Passage from Israel regardie's The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic, volume one: magical alphabet

He is talking about how the Bible was translated into English

So, since earlier this month, I’ve been feeling a certain kind of way. I was once told where there isn’t a good word poetry thrives, this is that.

Have you ever been to The Wall? Reflective, showing us not just the names but our reactions to them. For me, it feels as if it starts, like its war, without a connection to the rest of the nation. As I enter, the names begin to trickle in, and pile onto each other. It’s manageable at first, acceptable. They increase without pause, the names piling higher and higher. If it was water it would be a drowning depth. Then the direction changes and the names begin to lessen. The despair no longer too deep, I can touch bottom again. Then I am out, past it, I look back as my country did once. I try to feel that same connection but like the war and the lives, it’s gone.

Vietnam was not my war. It was the war of the men who trained me. My war was more and less. Vietnam was waged with soldiers who did not want to go. It would be untrue to say that we all wanted to go my war, but we all volunteered. Vietnam had a mythological purpose to preserve democracy. My war had a purpose that was debunked before the first shots were fired. The planners for Vietnam were properly shamed when the conflict spilled over to Laos. The planners for my war used the AUMF to touch whatever country their hearts desired. Vietnam was supposed to be about a better world. The best that could be said for my war was that it allowed for spending during an economic collapse in an effort to mitigate effects. Vietnam now flourishes without us. For the last twenty years we destabilized Iraq and Afghanistan. We filled their lives with fear of indiscriminate violence. Your children hear a plane an look up in wonder, theirs hide and pray. When we left, they became who they were again. How could we be surprised when they did not love us? We saw what they saw, could we really have believed that destroying a generation would endear us to them?

Our country has elected the worst of us again because we could not let a black woman lead us. The same people who planned my war are planning the next four years. They will destabilize everything they can. They will destroy the prospects of a generation. There will be unnecessary deaths and our rights will be paused. We will be told to say thank you to the hand that hurts us. Our people will be shocked by this because they have lost the ability to tell the difference between policy and slogan. As a country we believe it is more important that no one get too much rather than everyone have enough. We have allowed our lowest and most vile to corrupt our faith traditions. Where once they preached compassion, they now preach animus and enmity. We must stand so that there is something other than ash left behind these when they are done.

The Wall, like any other national monument is manicured rather than maintained. But there are trees nearby, and trees being trees, not unlike inveterate smokers with their butts, cast their leaves wherever with abandon. You could see a leaf blown through and past the entire monument. Those names, they were like leaves once, waiting to be caught by the rakes of war and placed in a pile here. A pile more than 58,000 names deep. But that not all of the leaves that the tree of our country shed during that time. Some made it through coming back with more or less. The more being addiction, mental illness, and seeds of cancers that we still discover. The less being limbs, senses like eyesight, or friends. But they made it. And just as a leaf might make it through the monument and emerge onto the mall able to go in any direction, so did they. We are the leaves that the tree has shed this time, the next four years our monument to traverse. We will reach drowning depths that feel too much, but we will touch bottom again. Some of us will be caught by the rakes of cruelty and piled, discarded, our true value unrealized. We will witness our faiths be poisoned. We shall see the prospects of generations laid low. But when these people are gone, though we be bleeding, broken, and diminished we shall thrive. We shall become who we are meant to be again. One people, out of many, together.

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We got a tiny bit of money so I want to get her a book of shadows a nice one. Does anyone know where I can get something like this I don't really trust Etsy anymore with all the temu garbage.

I'm kind of young, just barely in high school, and I'm starting to get into witchcraft---but my family is all Christian. I would like to read books and stuff, but I can't exactly do that without raising suspicion. I was thinking I could find PDFs for the books I can't buy or borrow, and I could learn to read playing cards. Does anyone have any suggestions? Maybe for how I can learn new spells?

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A few weeks ago I asked down in the absolute dumps in the worst way through years of job searching for some energy in this group. My fellow witches not only lifted me up by reminding me I had DONE the work already tenfold by all the continuous searching and resume editing and submissions, and building my skills — my coven here also sent me blessings, energy, and rituals of their own with items they had around.

These acts alone did much for me to survive my turmoil and they inspired me to turn inward for my answers. Ironically I pulled what I call the hurry up and wait card of tarot over and over again (7 of pents) in casual renewed use of my deck and I took it to heart. You guys helped me get in touch with my witchcraft and sprituality in the time I needed it most.

Yesterday I got confirmation after a month of actually paid trial work (my first ever experience of that in my creative spaces) that I am on as a regular part of their writing team! I am so thrilled and excited. This is the first freelance position that actually asks for my official info enough to show up if future companies search for me in the job databases, so it's really thrilling!

I wanted to share my good news and appreciation with the group that helped me get there. After years of struggling I have a guaranteed income that's also a flexible enough position for me to continue pursuing other projects and roles in my industry!!

I also want to spread that energy back to you all in my excitement and thrill. With love and peace and rejoicing, may you see three times the support and success I have faced. May you find strength to recognize when it is time to "hurry up and wait," as well as the courage to face how difficult it is to really sit and let your own work stew and speak for itself. May you endure what you need to with the feeling of this coven's love.

As a capital G Green witch, I spread my earthly inspiration and the windfall of the cycle of life and death with all of you. We must sometimes crumble to grow again, but it doesn't mean we must deny ourselves the riches and blessings we find in the darkness.

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Hello Sisters,

I could use some help creating a more lasting and stronger binding for my daughter. I bound her energy from myself and my family 3 years ago, but I can feel the bind loosening. She is back in my dreams, and my energy is so low I can't even feel the energy of those around me anymore.

I know that my own thoughts are probably not helping. I miss my grandchildren and I find myself thinking of them. My usually strong energy must reach out to them.

Any suggestions as to how I could strengthen my bind against her. I need to survive until my grandchildren grow up and come and find me.

Hello Lovelies I ask my fellow Witchy community for some assistance on my business. Someone seems to be messing with our business by inputting edits into maps that put our location n the middle of nowhere and changing our name. This is the second time it has happened (both during Mercury Rx mind you) and when we went to change it back, google arbitrarily denied our edit, and said we violated their terms and conditions and removed our biz off of the maps feature for 2 weeks. We had no recourse other than to wait.

So - I would like some suggestions on a either a protective or possible binding spell?

I've put many layers of protection on the physical location, but the internet has many variables. Also - I don't know who is behind it. Possibly could be the previous owner, but it's been over 2 years and I really don't see them being that petty...so this is why I'm asking for spell suggestions.

Thank you 💜 And all blessings to you.