New Magicks for a New Age, Volume 4, Book 8

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Yael R. Dragwyla First North American rightsEmail: [email protected] 26,400 wordshttp://polaris93.livejournal.com/

New Magicks for a New AgeVolume 4: The Notebooks of a Magickian

Book Eight

Human endoecology and its impact on human evolution

How much of what we are is what it is because of the dynamics of our interrelationships with our endocommensals viruses and bacteria, many of them pathogenic, i.e., causes of disease, in their effects onus? How much of our cultural evolution has come about as a result of such associations? E.g., did welearn to cook because cooking meat reduces the chances of getting sick from viruses and bacteria in it?How many of our burial customs and ideas about death are derived from our need to avoid diseasesassociated with our dead and what we have had to do to protect ourselves from such diseases? How muchof our physical evolution has comprised adaptive responses to our endocommensals? For example, is our extraordinarily over-sized brain the result of a series of evolutionary responses to repeated infections bymicrobes that like to live in our CNS, a way of turning disease into a selective advantage?

And have we been deliberately bred down the Aeons to become what we are by viruses, sentient virallife, the way weve bred dogs and corn and rice and horses into their modern forms? If so, what have they

bred us for ? (And in that case, how can I be writing this, making others aware of this possibility, wherebywe come so much closer to getting rid of our wannabe masters?)

Qaballah: Extensions of the Traditional Tree of Life Beyond the 16- Sephiroth Sphere of Life

Can a third or fourth dimension be added to the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, e.g., byadding a dimension related to atomic weight, so that different isotopes of an element are considered asunique elements in their own right, or one related to particle/anti-particle or other quantum distinctions, sothat there is, say, one Periodic Table for each normal isotope, one for each anti-matter isotope of theelements?

If so, is there a corresponding extension of the Tree of Life or Sphere of Life? Can another dimension


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be added to it, including six new Sephiroth and two Pillars per dimension, for every such extension of thePeriodic Table, so that, say, there is a 4th- or 5th-dimensional version of the Tree of Life, 3 or 4 hyper-

planes intersecting in a common Central Pillar (which always comprises exactly 4 Sephiroth , including 10,Malkuth , 9, Yesod , 6, Tiphareth , and 1, Kether ) including 6 new Sephiroth per hyper-plane (exclusive of the 4 Sephiroth common to all hyper-planes)? Can we map that aspect of reality described by the extradimensions of super-string theory (for more on which, see Michio Kakus Hyperspace: A Scientific

Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension [New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1994]) by using such an n-dimensional extension of the Tree of Life?

Homeopathy

To the extent that Life at least eukaryotic Life is water, water with a memory and an attitude, water contaminated by various forms of useful crud, homeopathy is a method of teaching the water that is anorganism to behave in a certain way by adding to it water that has been taught to do the same thing outsidethat organisms body. That is, a homeopathic medicine consists of some substance that has been diluted ntimes by pure water, where n is equal to some positive integer times 100. At the end of the dilution

process, there little or nothing remains of the original substance, so that the result is virtually pure water.But water actually does have a memory, in a physical sense, due to its unique chemical properties (for moreon which see Lyall Watson, The Dreams of Dragons: An Exploration and Celebration of the Mysteries of

Nature [Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1992], Chapter 9 [pp. 111-122]), which is part of the basis for itsimportance to Life as we know it. So the homeopathically treated water remembers the substance it wasintroduced to in this way, and thereafter behaves differently, especially on a biochemical level, than beforethat introduction. When it is, in turn, ingested by the organism, in the form of a tincture or a pill or whatever, it of course becomes part of the water that makes up most of what a eukaryotic organism is,

physically speaking. As a result, the latter takes on at least some of the biochemical behavioralcharacteristics of the homeopathically treated water just added to it. If the organism is given repeated dosesof that homeopathic preparation over a sufficient length of time, eventually that behavioral tendency will

become a permanent feature of the organisms biochemistry. And in that way, a permanent change is madein the organisms physiology and health, for better or worse. (By the way, veterinarians have repeatedlytried out homeopathic medicines on their non-human patients in double-blind studies that eliminate the

possibility of contamination of the experimental trials by experimenter expectations or desires. Their patients, many of them reptiles and birds and odd mammalian fauna, thus have no way of knowing what theexpected result is, and neither do the veterinarians who do these trials, so psychosomatic placebo effectscant come about the results are as they are, due entirely to the effects of the medicines, whatever thoseare. Consistently , in all cases, the medicines were shown to do exactly what their manufacturers claimedthey would do, with extreme effectiveness. Homeopathy works and, as Watson et al point out, it worksfor reasons having to do with the physical chemistry and the quantum mechanics of water which areresponsible for the extreme importance which water has to terrestrial life of all kinds.)

The Goddess Liberty

The Goddess Liberty is a Lunar Goddess, and as such must have a Crone (waning Moon/New Moon)Aspect. What is Hers the Bomb? Sexual predation and thrill-killings a la the Black Dahlia? The mass-murders and ghastly experiments on human beings of the Third Reich? The Tuskagee, AL syphilis

experiments in the US several decades ago? What place do these have in the living universe, or of whatecological processes are these distortions? The Gods are the Intelligences of the universal living processesand phenomena of the living universe, and this goes for Liberty, too including Her Crone phase, whatever it is. So are these Uranian horrors Her true Crone Aspect, or are they ghastly distortions of it due to theresistance to Her Will in the world? Or are they the temporary side-effects of the Working out of Her Will,which will cease to be once Liberty is universal? Or what?

Liberty is both Lunar and Uranian. Does that imply that Uranus is a higher octave of Luna, as He is of Sol and Saturn is of Luna?


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Thrints

Who do thrints sentient or semisentient slaver viruses hate? Thrints hate anyone or anything thatacts to hinder infection of new hosts. Anything that hinders increase of human population size and densitydoes this. So (among others) thrints hate gay men, because their sex-life generally isnt conducive toadding to the size and density of the populations they are members of.

Thrints likewise hate and fear anyone opposing urbanism, such as Luddites, anti-imperialists,environmentalists, etc.

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Subj: Fwd: Astro 9/30Date: 95-10-05 17:54:34 EDTFrom: Trident23To:

Just got the newsletter [See below]. I enjoyed it, but I think there are more than one possibleinterpretation of Why this birth chart?, that is, besides karma. Karma is a very culture-bound idea, onewith heavy moralistic overtones though it is supposed to be morality free. Were here to work out past-life karma. Actually, it could also be conjectured and I mean conjecture, because karma is a moralconcept, a matter of ought rather than is, relative to somebody elses idea of what ought to be the case,whether it really is or not that were here because maybe we developed certain specialties, talents,strengths in past lives that could be useful to the community, the ecosystem, our living world as a wholenow, so Mother Nature (Mother Earth) gives us a job assignment where maybe our own individual talentsand proclivities and behavioral tendencies can do some good with minimal harm to the neighbors. Theonly karma I can see involved in that is having done something to hurt Mother Earth in a past life andevery single human being that has ever been since the advent of fire has either done that or passed on aculture that eventually came to do that, for reasons that may or may not be our fault (maybe Mother Earth istrying to have a baby, and needs a species like us to do the job, and damn the torpedoes anyway!).

We are living beings, part of the living world, subject to ecological and biological and physical lawsfirst, last, and foremost, and everything else second and that includes human cultures with their moralisticideas about karma, hellfire and damnation, and all the rest of it. Karma somehow doesnt do justiceto the fact that poor Mother Earth is in terrible shape what has She done, karmically speaking, to earn thehideous damage done to Her by so many human societies? And regardless, who the hell do we think weare to accuse Her of it, or justify our matricidally planet-wrecking behavior in such terms?!

If, however, we avoid the whole idea of karma and interpret the chart in ecological terms, includingevolutionary terms i.e., evolution of our species and our communities and societies as well as individualchange and development over lifetimes or any one lifetime we get a great deal more out of the chart. Infact, it is only such a context for interpretation that makes sense out of the fact that meteorologicalastrology, and the astrology of earthquakes, and mundane astrology in general work so well: astrology isthe ultimate ecological study, and the karma it seems to describe is really our own culture-boundinterpretations of a principle that can be summed up as Mother Nature always bats last. (It has also beensaid, with some truth in it, that Mother Nature is a bitch Im not going all Green on you. . . . Not yet,anyway . . . )

Is there a biologist in the (Fourth ) House? We got a really sick Planet here . . . and we will haveuntil we start looking at our astrologies, our religions, and our everything else from the point of view of

Mother Earth and our place in Her.Interested in your view of this.

