Oh Sweet Lobotomy!

there's a dark shadow that lurks near by
it chants and rants and shouts obscenities
we all look round and try to avoid it
we pretend it's not there until we have to stop....
and take notice
what shall we do?

oh sweet lobotomy!

they came and locked away
they tied and restrained what they did not understand
left them there to wallow in their own filth until they died
what else could be done?

oh sweet lobotomy!

it carried on like that for many many years
the same fate awaited those
who didn't fit in, the unwanted
the misunderstood
the abused
the scared and lonely
if only there was something else that could be done
to free these screaming souls from the devils that plagued them

oh sweet lobotomy!

then the doctors came
the men of science who would bring salvation
trying to shake them and bake them
stab them and freeze them
it was all progress of course
if some died or got worse
it all made for good reading in the next issue of the journal
onward, onward, lots more to try...

oh sweet lobotomy!

when all else fails
lets f**k up their brains
pick at their brains
the ice pick method will bring some restraint
(the doctor adjusts his specs)

oh sweet lobotomy!
oh sweet aversion therapy (the cure for the homosexuals who need to be "turned")!
oh sweet everything that makes people fit into boxes and labels and statistics and norms
why try to understand....
when you can do it by force!
(a bell sounds, end of the show, return to your homes, it's all fixed now)

the dark shadow is still there (the dark shadow is in the eye of the beholder)......






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Goetia and The Enochian Calls

There is some evidence to suggest that in later years Crowley just used the first and second enochian calls in his Goeitc evocations, rather than all the preliminary invocations. So this is what I've started experimenting with.

Phonetic versions of the 1st and 2nd Enochian keys or calls (for those like me who are not sure how to pronounce Encohian):

The First Key
Ol sonuf vaoresaji, gohu IAD Balata, elanusaha caelazod: sobrazod-ol Roray i ta nazodapesad, Giraa ta maelpereji, das hoel-qo qaa notahoa zodimezod, od comemahe ta nobeloha zodien; soba tahil ginonupe pereje aladi, das vaurebes obolehe giresam. Causarem ohorela caba Pire: das zodonurenusagi cab: erem Iadanahe. Pilahe farezodem zodenurezoda adana gono Iadapiel das home-tohe: soba ipame lu ipamis: das sobolo vepe zodomeda poamal, od bogira aai ta piape Piamoel od Vaoan! Zodacare, eca, od zodameranu! odo cicale Qaa; zodoreje, lape zodiredo Noco Mada, Hoathahe I A I D A!

The Second Key
Adagita vau-pa-ahe zodonugonu fa-a-ipe salada! Vi-i-vau el! Sobame ial-pereji i-zoda-zodazod pi-adapehe casarema aberameji ta ta-labo paracaleda qo-ta lores-el-qo turebesa ooge balatohe! Giui cahisa lusada oreri od micalapape cahisa bia ozodonugonu! lape noanu tarofe coresa tage o-quo maninu IA-I-DON. Torezodu! gohe-el, zodacare eca ca-no-quoda! zodameranu micalazodo od ozodazodame vaurelar; lape zodir IOIAD!

It may be an idea to copy these into your journal, or maybe print them out and stick them in for easy use later.

(Results of this method will be in my next book)

Candomble and Obeah

Just a short video...

Battling The Giants

I had a problem with one of the large mobile networks (they will remain nameless), making certain threats and sending a very nasty debt recovery company after me, after they had ignored the letters from me.

I had exhausted all normal methods, and realised I was battling against a very large company who passed on their debt collection issues to a company that operates by using loopholes in the current laws regarding fair treatment of debtors.

I knew battling a massive telecoms company using magick would be quite hard, but I decided to try an experiment.

I created a collage with no particular statement of intent, just a general idea of how I would like to see this large company dealt justice. There was no "lust of result" and I just enjoyed creating the collage as a little art project.

The other week, I saw on TV that this mobile network had been taken to court and were being investigated because of issues with their mobile contracts and performance.

