Window Dressing

Staring at my smartphone I surf over the internet, searching a solution for my emptiness. Reading all the tempting articles of smart marketeers, I get sooo tired! I put away my cell phone and go to bed. I am done!

I pull the blankets over my head, hoping for a decent night of sleep: I don’t get enough rest from my sleep nowadays. I lose energy and don’t know why. Restlessly I turn from one side to the other. I turn and turn and…

… a great wheel appears. Next to it stands a man with red flaming hair. He shouts at me:
“Grabbing, blabbing, dabbling, fun and grief, I sell rescue, salvation and relief.” Then he approaches me and looks me right in the eyes:
“Are you a player, a seeker, a hunter? I offer excitement and sensation. The arrow of my Wheel of Fortune will point out your newest passion. As special offers I have now:

  • “Eternal beauty.”
    He shows me a movie wherein a surgeon does a major renovation on the body of an unconscious patient.
  • “Paranormal abilities, a golden business, good for great fame! No diplomas required and the product is everything you can imagine.”
  • “Wild sex, also immensely popular!”
    He looks at me squinting and I hear him wheezing.
    “Go on the internet, do as if you want a relation and bingo! From one to the other, piece of cake!”

He gives a swing to the wheel and I feel my mind starting to swirl. With bouncing heart I call out: “I am done with all the fake! I am disgusted by plastic imitation antlers and false gemstones. I have followed so many happiness courses, only to find out that everyone acts as if.”
I grab the nasty chap at his lapels and shake him up: “I search the pearls between the swine, do they exist?”

Then I hear a voice echoing: “Don’t let yourself be distracted by the Wheel of Fortune. Ignore the pointer towards the fake reality, focus on the axis of the wheel!”
Then a cute little girl with two pony tails comes hopping from the centre.
“Have you forgotten about me? I am knocking in your heart.”
“Why are you lost?”
“Because you joined the hide and seek game and let yourself become blindfolded.”
“How do I find you?”
“Only if you say goodbye to your sweetie: if you want to find me, first of all Narcissus must die!”
“Narcissus…  that Greek hero who fell in love with his mirror image?”
“Yep”, the child giggles, “he lets himself become enchanted by the as-if game.”

Then the voice echoes again. “To find her back, you need to detox. You have become severely addicted to all the window dressing. This is a form of environmental pollution, a lunacy caused by THE great spiritual disease of our time: capitalism. Only when you get off this enslavement, you will discover what is real.”

I look at the girl and ask her: “How do I do this, is there any help available to achieve this?”
“You will find me again when you let yourself being touched at the right place,” and with her little finger she points at my heart and says: Click here!

 

Schone Schijn

Turend op mij smartphone surf ik over internet naar een oplossing voor mijn leegte. Als ik stuit op het zoveelste wervende artikel van een slimme marketeer zakt de moed me in de schoenen. Ik word hier zó moe van. Ik leg mijn smartphone weg en ga naar bed; ik ben er klaar mee!

Ik trek de dekens over mij heen, hoop dat ik fatsoenlijk slaap: ik rust niet meer goed uit ‘s nachts: ik verlies energie en weet niet waaraan. Onrustig draai ik van de ene zij op de andere, vind mijn draai niet, draai en ….

… er verschijnt een groot rad. Ernaast staat een man met vlammend haar. Hij roept;
“Graaien, snaaien, raaien, vermaak, vertier, alle redding vind je hier!” stapt op me af en kijkt me recht in de ogen:
“Ben jij een speler, een zoeker, een jager? Ik bied spanning en sensatie. De pijl van mijn Rad van Avontuur wijst jouw nieuwste passie aan. In de aanbieding zijn;

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The Tarot and the Earthlight

While I am developing the Tarot Cards, I collect notes from everywhere. I have got several notebooks full with drawings, exercises and realizations. While I am working at each card I do experiments, I test every working.

It is a very inspiring journey for me, with a lot of unexpected adventures and realizations. I discover a wealthy world full of gems; hidden wisdom, a richness described in many sacred texts. In even my wildest dreams I never thought of being able to dig that up in myself.

