Cult as magic




The Luminaries of the First Light once elevated the cult from a service man once believed he had to render to his self-created gods – like a service to a king – into cult-magic.

Yet at the same time only the chosen few knew about its ultimate secrets. The vast majority of men were still far from mature enough to bear the knowledge of their own spiritual power without harming their souls.

The human spirit continues to be so utterly subject to the ‘animal’ of this earth which became his refuge, that the great majority of men in the current age would be caused harm to their souls, if they had any knowledge of their power in the invisible realm.

However, ultimate truth has no need today of a veil, since those to whom truth is useless will conceal it from their own eyes, even though it appeared to the whole world in the brightest sunlight. –

They provide their own sure protection through their enfeebled faith!

 

 

Thus it is possible today to speak of many things which ancient sages had to conceal from a generation strong in faith and in close connection with the invisible, if they wanted to protect them from themselves.

Even today it will only be the chosen ones who experience the mystery of their spiritual power; for only they are capable of comprehending it! –

But today the number of those chosen is greater than ever before in times past…

Only for them can become valuable to the soul and cause experience what has here become    word! –

 

 

Let us speak here of the cult inasmuch as it makes itself felt as magic for the sake of man!

The Godhead which needs man in order to reveal itself to man, truly does not require a cult for its own sake. However, the cult which effects itself as magic can free the spirit of man from its sleep in the ‘animal’, and open up to it a realm of influence which teaches it to recognise that it can even get help where all ‘animal’ might senses its limits.

 

 

The word ‘magic’ has earned itself a bad name.

Charlatans through the ages have devalued it.

And yet, magic works everywhere!

It becomes a curse to all those who want to use it only to further their earthly animal wishes…

Into bliss its influence is turned whenever love encounters it! –

This is why the whole sublime cult magic is so powerful, because love is effective within it, though hidden under many dense veils! –

 

 

We can only speak of the cult magic when many unite into unison in order to carry out magic acts; this unison requires love. – Here is revealed the mystery which continually recurs in the words of preserved cult fragments when the priests of that more recent cult bless the congregation by saying:

     “The Lord be with you!”

And when this blessing is echoed every time by all those gathered together:

     “And with your spirit!” –

 

 

Even if for the great majority gathered together within this cult this blessing has long ago lost its value and been turned into a mere formula, it nevertheless remains a significant clue to the preconditions of the whole sublime cult magic…

 In this ancient traditional form, the unison of souls is to be effectuated by lovingly transferring onto the one performing the magic the powers of all those participating in his performance. – With this immense accumulation of spiritual power, this one individual now begins and perfects the sublime magic acts uniting the will of all within himself. –

The interpretation of these acts has no bearing on their effectiveness!

No ‘dogma’ can touch what united will, strong in faith, and connected within the magical performance through love, which loves its own faith in others, fervently strives for! –

The Godhead which is to be prompted by this cult magic into testifying of itself momentarily within the human spirit, entering this world of the senses in a way that can be comprehended, is indeed far removed from all those magical occurrences. However, the believer will experience ultimate reality.

 

 

The ancient holy cult, which here took on new life, considered the bread man needs for food, and

the wine he regards as a fortifying drink since it heightens the life of the senses, the most worthy earthly substances for taking in the Godhead if it were magically to unite with matter.

It is true that it was man who sought this unison for himself, only: with his senses still in tact this could only happened to him through an experience of the senses.

How else could God unite with him, unless through food and drink, since only through food and drink could something foreign become part of his body!

 

 

This is not the place to ask: how matter could be magically transformed, – significant is only what takes place within the consciousness of the believer who takes in the bread and wine, not as earthly matter, but as vehicles of the Godhead, whatever name he chooses to give it, in a form he can comprehend through his senses. – –

Those who would become conscious and capable of experience within the invisible realms also know that the fervent believer is not at all deceived when partaking of this cult-meal.

 

 

Of course, it is not the bread and wine which produce possible ‘changes in oscillations’ in individual spiritual substance at that moment of utmost concentration after their consumption, allowing in such moments divine spiritual life to be taken in, but only the magical power which belief  creates from its very self. –

 

 

There are still only a few who have recognised what this magical power can achieve if it emanates simultaneously from many with the same will and the same faith.  It is this accumulated power which flows back to each individual who shares the same will and belief, even if he had no part in its awakening during the cult-act. –

 

 

Thus it is that founded on most secure ground, patrimony from the most ancient cult, still existing in a new form, strike many as so bizarre that they think they recognise in it only the gloomiest superstition. – 

The interpretation derived from the myth is considered by the believer to be sacred and incontrovertible, even though this moves the cult nearer to human error; this does not change in the slightest the fact that powers  which normally rest deeply hidden in man are aroused by the cult and become alive. –   

 

Cult magic itself serves the awakening of these powers: it is a magic of signs which demands of the practitioner that his own body formes itself into magic signs according to a strictly determined rhythm and in a strictly given sequence, – a magic of sounds which demands equally strictly determined sequences of sounds and frequent repetition of these sound sequences.

The conceptual meaning of prayers which conceal this sound magic – not all prayers required by the cult have this magic character – is of no relevance for the desired effect.

The existence of this sound magic explains how half of the preserved cult would be destroyed if one decided to cease uttering the required spoken words in the ancient language from which it emerged…

 

 

 Whether those still practising the cult know what they are doing is just as insignificant as the interpretation they make and the reasons given by innovators to justify their attempts to change it.

 

 

Cult magic is no mere ‘symbolism’!

Cult magic consists of a performance according to strict laws for the purpose of releasing the magic powers hidden within man!

 

 

Time-honoured, and thousands of years older than one would like to admit – assuming one has any inkling of it – are those remains of an ancient cult which have been preserved in our own days! – The cult in existence for almost two thousand years, to which my words particularly apply, and the more recent cult, practised in the heart of Asia, are equally time-honoured! – – –

 

 

But besides these you can find many fragments of ancient magic cults amongst the most diverse peoples on earth. Often what is regarded as a cult ‘on a primitive level’ is nothing other than a degenerate fragment from a sublime cult originating in pre-historical times, – just as the peoples in question are not at the beginning, but at the undistinguished end of their spiritual life which was once incomparably more sublime. – –

 Just as high culture had to give way to ‘brutalisation’, sublime magic cults were replaced by gloomy fetishism and the use of dark arts.

What man once created to bring him nearer to the Godhead ends up as a caricature when he surrenders himself to the ‘animal’ and thereby to the demon of this earth…

 

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Bô Yin Râ