Living Franz Bardon

  If you’re familiar with William Mistele’s writings, then you undoubtedly know that he often writes about the subject of incarnate undines – undines who inhabit a human body and live among us in order to experience the human realm. William does not write so much about incarnate salamanders, although I sometimes wish he would. I think information about incarnate salamanders has the potential to be very useful for those working through IIH. As anyone who has studied the basic teachings of Hermetics knows, fire is the element associated with achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and making progress. Think of a laser burning through obstacles, or lightning blasting through obstacles, or a pyroclastic flow completely overwhelming obstacles. This imagery reflects the sort of vibe you get from incarnate salamanders. These beings are experts at achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and making progress regardless of what stands in their way. As an aspiring magician, you should want to ...

This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while. When I take a look at my reasons for failing to write this post earlier, I find myself with some interesting insights about the negative and weak parts of my personality, the parts reflected in my black soul mirror. In Step 3 of IIH, Bardon mentions that courage is one of the four pillars of Solomon's Temple. I have been aware for a while now of the many deaths resulting from COVID-19, but despite knowing that this is a matter of life or death, I still hesitated for such a long time to write this post. So much for courage! First off, let me be clear that this post is not me telling you to get vaccinated. Every choice you make generates karma. This includes not just every choice to do something, but also every choice to not do something. In his essay "How to Speak Saturn," William Mistele discusses the idea of taking responsibility for your karma. For me, taking responsibility for your karma starts with taking resp...

  One book I think many spiritual people could benefit from these days is Thich Nhat Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ . Thich Nhat Hanh is obviously not a Catholic, but I quote this book several times in a book I am writing on the subject of the Rosary and magical training, since he has some interesting ideas on the Holy Spirit.  I remember the first time I read Living Buddha, Living Christ , several passages made a deep impression on me. One of those was the following passage. The Buddha is also described as a door, a teacher who shows us the way in this life. In Buddhism such a special door is deeply appreciated because that door allows us to enter the realm of mindfulness, loving-kindness, peace, and joy. But it is said that there are 84,000 Dharma doors, doors of teaching. If you are lucky enough to find a door, it would not be very Buddhist to say that yours is the only door. In fact, we have to open even more doors for future generations. We should not be afraid of mo...

  Today while returning to my apartment unit, I got onto an elevator and pressed the button for the sixth floor, which is the floor I live on. A woman then entered, pressed the button for the twenty-sixth floor, pulled out her phone, and began staring at it. When the elevator reached the sixth floor, she mindlessly stepped off the elevator and began heading down the hallway, all without looking up from her phone. Since she had pressed the button for the twenty-sixth floor, I assumed that was where she lived, so I called out to her that she had probably gotten off on the wrong floor. I turned out to be right, and she returned to the elevator while I went to my unit.  This was an interesting incident for me. The fact that I noticed she wasn't getting off on the floor she'd pushed the button for, and the fact that I was able to deduce she'd probably meant to get off on the twenty-sixth floor, suggests that the air element is at decent strength within me. The air element, after...

  A while ago I tried to type up a really condensed summary of my magical training philosophy for someone who contacted me about IIH. The summary is imperfect, but she apparently found it really helpful, so I'm sharing it here in case others find it helpful as well. (#1) Your goal is adepthood. Only step off the path to adepthood for the purpose of taking adepthood into your hands. If something is not adepthood, do not step off the path to take it, even if it is a good Netflix show or an enormous pile of chocolate. Do not settle for any reward less than adepthood.  (#2) If you fall down while walking the path, get up as soon as possible. If you stray from the path, return to the path as soon as possible. Do not wait for the next day. (#3) The path to adepthood consists of the following.  Practicing the exercises of IIH Let mindfulness, the second mental exercise of Step 1, be one strand of the golden thread running through your life. Use breat...