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October Address

2009-12-02T19:30:00.000Z

Many magics,

The month of October was a productive month. We rediscovered ancient arts in Blackpool. Who would have thought that a seasonal seaside town would hold so much intrigue? We obtained ancient scrolls from a Temple of Poseidon adept and set these to work in your favour.

For this month, we have other interesting items of which I will now inform you. First, we reiterate that it is not wise to attempt to put a curse someone on your own. We mention this because it is so easy to be drawn in by the charlatans who tell you that magic is easy and there is nothing to worry about when trying out their dangerous concoctions. This is NOT the case. So take heed. Second, we are building a new temple. Third, we wish to inform you of yet another magnificent service that we have just launched, the Debrief Blaster (see below). It is now available.

1) How do I put a curse on someone?

My simple advice is not to do it yourself. It is best to let people who are more adept do it for you. We can do it for you. I do not say this to profiteer. I say it for your own safety. It is possible that your attempts could backfire. Please do not try it at home; it isn’t clever. The consequences of this have been discussed for centuries elsewhere. So I will not thrash out those here. The simple solution is to use the following link: Put a curse on someone

2) Building a new temple

Today, we have taken measures for the erection of our new temple. It is rest upon our stout courtyard, on hexagonal slabs. We discern these will act as batteries, with harnessed vigour drawn from the Sun itself. It will bring together all four elements and fortify future requests. However, this is not needed at present, as we still possess the clout to summon Poseidon and act in the interests of fellow hexers.

3) Debrief blaster

The aim of a debrief blaster is to remove particular harmful effects from your socialization that have caused you misery. Despite the emphasis of so-called freedom in many societies, most societies (including Anglo-Saxon ones) are for the most part puritanical. We can issue a one off spell to remove many damaging aspects of your socialisation. For more information, please use the following link to ask more questions: Debrief blaster

Until later,

Theo

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May Address

2009-05-31T18:00:00.000+01:00

Hello!

I recently went on an expedition to obtain a certain occult knowledge that only seems to be associated with Blackpool.

While I was there I chanced upon engravings on an outside wall of the town hall, which inspire for the most part. One might witness a striking tusked demon with his elfish horn ears, tangential to a pair of Lancashire roses – symbols abound!

He shares so much in common with the Green Man. He is not, however, one of his kindred. His seaweed facial hair and his cockleshell frontal lobe are reminiscent of Aquarius. His shell-like beard is, again, another reminder of the deep. This, my friends, is Poseidon, the Great God of Oceans Deep.

Blackpool has an ancient occult connection with Poseidon. It was knowledge of this union that I sought on my visit there. I encountered the correct merchant of the Temple. He bestowed the rites to convene with the Aqueous One. I employed the Pictish scroll, as the ancient ones did, and harnessed forces to use for the benefit of fellow Hexers. I have stored sufficient magical essence for seven of the most potent spells. Please place your curse now for consideration. My preference would be to curse someone or determine whether I was cursed myself.

Until later,

Theo

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2009-05-09T01:56:00.003+01:00

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March Address

2009-03-31T10:29:00.000+01:00

Hello there,

We are able to make merry with prayers for Janus. Men unleashed the New Year once again. She would torture a glance. It is easy for the hell-hound to vanquish and cure the storms ahead.

Laughter is the great inspiration behind Imbolc. Seen rising among woodlands, she was looking for the beautiful invocation known as a scene reminiscent of oracles.

Let Bride come to launch your hex. Allow the flow of regeneration from February.

Until next time,

Theo

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Children of Abigail

2009-01-09T12:47:00.001Z

Imbolc is coming and Abigail Brown has been out in the swamps, seeking magical ingredients for hexing work. Has anyone heard of Abigail’s children? I guess not – so I will enlighten you. By eldritch Santeric arts the ebon mistress has captured the spirits of four Voodoo gods and sealed them.

These are Abigail’s children: a quartet of demons waiting to be unleashed on your foes. Consider them well; behold their leering grins and gimlet eyes.

On Imbolc, Abigail will – by her most potent art – command these angry spirits to curse, Hex and generally lay waste at your command.

December 2008 Address

2008-12-09T20:49:00.002Z

Happy Hex-Mass O Cursers and master craftsman!

We love to gnaw the Birthday of the old world. And this season, we place Hate with lost spirits. None should be merry, we speak? No mistakes; I was named Master Hexer. All lips murmuring with hushed awakenings at the Lamb. While chickens cluck when Yule is in the hour of Solomon, however deep and far away. His knife glinted blind satiety! Icy stars, blue the wind, and blue ice the lands.

So He left his enemies dead, a growing legion of folly. Vengeance blooms in Time, filling the realms and silent courtyards. It is a dizzying blend, selling their blood after long ungoverned anger. No matter your difficulties, we commander a gentle breeze, whispering against ancient foes: a vast tsunami.

