They use terms right out of dungeons and dragons, then tried to claim the creators of that game were channeling it from the akashic records lol
Yes there are. My apologies for not replying in a timely manner! I am busy with doing my nightly rituals with the Temple. There are free pdf's of Somnus Dreadwood's books on the Temple of Maergzjirah subreddit for anyone who is interested to download!
May I ask where did you hear that from? Usually people who haven't been with the Temple for a long period of time say that. I can tell you personally that the magic is very potent, even more potent than Qliphothic Magic! I'm saying this as someone who is on the fourth sphere of the Qliphoth. I am genuinely interested how you came to that conclusion.
Lich. You can look up the word.
I watched this video a few months ago. From what I can gather, the real reason he was having so many problems was because he became an apostate of the Temple. He wasn't performing his duties as the AGM so of course the 13 would have acted in correct faith to protect the Temple from unnecessary & unneeded harm. I could be wrong though!
As far as my own experiences go, I've been working with the Temple for around six months now. I have been corresponding with a member through email. I am still getting a feel for each of the 13 spirits so I'm about halfway finished with working with them. I have been getting results mainly through dreams instead of through invoking and evoking. When I am invoking, I feel intense energies all around me, especially through my crown and my third eye chakras. I am currently doing a daily 10 minute chakra meditation that works through a different chakra each day!
I've worked with the Blighted in the past, not so much these days. They actually guided me to most of the practices I'm doing now. Markus seems to suck, VK publishes some new content, there is also a discord that dislikes them both and is actively developing the system. The magick all works, which is what matters, in my mind. Its all about how much energetic resonance you have with the system, like most things.
Yes I would like to chat more about the Temple in dm's if that works for you!
I guess that since you are a new member you cannot chat with DMs (yet), that said, I would like to hear about your practice too.
ok, that guy says somnus' kid was badly abused for years. So, these energies either were incapable of helping or brought that kind of result to his life. That's why it's good to have objective measures like this rather then people vaguely speaking about how shit 'works'. But most occultists hate talking about objective results.
Or maybe the situation came about as a result of his own actions, and the actions of others, and the "energies" have nothing to do with it.
Yes. This is true of all magickal systems
Yes it does.
This is called lack of discernment. These energies aren't just a hammer you pick up and use, they influence your life. He was the 'representative' of these energies and meanwhile his kid is being horribly abused for years. It's incredibly naive to think all these things are neatly partitioned. Even in the 'best' case scenario, they and his magic were completely unable to stop the child abuse. It takes real blinders to ignore this. He was the one writing the books etc about this system. What did it do for him?
Empowerment is developing into a higher immortal subtle body. None of these egregores and predatory discarnates can accomplish that for you. What they are doing is creating dependence. Empowerment comes from the Self, and is for the Self. Everything else is at best a crutch, and most often just another subtle trap. And in this instance we've already seen what 'blending with the entities/current' accomplished for Somnus.
