Save John Paul The Great Academy

I get a fair number of requests asking me to spread the word about various causes. Even though most of them seem like good causes, it's not very feasible (or a good use of the blog) to reduce it to advertising for every worthy cause that needs money. But I am making a partial exception to that for John Paul the Great Academy, a Catholic K-12 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Due to a donor backing out last-minute, the school is in danger of closing its doors. And from the look of the school's website (which, really, you should check out), that'd be a true loss.

I asked Nick Trosclair, who originally reached out to me about this situation, to write up a summary that I could share with you. Here's Nick:

Save John Paul the Great Academy!

Public education has failed. Due to the specialization of knowledge within the very heart of modern pedagogy, a series of tragic divorces has ensued. Parents have been divorced from the intellectual formation of their children, the classical arts from the empirical sciences, and, most conspicuously, knowledge from virtue. Thus, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are no longer found in the modern, government-driven education system. C.S. Lewis was right-we are producing a race of "men without chests," men who can no longer enter the Great Conversation of Western Tradition and, thus, they are no longer able to develop the wisdom and virtues which have always been one with that Tradition.

Because grace perfects nature, the Church has always been the salt by which Western Tradition has been preserved in both its intellectual and spiritual content. John Paul the Great Academy was created to continue this essential mission of the Church. We are a young (it is our fifth year) K-12 classical school in Lafayette, Louisiana whose mission is to preserve the Western Tradition through the study of the liberal arts, the sciences, and the virtues in the context of the Roman Catholic Tradition (link to school's philosophy of education). With this clear mission always in mind, the patrons, parents, and teachers are providing their children with a true liberal education. They are teaching students more than mere facts or technological skills, instead providing the intellectual and spiritual tools by which each student is set free to investigate reality in all of its mystery. Rejecting the widespread canard that education is only for economic success, the families of John Paul the Great Academy view education explicitly as the path for the soul to find joy in the contemplation of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

Knowing that the family is the natural community whereby children first know reality, John Paul the Great Academy has fully embraced the principle of subsidiarity. Indeed, it is family-driven school. We look to the parents as the primary educators and assist them in the intellectual and moral formation of their children. Teaching, as Aristotle observed, is a cooperative art whereby we assist the intellectual growth of persons surrounded by the family. It is only within the context of the family that the intellectual and moral virtues of each human person may properly grow. Guided by this philosophy, the school has produced fruit that has been most impressive. Thus far, five out of our nine male graduates are seminarians. From Calculus to Latin, our students are excelling in all the classical arts. Each one of our students is guided to understand these subjects in the context of what Mortimer Adler called The Great Conversation of Western Tradition. The crown and majesty of that tradition is Divine Revelation. We are most proud that our students not only come to know the world through the vehicle of Western Tradition, but that our students are learning how to understand the sacramental vision of the universe and themselves through what God has revealed in His Son-Fides quaerens intellectum.

This month, our school suffered a major blow. Recently, our school moved to its permanent campus. It is holy ground. Home of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, the property is graced with the Blessed Sacrament which is perpetually adored by our students, parents, teachers, and community. Earlier this year we were overjoyed that a generous donor was going to help us fully purchase the property. Unexpectedly, he backed out this month! If this information would have been given to us earlier we could have recovered and raised enough money to purchase the property ourselves. But as any administrator knows, a school cannot be given such grave news so late in the year. Our community and parishes surrounding us have been supportive every step of the way, but this last hurdle may end the very existence of our school.

We need your help! The current threat is extremely urgent and endangers all of our attempts to renew education through subsidiarity, sanctity, and classical education. Our need is financial at this point, but we ask for prayers and any help you may be able to offer. If we do not raise enough funds within the next two weeks, we will be kicked off of our campus and our operations will be shut down indefinitely. Here's a link to our website, where we have a 'Support JPG' feature for any possible contributions-all of which, no matter how small, could help save our school no matter how small.

In the past, when the barbarians were at the gates, the monastic traditions of the Church preserved and promoted Catholic values. We now have every form of barbarism at the gates. Our work at John Paul the Great Academy is to be in the trenches, meeting this threat face-to-face. The goal is to carry out the work of the Incarnation: to renew the world. What starts in the educational endeavors of the academy extends to our families, to our communities, and to the culture at large. The classical tradition of education in the Church is what we preserve and promote. Please see our brochure (outside of brochure; inside of brochure)for more information.

In Pace Christi,

Nick Trosclair

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Cassiopaean Meeting Nexus7 Chapter Xxiii The Wave

"BELIEVING THAT Honorable ONE Station CONTAINS ALL Accurateness is totally opposing to reality."

