Book review: The Sun of Knowledge

I had heard about The Sun of Knowledge as being one of the most used magical sources in the Arab world during the middle ages. I latter came across at least one talisman depicted within this book and found it interesting. This made me consider it as a possible acquisition and at some point it came into my possession through a series of fortunate coincidences.

As usual, I haven't read it cover to cover and instead read through it while focusing on the areas that attracted my attention the most. The table of contents was very helpful in that regard and I quickly came across the information I sought.

I like the fact the book focuses a great deal on the lunar mansions, to such an extent it offers more than a few astronomical details about each respective mansion. Luckily for us, we have technology on our side when it comes to astrological calculations, but I see how people would've benefited a great deal from those astronomical details up until modern times.

Saturn burning

Saturn is now combust and will continue to be for the next seventeen or eighteen days or so. I've already addressed combustion in more than a few articles by now so there's no need to tag any of them. We've also addressed combustion in Asteria. Thing is I'm posting this short article because I felt the need to remind people of this event just so they'd consider it in their practice (should they choose or care).

I for one would not be doing any beneficial Saturn work during this time frame and only resort to smiting. By extension, I wouldn't be making any Saturn talisman for purposes other than ruin and destruction and so on.

Medicinal woowoo results

More than a couple of months ago I posted this article in which I spoke of making magical elixirs to help with my enlarged nasal turbinates. Additionally, I also took up the medical route and had some specialist see me and prescribe whatever medicine he deemed necessary. I told him I don't deal well with cortisone medicine, but he insisted it's the right stuff for my issue. I warned him he won't be seeing me again if I experience the usual shit I had experienced from this sort of meds before, something he should've taken seriously since he seemed very interested in treating my problem for good, including through surgical means. And that meant more money for him.

But fuck him and his stupid meds! He's been lucky so far I haven't had time to nuke him for not having listened to me. Besides having to endure some nasty side effects from those meds, I only experienced so much improvement from them...

Luckily I've got woowoo! I started making elixirs for at least alleviating my issue in between the times the guy had prescribed for me to take the meds. That way I was able to figure out which of the two, meds and elixirs, did their thing and for how long. I came to learn early on the effects of elixirs made for physical issues usually get noticed within a few days to a week or more, depending on the goal and the effects I needed from the meds usually wore off after a few days.

The elixirs worked far better and they also had no side effect!

Talismans in the making

Today I started making some Saturn talisman bases. Got some lead fishing weights and pounded them into shape during the hour of Saturn. They may not look like much now, but I'm not finished with them yet. Still have to file them and maybe hammer them flat some more, but in the end I don't expect to get some top shelf product in regards to looks.

But looks is not my goal since I'm not making talismans to look pretty. That's the job of any self-important wannabe that's selling magical products. Instead, I'm looking for efficiency and results of the best kind and if that were to happen with the help of a talisman with a nice curve appeal, even better. If not, I've seen talismans working well regardless of their looks.

How talismans work

One of the questions I've been seeing often on social media is what to do with already existing talismans during certain planetary retrogrades. Those who ask this question seem to be concerned with the retrograde periods of the planet who's energies had been used to empower a certain talisman, but there's also the case of Mercury retrogrades regardless of the nature of the talisman.

I blame ye "experts" in the latter case because they usually mask their utter lack of astrological knowledge and ignorance with respect to that topic by warning people of staying away from Mercury retrogrades whenever doing magix. The only reason you'd have to be concerned about Mercury retrograde if you're performing a ritual for working with another planetary force is if the planet of choice happens to be involved in a hard aspect with Mercury retrograde (or any other planet, retrograde or otherwise).

HGA "experts"

I've addressed the wannabe experts with respect to occult matters in more than one article so far. This time I will do it in regards to the subject of the Holy Guardian Angel. Anyone who knows even a bit on this subject is aware there is more than one such entity assigned to each person and we've discussed this briefly in Asteria.

This article focuses on the Holy Guardian Angel from the perspective of being the entity of the highest rank assigned to an individual. So far so good, except that in some cases people elevate that entity to a status that would make it equal to and even equivalent to the person's Higher Self. This is foolish since the former is a creation of the latter, the Higher Self being the divine spark inside each individual, practically "your personal piece of God". I discuss this in Words and I even throw in some Genesis verses.

I, Satanist

For quite some time now I purposely ceased to be cautious regarding my active involvement in the occult. As a result, several individuals have become aware of this. Moreover, they started spreading the word and in one case some self-important loser made use of this information, thinking he'd discredit me. Even more so, one of the people whom that loser told about occult activities is someone I somewhat respect and I would've preferred the person learning about this from me. Instead, they've been told I'm a Satanist by that loser and then started freaking out over it.

Not that I care I'm now being seen through different lenses by that particular person, but their utter ignorance and refusal to accept things beyond what their mindset allows them is yet another sign for me the world is seriously fucked. Scott often says the world would be much better if more people were actively performing magick and I wholeheartedly agree. The problem is many individuals have been brainwashed from a very young age into seeing things through others' eyes. Naturally, I'm speaking about the conditioning every person starts constructing (without their knowledge) from a young age. It's natural that in a country full of superstitions, a trend dating back some two millennia, anything that looks out of the ordinary must be evil. Too bad people here only start freaking out regarding evil things when it comes to spiritual or pseud-spiritual topics and not when it comes to matters that are pressing for day to day living. But I'm digressing.