Our Demonic Age
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Hieronymus Bosch, Christ in Limbo
One of the main reasons it is so difficult for the average person, including myself, to make a deep connection to the spiritual is the predicament of our age. If we currently dwell in the first stirrings of the Age of Aquarius, and I believe we do, it is rather obvious that great enlightenment has failed to occur on a mass scale. On the contrary, the higher self remains more remote for most people than it has ever been in human history.
The Incas fascinatingly seemed to foresee our unspiritual era and wanted to escape being reincarnated during it. In The Secret of the Incas: Myth, Astronomy, and the War Against TIme, William Sullivan makes the case that the Incas and the Mayans sought via complicated magical means to sit out our own peculiar era. Nostradamus was also plagued by the fear his potent magical knowledge would be abused by the people of our era – he burned every magical book he had at one point to stop the knowledge from falling into our bumbling hands. Magicians of past eras often did this, not just out of worry that Dominicans were coming to out them and torture them, but because the future scryed in visions was such a bleak and literally godforsaken environment.
Demonic Paradise and Downward Pull
I loved my toys when I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s. I had a huge collection of stuffed animals. My favorite one was a red beanbag received in an Easter Basket one year. The beanbag was egg shaped with little feet, hands, and a face. I had a fancy sled that looked like a small snow plow. I had at least one Barbie Dream House, and I distinctly remember having at least one car for Barbie and her friends. I had an electronic toy called a Speak and Spell that I used to become a third grade spelling ace. All of these toys now sit somewhere in a landfill or are ocean waste. One of the primary reasons I chose as a little girl not to have children in this incarnation was the profligate waste the children of this era put onto our fragile planet. The amount of waste produced by an affluent child these days dwarfs my output by ten times. All of this plastic bombardment does not lend itself to spiritual aspiration. My whole childhood world was plastic, from the dashboard of the petroleum-fueled cars in which I rode to the olefin rugs under my feet and the shampoo bottles that existed so I could scent my hair with synthetic peaches. Our era is one of plastic and temptation. There are more people who have sold their souls to demons and devils in our era than at any other time. This is what I believe.
What Does It Mean to Sell One’s Soul?
I used to think that selling one’s soul required a Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage-level ritual (a year plus in a secluded house, exceptionally well-drawn magic circles) and it took me a long time to become educated otherwise. Selling one’s soul is not a short process. It is a series of increasingly deeper degradations and lies to oneself about right versus wrong. Though there are some stunningly obvious examples of politicians and celebrities who have sold their souls and who may have physically conjured deities from the Goetia to get the job done, selling one’s soul isn’t necessarily profound or individual. A group of souls can compromise its destiny by acting as a herd. This is what I believe happened with the Nazification of Germany, the Stalinization of Russia, and the current Faucization of the denizens of empires beholden to globalist sway.
When I was in first grade, I discovered I hated Gym Class. We were told to run around the asphalt in a great circle – yes, this was back in the 70s when six year olds were not considered too fragile to run 400 yards on the pavement. I finished dead last and because I was alone, I thought I had won the race. The other kids pointed and laughed and soon I realized what had happened. I cried.
We are all subject to an egregore of competition that has become an out of control leviathan. This has gotten worse in my fifty year lifetime. It’s hard to say when this egregore started its metastasis. The gist of the egregore is that everyone must compete for every resource and that competition is good. Gordon Gecko’s proclamation “Greed is good” comes from the competition egregore: of course greed is good, because without greedy urges, people might cooperate instead of competing. To quote The Highlander, another vintage film, the competition egregore comes from the There Can Be Only One model of astral pyramid.
I was subject to humiliation in my first grade class because it never occurred to my teachers that there were ways of getting children to exercise without pitting them against each other. Constant competition was reflected in the larger environment. My suburban neighborhood morphed from a place where everyone knew each other’s name at the yearly block parties to an every-household-for-itself gallery of snobs. Whose house can inflate the most? Who can add the most unnecessary rooms to better serve children who rarely go outside? The spirit of the neighborhood changed from one of modesty, DIY, and helpfulness to griping over property lines, ostentation, and insufferability. Recently the competition has changed into a waiting game to see which neighbor will be next to be picked off by MRNA gene therapy side effects. Meanwhile, the television blares a litany about how much better Americans are than Russians.
