The Magickal Record of Louis Martinie': August 1996

1ž Magickal Record August 1996

1 Thursday: Mishlen will receive the ribs of a cat for the upcomming birthday. Useful in her art and interesting to hear.
2 Friday: Working on presentation for Summerhawk. VOODOO AND THELEMA. Thelemic nation of loa as portrayed in the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot....LaFlambeau.
8 Thursday: My Loves Birthday. Into the woods to celebrate the event...to the Goddess Pond. Sex in the stream bed. Mishlen was mense, blood to the earth. Saw that the journey would make an effective inititory sequence for Gwen. Teaching on Attention - The rocks are very slippery and demand step to step/breath to breath attention if falling is to be avoided (I fell). Goddess Pond - Meditation...the focusing of attention within...a teaching on the slippery rocks found within. Initiation Tree - A huge tree in the center of the stream with with a hollow trunk. Plenty of room to sit within. Mishlen fears for T. Her psychic senses tell her that there is trouble. She tries to call and tries to call T. But no answer.
9 Friday: To SummerHawk Festival. Immediately before leaving we learn that T is in jail in New Orleans. Calls throughout the night , over the miles, bring the news that T has gotten out and is clear of all charges.
1O Saturday: Arrive at SummerHawk about six am after all night drive. Sleep in the car. Someone puts a tarp up over the front window while we sleep. Such a beautiful thing to do. Conversation - I am reminded that Joan of Arc is a patron of the city. She should be honored along with Annie Christmas at the Voodoo Temple. EARTHSTAR RISING RITUAL Run through in the afternoon. Back and forth with Thea on taking the position of RHK. Thea deceided to take the position and I ate dinner of Osterage. During dinner, Thea discovers she can not take the part and am again in position as RHK. This moving back and forth with the position of RHK fits nicely with my understanding of "will." It is my experience that my will consists of doing those things that only I can do. If someone can do a thing and wants to do it, I gladly leave the doing to them. LOVE: Hard copy of ritual on file with print out of Aug MR (E-mail site for copy of ritual). Maggie and Mike brought eight hundred luminaria and ninety three tourches to furnish the site. The tenting ground was covered with two huge intersecting circles and a massive figure of the Feather of Maat. These figures were created first with cornmeal an d luminaria were placed along the lines. During the ritual, the luminaria and tourches were lit. WILL: Creation and communication of dual consciousness. SUCCESS: After a strange fashion. I could not detect a shift in consciousness among the participants or myself BUT the figures glowed with a strange and beautiful life beyond their origion. I had assumed that the Will of the ritual was to empower the participants with the double consciousness but what I saw before me were the figures transformed. My perception of the effect of the figures is that they radiated an extremely strong message into the High Astral. Norman Kaeseburg once told me that the importance of his incarnation seemed to be in his moving things around. This is very similar to what I saw the participants doing. A strong, clear, bright beacon was sent into the high astral. COMMENT: The figures acted as huge and powerful veves. More than one participant said that the figures appeared to be landing strips. Meteors shooting over the figures were mentioned by a number of people. Fire in one of the circles looked like a Stupa. Tree of Life at the top of the pyer. Use of fireworks may externalize rather than internalize consciousness of participants; they may move one away from the subtle consciousness necessary for an appreciation of the magickal context of an event. Chanting was powerful. Circle was so large it was difficult to understand the ritualists as they spoke. As we entered the circle of the fire, there was a human child next to me making a sucking/feeding sound. A demonstration of the hunger urge. - Strong drumming at Grouple. Drummed till daylight. My spiritual connection could be a good bit stronger. Suggestion....ancher my feet in the earth, close or dim my eyes and play; be a bit less interested in the states of dress or undress of the dancers m. - Saw Dr. Bob, he put the tarp on the windows of the car this morning. So good... - I could improve my session by repeating basic info on Voodoo; esp that showing that the loa show themselves differently in different cities.
11 Sunday: Mike showed me how to draw the feather veve. We did four around the site of the fire. -A big superise of the Festival was the interest in Tibetan Buddhism. The number of questions people asked Mishlen and the intensity of their questioning. - Drive to Bloomington.
