Myths of the Science Age (or: Why I Won't go to the Renaissance Festival)

Rabbi Yitzhak Luria said there are 600,000 faces of the Torah. One for each soul in Israel. In other words: everyone who reads the Torah finds a different (valid) meaning. This kind of thinking is hard to swallow in our culture. An investigation into the historical accuracy of the Pentateuch, for example, is totally out of place here. If there are as many valid interpretations of Torah as there are people, then they are all (T)rue. Capital (T)ruth really hasn't been with us for long. It...

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Holy Bat Binding!

Instructions: 1. Choose a 'criminal' worthy of The Batman's attention. 2. Breathe deeply (google 'four-fold breath'). 3. Picture The Batman in your imagination. Focus your attention on who he is. How he came to be. 4. Tell him in plain language why you feel he should do something about the 'criminal'. 5. In a deliberate manner, paying close attention to all of your actions, place the below image in an envelope. Address it to the 'criminal'. Mail it. (If you like, add graveyard dirt). 6. Forget all about...

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Invocation of the Batman

Once you feel you've mastered the Banishing Ritual of the Bat Signal (or the BRBS [wink]), it'll be time to jump into invocation. In Prime Chaos, Phil Hine says, "Invocation basically involves calling upon an entity and thereby identifying oneself with it, to the level that one apparently merges with it." In other words, the title of this document could be "How to Get Possessed by the Batman". We use invocation for many reasons. In theory, while invoking an entity, the operator will gain the powers and insights of...

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Banishing Ritual of the Bat Signal

This is a ritual adapted from the famous Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (or LBRP to the cool kids). In case you're not the researching type: everybody uses it, and it appears to have been invented by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The presuppositions are 1. Fire=South, Water=West, Air=East, and Earth=North. And 2. I've made good judgements as to the elemental attributes of the god names and the Bat Family. Criticism is appreciated. Looking at it on paper makes me realize how complicated it...

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Optional Paradigms

::::Thoughtform Universe:::: The Batman is a thoughtform created in 1939. In the 73 years since, millions have contributed to the thoughtform, deepening its archetypal resonance. Now we have an autonomous entity that exists and calls itself Batman. Or one that appears to believe that it is Batman. Or maybe something else, entirely. Either way, it reacts as though it were real and seems to have an existence that can be experienced. ::::Higher Reality Download:::: The Batman Has always existed and was channeled...

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Tenets of the Sons of the Batman

1. "There are no dualities. Only symmetries." (G. Morrison)         Good and evil are linguistic artifacts of Aristotlean dualism that describe two extremes on the same scale. The most blatant illustration of this tenet can be found in the relationship between the Batman and the Joker, but it permeates the entire Bat myth. Other examples include the demon Two-face, Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Batman/Robin. Further reading will reveal many more to the dedicated follower. 2. "As above,...

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