Welcome to Goddess & the Tree--Qabalah for Pagans 9! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out the other clones of this group on other networks. Sorry to have been gone for so long. We had computer issues for a few months. Tegwedd has a new computer now, and Stephen has a cell phone that goes on the Internet. Tegwedd’s does too, (it’s the same model) but she would rather use her computer. It’s funny to watch Stephen holding his lighted magnifying glass to his cell.
You can invoke Shekinah the Hebrew Goddess on Sephirah 3 Binah the Dark Mother, Understanding. You can have Goddess energy on the Tree of Life; Binah, as has already been mentioned, Netzach, Victory, is ruled by Venus, Yesod, Foundation, is ruled by the Moon, and Malkuth, Kingdom is ruled by the Earth. Kether, the Crown, should either have both genders or none at all. Chokhmah is Wisdom, which should be feminine, but is seen as masculine. One thing to think about in relation to the Tree of Life is your own personal tree-- your family tree. Where you came from partially determines where you’re going. Tegwedd learned about two or three weeks ago that her legal surname means “small farmstead” in old Norse. So she comes from a long line of farmers on her father’s side of her family tree. But she can’t even grow tomatoes, even though her maternal grandfather grew tomatoes and sweet cord in his yard in Ada, MN. Stephen comes from Pennsylvania Deutsch, Cherokee, and Irish forebears. Many of the Germans who had settled in Pennsylvania after the American Revolution had been Hessian mercenaries fighting on the side of the British. They brought their spirituality, and yes, their magickal traditions with them. Stephen was inspired to talk about family trees by watching “Haven” Friday night. You could say that the Tree of Life is the family tree for the Gods, Goddesses, and races of humankind. One example of this is the world ash wonder tree--Yggdrasil, which brings together the Nine Worlds, and all the races. You could also say that the Tree of life an Yggdrasil are the ancestors of all our family trees.
Basically, though, when you get right down to it, the Tree of Life is nothing more or less than a filing system for the sacred. To make it more modern and up to date, Stephen likens it to a computer. Uncle Al showed this in his “Liber 777”, in which he put a lot of the religions of the world, both ancient and modern into slots according to where he thought they belonged on the Tree of Life. But the work is not complete. Tegwedd’s 3rd exhubby is working on establishing the places on the Tree of Life for the Meso-American pantheons. Uncle Al did not intend that we, his spiritual nieces and nephews, should duplicate his work, but use it as a launching pad to do our own work in the areas he had neglected. Stephen highly recommends Liber 777, which even goes into Yggdrasil and the deities thereon. Stephen has a copy signed by Grady McMurtry. It’s one of the few things that were his, that he bequeathed to Stephen, that weren’t ripped off.
We got the name for this group from a book by the late great Ellen Cannon Reed. “The Goddess & the Tree--Qabalah for Pagans” really made Tegwedd enthusiastic about the Tree of Life and Qabalah. Before she got this book and read it cover to cover, it was just something she studied in order to advance in the OTO. Ms reed was the one who described the Tree of Life as a filing system.
By the way, this may seem to be somewhat off-topic, but given that this group is also about the Goddess, it may be on topic after all. The term “bloody” that Brits like to throw around is actually a contraction of the phrase “by our Lady.” If that doesn’t pertain to the Goddess, what does?
Stephen first encountered the Tree of Life when he was just 10 years old. “Ten years old, ten Sephiroth, you do the math,” he says. “My first impressions of the Tree of Life,” he continues, “was ‘Wow! This is cool!’ My grandmother introduced me to it. I learned early on the significance of the Qabalah to the Tarot. Grandma said I was a natural, which Isaac would repeat 10 years later.” Stephen has an announcement to make. If his computer is ready on Saturday night, August 13th, or it not, whenever it is ready, and he get’s it back, he’s going to put his role playing game “The Tarot and the Tree” on digital media. It’s also going to be in our book the “Ultimate Guide to the Tarot.” We’re going to Gallery 14 to see another art show She’s a goth, so she’s more along the lines of what we like than the last show was. We’ll review it in the next discussion we do.
