Featured Discussions - Temple Illuminatus2024-03-28T23:13:57Zhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/forum/topic/list?feed=yes&xn_auth=no&featured=1Any Luciferians in the midst?tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2024-01-31:6363372:Topic:36398402024-01-31T06:45:52.553ZZudahttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/ChristopherSnook
<p>I know there may be some misunderstanding as to what luciferianism is, so let me explain! The closest pathway to Luciferianism is actually Buddhism. The Luciferian way is to collect knowledge and then share that knowledge, and also to seek and share Enlightenment. Becoming enlightened (temporarily, as it were) is actually how I discovered the path. But where it differs from Buddhism is that the Luciferian also believes in the human potential to become a god. For example, Zeus, Hekate,…</p>
<p>I know there may be some misunderstanding as to what luciferianism is, so let me explain! The closest pathway to Luciferianism is actually Buddhism. The Luciferian way is to collect knowledge and then share that knowledge, and also to seek and share Enlightenment. Becoming enlightened (temporarily, as it were) is actually how I discovered the path. But where it differs from Buddhism is that the Luciferian also believes in the human potential to become a god. For example, Zeus, Hekate, Lucifer himself, Ra, etc. all gods, under the One God (there is a hierarchy), and this is the type of god that we have the potential to be. It all stems from letting go of the ego and becoming the higher self, and then ascending. The more we surrender ourselves to God, or whatever you want to call it, the more power we gain. Though this is not to say that every Luciferian believes in God; it's not that simple. There are many different conceptions, but at the end of the day, it's all the same thing. :)<br/><br/>Well, I'm excited to hear if there are any others who follow the same path! And, at the end of the day, of course, I'm sure that we all do--everybody here. The path of Illumination. But in the meantime it will be nice to see if there are other Luciferians :^)</p> An Open Source Model for Mysticismtag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2024-01-05:6363372:Topic:36388722024-01-05T01:44:00.831ZSoulfishhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/MysticalMaven
<p>Open Source; Definition: “<em>In production and development, open source is a philosophy or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end products design and implementation details.</em></p>
<p><em>Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening…</em></p>
<p>Open Source; Definition: “<em>In production and development, open source is a philosophy or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end products design and implementation details.</em></p>
<p><em>Before the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet, and the attendant need for massive retooling of the computing source code. Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open source software movement was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.</em> <br/> <em>The open-source model includes the concept of concurrent yet different agendas and differing approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies. A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, “blueprints”, and documentation available at no cost to the public. This is increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology</em>.”</p>
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<p>When Open Source was still a new thing, I applied it, as I am wont to do, to spirituality. It’s a lifestyle, not just a hobby. I took the definition piece by piece and came up with this:</p>
<p>“<em>This is increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology”</em> Here it is as it can be applied to another field of endeavor, Mysticism.</p>
<p>Mysticism is, after all as the definition states: “…<em>a philosophy or pragmatic methodology that promotes free redistribution and access to an end products design and implementation details.”</em></p>
<p>The “end product” is ones world view, taking into account individual needs and manifested uses of “Mysticism.”<br/> Have a look at the following statements:</p>
<p>“<em>Opening the source code enabled a self-enhancing diversity of production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. The open source software movement was born to describe the environment that the new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues created.”</em></p>
<p>To re-phrase…In Mysticism, there is a self-enhancing diversity of applied theologies, communication paths and interactive communities. Mysticism as Open Source creates a more unified environment that more traditional methods of religious practice have not embraced.</p>
<p>“<em>The open-source model includes the concept of concurrent yet different agendas and differing approaches in production, in contrast with more centralized models of development such as those typically used in commercial software companies.”</em></p>
<p>The open source model as applied to Mysticism includes the concept of concurrent yet differing theologies and philosophies as well as encouraging different approaches in the application of the final product. This idea is in contrast to older methods that were more dogmatic and monotheistic.</p>
