Upcoming classes and events: "Living More Magically", Sun, November 6, 2-5pm, on-line or in person in Catonsville. Friday Nov 24, 4-5pm, "Black Friday" meditation, Revolve Wellness Studios in Catonsville. Contact me to register or for more information.
The fifth step in this model is an oft-overlooked key to magick which was masterfully elucidated by our friend the Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius. I’m just going to give it to you in his own words from 1998, with an except from his “EARTH FIRST devival rant”.
I wanna talk about MAY-JICKKKK and RELIGION and DUMB-FUCK SUPERSTITIONS.
I saw the $15,000 SCIENTOLOGY magazine.
“Somebody stole my bike, but I went and looked all over the neighborhood for it and I found it!”
That man learned KING “BOB” SOLOMON’S FIRST KEY to MAGICK:
GET OFF YOUR ASS.
If you want a girlfriend…. TALK TO A GIRL. If you want a new job — TALK TO OTHER COMPANIES. If you want to machine gun a stadium — GETTING OFF YOUR ASS. The first step.
Pretty important part of the process!
An old joke, which I’ve heard in a Jewish version and a Catholic version and I presume there’s a Muslim version too, tells of poor man praying to win the lottery. The prayers go on for weeks or months, at the discretion of the joke-teller, and the man doesn’t win. Finally, God – or the intercessory saint, in the Catholic version – tells the man, “Please, meet me half way here – buy a ticket.”
Magic opens the door, but you still have to step through it. There’s no substitute for putting in the work. (I wish there was!) Get off your ass. Buy a ticket.
be on the watch.
The gods will offer you chances.
Know them.
Take them.
– “The Laughing Heart”, Charles Bukowski