Result I think!

Dave Lee talks about collages and their results more in Chaotopia!: Sorcery and Ecstasy in the Fifth Aeon





See you in court.

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Enochian Scrying Part 5 - PES

Apologies for the lateness of posting this video, it was recorded way back in September, but I've only just got round to editing and uploading it.

The sound quality is not very good.

I did meet in this Aethyr an entity, who revealed himself as gamma 5 x.

Please let these videos inspire you to do your own exploring of the 30 Aethyrs!



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Never Judge A Book By A Sentence Or Two

When I first started seriously reading and studying occult texts as part of my own training, study and research, I would sometimes make the mistake of seeing one thing an author said that I strongly disagreed with or it offended me deeply....then closing the book and thinking everything else they knew or had to say was also at best inaccurate and ignorant, or downright wrong.

I would assume, they had a "closed mind", maybe at certain times they did, but also I was showing I also had a closed mind and couldn't see the value of someone else's work and knowledge because they held some theory, opinions, ideas or concepts that didn't fit with my own, or that were no longer relevant in today's world (there are of course valid points to be made that what was right for one culture or time in history, is no longer right for us, but this is a different matter).

To give an example. I started reading the Mystical Qabalah By Dion Fortune. I then came to a part where she was talking about homosexuality as a sickness, I immediately shut the book, threw a tantrum and placed it with a thud on my bookshelf with the aim of never trying to read it again. After a while I pondered on this, knowing what I had read about Dion Fortune that she was one of the early "psychoanalysts". The early psychoanalysts had some theories that homosexuality was a sickness which could be cured, which was a very popular idea then, which lasted up to quite modern times (I had seen things about aversion therapy which was given as "the cure" anyone wishing to research this should find a plethora of information). I had also read Dion Fortune had some issues with sexuality in general.

Yet Dion Fortunes' text on the Qabalah, though at times quite hard to read, is still a very valuable occult text on the subject, and she does shed light on some things that pave the way for your own practical workings. I actually quite like this book now, and it is still on my bookshelf and gets used when I need a reference.

Despite her faults, Dion was a female magician in what was at the time very much mainly a mans magical world (just count how many female magicians from that time wrote and had such an influence on magic) and a pretty good one too, going on to found her own order "The Society Of Inner Light".

I read some more about her life, and despite her faults, I know if I met Dion, I wouldn't share many of her opinions or ideas, but I get the feeling she was warm and quite genuine, if slightly shy, repressed and troubled at times. So I think she would be one those people who I would take an instant like to.

The moral of this story - don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, don't just stop reading a book because the author offends you or says something you really don't agree with. Give it a chance, read on a bit more at least, you may just learn something useful, or be inspired to try something new!




There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde




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Do You....Voodoo?

As I find myself with some time on my hands, I'm now looking at putting together some material for my next book.

Themes like the Holy Guardian, The Goetia, Enochian etc, are pretty straight forward, as they are western traditions, lots of information that the western mind can understand.

The problem then comes with Voodoo, which is actually only spelled as "Voodoo" when referring to the New Orleans variant of the tradition. The Haitian tradition is normally referred to as "Vodou" or "Vodoun". There are many other related traditions too such as Santeria and Candomble. The problem is, there are very few good books on these traditions, and many mix up the traditions without clearly explaining the background, and some even blend in lots of other unrelated magical traditions, without any idea that they are not related.

Many years of ignorance on the part of westerners, and the media telling us voodoo is all zombies and sticking pins in dolls (which is actually more folk magic than a particular voodoo tradition) have also led to some problems, and retained a certain stigma that people who practice voodoo just drink animal blood, curse people and are generally primitive. Studying voodoo properly does reveal quite a beautiful religion.

One of the things I tend to look for when buying books on voodoo and related traditions now is:

- Is the Author an initiated priest?
- Does the book have good reviews?
- Is it just a recipe book on how to stick pins in dolls and perform curses?


Remember to respect the Loa.




Frater Therion