Eikev
לְמַעַן תִּחְיוּן
so that you will be allowed to live ... Devarim 8:1
This phrase is found in connection to doing the mitzvot of Torah. In order to live, in order to be allowed to return to the Land of the Living from a shamanic Otherworld journey, the mitzvot of Torah must be observed, must be done by those of Jewish ancestry. So, how do we know if we have successfully observed to do the Torah mitzvot of our Jewish Ancestors? We know when we are not only allowed to live, but when we are commanded to return to the Land of Living.
Related entry - Seeing Through The Darkness, An Otherworld Journey
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Goddess Tree
Vaetchanan
אָנֹכִי עֹמֵד בֵּין-יְהוָה וּבֵינֵיכֶם
I stood, making known to you the interaction of essential elements ... Devarim 5:5
In Devarim 5:5 (cleaving to the sacred circles of a witch's double pentacle), we find the Goddess name בין-יהוה. Importantly, the Goddess name בין-יהוה is an essential expansion of the hei mappik (הּ) of the Goddess name בינהּ (Binah, the head of the left-hand tower of strength on the metaphysical Goddess Tree which integrates All Being and Nothingness - see Rebuilding Reality). Normatively, the magical Hebrew letter hei (the fourth letter, of Binah, which expands and collapses in perpetual oscillation between extremes) has a gematria of 5. Binah derives from the three letter shoresh בין, meaning to "penetrate to the core", "having insight", "revealing, making known", and "understanding the interaction of elements."
לְעֹשֵׂה הַשָּׁמַיִם, בִּתְבוּנָה: כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ.
for the heavens are made with understanding, as the beauty of It endures forever
The First
Interestingly, the double portioned witch's pentagram designating numerically the witch words in the magical Hebrew phrase above "has no connotation with good or evil." Instead, the pentalpha (as the pentagram is also called by mystics and in Pythagorean philosophical mathematics) and its circle is a symbol of "unity, wholeness, infinity, the goddess, female power, and the sun [beauty]."
The Last
In ancient times especially, the pentagram (i.e., the pentalpha) was represented by the Greek letter tau (the letter of resurrection, with a gematria of 300) and the Hebrew letter taf (the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the letter of truth, with a gematria of 400). The gematria of 300 corresponds to the three letters of בין, and the gematria of 400 corresponds to the four letters of יהוה in the the Goddess name בין-יהוה (Bĭn Īhuvah).
So, we can understand then that, while the Lord may have alot of things to say about this and that, the Lady will always have the first word and the last word to say about everything that is made. It's written into the very nature of reality.
Making Points
משנה ד': עשר ספירות בלימה עשר ולא תשע עשר ולא
אחת עשרה הבן בחכמה וחכם בבינה בחון בהם וחקור מהם והעמד
דבר על בוריו והשב יוצר על מכונו:
Sefer Yetzirah 1:4
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
ten and not nine
ten and not eleven
Understand with Wisdom
Be wise with Understanding
Examine with them
and probe from them
Make [each] thing stand on its essence
And make the Creator sit on His base.
Each internal angle of each of the points of the pentagram equals 36 (לו) degrees (for example, see angle DAC in the schematic below as it sits upon the base line CD). This then, may be the degrees of this and that which He says that She actually listens to. LOL. Make Her world curl and He may just be able to make a few points.
Related - Awesome Goddess Tree Oil at WITCHCRAFTS by Liorah Lleucu
אָנֹכִי עֹמֵד בֵּין-יְהוָה וּבֵינֵיכֶם
I stood, making known to you the interaction of essential elements ... Devarim 5:5
In Devarim 5:5 (cleaving to the sacred circles of a witch's double pentacle), we find the Goddess name בין-יהוה. Importantly, the Goddess name בין-יהוה is an essential expansion of the hei mappik (הּ) of the Goddess name בינהּ (Binah, the head of the left-hand tower of strength on the metaphysical Goddess Tree which integrates All Being and Nothingness - see Rebuilding Reality). Normatively, the magical Hebrew letter hei (the fourth letter, of Binah, which expands and collapses in perpetual oscillation between extremes) has a gematria of 5. Binah derives from the three letter shoresh בין, meaning to "penetrate to the core", "having insight", "revealing, making known", and "understanding the interaction of elements."