The wealth that I reveal is far more rich than I dared to dream of before I started this journey. I discovered the Earthlight, a priceless treasure that illuminates every aspect of life and reveals the sacred spiritual teaching in every thing and in every being, a secret jealously guarded by the initiates of all ages …

 

Copycats

As an author I regularly notice how other people sometimes use my texts without giving me the credits for it. In some cases complete pages are copied and pasted without naming me as the source. The copycats think they are smart but they don’t realise that the energy is not the same when they re-use my energy.

The creative process is unique per definition. Without connecting to your own roots and sources, the end result looks twisted and unreal.

I give myself solace with the knowledge that there is nothing compatible with the creative process itself. The ability to reach those heights of inspiration, the experiences of exalting beauty that it raises. The changes in your inner world that it causes, the inner ritches, happiness, beauty inside. The outer work is but a residue of what happens on the inside. That is something no one can steal. The knowledge of how to get to that inner place is the real secret, because you connect you to a source inside that cannot dry out; that knowledge can never be stolen, it can only be achieved by work, work, work!

 

Don’t look back!

Today I am preparing the upcoming Temple Training. It is such a joy to be able to dig so intensively in beauty, because coming Sunday we will be investigating the Orphic Path; the Orphic Path is the spiritual path that works with beauty, nature symbolism and art.

Among the Western Mysteries there are beautiful mythological stories that contain hidden shamanistic techniques. The stories are world famous, but their transformational powers are forgotten by the greater public.

The stories are very evocative and that is the reason why great artists took them as their source of inspiration to create the most beautiful art: here the line between temple work and theatre becomes very thin. An example of such a story is Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck wrote an opera around this ancient Greek myth.

Coming Sunday we are going to work with this beautiful story. I will be explaining the magical technique that is hidden in the story and we will work with it. I call this type of work Transpersonal Magic; it is a crossover between modern therapeutically techniques with ancient magical healing techniques.

The picture above is taken at a performance of Orfeo ed Euridice, it is taken when the Dance of the Furies was performed. Orfeo meets them in the underworld on his search for his beloved deceased Euridice. They challenge him to face his own fears. Something we also need to do when we want to outgrow our blockages.

When he finally has freed his beloved Euridice from the Underworld the most dangerous and difficult challenge needs to be over won;
Don’t look back, don’t look back, don’t look back!

When you are curious about this work, you can apply for an introduction meeting here

The start of my pilgrimage

At this moment I am working at the Magical Treasures of the Cave of the Fool – The Child from the Deep Waters. I am gathering my information, desciding on the material to create the Fool’s magical pouch. Everything is quiet around me, I experience a serene rest, the right circumstances to do creative work and becoming absorbed in the magical process of contacting the right energies.

‘Do you want to visit a village?’ my husband invites me to go for a walk.
I think I can need a distraction, creating these boxes is most of the time an inside job, in the house and in a visionairy state. I could use some fresh air and a nice walk to stretch my muscles.
‘Where do you want to go?’ I ask him.
‘I have heard that Ghent is a beautiful mediaeval city, I would like to visit it’.
‘That sounds interesting’, I answer and off we go.

Ghent is at a 1,5 hours distance from Rotterdam. We go there on a windy sunny day. We walk around in the center and along the canals. We admire the old fashioned houses, windows beautifully decorated with statues; what a love these ancient builders put into their work. I realise that this was made by hand and only with very primitive materials.

Along the walk the thought crosses my mind whether this small journey will give me additional information about the tarotcard The Fool and about the Cave: The Child of the Deep Waters.
‘I will show you, don’t worry’, a trusted voice speaks in my head.
‘Now I am really curious’, I think, I cannot imagine what He has planned.

We walk along the canals, we visit the old castle in the middle of the town. In my mind I fill in the details in every room; this is where they had dinner, this is where they stored their food. I see how it was both a place for a family to live, and a fortification for the village to offer shelter in times of an attack. Going down the dungeons I discover the reason why the tourist shop of the castle sells little ghosts; my god this place is haunted!

Then we sit down near the Fish Market to drink a cup of coffee and I point out to my husband the beautiful statue of Poseidon with his Dolphins.

