A Wisdom Archive on creative act

DEOSIL: The act of moving in a clockwise circle, following the Sun and Moon's motion in the sky. It represents positive energy & a building up of, or creation of energy & exercise. Opposite of Widdershins. Standard direction of movement within a ritual area or consecrated circle. This is the traditional direction one works in for creative magick. Also called Sunwise.

 
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DEOSIL -
1. clockwise movement for rituals and ceremonies and spells. (TRASB)
2. the act of moving, working or dancing in a clockwise motion. This is the traditional direction one works with for creative magick. Deosil is also called “Sunwise” (CMM)

 
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Demiurge, Demiourgos (Greek) (from demos the people + ergon work)
 
In Gnosticism, the deity as creator or cosmic artificer was a secondary or subordinate god, distinct from the supreme deity of the hierarchy, acting as creator or former of worlds, with which function the supreme is not directly concerned. Because of this seeming duality of rival gods, monotheistic Christian theology classed the demiurge among the powers hostile to God and mankind, as it did with Satan, the Serpent, Lucifer, and so many others. Marcion (2nd century) and his school attempted to reconcile these by equating the Demiourgos with the Jewish Jehovah.
 
The Demiourgos, however, is the deity in its creative aspect, the Second Logos -- not a personal deity, but an abstract term denoting the host of creative powers. Later, the conception was anthropomorphized. It is the elohim of the Bible who make kosmos out of chaos; the universal mind, separated from its fountain-source; the four-faced Brahma; the seven principal dhyani-chohans.
 
In the Qabbalah, Hokhmah (wisdom) becomes united with Binah (intelligence), which latter is Jehovah or the Demiourgos. But the Demiourgos itself is dual in the same sense as are those formative powers for which the name stands: acting on all planes from the highest to the lowest, the contrast between above and below, light and its shadow, is shown; added to which, it includes potencies which are symbolized by human minds as masculine and feminine. There was plenty of scope, then, for confusion as to the meaning and application of the word.
 
See also ARCHITECT; DHYANI-CHOHANS; LOGOS

 
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Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice. Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art wi ... Including:

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Dream Interpretation Fame
A dream of fame maybe wish-fulfilment, a reflection of some public act, or may reflect the fact that more people recognize your waking behaviour than you realize. Dreaming of famous people or celebrities is quite common for adolescents, and it reflects a teen's desire to be a part of talented and admired people. Celebrity dreams show the strong urge to find a place within a group that is emotionally secure and creatively satisfying.

 
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Cyber-culture as discussed above is significant, but it is still non-consequential at the ontological level. The more exciting thing is that cyberspace and virtual reality can go even further. Combining it with the technology of teleoperation, we can enter into cyberspace and interact with artificial objects to manipulate the actual physical process. When I perform an act of picking a stone in cyberspace, for example, a robotic surrogate body of mine in the real world will pick up a real stone. Since all of our physical contact with the natu ...

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MUMMY
 Although imperfect souls must be liberated from their bodies for the good of evolution, so that they can be reincarnated and re-worked, the Egyptians did not want the souls of the Adepts to be reabsorbed. Therefore the bodies of the exceptional ones were preserved in order to act as anchors and talismans for their souls. Body and soul, it will be recalled, were not all there was to the spirit. Since matter and spirit are the opposite poles of the mystery, material evolution and spiritual manifestation occur in tandem, complementing one another. Every physical shell, as a manifested spiritual entity represents a lengthy history, a culmination of many immaterial lives acting as Spirit, Soul and Mind on the Archetypal, Formative and Creative planes. In this way, helpful analogies can be abstracted from the body''s movements, gestures and positions. Similarly, in the Adepts, the speech, the ideas and hopes of the soul become guiding beacons and the lessons of life and death can
be read in them. (Adapted from R.G. Torrens'' The Golden Dawn: The Inner Teachings).
 