How better to get a leg up on your neighbor than to sell your soul to a demon? There are plenty of demonic buyers eager to snap up the average human soul without the conscious knowledge of the human personality in question. Demons promise all sorts of bargains that only appear shoddy if one bothers to deeply investigate them in discursive meditation, and it’s not like many people are doing that anymore. Affluent suburban prosperity of the sort that displays itself on Christmas postcards with photos of one’s children in front of international landmarks? The price, hidden well in the fine print, may be a mere few lifetimes of desperately poor subsistence farming in the deindustrial future punctuated by some long sojourns in hell between those lifetimes. A bit of virtue signaling and seemingly decent health after an experimental gene treatment that has cost millions (billions?) of people their jobs, their health, and in many cases, their lives? The price may be getting eaten alive by a horrible, debilitating disease next time around, or perhaps losing one’s livelihood and being forced into destitution. After all, didn’t the healthy vaxxed person’s choices have the overall effect of sickness and unnecessary death, and/or forcing huge groups into desperation and destitution? Fair is fair…
The Clog
If our Malkuth is a demon’s Kether, we can rest assured that many demons are achieving and basking in demonic Kether right now. The trend for them is upward and for us it is downward. In times when humans accepted the flows and movements of nature with grace instead of denial and anger, our higher selves were intimate partners. We woke up in the morning smelling their breath, and unlike ours, it was sweet. For the aspiring mage or mystic, it’s like being the first party to reach out after a hostile and bitter divorce. Methods of prayer are no longer common knowledge. Christians for the most part see prayer as a beggar’s banquet: surely their God owes them a “miracle” in the form of material comforts and prosperity if they grovel and money-grub while declaring themselves to be virtuous on Facebook. Buddhists brag about their trips to exotic locales while forcing masks on little children out of fear, which is the very definition of worldly attachment. Hindus are more concerned with outfitting their newly constructed homes with the latest status symbols than doing good works. I’m glad I don’t know any Muslims because I’m fairly confident their hypocrisy would outstrip the other religious cults.
The materialism clogging access to the subtler planes has become so bad, we are faced with the cosmic equivalent of a grotty slop sink. We are supposed to flow, but we have become so gunky, we are blocked like a giant ball of hair, dead skin, and debris. Demons are drawn up from the sewers in our abortive attempts to do something (anything!) to remedy our misery. They walk among us in the reanimated zombie spirits of Stalin and Mao, whispering to us to hate our neighbor and act at our human worst in order to survive. Kim Jong Un had the conductor of his government’s musical orchestra shot over ninety times in front of the orchestra members. Those who succumb to demons and who don’t manage to extricate themselves over the series of lifetimes of their demonic bargain are a mystery. It is possible they will become demons in a future universe. Their depravity sets a track in space that becomes a rut that becomes an abyss.
Revenge?
As satisfying as it would be to go full serial killer on wokesters, would-be communists, and the seemingly lost who may or may not have sold their souls to demons, revenge is not a worthy pursuit. Demonic people often become demonic because they are vengeful – Kim Jong Un certainly did not execute his poor conductor out of mercy. Nor is it helpful to pray for people who have not asked for our help. “Pray for Ukraine” is the latest trend to assault the internet, and if you read between the lines, it translates to “Send hateful energy toward Russians on my behalf because I cannot yet force you to do it at the end of a gun.” Prayers sent to specific Ukrainians who are currently begging God/gods for mercy might hit their target, but a hex thinly disguised as a prayer diffusely aimed at an entire country is guaranteed to backfire and splatter all over the person who sent it. The only way to overcome the hatred is to truly hate it, to once again paraphrase Christian occultist Dion Fortune. If I hate someone, and I assure you I hate plenty of entities both corporeal and incorporeal, the best revenge is to become completely unlike them in every way. When I become the opposite of a wokester, it means truly being awake instead of succumbing to the latest glamour the mainstream media has in store for its dupes. Instead of being a powerful, genocidal serial killer like Kim Jong Un, I cultivate the forces in me that are the opposite of Kim Jong Un such as kindness and gentleness. Anyone who is able to weave the golden thread through the clog without disintegrating into the clog becomes a spiritual force to be reckoned with – as much as it sucks to be here, consider the current era the ultimate in spiritual strength training for the few who choose the path of light.
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Date: 2022-04-12 01:00 pm (UTC)I believe that might be changing for me now. For the better part of the last decade, I have been slowly coming to terms with a deeper understanding of myself (and not much liking what I see!). I hope that from here on out I can manage to make more of a Mitsvah of myself in the world, and if in doing so, some Blessed Being, god/Goddess, or Angel should grace me with more than a passing nod or smile it will help me know I am truly on the right path.
