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Seeds of Magick
Inspires free-thinking occultism as it explores the ideas of magic as a whole and introduces the reader to a particularly potent magickal system called "Serket", a tool for developing personal power to transform life for the better. Llewellyn holds North American rights only.
189 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1990
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February 18, 2024
This book offers some information and perspectives not easily found elsewhere (e.g., for those not yet familiar with, but interested in learning about concepts of planetary evolution.) Remember the 1960s zeitgeist about Earth and its inhabitants passing from the Piscean Age (where external rules of religions must control human behavior to prevent disastrously evil consequences) into the Age of Aquarius (evolving to rely upon the knowledge that truth resides inside us, so that we are not mislead by external false control and misinformation)? This book discusses ancient Egyptian perspectives such as passing from the Osiris Aeon (patriarchal god force) into the Aeon of Horus (ancient Egyptian god divine son, representing the individual) and Ma'at, (ancient Egyptian goddess who balances Truth and Justice, representing the group). This shift from an exclusively male force ruling, to a male/female and individual/group dynamic affords the opportunity to experience balanced forces.
Setting aside the Serket tradition per se covered in this book, many topics reveal interesting cultural history and ways of thinking about time, reincarnation, the transmigration of souls, the Higher Self, and the planes of existence. For example, the authors assert, "Reincarnation is simply the law of evolution as applied to other levels of reality...a person's consciousness may incarnate on a physical level, an astral level, and so forth in a similar way to the Druidic heliocentric theory, which again on the surface level appears to be transmigratory. It is more accurate to say each individual exists on all levels. There is not so much a change of state; it is more that one becomes aware that one is already at that state."
Current religious views connect to ancient traditions in cultural history and are touched upon, also making this a worthwhile read of cultural and spiritual practices in an easily accessible way. For example, the Christian precept of the Virgin Birth bears interesting similarity to religious language describing spiritual/physical unions. In the ancient ways, young women engaged in Tantric practices in temple rituals in ancient Sumeria, China, and Egypt were honoured as representatives of the Goddess in those practices with men acting as representatives of the God. Children born as a result of this practice were said to be "born of a virgin." The authors: "In this respect it is interesting to note the use of the word virgin in the Bible with respect to Mary."
The chapter entitled The Circles of Time discusses how it is that "every event in the universe occurs again and again, but each time at a different level...In the inter-time linkup, events separated by linear time are related by their position on a perpendicular, vertical line as it extends upward touching along the space-time spiral." The illustration depicts world wars on this line recurring on this vertical, perpendicular axis as the time line circles upward in an open spiral. "The form of the spiral has a mathematical basis and a range of physical manifestations." For example, "In discussing the maze spirals of the Mexican Indians, geometrician and numerologist Patricia Villiers-Stuart remarks, 'To explain the workings of this number geometry in its simplest terms...[it is] a way of integrating the seventh and eighth division of a circle upon a square...[which] manifests as the whirlpool, the DNA helix, and even in the formation of our galaxy."
The authors also cover the relationships among the Ancient sabbats (cultural sacred celebrations), that is to say, the four solar and the four lunar celebrations each year that divide the Wheel of the Year based on their alignments, and the planes of reality in relation to those celebrations.
Setting aside the Serket tradition per se covered in this book, many topics reveal interesting cultural history and ways of thinking about time, reincarnation, the transmigration of souls, the Higher Self, and the planes of existence. For example, the authors assert, "Reincarnation is simply the law of evolution as applied to other levels of reality...a person's consciousness may incarnate on a physical level, an astral level, and so forth in a similar way to the Druidic heliocentric theory, which again on the surface level appears to be transmigratory. It is more accurate to say each individual exists on all levels. There is not so much a change of state; it is more that one becomes aware that one is already at that state."
Current religious views connect to ancient traditions in cultural history and are touched upon, also making this a worthwhile read of cultural and spiritual practices in an easily accessible way. For example, the Christian precept of the Virgin Birth bears interesting similarity to religious language describing spiritual/physical unions. In the ancient ways, young women engaged in Tantric practices in temple rituals in ancient Sumeria, China, and Egypt were honoured as representatives of the Goddess in those practices with men acting as representatives of the God. Children born as a result of this practice were said to be "born of a virgin." The authors: "In this respect it is interesting to note the use of the word virgin in the Bible with respect to Mary."
The chapter entitled The Circles of Time discusses how it is that "every event in the universe occurs again and again, but each time at a different level...In the inter-time linkup, events separated by linear time are related by their position on a perpendicular, vertical line as it extends upward touching along the space-time spiral." The illustration depicts world wars on this line recurring on this vertical, perpendicular axis as the time line circles upward in an open spiral. "The form of the spiral has a mathematical basis and a range of physical manifestations." For example, "In discussing the maze spirals of the Mexican Indians, geometrician and numerologist Patricia Villiers-Stuart remarks, 'To explain the workings of this number geometry in its simplest terms...[it is] a way of integrating the seventh and eighth division of a circle upon a square...[which] manifests as the whirlpool, the DNA helix, and even in the formation of our galaxy."
The authors also cover the relationships among the Ancient sabbats (cultural sacred celebrations), that is to say, the four solar and the four lunar celebrations each year that divide the Wheel of the Year based on their alignments, and the planes of reality in relation to those celebrations.
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