‘Still no Fool’, I think…
‘Don’t underestimate me,’ the answer is.

We continue our walk, now on the way back to pick up the car, when a strong ghust of wind pushes us around a corner. Then I see it, the Mason’s Guild Hall, with on the roof ….. my eyes become big, I gasp for breath, feel goose bumps all over:
‘Is six fools dancing on the wind enough confirmation for you? Count on it, the Cave is activated.’ and I hear a hilarious laughter.

More about Bees

Today I am contemplating the quality of the materials I am going to use for my products in the Magical Treasure Boxes. I am looking at my stock of beeswax. This is such an interesting material; by choosing this for some of the items, I support the bees and the people who take care of them. The question I am asking myself is: ‘Can I avoid the use of lesser quality materials such as palm oil?’ The demand for palmoil is one of  the reasons why big companies are cutting down rain forests and cause gorilla’s to loose their natural habitat.

The choice of materials is a delicate balance between availability, quality and price. But it is also a statement. If it is true that big companies are overtaking the power of governments, then you vote as a consumer in the supermarket, with your wallet: instead of at the elections. This is something I am very conscious about.

I think the temples should pay attentention to environmental issues because we work with nature symbolism. We read about the ancient methods of producing products where spirituality and sustainability was an integrated part of the production of goods: Ora et Labora, pray and work at the same time.

Yes we can use the cheep paraffin tealights in our ceremonies, they also produce beautiful light. But where and when is it possible to make better choices? Maybe we need to do this step by step, research what the better choice is, and if affordable make the nature friendly choice.

So I decided to approach this issue with a little affirmation in my head:

I MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE CHOICE
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I AM IN,
AND TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE

I am very curious to hear from you if you recognize this dilemma in your life and how you deal with it?

 

 

The Golden Veil

Today I will be working at the development of the tarotcard the Fool. The Cave of the Fool is connected to Air of the Wise. I always associate Air of the Wise to the Golden Breath. The Golden Breath is an experience; you experience it at those moments, that it is as if a golden glow illuminates everything that is valuable to you. When this happens, life is good, mysterious, meaningful and beautiful. It is a sign of health; did you know that the psychologist Maslow investigated this? He called these moments ‘peak experiences’, and stated that the more healthy people are, the more often they have peak experiences. Magicians know that you can train your mind to luxate peak experiences at will.

The Child from the Deep Waters

I am very happy with wat came with the post. I ordered some super high quality prints of my tarot card The Fool. The images are printed on alluminium and are going to serve as votive images in my second Magical Treasure Box.

One by one I peel off the protecting foil and I take them to my altar to consecrate them. After I have done that I put a wax seal on them and sign them.

 

Inspiration comes from the Deep Within

Awaken from the dull state:
Collect your peak moments daily,
as if they are precious flowers.
This will turn your life into a place of beauty,
and you become aware
Of the Presence of the Spirit of the Deep.

Ina Custers-van Bergen

 

 

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How to create your way?

QUESTION TO YOU;
I am very curious; what are your sources of inspiration and power? For me personally it is digging into the old mysteries and live them. Every day – no matter what I need to do – I spend half an hour to meditate upon the old Wisdom Texts and I integrate the outcome of my realisations in my life.

The Doors of Wonder

DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS?
I experience these moments as true divine gifts: suddenly the world shows its beauty. I have those moments when I am writing, when I am creating art, in ritual, outside in nature. ..

Do you recognise this, when the doors of beauty open? I am really curious to learn how you experience this or what happens to you when those doors are locked…

Superheroes and superpowers

As I wrote earlier, the emphasis on historical research causes us to underestimate the influence of art in modern magic. Nowadays …we regard the great myths as fantasies and children’s stories. But these great stories of the past and present are full of applied magic and teach us about the superpowers one can activate during the process of magical development.

The eastern traditions talk about the ‘Siddhis’, in Western Magic these powers belong to superheroes, who teach us about superpowers that every human being can access. You read about them in almost every magical story: powers like invisibility, telekinesis and the capacity to heal from a deadly wound. The power of these stories is that they stretch the imagination in situations where you could do with these superpowers. They influence the subconscious mind and cause you to recover from even the toughest challenges.

