Living Franz Bardon

   "With God all things are possible." - Jesus Christ "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford Recently, William Mistele made a Facebook post that caused quite a stir. You can read it here . This post presented the idea that a small group of magicians can establish world peace on their own. If you're a long-time reader of William's writings, you're probably aware that this is far from the first time William has presented this idea. And, if you follow William on social media, you're probably aware that every time William presents this idea it causes a stir. It seems, for whatever reason, that there are always people out there who believe that it is impossible for a small group of magicians to establish world peace on their own. Those walking the magical path sometimes criticize religious people for blindly believing dogmas, yet controversies like these show that those walking the magical path also cling to...

  If you're interested in esoteric subjects, you're probably aware that there are various reading lists out there for people walking the magical path. If you're a blogger, you might even be considering creating a reading list of your own for your readers. In this case, this blog post is for you. Not every reading list is a good reading list. In fact, I don't think I've ever come across one that I consider really good, and this includes readings lists that I myself have put together in the past. But despite this, I'm going to do my best to explain how to create a reading list that is truly useful. To start off, I highly encourage you to read this blog post by Frater Acher, as it touches on a big reason why many bad reading lists are bad. In that blog post, Frater Acher brings up the idea of "connecting the dots" to form a picture. Every book you read is a dot. If you've read hundreds of books, then you have hundreds of dots. That might seem like a ...

Whether or not you successfully work through IIH boils down to whether or not you can do two things.  1. Ask the right questions 2. Figure out the right answers to the right questions If you can do these two things, then you will successfully work through IIH. If you cannot do these two things, then you will not successfully work through IIH. That's really all there is to it.  Someone needs to write an exhaustive treatise on how to identify what questions are the right questions to ask and how to figure out the right answers to the right questions. Currently, I don't have the time to do this, but I hope the following tidbits of information will at least help you get started.  - When you ask the right question, the answer to the right question will likely lead you to the next right question to ask. For example, if you ask yourself "Why am I stuck on Step 1?" the answer may be "I can't really observe my thoughts." This answer will lead you to the next righ...

  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...