לְעֹשֵׂה הַשָּׁמַיִם, בִּתְבוּנָה: כִּי לְעוֹלָם חַסְדּוֹ.
for the heavens are made with understanding, as the beauty of It endures forever
The First
Interestingly, the double portioned witch's pentagram designating numerically the witch words in the magical Hebrew phrase above "has no connotation with good or evil." Instead, the pentalpha (as the pentagram is also called by mystics and in Pythagorean philosophical mathematics) and its circle is a symbol of "unity, wholeness, infinity, the goddess, female power, and the sun [beauty]."
The Last
In ancient times especially, the pentagram (i.e., the pentalpha) was represented by the Greek letter tau (the letter of resurrection, with a gematria of 300) and the Hebrew letter taf (the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the letter of truth, with a gematria of 400). The gematria of 300 corresponds to the three letters of בין, and the gematria of 400 corresponds to the four letters of יהוה in the the Goddess name בין-יהוה (Bĭn Īhuvah).
So, we can understand then that, while the Lord may have alot of things to say about this and that, the Lady will always have the first word and the last word to say about everything that is made. It's written into the very nature of reality.
Making Points
משנה ד': עשר ספירות בלימה עשר ולא תשע עשר ולא
אחת עשרה הבן בחכמה וחכם בבינה בחון בהם וחקור מהם והעמד
דבר על בוריו והשב יוצר על מכונו:
Sefer Yetzirah 1:4
Ten Sefirot of Nothingness
ten and not nine
ten and not eleven
Understand with Wisdom
Be wise with Understanding
Examine with them
and probe from them
Make [each] thing stand on its essence
And make the Creator sit on His base.
Each internal angle of each of the points of the pentagram equals 36 (לו) degrees (for example, see angle DAC in the schematic below as it sits upon the base line CD). This then, may be the degrees of this and that which He says that She actually listens to. LOL. Make Her world curl and He may just be able to make a few points.
Related - Awesome Goddess Tree Oil at WITCHCRAFTS by Liorah Lleucu
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Witch Words
Devarim
אֵלֶּה הַדְּבָרִים
these are the words ... Devarim 1:1
The Hebrew phrase above has a total gematria of 297, a digit sum of 18, and a final digit sum of 9. The word "the words" (הדברים) comes from the shoresh (three letter etymological magical root) דבר, meaning to "combine separate items into one."
Another way in Hebrew to say "these are the words" is with the phrase אלה המילים. In this form of the saying, the word "the words" (המילים) comes from the shoresh מלא, meaning to "fill to abundance." This phrase has a total gematria of 171, and a digit sum of 9.
Nine is the diameter of the witch's sacred circle.
These are the words, אלה הדברים - with these, the witch concocts her spell and gives it the spark of life.
These are the words, אלה המילים - with these, the witch fans the spark into a flame, drawing forth and filling her spell to abundance with the magical force necessary to make its intent move and manifest according to her will.
Related entry - Alchemy of the Word
Saturday, July 10, 2010
The Fearful Lord
Matot- Masei
וְאִם-לֹא תוֹרִישׁוּ אֶת-יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ, מִפְּנֵיכֶם--וְהָיָה אֲשֶׁר תּוֹתִירוּ מֵהֶם, לְשִׂכִּים בְּעֵינֵיכֶם וְלִצְנִינִם בְּצִדֵּיכֶם; וְצָרְרוּ אֶתְכֶם--עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹשְׁבִים בָּהּ
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell ... Bamidbar 33:55
So, why does the Lord really fear the Canaanites? Let me tell you, for the answer hides in His words.
