A simple question, it should be interesting to see what people say. Without revealing too much, what is your interpretation of what the BIBLE is?
To me, the bible is a record of what happened in the past whereby the God who created the Universe (Yaldabaoth) was subdued by some Earthly magicians in some ritual. In this ritual, the God of creation is made into a man so that he can be killed. Jesus then, is the God of the Old Testament who was incarnated through ritual magic, for the sake of magical POWER.
I have other specific beliefs which I am happy to discuss, but I want to hear what people know!
I generally handle the Bible at its foundation in the western secular academic sense of there being the Hebrew Bible or “Old Testament”- a semi-historical, multi-genre library, and then the Christian writings appended there-on, which also are semi-historical and have a variety (albeit less) of genres in that we have things like the gospels, the book of acts, the epistolary writings of Paul, and the eschatological “Book of Revelation.”
Just the more exoteric treatment of these texts is vast, and admits a broad range of prospective mystical practices in things like abstentions, observances; rites of sacrifice; the more calendrical, astrological aspects and feasts; meditation, prayer, song, etc.
Now, myself personally, as a long-term magick practitioner (this has changed in the nature of its quality significantly, like most people who practice anything magickal over many years), Scottish rite initiated, Rosicrucian, who is deeply sympathetic to the more mystical Christian traditions and individuals, this has taken many forms but I will try to abbreviate it so that it can be considered more easily than this explanation of my background:
A lot of my magickal life has required a fairly direct knowledge of the Kabbalah and it’s host numerological study of biblical texts, angels, names of God, and through that I came to see the Bible’s self-referential, recapitulating feedback elements and that changed my treatment of the Bible into being something like not only a (albeit more potent) “This can become more of a useful, directly-applicable, treatment of my individual soul the more I can allow myself to see myself in the text and the characters and groups as representing myself or parts of myself” like someone can through much of literature, but because of there being a powerful matrix of number and self-reference, the more someone can, using the aforementioned, more conventional contemplative approach while at the same time being deliberate in a numerological and deeply symbolic (Kabbalah being the already present “received tradition” as per its name, for deeper levels of legibility, and is already incredibly sophisticated (albeit I don’t disbelieve in the prospective power of more Chaos-like, and transgressive ways of doing things)) way and it can spring you into being rendered more directly into the path of feedback and energetic currents where those in the foreground of the Bible’s cosmic dramas occur. I write “occur” in present tense because a part of my experience with these things, irrespective to their historicity or lack-thereof, is that a more helpful ontological handling of the events of the Bible is that they are eternally present,’ not just in having tendrils that bleed through history; not just from the belief in their veracity, and then extensions from the more “literally real” events, but from the radiant power that shines out as a fount of near endless development and possibilities combined with it being a multi-dimensional shining numerical and numerological matrix. One of the many interesting identities of the Bible is it’s being a fractal holographic code embedding divine ontology, so much further than a more common magickal “letter mysticism” approach to the Kabbalah and the Bible, one can actually assume their own position in a wave of phenomena that is more direct from the G-d, as something like an infinite Turing oracle that also provides personal insights, changes, and presence which having offered this self-referential code that is “true” (I’m loose with the word “true” compared to some people who are more epistemologically rigid) on what appears to be innumerable layers unfolding into infinity and can function as a kind of computational monad.