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INTERCEPTED SIGNS

- (Excerpts from Intercepted Signs and Reincarnation

-By Donald H. Yott)

Astrology today is becoming more scientifically based. Up to the present, much of astrology has beenconfined to that which has been handed down through the centuries. Many terms in astrology have not beenclearly defined and now must be. There must be more of a universality in meaning; there are too manyconflicting schools of thought and no central authority to finalize their differences.

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creation. It isnt by chance that two planets within three degrees of each other are considered a conjunctionor that a sign is intercepted and that the word intercepted is used. It is in the study of language thatastrologers often cause confusion. They should be very much concerned with words and their meanings. If we use the word conjunction, we mean to co-join. If we employ the word intercepted, we meansomething is being interfered with.

In particular with interceptions, there are two schools of thought in astrology. One school declares that

an interception is a focal point in a horoscope and much attention should be placed on it and its qualities.The other school of thought states that interceptions are not important and too weak to take intoconsideration.

When we use the word interception, we mean that something has come between the constellationand the Earth. It isnt that the influence is weakened, but it is not coming through as clearly and, of course,we are always concerned with the influence as related to the qualities of the Sun.

Part of our job as incarnating human beings is to develop all of the signs of the zodiac in the affairs of the houses, and as we come in, lifetime after lifetime, we will for example, experience Virgo in the first or second or third house. This is because we must perfect ourselves in all areas of life through all the qualitiesof the signs. When an intercepted sign is in a chart, it indicates that the influence is there but is havingdifficulty finding a channel of expression. We could say that one school is right in that the influence might

be considered weak. The other school is also right in saying that it is a focal point, for any weakness should be an area to which we must pay attention because we must transmute our weaknesses into strengths. Froman esoteric viewpoint, and from the viewpoint of reincarnation and Karma, an intercepted sign means thatwe neglected to develop or to grow through the qualities of that sign in the affairs of that house in other lifetimes. It was serious neglect on our part and so in this lifetime we must develop and incorporate thesequalities. But the interception causes problems - obstacles which are really channels of opportunities.

Most Karma, when it is negative, is brought about by a refusal to accept our duties. We take energiesand we misuse them. We pervert them or we neglect them; thus Karma is built up. An intercepted signmeans we neglected to the qualities of the sign and it isnt that we neglected it in one lifetime only, but inseveral lifetimes. Because of this we will find that intercepted signs often bring out circumstances in our lives which are beyond our control. In the main, these circumstances arent obvious. The wordintercepted itself, means that something is interfered with or isnt clearly seen. We really cant see thesign and there is a hidden, subtle force in our present lifetime. This evidences itself as a gap in our life,something missing, a hidden something that we seem to be searching for and just cant put our finger on.

All intercepted signs represent these circumstances beyond our control and, in relation to reincarnationand Karma, these are the circumstances which you neglected to fulfill in past lifetimes. As an example of this, let us suppose that there is an intercepted Virgo somewhere in the chart. It indicates that, first of all,many people will demand our service. It is the sign of service; it is the sign of discrimination; it is the signof the teacher. When we have an intercepted Virgo, people will always be calling upon us, needing our help, always seeking our advice and we have no control over it. It just seems as if all of this gravitatestowards us. The reason is that in past lifetimes, we were not of service and ignored cries for assistance.People sought our advice and we could not be bothered with any kind of guidance or counseling in the

past.Virgo is the natural ruler of the house of service and the public, and so when you have an intercepted

Virgo, you neglected to give help, assistance, the shoulder for someone to lean on in other lifetimes, in thearea of the chart where it is intercepted.

If we have an intercepted sign, we should look back over the pattern of our life and we should be ableto see where this has been working from the viewpoint of service. Most of our Karma, then, is the result of neglect or the avoidance of responsibilities. We have to look to the main qualities or features of the sign.

There are more qualities about Virgo than discrimination, service and teaching. When it comes toreincarnation, we must point to the main qualities or the major qualities of Virgo. Remember one thing: weare not and never should be slaves or automatons to our charts. But we have made the chart; we entered thislife through past deeds and experiences. What we have made, we can unmake; we can outlive and outgrowour chart at any time, once we are aware of it. In esoteric astrology, it is thought that once we arrive at thelevel of esoteric astrology and know it, and use it, we no longer need our chart for we have become themaster of our destiny.

Remember, too, our whole chart is the result of reincarnation and Karma; it is karmically oriented and based. We do not consider only intercepted signs or retrograde planets, for the chart represents the sumtotal of all our lives.


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When the soul realizes it is time to reincarnate and searches for a body being created, it desires a timewhen the stars in the heavens will be in certain positions. These will be the guideposts creating theopportunities and challenges to work off Karma and to have the necessary experiences for newdevelopments in life. Each life then grants us opportunities to work for the future. We are always reapingKarma, and the reaping of Karma is the opportunity, but we are sowing Karma at the same time.

Intercepted signs will usually bring out negative rather than positive traits because of the fact that we

neglected them in the past. Since it is more difficult to bring out the qualities intercepted signs, we mighttend to be too passive, to follow along with the stream of life insofar as these signs are concerned. Negativequalities seem to have more emphasis with intercepted signs than the positive. If we focus attention on our negative qualities, we can transmute them. These are the areas through which we learn the greatest lessonsin life. If you have an intercepted sign, naturally the opposite sign is intercepted. These we must correlate.One will always be in the southern part of the chart, the other in the bottom or the northern part of the chart.One is in the I area; the other in the We. Our charts represent polarity. The whole key to life is

polarity or balance and the center of our chart is where the balance is achieved. That is why, on a mundanelevel, the Pars Fortune is in the center of the chart because that is where we are on Earth.

The Earth represents material life dense, gross, physical matter and we must balance the materialaspect of life with the spiritual. So, always, we need balance and this is where we should be striving.Balance means harmony and harmony is a higher interpretation of the word love, and love is the basic

principle of creation. That is what started it all. Intercepted signs are very important for very few people areaggressive enough in their lives to make an effort to change negative traits. In order to bring out thequalities of an intercepted sign, We have to work at it harder. The tendency might be to be too passive, verysimilar to someone with a chart which has more positive than negative aspects. A chart that is too wellaspected can be more of a burden than a chart with many negative aspects. This is because things couldcome too easily and there isnt enough balance. We can become too passive about life. We should bless our negative aspects - they are our opportunities for growth. They represent our challenges. However do notever neglect the good aspects - they are the helpers. They can be little crutches to help us to transmute thenegative qualities or to take negative aspects and learn how to use their energies.

A negative aspect represents energies as much as a positive aspect. Electricity is the result of anegative and positive charge We could never have electric light with just negative or just positive charges.We cannot develop and learn and become spiritualized beings until we learn to balance and utilize both the

positive and negative influences in our lives. On an esoteric level, we realize that the negative aspects aretremendous opportunity for growth and the positive represent what we have already accomplished and can

be the crutches or the railing on the steps. We can only grow through balance. We do not always growwhen everything is going well. When we look back at crises, we find that the crises and challenges havemade us what we are. The obstacles make us grow, but in the long run, it is the effort that is so very, very,important.

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Notes and Comments

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Date: Fri, Sep 29, 1995

From: Polaris93

Hi, folks!I wont insist that youll enjoy this (unless, of course, youre masochistic), but for what its worth (heh-

heh-heh), heres # 1 of

Tales from the Astrological Crypt

Q: Why does Pluto rule income gained from successful lawsuits?


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A: Because He rules sewers ( sue -ers) . . .

Retaliations are invited from all comers.

Ever yours, Yael Dragwyla

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**(The following is a response by Polaris to a reader question; we are reprinting it here as it might be of general interest.)

Date: Thu, Sep 28, 1995From: Polaris93Subj: Composites

Now, you do understand that by a composite chart is meant one in which the positions of the Planets,etc. are each the averages of the same Planets in the two or more charts of the individuals involved?

For example, if there are three people, with natal Suns at positions S 1, S 2 and S 3, the Sun in their composite chart is equal to (S 1, S 2 and S 3)/3, that is, their average? (If n people are involved, there areactually n such averages, since were dealing with a circle here, not a line; the average you want is the onethat falls within the shortest arc containing all n of the positions being averaged to get the composite pointunder consideration.) This is not concerned with mid-points of chart-elements within an individuals ownchart, except perhaps insofar as the points in the composite chart fall on midpoints or other points in chartsof the individuals for whom the composite is calculated, or those in charts of anyone or anything involvedwith the composite person under consideration. Rather, this has to do with, as it were, mid-points of chart-elements distributed across several charts , and in each case, only of chart-elements of a given kind,for example, natal Solar positions, natal Lunar positions, etc.