As Thorns - לְשִׂכִּים
The Hebrew word typically translated as "as thorns" (namely, לְשִׂכִּים) derives from the shoresh (magical 3-letter root) שכך which means "to calm down." The war-mongering Lord fears that the Canaanites will civilize His obediently bloodthirsty Israelites. Under the "evil" influence of the Canaanites, the Israelites will become recalcitrant to wage the Lord's bloody wars, and instead will seek to return peacefulness to the Land.
As Pricks - וְלִצְנִינִם
The Hebrew word typically translated as "as pricks" (namely, וְלִצְנִינִם) derives from the shoresh צנן which means "to chill", "to cool" and "to shield with a protecting cool-headedness." The hot-headed Lord fears that the Canaanites will influence His easily emotionally-driven Israelites away from violent barbarity and toward civilized cool-headed thoughtful, civilized rational reason. He fears His people will "chill out" and prefer to have barBeques with the neighbors instead of killing them.
And Harass - וְצָרְרוּ
The Hebrew word typically translated as "and harass" (namely, וְצָרְרוּ) derives from the shoresh צרר which means "to bind together" and "joining." Most of all, the fearful Lord fears that His stiff-necked Israelites will find that they actually like the Canaanites, will form mutual kinship bonds with the Lady's Pagans, and will join and bind together to "calm down and chill out" the fearful Lord Himself.
Taken together, we can easily understand then that the Lord fears the power of the Canaanites who follow Goddess (also called the Lady in Pagan Witchcraft) to successfully transform Him in the very heart of and throughout the Land. He fears the Lady and Her Canaanites will civilize Him and all His Israelites. She and Her Canaanites are just so wicked, don't you know!
You see, the Lord just cannot win a war of words with the Lady, He fears. LOL.
וְאִם-לֹא תוֹרִישׁוּ אֶת-יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ, מִפְּנֵיכֶם--וְהָיָה אֲשֶׁר תּוֹתִירוּ מֵהֶם, לְשִׂכִּים בְּעֵינֵיכֶם וְלִצְנִינִם בְּצִדֵּיכֶם; וְצָרְרוּ אֶתְכֶם--עַל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם יֹשְׁבִים בָּהּ
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell ... Bamidbar 33:55
So, why does the Lord really fear the Canaanites? Let me tell you, for the answer hides in His words.
As Thorns - לְשִׂכִּים
The Hebrew word typically translated as "as thorns" (namely, לְשִׂכִּים) derives from the shoresh (magical 3-letter root) שכך which means "to calm down." The war-mongering Lord fears that the Canaanites will civilize His obediently bloodthirsty Israelites. Under the "evil" influence of the Canaanites, the Israelites will become recalcitrant to wage the Lord's bloody wars, and instead will seek to return peacefulness to the Land.
As Pricks - וְלִצְנִינִם
The Hebrew word typically translated as "as pricks" (namely, וְלִצְנִינִם) derives from the shoresh צנן which means "to chill", "to cool" and "to shield with a protecting cool-headedness." The hot-headed Lord fears that the Canaanites will influence His easily emotionally-driven Israelites away from violent barbarity and toward civilized cool-headed thoughtful, civilized rational reason. He fears His people will "chill out" and prefer to have barBeques with the neighbors instead of killing them.
And Harass - וְצָרְרוּ
The Hebrew word typically translated as "and harass" (namely, וְצָרְרוּ) derives from the shoresh צרר which means "to bind together" and "joining." Most of all, the fearful Lord fears that His stiff-necked Israelites will find that they actually like the Canaanites, will form mutual kinship bonds with the Lady's Pagans, and will join and bind together to "calm down and chill out" the fearful Lord Himself.
Taken together, we can easily understand then that the Lord fears the power of the Canaanites who follow Goddess (also called the Lady in Pagan Witchcraft) to successfully transform Him in the very heart of and throughout the Land. He fears the Lady and Her Canaanites will civilize Him and all His Israelites. She and Her Canaanites are just so wicked, don't you know!