12 Monday: EXPEDITION Will: Observe figure on ground from SummerHawk Ritual Love: Crystal Serpent Temple; sit in chair, used headband/tobacco/and script from SummerHawk ritual as contact. Held these objects. At first, fanned self with the feather. Success: Vision of feather figure as middle ground between the Heavens and the Earth. As mediating between the two; like the trunk of the tree between the branches and the roots. The Feather rises into the heavens and sinks into the Earth. As its power ra diates out into the Heavens so it radiates into the Earth. There ,among the rocks and caverns, the feather leaves its imprint like a fossilized leaf or fern leaves an its ancient imprint upon a waiting rock. I see the barbs of the Feather rotating upon the shaft; its ends dipping into the Earth and rising into the Heavens. As the rotation of the Feather takes it through the Heavens it gathers the breath of the stars. This breath...these aethers impregnate the earth as the rotation brings the feathers soft barbs into the Earth. As the great feather moves through the Earth, it gathers the records held in the rocks and these records, on the upturn of the Feather's barbs, are fed to the Heavens. Like a giant millstone it grinds the course to the fine and the fine to the course in its turning. The two circles power the turning of the Feather. The fire of the Ritual in the form of a Stupa guides the turning...the movement of the enlightened mind. Till the fine becomes course and the course becomes fine. In endness there is a judgement ipSHos . Geometric forms rise in a tunnel of light. The vision is fragmented. Many colors...many shapes...all assending. It is over. Comment: Apt description of the creation of an astral machine that opperates independently of the presence of its creater. Later that night, more came through the gate opened by the expedition: As the Feather revolves it throws the rocks, the earth into the sky where they ascend and become the Stars. The Stars the feather in its revolution gathers to itself and pushes these stars into the Earth where they become the ancesters. Where they become the rocks. This is the Great Feather of Truth...this is the Great Feather of Judgement in Movement. Through its motion the balance of the universeis kept. In its turnings are the names of Gods revealed and concealed. In its turnings the Ancesters ascend to the Heavens. In its turnings the Stars impregnate the Earth. With this the dual consciousness would manifest as that of the Stars and of the Earth. The movement of the Feather creates the stellar winds upon which the souls of the ancesters ride and rise. Last night when the gates opened to the vision again, MIshlen was dreaming of a secret of the earth. Conversation with Mishlen....water as the earths blood...use of water in Voodoo...my being enjoined to understand water in the workings in Canada.
13 Tuesday: Read the Description of the ritual carefully for the first time in order to give a title to this segment of the MR...Maggie calls the ritual EarthStar Rising. On no conscious level have I read the title before. Earth and Star....directly related to my scrying yesterday ******************************************************** ********************
15 Thursday: To Cincinnati. Dinner with Joe. His house has all the qualities that he used to bring to publishing with Black Moon. Every, a very small exageration, detail is conscious. I thoughtlessly moved a peice of metal in his side yard and then quickly realized that the metal had been placed at a particular angle to the rock behind it. I moved it back to the position in which I had found it.
17 Saturday: Good discussion with Maeve, Tom, and Paul concerning the Bate Cabal/ Black Moon web site. Understandings shared. Fire of creation.
20 Monday: Conversation - Mishlen described Vows as living beings. The magician in making a vow creates a sentient being. When you break a vow, you damage a life you have created. When you abandon a vow, it is like abandoning a majickal childe.
21 Tuesday: Leave for New Orleans from summer stay in Bloomington. Ti Kala, the snake, is ridding with me. I stopped to refresh myself and she pushed up under a hat I had placed on her to protect her from the breeze. The hat seemed to rise in the air. Damballah and I travel together. It is within my head that Dan-i rise s. It is within my head that Dan-i rides. Dawn on the road; a flight of crows......The birds of night press against the comming dawn. Black wings cut streaks in the building light. -Thoughts on Black Moon Web as an entity separate from Black Moon Publishing. Strands on each of the moon webs 10 home pages.
22 Wednesday: Arrive in New Orleans
23 Thursday: In Courtyard, sitting looking at chair next to me and thinking how beautiful it will be to share this with Mishlen. All of a sudden a zandolite walked across the table and cocked its eye at me. The lizard then jumped over to the empty chair I had been contemplating. Ritual at the Rampart Street Spiritual Voodoo Temple. Washing Of The Head. Porteau mitan had a top figure from Miriams recent trip to Haiti. I concentrated on this top figure of iron as I was giving the calls. Two taken by the Spirits. Many times I had to call on the ground (the ancesters) to support me from being taken by Bababamboula Erzulie, Manman Brigitte, Ogun. Washing of the head for a young boy (maybe 11 years). Then for all present. There is a new noise ordinance in the French Quarter and at 10 pm the police showed up. They said to continue the ritual without the drumming. This could be a concern if the Temple must Quiet down at 10 pm. After we stopped drumming; the washing of the heads began. First one was a little boy of about 11 years. I congratulated him afterward. What an honor for me to participate in the occasion Comment: I have been concentrating on Ogun and have wanted to cool it as bit with the drumming aand participate a bit in more parts of the ritual structure. It took Ogun in the form of the police to INSURE that I put the drum down; have my head washed; a nd help to wash Miriams head I felt very child like having my head washed. Miriams hands went over my hair and my face. The water containing herbs cleansed and refreshed both me and the master of my head Blanc Dan-i. Mombo Miriam...Message From The Spirits You gotta know where you are. If you don't know where you are, how are you gonna know where you are going. How are you gonna know where you are gonna be. You gotta know where you are...W...H...E...R...E.. Look at those letters; what do those letters mean? What do they mean to you? Ask yourself; "Where am I?" You gotta dig deep to know where you are. You gotta go over and you gotta go under to know where you are. You got to SEE. If you can't see; how do you know where you are. If you got your head looking down, you don't know where you are. You can't see where you are. You don't know where you are going. You might be walking right into a brick wall. Lift your head; look where you are. At one time we were one big continent. At one time we were all together in Africa. And then it split apart...I split apart to give us room. To give us room to move. To give us room to walk. Now my brother here from Nigeria, he says he is an American now. He says he can't take the humidity no more. But he is in Africa, the ground that he walks on is African ground. We are all from Africa. So my brother, you are in Nigeria now. In Nigeria now; thats WHERE you are. That is where you are.