By the way, Kinkos Copies and other places frequently have programs that can take data on aMacintosh-format floppy and transcribe it in the proper format on a DOS-format floppy, at least for pureASCII text files. If you want, I can send you what I have of New Magicks for a New Age . . ., which youcan take to a Kinkos and have transferred to Mac floppies. If youd like that, let me know and Ill sendyou my mailing address and what is entailed, which wouldnt involve much expense. ( New Magicks haslots of stuff on astrology in it.)

Take care, always, Yael Dragwyla

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Qaballah and Astrology

The Path connecting the astrological rulers of Aries/Battle (Mars, Sephirah 5, Geburah ) andVirgo/Strategy (Mercury, Sephirah 8, Hod ) should be The Warrior . As a matter of fact, the Pathconnecting S. 5 and 8 is Cheth , Trump VII, The Chariot , which has exactly that connotation (the

soldier/warrior defending the Home = the Sign Cancer, which is the astrological association of that Pathand Trump).Similarly, the Path connecting the ruler of Aries (=Birth/Speciation) (Mars) and that of Scorpio

(=Death/Extinction) (Pluto, Sephirah 1, Kether ) should be The Sculptor . The pieces carved away from thefinished piece of art are the Dead; the Chisel is Death/Extinction; the emerging finished Work is Life; theChisels Edge is Natural Selection, which creates the New by destroying and selecting out the Old. Notraditional Path exists between Mars/ Geburah and Pluto/ Kether , so this one will have a correspondencesomewhere in the Periodic Table and the ASCII alphabet, the new Paths of the 16- Sephirah Sphere of Life(my extension of the traditional 10- Sephirah Tree of Life; see Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Volume 3 of my NewMagicks for a New Age [file NM3BA.doc]).

How to Weed Out Disinformation Circulated Concerning UFOs and ET Visitors to Earth by WhoKnows Who: Example (or, Why You Cant Force-Grow Grays from Zilch to Maturity in aTank or Anywhere Else in a Year and Half)

Everything involved with life, from conception through every stage of development and all aspects of metabolism right down to death and decay, involves the expenditure of biochemical energy, the rate of which (ergs/sec or some other suitable Energy/Time) depends upon the nature of the processes involved.Life is a dynamic phenomenon, like all such subject to the constraints of the laws of thermodynamics, andnothing alive and no living process can violate those constraints with impunity. An example is the cube-square ratio problem associated with the physical volume of the body of an organism versus certain

problems associated with, e.g., cross-sections of bones, rate of heat-loss and/or rise in body-temperatureversus area of skin-surface, etc.

This includes the growth and development of an immature organism. In the case of an animal amore-or-less mobile organism that requires oxygen for its metabolism and gives off carbon dioxide as aresult of that metabolism the thermodynamic cost of such processes can be quite high. For example, thetemperature of a small organism e.g., an infant human being is necessarily higher than that of a largeone, since heat-loss is a problem for the former (low cube-square ratio, i.e., ratio of body-volume/mass toarea of body-surface) while heat-retention is often a problem for the latter (high cube-square ratio). Soyoung organism usually have a higher thermodynamic set-point average body-temperature than older ones, as it is. The problem is that if that temperature gets too high, as in a very high fever, the organismcan die rather quickly if that temperature isnt quickly lowered to more tolerable levels. And in the case of mammals, who possess those relatively huge, complex brains that dont have a lot of tolerance for temperatures far above normal body temperatures, even when a fever doesnt last long enough to kill them,it can leave them permanently brain-damaged and neuroendocrinologically crippled, because the late-evolving cerebral cortex and many portions of the mid-brain arent as well-buffered against such insults asevolutionarily older, more critically important organs such as the heart and liver.

Consider development from conception to maturity. The amount of energy required to make that

transition in anything as large and complex as a vertebrate is enormous . It is especially high in mammals,and the larger the average size and neuroendocrinological complexity at maturity of the mammal inquestion, the higher it is. It is, in fact, so high in many large mammals such as human beings, which arefar above the median size range for the animal kingdom (shrews are much more typical, size-wise) that if there is any shortening of the time taken for complete development from conception to maturity, theorganism in question would undergo the biochemical equivalent of the China Syndrome, because the sheer heat given off as a waste by-product of the biochemistry of the processes required for such rapid maturationwould be far, far above what the organism could survive for more than few minutes, let alone reachmaturity unscathed and in full working order.

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possibly be pumped through the poor little thing fast enough. If one tried to force-feed the growingorganism with all that food the way geese are when they are being ranched for pate de foie gras ,* their gutswould explode from sheer pressure in a very short time too much food, too fast, for the poor GI tract toaccommodate! If tube-feeding were tried, the same problem would arise, though it might take longer. If IV feeding were tried, within a short time the veins of the poor little thing would be so eroded from sheer

pressure as well as the damage done by the relatively huge IV needles that it wouldnt take long before it

would have no more veins that could serve as feeding inputs. To even attempt such a thing would alsorequire so large a volume of water per second throughput as sheer physiological coolant in support of sucha forced-growth program that it also would tear the organism up badly in a very short time, all by itself.

So any attempt to grow anything the size of a man, even a small man, even one without much in theway of sex-organs (as has been reported of Grays) in just one and a half years is foredoomed to failure.Doing it in five years might get you a bunch of badly brain-damaged, paraplegic idiots of you were luckyand didnt lose them all. Trying to do it in a year and half is flatly impossible for anything much bigger than a housecat (which takes about three years to come to full maturation, by the way, the same as for astandard domestic dog, which is not much bigger than a cat). Yet a lot of the stuff circulating around theMarginals Press Movement declares just that, that Grays, humanoid alien clones about the size of a smallman, are grown from conception to full maturity in tanks out there somewhere in underground bunkers inthe sandy wastes of the American Southwest in about a year and a half. Which has to be sheer bullshit given the thermodynamics required.

So I repeat: when considering anything allegedly having to do with ETs and UFOs, always ask first,last, and foremost: Is this possible, biologically speaking? Are we talking about real living beings, or even

just real physical beings, e.g., computers? Computer manufacturers can tell you that a lot of the thingsclaimed for ETs arent possible for computers because of the thermodynamic and other physical constraintsinvolved, and a biologist will tell you the same about organisms for exactly the same reasons.

Think organism. It helps weed out one hell of a lot of horseshit in a great, big hurry! (This commercial was brought to you care of Hades & Persephone, Inc. )

*This ugly practice, the purpose of which is to serve the jaded palates of those with too much money andno heart, originally involved nailing the poor gooses feet to a board, so she couldnt move much, andforce-feeding her by pushing the food down her throat with a stick much more food than she wouldever need if she were leading an ordinary, active life, more even than necessary for the life of someonewho is confined in a pen with her feet nailed to a board. Today, we are more humane the goose whois the victim of this process is confined in a box so small she cant move at all, but doesnt have tosuffer having nails driven through her body. Either way, the goose cant possibly metabolize all thefood that is pushed down her throat every day, cant burn it off she couldnt do so even if she lived afree-range life, and certainly cant in her confined existence of this sort. So her liver works overtime toconvert all that rich, rich, high-fat food into glycogen, which is then stored in the liver, which becomesenormous and cirrhotic. Eventually she is slaughtered out, and her pathologically over-developed,very sick liver is ground fine and made into a paste and sold at high prices to aficionados. This isconsidered to be a delicacy by those who are supposed to know about such things. I wouldnt know Iwant nothing to do with it. I couldnt bear ingesting the misery of an innocent victim of such a

process, no matter how exquisite its culinary manifestation might turn out to be! (Same reason I canteat crabmeat not since I saw one being boiled alive for a banquet. On the other hand, ever since Igot attacked and mauled in the Pike Place Market by escaping lobsters (not to mention my close call in

San Francisco in a similar situation at Fishermans Wharf), I have no compunctions against eatinglobster, which is prepared exactly the same way crab is. Lobsters dont even care if theyre being

boiled alive their sole, total concern is hunting up other lobsters in the same pot and beating the shitout of them in an all-out lobster equivalent of World War III. Anything that tastes that good and hasthat sort of attitude is, I insist, absolutely fair game for anything , up to and including the rack androasting alive, if it gets them nicely ready for the table . . .


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Health and Disease: Symptomology is Not Part of the Disease!