The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. Tegwedd used to be in favor of management like her father, who was a staunch Republican until he died, until she tried to live on the wages she got as a temp office worker. The she got in with Doc, who was a member of the SEIU Health Workers union. Stephen was a strong union man since he was 20. He’s a member of the IWW (International Workers of the World) aka the Wobblies. Janvier was a little Wobbly when she first started walking. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. A very wise person once told Tegwedd years ago that you know you’ve successfully negotiated when nobody leaves the table happy. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.
Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.
We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 9 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
All About Isaac
This blog is about a man I have known for more than 35 years. His name is Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, known either as Isaac, or affectionately as ol’ Boney. Stephen called him Boneywits. It was he who gave me my 1st Order ordination in the RDNA. Actually, to be more exact, I was ordained into the SDNA (Schismatic Druids of North America), the schism he started, which became in a few years the ADF (Ar nDraiochta Fein our own Druidry). Recently he underwent surgery for two worrisome colonic cysts. Unfortunately, these cysts have been found to be cancerous, and he has already started chemotherapy and radiation.
Do I need to go into what this man has done for the Pagan community at large? He also started the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League, which defended the rights of American Pagans to live and worship as they choose. .Chick comics, a Christian anti-Pagan comic by Jack Chick featured Bonewits as a mastermind with over 100,000 Witches under his control. Obviously he doesn’t understand how de-centralized we Pagans are, but he did have a handle on how important to the Pagan community Isaac Bonewits is.
After the ritual, we came back to Isaac’s and had a rip roaring good old Pagan orgy. Isaac looked so frail I at first didn’t want to orgy with him. I was afraid that I’d break him. But I looked at his first wife Wanda, called Rusty, who later became David Geller, and she out-weighed me at that time by at least forty pounds. If she hadn’t broken him. I doubt that I would have. He would go on to have 4 wives after Rusty.
Stephen first met Isaac in June of 1970 when he and Robert Larson (the Druid not the fanatical Christian) went to where Isaac was staying. They talked about working together as Druidic and magickal colleagues. Isaac was working with his publisher to bring out his first book Real Magic. Isaac was concerned about Stephen’s involvement in the Weathermen because he had to be careful about his reputation. The three men talked until evening, when Stephen had to leave to go to work. Isaac invited Stephen to events, and Stephen spent much time at Isaac’s apartment. Their friendship grew. Stephen saw him as very intellectual, an inveterate incorrigible punster. “He had certain phrases that made him sound like a college professor such as, Hmm, I see. Heheheheheheheh, there is that. With his pipe, he looked like a Jewish Sherlock Holmes, but he isn’t Jewish, he came from as German Catholic family.” He came home to Paganism after his flirtation with Satanism and as Clayton O’Clearach calls him, “Anton Sandbox LaFeces.” Since then, he has been a fervent Pagan. Stephen and Isaac shared lovers on many occasions. Isaac and Stephen both came from the old Pagan tradition of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. This was, of course, before AIDS. Isaac had a reputation for being just a bit more serious than Stephen, but that was BS. He loves to tell jokes, and make bad puns. I’m sure that when he was in the hospital, and when he goes for radiation therapy, he keeps the doctors, nurses, medtechs, and other medical personnel in stitches with his jokes and bad puns. It’s how he copes, so I’m sure he’s even funnier than ever. What bonded the two men together even more than their whacked out senses of humor, was their shared hatred of Republicans and other conservatives. They also both love pizza. They are also both showmen, and comedians. Isaac as well as Stephen is an avid gamer, as was the late great Robert Larson. Isaac liked to give Stephen compliments such as he was the greatest Tarot scholar that Isaac had ever met.
Newsflash: Altavista’s Babelfish has now been added to Yahoo’s toolbar. Go to Altavista Babelfish and they will offer to put it on your Yahoo toolbar. Log in, restart, and it shall be done onto you.
