Spiritual Porn

Art Credit Cameron Gray

Besides my primary website Kether Muse I have this Blog, a personal Facebook page and one for Kether Muse. I also have a Pinterest Page. I have a friend who is a retired art professor and she posts what she titles “Art of the Day” on her personal page at Facebook. Recently I created a new page called Kether Muse Spiritual Porn which is a product of my spiritual pursuits and inspiration from my friend and her “Art of the Day”. It has been some of the most “fun” I have had in along time.

Another thing I enjoy doing is creating memes. These days more than half of them are political. I am sure that many are familiar with the Facebook page called Word Porn. It is a great page and has been around a long time but as with many people's posts on Facebook they post images and articles but seldom make personal commentary with them. That sort of bothers me. Things I like I write a little commentary on because Facebook "ain't just for cat pictures anymore". So when I post on my new Spiritual Porn I like to write a story about the art I am posting and seek very hard to credit the artist. I like to share art, entertain and teach with my postings, as a basic operating principle of Kether Muse is to enlighten and inform..

I am also writing a novel and have a few short stories in the works. While seeking a good name for the protagonist in one of my new short stories I thought a name of an occultist from antiquity would be fun and looked up Wikipedia's List Of Occultists. Reading down the list I saw the name Atomus and thought, "Who the heck was that?" Well, doing the standard “link surfing” I employ often led me to the story of “Elymas the Sorcerer”. It was very interesting and looking that name up on Google images I came upon an image I liked and decide to make it one of my Kether Muse Spiritual Porn posts. I started to write my basic little story for the post and actually got swept away and inspired to do more thought and investigation and this blog post was born. The Biblical tale of “Elymas the Sorcerer” for me was smothered in magic and what followed was fun and could go even further but for now this is good enough.

In Acts 13 of the Holy Bible is an account of “Elymas the Sorcerer” also called Bar-Jesus a "certain magician, a Jewish false prophet" who tried to stop Paul from preaching to a fellow Elymas lived with. Elymas was also referred to as Bar-Jesus which is "Son of Yeshua" in Aramaic. The account states that Paul said to Elymas:

“O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” It goes on to say, “And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.” - King James Official Version

Paul encountered other “sorcerers” in his travels. In Acts 16 there is this account:

“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.”

So as an occultist and not a Christian these accounts seem like acts of magick to me. And if the Bible is to be believed as a historical account of events I am sure the people of that time also viewed this as acts of sorcery. For pagans, shamans, alchemists or a traditional witch the power of magic comes from the earth around us and radiates from people, animals, plants and stones. Jesus has been quoted as saying in Matthew 17:19:

“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” - King James Official

This was said shortly after Jesus did another ritual of “magick” for a man who came to him about his son. “And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.”

So the Abrahamic religions say this power is from “God” the “Holy Spirit” or “Allah”. The New Age spiritual movement is a compilation of metaphysical, Eastern-influenced thought systems with a good amount of quantum physics thrown in. Many of them would say that this power to "create reality" comes from your own mind and as you become ONE with the “universal unifying force” rejecting duality you can do anything you would conceive with an evolving expanding consciousnesses. I term my spiritual evolution as “Chaos Magic” and I take from all religions and philosophies what I like and leave the rest behind. I have no dogma and at times I hear, read or see something that makes me totally drop some notion I may have been carrying around for a long time.

There is one thing that seems clear to me. There is no ultimate reality or ultimate truth. The Rock Man in the story of Oblio said, “Ya see what ya want to see and hear what ya want to hear. You Dig?” If Rudolf Stiener were in such a conversation of magic/sorcery (black/white) and "God" he may bring up what is sometimes called the quantum observer effect, “a phenomenon where the presence of the observer changes the nature of the observed” because of his desire to copacetically join esoteric thought and science. I love science and I love the occult. But all seems in flux. I saw a bumper sticker once that made me laugh. It said. "GRAVITY!! It's The Law". But, is that true?

Just the other day I heard on NPR that Physicists Say The Speed of Light May Not Be Constant. And what about time? And space itself? And what came first, Darkness or Light? I personalty think you need to explore darkness before light can be born.

"I Love Sarcasm. Especially if it is existential nihilistic sarcasm” - #Ketherism

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