The subconscious mind is the hidden steering mechanism of our entire being, the part that determines all automatic body processes and unconscious choices you make in your life. The superheroes from the magical stories teach this important part of your being. The capacity to relate to the superheroes enables you to unlock these super powers in times you need them. Magic is the art to access these superpowers and unleash the superhero in you.

Do you want to take a look behind our temple doors and learn more about magic and mysticism? Read more here (in Dutch).

Are you a Seeker or a Finder?

In a previous blog I told my most important tip for a spiritual training: Find a spiritual trainer who works within a tradition. But there are some pitfalls along the way. How to avoid these?

 

When you take your spiritual quest seriously, you don’t want to waste time and money by getting lost on an vague market!
A lot of spirituality that is offered resembles a film set. The appearance is wonderful, but behind the front door, there is no deeper knowledge. As a spiritual seeker you can get lost here, going from one setting to the other, and disappointed leaving the set time and again. Many people end their search thinking than that it’s all fake.

 

Why is there so little knowledge about spirituality?

Both in the Eastern and Western traditions the temples were always closed. You could only get access by successfully passing the first test: ‘To Know, To Will, To Dare and to be Silent.’
‘We shed no pearls before swine‘, was the overall view, and only the ones who showed the right character, got access to real knowledge. That knowledge gives power and should not end up in the wrong hands.

 

Searching Platform 9 ¾

The Eastern temples started from the 70 ‘s to give out their knowledge. The Western Temples open their doors for about twenty years now. Finding a Western Mystery Temple is difficult when you don’t know the criteria to distinguish fake from genuine. It equals searching for platform 9 ¾, without knowing it exists. That is an impossible task, you cannot conjure (yet)?

 

Stop seeking, start finding.

  1. Research whether there are older books available about your area of interest, books from before the 1960s. Between 1850 and 1960 the first adepts published since long time. They are sometimes thick incomprehensible books. The issue now is not that you understand the content, but to find out whether they exist, and that your learn to know the names of people who wrote them.
  2. That generation trained students to grow into adepts. This generation adepts distributed knowledge about the practical techniques, through workshops and training seminars. Their names became public between 1950 and 2000.
  3. Today, the next generation adepts has started to build training institutes, they are professionalizing the spiritual training.

For a seeker this makes it easy to identify where potential teachers have trained themselves, and what level of training they hold. There are big differences between teachers. Based on this information you can make your choice, so that you become a finder.

PS. Platform 9 3/4 is the place from where Harry Potter left for Hogwarts School. It is located at Kings Cross Station in London.

 

Experiencing the Mysterious

I hear a lot of people who long to have ‘something more’ in their lives. They are unable to explain what exactly is lacking; but there is that longing, that desire to get more from your life than working, eating and sleeping.

In order to experience this mysterious depth you need to develop some skills that are potentially present in everyone. Developing these senses for the mysterious depths in life is comparable with learning to play a musical instrument or to start a sport: in the beginning it is complicated to get the hang of it and you can easily get lost in the chaotic offers on the social media. A lot of people don’t realize this. Out of ignorance they choose the most easy way and find … entertainment and fantasy.

Searching a genuine and trustworthy training

On the internet the lame help the blind and answer FAQs, thus adding to the confusion. You can find superficial and simple exercises everywhere, but how to get to the life changing experiences which are described by mystics and magicians? And the most important question is ‘Can I get those experiences myself?’

The answer is: YES you can! Assuming that you train your potential talent in a systematic way. These methods have been passed on over generations in spiritual traditions.

Profundity you learn in a spiritual tradition

Spiritual traditions consist of the knowledge that our ancestors discovered in all previous centuries. Generations before us have discovered how a spiritual development unfolds in stages. They figured out where you need to start, how to build further, how to get intensification and growing depth, how to use the training to improve your daily life? A spiritual tradition leads you through these phases. Within a tradition the teachers know in what stage you are, and how you can proceed safely and quickly. A spiritual training is similar to learning a skill or a craft; the more work you put into it, the better you get … as long as you learn from craftsmen.

