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Blood Magick
"Blood Magick" is a synthesis of ancient tradition and contemporary innovations designed for both the discerning adept seeking to incorporate blood into existing disciplines and beginning practitioners taking their first steps into the occult world.
66 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2003
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Seth (Spirit)
34 books32 followersFrom Wikipedia:
In late 1963, psychic Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and she eventually abandoned the board.
Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state. She said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke. They referred to such episodes as "readings" or "sessions".
For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular trance sessions in which she spoke on behalf of Seth. Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in home-made shorthand, and recording some sessions. The messages from Seth channeled through Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics. They were published under the collective title Seth Material.
The material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, written by Roberts from the material of the channeling sessions. Beginning in January 1970, Roberts wrote books which she described as dictated by Seth. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium. This series of "Seth books" totaled ten volumes. The last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality", who was independent of Roberts' subconscious.
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The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment.
The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to in the Material as "All That Is" and sometimes "The Multidimensional God" (who takes its form in many parallel or probable universes); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the limitless nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.
In late 1963, psychic Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and she eventually abandoned the board.
Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state. She said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke. They referred to such episodes as "readings" or "sessions".
For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular trance sessions in which she spoke on behalf of Seth. Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in home-made shorthand, and recording some sessions. The messages from Seth channeled through Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics. They were published under the collective title Seth Material.
The material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, written by Roberts from the material of the channeling sessions. Beginning in January 1970, Roberts wrote books which she described as dictated by Seth. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium. This series of "Seth books" totaled ten volumes. The last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.
According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality", who was independent of Roberts' subconscious.
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The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment.
The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to in the Material as "All That Is" and sometimes "The Multidimensional God" (who takes its form in many parallel or probable universes); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the limitless nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.
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March 2, 2010
Great book for beginners looking to fully harness the power of the blood.
November 15, 2012
This was interesting. Definitely not for Wiccans. This is mostly about blood sacrifices from yourself (enough to draw a little blood) and does have both "positive" magick and curses.
January 29, 2023
Should have been a blog. This book was recommended to me by someone in an occult facebook group with an over inflated opinion of himself, who praised Seth no end. This book is not 66 pages long. It actually ends at p.56 and the rest is blank pages.
The author starts off teaching us the basics of magical practice, aka teaching ppl to suck eggs. He includes a long quote from the Golden Bough, a biased and discredited 'anthropology' book, as if that is meant to give credibility. His writing style is wannabe-Carroll, except pretentious and more arrogant and insufferable, and talks frequently about himself as if anyone really cares, and verbose. He then goes on to describe various types of psychic or magical endeavour on a very high level, as if to give us an overview of occult practice, but in such a vague manner that it is not useful, and without any reference to how it is relevant to the theme of the book.
Finally he actually starts to describe this 'blood magick' on p29 to 40. That is the only part of the book actually worth reading. However, he is suitably vague and gives few examples, which are so briefly described, it's hard to know what he really means. It is as if the author is either too lazy or feels it is above himself to write more; or he feels he is being clever by writing so little, as if he is gives seeds to the readers to develop further. However, if the latter was true, why would he write explanations of magic and introductory sections on types of magic if not for newbs? I was left wondering if half of what was written was pure fantasy or whether it would actually 'work' (whatever that might mean).
The rest of the book goes off on a tangent, and contains the usual butthurt generalised rants about historical Christianity with few references or hard facts that you expect from someone of 'youthful' disposition. The author explains why he has written the book with a pseudonym on the back cover. He refers to his magical background in 2 places but in neither does he provide any specific information whatsoever.
This book is fairly obviously padded out and is really just 11 pages of semi-useful material. Most writers would have made the effort to write a proper book on the subject or put the brief written material in a blog, not charged people £9 for it. A publisher's hot potato as the author is deceased.
The author starts off teaching us the basics of magical practice, aka teaching ppl to suck eggs. He includes a long quote from the Golden Bough, a biased and discredited 'anthropology' book, as if that is meant to give credibility. His writing style is wannabe-Carroll, except pretentious and more arrogant and insufferable, and talks frequently about himself as if anyone really cares, and verbose. He then goes on to describe various types of psychic or magical endeavour on a very high level, as if to give us an overview of occult practice, but in such a vague manner that it is not useful, and without any reference to how it is relevant to the theme of the book.
Finally he actually starts to describe this 'blood magick' on p29 to 40. That is the only part of the book actually worth reading. However, he is suitably vague and gives few examples, which are so briefly described, it's hard to know what he really means. It is as if the author is either too lazy or feels it is above himself to write more; or he feels he is being clever by writing so little, as if he is gives seeds to the readers to develop further. However, if the latter was true, why would he write explanations of magic and introductory sections on types of magic if not for newbs? I was left wondering if half of what was written was pure fantasy or whether it would actually 'work' (whatever that might mean).
The rest of the book goes off on a tangent, and contains the usual butthurt generalised rants about historical Christianity with few references or hard facts that you expect from someone of 'youthful' disposition. The author explains why he has written the book with a pseudonym on the back cover. He refers to his magical background in 2 places but in neither does he provide any specific information whatsoever.
This book is fairly obviously padded out and is really just 11 pages of semi-useful material. Most writers would have made the effort to write a proper book on the subject or put the brief written material in a blog, not charged people £9 for it. A publisher's hot potato as the author is deceased.
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