Last week I had an extraordinary experience meeting a local cover band playing Fleetwood Mac. I had to cry when they played those old Peter Green songs.
One Green song stuck with me over the years: The green Manalishi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSbrTwA4ps.
That same night I saw the band I could not sleep and was led to find an old essay I had almost forgotten - Aldous Huxley´s Doors of Perception:
http://mescaline.com/huxley.htm.
I think you all should read Huxley´s deep thoughts, the essay is deeply amazing. It is interesting, that Jim Morrison called his band after that: Doors...
Maybe you read the text having a nice music in the backround, I suggest Genesis, Supper is ready:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4.
Enjoy!
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Yes, my dear Semile, and here is the Blake poetry Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/blake_ma.html
It seems to me - and I still need time to develop my thoughts - that Blake, the mystic, became an inspirator to both, christian mysticism AND satanism.
The kind of deeper curiosity appears also in both, looking for ILLUMINATION under all circumstances AND looking for EMPTYING (KENOSIS according Christ in Phil 2) and HUMILITY. The first led to magick and wanting influence, the latter to a mind set of letting go and letting happen as it is supposed to go and happen.
The temptation of entering the occult and playing with the devil found in modern times first public expression in Milton´s Paradise Lost - Dr. Dee´s ambitions earlier were not public, as all kabbalistic and ritualistic teachings on enchanting angels, demons and forces throughout ages were secret ones (occult means also secretly).
In my view the turning from secret to public affairs of dealing with the occult and satanic was the point of no return: thus it was ready conquering the world and humankind. From there (17th century in Britain, 18th century in Germany) such origin of public expressions correlates with public emanations of secret societies.
Anyway, it shows the depths of mysticism of any kind: it can lead to heaven and hell or: to freedom or possession. The german freemason Goethe is an deep example with his Faust.
But I´ll leave it that way. Greetings and love!