With our hard work you will be merrier.

Until next time,

Theo

GhostPubs.com

2008-12-06T22:35:00.004Z

Excellent - I heard about an interesting development that is underway. It is scheduled for release in early 2009. Ghost Pubs is website that is dedicated to haunted, closed, abandoned, and demonlished public houses, hotels, and the like. I am sure we all have a story to tell about ghostly experiences in some pub or other.

November 2008 Address

2008-11-09T20:48:00.001Z

The internet is thirsty for Ichor’s insolent school teachers and maidens. Vengeance, always November grey she wore, always at her lips were cold mantle of bitter memory. She always adorned the traditional religions, well matched to her grave.

The Jesus Sermon of the Darkness engulfs me and embraces you.

The Priesthood, wondrous new world of our age, is eager to encourage dread for their hollow cells. Ruin one’s personal foes. Embrace the spiritual plane. November is eager to spin your deepest rages; allow them to creep forth.

The whole notion of course, I know far!

The old religions fail to deliver what the mountain for supremacy new religion delivers. Be among the first snow, when we represent a winter's dawn; with everyone else to be named November grey.

Always November old! Let your webs of workplace bullying suspend.

Today, dread and destined only to damage, Abigail Brown and social classes jostle over ancient supremacy.

In this battle, faith no longer exists.

Theo

October Address 2008

2008-10-09T20:46:00.000+01:00

The thing we have to remember about so many people who once crossed us is that they are now typically Has-beens, Nobodies and Never-Weres. If they were lucky, that is: most of the rabbit-brained scum who tangle with us on the road of life don’t even get that far. I am continually struck by how many people are prime losers in this life – and how few of them actually know it. Stripped bare before Eternity, what are most people, anyway? A soggy bag of self-entitled and self-proclaimed pus, leaking inane opinions culled from the gutter over everyone they meet. The great problem with the modern world is this: it is founded on a concept of mass democracy that is, in essence, nonsense. It is nonsensical because people are not equal in any respect: intellectually, socially, politically or economically. And yet – every single day of the worthless lives from earliest childhood – the most idiotic, repulsive poltroons are bombarded with media messages telling them they are entitled to vast wealth, yachts in the Caribbean and celebrity lifestyles. This creates a tension between their real selves and their expectations. One major result of this internal conflict is a core of black rage and disappointment that is continually directed at other, worthier people as cruel insults and other abusive behaviours. These poisoned maggots loathe the decent, the hardworking and well-adjusted. It becomes their life’s work to ruin the lives of their betters.

Ultimately, however, these snarling, gap-toothed baboons find their natural station in life – as Has-Beens, Nobodies and Never-Weres. Just check the trash on Facebook and MySpace out: 45 year old DJs and Rock Stars just waiting to be ‘Saved’ by their next demo-tape, their next never-to-be-heard ‘album’; divorced fellows, paying for kids they never see, slumped in cheap apartments with a 6-pack of Colt 45 (or some other crappy beer); big, fat women with low IQs flipping burgers in McDonald’s. This is where these filth usually end up – in Loserdom. Those are the Nobodies and never-Weres. In some cases, a very, very small number I hasten to add – they may actually achieve something in their miserable lives. Unfortunately for them, their intrinsic worthlessness means that all these glittering prizes will be taken from them in due course. There is one fellow who epitomizes this: once, he owned a mansion on a hill; once, he oozed charisma; once, he was mighty. He trod the heartlands of the western world, a playboy with guitar in hand, from Virginia to Alaska. Consider him now: his mansion is gone; he sells his body to withered females for a paltry sum; his tunes are ignored, unloved, even derided. The future holds nothing for him; aye, nothing and less than nothing. The years will turn: his eyes will dim as his flesh withers and his mind fades. He will perish, the glories of his vanished youth lost forever; aye, even now his glory days are recalled by few.

Although these vile creatures are often brought low by Mistress Fortuna, Hex-me.co.uk is here to put the icing on the cake of their discomfiture. We finish the job, as it were: we drag these Has-Beens, Nobodies and Never-Weres into the darkest depths of despair with our timely curses, our magnificent Hexes. No one is safe from us: no one can escape our dark justice.

This month, our Hexers are Kelly Rivers, Puspa Kshatriya and Angelo Alvarez. The team are electric, desperate to make the most of the mystic Summer Solstice in their spells and workings! Expect some awesome Hexes, my friends!

When one Moon has passed, we will speak again...