~ Cassiopaean Transcripts

by LAURA KNIGHT-JADCZYK FROM CASSIOPAEA WEBSITE WHY?

That's the big venture I am asked arrogant and arrogant once again.

* WHY?
* WHY DO THE CASSIOPAEANS Tell US THAT WE Bring to life IN A PRISON?
* WHY DO THE SUFIS School THAT WE ARE IN A PRISON?
* WHY DID GURDJIEFF, persuaded by the Sufi experience, or even leading mystery schools, article us that we are living in a prison?
* Why did CASTANEDA comment about the put away of reality, whether or not Don Juan was even real or scarcely a teacher widget to relate whatever thing he had studious in the course of his studies?
* Why did the Gnostics teach that we are living in a put away, and along with why did the Catholic House of worship club the Investigation to array with this "Poisonous Heresy?"
* And why is this Heresy received with the highest intense sin by every promulgator of "Compassionately and Cool," whether from the Ordinary Committed mode or from the New Age/New Guesswork mode grafted onto the "Old Sunlight hours Religion?"
* And advance, why does this Imprison encircle to be held to obstruct our every sweat to break free?
* Why?

Having the status of a ugly thing to say about this great, lovely, "God"-created and divinely emotional world in which we live!

Source: Biblioteca Pleyades http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol nexus7 01.htm

Statement Of Intention And Sacrifice

If magical ritual is not to be regarded as a form of bizarre entertainment carried out for its own sake, then there has to be a reason for doing it - healing, divination, personal development, initiation, and the like. If it is healing, then it is usually healing for one specific person, and then again, it is probably not just healing in general, but healing for some specific complaint, within some period of time. The statement of intention is the culmination of a process of limitation which begins when the Circle is opened, and to return to the analogy of the plastic bag, the statement of intention is like the blade on the scalpel - the more precise the intention, the more the energy of the ritual is concentrated to a single point.

The observation that rituals work better if their energy is focused by intention is in accord with experience in everyday life: any change involving other people, no matter how small or insignificant, tends to meet with opposition. If you want to change the brand of coffee in the coffee machine, or if you want to rearrange the furniture in the office, someone will object. If you want to drive a new road through the countryside, local people object. If you want to raise taxes, everyone objects. The more people you involve in a change, the more opposition you encounter, and in magic the same principle holds, because from a magical point of view the whole fabric of the universe is held in place by an act of collective intention involving everything from God downwards. When you perform a ritual you are setting yourself up against a collective will to keep most things the way they are, and your ritual will succeed only if certain things are true:

1. you are a being of awesome will.
2. you have allies. The universe is changing, there is always a potential for change, and if your intention coincides with an existing will to bring about that change, your ritual can act as a catalyst.
3. you limit your intention to minimise opposition; the analogy is the diamond cutter who exploits natural lines of cleavage to split a diamond.

Suppose you want to bring peace to the world. This is an admirable intention, but the average person would have no more effect (with or without magic) on the peacefulness of the world than they would if they attempted to smash Mount Everest with a rubber hammer. Rather than worry about the peacefulness of the whole world, why not use your ritual to create a better relationship with your spouse, or your boss, or someone who really annoys you? And why not work on the specific issues which are the main source of friction. And try to improve things within a specified period of time. And do it in a way which respects the other person's right to continue being a pain in the arse if they so wish? This is the idea behind focussing or limiting an intention. Having said all this, there are a lot of people in the world who would appreciate some peace, and perhaps your grand intention to bring peace might catch a wave and help a few, so don't let me put you off, but as a general principle it is sensible to avoid unnecessary opposition by making the intention as precise as possible. Think about sources of opposition, and about ways of circumventing that opposition - there may be a simple way which avoids making waves, and that is when magic works best. Minimising opposition also reduces the amount of backlash you can expect - quite often the simplest path to earth for any intention is through the magician, and if there is a lot of opposition that is what happens. [The very act of invoking power creates a resonance and a natural channel through the magician.]

I try to analyse the possible outcomes and consequences of my intentions. There is a popular view that "if it harms none, do what you will". I can think of many worse moral principles, and it is better than most, but it is still naive. It pretends that it is theoretically possible to live without treading on another person's toes, it leaves me to make unilateral decisions about what is or is not harmful to others, and it is so wildly unrealistic, even in the context of everyday life, that it only seems to make sense if I intend to live in seclusion in a wilderness living off naturally occuring nuts and berries (having asked the squirrels for permission). If it is used as a moral principle in magic, then it draws an artificial distinction between magical work and the "push me, push you/if it moves, shoot it, if it doesn't, cut it down" style of contemporary life. It completely emasculates free-will. I prefer to believe that just about anything I do is going to have an impact on someone or something, and there are no cute moral guidelines; there are actions and there are outcomes. The aim is not to live according to guidelines, but to understand as fully as possible the consequences of the things we do, and to decide, in the light of our understanding (which has hopefully kept pace with our power), whether we are prepared to live with the outcomes.