 
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Anthony Burgess - Work methods. "I start at the beginning, go to the end, then stop," Burgess once said. He revealed in Martin Seymour-Smith's Novels and Novelists: A Guide to the World of Fiction (1980) that he would often prepare a synopsis with a name-list before beginning a project. But Seymour-Smith wrote: "Burgess believes overplanning is fatal to creativity and regards his unconscious mind and the act of writing itself as indispensable guides. He does not produce a draft of a whole novel which ...

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Sin Evildoing, moral obliquity expressed in thought and act; in its relation to human evolution, it applies especially to the misuse of human creative powers which occurred after the fall into material existence.
 
The procreative act, for example, in itself is not sinful, for this is but nature''s arrangement for the continuing of the human strain, but the abuse of this power, especially for black magical purposes. This truth has been perverted by Christian theology, which regards the procreative act as essentially sinful and permissible only as a concession to the "original sin" stamped upon us by our first parents in the Garden of Eden, and only to be purged by the Atonement.
 
The fall of man is symbolized in the zodiacal signs of Virgo-Scorpio, and it is mankind who has become the serpent of Genesis and thus causes daily and hourly the fall and sin of the celestial Virgin, who becomes the mother of gods and devils at the same time. But karma in one of its senses would be a better word for this: "Karma . . . means, as a synonym of sin, the performance of some action for the attainment of an object of worldly, hence selfish, desire, which cannot fail to be hurtful to somebody else" (SD 2:302n).

 
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Daksha (Sanskrit) A form of Brahma and his son in the Puranas But the Rig Veda states that "Daksha sprang from Aditi, and Aditi from Daksha", which proves him to be a personified correlating Creative Force acting on all the planes.
 
The Orientalists seem very much perplexed what to make of him; but Roth is nearer the truth than any, when saying that Daksha is the spiritual power, and at the same time the male energy that generates the gods in eternity, which is represented by Aditi.
 
The Puranas as a matter of course, anthropomorphize the idea, and show Daksha instituting "sexual intercourse on this earth", after trying every other means of procreation. The generative Force, spiritual at the commencement, becomes of course at the most material end of its evolution a procreative Force on the physical plane ; and so far the Puranic allegory is correct, as the Secret Science teaches that our present mode of procreation began towards the end of the third Root-Race.

 
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THOTH
Tehuti (Djehuti, Theutys), the Egyptian equivalent of Hermes. God of the Age after Aquarius, (Age of Capricorn, 2000 years hence). He is the "Keeper of knowledge," stable sage and arbiter of the gods, their constant advisor, and wizard. It was his magical formulae that the dead need to know in order to pass through the underworld unscathed.
 
The Book of Thoth (which Crowley calls the Tarot), is supposedly the source of all wisdom. Thoth is far more than the God of language. It is in the invention of language that both the phenomenological and the material worlds are born. But language is the connection we make with the millions of things in the universe and, similarly, Thoth is the connection or Fohat of the Gods to their creative acts. He is the neter of the neteru.
 
In Egyptian mythology, Thoth is the product of a homosexual union between Seth and Horus.
 

 
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Yajna (Sanskrit) In Vedic literature, worship, devotion, prayer, praise; in post-Vedic literature, an act of worship or devotion, an oblation, sacrifice, also sacrifice personified or fire.
 
''The Yajna,'' say the Brahmans, ''exists from eternity, for it proceeded from the Supreme, in whom it lay dormant from no beginning.'' It is the key to the Trai-Vidya, the thrice sacred science contained in the Rig-Veda verses, which teaches the Yajna or sacrificial mysteries. As Haug states in his Introduction to the Aitareya Brahmana -- the Yajna exists as an invisible presence at all times, extending from the Ahavaniya or sacrificial fire to the heavens, forming a bridge or ladder by means of which the sacrificer can communicate with the world of devas, ''and even ascend when alive to their abodes.'' It is one of the forms of Akasa, within which the mystic Word (or its underlying ''Sound'') calls it into existence. Pronounced by the Priest-Initiate or Yogi, this Word receives creative powers, and is communicated as an impulse on the terrestrial plane through a trained Will-power" (TG 375).

 
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