The Romance of the Shadows

2008-05-19T22:22:00.006+01:00

The Romance of the Shadows: Mirabilia, Quantum Magic and Creativity

Introduction

A general conception that inhibits creativity in the present is the idea that matter is inanimate and detached from human consciousness. Since design and the arts in general no longer attract the most intelligent people in each generation, two distinct cultures have arisen in which creatives eschew the findings of science. This is unfortunate, in that certain scientific findings can open up an interesting conceptual space for creatives to explore. This is particularly true of quantum physics, since certain ideas inhering to this area of scientific study seem to invigorate matter, imbuing designed objects with the status they enjoyed in traditional societies: as Mirabilia, sacred objects bonding man with the cosmos. Additionally, considering how other great creatives have used the platonic variant of quantum concepts can show how they can be used to enrich creative endeavour.

It would be impossible for a layperson such as myself to give an overview of quantum theory. In this discussion I derive my exposition from the celebrated populariser of esoteric physics, Paul Davies. Such a simplified understanding of the essential concepts is sufficient however to understand the arguments I will make.

Background

In what is usually called the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum experimental phenomena, advanced by Nils Bohr, the following picture emerges:

We have now arrived at some idea of the nature of reality according to the usual interpretation of quantum theory, but it is a pale shadow of the commonsense image. The indeterminacy of the microworld is not just a consequence of our ignorance (as with the weather) but is absolute. We are not merely presented with a choice of alternatives, such as the heads/tails unpredictability of daily life, but a genuine hybrid of the two. Until we make a definite observation of the world it is meaningless to ascribe to it a definite (or even various alternatives), for it is a superposition of different worlds…

According to these ideas, reality only makes sense within the context of a prescribed measurement or observation… The only reality is the total system of subatomic particles plus apparatus and experimenter, for if the experimenter chooses to rotate his polariser, then he changes the choices for the alternative worlds (Davies, 1999: 122).

A paradox is involved in the act of measurement, however, which leads to more profound interpretations. A measuring system is in itself a quantum system: The microscopic realm of phenomena and macroscopic realm of observation are indivisible in this sense. The measuring system is also made of atoms, and thus comprises a wave containing a superposition of all its possible states.

Therefore, if a man were put in a box, with a radioactively-controlled hammer that could break a cyanide capsule with a given probability, the man must be both alive and dead until the experimenter checks on his condition. But how can he be in both states simultaneously? This paradox of Wigner’s friend leads on to further speculation.

Eugene Wigner claimed that under such paradoxical circumstances the quantum laws break down:

In Wigner’s interpretation of quantum theory, the minds of sentient beings occupy a central role in… the organization of the universe, for it is precisely when the information about an observation enters the consciousness of an observer that the superposition of waves actually collapses into reality. Thus, in a sense, the whole cosmic panorama is generated by its own inhabitants! (Davies, 1999: 133).

Thus Wigner’s friend brings about the collapse into reality of the box’s contents himself. In this conception, without sentient beings, everything would collapse into the limbo of superposition; only when sentience evolved did the universe truly begin to exist! This view is almost identical to the absolute idealism of the eighteenth century philosopher, George Berkely, to whom God is the ultimate observer in a hierarchy of sentience. However, in itself it leads to further paradoxes. Suppose two photos, A and B, were consecutively taken of the Geiger counter at the end of the Wigner experiment. If B were viewed first many years later, and only observation by sentient consciousness could collapse the superposition into reality, as Wigner proposed, then A would be ‘changed’ by B in a mysterious act of backward causation, despite being the older photograph.

The Everett-DeWitt Many Worlds Thesis

This theory, that alternatively explains the paradox of Wigner’s Friend, is purportedly supported by the majority of physicists. By abandoning the metaphysical implications of quantum theory, Hugh Everett (1957) and Bryce DeWitt propose that every subatomic process create a new universe, or plurality of universes:

Instead of assuming that all the other worlds in superspace are merely potential realities – failed worlds – that jostle our world of experience but do not themselves acquire concreteness, Everett proposes that these other universes exist and are every bit as real as the one we inhabit. (Davies, 1999: 136).

According to DeWitt, our brains, bodies and minds are being continually split into thousands of copies as each new universe branches off. We cannot observe this occurring, nor verify its occurrence, because each universe is completely autonomous. Nor can its inhabitants communicate with their alter-egos elsewhere.