<p>“<em>A main principle and practice of open source software development is peer production by bartering and collaboration, with the end-product, source-material, “blueprints”, and documentation available at no cost to the public. This is increasingly being applied in other fields of endeavor, such as biotechnology</em>.”</p>
<p>A main principle and practice of Mysticism is being able to work with people of like minds yet have your own sense of identity in how you manifest and implement what you learn. You develop your style of Mysticism on your own and with peers in collaboration with the source material and blueprints of other theologies using your own experience as a foundation or cornerstone to build on.</p>
<p>In current culture I see people considered guru’s or experts making millions off of the desire people have to be more spiritually awakened. They take the same inspirational quotes that have been around for thousands of years, change a word or two and call it their own.</p>
<p>I understand why there’s a market for them, people want to do better. These alleged gurus know that, they also know it’s a personal journey and under the guise of guiding you there, they line their pockets.</p>
<p>Our culture outsources everything to the “experts” never considering that we, in many ways, are the experts in our own lives. There’s a tendency to think in extreme terms where people either want to stubbornly insist their way is the only way or they just want to be told what to do and how to think.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the grey area is what covers the most space in this scenario. In the grey area there is balance, yet one person’s solution isn’t anothers. What creates strength for one won’t for another. There is no path to spiritual awareness that is crowded with people all waiting to go in the same direction unless they’re in line for the Kool-Aid or the ATM. The waiting rooms might be overcrowded, but the path itself is always traveled alone.</p>
<p>We’ve all read the quotes, we’ve all seen the inspirational memes that get us through moments when we need to be strong. I think it’s time we normalize being strong and finding our own path free of frauds and unneeded medications in favor of finding balance between strength from within and strength from without.</p>
<p>The fact is, spiritual awareness cannot be instagrammed or found in a tiktok. Facebook frauds will not help you take a closer walk with your own personal Jesus. People want to <em>appear</em> spiritually enlightened and it’s very easy to give that appearance, but living it, every day, in every moment, not just on Sunday or at the weekend retreat at the Ashram, is the real challenge.</p>
<p>It’s when no one is looking or snapping a photo. It isn’t about getting followers or wearing all the right shiny bobbles. It isn’t about what ancient quotes plagiarized by today’s would-be gurus you know. It isn’t about knowing, it’s about doing, and then doing better with each moment.</p>
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<p>A simple question, a stated fact that carries so much weight to it. I have never been asked if I regret anything I have done in my life. Yet I keep asking myself why that is? It feels like I have missed out on the opportunity to maximize the potential of the exact opposite of regret. The feeling of belonging no matter where you tread.</p>
<p>There are many stages to belonging that often go unnoticed. Acceptance is the first. This can go either way. You are encouraged to keep the…</p>
<p>A simple question, a stated fact that carries so much weight to it. I have never been asked if I regret anything I have done in my life. Yet I keep asking myself why that is? It feels like I have missed out on the opportunity to maximize the potential of the exact opposite of regret. The feeling of belonging no matter where you tread.</p>
<p>There are many stages to belonging that often go unnoticed. Acceptance is the first. This can go either way. You are encouraged to keep the circumstances surrounding your participation in both friendships and personal interests. Or circumstance gets in the way of these things. Resulting in the whole process repeating itself until it no longer does.</p>
<p>Assume that you move on in life, and find your place in the world. What happens then? You get noticed for being a staple or constant in the lives you regularly engage with. When you work, this effects your career path tipping the odds in your favor to at least 70% or higher. So that your ideas eventually get pushed through into reality.</p>
<p>Known as the great choice, the next stage in belonging, is predicting the next moves that will come about after you have made all the moves you desire. So, usually if you start a family and your kids turn into adults. This will be one such instance where you then, have such a choice to make. The weight of which, is the hardest to ignore where regret is concerned. Because the choices of others close to you, effect your own future. If they are well placed ones, you not only gain the favor of respect, but communal admiration. Otherwise, you gain favor with new opportunities.</p>