Stephen did many public events with Isaac, and many public Pagan protests. There was a former church in Berkeley that Isaac and Stephen had access to because of their status as Universal Life Church ministers. It was later taken over by the Hare Krishnas. They did a protest against the Japanese harvesting of dolphins. While I’m writing this, and Stephen has been dictating, he has been puttied by Bailee Beasley Beastly, or 3B for short. He has this rule that unless he has a call, he can’t get up when he’s puttied. Being puttied means you have a silly putty on your body. The putties are so tough that they can lick anyone in the house, and often do. They did many public rituals in places like Live Oak Park, and the Rose Garden, which got featured media attention. In Tilden Park, there was a ritual that was featured in Margo Adler’s Drawing down the Moon.
Stephen was there when Authentic Thaumaturgy was being created. Authentic Thaumaturgy is a version of Real Magic [sic], which shows how magick really works in fantasy role playing gaming situations. I believe it was his second book to come out. If you can get hold of a copy do so. Buy directly from Isaac and Phaedra. They can use the bucks. They were both in the OTO. The one thing they were not in together was Wicca. Isaac was in another different coven and tradition from Stephen. Stephen was in Ken Ra’s own peculiar version of British Traditional Witchcraft, while Isaac was in NROOGD. The two men went and lectured at gaming conventions. Isaac eventually moved into Stephen’s apartment building at 2435 Channing Way. Isaac ordained Stephen into the 3rd order in May ’71, and in June, Stephen started the Hazelnut MotherGrove. Isaac gave Stephen and Bill Heidrick jobs at Gnostica News when he moved to Minnesota to work at Llewellyn Publications. Before that Isaac and Stephen worked together on the Pentalpha Journal. In 1976, Isaac sold me a copy of the Druid Chronicles (evolved) which he worked on. Since then, it has been recopied several times for those we ordained to the 1st order. All in all, Stephen helped Isaac in a lot of his projects. Isaac introduced Stephen to the Order of Wizard Lore in 1970. Now we have clones of the Order of Wizard Lore on several networks. Look for a clone of that group coming to Facebook soon.
Isaac did return to the Bay Area from time to time, even after he moved east. When he returned, he and Stephen would do rituals together. Eventually the visits stopped. Either he could not afford to travel, or he was too firmly settled back east to travel anymore. And now he has this illness. Stephen kept in contact first on the phone, then as he got on the Internet, email, Skype, and Yahoo. But in the past year, Stephen has lost contact with Isaac, which he deeply regrets. Whenever they spoke on the phone, they greeted each other with a bad joke or pun. For updates, go to his site at http://neopagan.net Views from the Cyberhenge. .
I’m on KEEN now, so call me. I changed the spelling of my name slightly so that the non-Welsh speakers could pronounce it. It’s spelled Teiweth ShadowDancer. My number is 8342. My extension is 03877627 I’m sure it means something qabalistically, but I haven’t looked it up yet in Godwin’s. The site is www.keen.com, so go there and look me up. Stephen’s British friend Peter is threatening to call me, but he hasn’t called me yet. He has only 6 hours yet tonight, before he’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning. I refuse to be a slave to the telephone as Stephen is, so I’m offline from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. I need my beauty sleep. I don’t know whether it does me any good cosmetically, but it does my moods a world of good, as well as my physical body. If you need a clairvoyant, call on AstroWing 3323. For exact dates, call Stephen6580.
We’re working on Abbott’s Inn International. I changed the Griffin Network this morning so that it can take groups. We’re looking for a housemate now, so if you are in the Sacramento area, and need a place to live, or are thinking of moving to Sacramento and need a place to live it is only $400 + 1/3 of the utilities. It is perfect for someone who either has a low paying job or is on Social Security or SSI. You can have cats here. Please no smoking. We can share food if you are an omnivore, as Stephen and I are.