The Anthropic Principle

It is, according to many scientists, a miracle that we live in a universe that can support life at all (Davies, 1999: 150). If conditions were slightly adjusted, the universe would be seared with radiation, the wrong shape, too hot, too cold. In fact, the chances of a single universe being right to produce life are millions to one against. This is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the many worlds thesis. Only an ontological plurality containing a wide variety of possible universes could contain the necessary conditions for our existence. A ‘one-shot’ universe would almost certainly be insufficient. Other ‘shadow’ universes probably abound, but the vast majority cannot support life. Other thinkers, for example Lovelock, have marvelled at our good fortune in living on a planet where conditions for creating/sustaining life are near perfect. The Many Worlds theory explains this felicity via ontological variety. We would not – could not – be here if not for this plurality of options. The Universe where Jupiter ignited to form a binary star system; where the Yucatan Meteorite shattered the earth completely; where the Earth was too close/far to/from the Sun; these realities vanished into Chaos long ago. We are here because our ontology does not rely on a single option. For most scenarios, life had no chance to exist at all, much less sentience, culture or civilization.

Esoteric Neo-Platonism, Quantum Physics and Catallaxical Knowledge

One major feature of the Western esoteric tradition is a Platonic strain of thought which stresses the importance of consciousness in determining reality; the shadow-like insubstantiality of phenomenal appearances; the transcendant nature of ideal Forms accessible only to a trained intellect. In one form or another, these concepts have influenced occultists as diverse as Dr John Dee, William Blake or Eliphas Levi. The origin of this intellectual tradition is usually traced back to the post-Socratic Greeks, although it almost certainly pre-existed. The Neo-Platonist influence survived, often in opposition to Christianity, until the Renaissance, when it became a primary source of creative inspiration. Consider Shakespeare’s Sonnet LVI:

What is your substance, whereof art thou made
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath every one, one’s shade
And you but one can every shadow lend ((Sonnet LIII 1-4) Shakespeare, 1998: 217).

Here, Neo-Platonic concepts popular among the Elizabethan intelligentsia are playfully exploited to evoke the Friend’s heightened substantiality amidst the fleeting, dependant ‘shadows’ of phenomenal reality. It is also hinted that the Friend creates reality, or multiple realities (‘millions of strange shadows’) by merely being:

But Shakespeare often caught in his Sonnets the Platonic note with equal subtlety.

Plato’s disciples greatly elaborated their master’s conception of earthly Beauty as a reflection or ‘shadow’ of a heavenly essence or ‘pattern’ which, though immaterial, was the only true and perfect ‘substance’. Platonic or Neo-Platonic ‘ideas’ are the source of Shakespeare’s metaphysical questionings (Lee, 1976: 56-57).

In Hamlet, the insubstantiality of consensus reality is evoked by Neo-Platonic imagery:

Guildenstern: Which Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitions, is merely the shadow of a dream.
Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow.
Guildenstern: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow (Shakespeare, 1994: 81).

It is difficult not to view these excerpts as a literary counterpart to the quantum theories already described. Consciousness is central; the world is a fleeting shadow, insubstantial and indeterminate; ideal Forms can create new realities. Yet quantum physics emerged from empirical procedure, using methods and equipment inhering to the technological age. Platonism and Renaissance Neo-Platonism flourished in a pre-technological culture, which makes the conceptual congruity all the more puzzling. Everett and DeWitt’s Many Worlds Theory has inspired much contemporary science fiction:

I was drawing near to my Avalon when I came upon the wounded and the six dead men. Had I chosen to walk on by, I could have reached a placed where the six men lay dead and the Knight stood unwounded – or a place where he lay dead and they stood laughing. Some would say it did not really matter, since all these things are possibilities, and therefore all of them exist somewhere in Shadow (Zelazny, 1999: 123).

However, Shakespeare’s or Spenser’s Neo-Platonism occurs without any obvious source. The esoteric tradition also posits the existence of ‘emanations’ or discrete planes of reality. This can be found in John Dee or Robert Fludd, as well as the Jewish Cabala. This is almost identical to quantum parallel worlds, which are aligned further or closer to our own in terms of chance-variance.

Other mysterious examples of esoteric culture’s alignments with modern scientific principles are emanations and astrology. The Western esoteric tradition (Gnosticism, cabalism and Neo-Platonism) utilized the concept of ‘emanations’ of reality: planes of operation sustained by, yet independent of, the level before. This resembles the biotonic concept in biology, wherein secondary characteristics can emerge from or control a more primary level of operation (usually molecular or biochemical).

Astrology is one of the oldest belief systems known to mankind. The idea that the stars and planets can have any effect on human affairs had been completely discredited by modern astronomy until Jean Gauquelin showed a planetary influence on career choice and success. Although this work does not in any sense corroborate the detailed claims of traditional western astrology, it presents unequivocal evidence that astrological influences exist (Gauquelin, 1980).

