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I don't believe in God but he certainly believes in me (bad)

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Democracy cannot succeed without a well-educated population.

i literally couldn't care less about students using AI to get through their coursework and i think it's really funny and pathetic when people on here start clutching pearls over it

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DM said his one rule at his table for players is no warcrimes.

and I was like, "Even chemical weapons?"

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"Rulings over rules" does not absolve you of the sin of designing a game with too many rules to remember.

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You can't just say "rulings over rules" in your RPG and pretend that's good enough. You have to actually design a system that is open-ended and flexible enough to ensure that GM rulings do not fuck up other parts of the game.

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Why does Spirit keep suffering by descending into matter? Is it stupid?

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"the way of mastery is to break all the rules, but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them" - aleister crowley

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just had a dream that the epic rap battles of history guys announced 'a new direction for the channel' and then released literally hundreds of rap songs about 9/11 in the span of an hour

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if you tell fideists they're braindead they cannot even object because it's literally what they believe. truly the most punchable epistemology

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A friendly reminder that biblically speaking, Sodomites are people who hate immigrants, not homosexuals. Just in case you want to properly use the word today.

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I have this feeling that I am going to do all of this Qliphoth work, be like hahaha yes I have become a god!! and then I'll suddenly find myself yanked up to the surface of an ocean of blood, gasping for breath, and Jesus will be standing on the surface holding me by the scruff of my neck and he'll just be like, "Nice job kid, you passed Geburah." and then drop kick me into Chesed.

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omg is that. miquella

Game designers have denied me impractically sexy men's armour for too long, so I shall have it in real life instead.

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Pentagram Ritual Experiment:

At the heart of the crossroads, the spirit blooms into matter, on its tongue an alphabet pronounced in silence.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working my version of the Greater Invoking Pentagram Ritual in the morning, and the Greater Banishing in the evening.

My intention was to strengthen my relationship with the cardinal directions and elemental energies of my local environment. The Earth element/Malkuth/Horizontal level is absolutely foundational to all practical and transcendental operations (in my experience). The upper and lower worlds are linked here. The Tree of Life diagram illustrates how every sphere focuses into Malkuth. What is right around you, here and now, is the beginning and end of the Work.

I used the classic Golden Dawn/Crowley elements and 5 pointed star correspondence; including the God-names, grade signs, and angels. This evolved and changed as the month and practice progressed which I’ll get into in a second.

At first the invocations were a lot. Throughout the first part of the day I was spacey, and felt disconnected. There was a lot of energy coming through. On one level it brought habits and behavioral patterns that were crossing me up to the forefront. This felt like the first layer of elemental purification/strengthening, it put the desire of fire, cognition and thought patterns of air, actions and behaviors in earth, and the emotion in the waters all under a microscope.

Middle Pillar and sitting style meditations after the invocations really helped ground the influx of energy and it helped me integrate the influences better. As the weeks progressed I felt way more evened out, like the core aspects of my being were rounding out.

I frame the “banishing” ritual as a refinement process. I like to use it as a way to purify, stabilize, and bind/ground the energies of the element(s). This ritual felt like a good way to close up and seal the experiences and insight gained throughout the day. The time after the banishing is where I found the time to develop and specify my own elemental correspondences as they appeared throughout the days and weeks. Sort of like I was digesting everything.

The practice noticeably shifted after the Full Moon. I have a general skeleton of a full moon rite adapted from the Azoëtia, and when circle casting at the beginning of the Ingress rite I incorporated the greater invoking ritual. I subtracted the grade sign and God-names, instead I used the Azoëtia’s directional invocations in conjunction with the drawing of the pentagrams. The experience was intense but exceptionally rewarding. I tried returning to the golden dawn/crowley method after the ritual and it didn’t have the same effect at all. It felt like the signs and formula were half-dead.

A couple things I’ve been doing since the full moon is developing my own “signs”, functioning as signals and postures sigilizing and encoding my combined experiences/gnosis of the elemental and directional spirits and energies. I’ve also adapted part of the Dragon Book’s method of projecting the upright and averse pentagrams to charge the directions. I found this section in the DBoE so fascinating and it definitely resonated with my experience:

(The Fifth Arcana of the Hendecarch, Dragon Book of Essence)

One of the most nourishing outcomes of this operation is the feeling of the spirit anchoring into the physical. Sort of like the vertical line of the spirit moving down and extending horizontally in 4 directions. The 4 elements/directions allow the spirit to find form and function. I’m not exactly sure how to articulate this part of my experience, but the “subtle essence”, or quintessence, feels more tangible.

The daily repetition and consistent meditation practices have also had a huge impact on my overall mood and rootedness.

Lastly, during a few of my meditations after the invocation part of the ritual (around week 3) Christ symbolism kept surfacing. This got me thinking about the central egress rite; the sacrifice of the 4 elemental vessels and the 5th vessel of the quintessence: the death and resurrection of the self. In the center of the crossroads, the body becomes the gate.

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“i wanna boyremove a boymoder” “i want a boymoder” etc mf’s when instead of a cutesy anime girl bdd passoid a malnourished dead eyed pale lanky dude with greasy messy hair and bad posture walks in

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Crowley would allegedly do this to get people on the street to trip and fall over.

Curious as to if Lucifer has played the “look at me” game with anyone else.

The game is basically a psychic exercise. The idea is that when you’re in public, it has to be a crowded area like a mall food court, you pick one person who is passive. They don’t have to be passive, passive people are just easiest to do. You try to make that person look at you through psychic suggestion. You’re trying to attract their attention through nothing but your mind. And it is very much like a magnetic force. If you succeed and they do look at you, you immediately move onto your next target, that’s a win. It’s important that you aren’t just staring at them like a creep, that doesn’t count. It has to be subtle. You’re not attracting them by being weird, you’re attracting them with the force of your mind.

Last night Lord Lucifer and I were playing the game at the club. He was like “now is an great opportunity to test your abilities. See that girl over there, make her look at you. Use the rhythm of the beat as your vehicle. Hitch a ride on the sound and drive into her body. Possess her for just a moment, and then let her go.”

Its interesting that he uses the wording “possess her” because as I was trying to lock onto someone, I would start mimicking their dancing unknowingly. And it was this interesting thing where I had to match their level, their high. Interesting to see how this game is impacted by drugs. People who were in their own world just dancing with the music were way too hard to win with. Way higher than me. Like literally on a more elevated plane. I tried getting into this guy that must have been on coke or something, and Lucifer was like “no, way too difficult. You will definitely not be able to get to his level.” People who were on some kind of drug that heightened awareness were very easy to win with, and I think I actually freaked some of them out. Funnily enough, the attracting force seemed to act as a repellent as soon as the subject was aware of me. They’d immediately clear away from me. I thought at first it was just because I was being weird and staring at them but it seems like the affect creates some kind of dissonance when the person becomes aware. Which makes sense in the theory of possession, because as soon as they got some kind of trip that something weird was going on, their brain seemed to sound some kind of alarm, a survival reaction. A jolt back into the body and a slight discomfort.

The progression of the game is to try and get someone to actually do something through the power of suggestion. We’ve only done small things like making someone get up from their seat or sit down. Fun.