And so to sacrifice. There is a problem here. The problem arises from the perception that in magic you don't get something for nothing, and if you want to bring about change through magic you have to pay for it in some way. So far so good. The question is: what can you give in return? There is a widespread belief that you can sacrifice a living creature, and while most magicians (self included) abhor the idea, the perpetuation of this idea is still being used as a stick to beat the magical and pagan community about the head. The issue is further complicated by the fact that if one looks at surviving shamanistic practices worldwide, or looks at the origins of most religions, ritual animal sacrifice is endemic. That doesn't make it right, and I have an unshakeable prejudice that it isn't an acceptable thing to do, but I am only too aware of my hypocrisy when I order a chicken curry, so I'm not going to stand on a soapbox and rant on about it.

What I prefer to do is to examine what the notion of sacrifice means. What can one legitimately sacrifice? You can't legitimately sacrifice anything which is not yours to give, and so the answer to the question "what can I sacrifice" lies in the answer to the question "what am I, and what have I got to give?". You certainly aren't any other living being, and if you don't make the mistake of identifying yourself with your possessions you will see that the only sacrifice you can make is yourself, because that is all you have to give. Every ritual intention requires that you sacrifice some part of yourself, and if you don't make the sacrifice willingly then either the ritual will fail, or the price will be exacted anyway. I don't have a rational justification for this statement, and it certainly isn't based on "karma" or a paranoid feeling that accountants are everywhere; the belief was handed on to me as part of my magical training, and having observed the way in which "magical energy" is utilised to carry out intentions, it makes sense. Each person has a certain amount of what I will call "life energy" at their disposal - some people call it "personal power", and you can sacrifice some of that energy to power the ritual. Sacrifice does not mean turning the knife on yourself (and there are plenty of people who do that). What it means in ordinary down-to-earth terms is that you promise to do something in return for your intention, and you link the sacrifice to the intention in such a way that the sacrifice focuses energy along the direction of your intention. For example, my cat was ill and hadn't eaten for three weeks, so, as a last resort, fearing she was about to die of starvation, I carried out a ritual to restore her appetite, and as a sacrifice I ate nothing for 24 hours. I used my (real) hunger to drive the intention, and she began eating the following day.

Any personal sacrifice which hurts enough engages a deep impulse to make the hurt go away, and the magician can use that impulse to bring about magical change by linking the removal of the pain to the accomplishment of the intention. And I don't mean magical masochism. We are (subject to all caveats on generalisations) creatures of habit who find comfort and security by living our lives in a particular way, and a change to that habit and routine causes some discomfort and an opposing desire to return to the original state: that desire can be used. Just as a ritual intends to change the world in some way, so a sacrifice forces us to change ourselves in some way, and that liberates magical energy. If you want to heal someone, don't just do a ritual and leave it at that; become involved in caring for them in some way, and that *active* caring can act as a channel for whatever power you have invoked. If you want to use magic to help someone out of a mess, provide them with active, material help as well; conversely, if you can't be bothered to provide material help, your ritual will be infected with that same inertia and apathy - true will, will out, and in many cases our true will is to flatter the ego and do nothing substantive. I speak from experience.

From a magical perspective each one of us is a magical being with a vast potential of power, but that is denied to us by an innate, fanatical, and unbelievably deep-rooted desire to keep the world in a regular orbit serving our own needs. Self- sacrifice disturbs this equilibrium and lets out some of that energy, and that is why egoless devotion and self-sacrifice has a reputation for working miracles.

Suggested free e-books to read:

Gerald Elmore - Mantle Of Initiation Or Al Khirqah
Frater Fp - Sigils In Theory And Practice
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - The Statement Of Randolph Carter

Limitation In Magical Ritual

The concept of limitation is so important in the way magical ritual has developed that it is worth taking a look at what it means before going on to look at the basics of ritual.

We are limited beings: our lives are limited to some tens of years, our bodies are limited in their physical abilities, and compared to all the different kinds of life on this planet we are clearly very specialised compared with the potential of what we could be, if we had the choice of being anything we wanted. Even as human beings we are limited, in that we are all quite distinct from one another, and guard that individuality and uniqueness as an inalienable right. We limit ourselves to a few skills because of the effort and talent required to acquire them, and only in exceptional cases do we find people who are expert in a large number of different skills - most people are happy if they are acknowledged as being an expert in one thing, and it is a fact that as the sum total of knowledge increases, so people (particularly those with technical skills) are forced to become more and more specialised.