As in various other areas, there is a remarkable alignment between ancient, pre-technological ideas and the prevailing scientific paradigms. One of these is the concept of four elements or forces in reality, animated by a mysterious fifth principle. In the West, the esoteric tradition speaks of earth, air, fire and water, plus the quintessence or binding, animating principle (Seligmann, 1997). An enormous variety of variants on this theme exist in China (Wilhelm, 1967), the Indian Sub-continent, and, more importantly, in Meso-America and South America (Campbell, 1960; 1962; Watts, 2000; Burland, 1967). The many examples from the Americas tend to disprove the idea that the Fourfold permeated the world by simple diffusion, since the prolonged two way contact necessary for such transmission is not supported by conventional scholarship (Pringle, 2001). The Fourfold concept is one of the few universally held. This conception coordinates remarkably well with the four forces governing the modern scientific world view; electro-magnetism, gravity, strong force and weak force (Burt, 1962):

Figure 1: Science and the Esoteric World-view:

Additionally, this world view has its own quintessence, the Grand Unifying Theory which is intended to conceptually reconcile the four principles. Viewed dispassionately, this is an astounding coincidence. A number of explanations have been advanced to explain the longevity and universality of this model:

• A highly sophisticated culture existed in prehistoric times. This was perhaps localised and short-lived, but its conceptual influence on later civilisations was immense (Hapgood, 1966). It provided the four elements cosmology and cartographic expertise to many subsequent cultures. Though this original conceptual template may have been scientific, later cultures reinterpreted its heritage from a theological or esoteric perspective, resulting in the concept of four mystical elements. Conventional scholarship avers that Hapgood’s cartographic examples are of no great antiquity and hence do not demonstrate high levels of prehistoric cartographic expertise.
• Extra-terrestrials/trans-dimensionals/time travellers provided the developing city states of the Near East with the core conceptual features of anthropic civilisation. Quantum Neo-Platonism, the astrological concept and the notion of four controlling forces were re-adapted over the centuries to match a theological world view and ultimately absorbed into the esoteric tradition. Virtually all these claims have been discredited as bogus or flawed (Story, 1976; White, 1974)
• The human mind can tap into a collective unconscious – a lumber room of mythical archetypes including the concept of four elements. Some exponents of this view believe that the collective unconscious is a morphic field or Platonic realm of forms which the human mind can access by a mystic or extra-sensory process (Jung, 1960: Sheldrake, 1988). Others harbor a more socio-biological, prosaic view of the collective unconscious, stressing its adaptive role in giving meaning to life (Anthony Storr). This explanation cannot explain why certain archetypes approximate modern scientific thought, however. Further, no evidence has ever been adduced to demonstrate the existence of a complex collective unconscious as advanced by Jung and his followers. Finally, this explanation is, in many treatments, too mired in metaphysical baggage to be discussed rationally (e.g. Jung, 1952).
• The present author’s view is that the cultural catallaxy, comprising language, art, texts, education and the built environment has, like all complex systems, a self-organizing capacity. As knowledge and experience accrete over millennia, the catallaxy of any civilization spontaneously refines itself as a model or reality (Hayek, 1976). Such refinement inevitable produces a fairly accurate model of the universe, which is why all cultures produce archetypal systems of thought which match scientific concepts remarkably well. This explains how pre-scientific cultures often preempt scientific principles. This concept can also coordinate with any of the above theories (although it must be stressed there is no tangible evidence to support of any of these).

By extension, viewing the esoteric tradition as the result of catallaxical self-refinement processes allows further inferences about that tradition.

Firstly, the tradition should be scoured for further clues about the nature of reality. It already seems to contain models that approximate later scientific findings. Perhaps other perspectives lurk in its accreted, purified wisdom that science as well as artists can use as inspiration.

Secondly, the accreted esoteric tradition avers that magic works – that it is possible to manipulate reality with rituals, and so on. Since the esoteric tradition seems to coordinate with scientific models in other areas, its central claim to act as a conversion formula between will and phenomena cannot be lightly dismissed. Hayek argued that catallaxical institutions can never be deconstructed, being the work of many minds rather than one. In this sense, we can never understand how the conversion formula of magic works, though in some circumstances it might be effective.

Catallaxy and Meaningful Coincidence

The catallaxy is a system of immense complexity. Like all highly complex systems, it has the capacity to generate emergent properties that acquire a level of independence from the strata of complexity that generates them. This can be seen in the example of higher animals, which exhibit biotonic qualities (instincts, consciousness, imagination) which cannot be reduced to the crude molecular composition which is still necessary to maintain those qualities (Coveney and Highfield, 1995). In fact, the secondary, emergent characteristics can come to control the primary level in many respects, as minds wills body (Kauffman, 1996).

