Hymn to the Gnostic Godess (The Ash Tree)

(DISCLAIMER- This is a new and loose translation of Roy Bowers "The Ash Tree", if you like it thank Roy if you don't you can blame me...)

I am what you think I am

I am what you think you are

I am myself as I am and you as you are

And will be in times to come

I am the all and more of that with less

I am without form

I am without force

Yet form and force I am

I am the lover and the Beloved

I am the beast and his mate

I am the whole and the part

I am compassion healing pain

I am a diamond cutting stone hearts

I am a mirror gone dark

I am the well without water

From which all must drink

I am words of love that never speak

I am pain and tears and sorrow and grief

The rack, the noose, the gun, the stake

The hunter and the hunted

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Mystery Saint versus The New Occult Rock Part 1 (Cosmic Fear) EARTH

A magickal influence can be seen more and more in the world of pop culture and media and art. Mad Men shows us how poetry (the magick of Thoth) can influence people to spend money (time) for things they don't need. We are inundated with Television shows and Films about the fauna of the territory of magick; vampires, shape-shifters, demons, angels, gods, aliens, zombies, maybe even ourselves from the future. It's been going on in the world of rock for a while too. When you call an album Angels of Darkness/Demons of Light and title it's first track Sigil of Brass (a sigil is a stylized symbol used to contact a spirit) you're definitely speaking the language of magick. The aforementioned album is by a band called EARTH, helmed by guitar virtuoso Dylan Carlson, known in some circles to have been a close friend of Kurt Cobain, some say actually present when Kurt purchased his last shotgun...

Mystery Saint meets the Marassa

Mystery Saint Magical Diary Post 12_7_10

Have had a number of TWIN synchronicities lately which combined with my new passion for maya Deren led me to think I should reach out to the Marassa of the Loa
(I've also seen it spelt Lwa)...

Not that I know anything about Voodoo
(I've also seen it spelt Voudon)

So after the latest twin synchronicity at Yoga in the Runyon Canyon I decided to take all that Namaste energy and send it to the Marassa

I set up a simple altar on a wood table
Old but clean white cotton tablecloth
Appropriate Twin ritual decorations
Offering of food and water

The drumming came easily
The spaces in between beats; the shadow choir
Pape Legba limped in with charming asides

Here is where it started to get weird, I got off my chair from in front of the table/altar and playfully got down prostrate before the altar
No thoughts in my mind and a prickly heat
The veve seemed to draw itself really (and I mean I am not good at drawing)
The motions I took to draw it seemed purposeful and instinctual

I got up and danced backwards twice around the veve
scared myself a little

Here is where it got weird again, dancing, body was writhing happily on the wood floor in front of this veve drawing
once I began to calm, I reached down and took some of the sweat from my body and wiped it across the veve wiping it out and then I wiped some of the stain from the veve on my face

Got up and danced for a while to Exuma, I don't know the name of the track but it
is just drums and percussion instruments
Again I scared myself a little

Powerful

Thanks for inspiration to the Waters of Return by Louis Martinie
And thanks to Exuma