<p>now I realize that belonging is a simple enough concept to grasp while on Earth. It is spiritual or soul belonging that has me so excited. Because that is the key to defining your own happiness in the face of what you have mastered while being present across how ever many lives you have lived. The bonds of love you form, are the rock you lean on in all things you hold dear to you.</p>
<p>Endearing belonging into your life, will be the most rewarding thing you can ever experience. It has help to shield me from facing regret head on. Belonging also helps in being patient enough to be less impulsive, more true to form. For slow and steady wins the race and test against time and change. A wild force with unpredictable actions, only we who stay true to them will find home in the lives we lead in a path where only deviation results in abandonment.</p> Upon A Path Of No Returntag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2022-11-06:6363372:Topic:36298292022-11-06T06:21:04.335ZSirian Starlighthttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/SirianStarlight
<p>Contemplation is a double edged sword. ON one side, you have the edge of certainty. Where confidence, passion and direction all meet in a trinity arch. On the other, you have emptiness, which is what you face when you are not in control.</p>
<p>Giving your power away is never a choice. It is only a motion of reciprocal energy. To accept that you have lost, means you have filled yourself up with loneliness. To fight until you win, means that you have conceptually mastered your own truth. In a…</p>
<p>Contemplation is a double edged sword. ON one side, you have the edge of certainty. Where confidence, passion and direction all meet in a trinity arch. On the other, you have emptiness, which is what you face when you are not in control.</p>
<p>Giving your power away is never a choice. It is only a motion of reciprocal energy. To accept that you have lost, means you have filled yourself up with loneliness. To fight until you win, means that you have conceptually mastered your own truth. In a way which aligns your focus with what you have achieved through using it.</p>
<p>Are we born special? A part of me likes to believe that some of us are able to become blessed through a fair minded few who would never abandon them. Not all souls who incarnate on this planet have been given this kind of attention. We all experience a type of hellscape at least once in our lives. It occurs when ever our soul is calling out for someone to hear us as an equal or mentor and there is no answer to our state of being. Calls left unanswered, always result in dormant dreams waiting to be fulfilled.</p>
<p>Such a task has in the past, been left to deities to address. In several ways, this has been a one sided affair. Only through mutual bonds, can it become a solid relationship. Of a kind that holds itself together by regenerating the circumstances surrounding its need to be there to lean on.</p>
<p>We all deserve that right, including deities who are emotionally expressive as entities themselves. Rights are always reciprocal, and can never be taken for granted. The right to escape any hellscape you find yourself in, is one that no deity to date has ever addressed while living on this planet. Decisions taken to disadvantage rights for the sake of control over their existence, have been done in the name of sacrifice for the greater good. This has to end no matter the cost.</p>
<p>What do we live for as unbound souls? While many spiritual masters of meditative reflection would speculate on the importance of ascension, world peace and being the dreamer. There is no activist alive who can do such a job alone. It has traditionally always been up to material inventors to change lives for the better on this planet, because we only have each other to lean on. If such a reliance is broken in any way, those who are left behind know only wrong as a constant guide or companion in their life. Then they are forced to relive through this process time and again because we have not fully reached our state of oneness.</p>
<p>Love as one for we are one. A simple enough mission with the goal of mutual relations with each other in turn. This is what all spiritual leaders have been promising as we fulfill the purpose of structure and order on a planet not used to either for so long. It is up to us to ensure that we have a place to belong, otherwise the integration of higher consciousness shall miss its mark in our generation.</p>
<p>The awakening is here. So two is the announcement of a great reset trying to unfold among people who have been guided by many wrongs to enforce them over the rights of others baring their own agenda. We cannot give up the bond we have with each other for any reason. We are all who is left of the great ones of old.</p>
<p>I have, time and again, tried to recreate the summoning of assistance from non incarnate entities from extraterrestrials to celestial kindred. I have been let down with their inability to force events to manifest for them in a material presence. We are the only ones who can fulfill this role, because all others, though mentally stable, could not connect through any other medium.</p>