The catallaxy’s emergent consciousness is manifested most evidently as meaningful coincidence. Emergence of secondary catallaxical qualities is an autocatalytic process where, one a threshold of connectivity between elements is breached, a new level of order crystallizes. The key concept in meaningful coincidence is connectivity between elements. We see a book and think, that book has a very 1958 mentality; then we check it and see it was published in 1958. These are subtle examples. But meaningful coincidence seems to play a role in the world’s great historical events. For example, the eeerie similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy have been well-documented. John Wilkes Boothe shot Lincoln in a theatre. He then took refuge in a schoolhouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a schoolbook depository, then took refuge in a theatre. Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln when he was shot. And so on. Oswald’s life itself is full of strange coincidences – his boyhood association with anti-Castro pilot David Ferrie, Ferrie’s links with Jack Ruby, Ruby’s links with the Mafia, the ease with which he entered the Soviet Union. More pertinent to the arguments of this monograph are the parallels between Hitler and Stalin, discussed at length by Alan Bullock. These coincidences suggest the catallaxy can manipulate world affairs in the interests of its own emergent self-consciousness. Those who are valuable to it will tend to be ‘protected’ by coincidence. A good example would be Hitler’s vaunted invulnerability to shellfire and bullets on the western Front. Connectivity is both the key to its autocatalytic consciousness and meaningful coincidence. An increase in one denotes an increase in the other. When Freud, Wittgenstein or Koestler use the term ‘oceanic’ or ‘mystical’ feeling, they are obliquely referring to the intimation of catallaxical totality occasioned by such manifestations of its presence. The notion of a New World Order or occult conspiracy probably also derives from these intimations.

Although the catallaxy is unknowable, intimations of catallaxical consciousness seem to be fragmentary and often purposeless or conflicted. This may be due to the partial emergence or de-emergence of catallaxical consciousness. Another explanation could inhere to the idea that cultural conflict and destruction is natural. Following Sprengler and Evola, if all cultures have a natural Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, then a self-conscious Autumn culture (i.e. catallaxy) will promote its own self destruction. The Italian Futurists sensed that the Nineteenth Century imperialist culture of Old Europe had reached the end of its cycle, and needed hastening to its destruction in the First World War. Alternatively, the emergent catallaxical consciousness may have a number of biotonic levels, or emanations, with interests divided within and between levels. The deitic conflicts in traditional myth intimate this condition.

Conclusions and Implications for Creative Process

The prior monograph is not intended to prescribe a philosophy of creativity. It is rather to open and explore a conceptual territory that might be useful for any persons engaged in creative process. The conceptual vistas displayed here are not those usually encountered by these individuals, and this distinction is intended.

A number of explanations have been advanced to divine why the modern era of ‘Mechanos’ produces so few creative geniuses compared to, for example, the Rennaissance. One of these is that the most brilliant members of modern society have alternative outlets for their ability, especially the physical sciences. However, a more malleable reason is that the modern worldview presents an alienating, schismatic picture of reality where matter is perceived as ‘dead’ and objects mutually isolated. By contrast, in the Renaissance and before a more opulent view of reality prevailed. This was a ‘magical’ worldview in which all things were linked in a chain of being and matter was infused with sacred qualities. Concepts like ‘sympathy’ and ‘degree’ governed creative discourse. However, during the Seventeenth Century this view began to crack. In King Lear, For example, we hear

Clown: Why are there seven stars?
Lear: Why, because there are not eight.

Lear’s ‘madness’ is in fact the modern worldview. Life is absurd because, as Sartre avers, there is no reason for it not to be otherwise. Where once, the seven stars were linked to seven days, seven wonders, seven planets, seven gods and seven gems in a complex web of associative sympathies, here they are reasonless. They just are. Though reactionary intellectuals have fought a rearguard action since this conceptual shift in an attempt to restore the magical worldview, it has risen steadily to dominance. Berkeley, Guenon, Evola, Juenger, Heidegger, Langbehn and Mishima form a formidable wedge of thinkers who voiced dissatisfaction with the tempo and assumptions of modern life. Their strident antipathy has wrought little change however, except perhaps in popularizing environmental issues.

Though the magical worldview that existed in the Renaissance will never be restored, the quantum universe is equally ‘rich and strange’. In the Copenhagen interpretation, man’s consciousness is reintegrated into being, selecting and manipulating real-world phenomena. Quantum events transform the apparent solidity of phenomena into a realm of shadows subject to human perception. In the Many-worlds interpretation, matter and objects continually generate multiple universes, shimmer in infinite permutations. In both these quantum perceptions objects regain their pre-modern status as Mirabilia, semi-divine links between minds, events and people.

For those engaged in creative activity, this redefinition of objects, matter and consciousness can revivify these activities, underpinning them with an opulent worldview similar to that which produced the creative glories of Tradition.

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Catallaxical Astrology

2008-05-17T13:09:00.002+01:00

Catallaxical Astrology – an occult masterwork by Dr Puspa Kshatriya, with help from Rene Chevalier, is now available.