Surfing on the internet you will discover a lot of different types of spirituality in a superficial way. When you want to go deeper, you need to choose a tradition. With the help of a proven method you will discover the hidden beauty and the depths of your soul.

In LVX
Ina Custers-van Bergen

PS. When you want to know more about the spiritual training in a Western Mystery School, read more about it here or you can email me.

The Vision behind the Temple of Starlight

Years ago I was trained in a spiritual organization by a teacher that was loved intensely by the students. I found that a privilege, and I learned very much. Then the time came to continue my journey. With all the spiritual fruits I had harvested, I raised the Temple of Starlight as an independent training institute. It is PARTLY based on the teachings of my previous school, but also on my work as coach and therapist in the past.

Because of this background I implemented some fundamental changes, which are often misunderstood by the community. I want to explain my vision in a series of short articles. The first important difference in vision is:

 

SPIRITUAL WORK IS NOT A RACE.

There is no winner holding the cup and being applauded. There is no end goal, only personal improvement. That means that the route through the temple is not a race for the top, it is not a competition. The initiation degrees are no diplomas but a recognition of a specific INNER STATE of development, that can be achieved by every individual by inner WORK.

A spiritual trainer helps you to find that inner state of grace, by offering feedback and exercises you need to get to the next level, and helps you preventing losing time by making you aware where you walk astray.

When you start, you begin at that point in your live where you are NOW. Spiritual training aims to improve the quality of that NOW by transpersonal methods, that have been passed on since ancient Egypt, and were always adapted to the Spirit of the Time when the ages passed by.

That means that a teacher cannot be a guru. A healthy institute is built around the needs of students. That is why I don’t call myself a teacher, but a trainer. This also implies that there is practical work involved. Practical work that needs to be done by the trainee and that needs to be overseen by those who reached the inner states of richness you want to achieve. The more you put into it, the more you will benefit and harvest the fruits.

 

WORSHIPPING OTHERS OR BLAMING OTHERS ARE LOSER SCRIPTS!!!

Spiritual training is about YOU, how you improve your life with the help of ancient methods. It is about how you use the experiences life offers you to grow. Worshipping others, or blaming others are parts of the same coin; they are loser scripts!!! The Mysteries are about training yourself to a state of inner richness, that enables you to meet your own needs and even surpass them and help others to achieve the same.

By worshipping or blaming others you give away your power, in the hope someone else rescues you; you get stuck in the victim role. The Mysteries are about KNOW YOURSELF. Spiritual work is most of all WORK.

 

THE MILK OF THE GODDESS

In our modern days we can buy everything instant and ready. Seekers for spiritual enlightenment start their journey and expect to get Milk from Goddess with a consumerism attitude. They look for teachers or products who personify Her warm embrace, in the hope that it brings that spiritual state of inner richness, completeness and safety. They will end up disappointed and bitter. Why? I will reveal Her biggest secret; the Goddess does not spoon-feed, she helps you to raise your inner child to provide for yourself.

 

MY QUESTIONS TO YOU

What are your expectations from the spiritual path? What do you want to achieve for yourself and why do you think spiritual development is the answer to that question? I love to hear from you.

In LVX
Ina

 

Frog logics

Are you curious to learn how frogs try to reach Illumination? Then read my parable … enjoy!

It is silent in the frog pool, nothing happens there. Frogs live in murky muddy pools with standing water. But when there is no flow, the plants start to rot and the air begins to stink! The problem with this particular pool is: there is no light there! Thus the frogs organize a board meeting and decide to send an explorer into the wide world to look for a solution bring life into the pool.

The top frog – let’s call him Toad – volunteers to leave the pool. He crosses the reed fields to search for light and flow. Bravely he crosses the meadows and hops to the city, carefully avoiding dogs and cats. The city is but a desert of stone, full of stressed people. Dark clouds gather together when poor Toad desperately jumps further and further from home, in search for light.

Suddenly he sees a very sunny and bright place. He decides to knock at the temple doors where the Mages work. His tiny little brain starts to work like a little engine: “What if I steal some of their light!” The idea is so appealing that it sends shivers through his green slithery body. He decides to buy their course in Magic of the Light, in the hope this will enable him to take some light home to the frog pool.

