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Actually, my dictionary breaks it down to al (the definitive "the" in English) and kimiya, chemsitry, from the Late Greek khemeia or khumeia, or perhas from the Greek Khemia, Egypt. This seems to be a personal interpretation with a more mystical slant than the one in my dictionary. Even if...

Unless you're using a different system than the standard base 10. In binary, that equation can't even exist. Just ask any mathemetician ;) I was under the impression that this view of the universe went out with the Victorians? From what I understand, Einstein's theories, and the developments...

I don't believe there is one Absolute Truth. I don't believe there is one single Reality. So what you are suggesting is that unless we see things in absolute terms of black and white, we are wrong. Life rarely seems to work that way. In this case, to you, the outcome seems "horrible." To...

This is quite true, but I think a lot of it was in fact Inquisitional creation. So much was extracted from people under torture that most would say anything merely to get the torture to stop. Much of the sexual magic of modern Witchcraft has to do with producing bodily fluids for use in...

Many Pagan paths have no particular restrictions on sexual activity beyond that it should be between mutually consenting adults, and give pleasure to the participants. Wicca, one of the Pagan paths, has these words in the Charge of the Goddess -- a liturgical text: "All acts of love and pleasure...

There's really no need to shout. Alchemy in Europe in the middle ages may or may not have been about mixing of actual bodily fluids. It was certainly couched in sexual language, but there's a good deal to suggest that the actual shift from chemistry to sex came about much later, and that the...

Re: Also caution in regard to the parasitic fauna and flora of the pubis You've got THAT right. At the heart if it, sexual magic's about energies mixing, and their interplay, not about physical body fluids.

But do you attribute intellegence and will to air? Most people who believe in spirits assign those to them. In my world, there may be cloud or storm or sky spirits, but air is not itself a spirit. In most cultures where such offering is made, it's believed that the spirit touches or absorbs...

Personally, I think there are a lot of religions that carry truths (without a capital T) but that none of them are The Truth.

I found a book a while ago that I'm slowly reading through, that you might find interesting if you're wanting to explore these concepts more. It comes from a more psychological perspective than I usually do, but is very good nonetheless. The book is called Soulcraft: Crossing into the...

I've met a lot of different spirits, some of which I suppose would qualify as Guardians of some sort, either of a place or of a type of knowledge. They can be very challenging, but that's their nature and their function. I think that each spirit would probably come across differently to any...

In some cases, I would agree, but I do think that the emphasis on passivity is really more an eastern thing, and one that arises in strict, hierarchical monotheistic religions where the authority of God is unquestioned. Certainly in other forms of spirituality, listening is important, but so...

As an animist, I certainly believe in spirits. I believe that all things and places have spirits. There are many different kinds, and from what you describe, it sounds like some kind of ghost (ancestor spirit or spirit of the dead). Some are more conscious than others. I mostly work with...

I suppose I should have expected such a reply to my post. "Polarities" are not just internal. Polarity isn't about a person's dangly bits or lack thereof. It's about what's within. Some systems don't work on polarity at all, but rather on a base of triplicity. Male/female heterosexual balance...

I would disagree that there are "only three" forms of sexual magic. I think that depends a lot on the tradition of the practitioner, to be honest. The three forms noted above suggest that only married heterosexuals can work sexual magic, and I've found that to not be the case at all. I know...

I would say that I'm a pretty happy person these days. Like one of the other posters, I do suffer from clinical depression, but I'm on decent meds for it. Where my life used to be one long string of wanting to toss myself off a bridge (which I successfully resisted, as you'll probably guess)...

I think that they probably all have their own individual take on the matter. In truth, I think that a good deal of the planting lore was preserved from European folklore and brought over when folks came here. I doubt that the good Christian folk who were carrying these traditions though of such...

Actually, in early Celtic tradition the moon might be either masculine (the Man in the Moon came from England, remember) or feminine. The sun is seen as feminine, and referred to in Gaelic as "a young queen in flower." Early Paganism had as many expressions as there were cultures to express...

From what I've read of him, he makes more sense than Crowley, and his magic is better. Crowley was far more talk than action, and was more of a legend in his own mind than most people realize.

I would say that the core of my personal tradition, which is a Celtic Reconstructionist path, consists of nine basic ethical concepts: honor justice loyalty courage community hospitality gentleness wisdom eloquence Above these nine stand the three virtues that sustained Fionn and...