If you are healthy enough to get sick i.e., to show definite symptoms of illness youre healthyenough to get well. Symptoms of illness are manifestations of the bodys struggle with pathogens and

toxins and the damage they cause, and are part of its defenses against the root causes of illness as well as of the underlying mechanisms of its attempts to heal itself of the damage which these cause in it. Thusallopathic (from two Greek roots, allo - and path -. meaning against and disease) medicine errs in tryingto suppress all symptoms, even those that are not immediately life-threatening, and in viewing symptoms asinherently pathological in and of themselves. This is as true psychiatrically and psychologically as

physically: as the organism works to heal itself from injury and illness, it will exhibit certain symptomswhich are simply by-products of that exertion, that effort.

For example, fever is a result of the bodys attack on pathogens and also a way of crippling,sterilizing, and/or killing the latter outright. Except in cases in which a fever becomes very high and goeson and on and thus threatens life, suppressing it with aspirin or whatever isnt wise. Drinking a lot of water is wise in such a case, because at least some of the fever is the result of over-heating due to battling disease

by producing T-cells and whatever, all of which require a lot of metabolic energy, and the proper responseto over-heating is cooling the best means for which in all the world has always been and always will bewater, the Universal Coolant par excellence. But some of that fever is actually beneficial, for by itself itcan total out disease bacterial and viral populations by crippling their ability to reproduce, so that they cantreproduce as quickly as they are nipped off by T-cells, leukocytes, or chemicals given off by various glandsthat are quite fatal to them.

Also, there are cases on record when germophobic individuals have attempted to A-bomb thegerms in their body forward into the Azoic, and have almost done the same to themselves. That is, suchindividuals have, in their zealous anti-germ crusades, bombarded their bodies with huge amounts of antibiotics of various kinds and, in the process, killed off all their beneficial, normal commensals, such astheir gut bacteria. As a result, they ended up in the hospital with severe nutritional deficiencies and anumber of other problems, damned near dead, and had to be nursed back to health with enemas of Bulgarian yogurt and similar measures.

Psychiatrically, until recently the psychiatric profession systematically attacked patients reports of having been sexually and otherwise abused by parents or other adults during childhood as evidence of

psychosis or at best severe psychoneurosis. Multiple-personality syndrome was likewise seen as acting-out, schizophrenic psychosis, etc. Only recently have these symptoms been officially understood andacknowledged for what they really are: the struggle of the mind and body of the organism to heal itself of the wounds of horrendous, chronic assaults on same during infancy, very yearly childhood, youth by

predatory adults.In other words, be careful about symptom-suppression the life you save may be your own!

The Biology of Morality

Ultimately the purpose of morality is to serve life, to serve the interests and well-being, especially their genetic and psychospiritual ones, of living organisms by shaping their behavior so that it supports the

health and longevity of the living communities of which they are part. As Moishe Rabbinu taught us:

See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey thecommandments of Yahweh your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love Yahwehyour God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs,you will live and increase, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land which youare entering to make your own. But if your heart strays, if you let yourself be drawn intoworshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish;you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. I call


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heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, andon this depends your long stay in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers Abraham,Isaac and Jacob he would give them.

Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 (The Jerusalem Bible)

The Ten Commandments and the Torah do not comprise a moralistic head-bending exercise in guilt-tripping. They made perfect sense to those living at the time, who lived in a world very different from ours,requiring rather stringent precautions to prevent people from doing things that could make them sick,sterilize them, kill them, or destroy the communities that are the very fabric of human psychospiritual(cultural) and genetic survival. Morality real morality, not such attempts at paralysis of the Will of othersfor personal advantage, such as the use of the term karma by New Agers and other passive-aggressive[Bad Word Bad Word Bad Word] types is Life. The Law was made to serve Life, not Life the Law: if itdoesnt serve Life, it aint true morality. Think about it.

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Pluto is the Divine Alchemist, infinitely patient, His Alchemical laboratories the hot heart of Earth andthe soils and interiors of the bodies of the living organisms of our living world, working His unspeakablyslow processes of transmutation, the re-cycling and transformation of minerals and other materialsthroughout the Earth, over countless Aeons, in rhythms timed not in seconds, or even years, but megayears,gigayears of slow, slow Songs of Time. He is the first smith, before even Hephaestos Who was Hadesapprentice in the first years after the overthrow of the Titans by the Olympians and the first ecologist, thefirst biochemist. He it was who invented the use of poisons, corrosives, and caustics in war, the use of caltrops and pit-traps and all the other first, terrible engines of war. He was the first physicist, too, and thefirst chemist the first artificer, the first scientist. Needing nothing save His beloved wife, He is noimperialist. All He wants is peace and the freedom to explore the farthest reaches of space, time, and

possibility, as He Will and woe betide whoever is fool enough to try to deny Him!

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What might be the effects of homeopathic preparations and Alchemical medicines made out of rareearths, transuranic elements (e.g. plutonium), plastics, and other non-traditional substrates upon living

beings? After all, since 1945, between fallout from A-bomb tests and all the strange drugs pumped intothe environment in the form of weird food additives, nasty industrial effluents, things added to stock-animals feed to fatten them up or make them more prodigious producers of milk or eggs, etc., every livingorganism on Earth has become a living, breathing Alchemical laboratory for the biochemical processing of all that crap. Some of us have even survived the stuff and gone on to produce healthy children, whothemselves have inherited a Planet and way of life at least as toxic from us. Alchemy involves the

recreation of living processes (or their analogs) in a laboratory setting in order to make changes in theunderlying quantum structure of materials without, however, actually changing their gross physicalcharacteristics such as mass, volume, atomic number, etc. The changes in quantum characteristics, whilethey dont change the materials gross chemical nature, do change its impact on the tissues of livingorganisms as well as its much of its electromagnetic behavior in certain ways, some of them subtle, somenot. What does running radioactive crap through living beings like human beings and other people livingdownwind from repeated atmospheric A-bomb tests do to the crap itself ? What does it do to theorganisms and their children? Could those materials be processed under laboratory conditions, at far faster rates, the way living tissue processes it? We know that normal materials e.g., gold, silver, copper,food, inert rock such as dolomite are processed by the body in ways that do make changes in them at a


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quantum level, whether or not the body changes them on a gross chemical/physical level. E.g., runningdolomite through an earthworm does things to it, things that make it a better nutrient for other organisms(such as plants), and not just because it is now mixed up with earthworm fewmets, which are of course richin organics, or because it has been turned into a sort of monomolecular powder by the digestion process, sothat plants find it far easier to assimilate the calcium and magnesium that make up dolomite after it has

been digested by earthworms than before, when the dolomite is still in the form of actual lumps of stuff,

with a small surface-to-volume ratio. So what about, e.g., plastic, dioxin, or uranium? Would Alchemical processing, either inside the bodies of living beings or in a laboratory, render their quantum structures suchas to support life and bring health rather than the opposite? Okay, all you alchemists out there, lets try itout and see what happens! (Remember always start with such organisms as, e.g., crab-grass, nasty-tempered lobsters, junkyard dogs, and politicians for your experiments, beings that truly deserve whatever can go wrong with the experiments , before you try it out on anybody else!

Astrology: Chiron

The planetoid Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in orbit between Saturn and Uranus, is the bridge betweenthose two Planets, since Uranus rules nativist culture, especially the American Indian Nations, and Saturnrules the corporate urban society. Perhaps Chirons function is to heal the wound in this world that iscorporate society together with the damage which that society has inflicted on native cultures and the non-human world. That wound is the wounding of Mother Earth including that part of Mother Earth that isthe heart, mind, soul, and spirit of every living being, human and otherwise by progressive civilization.

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[The following was sent out on an email post late in 1995 to several correspondents on Internet ]

Hi

I was born March 20, 1945, at 5:48 p.m. PWT, Pasadena, CA; as a result, Neptune is very strong inmy chart. I have been using homeopathic drugs with great success to help clear up some ailments Ive hadfor years and that nothing else has touched. Such drugs are made by repeatedly diluting the originalsubstance with 100 parts pure water to 1 part substance, up to 6, 12 or however many times; the result hasonly 1 part substance to 10 n parts water (10 3 = 1,000; 10 6 = 1,000,000; 10 9 = 1,000,000,000; etc), where nequals the number of dilutions, often none of the original at all* yet it works. The reason it works is thatlike certain plastics and metals, water has a memory, due to its quantum structure (its structure at a sub-atomic level, the way the sub-atomic particles that make it up interact with one another over time), and thuscan be taught certain things by means of things that affect that structure. It remembers where it has

been, what it has been. When water that has been taught to react in certain ways by such homeopathicdilution with it of a given substance is ingested by an organism, whose body is mostly water, the water inthe body of the organism is thus taught thereby to react the same way. With repeated doses of themedicine over time, the learning becomes permanent and the organism gets well. (See Dianna and Mark McMenamins Hypersea: Life on Land [1994], a marvelous model of evolution of terrestrial life, which

explains a great deal given an understanding of how homeopathic medicines work. That life as we know itis, is due primarily to this strange ability of water to remember things, and learn to react in certainways to various substances. Life is basically water with an attitude and some trace mineral junk in it andthat is why homeopathy works as it does and is able to heal illness.)