Blessings to you,
Courtney
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Date: 2022-04-14 02:48 am (UTC)As an aside, do you know of any druid organizations that aren't more interested in praying at the altar of Wokeism than practicing Druidry? Full disclosure, I'm a member of AODA and it is currently imploding with identity politics.
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Date: 2022-04-14 04:46 pm (UTC)As I tend to do my own thing, I don't have any suggestions. Anyone?
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Date: 2022-04-12 01:47 pm (UTC)YES
A fine and most inspiring essay, thank you.
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Date: 2022-04-17 12:10 pm (UTC)That statement hit the mark.
Thank you Kimberly
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Date: 2022-04-12 11:09 pm (UTC)Demons seem to be literally everywhere at the moment, and are actively being pushed (one school I read about had an "after school satan club" for some reason, and there is a children's book on summoning demons for fun and profit which has won awards), presumably by those who are themselves demonically-affected. For a long time demons have just hidden in plain sight, but now, emboldened, they appear to be trying to re-brand themselves as fun, cool and edgy, which depressingly, appears to be working.
I also don't know about where you live, but the psychic weather at the moment here (UK) is NASTY. I had 3 weeks of fairly crushing despair and now a hot, heavy, low-grade seething anger is what I've been picking up on. I try not to let it affect me, and have redoubled my banishings and prayers, but it's a lot to deal with on top of general life stresses, and the kind of environment that really grinds you down.
Death rates are picking up here as well - I'm trying not to let myself think of certain pharmaceutical products as the 4-chan-named "Thanos jab" (I don't know if you know the reference from the Marvel films?), and I have to keep catching myself.
There is something weird on the astral about the pharma products as well - with friends who have been injected, it's like I can't 'connect' to them on the astral. I can speak to them, but there's no meaning or deep connection of minds behind it - it's hard to explain, the closest I can say is that it's like speaking to an internet chatbot. It seems to fade after a few months and then I don't mind speaking to them again - I do remember reading an article from a Greek monk who said that he lost his connection to God for 40 days after getting injected.
Interesting times indeed.
Mr. Crow
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Date: 2022-04-13 05:56 am (UTC)As much as a club for kids promoting demonology is hideous, it's actually better to have it right out in the open so the stupidity of such behavior becomes self evident. Unfortunately we are going to see a backlash against drag queens, I think, and that sucks because any given drag queen club isn't synonymous with pedophiles, at least not any more or less than the local Christian church. In both cases I think we can provide the receipts that pedophiles proliferate within both types of organization.
The astral weather here is just as bad. When the astral muck is horrible, people take it out on each other on the road. The driving has been awful. Luckily I have been able to cut my driving in half as I am working from home half the week. I'm also having nightmares lately, especially in the last week. I am considering putting up a geometrically patterned wallpaper to confuse the malevolent entities on the astral while I sleep. I totally agree with you -- I too have been doing extra banishings and prayers and it barely makes a dent, plus, I do have a life outside of it that I have to try to keep afloat!
Thanos jab? That's hilarious. Thank you for that.
I don't know why there is so much reluctance to discuss the demonic aspect of vaccines. I have always been good at hacking of a certain sort, so I don't have a problem going around the cognitive dissonance/cosmic disconnect of the vaxxed. It's a matter of avoidance: I never mention the obvious.
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Date: 2022-04-13 12:34 pm (UTC)I suspect that for many people it's because at some very, very deep level they know that it's the case. And to even think about that, it's like staring into an abyss-- they panic and QUICK CHANGE THE SUBJECT!!
But what I suspect really and truly terrifies many people (not all but many) is not fear for their soul but social and professional rejection. There are many circles and levels of society, especially among the PMC, where except as a joke, any discussion of any disembodied consciousness is automatic qualification for the Forevermore Ridiculed Total Social Rejection Loony Bin. That's a serious consequence for many people. Very serious.
And yet, I perceive that there's more to it than that, that there are entities actively working on the astral to block such talk, stomp it, smother it.
Relatedly, my perception is that Dr Jha's energy field is infested with entities.
(Are we living in a Stanley Kubrick film??)
SDPD
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Date: 2022-04-14 04:18 pm (UTC)Co-sign on Dr. Jha, but he's no different than any of the media shill NPCs (though he blinks way too much, it seems to be his tell that he's always lying) who yell at us from television screens. I have a feeling he's going to be a member of the working poor for the next few lifetimes, and that's if he is extremely lucky and the gods are merciful.
