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Jesus opposed the political oppression of the Romans and the spiritual oppression of many in the Judaism of his time. He traveled with prostitutes and the outcast, performing great acts of healing.

His family disowned him because he seemed possessed to them. In return, he disowned them for their spiritual blindness.

He opposed the demonic spirits of his time. His great magic healed the demoniacs, cured people of their spiritual and physical ills, and brought one man back from the dead.

His sorcery and magic still transcends understanding. It was so great that his followers disseminated his acts and deeds across the world. The acts and deeds became a great myth that transformed peoples and cultures.

The Christ myth's monumental reality can be seen in both its creativity and its destructiveness. There are billions whose lives have been improved, cultures that have thrived, peoples who lived in peace and brotherhood.

At the same time, the myth's destructiveness tore the roots from cultures and lands, sent many to horrible deaths, all in the name of lies that betrayed the myth's reality.

Jesus' submission to his divine mission is a testament for all true magicians to follow and emulate. By allowing yourself to become a vessel of divine inspiration and command, you unleash the beautiful yet terrifying reality that exists in us all.

Jesus stands as a prophet and hero for those seeking spiritual renewal and healing. Though I reject the institutions that now claim him as their head, I honor his works and the reality from which they come.

The being that Paul says he and some of the Apostles saw was a vision of a celestial entity, much like those attested by Theurgists like Iamblichus and Proclus. As well as Merkavah and the Way of Hermes.

Photos by Joseph Niles Photography. There were more, but these were the only people we could reach to okay the use of their faces. (Normally we just censor photos on social media, but in this case the images are actually, ya know, good, so it seemed a shame.)

Jesus was human.

The Christian Trinity is based on Chaldean Neoplatonic/Gnostic trinities, as I have written in my Apologia pro Vita Sua in Reality Hunter.

The original text for the so-called Trinity is based on, 1 John 5:7-8, does not say what the Trinitarians believe.

As Bart Ehrman points out, that text does not say:

"For there are three that bear witness [a]in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one."

as found in the King James and other translations.

Instead it says:

7 For there are three that testify: 8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

as found in translations that use the oldest, most original texts write, as here in the New International Version.

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But her story of intense passion seeking prey, and tracking and killing the food that sustains communities, parallels the continued need to feed a world where hunger is an all too often phenomenon.

The ancient Sumerians believed that food was a sign of divine knowledge. In its way, the hunger that Artemis satiates reflects the desire for knowledge and sustenance of a different kind.

It was this aspect of her divinity that Giordano Bruno celebrates in his work, Heroic Frenzies. Personifying nature and her secrets, Artemis is the goal humans seek in their passion for universal knowledge. A knowledge sacred in its purity and sacrosanct in its power.

But like Actaeon, once the seeker gazes upon her nakedness, he must suffer a terrifying rite of purification for his impertinence. In a form of alchemical or shamanistic symbolic dismemberment, the seeker is transformed into a being of light and transformation.

In the modern world, she is relevant in another aspect: the right to maintain bodily integrity without molestation. The vengeance she wreaks when that desire is transgressed surely reflects the desire of all women who have been violated. In a world where one in three women in the world are raped, her desire for bodily integrity rings with absolute authority.

May her vengeance be swift on all perpetrators who invade the solemn holiness of a woman’s body.

For the theurgist Proclus, following the Chaldeans, Artemis is one of the progeny of Persephone in the sacred Eleusinian Mysteries. She is the guardian of virtue as it streams down from her mother, sacred Hekate-Rhea. This is the virtue that sustains the universe in its striving for biological life and enlightenment.

All hail, mighty Goddess of sacred mysteries and holy modesty. May your vengeance be swift on perpetrators and transgressors of what is not theirs and may they perish without descendants.

And all hail, Holy goddess of knowledge and holy nature. May your wisdom guide us to greater self-awareness and cosmic consciousness of the interconnectedness of all things. May we learn to care for the environment and the impact of our actions on its health under your guidance.

"...and Love within their midst
In all her being in length and breadth the same
Behold her now with mind, and sit not there
With eyes astonished, for 'tis she inborn
Abides established in the limbs of humans
Through her they cherish thoughts of love, through her
Perfect the works of concord, calling her
By name Delight, or Aphrodite clear."
— Empedocles, Fragment 17

Bind union from strife, reflect the love from the Primal Fire in our deepest desires. Bring your devotee to the divine light that shines through all exterior facade and false allure.

World Soul, you spread joy and unity throughout reality. You bind soul and matter in rapturous communion. Lead me from body to spirit, reconciling all with your affectionate grace. Bless my spiritual journey with insight and joy.

Bring me to the gate where truth resides in beauty and beauty in truth. Guide my nature to fruitful completion in worlds beyond comprehension.

Prepare my way to universal beauty and conjugal love. Bless me with love and tenderness in my most intimate needs and cares.

May the Beauty of the All bring me peace and knowledge.

Great Theurgist and philosopher, Proclus, describes the hierarchy of Hekate-Rhea's emanation as part of his rite of immortalization. These goddesses provide various aspects of the "life-producing goddess" from whose right flank pours primeval soul power and from her left flank purity and virtue.

Parmenides write:

"And what’s needed is for you to learn all things: both persuasive Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there’s nothing that can be trusted at all. But even so, this too you will learn – how beliefs based on appearance ought to be believable as they travel all through all there is." - Translated by Peter Kingsley

Holy Mother Bless this Equinox

Sound the Flute!
Now it's mute.
Birds delight
Day and Night.
Nightingale
In the dale
Lark in Sky
Merrily
Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year

Little Boy
Full of joy.
Little Girl
Sweet and small,
Cock does crow
So do you.
Merry voice
Infant noise
Merrily Merrily to welcome in the Year

Little Lamb
Here I am,
Come and lick
My white neck.
Let me pull
Your soft Wool.
Let me kiss
Your soft face.
Merrily Merrily we welcome in the Year.

• Spring, by visionary William Blake

Photo: Kamil Vojnar

Today Theurgists celebrate Noumenia. We commemorate the victory of Light over Darkness.

As part of this rite, I venerate the god Christos and the prophet-sorcerer, Yeshua, he who brought the sword of spiritual warfare.

It’s more enlightened to think of human time in terms of cosmic cycles. Within these cycles, Christ is an avatar among several who symbolizes the spirit of human time and the mark it makes upon the cosmos.

May light fill your days with love and may justice fill your soul with peace.