Now: is the fact that homeopathy works so well for me when many other therapies have not due to thefact that Neptune is so strong in my chart? Neptune rules Water, Water as an Alchemical ecological and

biophysical Element, and homeopathy is a therapy based upon the ability of water to learn certain thingswhen exposed to certain substances. I have Neptune in Libra (kidneys!) in the First House of my chart,conjunct Pallas and Chiron, opposed to my 7th House/Aries Sun, squaring my 10th House /Cancer Luna/Eros/Saturn/Juno. This suggests that perhaps anyone with very strong Neptune, especially Neptune


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in the First, Sun in Pisces, Sun in 12th, chart-ruler in 12th, chart-ruler in Pisces, etc., such that Neptune isintimately bound up in the functioning of their bodies, would respond very well to homeopathic medicineeven if nothing else seemed to work.

Id be interested in anyones comments about this. Yael Dragwyla

*Avogradros Number, 6.02 x 10 23, is the number of molecules of a substance in one mole the molecular weight in grams of a substance. When more than a certain amount of water is added to the mixture,therefore, there are more than 6.02 x 10 23 molecules of water per molecule of original substance in it,and therefore nothing left of the latter at all in the mixture.

Subject: Re: Chris from Yael Dragwyla

Date: 95-10-12 07:24:48 EDT

From: [email protected]: [email protected] (INTERNET:[email protected])

Greetings Yael

Fully concord with your successful experience of homeopathy. Use it myself frequently and alwaysrecommend it in cases of chronic problems believed intractable by orthodox medicine (cos they usuallyaint!). I also make up my own Homo. tinctures for stuff not yet in the Homo. Vede Mecuum MateriumMedica.

Pass the word - this form of healing is for the people, bypasses the medical monopoly and has directconnections with traditional folk healing lore; although it has been hijacked somewhat of late by the

pseudo-scientists who make remedies pretend to be drugs when they are anything but.I found your perception of how the homeopathic effect works very interesting although it diverges a

little from mine so try this for size. Homo. tinctures/remedies do not carry a substance in them at all. Theycarry an intelligence or information code. It is precisely because the atomic substance of which theyformed a part is diluted out that we can refine what is left. Tituration (the act of empowering the tincture)involves magnetising the remedy with repeated shocks. This is why it is best done by the homeopathshand rather than by a machine. If they also visualised, used pore-breathing and invoked during theempowerment as I do they would find the stuff even more effective! The intelligence/information isconveyed into the metabolism of the patient and triggers cellular reaction of certain kinds depending uponits quintessential nature. This is why there is no proper dose in homeopathy. You can take a drop or agallon - the effect is the same because the code is the same. This is pure magical herbalism whether youterm it homeopathy or cunning-healing. The old ones had it right all the time, of course.

Homeopaths tend to get hung up on the right remedy because homeopathy occasionally doesnt work (or works less with some people than others). They then hunt randomly for another symptom relatedremedy which does work and find it but its a bit hit-and-miss. Your idea of the astrological connectionwould come in well here. The subtle fluids involved in Astrology and Homeopathy must be closelyconnected. You should read Medical Astrology by Corning (Weiser Pubs but now out of print I believe)which is a mine of information of this sort.

Best Wishes and keep up the good work.

Chris [Bray, Proprietor of The Sorcerers Apprentice, Leeds, England]


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Subj: Fwd: Re: Chris from Yael D...Date: 95-10-12 16:16:36 EDTFrom: Polaris93To: [email protected]

Chris

Good to see someone else knows about this wonderful therapy! Im going to pass your comment on toa number of people (see CC list at head of this! ), cos its all true ! :) Incidentally, I used to haveCornings work in my library, but I found that an awful lot of his understanding of medicine, anatomy, and

biology was not quite what it should have been. For example, he attributes diabetes to psychosomaticdisease (it has to do with debility of the pancreas, an endocrine gland), and otherwise gives a few problems.

I think the homeopaths do know something about what theyre doing, but I agree that they are oftenfloundering, not really knowing what they are doing. They urge the patient never to mix medicines thatsfine, I agree that that is ideal, but there are times when the ideal cant be achieved. (As somebody oncesaid, naturopathy is always best except when you go through the windshield of a car. Then you turn toallopathy . . . and a good lawyer.) I also have made my own homeopathics, not for medicine, but rather for use in Magickal ritual e.g., a x12 tincture of Mercurial fluid, which has mercury metal in it, to use duringinvocations of Mercury the highly diluted resultant tincture has almost none of the original metal in it, agood thing, because I drink it, and otherwise one could get very ill! :) As for the theory behind it haveyou read Lyall Watsons wonderful works on biological esoterica? He talks about the weird and I meanweird chemistry of water, its role in biochemistry, and alchemy, and you might find it highly interesting.Try his Lifetide , Gifts of Unknown Things , or anything else of his you can find. (He has a book coming outsoon, Dark Nature , I cant wait to read.) Wonderful man, also very kind and gracious.) What, by the way,do you have on hand for sale in line of homeopathics? Maybe I can use up some of that credit?

Take care, now, love always, Yael Dragwyla

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Subj: Fwd: Re[4]: Backlog clearoutDate: 95-10-12 23:10:36 EDTFrom: Polaris93To:

Dear

The companies I mentioned are the real thing, very ethical. This sort of thing is admittedly a littleuncertain, but if you follow the exact symptoms given on the labels and the box or bottle, and the directionsgiven therein, it should work and if there are no results within a few hours, with repeated doses, trysomething else. Used as directed, they wont hurt just dont exceed the suggested doses. Thats why thesymptom list the idea is that the symptom cluster or syndrome is a sort of guide to whats really wrong,the underlying problem, which is a distortion of the healthy quantum structure of the bodys water, which iswhat the medicine addresses. It wont hurt and should almost certainly help. As for what firms are best,

the all-time tops is Boericke & Tafel, Inc., based in Santa Rosa, CA. Go with them, if at all possible. For detailed questions and supervised treatment, look up naturopaths in the Yellow Pages, too.

Because the principle upon which homeopathy is based is so different than that of allopathy its sortof the chemical/medical equivalent of ninjutsu! Go with the flow! :) (you were asking about 12th Housestuff?! ) the medicines are made differently, and in the case of companies like Boericke & Tafel, youcan trust the label. Theres very little in there besides water, binder (usually powdered sugar), and/or good

brandy, chemically speaking though Alchemically or on a quantum level, its a different matter. Youcant poison yourself in a conventional sense, but if you are still concerned, make an appointment with anaturopath in your area and let him or her explain and prescribe, because they do know what they aredoing.


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Hope this helps, love always, Yael

Forwarded Message:Subject: Re[4]: Backlog clearoutDate: 95-10-12 17:46:23 EDT

From:To: [email protected]

But how to tell the real McCoy from the poseurs? If therewere some sort of guideline, Id feel better making itmyself... the process might even be good to experience. Butwhich treatments to use for which problems... does one go byinstinct, or by astrological associations, etc, etc. For example, tender stomach. Thats associated with Cancer/moon,right? Would the cure be the opposite... Saturn/lead? Of course, lead poisoning might be a complication. So maybe someother Saturnine metal or herb. Im not putting the theorydown, Im just perplexed as to how decisions are maderegarding how to proceed and with which substances. Also,different cultures lend different properties to differentsubstances. Should one proceed by instinct? The whole areais fascinating to me. But I feel very inadequate in terms of knowledge.

We have a coop which sells all sorts of extracts, etc. butthe people who work there are volunteers, not experts. Manyitems seem highly over-priced. It seems that this is an areawhere the potential for quackery is high. Id like to knowthe theories for myself rather than blindly trusting labelson bottles. (Im the same way with medical treatments fromthe establishment. When I was in the hospital followingdelivery of my son, a nurse came with a handful of pills for me. I asked her what they were. One was a painkiller containing codeine. Another was a substance to help dry upmilk secretion. As I was breastfeeding, I didnt think either one would be particularly good for my kid. It never hurts to be cautious about what one puts in ones body.)