You see, the Lord just cannot win a war of words with the Lady, He fears. LOL.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Serach - A Woman Of The Craft
Pinchas
וְשֵׁם בַּת-אָשֵׁר, שָׂרַח
and the name of of the daughter of Asher was Serach ... Bamidbar 26:46
Serach is a mystery, a secret of Torah. The truth about Serach sounds out from the deep silence which surrounds and protects her.
Serach (שרח) is an Artisan, a Craftswoman (חרש). Serach is a woman of the Craft.
She's a Witch, and the number of her name is 13.
[Note - שרח has a gematria of 508, with a digit sum of 13.]
וְשֵׁם בַּת-אָשֵׁר, שָׂרַח
and the name of of the daughter of Asher was Serach ... Bamidbar 26:46
Serach is a mystery, a secret of Torah. The truth about Serach sounds out from the deep silence which surrounds and protects her.
Serach (שרח) is an Artisan, a Craftswoman (חרש). Serach is a woman of the Craft.
She's a Witch, and the number of her name is 13.
[Note - שרח has a gematria of 508, with a digit sum of 13.]
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Cosmos
Balak on this Full Moon Shabbat
וְהוֹקַע אוֹתָם לַיהוָה, נֶגֶד הַשָּׁמֶשׁ
and raise them up in the face of the sun ... Bamidbar 25:4
Thursday night before an important meeting Friday, with the word-locking warding power characteristic of Vardlokkur, I drew one magical rune out of my rune-pouch to reveal and draw out the energy which would characterize the meeting the next morning. (As always, as with every divination I do using magical alphabets, the act of drawing was made by putting one of my hands into the pouch and drawing out the rune to which my hand is drawn - I do not see any of the runes until after one is drawn and taken out of the pouch. In this particular drawing, I drew the rune out with my left hand, the hand of strength. In note, all of my runes are hand-crafted without electrical tools and hand-pyrographed into hand-cut circles of apple wood of equal size.) The rune I drew was Sowilo.
“Sowilo guides and leads you to the doorway, then waits for your return.” ... rune poem, author unknown
Sowilo, the Sun rune, is also known as the victory rune - it guides to and brings up honor, victory, success, revelation and wholeness. Importantly, Sowilo is a life-giving force. It's driving energy is not one of destruction. It's driving energy is one which activates one's inner Divinity to mobilize action of one's highest values within the given situation to catalyze transmutation of one's highest will and thought into manifest reality. Sowilo makes enlightenment real.
This Shabbat Saturday morning, the day following the meeting Friday, and opposite in time to the Thursday night rune drawing, as Sowilo waited for my return to the runes, I returned, drawing a retroceding rune (such that the two rune drawings sandwiched the Friday meeting, both anteceding and retroceding it, with magical energy). As per my usual procedure as described above, yet this time with my right hand to provide balance, amazingly I drew Isa - the Ice rune force which expertly balances and focuses Sowilo.
“Ice only appears to stop a river’s flow.” ... rune poem, author unknown
Isa wards, focuses and concentrates the success and enlightenment brought up by Sowilo onto and into the target situation and magical working. Isa restabilizes the natural instability surrounding the act of transmutation, brought up both through Sowilo and through the magical Hebrew word וְהוֹקַע in this week's parsha meaning "raise up." Isa freezes, brings to stillness and neutralizes other potential negative meanings (namely, "to condemn" or "to execute") of the word וְהוֹקַע to energetically focus, concentrate and bring into single-minded action the positive meaning of the word וְהוֹקַע - namely, "to raise up."
Isa is also the rune of satisfying, meditative quiet rest. Like Shabbat.
Together, Sowilo and Isa correspond to the elusive soul power of hishtavut (equanimity), the ability to live with harmony in the most profound reality of the Cosmos. One who is shown to possess such equanimity shows oneself to be One with the Cosmos.
The vardlokkur for this Shabbat morning is Cosmos. Oh, how beautifully the Cosmos speaks in me!