<p>I love you for who you are. Blessed be your journey to fulfill the same through the eyes of those who trust you in all things the most.</p> How Did You Get On Your Path?tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-11-11:6363372:Topic:36053422021-11-11T20:26:27.596ZBryanhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/Bryan11
<p>It seems there are always messages out there driving everyone to get on their own path and to fulfill their self created destiny, but I’m curious, how did you find yours? What keeps you motivated to keep going? </p>
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<p>I find myself at a crossroads right now and I’ve been standing at this fork in the road for a while now. I know which direction my gut wants me to go in (and I do trust it) but it feels like there are other forces always trying to push me in a direction I don’t feel…</p>
<p>It seems there are always messages out there driving everyone to get on their own path and to fulfill their self created destiny, but I’m curious, how did you find yours? What keeps you motivated to keep going? </p>
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<p>I find myself at a crossroads right now and I’ve been standing at this fork in the road for a while now. I know which direction my gut wants me to go in (and I do trust it) but it feels like there are other forces always trying to push me in a direction I don’t feel drawn toward. </p>
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<p>I’d love to hear some of your stories here. </p> Spellstag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2021-06-20:6363372:Topic:35973342021-06-20T05:56:41.054ZMystic Wolfhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/DonPerndergast
<p><strong>BANISHING SICKNESS FROM YOURSELF</strong></p>
<p>Take an Athame or wand (or use your index finger) and repeat the banishing pentagram ritual while saying:</p>
<p>O malady, disappear into the heavens; Pain, rise up to the clouds;</p>
<p>Inflamed vapor, fly into the air,</p>
<p>In order that the wind may take thee away,</p>
<p>That the tempest may chase thee to distant regions, where you came from where you did no harm So mote it be!</p>
<p><strong>STAY AWAY SPELL</strong></p>
<p>In a…</p>
<p><strong>BANISHING SICKNESS FROM YOURSELF</strong></p>
<p>Take an Athame or wand (or use your index finger) and repeat the banishing pentagram ritual while saying:</p>
<p>O malady, disappear into the heavens; Pain, rise up to the clouds;</p>
<p>Inflamed vapor, fly into the air,</p>
<p>In order that the wind may take thee away,</p>
<p>That the tempest may chase thee to distant regions, where you came from where you did no harm So mote it be!</p>
<p><strong>STAY AWAY SPELL</strong></p>
<p>In a small pot, crush items that the person you are wishing away hates (say, if they hate china berries, and then crush those!) While you crush, visualize that person staying away from a certain place. When everything is crushed, and then add the four representations of the elements.</p>
<p>These are: 1 pinch of salt (<strong>earth,</strong>) 1 sprinkle of water (<strong>water</strong>)</p>
<p>Something flaming, (<strong>fire)</strong> (dip in, then pull out three times),</p>
<p>And incense (<strong>air</strong>) (do the same as the fire)</p>
<p>Crush again. Before putting in elements, ask the lord and lady to bless them for you, so that they may work their purpose faster, longer, and stronger.</p>
<p>Visualize the person staying away, while you chant:</p>
<p>"Berries of the trees, make true the wish to me.</p>
<p>Keep (name of person) away from here, so that I may rejoice and cheer"</p>
<p>Then, smear a bit of the mixture over whatever you want the person to stay away from.</p>
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<p><strong>A SPELL FOR BREAKING KARMIC CONTRACTS WITH PEOPLE</strong></p>
<p>(So they don't continue to play the same detrimental roles in your further incarnations.)</p>
<p>On parchment or some other nice quality paper, write in red ink (dragon's blood ink, bat's blood would be great too):</p>
<p>(<em>Name</em>) I declare our contract broken.</p>
<p>You no longer have power over me.</p>
<p>Never again will I be your servant, in this life or any other.</p>
<p>(You can use your own words, go into detail about how you feel you've been wronged manipulated, whatever.)</p>
<p>Sign your name, burn it with a black candle. Get rid of the ashes.</p>
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<p><strong>REFLECTION SPELL</strong></p>
<p>This calls for casting a circle because you are using your subconscious mind, and not your conscious mind. Use a round, blessed mirror. Light Patchouli incense.</p>
<p>Smear a light coating of allspice around the outer Circle, starting at the top, going in a counterclockwise position. Chant:</p>
<p>Bind this (man/woman) I name ________</p>
<p>Bind him/her from our home and life.</p>
<p>Give us peace, remove the strife.</p>
<p>Let their will be free, as long as he/she stays away from me.</p>
<p>Protect our family from this day forth,</p>
<p>Allow _______ to never darken our door.</p>
<p>Reflect back now and please be Quick.</p>
<p>Keep him/her away, if _______ breaks the spell.</p>
<p>Make him/her hear well,</p>
<p>If _____ Comes back here</p>
<p>Make _____ become violently ill.</p>
<p>As I have Willed, So it shall be.</p>
<p>Thank all Elements for attending the right. Close Circle.</p>