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Date: 2022-04-15 12:50 am (UTC)but yeah... the current system defiled all that was once SECRET. that's what my friend Basul said. he said it's not for EVERYONE. it's not to be trifled with but secret and respected.
hmmm... i hadn't thought about this odd desecration of the holy until you mentioned almost so casually and by accident but it was RED LETTERS to me because i remembered seeing the photos of drag queens before children and thinking NOOOOO!!!!
wow. they really DO kill everything secret sacred and FUN.
hmmm...
much to think on. thanks, Miss Lady.
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erika
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Date: 2022-04-13 12:13 pm (UTC)I'm sensing a lot of djinn (fay), not necessarily demons.
Well, maybe it's like that song, you say to-mah-to, I say to-may-to. I mean, OK, some people think of unfriendly unembodied entities as demons, and everyone is going to have a different definition / concept of what a 'demon" is.
For me djinn are not necessarily demons. All the same, they are not embodied on the material level, and not all of them have humans' best interests in mind.
You write that talking to some friends is "like speaking to an internet chatbot." I know what you mean. It's like part of them isn't there anymore. Or at least, isn't there now.
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Date: 2022-04-15 01:46 pm (UTC)To remain divinely created and inspired humans or embrace a base, simple approximation expressed in a sequence of 0`s and 1`s on the internet. They dont call it the World Wide Web for nothing.
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Date: 2022-04-16 10:48 pm (UTC)If you've ever read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, it would not be worth it to survive a MAD nuclear war. Had Clinton been elected President, I think she would have caused a Hiroshima and Nagasaki level event, if not worse.
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Date: 2022-04-14 03:02 am (UTC)There’s many times I feel the need to lash out at the insanity that seems to be gripping the world, even though I know it’s not the right course to take. Your post reminded me I need to focus on the positive and do the work.
Thank you for this.
Steve C
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Date: 2022-04-15 12:57 am (UTC)(huuuge smile)
when i was researching "scoundrel women" in history books, they didn't try to disabuse anyone of any assumptions about them as women, on the contrary they used others' assumptions about women to their advantage and very much against their marks.
same kinda thing. i like the quietness and skill of it. i'm so blunt loud and aggressive i can't hide much of anything. that's why i go to "bump it way up and scare 'em off" mode for protection.
brilliant idea. i want movies and books from YOU. and i thought art was Over.
erika
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Date: 2022-04-15 02:11 am (UTC)As for books, they're unfortunately on Amazon, and all the bio info linked on this site is at least 6 years old, but I've got one of those bases covered!
https://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-Steele/e/B00J41T4RQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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Date: 2022-04-15 02:14 am (UTC)x
erika
black pilled???...
Date: 2022-04-15 01:02 am (UTC)so much more interesting and provocative than red or blue, pray tell please say: what IS it???
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Date: 2022-04-15 02:05 am (UTC)INTERRUPTING OGHAM READING UPDATE: i just got a message from KPOO...
Date: 2022-04-16 03:49 pm (UTC)the station manager left a message on my home phone instead of email and i'd told him "bye" when we started our own podcast so i never expected to even hear from him again!
magic everywhere, though: last friday i was on my way down to the garage to work out and thought, "i wanna hear a D-train song i haven't heard in awhile..." and i go down and put the radio on and the NEXT song was that old D-train song i had in MIND!
maybe Mr Jerome's just calling to say "hi," but maybe...???
that's all i know. had to let YOU know first as i just played the message for James an hour ago on his way to work.
thanks, Kimberly.
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Re: INTERRUPTING OGHAM READING UPDATE: i just got a message from KPOO...
Date: 2022-04-16 04:09 pm (UTC)Beautiful summation of the times.
Date: 2024-02-26 01:54 am (UTC)As a covid dissident I have become aware of how manipulated some of the MFM ‘heroes’ actually are, wittingly and unwitting and it underlines the importance of inner work. Unless you’ve faced down your demons and found the spirit of being in service to life you’re vulnerable to manipulation.
The good news is that we don’t need everyone to change gears into the new paradigm awaiting us. If we can accept fundamental changes and get comfortable with uncertainty it will be an interesting ride into the future. Maybe….or maybe not.
In the meantime let’s do our ceremonies, meditation, dancing, walking, singing, toning and prayers in every possible form. Keeping alive the flame of awareness and bringing light into the darkness.
Thank you 🙏