Poor, poor Toad, he got really disappointed, because everyone knows it is not possible to steal light!!! True illumination does not come from reading books. True illumination comes from the inside out! It is the result of a good heart, compassion and hard work. On top of that, Toad finds out to his horror, that he cannot not bear the light! His eyes hurt, his stomach cramps together; he lived too long in a murky pool… On top of that his groins hurt from hopping for sooo long and traveling so far… He realizes that he has no option but to return to his pool as quickly as possible, without having achieved his mission.

Jumping back through the reed fields, the consequences of his failure painfully dawn on him. He realizes that, returning to the pool without any results whatsoever, would mean a big Mark of Infamy on his ego. His eyebrows rise, his heart shrinks. The next realization makes him shriek: “This can backfire on me; it can cost my position in the pool!!!”

So hopping home, Toad broods over a plan. He is exhausted, his skin is full of blasters, he almost got roasted by the light. His ego is severely wounded. Then, again, a flash of insight makes his day. “If I cannot steal their light, then let’s bring them down to our level!” Hopping home he broods out an evil plan for his escape…

At his return at the pool all the frogs joyfully greet him. Hopeful; will Toad have found a solution for their suffering? As a hero they receive him. They throw a party where Toad can shine and reveal his new found wisdom, that will redeem them all. Severely hindered by his wounded groin, Toad tries to stride in, but lame he climbs the stage they have prepared for him. He takes out the course book he bought at the mages’ from his rucksack. He coughs to call for a silence, to make his great announcement:

“Dear Fraterfrogs and Sororfrogs, I have conquered the elements, I have visited the Mages of Light. Let me reveal to you; the Light does not exist. I have found proof.” Toad opens the course book: “Look here, I found typos in their course book! Since we have no course books of our own, and thus no typos, We Are Better! Let’s battle those bastards and bring them down!!!”

 

Our debute at Dutch National TV – Iedereen Verlicht – NPO2

Voor mensen die de uitzending van onze samenwerking met NPO2 televisie gemist hebben: hier kun je de opname voor het programma Iedereen Verlicht nogmaals bekijken.

For everyone who wants to see our cooperation with the Dutch National Television (NPO2), here is the video. It will be translated to English soon.

 

The Dance of the Opposites

People constantly try to influence us. In families, in social environments. In electiontime you only need to push a button of some digital screen and the same heads pop up, starting to convince you to vote for them and they try to touch you emotionally. Between religions and philosophical groups the same thing happens; if you belong to ‘the others’, the opposition makes you look bad, mad even dangerous … It is tearing apart, damaging and does not bring anyone any further.

To make sure to get you on their side influencers make look their opposer look as dark as possible. That does not mean that the people who oppose your ideas ARE demons, it only means that the opposing forces are no longer dueling in a fair way. Why does this attract such a public? Why does it touch you? These battles between different ideas or interests are not fought on large podia, on television or on the internet, but right in your heart! The opposers are aspects of yourself and fight inside of you. They represent conflicting aspects of you: they personify your dark and your light sides. In their battles they activate your deepest trauma’s and your most sacred beliefs. They cause you to balance between hope and fear. When the battle of the opposites becomes really nasty only one party loses, and that is the LIGHT.

The past days I have been sitting and meditate how I can maximize my contribution to the Light for the situation I am in at the moment. What choice offers the best fundament for the long future? Or step into middle of the battlefield where the crisis is biggest now….?

 

The Battle for your Mind

Nowadays the Power of Magic is ridiculed by the media and by the masses. But this in itself is a dangerous development because it puts people to sleep while the biggest battle that we will be facing in the coming decennia is starting right now; the Battle for your Mind!
I will explain you why. Magic is the science of influencing and manipulating the powers of the subconscious mind. It has always been used to help people grow, to heal and to educate societies, to waken people up to higher values of life.

Nowadays this power is ridiculed and has come into the hands of advertisers and propagandists. They use our computers and our television screen to broadcast certain ideas into your mind by advertising campaigns. The place of entities is filled with products like M & M’s that jump from your kitchen closet right on your plate. Magical spells are disguised as jingles and songs that link feelings, desires, images together. Like mantras they enter into your subconscious mind at the moment that you are vulnerable; when you rest on your couch after a long day work and open your rest-brain to relaxation and entertainment.

