Butingtaon's Corner

Spirit

Various notes about things I have experienced, things I'm studying and my own personal path.

Personal Posts

• Magickal Formulas - IAO and INRI

  Looking at the fundamental formulas of the western mystery school.

• Energy Correspondence Table

  Trying to reconcile developments in the understanding of energy to understand ourselves and the world we live in.

• Sigil Magic

• Egregores

Kabbalah

• the sefer yetzirah , the Sacred Texts library version

• Aur Ne'erav - "The Pleasant Light" :

  A historical and practical introduction to the Kabbalah

• The Sefer ha'Zohar :

  currently incomplete English translation. Covers Adam to Abraham.

• Sefer ha'Bahir : An early collection of Kabbalistic interpretations of biblical texts.

• The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed ben Clifford

Misc. Links

• Jewish Magic and Superstition

The Golem

• The Golem and the Jewish Superhero, Jacob Geller

• Seventy-Two Letters, Ted Chiang

Taoism

• The Book of Changes

  Here is a translation by Crowley of the I-Ching

• The Tao Teh King , a translation of the Daodejing by Aleister Crowley, mostly focusing on syncretizing it with the Qabalah and Thelemic mysticism. For a more down-to-earth but more radical take on the work, look for Le Guin's excellent version.(pdf)

• The Zhuangzi

• The Taixuanjing

  From Wikipedia:

  The Taixuanjing is a divinatory text similar to, and inspired by, the I Ching (Yijing). Whereas the I Ching is based on 64 binary hexagrams (sequences of six horizontal lines each of which may be broken or unbroken), the Taixuanjing employs 81 ternary tetragrams (sequences of four lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice).

  Currently can't find an online copy of the Michael Nylan translation.

Gnosticism

Buddhism

• The Eightfold Path

• Three Marks of Existence

• The Three Poisons

• The English Tripitaka

• Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha

  Directly download the PDF

Misc

• Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation

  A book with a detailed description of the notation: Orchesography by John Weaver

  

  

  Imagine using something like this to notate the complete footwork needed for a ritual.

• India's Oxygen shortage has forced people to sleep under sacred trees.

• Envoy Theory 101: How to make friends in interesting times

  ~~I should prolly copy the text to a file just in case this user~~ ~~deletes their acct.~~ Mirror

• Influence as Confluence

  Bergson’s account of intuition and his method of intuitive calculus provide us a way of experiencing and describing what is there between the "frames." (Analogous to the space between motion picture frames).

• Russian State Media Claims to Discover Militarized Ukrainian Witches

  The Kremlin owned news organization RIA Novosti is claiming that its journalists discovered signs of black magic in a village in east Ukraine. The journalists claimed the evidence of magick was found in what it claimed was the headquarters of a Ukrainian military unit. “A satanic seal was found on its wall, evoking associations with Hollywood films about evil spirits,” RIA said in its report.

• U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW

  How the fuck did the Linking sigil exist before the fucking linking sigil???