Anger is an unpleasant feeling. It is like a blazing flame that burns up our self-control and causes us to say and do things that we regret later. When someone is angry, we can see clearly that he or she is abiding in hell. Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made. A mind without anger is cool, fresh and sane. The absence of anger is the basis of real happiness, the basis of love and compassion.

– backwoods Southern Slang

If you are not exploring the mysteries of the universe then you are wasting your time.

There’s a fine line between coincidence and fate.

We all have inner demons to fight. We call these demons ‘fear’ and ‘hatred’ and ‘anger’. If you don’t conquer them then a life of a hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, a life of a single day can be a triumph.

1.  We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm
    of life forces marked by the phases of the moon and the
    Seasonal Quarters and Cross-Quarters.

2.  We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique
    responsibility towards our environment.  We seek to live in
    harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering
    fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary
    concept.

3.  We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent
    to the average person. Because it is far greater than ordinary
    it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it as lying
    within that which is naturally potential to all.

4.  We conceive of the Creative Power in the universe as manifest
    through polarity -- as masculine and feminine -- and that same
    Creative power lies in all people, and functions through the
    interaction of masculine and feminine. We value neither above
    the other, knowing each to be supportive to the other. We
    value sex as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life,
    and as one of the sources of energies used in magical practice
    and religious worship.

5.  We recognize both outer worlds and inner, or psychological,
    worlds known sometimes as the Spiritual World, the Collective
    Unconscious, Inner Planes, etc. - and we see in the
    interaction of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal
    phenomena and magical exercises. We neglect neither dimension
    for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.

6.  We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honor
    those who teach, respect those who share their greater
    knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who courageously
    give of themselves in leadership.

7.  We see religion, magic, and wisdom in living as being united
    in the way one views the world and live within it - a world
    view and philosophy of life which we identify as Witchcraft.

8.  A Witch seeks to control the forces within themselves that make
    life possible in order to live wisely and well without harm to 
    others and in harmony with Nature.

9.  We believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a
    continuation of evolution and development of consciousness
    giving meaning to the Universe we know and our personal role
    within it.

10. As Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the
    history of the Craft, the origins of various terms, the
    legitimacy of various aspects of different traditions.  We are
    concerned with our present and our future.

11. We do not accept the concept of absolute evil, nor do we
    worship any entity known as "Satan" or "the Devil", as defined
    by the Christian tradition. We do not seek power through the
    suffering of others, nor accept that personal benefit can be
    derived only by denial to another.

12. We believe that we should seek within Nature that which is
    contributory to our health and well-being.

To be free, a man must follow the Way that leads to the place where he dwelt before he was born.

The world stands still in the moments that I am watching you, watching me.

tradition…—… *antebellum ghosts wandering the streets looking for a tasty morsel, the swish of ball gowns and the flutter of evangeline eye lashes, the faint echo…’throw me something mister’, a city washed in blood but too late for confession*

smell…—… *jasmine saturated nights, spices on boil, chicory coffee brewing, the smell of a hurricane ready for landfall*

touch…—…*her sticky wetness, that little love/hate thing that pings your heart when you’re away and makes you want to catch the next bus out, the sweat running down your body as that squeeky fan overhead gives its all but never wins, et al ];-)*

sound…—… *that lazy dialect that sounds so good rollin off the lips of a creole lady but can be so guttural it just wants to make you scream, musical notes creeping around the corner like a crit du chat, a barge horn amplified by the low fog that’s settled during the night, the rain tap dancing on the roof*

taste…—…*indescribable*

Two Kings In a Cipher had a song called “C’mon Atcha” that was the jam, which caused me to buy that shit back in the day. EthER thE Radkial’s debut Blavkk Pyramidz with it’s lyrcial intelligentsia and noveau beats à la T<K<C with a dash of MC Mr. Liif had me reminiscing. Uncooked… *music & content* not like today’s tinkerbell beats with bling bling blind choruses. It is good to know music like this is still droppin’.

(he(k |+… http://rnwdgaf.bandcamp.com/album/blvkk-pyramidz

Symbols are very powerful and can be extremely useful tools in the creation of your world. The ancients understood the power of symbols and used them extensively in their culture for protection, fertility, wealth, crop germination, death and birth rituals. The use of a symbol for a particular task does not in itself bring about these conditions; consciousness must do that. However, using a symbol geared toward a certain thing can help consciousness target and release the energy pattern necessary to bring about the desired manifestation.

In this way, symbols are like road maps, leading the individual toward a desired goal. The road is not a real road with dirt and stone. The road, in this case, is energy. Energy, like a roadway, can twist and bend and connect two things together that normally would be disassociated.

Energy is no different than a physical road. In fact, at a sub-atomic level, that’s all your physical roads are, energy. Hoards of energy-units bind together to form the physical roads that you travel. The solidness of the road comes from the accretion of the energy field.

An energy pathway is just like our road except the energy units’ numbers are less and not as compact as a physical road so the solid quality is not there. You can’t see it, or walk on it, or touch it, however, the pathway exists and your consciousness can follow it, consciously and unconsciously, just as easily as walking down a physical road.

The symbol itself acts like a key that helps you to hone-in on a particular energy pathway. Normally you may miss this energy pathway because it is unfamiliar. A symbol keyed to that particular energy pattern can help point the way by amplifying that aspect to a point where it can’t go unnoticed any longer. Even unconsciously, a symbol can bring a needed aspect into focus so that consciousness can go and begin to create that aspect.

Consciousness accomplishes this genesis by connecting you to the energy pathway that the symbol brings into focus. It will siphon off some of the energy and use that energy to create that aspect within its reality.

You will know when a symbol accomplishes its purpose because you will no longer feel the need to have it with you. When that time comes, put the symbol away for future use or give it to another person to use. The energy that you’ve added to that symbol can go on to help someone else. An object in the shape of the symbol, or with a symbol scribed on it, can become a very powerful device after it passes through several people. Each person utilizing that device will enhance the effectiveness of that device and add to the energy pathway.

Symbols effectively change the world you live in through the realignment of your consciousness. They can provide access to worlds you’ve never imagined. Bon voyage!!!

Let us consider the “feelings’ of a molecule of Hydrogen in the presence of one of Oxygen or of Chlorine. It is made to suffer intensely by the extremity of its deviation from the perfect type of monad, an element supremely opposed to its own nature. So far as it is an egoist, its reaction must be scorn and hatred; but as it understands by the true shame that is put upon its separateness by the presence of its opposite, these feelings turn to anguished yearning. It begins to crave the electric spark which will enable it to assuage its pangs by the annihilation of all those properties which constitute its separate existence, in the rapture of union, and at the same time to fulfill its passion to create a perfect type of Peace.

The soul is a vehicle, the instrument by which the Mind is brought into contact with the dust of Matter, that it may feel it, judge it, and react to it.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there’s no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

For the Angel of Death spread her wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as she passed,
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word. – Isaiah 66:2