magic

How to contact your future self via time-travel meditation

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 13, 2010 /

Found : How to contact your future self via time-travel meditation Many years ago I was sitting in deep meditation. My mind was clear and my body was relaxed as it would be during any good meditation session. As I sat there slowly breathing in and out, I heard a voice. The voice proceeded to…

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Retroactive Enchantment

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / June 23, 2006 /

“Changes to the ego or self-image or personality by magic are classed as works of illumination and are mainly accomplished by retroactive enchantment and invocation. Retroactive enchantment in this case consists of rewriting our personal history. As our history largely defines our future, we can change our future by redefining our past. Everybody has some…

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Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / December 12, 2005 /

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!

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Madness, Illumination and Gnosis in Magic and the Occult

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / July 7, 2005 /

FOUND: gnosis 3: the dark side Because of this mixture of dark and light, this potential both for madness and for illumination, it is not surprising that mainstream Christians can be fearful and yet fascinated by the several expressions of gnosis in magic, the occult, and the paranormal. Gnosis inevitably calls the seeker out of the…

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Siddhis and the Affective World

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / June 28, 2005 /

FOUND:  khepher … the Affective Reality, the Vital World, the Universe of Asiyah, the Intermediate Zone, call it what you will, is a very important region that determines the nature of mundane consciousness. This is the region to which occultism and magick strongly pertain. Occultism in fact is nothing but a science and technology of…

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ART? Alternatives Issue #9

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 1, 2000 /

Back in 1994, one man began having startling realizations about “the very foundations of [his] being.” He… discovered several texts describing gnosticism, one of the three main branches of primitive Christianity. “Somehow, these ancient Christian heretics had already discovered and written about almost every thing I had always suspected” [he later claimed]. Now, as the…

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This is not about ‘cool’ or ‘Alternative Christianity’

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 26, 1998 /

"Your "bible" does not have the history and background of the Christian Bible.  The Bible was written over a 1600 year span, over 60 generations, plus it was written by over 40 people from all walks of life.  It was written on three continents from places ranging from forest to jail.  It was written in…

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Show your gnostic pride by wearing a t-shirt?

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / August 26, 1997 /

"The Gnostics sound like the band of magicians Moses came up against when he went to visit Pharaoh. They could do many of the wonders God did through Moses, but not all of them. For God spoke to Moses and the angel passed over. God spoke to Moses and they crossed the red sea. God…

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