Well I keep getting good responses so I will continue to post more of the course so long as that remains true. Heres class #3

Merry Meet

Oddly I find myself moved to type briefly about Atlantis. A hard thing to talk about since the New Age and UfOlogy have filled the subject with such vast amounts of disinformation that it is quite hard to approach t without a great deal of cheesiness.

Well I’ve come to an interesting theory in my life: where you find lies someone is hiding something. Look under the piles of dis-information and you quite often find secrets that those who control the information didn’t want found. So Fear not. I will not tell you that we were descended from dolphins from outer space to be re-incarnated as Cleopatra or any such thing.

There is a great deal of historical reference that at least points to such a place existing and that it dis-appeared under the waves but even more than that was the land of Lemuria which also had a similar fate but not quite as much press. Even the Magickal Isle of Avalon is now only a foothill along some rolling hills near the coast that is now called Glastonbury. Once it seems the valleys surrounding the hill were filled with water, the ocean came quite further inland. Great changes have occurred in the earth and every one of them was documented by the people of the time in stories and legends.

A tale of the indigenous Irish people told of the coming of the Druids. That a great island to the east sank beneath the sea and it was then the first Druids washed up on the shore. Other lands told stories of the survivors arriving on their lands in boats and vessels that, ” sailed in the sky”. Could be that’s where the UFO folks go into the picture. I believe it might have been Socrates (or some other dead Greek dude) recorded having traveled there and marveled at the technology and spirituality of the people. The tales of Atlantis tend to speak of the technology they possessed, no matter who tells them, though the blurring of the tale continues to this day. Many theories exist on where this land was located and some theorists have blamed the strange anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle that have plagued shipping and aviation on an electro magnetic beam coming from beneath the ocean. That is, they claim that the Atlanteons left something on.

Now, I’m not gonna tell you that the Druids came from Atlantis or that any of it is true but we must search these strange old tales for the grains of truth they contain. There were many ancient cultures that have experimented with the concepts we are working with here. Entire nations have harnessed magick as a power source and technology. It is unlikely that nations and governments have abandoned the research of old. Far more likely that some have perfected it.

Remember the obscure piece of Egyptian technology from class #1 which led to non-lethal weaponry. The device I speak of is a metal ball shaped chamber with a large bell type device on the front end, which is held with two arms, tucked under one arm. It is completely portable and operated on an internal combustion engine that produces a rhythmic low frequency pulse said to incapacitate the target making them lose balance, body control, bowel control and severe nausea.

Scary as it may be the device was released for law enforcement use 2 yrs ago which means the military has something better. No one has quite documented having the device used on them but in the last year several anti-globalization protesters have reported having the symptoms without explanation.

“My God why does he tell us these things?!?!?” I tell you for the same reason the old fairy tales were written the way they were, because the sheer terror will hopefully drill the lesson home in a way it is never forgotten.

We are experimenting with our bodies, with our minds and with the world. I am trying to cover things that have a relative degree of safety and with some data collection so we are not messing with the wrong things. The old tales go much, much further. Tales of the Atlanteans building a great weapon that ultimately destroyed them abound and also this curious tale: That the Atlanteons had discovered what we would now call the resonating frequency of the human soul. Now what happens when glass is exposed to it’s resonating frequency of high-C?

Always these old tales are teaching something rather than attempting to be historically accurate. I am a firm believer that all Magickal practices have encoded in them two possible paths enlightenment or destruction. More paths and degrees of both exist but even the fluffiest Magick done, from an impure place with malicious intent, can kill you or others. When a person goes really wrong they will be allowed to and the Ways will let it happen and ultimately destroy that persons soul, hopefully before they hurt too many people.

So when we step onto the ritual stage we have to ask ourselves, “What’s my motivation?. What is the intent? ” Magick and music recognize intent. When I sing a note it has intention to it, when I play a note it carries with it the intent of the song underneath. An A though can be the splendor of the Moon, if I will it the Moon can be dark and spooky and still.. Water can cleanse you or drown you or dash you on the rocks: fire can warm you or burn you and that’s where we go next.

The Elements:

Oh My Goddess such a contradictory amount of data exists on these. It is possible that different notes form different parts of the element, as Fire is Lust or is it Hate. Perhaps the notes are variations on the elemental concepts but no one seems to agree.

Marta was nice enough to send me the Elemental notes she came up with and I found her version in two other sources but I lost the e-mail before I could include it here so perhaps she would send it to us. There seems to be some supporting data.

My model is based on some guesswork in conjunction with the chakra notes and personal experimentation but i am not set on only this model. I tried the one Marta sent and it felt valid when I played it too, just felt like a different part of the whole and hard to explain beyond that.

Earth-G
Air-C
Fire-E
Water-D

So I took my guitar to the street for some harmless experimentation with
some shoppers.

I noticed that the songs felt really punched and hit hard, sounding like acoustic punk just happened to be based in E and felt quite fiery. I had written the songs way before I came to know these things, and so were chosen as purely by feel. I am quite the Cancer, and that’s what are known to do.

Ill tell you all a secret about guitarists, the reason why they hang so low, the vibration, feels good and helps you tune…

I found a lot of folk songs were written to tell tales of the people, communicate ideas, and make you feel, perhaps shed a tear or two over what’s written in G-C-D

D-A-G is the most common arrangement in your sappier folk numbers, perhaps
utilizing the Moon energies.

Now I didn’t find much new in effect, these songs always had the affect I wanted them to have on people but i learned how subconsciously the songs were based in the note that suited them best and had combinations of elemental energies that cause mutual reactions. The E based did agitate and anger people. C tended to communicate large ideas, D had allot of tear-jerkers and love songs and I don’t know if it was a Placebo or not but more people seemed to be throwing money into my guitar case when I was on G.

We are almost finished with this part and will hopefully leave you with some ideas and things to play with as a musician or not. A study of this subject alone could last a lifetime. Elements and planets mixed to cause effect can also make interesting chord changes and riffs.

Each planet has a deity or deities associated with it, you can find this in the Spiral Dance, The Magicians Companion and many other occult reference books

Here are some other things from people on similar studies. This one should be fun. http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/chaos/acousticsigils.html

The research these folks came up with should prove very useful http://members.aol.com/Lambdom3/Chakras.html

Other countries, Eastern for example have different scales, here’s some conversion and other info http://www.saigan.com/heritage/music/mus1.htm

Now this one is fascinating and gives audio files for the non do-it yourselfer. http://members.aol.com/oldenwilde/teaching/musciphr.html

Hmmmm http://www.simillimum.com/Thelittlelibrary/References/Music.html

Oh yes more http://w3.iac.net/~moonweb/archives/KOTO/SS1/SS1.html

This is a bit heady but if you can wrap your brain around it twill be worth it http://www.magonia.demon.co.uk/Ems/xx7.html

There is also a great deal about ritual shapes made with sound in Sacred Sounds which I was going to include here when I thought they were my ideas but the book tells it much better than I.

So experiment and let us know if you come up with any interesting data.

Blessed Be

You can hear Birch’s Intro to Witchcraft Course here : http://www.sacredgrovesantacruz.com/links.htm

Related posts

• Bardic Chaos Magick-2 (2)
• Bardic Chaos Magick (1)

Tags: bardic, chaos, druid, elements, frequency, music, quarters, tone, weird science, wicca, witchcraft