I don't know much of anything about black magic, so can't evaluate this statement by Nibs, but he said in the Penthouse interview:
Also, here's a short video clip of him where he makes a reference to black magic in scientology:
[video=youtube;GGF7rJPQAmo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGF7rJPQAmo[/video]
I have read some... enough to have a few wiccans read all my stuff... not that I was interested in it, but that in deciding to study hypnosis, due to Shawn
Lonsdale's death, and I found that THAT history crosses paths....
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Understand that much of what passes for classic magic consists of the arrangement of items associated metaphysically with each other and what you hope to achieve, and then to do this during the proper arrangement of the stars... and the proper
Decan of the day. In Francis Yates "The Art of Memory" there is a description of the Pillars of Solomon, - (Thinking out loud, I'll never be able to convey what Professor Yates took 200 previous pages to get across) .... ok I'll try a more simplistic explanation...
Just as the E-meter implies that there is science in $cientology.... Just as the setting (stage setting) together with the programmed expectations of the "pc" prime him to engage in powerful
auto-suggestion... Putting all these things together, including having the pc sit in a waiting area where there is a
gradation chart, together these things (and
others) focus a persons intention upon achieving the stated goal of the 'level'... These stated goals are achieved in the same manner that those two girls see mice on the floor in that picture I keep posting by stage hypnotist (Hubbard was also a stage hypnotist
LINK) Ralph Slater
here <scroll down...
The pattern used to focus intention of a person's will as described in the invocations of Abra-Mellin, are very similar to what Hubbard did to trick us into powerful self hypnosis of the classically magic kind.
I'll save you reading Abra-Mellin... In it he, a Jewish Mystic, states (ONE example) that if you want something to happen, you should bake your own bread by your hand, then slice a piece of bread, and write upon it with honey, the invocation you wish....
I will admit, I gave it a try, I asked for wisdom.
I hope this helps...
Arnie Lerma
Further Reading:
Prof. Francis Yates U of Chicago, read her books, especially The Art of Memory and the one about Bruno...
Ioan Culianu - Read his, Out of this World and his book about Giordano Bruno
Study Giordano Bruno...,
Ficino, and those cited by the latter, and
Albertus Magnus
Giordano Bruno
PS: And the document Jamie is reading from... 2 pages of that were posted by this writer here to ESMB in 2011
LINK but I was given the wrong cover sheet with those two pages so it is titled differently...and wrongly see last post in that thread (After you read the stuff I posted which was the thing Jamie was reading from) a note from Ortega.
Two days before Jamie spoke I was sitting in the restaurant with Jamie and he said he found something amazing he was going to read... I asked him if what he had mentioned Abra-Mellin... he said no.. so he hadn't gotten to that part yet... which is the part he read from in the video, and you guys had access to pieces of it 3 years ago here on ESMB.