I will look for the books you mentioned before. This issuch an interesting area.

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[From recent email correspondence with a friend ]

Dear

You wanted an explanatory paragraph about New Magicks . Here it is:The Hermetic universe reality as seen from a Hermetic point of view is as much a continuum as the

objective one, the universe as seen from the point of view of modern objective science, is. Its all one


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universe , and all our studies, objective, subjective, scientific and mystical, materialistic and Hermetic, areof the same universe. Yet Ive seen very few works on Hermetic subjects that present their subjects fromthat point of view, that they are different windows on one thing , just as, even today, few scientific textsmake it clear that their subject is one or a few aspects of one universe or multiverse. Virtually the soleexceptions on the Hermetic side of it are the works of Aleister Crowley, Israel Regardie, and the other modern post-Golden Dawn Qaballistic Magickians. These all base their work on the Tree of Life and the

Qaballah, which link everything in the universe , material and spiritual, together via the metaphysicalsystem that is graphically represented by the Tree of Life. Yet even they never really worked through allthe details Crowley himself died in 1947, just at the beginning of the Atomic Age, the Space Age, theComputer Revolution, and those who survived him, such as Regardie, werent qualified to understand thenature of the tremendous changes occurring socially, scientifically, and technologically all around theworld from then on and their esoteric implications. New Magicks for a New Age was written to fill thatgap, for my own students. It shows, via traditional Qaballah and my own 16- Sephiroth extension thereof,how everything in the Hermetic universe, East and West astrology, numerology, Tarot, palmistry,divination of all kinds, Magick, Alchemy, Qaballah, I Ching is linked to everything else in that universe,and how, in turn, all of these are linked to everything in the material, objective universe, just as everythingin the latter is linked to everything else via the basic principles or laws of science. As Rudyard Kiplingsays via the protagonist of his wonderful novel Kim:

Something I owe to the soil that grew More to the life that fed

But most to Allah who gave me twoSeparate sides to my head.

I would go without shirts or shoes,Friends, tobacco or bread,

Sooner than for an instant loseEither side of my head.

Above all, New Magicks for a New Age is intended to describe the biology of the spirit, especially of human spirituality, and what the Hermetic Arts and Sciences, disciplines devoted to the study of the

psychospiritual universe, have to do with the biological aspect of reality. As a biologist and ecologist, it became increasingly clear to me as I simultaneously studied both the life sciences and the Hermeticdisciplines that the most fundamental aspect of all life, its intentionality , its relentless purposiveness , isWill, the focus and ultimate beneficiary of the Hermetic disciplines. The abilities and talents cultivated byHermeticists the world over are simply some of the most fundamental aspects not only of our strictlyhuman nature, but of our general nature as biological entities, living organisms who are intrinsically part of the living world. The point of it all, at least ideally, is embodied in Moishe Rabbinus last directives to theIsraelites:

See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey thecommandments of Yahweh your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love Yahwehyour God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs,you will live and increase, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land which you

are entering to make your own. But if your heart strays, if you let yourself be drawn intoworshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish;you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. I callheaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, andon this depends your long stay in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers Abraham,Isaac and Jacob he would give them.

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Regardless of the names and images we give to our Gods or the precepts and commandments of our variousreligions and philosophies and Hermetic systems, it all comes down to that. New Magicks for a New Age isdevoted to an exploration of the implications of this, what it means for todays students of both theobjective, scientific, technological world and the subjective, inner, psychospiritual, Hermetic world, and

how such knowledge can be used by anyone as an aid to achieving harmony with the living world and withhis or her nature as a part of that world. We can be neither happy, healthy, nor free without suchunderstanding. It is my fervent hope that this work will help open the roads to the Stars, both physical andspiritual, for the generations to come by showing how, as John Muir put it, everything is hitched toeverything else, and what this implies for all of life, including ourselves.

For the last quarter-century or so, as a biologist and ecologist have been struck by how old and howuniversal the various Hermetic systems of belief and practice are, how much their underlying assumptionsand philosophies resemble one another regardless of superficial differences and local expressions. Theseare not typical of things that mitigate against survival, whether physical or cultural, for such beliefs and

practices quickly select themselves out of the world along with their adherents! And they arent typicalof things that have no survival-value one way or the other, either negative or positive, for biology including human biology in the long run doesnt waste energy or resources or time on things useless tothe well-being of the organism and the community. Human beings are living organisms before they areanything else, integrally, inextricably woven into the living world and the physical universe, like all other forms of life. If astrology, Magick, and the other Hermetic Arts and Sciences did not take account of reality and had no value, even potentially, to the organism and the community, they could not have

persisted among human beings for any archeologically significant length of time. Yet we know they have been around for at least as long as human beings have, not only because the archaeological evidence, suchas ancient burials and cave-paintings, supports this, but also because they are so universal among human

beings, the basic principles upon which all of them are constructed being essentially the same no matter where or when in the world you find them, no matter what the superficial differences due to locality andlanguage and other local factors may be. More: not only other primates, but indeed many non-primatespecies of mammals, and even some birds and lizards, indulge in behavior that for all the world looks likeMagickal ritual, both as individuals and in groups. The Hermetic Arts and Sciences may be pan-specific,appearing everywhere in the living world, for all we know certainly it is pan-cultural among human

beings. So they are at least as old as the advent of Homo sapiens , half a million or more years ago, and possibly as old as terrestrial life, three and a half billion years. They therefore are Lifes way at leasthuman Lifes way of taking account of real aspects of the real universe , built into our biology, and thusreflected in our biology as our biology is reflected in them. Magick and astrology and Alchemy are as

properly studies of the biological scientist as they are the mystic and theologian, though for differentreasons, since each of these, though studying the same universe as the others, has a different point of viewon that universe. New Magicks for a New Age is intended to be a bridge between the biologist and theshaman, between the biochemist and the theologian, between the astronomer and the astrologer, to acceptthat wonderful gift of Allah, who, as Kim says in Kiplings novel of that name, gave us both sides of our heads, and praise Him by learning to use those two sides of ourselves the subject and the objective, theright-brain and the left properly, together, in the living dance they were meant to take part in with eachother all along.

Yael Dragwyla, Seattle, October 1995

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What we are, what we have grown and evolved from has always depended for its survival and well- being upon the nature of our relationship with God, with the Holy Spirit within all things, the Logos thatinforms and Wills all things, the Creator from which they come. God is real. Our biology has always takenaccount of that reality in one way or another, the testimonies of which are our various religions. Evil isalso quite real; otherwise our psychology and history and all our religions wouldnt be concerned with itand the problems it presents to us. Mother Nature is parsimonious; ultimately, the biologically useless


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falls by the wayside, for it requires time, effort, and resources needed for other things more useful to lifeand living. Religion has always been with us in some form; wherever we find humanitys mortal remains,our ancestors bones and teeth, we also find graves and in them as well, the tokens of love and need andhope given by the living to their beloved dead. The Other World of dream and prayer and Magick has ever

been with us, and it is likely that it has been so for all living beings, though for most of them in ways soalien to us well never be able to make them out. In all our history, written and otherwise, certainly, we

have always had an active relationship with the noumenal universe, the realm of Gods, dreams, thoughts,emotions, creativity. This is no less so now than ever before. Therefore this noumenal universe and all itcontains is objectively real, in some fashion, or else long ago we would either have forsaken and forgottenit or become extinct because of a too-tenacious love of things of no relevance to life, to our lives. God isreal. The record of the rocks, the long, long trail of pieces and traces of life from its earliest morning downto the present testifies to that. Christianity and modern scientism both err in their war over evolutionaryscience vs. creationism, for each has the most precious treasures to share with the other: Christianity

possesses a profound understanding of God and our relationship to God and one another, while biology andthe other sciences possess the objective evidence that underscores the objective reality of God, not tomention the biological necessity of our moralities and ethics, a necessity as great as that for food, water, air,and all other things without which life must perish.

Karma

Karma is a morality based upon fear, not love. In fact, it insists that you will earn bad karma and be punished for loving and acting on that love. But it is love and its correlates, neighborliness, affection,friendship, etc. that are the basis of all community, human and otherwise, without which life ceases to be.So a morality based upon karma is ultimately contra-life. It opens the door to every sort of irresponsibility,cowardice, and abuse of power, all in the name of not earning bad karma. In the West, the analogousanti-morality is that sort of religion that encourages so great a fear of going to Hell that the believer iseasily manipulated into every sort of evil, from lying and cruelty to others on up through aggravatedassault, mass murder and beyond, as alternatives to such a fate.

