Thanks to bruhinb I discovered this gem of kookery.

DC Street Sorcery

I know there have been plenty of books about the sacred geometry of DC, particularly in L'Enfant's original design. But I don't think any of them took the same kind of fundamentalist christian approach to amassing piles of incoherent evidence to say that because of the secret ( Read more... )

One of the hotly debated topics in Wiccan magical and ethical belief is the "threefold return." Its like Karma meets the butterfly effect: That which you send out is returned to you threefold. There are some who take this at face value, believing that all actions have repurcussions and that through taking actions they ripple out and effect things ( Read more... )

So, I mentioned in a post on Wednesday that I had read the uncorrected advance proof of "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch. Haisch is an astrophysicist who has been studying this phenomenon known as the Zero-Point Field, basically a vacuum, and the Zero-Point Field Energy that makes up the field. The author equates this energy phenomenon with the ( Read more... )

These are in no particular order. Think of them as random thought points.
( This is really really long )

I've finished reading the Sefer Yetzirah.

More on what I thought later as I compile my thoughts.

Just to keep things in order I'm making a table to show the differences between placement of the letters associated with the paths in Sefer Yetzirah and those in 777. The funny thing is that there will be 26 paths listed here, because there are additional paths in the Ari diagram and the Gra diagram in Sefer Yetzirah that aren't in 777 and vice- ( Read more... )

Well, I'm feeling better from this morning. I've put the damper on the fireball and my clothes have fully dried (though my pants leg is a little stiff from the coffee ( Read more... )

In Hebrew, there are three words which have similar meaning. There are Bara, meaning "to create," Yatzar, meaning "to form," and Asah, meaning "to make." According to the Kabbalists, Bara indicates creation ex nihilo, "something from nothing." Yatzar denotes formation of something from a substance that already exists, "something from something ( Read more... )

So, I've been going through the commentary, the line by line notes on the Zohar at the back of the book and things are REALLY clicking now. Let me start at the beginning of one thing I've learned from the Zohar, and tie it back to previous Qabalah blog entries ( Read more... )

"'Let there be light!' And there was light."
Every subject of the phrase "And there was"
exists in this world and the world that is coming.

--- Zohar, commentary on Genesis 1:3 ( Read more... )