We’re both behind on our rent and are offering readings and classes for $32 each. For $60, you can have both a reading and a class. It’s payable through Paypal. My account is tezra.reitan@gmail.com. Stephen’s account name is abbottsinn@gmail.com. We’re the contact people for Isaac. We encourage people to buy his books to pay his medical bills. Isaac’s books, while they have his distinctive sense of humor, also are very informative. For readings and classes, call either Stephen at (landline) 916-455-2267 (cell) 916-612-2504. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM , Skype, or Windows Live Msgr, it’s almost like being here. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet. We also need staff members, who if they work as hard as we do on Abbott’s Inn International, will receive readings and classes for a year and a day.
If you are in the Sacramento area, go by 14th an 60th to Gallery 14. It is run by Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. They have exhibitions by local artists each month.
Well that’s all for now. We’ll be back soon.
.
Do I need to go into what this man has done for the Pagan community at large? He also started the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League, which defended the rights of American Pagans to live and worship as they choose. .Chick comics, a Christian anti-Pagan comic by Jack Chick featured Bonewits as a mastermind with over 100,000 Witches under his control. Obviously he doesn’t understand how de-centralized we Pagans are, but he did have a handle on how important to the Pagan community Isaac Bonewits is.
After the ritual, we came back to Isaac’s and had a rip roaring good old Pagan orgy. Isaac looked so frail I at first didn’t want to orgy with him. I was afraid that I’d break him. But I looked at his first wife Wanda, called Rusty, who later became David Geller, and she out-weighed me at that time by at least forty pounds. If she hadn’t broken him. I doubt that I would have. He would go on to have 4 wives after Rusty.
Stephen first met Isaac in June of 1970 when he and Robert Larson (the Druid not the fanatical Christian) went to where Isaac was staying. They talked about working together as Druidic and magickal colleagues. Isaac was working with his publisher to bring out his first book Real Magic. Isaac was concerned about Stephen’s involvement in the Weathermen because he had to be careful about his reputation. The three men talked until evening, when Stephen had to leave to go to work. Isaac invited Stephen to events, and Stephen spent much time at Isaac’s apartment. Their friendship grew. Stephen saw him as very intellectual, an inveterate incorrigible punster. “He had certain phrases that made him sound like a college professor such as, Hmm, I see. Heheheheheheheh, there is that. With his pipe, he looked like a Jewish Sherlock Holmes, but he isn’t Jewish, he came from as German Catholic family.” He came home to Paganism after his flirtation with Satanism and as Clayton O’Clearach calls him, “Anton Sandbox LaFeces.” Since then, he has been a fervent Pagan. Stephen and Isaac shared lovers on many occasions. Isaac and Stephen both came from the old Pagan tradition of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. This was, of course, before AIDS. Isaac had a reputation for being just a bit more serious than Stephen, but that was BS. He loves to tell jokes, and make bad puns. I’m sure that when he was in the hospital, and when he goes for radiation therapy, he keeps the doctors, nurses, medtechs, and other medical personnel in stitches with his jokes and bad puns. It’s how he copes, so I’m sure he’s even funnier than ever. What bonded the two men together even more than their whacked out senses of humor, was their shared hatred of Republicans and other conservatives. They also both love pizza. They are also both showmen, and comedians. Isaac as well as Stephen is an avid gamer, as was the late great Robert Larson. Isaac liked to give Stephen compliments such as he was the greatest Tarot scholar that Isaac had ever met.
Newsflash: Altavista’s Babelfish has now been added to Yahoo’s toolbar. Go to Altavista Babelfish and they will offer to put it on your Yahoo toolbar. Log in, restart, and it shall be done onto you.
Stephen did many public events with Isaac, and many public Pagan protests. There was a former church in Berkeley that Isaac and Stephen had access to because of their status as Universal Life Church ministers. It was later taken over by the Hare Krishnas. They did a protest against the Japanese harvesting of dolphins. While I’m writing this, and Stephen has been dictating, he has been puttied by Bailee Beasley Beastly, or 3B for short. He has this rule that unless he has a call, he can’t get up when he’s puttied. Being puttied means you have a silly putty on your body. The putties are so tough that they can lick anyone in the house, and often do. They did many public rituals in places like Live Oak Park, and the Rose Garden, which got featured media attention. In Tilden Park, there was a ritual that was featured in Margo Adler’s Drawing down the Moon.
