Well, what do you know -- it works!
For the past many days, I've been working away at uploading my files from the notes I wrote to my Qaballah and Tarot course to Scribd.com and revising said files and uploading the revised versions thereunto. Suddenly, things start happening:
Yesterday I watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, about a son of Poseidon and his quest -- and then I went to Astronomy Picture of the Day, where the day's offering turned out to be APOD: 2010 August 8 - Two Hours Before Neptune.
Today, I put The Story of Stupidity: A History of Western Idiocy from the Days of Greece to the Moment You Saw this Book (Greenport, NY: Mount Pleasant Press, 1988; ISBN 0-96177291-3 -- self-published book) onto the toilet tank and started reading it, encountering gems such as this:
. . . [In] this early stage of the development of civilization, there was not yet a clear distinction between religion and politics. In fact, government was bound up with religion in the person of the patesi, meaning 'Priest-king.' Within this context of religious politics, an occasional reformer arose to oppose domestic oppression. Most notable among these was patesi Urukagina of Lagash (ca. 2900). He railed like a Luther against the exactions of the clergy, accused them of corruption, denounced them for their voracity, and charged them with overtaxing the workers. He had some success combatting bribery of officials and protecting the helpless against extortion, but neither the reforms nor the liberty he boasted he had given the people outlasted him. All was ended by Lugl-zaggisi, who invaded Lagash at the height of its prosperity, overthrew Urukagina and sacked the city.
With the passing of Urukagina, the priests recovered their power, as they would do in Egypt with the passing of Akhenaton, and abuse and corruption were restored as official norms. Such iniquities might best be viewed and accepted as the price of mythology. People apparently need myths, and if the priests were overcharging for inferior products as they presumed to provide this eternal and unfathomable necessity, then that just makes them seem all the more like our modern day myth mongers.
-- Ibid., p. 15.
And then, in a comment to Semper Fi - Want Higher Orthodontist Bills? Let Your Child Get a Tongue Piercing - ParentDish, kengara directed me to Poking idiots in the eye since 2002.
One of the tests that a Magickal operation you've done or are in progress with is working is the synchronicity that is going on around you. I guess whatever I'm doing with Qaballah is working. But given these two examples of synchronicity, Neptune and egregious stupidity, I wish I knew what the hell I am doing with Qaballah . . .
Yesterday I watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, about a son of Poseidon and his quest -- and then I went to Astronomy Picture of the Day, where the day's offering turned out to be APOD: 2010 August 8 - Two Hours Before Neptune.
Today, I put The Story of Stupidity: A History of Western Idiocy from the Days of Greece to the Moment You Saw this Book (Greenport, NY: Mount Pleasant Press, 1988; ISBN 0-96177291-3 -- self-published book) onto the toilet tank and started reading it, encountering gems such as this:
. . . [In] this early stage of the development of civilization, there was not yet a clear distinction between religion and politics. In fact, government was bound up with religion in the person of the patesi, meaning 'Priest-king.' Within this context of religious politics, an occasional reformer arose to oppose domestic oppression. Most notable among these was patesi Urukagina of Lagash (ca. 2900). He railed like a Luther against the exactions of the clergy, accused them of corruption, denounced them for their voracity, and charged them with overtaxing the workers. He had some success combatting bribery of officials and protecting the helpless against extortion, but neither the reforms nor the liberty he boasted he had given the people outlasted him. All was ended by Lugl-zaggisi, who invaded Lagash at the height of its prosperity, overthrew Urukagina and sacked the city.
With the passing of Urukagina, the priests recovered their power, as they would do in Egypt with the passing of Akhenaton, and abuse and corruption were restored as official norms. Such iniquities might best be viewed and accepted as the price of mythology. People apparently need myths, and if the priests were overcharging for inferior products as they presumed to provide this eternal and unfathomable necessity, then that just makes them seem all the more like our modern day myth mongers.
-- Ibid., p. 15.
And then, in a comment to Semper Fi - Want Higher Orthodontist Bills? Let Your Child Get a Tongue Piercing - ParentDish, kengara directed me to Poking idiots in the eye since 2002.
One of the tests that a Magickal operation you've done or are in progress with is working is the synchronicity that is going on around you. I guess whatever I'm doing with Qaballah is working. But given these two examples of synchronicity, Neptune and egregious stupidity, I wish I knew what the hell I am doing with Qaballah . . .