mddm (ch. 45): more about non-humans

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 ~ in dion fortune's "applied magic and aspects of occultism" (london 1995: 
 thorsons, here p. 49) me also found the following: "what other forms of 
 creatures are there? i have mentioned the angelic beings, the great archons, 
 the building spirits who built up the planes of nature in the time of other 
 evolutions. there are all manner of very lofty spiritual beings whose mode of 
 manifestation is in nature. they are classified in different ways. we talk 
 about the heathen who worship many gods, but in every religion there is always 
 the being behind the gods, the oversoul, a very abstract conception of a being. 
 the 'gods' of any system are these natural forces, called the archangels and 
 angels in the hebrew system which we ourselves use. the spiritual beings have 
 never had a material incarnation, have never descended into matter. the old 
 tradition is that the choice was offered to the spirits whether they would 
 remain on the inner planes, neither ascending nor descending, or descend to the 
 depths of matter in order to rise higher than they had started from; and one 
 lot chose one line, led by adam, or rather eve, and others chose the other. so 
 the angelic hosts are our kin and if you go far enough back you find a time 
 when men and angels were of one company. thus it is possible under certain 
 conditions to contact these angelic beings, but in most cases we do not contact 
 the actual being, who is very vast; we contact his ray, his emanation. if you 
 were sufficiently rich you could engage a great opera singer to come to your  
 house and sing in your drawing-room; but if you had only enough for a wireless 
 set, you could hear him on the air. when we invoke the archangel raphael we do 
 not expect him to turn up in person, but we do expect to feel his force, his  
 ray. it is the same with the visions of christ that have been seen, the vision 
 beautiful. it is not the actual being, but turning in on the ray, though it is 
 the same thing for pratical purposes. we need to understand these things. we 
 are not dealing with an actual anthropological form, but with modes of 
 consciousness, and some are so different from ours that there is no analogy. we 
 must not think of them all as fairy figures; they are consciousnesses which are 
 quite incomprehensible to us."

                                     kai, while miles runs the voodoo down ~~~