Stephen was there when Authentic Thaumaturgy was being created. Authentic Thaumaturgy is a version of Real Magic [sic], which shows how magick really works in fantasy role playing gaming situations. I believe it was his second book to come out. If you can get hold of a copy do so. Buy directly from Isaac and Phaedra. They can use the bucks. They were both in the OTO. The one thing they were not in together was Wicca. Isaac was in another different coven and tradition from Stephen. Stephen was in Ken Ra’s own peculiar version of British Traditional Witchcraft, while Isaac was in NROOGD. The two men went and lectured at gaming conventions. Isaac eventually moved into Stephen’s apartment building at 2435 Channing Way. Isaac ordained Stephen into the 3rd order in May ’71, and in June, Stephen started the Hazelnut MotherGrove. Isaac gave Stephen and Bill Heidrick jobs at Gnostica News when he moved to Minnesota to work at Llewellyn Publications. Before that Isaac and Stephen worked together on the Pentalpha Journal. In 1976, Isaac sold me a copy of the Druid Chronicles (evolved) which he worked on. Since then, it has been recopied several times for those we ordained to the 1st order. All in all, Stephen helped Isaac in a lot of his projects. Isaac introduced Stephen to the Order of Wizard Lore in 1970. Now we have clones of the Order of Wizard Lore on several networks. Look for a clone of that group coming to Facebook soon.
Isaac did return to the Bay Area from time to time, even after he moved east. When he returned, he and Stephen would do rituals together. Eventually the visits stopped. Either he could not afford to travel, or he was too firmly settled back east to travel anymore. And now he has this illness. Stephen kept in contact first on the phone, then as he got on the Internet, email, Skype, and Yahoo. But in the past year, Stephen has lost contact with Isaac, which he deeply regrets. Whenever they spoke on the phone, they greeted each other with a bad joke or pun. For updates, go to his site at http://neopagan.net Views from the Cyberhenge. .
I’m on KEEN now, so call me. I changed the spelling of my name slightly so that the non-Welsh speakers could pronounce it. It’s spelled Teiweth ShadowDancer. My number is 8342. My extension is 03877627 I’m sure it means something qabalistically, but I haven’t looked it up yet in Godwin’s. The site is www.keen.com, so go there and look me up. Stephen’s British friend Peter is threatening to call me, but he hasn’t called me yet. He has only 6 hours yet tonight, before he’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning. I refuse to be a slave to the telephone as Stephen is, so I’m offline from 10 p.m. until 8 a.m. I need my beauty sleep. I don’t know whether it does me any good cosmetically, but it does my moods a world of good, as well as my physical body. If you need a clairvoyant, call on AstroWing 3323. For exact dates, call Stephen6580.
We’re working on Abbott’s Inn International. I changed the Griffin Network this morning so that it can take groups. We’re looking for a housemate now, so if you are in the Sacramento area, and need a place to live, or are thinking of moving to Sacramento and need a place to live it is only $400 + 1/3 of the utilities. It is perfect for someone who either has a low paying job or is on Social Security or SSI. You can have cats here. Please no smoking. We can share food if you are an omnivore, as Stephen and I are.
We’re both behind on our rent and are offering readings and classes for $32 each. For $60, you can have both a reading and a class. It’s payable through Paypal. My account is tezra.reitan@gmail.com. Stephen’s account name is abbottsinn@gmail.com. We’re the contact people for Isaac. We encourage people to buy his books to pay his medical bills. Isaac’s books, while they have his distinctive sense of humor, also are very informative. For readings and classes, call either Stephen at (landline) 916-455-2267 (cell) 916-612-2504. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM , Skype, or Windows Live Msgr, it’s almost like being here. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet. We also need staff members, who if they work as hard as we do on Abbott’s Inn International, will receive readings and classes for a year and a day.
If you are in the Sacramento area, go by 14th an 60th to Gallery 14. It is run by Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. They have exhibitions by local artists each month.
Well that’s all for now. We’ll be back soon.
.
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