וְהוֹקַע אוֹתָם לַיהוָה, נֶגֶד הַשָּׁמֶשׁ
and raise them up in the face of the sun ... Bamidbar 25:4
Thursday night before an important meeting Friday, with the word-locking warding power characteristic of Vardlokkur, I drew one magical rune out of my rune-pouch to reveal and draw out the energy which would characterize the meeting the next morning. (As always, as with every divination I do using magical alphabets, the act of drawing was made by putting one of my hands into the pouch and drawing out the rune to which my hand is drawn - I do not see any of the runes until after one is drawn and taken out of the pouch. In this particular drawing, I drew the rune out with my left hand, the hand of strength. In note, all of my runes are hand-crafted without electrical tools and hand-pyrographed into hand-cut circles of apple wood of equal size.) The rune I drew was Sowilo.“Sowilo guides and leads you to the doorway, then waits for your return.” ... rune poem, author unknown
Sowilo, the Sun rune, is also known as the victory rune - it guides to and brings up honor, victory, success, revelation and wholeness. Importantly, Sowilo is a life-giving force. It's driving energy is not one of destruction. It's driving energy is one which activates one's inner Divinity to mobilize action of one's highest values within the given situation to catalyze transmutation of one's highest will and thought into manifest reality. Sowilo makes enlightenment real.
This Shabbat Saturday morning, the day following the meeting Friday, and opposite in time to the Thursday night rune drawing, as Sowilo waited for my return to the runes, I returned, drawing a retroceding rune (such that the two rune drawings sandwiched the Friday meeting, both anteceding and retroceding it, with magical energy). As per my usual procedure as described above, yet this time with my right hand to provide balance, amazingly I drew Isa - the Ice rune force which expertly balances and focuses Sowilo.“Ice only appears to stop a river’s flow.” ... rune poem, author unknown
Isa wards, focuses and concentrates the success and enlightenment brought up by Sowilo onto and into the target situation and magical working. Isa restabilizes the natural instability surrounding the act of transmutation, brought up both through Sowilo and through the magical Hebrew word וְהוֹקַע in this week's parsha meaning "raise up." Isa freezes, brings to stillness and neutralizes other potential negative meanings (namely, "to condemn" or "to execute") of the word וְהוֹקַע to energetically focus, concentrate and bring into single-minded action the positive meaning of the word וְהוֹקַע - namely, "to raise up."
Isa is also the rune of satisfying, meditative quiet rest. Like Shabbat.
Together, Sowilo and Isa correspond to the elusive soul power of hishtavut (equanimity), the ability to live with harmony in the most profound reality of the Cosmos. One who is shown to possess such equanimity shows oneself to be One with the Cosmos.
The vardlokkur for this Shabbat morning is Cosmos. Oh, how beautifully the Cosmos speaks in me!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Vital Achdut
Chukat
וְנַפְשֵׁנוּ קָצָה, בַּלֶּחֶם הַקְּלֹקֵל
and our soul is sick with poor vitality ... Bamidbar 21:5
This phrase tells us that the singular soul (nefesh, not nefashot) of the bodies (not the individual bodies nor the plural souls), of the complainers was "sick with poor vitality." One can suggest then that the complainers were united in a high level of achdut. In fact, their level of achdut was so refined that their nefesh soul was counted as a singular united organism. Having achieved this high level of achdut, the soul required a nourishment that the manna of the desert no longer provided.
וְנַפְשֵׁנוּ קָצָה, בַּלֶּחֶם הַקְּלֹקֵל
and our soul is sick with poor vitality ... Bamidbar 21:5
This phrase tells us that the singular soul (nefesh, not nefashot) of the bodies (not the individual bodies nor the plural souls), of the complainers was "sick with poor vitality." One can suggest then that the complainers were united in a high level of achdut. In fact, their level of achdut was so refined that their nefesh soul was counted as a singular united organism. Having achieved this high level of achdut, the soul required a nourishment that the manna of the desert no longer provided.
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