From the Summit of the Moral High Ground

Hermetic Magic holds that what you believe, is . For some time now I have felt separated from you. I have withdrawn from the world to spend my forty months in isolated contemplation, I have been tempted with material things but have eschewed them for a deeper more profound understanding of the immaterial. The truth was within easy reach and in all honesty was something I have always known, it simply required that I accept that knowledge, cease making my self, through fear and doubt, an obstacle to everything that was always intended for me. I selected this as the image for myself for a few months before I left Facebook. The decision to walk away from Facebook was necessitated by the same discomfort I feel in many being's company. I find your lack of understanding, your lack of wisdom, your ignorance to be physically uncomfortable. I find your suffering, unnecessary though it may be, to cause me to feel pain. You are harming yourselves, you do not even realise it, but th...

For the purpose of this post we shall be using the Hermetic Magic maxim "Solve et Coagulum" : disassemble to its parts and re-assemble. (What we won't be considering is the far more important question of why do people aspire to be average and what does that say about modern society?) But what exactly are young people questioning? Recently we examined  why young people are dumb ; a wise person would simply walk down the street through a mixed gender group and it should be readily apparent whether you are heterosexual or homosexual. I can't give you the answer for your self, but it really cannot take more than a couple of minutes to work out. Done? Great, let's move on to something that actually matters. Why is this even a question? I was shocked to see on page 1 of my local paper, the Jersey Evening Post, on the 28th March a statement from the XYZ group that "there is a reported increase in the number of people questioning their sexuality and that...

A good shepherd does not endanger the rest of the herd to find a single lost lamb The Agricultural Origins of Loan Interest You may wonder how the very notion of interest on a loan ever came to be; well the answer is very simple... I will lend you 10 sheep and I want 11 back in a year's time.  Naturally 10 sheep will give birth to at least 10 lambs, some of which will be consumed for food, but the return of 11 sheep on a loan of 10 sheep for a year seems like a reasonable contract. A sheep has a defined value; the value of the wool which it grows, the value of the meat which can be consumed and the value of the lambs that it can bear. 10 sheep is probably sustenance and clothing for 1 person for 1 year. A sheep also has a cost, the cost of feeding, sheltering and protecting it. By loaning out the sheep the owner is defraying the cost and the risks for a guaranteed return which although less than what might be made does not require any effort on his part. T...

Fluency of Living Fluency in a language is simply a matter of experience, with repeated use of language it becomes possible for a listener to predict in advance the conclusion of a sentence, whilst someone who is beginning in a language must devote a huge amount of time to trying to translate each word individually and then from those words derive a meaning. A much longer process. The same is true of the very experience of being. Wisdom is simply a measure of how fluent an individual is at life and as with languages it only comes with practice. The Folly of Youth Young people are dumb, not because they are intrinsically stupid, but simply because they have not had the experience and practice necessary. Folly is not strictly a function of age as different individuals will acquire fluency at different rates, but there is a definite correlation. Educating Young People The process of educating a young mind is therefore a multi-layered affair; the same information is repe...

Yes, you... You create your own existence, you create your own reality, everything that happens to you, comes from within you. The Role of God and the Queen in a World Where Customers Are Always Right Fundamentally the only job of the Queen is to grant the wishes of her people, what a great job to have, the Queen therefore IS a representation of the divine on earth. Once upon a time, the King may have said "Well what on earth do you want that for? Have you really thought this through?"; but these days the process is "These are the wishes of your people, Ma'am" and the Queen simply replies "Let it be So". After all "The Customer is Always Right", no matter how ridiculous the request, because the customer is the one paying for it. The Queen therefore is beyond reproach as she simply gave you everything you asked for. Why would you expect the divine to act any differently? Be Careful What You Wish For So problems in...

When I write these blogs it is primarily for my own benefit to order my own thoughts and work through whatever idle speculation has been occupying my mind. The blog had a long hiatus simply because I have moved on from the speculation of politics and law; the understanding has come and gone. I now understand that the best solution to these problems is quite simply to act as if they do not exist... because then they do not if I do not grant them an existence. If I receive a letter purporting to be from "government" then it is torn in two, unopened. Fortunately because what purports to be the government thinks it is important there are many clues on the envelope. For the six months now that I have been doing this the result is that the government does not now exist, at least in my reality and I have noticed that I am happier in my existence. But this step is simply not enough, I must now remove myself from the society which acts to enforce the government's wil...