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The Importance of Positive Thinking in Magic and Witchcraft
One of
the best selling books of all times was written way back in the 20th Century
and has been disappearing of the shelves consistently for many decades. The
Power of Positive Thinking is a simple, straightforward work that
shows us how simple some very important learning about ourselves can be.
What
a gloriously simple idea—keep you thoughts on the positive side. Johnny
Mercer—The
Gentleman from Savannah—wrote a song back in the same period of time
as that in which Mr. Peale wrote his book. ‘Accentuate
the Positive’ is the piece:
Accentuate the positive
Don’t hang around with the negative
And don’t mess around with Mr. In-between”
These simple
works—as so often is the case—stay around because they ring a bell
deep within. The clichés stay around forever because they pulse
with deep, fundamental truths.
Try this
powerful litmus test. For the next two days, try to be as quiet as possible,
not engaging heartily in conversation, but listening with care. Do this
in all the circles through which you move and pay very close attention. Let
the nature of the language in and note how it is used. How many types
of negativity exist? Chances are very strong that you will be amazed
at how much of our time is spent bad mouthing, bemoaning, feeling sorry for
ourselves, talking about how screwed up things are for us.
After leaving
the pow-wow, look around closely: the trees, the flowers, the sky, parts of
the built environment—how many things are wonderful, are in fact excellent,
then think about how many of the negatives in the conversations are actually
inventions designed to support the mutual, negative viewpoint.
Look closely
at how abundant this behavior of latching onto myths fed by the negative is
and how much energy we lose as we ensnare ourselves in them. Think of
how powerful the Casting of Spells, or the receiving of Castings could become
if that energy were put to work constructively. We work so hard at weaving
more and more so-called problems and lamenting them. Our minds latch
onto the wasteful subject and grow wildly discursive, simply draining off energy
in the effort to maintain this pointless negative, run away mind-set.
While
we lose ourselves in this wild spinning of the negative, we lose so much of
our lives. This is not to say that negative energy is bad, that it is
not a part of our total beings, no—it must be manifested when required. Our
in-the-moment negativity is thoroughly dynamic. It is a fantastic warrior,
a totally enlightened
prince of peace, a full-fledged Aikido master who never touches anyone during
combat, but simply works with the force-field and re-arranges the environs.
Authentic
Spell casting requires great strength—shilly-shallying with such vital
matters is completely unacceptable. An authentic
Spell Caster understands
the need for conservation of energy as one of the deepest truths of spiritual
work. The Egyptians knew it well. Keeping the silence in spell
work is absolutely essential—not as a way of being sneaky, but in order
to conserve energy. It must never be frittered away in ridiculous behavior
like feeling sorry for onself and getting lost in pity-parties.
All of that
time could be spent working with novitiates, talking creatively with the curious,
studying how biologicals like tears and hair can add to effectiveness. All
of the basics require effort and add deeply to the practice: studying amulet,
learning the authentic, Egyptian talismans, quieting the mind.
When someone
is acting-out with completely inappropriate behavior, and they will not listen
to anyone: talking to loud, assaulting everyone with oaths for no reason, belittling
someone beyond the point of shared joking and continuing, going on and on and
on, it is time to help them remember their own, shared sense of gracious behavior.
The
behavior becomes a signal, the person is being wasteful of everyone’s
precious time—we all know in one beat of our intuition what is correct
and what is inappropriate. This is never a middle class constraining
of one’s
behavior, a recipe by some control freak, an attempt to tell us who we should
be. No, quite the contrary, this is a formula for getting closer to our
real selves, to peeling another layer off the onion. It is time to fully
engage negative, energy. If one has engaged the other Karma Yogas to
no avail, it is time to push this person off the path and move on with the
great communion at hand. The Positive then springs up again, tangible
and whole, making us feel light and fully present.
Life is
so full and wonderful, ripe with mystery, with possibilities, with wondrous
things to explore like all the teachings from the Mystery Schools of Ancient
Egypt. The pursuit of the spirit work in the schools, the depth of understanding,
the material to pass on to others. So much awaits us around every turn
in the road. The closer we get to our genuine, authentic beings, the
simpler it is to drop the union with groups of people who spend so much of
their lives entwined in negative thought.
This is
not the pure negative energy of telling a person to buzz off. The energy
of people bunched up, reveling in their brilliant observations about how screwed
up everything is provides a deep grave of fear, a web of the protracting of
our initial spark of negativity, which is one of the most brilliant forces
in the universe. We absolutely know how to cut through the convoluted,
entrapping negative energy and it is extremely vital that we do it, and fast. Express
our simple, immediate negative reactions immediately and run like a cat from
a dog whenever we encounter the convoluted negative energy.
When working
with all parts of the Great Egyptian Teachings it is of the utmost importance
to remain in, and always work within the power of one’s own Positive. However,
do not turn this into a silly, phony, goof-ball thing in which one grins and
makes nice. Authenticity is absolutely essential when working with Egyptian
Spell Casting, and all work related to it.
Egyptian
symbols, the teachings are some of the most basic, profound understanding on
the earth, they made manifest all the great learning process that arose after
the last ice age, around forty thousand years ago. This is something
to be happy about, very happy about, to feel honored to participate in and
grow to know intimately. This is cause for celebration and opening the
doors to the positive.
We are not
looking for a silly, vacuous, politically correct positivity here—we
don’t come to the event dressed in the emperors new clothes. If
we are nude, it is very good, very ripe and full of opportunity to dress up
correctly. To put on a suit and tie and look grand. Here the phony
attitude of grinning like a opossum and trying to impress others with what
wonderful, positive folks we are doesn’t cut it. No, this
is another thing.
Here, we
are so excited about sacred consciousness, the knowing, the gnosis, the authentic,
in-ourselves—forces that we know well, which permeate all time and space
with the light, limber excitement of being—that we don’t have to
try, to strain, to be politically correct, to make a deep effort to be positive
and uplifting. No, the situation takes care of it for us. In fact,
the powerful work we are doing, the viewpoint of society through the great
mystery of the Sphinx’s point of view, is so remarkable that we ARE positive,
energy—there is no choice, no dodging, no being coy. The light
is now emanating from our beings like a searchlight at the carnival and our
positive energy draws others to us like moths to a porch light in the middle
of summer.
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