Respect, Fame and Influence... If these things are missing from your life, Catallaxical Astrology is the key to your future. Without a trace of metaphysical Mumbo-Jumbo, this book shows you how to use NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and ESO (Emergent Social Order) for programming society to your own advantage. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Catallaxical Astrology represents a revolution in occult studies, of enormous interest to all who would walk with the gods.

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Hex Me Ringtone

2008-05-12T12:58:00.004+01:00

Power is the Key. Power unlocks the door of the world. Power moves the stars and seasons. Power proclaims the Leaders among the Common Herd. How best to announce your regal dominance of any situation than with a spine-tingling Hex-Me ring tone?

With Hawthorn Month on the way, this awesome ring tone rippling through your mobile will say to all Untermenschen, “Here is a man or woman to be reckoned with! A Player in Power! Here is someone who would not take the Neo-Christian bullshit any more; who embraced the darkness eternal, cramming their maw with vengeance and hate!”

Every call you receive will shriek ‘Leader!’ to the fawning multitude. The door between the Worlds will open, and a cold sliver of the Dark Beyond will walk among the rabbit-brained scum you tread daily underfoot. As always – Make Mine Hex Me!

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May 2008 Address

2008-05-09T20:45:00.000+01:00

May the First is the first day of Summer, ravishing season of nature’s rosy bounty. Ah, Summer!

What few people in the Anglo-American world seem to know is that Hallowe’en is not the major Western occult festival of the year. No – that honour goes to Walpurgisnacht, the night of 30th April – 1st May. Of old, this is the eve when the ancient powers of Old Night rove the world, to celebrate with their chosen few. Some call these forces demonic, or even Satanic: on this Hexing forum, we prefer not to even define these forces. Why? Because these powers elude paltry human names and methods of description: art, literature, poetry – all fall short of their dark, ineffable majesty. In other ages and cultures, they went by different names: Texcatlipoca; Mulciber; Dagon; the Black Captain – but all are different names for the same, eternal phenomena: dark forces that were old when this world was young.

Weep not for the Darkness, my children: it will remain when the ruins of our cities affright the lonely moon.

In this spirit, we offer our finest Hexing services for your delectation during this sacred month. Baron Rene Chevalier has dusted off his strangest, most esoteric tomes; meanwhile, Angelo Alvarez has been sharpening his knife and preparing himself for some sacrificial blood-letting. These two Hexing superstars are at your disposal this month. I wanted to include Albert Little in this Hexing Smorgasbord, but received the following ‘po’m’ from him:

Bide ye in the dusky wood,
All through the dancing day;
The hazel’s furry catkins sport
To Faery minstrelsy;

But I shall not consult the elves,
Nor kiss the well-bred foal, –
Until we see fair Hy-Bresail
And I collect my Dole.

Whatever it means, he knows how to say it! Happy Hexing, my Children of Shadows!

April 2008 Address

2008-04-09T20:44:00.000+01:00

April is the month of Easter, the main Christian festival of the year. Christianity is a failure of the most absurd kind. In fact, all the Abrahamic religions make this signal error, in writing evil and vengeance out of their theological world-view. This is a cardinal error of the mainstream religions, this lax tendency to endless forgiveness. This explains why Christianity is the sole preserve of weak-minded losers. Real experience does not match the teachings of Jesus at all: ‘turn the other cheek’; do not resist evil’; all are the ramblings of an idiot. Why is this? Easy: because evil, worthless individuals are unpleasantly common. We meet them, we see them every day: evil, squint-eyed teenagers, scurvy beggars, recreants that go by land, air and sea. These vicious lice have no decency or humanity: their sole pleasure is the pain of others. Turning the other cheek to such as these could only lead one way: to personal destruction. Evening accounts is the only way to deal with them – as painfully as possible.

And this is why Hex-me is much more than a mere site for placing and removing hexes: it is a whole climate of theological opinion. Yet, we are not Satanists or Devil-worshippers: we are not mere atheists who worship our appetites, nor do we believe in a metaphysical Lord of Evil in the Universe (that is the true distinction between Satanism and Devil Worship, by the way).

What, then, is the Hex-Me spiritual ethos? For us, Evil is an integral part of human existence, just as Good is an integral part: both are necessary aspects of the same whole. There are ghosts of fire and ghosts of light, sweet fruit trees and terrible earthquakes: all are one.

This month, we have noticed a general astrological tendency for arrogant males to toy with the heartstrings of our lovelorn ladies, for mere joy in wickedness! This is why we are bringing Kelly Rivers, Abigail Brown and Albert Little to the hexing table this month. You may rest assured that only the finest Hexes will be delivered by these masters of the art.

It is good to see from our servers that the Hexes are flowing again. But that is the enchanted wonder of our online Hexing community!

