The Magickal Record of Louis Martinie': August 1999

Sunday 1
Kalachakra means "Circle of Time." It is interesting that Kenneth Grant called one of his last books, "Outside the Circles of Time." Mishlen completed a new mss of hers called "Circles" today.

Monday 2
Video on the physicist Pauli. During a good part of his life he held that there was a connection between the human unconscious and the calculations of physics.

Tuesday 3
Indian district in Chicago. Speaking to a very traditional Indian, no shoes, who wanted to go to Alaska. A land of ice and snow; the lure of the exotic. He showed me how to eat pani.

Wednesday 4
Reading Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates. It consists of short stories exploring my generation. The details in the lives of his characters and my like are amazingly alike. But, to a one, there spiritual sense seems to have atrophied; stopped developing at an early age.

Thursday 5
Sit in drumming with Salaam. An honor, they are a first rate mid-eastern group.

Friday 6
Dream...remembering much more now that I can get more sleep. A place I go to in dreams where old artifacts and records are stored seems to be renovating. Records are being moved from the basement to a (new?) second floor where they can be better cared for.

Saturday 7
Watched a part of the Titanic on Television. In the eyes of young viewers, the actors must take on a god like status. They come to embody and their features evoke archetypes of tremendous power. The Lovers, the Bittersweet face of love, class conflict.

I left when the ship up righted. I was enjoying myself too much. Curiosity rather than giving honor to the dead.

Sunday 8
With reincarnation, what is death? What are the ancestors if one quickly takes rebirth?

Monday 9
Prep for the 11 Star Rite. Tomorrow 300 monks come into Bloomington for the Kalachakra Rite. Interesting co-incidence. Something is brewing.

Tuesday 10
As an individual can be reborn as a loa, perhaps an individual can be reborn as an ancestor. Yes, this would make being an ancestor a choice. One could be reincarnated as one of the dead. Very odd...Very good.

Work in Mr. Norbu's garden. In my morning meditation, I ask Tara that Mr. Norbu be happy. The garden makes him happy. Its small, 20 sq feet?, and he is protective of it. I believe that Mishlen is the only person he trusts to work on it. I believe that the karma created by the meditation came to ripen when I worked in the garden. We talked and he bent to pick out a weed. It took a lot of effort for him to bend and do this.

Wednesday 11
Mr. Norbu's garden. Monks all around. Plants and sweeping the great stones with bits of cloth. On one flower there was a golden bug. Not yellow but an odd metallic gold color. I thought it was a piece of jewelry someone had affixed to the flower. Then it flew away.

RITUAL: 11 Star Rite, 11:11 pm
WILL: Occupy the Throne of Chokmah and join with the other Thrones. Vision and guidance. Take name Naga Damballa as throne holder.
LOVE: Bathroom to clean myself. Large spider watching. We must teach, hope he learnt something of use. Drew the veve I constructed for Naga Damballa on the palms of both hands using my sweat. Gave the gesture of the Marassa. Little finger and thumb spread apart and three mid fingers bent into the palm. This is the Marassa as separate. Then the thumb and small finger are brought together and the three mid fingers unfold outward. This is the Marassa conjoined giving rise to the three (all things). This three is also the seed of Binah in Chokmah.

Used a large black feather as a wand for the calls. Mishlen and I both moved through the protocols of the 11 Star using an Archives document. She and then I calling the Powers into the feather. We placed a vessel of water between us to skry. Looking into the water as she intoned the calls, I saw two distinct shafts of light one coming from the east and one coming from the west. The shafts crossed when they reached the bottom of the vessel and continued downward. An odd film had formed on the surface of the water and seemed to emanate from a small floating mass. The mass cast a shadow on the exact point where the shafts crossed.

I read from the document in grand grimoire style. Vision of the side of the Great Snake as a transparent tube. All of Maya in its beauty and glory flowed through the body of this transparent serpent. The snake remained untouched by this flow; transparent. Mishlen then extinguished three of the candles and I extinguished the last remaining one. We sat in total darkness peering down into the vessel. We joined hands and dipped our hands into the water. Vision of flash of light and a bright vortex appeared moving downward between us.
By my Will I am Naga Damballa.
By my Will I take the Throne of Chokmah.
So mote it Be...with our hands joined.

SUCCESS: The Throne is Filled.

COMMENT:
  • The heads of the four Tibetan Buddhist sects and the head of the BonPo will be in Bloomington for a meeting. Heard that about 300 monks arrived today. Saw a throne today some of the monks painted for a Kalachakra working to be used by the Dali Lama in a few days. The throne is now stored in a shed and quite powerful. Interesting resonance with Thrones working.
  • Another magickian came over and was using the Temple before us. Her ritual, without benefit of timepiece, ended at 11:10.
  • Chokmah attributes: two, connection, the line, seed of self/other as Binah 3 is the seed of community (ancestors), "choice" that is not a choice...dualism of fate and free will reconciled. Zodiac...fate written in the stars. Will as the interface between choice and destiny. Snake...does the head (individual person/will)control the movement of the vertebra (ancestors/love) or does the movement of the vertebra (ancestors/love) control the movement of the head (individual person/will). Once the ungulations start, first cause lives only as a memory. Who or what chooses is a good question.
  • Chokmah as the place where free will and determinism are, not so much reconciled, as one. The place where they exist as one before their flowing below the Abyss as two streams.
  • Paths: Wisdom between the House and the Door. Wisdom opens the door.
  • Nam Valent - Naga (Tibetan - Large snakes that guard texts/teachings hidden in the earth to be discovered in future times.) Damballa... "Da" means "movement"; "al" everything and "la" nothing.
  • Veve in form of the Marassa. Heads of snakes to left of the viewer. Tails to right. Forked (2) tongue from each head.
  • Snake sucking tail (dangler) as wheel (Wheel of Fortune / Chariot).
  • Snake as the "line" or "connection"
  • The veve in extension as DNA.
  • Shafts of light coming from the east and west are the currents (Tibetan/Magick) coming together. The floating mass casting the shadow has an odd resonance with the solar eclipse.
  • Interesting that Mishlen's vision has a voodoo flavor while mine is more Buddhist. A reversing of our persona.
  • Next: work/skry with the vessel (Chokmah) containing water this time with some light in the Temple. Black of the Moon would be pleasant.

    Thursday 12
    Night - Awakened by agitated voices in the house. A hug storm was moving by us and it was driving a mass of spirits before it. Their voices awoke me and for a time I confused the planes.

    Friday 13
    Complete 11 Star Manuscript and send it off.

    Saturday 14
    To Cincinnati. Sharmon's art is so evocative.

    Sunday 15
    Wrote 11 Star for the first time as Naga Damballah of Chokmah.

    Monday 16
    Preparation for the Kalachakra Ritual.
    Tremendous current. First the 11 Star and now Kalachakra.

    (**August 17 through 27 of the Kalachakra Working. Separate entry. **)



    Saturday 28
    Sartre writes that consciousness is clear, translucent. That the ego is in the world rather than in consciousness.

    Sunday 29
    Celtic music at Soma Coffee House. I am beginning to recognize and be able to play some of the rhythms on the Bodhron.

    Monday 30
    Begin work on the Honor Manuscript.

    Tuesday 31
    E Mail. Large number of messages on MoonWeb from the time of the Kalachakra.

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