensmorgulyeah

[hugleikinn]

hi, could you please explain how does enochian magick differ from solomonic angel magick (ars almadel/paulina/the greater key planetary magick)? are the 7 olympian spirits part of your work?

Hi, thank you for the question! Where to start... First I will disclaim that I am far from an experienced Solomonic practitioner, let alone an expert. I do have some experiences and some more extensive theoretical knowledge. That being said, the far biggest difference is that Enochian magick and more or less all other traditions, like the grimoire trad, works with its own unique egregore/set of spirits (angels/demons), most of which are unattested elsewhere. This comes with quite a unique cosmology and world view and with that different ways and reasons this sort of magic would be used in praxis.It is to my understanding (and my intention) centered more around initiation, magical growth and development, understanding and gaining knowledge about things in the world that can be then used further or be of direct benefit, rather than a system that is well suited for practical solutions to real right now problems, like for example the chaos magic systems, or indeed the grimoire trad. I am thinking how to explain the difference better at least how I see it. The best comes to mind is: If your goal is to make money, you can either get a job and get paid, sell something or find money randomly, and pay rent today and next month. Or you can go to business school, learn about finance, economy and how money works and perhaps some day you will be able to have a business of your own or something. Or you can do both. Have a job and also try to learn about how things work from a different perspective in evening classes. I am not saying one is better than the other, they are just completely different things and approaches, if you apply them to the same overall goal.What mean to say, sure, you could probably use Enochian magick to accomplish a short term/one time goal. But there are probably better and easier ways to do it. As for the 7 Olympian spirits, no, I do not at this time. I do work with the seven planetary archangels though.I hope this makes at least a little bit of sense. I am out and about on my phone so who knows:)As for Solomonic magic and Solomonic angel magic, perhaps someone else can be helpful.

[sailor-spaghetti]

Not to like, throw in random OC stuff, but my boyfriend did something like this in our Monster of the Week campaign and also incorporated Jewish cosmology. If anyone wants context for the characters, I'll be glad to talk about them, but here's the rundown:

Kit (my character) - Eden - Anxiety - "I just want everyone to be okay."

This was an idealized world where everything was almost too perfect, but there were major glitches that made it obvious that this was not where the party was from, nor was it time travel/a "second chance" to avoid the initial disaster as Kit had hoped.

Ian - Sheol - Doubt - "I fear what I am becoming."

An alternate world in which the entire world has died and the only survivor is another, more powerful version of Ian. It is implied that the BBEG has been defeated in this reality, and instead Ian has been the one to destroy everything.

Vince - Abyss - Despair - "I don't think we're getting out of this alive."

Of the dreams, this one was closest to the "real world" and even accurately predicted certain struggles that would be coming. However, the resilience and loyalty of loved ones and allies was underplayed, eventually resulting in the entire town dying, followed by Ian accidentally killing him.

Arnold - Paradise - Dissociation - "I wish we could make a difference."

The actual game system changed from Monster of the Week to Glitter Hearts, and we had filled out new playbooks a couple of months in advance for this without knowing what we were doing. In this dream, each of the kids was a "magical girl" who fought to protect the city (main timeline takes place in a small town that has been completely separated from the outside world) with supervision and aid from a friendly version of the BBEG. Each kid transformed with the help of a magical animal companion. Ian and Vince got 1:1 replications of their goblin familiars (each one taking the same forms they took in the real world - with one being a diva in the shape of a raven and the other being a dudebro in the shape of a flaming red squirrel). Arnold got a dopey dog-like bear who couldn't speak Kit got a buff anthro version of their emotional support hamster with long flowing hair and an inferiority complex who made everyone in the party uncomfortable. It was great, but then Arnold's religious indoctrination from an anti-magic anti-supernatual cult (think like Westboro but for sapient monsters and magic users) began to leak through into the dream, resulting in thr party learning more about the prophecy that said cult had about Arnold.

Each dream was not only a glimpse into each other's psyche - it was also a trial which bonded each of the kids to an Enochian truth - here defined as a tool that was weilded by angels while the universe was still being shaped, with each one representing the value that its respective angel was a representative of. Each kid bonding with their respective tools and then with each other through these tools was the trigger to finally leave the dream.

It was truly an epic side-plot.

one of my very favorite obscure story tropes is when there’s an episode/plotline/tabletop campaign session where the conceit is ‘each member of the gang gets trapped in a specially tailored dream/nightmare/illusory mindscape and has to break out’

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