OccultForum.org

What exactly do you need protection from? There are countless magical staves that are meant for protection from some very specific dangers, from as general as a simple stave to ward off evil, to as specific as keeping barrels from leaking.

Varnarstafur Valdemars, Lukkustafir, and Rosahringur minni ...

I believe "dreams" to be the soul returning from the concrete world to its own æon temporarily. The narratives that we perceive are just our human brains trying to make sense of what happened using the objects of the physical world. That's why they're always so chaotic and incoherent. I wouldn't try ...

Sell runes and sigils to people. Occult knowledge isn't a common skill, so use it!

I'm currently finishing up The Brothers Karamazov.

I'm thinking about getting a copy of Thee Psychick Bible by Genesis P-Orridge. Can anyone here tell me if it's worth a read? I checked out the preview on Amazon and it was very interesting, though it did make me upset about the Temple no longer ...

Why would you want to stop it? It's called the rapture for a reason.

My absolute favorite band in the world is Current 93. I listen to C93 every day, and I love every release I've heard by the project, and I've heard damn near all of them. David Tibet is definitely the best lyricist and poet I know of.

Aside from Current, my other favorites are Autechre and Death In ...

I relate most to Gnostic Christianity, as it is the closest to the worldview I've developed so far. I also love Taoism, as it's the closest philosophy to Gnosticism. The only disagreements I have with these philosophies are a total disbelief in the idea of reincarnation and a Hell outside the one we ...

Desecrated wrote:If you write god in a thread about theology, I'm going to assume that you are talking about the christian god.
Otherwise post it somewhere else and us a a different word.

There is no "Christian" God. There's only a universal God, present in all philosophies.

Most of what you say is true from my perspective. However, God did not become the Universe: rather, the Universe is a part of God that turned on itself, trapping itself in pain. It's a temporary oddity, and I do not and perhaps never will know how it happened. Of course, it isn't real to begin with ...

Shamash the book you want is Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy: A Selection of Coptic Texts with Grammatical Analysis and Glossary
It contains 10-15 gnostic works most of the great ones. I went the more expensive option and bought the whole thing. It cost me about $1000
No I couldn't find your word ...

Does anyone know if 'Rosetta Stone' (the language software) does ancient languages?

Somehow, I have a feeling that the Rosetta Stone would be more helpful than a priest who knows you have no intentions of joining the church.
Rosetta Stone has a very limited amount of languages. So far the only ...

Ah i've heard of David Tibet didn't realise he had a book out. I'll take a look. I heard of him through his music..
The book wasn't written by David Tibet, but it was recommended by him in a short article he wrote on the Coptic language. He apparently is working on his own translation of the Nag ...

If anyone's interested I'm learning Egyptian (Coptic) atm, in large part to read the gnostic writings for myself.. to answer the question 'is there extra meaning to be discovered by reading in the original language compared to scholars translations'. So far the answer is a 'yes' but probably ...

However, in Nature, the development of a 'soul' or the Sulphur of a thing, needs the protection of the Vessel in order to evolve. Without it, there would be no place for development, and Spirit would wander. Following this line of reasoning, it leads me to believe Christ achieved his Divinity ...

By "destruction" I was referring to destruction of the Demiurge and the vessel that traps the soul within the wheel of thought and the wheel of life. As Christ was freed of his physical form and became divine through his crucifixion, so must my soul achieve divination through death. Because the soul ...

Incredible! This is obviously a very inspired piece of the sort that I could only hope to create.

Inspired by the symbol of the black sun and the three crooked crosses, specifically Rudolf J. Mund's interpretation of the suns, I quickly scribbled this page into my journal. I wasn't thinking much at that hour, but it feels like something that may interest a few of the readers and writers here ...

I don't think swings like this are that odd in most people's character - it seems like identity can be far more mutable than I would have ever realized. One of our friends who really turned toward being a player arsehole and even mysogenist to large degree all of a sudden met a girl who yes, is ...

It sounds like typical life to me.

It also sounds like the new girlfriend could be jealous of anyone else he spends time with - including you. It happens. Then when she's not as committed as he is - it's a one sided train wreck.

Give him the space he needs. Be his friend while he's being an ...

To start off, I am very new to magick and don't quite know what kind of spell this would be. I haven't been opposed to the idea of magick, but also haven't put any research toward it because until now I've never felt I needed to. So here's the description of the situation that worries me:

I've had ...

I've started reading the Pistis Sophia about a week ago and I'm pretty much done. After that I'm going to read the Nag Hammadi scriptures. I've already read a few of them (The Gospel of Thomas; Exegesis On The Soul; Thunder, Perfect Mind; and The Prayer Of The Apostle Paul) and they were incredibly ...

i don't understand why you choose to interpret my posts as rude. it isn't good for either of us.

Actually, I looked at the online version on the Gnostic Society Library, and figured out that my version of the book actually contains commentary by Samael Aun Weor after every single paragraph. The formatting really didn't make that obvious, and neither did the title of the book. Reading it makes a ...

Welcome to the forum! I'm new here as well, but I'd like to advise that you repost your question in one of the other forums. This one is just for introductions and departures (as the title suggests), so your question probably won't get much attention here.

A couple of books just arrived in the mail that I'm going to start reading in my study of Gnosticism. One of them is The Nag Hammadi Scriptures , compiled and translated by Marvin Meyer and Elaine H. Pagels; that one has some fascinating texts in it and is a very exciting read. (I've already read ...