This idea of limitation and specialisation has found its way into magical ritual because of the magical (or mystical) perception that, although all consciousness in the universe is One, and that Oneness can be perceived directly, it has become limited. There is a process of limitation in which the One (God, if you like) becomes progressively structured and constrained until it reaches the level of thee and me. The details of this process (sometimes called "The Fall") lies well outside a set of notes on ritual technique, and being theosophical, is the sort of thing people like to have long-winded arguments about, so I am not going to say much about it. What I *will* say is that magicians and mystics the world over are relatively unanimous in insisting that the normal everyday consciousness of most human beings is a severe *limitation* on the potential of consciousness, and it is possible, through various disciplines, to extend consciousness into new regions; this harks back to the "circle of normality" I mentioned in the previous section. From a magical point of view the personality, the ego, the continuing sense of individual "me-ness", is a magical creation with highly specialised abilities, an artificial elemental or thoughtform which consumes all our magical power in exchange for the kind of limitation necessary to survive, and in order to work magic it is necessary to divert energy away from this obsession with personal identity and self-importance.

Now, consider the following problem: you have been imprisoned inside a large inflated plastic bag. You have been given a sledghammer and a scalpel. Which tool will get you out faster? The answer I am looking for is the scalpel: a way of getting out of large, inflated, plastic bags is to apply as much force as possible to as sharp a point as possible. Magicians agree on this principle - the key to successful ritual work is a "single-pointed will". A mystic may try to expand consciousness in all directions simultaneously, to encompass more and more of the One, to embrace the One, perhaps even to transcend the One, but this is hard, and most people aren't up to it in practise. Rather than expand in all directions simultaneously, it is much easier to *limit* an excursion of consciousness in one direction, and the more precise and well-defined that limitation to a specific direction, the easier it is to get out of the bag. Limitation of consciousness is the trick we use to cope with the complexity of life in modern society, and as long as we are forced to live under this yoke we can make a virtue out of a necessity, and use our carefully cultivated ability to focus attention on minutiae to burst out of the bag.

What limitation means in practise is that magical ritual is designed to produce specific and highly *limited* changes in consciousness, and this is done by using a specific map of consciousness, and there are symbolic correspondences within the map which can be used in the construction of a ritual - I discuss this later. The principle of limitation is a key to understanding the structure of magical ritual, and a key to successful practice.

To summarise the last two sections, I would say the characteristics of a "good" ritual are:

1. Entry into magical consciousness and the release of "magical energy".
2. A limitation of consciousness to channel that energy in the correct direction, with minimal "splatter".

Without the energy there is nothing to channel. Without the limitation, energy splatters in all directions and takes the path of minimal psychic resistance to earth. A magical ritual is the calculated shifting and limitation of consciousness.

Recommended books (free to download):

Anonymous - Meditation Of The Four Magickal Weapons
George Robert Stowe Mead - A Mithraic Ritual
Barbara Obrist - Visualization In Medieval Alchemy

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Spell For Breaking Curse 91

THIS SPELL IS SAID TO HELP ONE LET GO OF PAINFUL FEELINGS OF GRIEF. IT IS FOR THOSE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO FEEL JOY AGAIN, SUCH AS AFTER LOSING SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU.

ITEMS NEEDED:

A SMOKY QUARTZ GEMSTONE

BOWL OF WATER

THREE TABLESPOONS OF SEA SALT

BEGIN BY HOLDING THE STONE IN YOUR POWER HAND. SEE YOUR GRIEF IN YOUR MIND'S EYE. VISUALIZE THE GRIEF MOVING FROM WITHIN YOURSELF AND THROUGH YOUR HAND TO THE STONE. AS YOU DO THIS, SAY:

BANISHING STONE,

FILL YOURSELF WITH MY GRIEF,

SO THAT I MAY FEEL JOY AGAIN,

SO BE IT, BLESSED BE!

STIRRING COUNTERCLOCKWISE, MIX THE SEA SALT INTO THE BOWL OF WATER, THEN ADD THE SMOKY QUARTZ STONE. SWISH THE STONE AROUND THREE TIMES IN A COUNTERCLOCKWISE MOTION. LEAVE THE STONE IN THE WATER FOR A FEW MINUTES, THEN TAKE THE STONE OUTSIDE AND SAFELY THROW IT AS FAR AS YOU CAN AWAY FROM YOURSELF.

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