Many magics – until we speak again…

March 2008 Address

2008-03-09T20:42:00.000Z

Hello again, my Hexers loyal and true. Last month we unleashed the Suicide Hex on your unsuspecting foes: aye, indeed, we did.

The response was awesome: three Hexers have already given their lives, firing their hate through the occult ether to bring Calamity down on their opponents! But with what results! From the Astral I observed a car crash, an accidental beheading and a – wait for it – fatal cycling accident! All the offending miscreants were dead within the day. What further proof is needed to show the might of the Suicide Curse? Albert Little wandered the Faerie-haunted Isle of Man, conjuring “Faerie Wee-Twinkle Lore” to help these Hexes on their way. Meanwhile, Abigail Brown has been hot in her hut, invoking the dread demons of Santeria to drive these ebon death-curses to their hapless targets!

All in all, an awesome display of advanced Hexing, if I may make so bold. Stick with the very best – stick with Hex-me.com! In seven moons, my magnificent Hexers – and other students of arcane, eldritch, lore – we shall speak again.

February 2008 Address

2008-02-09T20:41:00.000Z

Greetings, my loyal Hexers! After Seven Moons, I greet thee here again. I promised last month we would be discussing the fabled Suicide Hex in this Address – and I was not jesting!

Consider the unbreakable Will of the Kamikaze pilots as they swooped like eagles onto the hapless American carriers in the blue Pacific; consider the force of unbreakable Will that focused their attentions on the task at hand – the Will to Suicide! And what force of Will could possibly be greater, than that required to choose Death over Life? With this in mind, we offer a new service to our illustrious roster of services – the Suicide Hex! This ‘Special’ is for the Hexer without hope – the terminally ill or afflicted, the ruined or the destitute. The Suicide Hex is the greatest occult innovation since Eliphas Levi walked the Earth!

Think of it this way: the Hexer fires his or her Hate into the Ether (with our skilled help, of course!); and releases maximum energy by committing suicide at the instant of cursing! Aye, as the Hexer cuts their wrists, or swallows that fatal overdose, or jumps from that bridge, or swings from that tree, they fire their curse with supreme psychic focus into the Quintessence! Augmented by our renowned practitioners, this is a curse guaranteed to work!!! Calamity will be rehearsed upon your foes; even though ye be dead, their lives are ruined.

Albert Little and Abigail Brown have been given the task of shooting these potent Hexes into the occult ether – they alone have the primal skills of supernatural manipulation necessary to guide the Suicide Hex to its target – the miscreants who have ruined your life!

Happy Hexing: in Seven Moons, my mystic children, we shall converse again.

Is it possible to actually hex someone on the other side of the world?

2008-01-10T01:00:00.000Z

Of course! The Cosmic Ether surrounds all things in the universe, living and inanimate. In Hexing terms, another continent is as closer as the next room – sometimes closer.

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Can you curse a company?

2008-01-10T00:58:00.000Z

Let’s face it, we live in a corporate world. Corporations determined what we eat, where we live, how we dress, where we live and when we die. Unsurprisingly, corporate curses are one of our most popular services. Have you ever thought of cursing your competitor? To hex any organisation, go click here.

Can you undo a curse on me?

2008-01-10T00:57:00.000Z

Frater Alvarez can transfer your curse onto someone or something else. This dissipates ‘your’ curse harmlessly.

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Can you assist to improve my situation; I do not want to curse anyone?

2008-01-10T00:56:00.000Z

We can clear the Karmic obstacles that litter your path. The rest is up to you.

What if I don't know the exact location of a person to be hexed or if I don't know their birth date?

2008-01-10T00:55:00.000Z

The Hex will obviously be less effective!

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What is going to happen to the person?

2008-01-10T00:54:00.000Z

It depends. You are supposed to tell us what you would like to happen. To say the least, it can manifests itself as a run of bad luck or misfortune in the victim’s life or much worse.

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Is the rudeness of a person a sufficient reason to curse someone?

2008-01-10T00:52:00.000Z

If a person’s rudeness is prolonged, hurtful and the product of conscious malice – yes, of course it is sufficient reason to curse them.

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How can I punish those responsible for causing my suffering?

2008-01-10T00:51:00.001Z

Simple: contact us and place a hex request on the offenders.

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How do I get rid of this bad karma?

2008-01-10T00:51:00.000Z

We offer a bad karma cleansing service (also known as ‘The Demon Taskforce’). Obviously, though, negative Karmic debt is no laughing matter. At best, we can cleanse the negative Karma completely. At worst, we can alleviate its worst symptoms. Frater Alvarez is especially adept at this kind of advanced occult work.

However, the easiest way is to ask use to pass it to someone else.

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