On Horror

Horror concerns the betrayal, enslavement, and murder of love and trust by cruelty, power-lust, andrecreational sadism.

Astrology: The 12th House of the Horoscope

The 12th House of the horoscope is concerned with the natives personal past and history, includingthe things which he or she has no control over. Hence this house is not concerned with karma, but rather with the consequences of either what the native has done or what was done to him or her i.e., memory , inthe psychodynamic sense, whether from this life or a past one.

True Will

True Will = basic biological Intentionality - Getting There, genetically and/or spiritually. Are moral imperatives orders from our genes as replicated at large in the world, in the general gene-pool? Are ethical imperatives those of other genes within our bodies, or do they come just from personal experience? EliSagan says that whereas the superego, the source of guilt, is born of fear and identification with the fearedone, the conscience, transgression of which gives birth to shame, is born out of love and identification withthe beloved, above all, the nurturing parent. Morality seems to have to do at least as much with fear, or atany rate, a sensible concern for our ultimate well-being, as it does love, for it impels us to act in support of


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the systems of kinship and community upon which we depend for our genetic survival. Our sense of ethics,on the other hand, is born of our own personal ideas of what is or is not fit, and arises more out of conscience than the superego; it seems to be almost entirely a child of personal bonds of love, a product of the social development and history of the phenotype, the organism in a given lifetime, rather than of thegenotype, the potentially eternal blueprints with reference to which that organism can be rebuilt again andagain over endless lifetimes. Morality impels us to act in support of our world; ethics urges us to act in

support of our friends and loved ones, those closest to us.

[In response to email message included below ]

Hi Clewt

Glad you got the disks. Re your sending about black helicopters (at end of message): Sending out alot of stark black helicopters isnt a militarily or politically sensible activity (though who is to say that our Peerless Leaders are sensible, sane, or intelligent? ), because it simply screams that something isseriously weird, stirs up the people, etc. On the other hand, the damned things have been filmed theyrereal, whatever they actually are or whoever is really behind them. Like so much of the rest of thecryptophenomenological universe, they are sort of tilted 45 degrees to everything in ours, so that radical

paradigm shifts in our thinking are going to be necessary if we are ever to understanding what they reallyare, their origins, and their implications for us. Paranoid schizophrenics like poor Linda Thompson are

people incapable of making such shifts or else just dropping the whole thing until they are capable of it,who keep on trying and trying and trying to jam the weird phenomenon into the procrustean bed of theory

based on our current understanding of things, never succeeding because (a) the thing is the wrong shape,wrong length, wrong height, and cant be cut down or stretched out to size with anything now on hand touse for the purpose, and they finally go crazy from frustration. Theories, my friend, I have in plenty butno certainties. I gave those up long ago. They are deadly.

Whatever the black helicopters and their ilk really are, they seem perfectly designed to generate lotsand lots of paranoid schizophrenia. I do not want to be one of their mind-victims! :)

Take care, always, Yael Dragwyla

[In response to the following]

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Forwarded Message:Subj: Re: black helicopters, special attentionDate: 95-10-17 11:14:23 EDT

From: ClewtTo: Merlin1246

come on merl, Black Helicopters have alot to do with UFOS because FIRST OF ALL, if they are able toconduct cattle mutilations, they can do PARANORMAL functions. Second of all, because they do sillythings and want to do surveillance where none is necessary, they seem LIKE UFOS to be OTHER REALITY oriented.

UFOS themselves in the early years were considered to be very likely a secret government program.So it is with black helicopters.

An occasionally encountered scenario is to have a UFO land, fly away, and then black helicopters


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show up and buzz the place where the landing was before any alert was put out. How would the BATF or whatever know anything about this and send out a helicopter?

THIRDLY, Black helicopters often hang out where UFOS are being seen, or strange doings arehappening. They are often dawdling around the white convoys which come and go to no logicallydiscernible purpose, as UFOs seem illogical.

FOURTH and of course, Linda Thompson is considered off the wall and no longer secreting a few

brain enzymes by even the patriots.

[From email correspondence late in 1995 ]

Dear

Havent yet run the data for the Pentagram chart you sent (see below), but will today. Thanks for thedata, I really appreciate it. As for Comet Hale-Bopp, current issue of Sky & Telescope has a big article onit. Spiritually speaking, it may bode as much ill as any great comet in history comets are traditionallyregarded as harbingers of woe through war, plague, and other disasters, and this one, coming at us out of the Sign Capricorn (Constellation Sagittarius due to precession of the Equinoxes, the Signs no longer correspond to the Constellations), far to the South, which latitudes were named the Hells by the ancientBabylonians, may well bring terrible things in its wake, if there is such a thing as an astrology of comets.

Not to be a party-pooper, but spiritual awakening frequently comes as the result of something reallyghastly happening to one, so yeah, this comet could bring a spiritual awakening but at the cost of thingslike plague or war, maybe. I do not relish its visitations. The 1910 visitation of Halleys preceded WW I

by four years, the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918 by 8, and was 6 years after Crowleys writing of The Book of the Law . In addition, 3,500 years ago the last pass of Hale-Bopp, they think now theMediterranean island of Santorini was vaporized by the detonation of a gigantic volcano which was solarge it put the eruption of Tamboura in the last century in the shade. The eruption effectively destroyedmost of the then-thriving Mediterranean civilizations. Its after-effects may also have been responsible for the Ten Plagues of Egypt recorded in Exodus, and probably screwed up the weather all over the world for many years thereafter. Im not too sure I want to see what Hale-Bopp will bring in its wake this timearound!

Take care, thanks again, Yael Dragwyla

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At 02:45 AM 10/17/95 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

>Im not really up on the WWWeb, yet, but Im a practising astrologer. What>is the date and time of the pentagram chart? I can set it up on my own>astrology software and have a look at it.

>Thanks, Yael Dragwyla

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ok, 2/7/97 12:05pm pst 119W 34N

current ephemeris for the comet on that date is 19:55 RA +18.0 deci calculated that out to be about 27.5 capricorn (not physically near theecliptic of course but in that degree of the ecliptic) and it is alsoheading into aquarius through feb/march. The pentagram relies on theascendant as one of its points. Heres some other stuff I wrote about it...

The ancient Celts used a different calendar than we do. Theirs was based primarily on the moon while oursis a fixed calendar based on the sun. Each month began at the new moon, and their year began in october (All Hallows). The particular date of this pentagram chart (2-7-97) was celebrated as the birthday of their goddess Brigid, for whom the country of Britain was named. Brigid is also a Catholic saint. This holiday isalso known as Candlemas, Brides Day, Groundhog day, and is not normally celebrated on this date under our modern solar calendar. This however would be the proper date according to the original Celtic system.

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WHAT IS COMET HALE-BOPP?

Comet Hale-Bopp is a recently discovered Comet that was first sighted in the constellation Sagittarius.It is about 1000 times larger than the average comet. As of the first of september this comet was out aroundthe orbit of Jupiter and was already glowing and giving off gas (Normally this doesnt happen at thatdistance). Recent reports show however that it is not giving off as much gas as might be expected,indicating that it probably will be quite large and bright when it comes the closest to earth (about .93 AU)in april of 97. This comet is expected to be extremely bright, probably brighter than any star or planet,

possibly bright enough to be seen in the daytime. Some people have called it the comet of the century,this remains to be seen as its quite possible it could fizzle out. Recent measurements indicate this is not anew comet and was probably last here somewhere around 3500 years ago.

Gordon Michael Scallion who publishes Earth Changes, had been predicting the appearance of alarge comet which he says is composed of spiritual energy and is the forshadow of a new age. He hints thatthis comet is probably identical with the star of Bethlehem although its current orbit doesnt seem to verifythis theory.

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

I originally discovered this fascinating pentagram chart in June of 95 and had been contemplating itsince then. It is intense with Aquarian energy and my first thought was that it might be the indicator of the

beginning of the Aquarian age. Its connection to ancient Celtism is quite interesting. Upon hearing aboutComet Hale Bopp, I knew with certainty that the comet would also be involved in the stellium in Aquarius.I have since confirmed this with data from JPL (see below). Im still not quite sure what it all means, but I

believe that it is a sign of some important spiritual event. Any input would be much appreciated and Iwould be glad to receive email.

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Hi, all

Just did an eclipse chart for tonights total Solar eclipse at 9:37 p.m. PDT (4:37 GMT on the 24th,tomorrow), for my locale (Seattle, WA, USA at 122 W 21, 47 N 39), and noticed some fascinating things.

