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Feb 23, 2015 3:35:10 GMT -6
Post by Jason X. Gehenna on Feb 23, 2015 3:35:10 GMT -6
1: According to Michael Ford, the Qliphoth is a more potent and healthy tool for self-empowerment than the Sephiroth could ever hope to be. Why? Because the Sephiroth is purely celestial-- pure light. The Qliphoth, however, is a mixture of tenebrific and celestial energies-- allowing for a more balanced method of true self-deification.
2: If you can get your hands on anything written by members of the Temple of the Black Light, you'll learn a lot there. Try to find "Liber Sitra Ahra" "Temple of the Black Light 2" (as the first Temple of the Black Light is just the same thing, only very badly saved) and "Sitra Ahra" then you will learn a lot:)
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Post by Padowan on Apr 8, 2015 13:22:25 GMT -6
Condensed Chaos Quote:
"The more value that we place on upholding a particular emotional pattern, the more likely it is that all ambiguous signals will be perceived as supporting it. Evidence which counters it will most likely be overlooked or rationalised into a more malleable form. Conflict arises when dissonance occurrs between desires and existing mental constructs (have you ever feared the strength of your own desires?). To cope with such conflicts, a variety of Defence Mechanism can be adopted:
Aggression A typical response to frustrated desire and loss of control; loss of devouring dreams. We can direct it at the source of our frustration, or direct it onto others.
Apathy Loss of control - loss of face and self-worth. The machine stops.
Regression Adult, who me? A return to a child-like mien. Cry hard enough and someone will come and comfort us. Perhaps we have learnt that through tears, we can control others.
Sublimation In other words, putting a brave face on it. Re-directing the energy into a more acceptable form. But demons are cunning. Kick them down the front stairs and they will come sneaking round the back, waiting with spider calm until you leave the door of your mind ajar.
Intellectualisation Displacing feelings with words. A quick lie for the aesthetic becomes a fast buck for the lay analyst. Such strategies are normal; that is until they become obsessive: a locked-up loop automatic as breathing. Out of control.
Fantasy Fantasy is the cornerstone of obsession, where imagination is trussed up like a battery-farmed chicken; catharsis eventually becomes catastrophic. Walter Mitty lives in all of us, in varyingly-sized corners. We use starter fantasies to weave meaning into a new situation, maintainer fantasies to prop up a boring task, and stopper fantasies to persuade ourselves that its better not to ...
A fantasy has tremendous power, and in a period of high anxiety we can imagine a thousand outcomes, good and bad (but mostly good) of what the dreaded/hoped for moment will bring us. The fantasy exists in a continual tension between the desire to fulfill it, and the desire to maintain it - to keep from losing it. Of course, any move to real-ise it threatens its existence. A closed loop is the result, shored up by our favourite defence mechanisms, whipped on by fear of failure and lust of result. The obsession clouds all reason, impairs the ability to act, makes anything secondary to it seem unimportant. Its a doublebind tug owar. The desire to maintain the fantasy may be stronger than the desire to make it real. In classical occult terms I am describing a thought-form, a monster bred from the darker reccesses of mind, fed by psychic energy, clothed in imagination and nurtured by umbilical cords which twist through years of growth. we all have our personal Tunnels of Set; set in our ways through habit and patterns piling on top of each other. The thought-form rides us like a monkey; its tail wrapped firmly about the spine of a self lost to us years ago; an earlier version threshing blindly in a moment of fear, pain, or desire. Thus we are formed; and in a moment of loss we feel the monsters hot breath against our backs, its claws digging into muscle and flesh. we dance to the pull of strings that were woven years ago, and in a lightning flash of insight, or better yet, the gentle admonitions of a friend, we may see the lie; the program. it is first necessary to see that there is a program. To say perhaps, this creature is mine, but not wholly me. What follows then is that the prey becomes the hunter, pulling apart the obsession, naming its parts, searching for fragments of understanding in its entrails. Shrinking it, devouring it, peeling the layers of onion-skin. This is in itself a magick as powerful as any sorcery. Unbinding the knots that we have tied and tangled; sorting out the threads of experience and colour-coding the chains of chance. It may leave us freer, more able to act effectively and less likely to repeat old mistakes. The thing has a chinese puzzle-like nature. We can perceive only the present, and it requires intense sifting through memory to see the scaffolding beneath."
See any Fourth Way similarities?
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Post by Cosmic Shaman Yoth'al on Nov 20, 2015 19:14:04 GMT -6
"Cthulhu Cult" and "Liber A:O", some good books Some hp Lovecraft books to know more about the Cthulhu mythos and after that I can point you 1 or 2 good books any questions meanwhile just ask, and after you read these books you will thristy for more knowledge dont worry
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Cthulhu61
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21/8/2023, Have just joined the CoC. Am looking for guidance.
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Aug 10, 2023 14:43:08 GMT -6
Post by Cthulhu61 on Aug 10, 2023 14:43:08 GMT -6
"Cthulhu Cult" and "Liber A:O", some good books Some hp Lovecraft books to know more about the Cthulhu mythos and after that I can point you 1 or 2 good books any questions meanwhile just ask, and after you read these books you will thristy for more knowledge dont worry I have read Cthulhu Cult, Liber A:O, and a lot of H.P. Lovecrafts books. Can I ask please, what are the others that you recommend?
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