24 Friday: Conversation w/ Christopher: Three ways to deal with death. OSIRIAN - through the use of spells, science, etc. reconstruct your (a) body and inhabit that body. PHOENIX - Reduce your self to ashes and and rise anew from those ashes. TIBETAN BUDDHISM - I added that the Tibetians have a ritual in which they visualize themselves taking their own life, and offering their body to all sentinent beings. I believe this is called the Chod ritual. Ha! The wisdom of No Escape. I could not do Chod before. Much to interested in my self. I just realized that Chod is a damn good way to pass and pass I will. If I perform the rite enough, perhaps at my time of death I will remember some of its meaning to me. - The best definition of a monster I have heard is from a child....A monster is something that eats you. Now, what about the Tibetians given this understanding of "monster?" I eat very little meat and no longer do animal sacrifice...I seem to be becomming a monster to fewer life forms. Also the Voodoo commandment given by Oswan "Do not eat your own kind." So, one may eat the "other" and not ones own kind. Christopher wondered if "other" is another word for "food." Enjoyable thought.
25 Sunday: Meditation at the Spiritual Voodoo Temple. Tape of Tibetan Buddhist chanting in the background. About 8 of us plus people dropping by from the White Buffalo observance across the street in Congo Square. This Sunday medition at the Temple was begun by Christopher Li while I was in Bloomington. I did a breath meditation and then resited buddhist scripture to celebrate the Buddah nature in a small Ellegua just created. To the Ellegua Spirit....Bring happiness and release from suffering. To the bones of the chicken sacrificed in its making....Bec ome a Buddah; seek a higher rebirth. Situated above the Ellegua was a beautiful black jewel in a silver setting next to a Heart of Jesus candle. The jewel pulsed in a heart beat pattern. I watched fascinated for a good five min. before seeing that the black jewel was the bowl part of a bell. Even after this "realization" the heart like pulsing continued. I celebrated the buddah nature in all of the sentient spirits in the Temple.
26 Monday: Divination at Temple Blanc Dan-i. Will: Insight weekly current. Love: Call to Marie Laveau with honor to children. Call to Dr. John with drum rhythm. Ti Kala (temple snake) on Porteau Mitan. Cards spread in circles around Pole. Snake climbs down and indicates cards. Success: Da is very quiet. Internal force. World Egg aglow with astral light. She begins the descent. Once on floor of Temple she points to a series of cards but does not touch them. Master Of Head....Damballah Wedo....Manman Brigitte. Comment: Great spiritual progress....Force; in particular the power of the ancesters.....Correct judgement. So....I am to open myself to the force. Create space for the force to manifest. Don't be overly judgemental; keep open for the force to manifest. Manman Brigitte is a great lawyer and I just called the District Captain of the French Quarter to day for an audience. Neighbors at the Spiritual Voodoo Temple are complaining of ther drumming. They complained about Thursday's ritual and tried to disrupt filming for "Big Easy (Tele-vision show) at the Spiritual Temple. Exoteric tie in.
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday: Conversation: Drum soloing if related to the Tree would be in the sphere of Gevorah. It is with the solo that the spirit of the warrior is most completely evoked. Mishlen added that the bass would be of Kether and the melody of Tiphereth.
29 Thursday: Drumming at the Spiritual Voodoo Temple. Played "Legba of the Waters" as torrents of rain fell outside. Rampart Street looked like it might flood. Not resisting the rain or even the threatening flood...just listening to what they had to say. As I type this, I see Legba moving slowly through the flowing water steadying himself with his cane.
30 Friday: Five of us from the Voodoo Spiritual Temple went to see the District Captain of the French Quarter to get a better understanding of the noise issue. Favorable outcome....thanks to Manman Brigitte who is a great lawyer (Snake Divination). I do not believe that the five of us have ever been together outside of the Spiritual Voodoo Temple. We see each other almost every other day with the drumming and the ceremonies; but always in the Temple. The feeling was more of a social outing, I did not realize how much I enjoyed the company of this group. Miriam called the event our "first meeting"....said that the 5 of us working together in this manner could be important in the future.
31 Saturday: Working with the Priestess Muslima preparing for a large Voodoo show for european tourists. Muslima is good, she insists that each ritualist perform the ritual for themselves and for each other. This way a "show" becomes the real thing. She asked me to make a flag for the ritual and suggested the ancesters, Manman Brigitte (Snake Divination). It is directly within the traditions of New Orleans Voodoo to do such a thing. Marie Laveau staged ritual s to which the general people of the town were invited.
Ritual of Protection: will: Stop harassment of friend. love: Placed cup containing water and pepper and cup containing wine before Mary(familiar spirit). Charged Mary to feed upon what was causing the harassment. success: The pepper in the water arranged itself in to a Tibetan Protector and then took on the image of a skull with an open mouth. comment: Yes, Mary enjoys this.

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