First, the eclipse took place with Moon and Sun at 0 18 Scorpio a critical degree of Scorpio, alsolocated in the Via Combusta.Second, Pluto, ruler of Scorpio, is in the last degree of Scorpio, about to enter Sagittarius on November

10 and leave Scorpio behind for another 230+ years, and is thus in a semisextile aspect to the eclipse aversion of the inconjunct; 0 Scorpio represents the other version of the inconjunct, the quincunx or 150degrees, and like the semisextile it represents explosive energies, the sort of thing typical of earthquake andother disaster charts.

Third, the chart for this eclipse as erected in Seattle has 6 35 Cancer rising, and 26 26 Taurus onthe 12th House cusp (Placidean system). The 12th House cusp for that chart is thus conjunct the Fixed Star Algol, the most malign Star in the heavens, within the permitted orb of 1 degree (Algol is currently at 261 Taurus). Seattle is perhaps the most Scorpio city in the world, more so even than Beirut andWashington, DC and is located square on top of the massif of Mt. Rainier, a gigantic active volcanoconsidered to be potentially one of the most dangerous in the world, which lately has been heating up . . .

Fourth and last, my own natus was on March 20, 1945 e.v., @ 5:48 p.m. PWT, in Pasadena, CA, sothat my natal Sun is at 0 3 Aries exactly quincunx to tonights Solar eclipse! And I live in Seattle.

Anybody have any thoughts on what any of this might mean, both in general and with respect to thatexact quincunx of the eclipse to my natal Sun? Also, when was the last time a total Solar eclipse occurredin that degree of Scorpio?

Thanks, Yael Dragwyla

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AolMailSubj: NOT FOR ASTROSUP!!!To: MauudieTFP

My friend just had a strange dream on the night of the total eclipse a couple of days ago which Ifound to be hauntingly suggestive, in an astrological sense. Thought you might find it interesting. (Thecomments following her description of her dream are mine.) Enjoy, Yael

PS: Please DONT publish in AstroSupplement shed be embarrassed. Thanks, Yael

>>>Just did an eclipse chart for tonights total Solar eclipse at 9:37 p.m. PDT (4:37 GMT on the 24th,tomorrow), for my locale (Seattle, WA, USA at 122 W 21, 47 N 39)

Fascinating! I dont have any thoughts, except that Scorpiomeans regeneration, in an eclipse the sun dies and is

reborn, and that Cancer is the sign of motherhood. Plutoentering a new sign emphasizes this. This is so interesting.Last night I had a strange dream about a volcano (a littleRod Serling music, please:) ... A woman from outer spacecame to me and said that the crust was warring with theliquid fire, and that an explosion would take place if something werent done. She called on Diana, and told her that the fire must not be put out, but merely cooled. Dianasent in the mists of the sea through a crack in the crust.The pressure was relieved, but not extinguished. The woman


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AolMailSubj: Chinese/Western Year

To: SylviaS419

Hi

On page 14 of her The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes, Revised Edition (New York: PerennialLibrary/Harpers, 1988), Theodora Lau gives the following correspondences between the twelve figures of the Chinese calendar and the Western Signs of the Zodiac:

Chinese WesternTiger AquariusRabbit PiscesDragon AriesSnake TaurusHorse GeminiSheep Cancer Monkey LeoRooster VirgoDog LibraBoar ScorpioRat SagittariusOx Capricorn

On January 31 of 1995 e.v., the Chinese year 4693 began, a Boar year. For Westerners, that year thushad a Scorpio accent, over and above any other astrological influences. On February 19 of 1996 e.v., theChinese year 4694, a Rat year, will begin; as a result, for Westerners it will have a Sagittarius accent.

There is also a five-Element cycle overlaid on the Chinese system of the years, two years of eachElement, the first Yang (positive), the second Yin (negative) (see p. 12, ibid.). This cycle, ten years inlength, runs as follows: Wood (+), Wood (-), Fire (+), Fire (-), Earth (+), Earth (-), Metal (+), Metal (-),Water (+), Water (-), Wood (+), . . . 1995 e.v. has been a Yin/Wood year. 1996 e.v., will be a Yang/Fireyear. The Chinese Elements have the following relationship to Western ones, as follows:

Wood = Air, ruled by Jupiter, associated the metal tin and the Chinese Year/Hour-Signs Tiger, Rabbit,Dragon. This Element is associated with the energy or influence of growing, natural things, characteristicof the months of Spring. It corresponds to the Western Element of Air.

Fire, ruled by Mars, associated with the metal iron and the Chinese Signs Snake, Horse, Sheep. ThisElement is associated with fire and burning and the heat and the Signs of Summer. It corresponds to the

Western Element of Fire.Metal, ruled by Venus, associated with the metal copper and the Chinese Signs of Autumn, Monkey,Rooster, and Dog. It corresponds to the energy or influence of made things, those created by artifice,human or otherwise (e.g., beavers, ants, grasses used by cats to fish for gophers, etc.). It doesnt have anexact Western analog, but could be considered to be associated with the idea of the Quintessence, madefrom the other four Elements.

Water, ruled by Mercury, associated with mercury metal (quicksilver) and the Chinese Signs of Winter, Boar, Rat, Ox. It corresponds to the Western Element of Water.

(Earth, chi , is associated with the Planet Saturn. It is the Center, composed of Yin and Yang mingledtogether. It corresponds to the Western Element of Earth, or perhaps the Quintessence. It is the Enduring,


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the Floor of Creation, as Heaven is its Roof. No Signs are associated with it in the Chinese system. Yin isassociated with the Moon and the metal silver, Yang with the Sun and the metal Gold. The Chinese ideaof Heaven and the Japanese Element of Void correspond closely the abode of the Gods or kami , thethrone of Their Will. In the I Ching , there are trigrams for the Elements, one each for the positive andnegative aspects of an Element: Chien for Heaven (Air/Wood +), Kan for Water (-), Ken for Mountain(Earth +), Chen for Thunder (Fire +), Sun for Wind/Wood (+), Li for Fire (-), Kun for Earth (-), Tui for

Lake (Water +). (See the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching for more on this, as well as J. C.Cooper, Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality [New York: Sterling, 1990].) What do theseinfluences add to those that already accompany this year (1995 e.v.) and next (1996 e.v.), so heavily ladenwith the influences of Pluto, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Uranus, Capricorn, Aquarius, Saturn, Pisces, Neptune,and Aries, because of the mutual receptions and coming changes of Sign of these Outer Planets? Id like tofind out if anyone has done any work so far on these, and would be grateful if you could send mereferences for them. Thanks, Yael Dragwyla

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AolMailSubj: The Astrology of CommunityTo: SylviaS419

Hello

This is by way of a PS to my earlier remarks on astrology of community and ecosystem, andcommunity-centered vs. individual astrology:

It is the community upon which all life ultimately depends, which nurtures and sustains everyorganism, of whatever kind. From the community of family and friends, to that of immediateneighborhood, to town and city and nation, to ecosystem and, finally, world, our well-being, indeed, our very existence, depends upon the health of our community and of our relationship to it, the nature of our embeddedness within it. All the worlds major religions are ultimately predicated upon this fact, and their commandments have to do with curtailing behavior and attitudes on our part that could damage our community, the small community of the family, the larger communities of friends and neighbors, the major communities of society and nation, the ultimate community of Mother Earth. Depending upon the cultureof its origin, any long-existing religion assumes that our relationship to these reflects or incorporates or nurtures or is in fact identical to our relationship with our Gods, for the Gods created the living world, or were birthed by Her, and to do harm to Her is to sin against Creator and creature alike.

An astrology that does not address these the communities of which we are part and upon which wedepend for our very being, their health, and the health of our relationship to those communities is thusultimately as superficial, trivial, and ephemeral as the sort of person-centered psychotherapy that regardsthe client as isolated from all external influence, living in a social, political, ecological and spiritualvacuum, with no need to pay attention to the exigencies of objective reality or biologically determined

basic needs (as so much of what passes for psychotherapy is today, as James Hillman has so cogentlydiscussed in his Weve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the Worlds Getting Worse (1992)).Mother Earth the bioecological universe is the great ground of our being. You are what you eat weall grow out of Mother Earth, made of the Her soils and waters and winds and the energy of Her deep

mantle and core as well as of the Sun. As Her health and Life goes, so go ours; as our relationship withHer goes, so go our lives, our very being. But for all the attention modern Western astrology really pays tothis fact, one would think that we all existed in a moral, ecological, psychospiritual, social, and politicalvacuum, wholly isolated from our biology, from our community and its needs and its gifts to us.

Yet Western astrology, like it

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