The Internet has bought many problems to occult teaching. Often teaching is dumbed down into a mem or a slogan which may or may not be right but just sounds cool. Soon people start to believe it and it becomes difficult to shake from people’s mind. For a few months I have had fun looking at mems people have been posting and typing in the headline and the then the world hoax or debunked into Google. You will be amazed at how many “facts” online are made up by people who are trying to sell you something – either politics or a belief. What is even stranger is how angry people get when you tell them that they have been taken
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Roman Salt
I have been doing some research into the Roman Goddess Vesta and I found something that might be interesting for those who follow the Western Mystery Tradition. Salt usually makes an appearance in magical ritual in connection to the North and it is often linked to the idea of purification of the material nature.Although this was a traditionalimage of Vesta she was more often jjust seen as being fire.New agers like to write off Vesta as the goddess of the hearth and concentrate on her cooking skills. This makes her into a paragon of housewives. But she was a lot more than that. She was a fire goddess and as such was the sacred element that held Rome together. She was one
Playing at Magic
There was a time, in the English language, where you could only dabble in the occult. The implication was that no matter how seriously you took your magical path, as far as the real world was concerned you were only mucking about. The idea of “dabbling” mean that if something went wrong in a magical experiment, it was down to you not taking it seriously.One of the downsides of the modern age is that beginners have access to more information than they used to and this makes “dabbling” much easier than it was before.As a result you find views being forged which are based on reading books by “new age experts” or “fantasists”. This type of person