I am very curious to learn if you recognize this because we need to wake up here to reclaim the freedom of our minds.

 

The Multicolored Feathered Horus

In our modern worldview people can easily be manipulated, because they think there is only one truth possible, based on ‘facts’. But people are emotional beings who experience the world differently based on feelings.

Trying to find our way in a confusing world we point our fingers towards others, using old monotheistic concepts of virtues and vices, convicting the other when he or she has a  different opinion. On the background still runs the idea that there is only one truth, leading to a unification by one God.

The Vision of the Mysteries

But this concept causes a lot of friction, the question is; ‘Who is right?’ Whose worldview is the ‘Truth’? The antique societies had a much more intelligent concept. The Egyptian Mysteries worked with a spiritual concept they called the Multicolored Feathered Horus; the God of Light is clothed in all the colors of the light. This creates respect for different roads of development, different opinions, different concepts of Gods and even different Gods and Goddesses.

In our modern times this ancient concept becomes important again. In our age of globalization we need to work with worldviews deriving from different cultures. We need spiritual concepts that allow for different, even contradicting concepts to peacefully coexist and contribute to a better world.

Purification

We live in a world of complementary forces. Opposition not ‘evil’ but necessary, because it creates a dynamic that causes development. Opposing forces test principles, products, ideas and everything grows. This principle used to be called the Tester;

Every concept or building block in our societies improves, when opposing forces discuss, challenge and shake up awareness about the repercussions of new inventions and new ideas. Because of this continuous challenge that takes place both in our souls, in our relationships and in our society, we grow, make better choices and find more sustainable solutions. This principle is called Purification. In the old days Purification was an essential part of spiritual development. According to this principle there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, there is only increasing wisdom based on more knowledge because every new development is severely tested by opposing forces.

What about evil?

In the concept of the Mysteries evil is defined differently. When for example, you continue to use poison in spite of the fact that you are killing all the bees, then you do evil. This is a severe matter, because when the bees become extinct, the entire world will suffer from a food disaster. Things are called  ‘evil’ when three ingredients are present:

  1. It is a matter with severe consequences.
  2. There is consciousness about the gravity of the situation.
  3. There is a conscious choice made of deliberate continuation.

The world-famous mystic and occultist Dion Fortune defined ‘good’ as all the forces that contribute to evolution. She defined ‘evil’ as the opposing forces that lead to evolutionary decay.

Meditation

To attune yourself to the forces of growth and evolution, you can calibrate yourself to patterns that are connected to evolution. In this way these forces will increase in you. To this end you can meditate on the image of a Spiral of Moving Light.

When you like these types of meditations, you could consider enrolling into the Solo Magical Training.

 

 

 

In LVX
Ina Custers van Bergen

The necessity of grounding

In esoteric circles people love to share their knowledge with their peers. Not everyone understands the dynamics of the spiritual principle they are lecturing about. In this way some strange esoteric myths developed over the years. One of these myths is about the necessity of grounding.

It happened years ago, but I remember it vividly; I visited a healer who told me that I was not properly grounded. How he noticed this? I had cold feet and that was because I did not absorb earth-energy properly. That was the cause of my issues. I was flabbergasted and immediately knew that I had been given a complete silly advice.

Do people sometimes tell you that you are not properly grounded? Or did you tell this to someone else? What is being grounded, and what isn’t?

What is ‘being grounded’?

Being grounded means that you are able to translate the fruits of your rich spiritual life into your daily life: into your work, your family, and it reflects the choices that you make.

When you are properly grounded, you ask yourself questions like:

  • Does my day job reflect my your spiritual mission in life?
  • Are the products that I use produced in a sustainable and ethical way?
  • Do the products that I buy help me to realize my spiritual vision.
  • Do you give worth to things that you consider worthwhile?
  • Is my own behavior an example for my vision of how to  interact with people in my environment?
  • What do the events that happen in my life tell me?
  • What lectures do I need to learn?
  • How do I become a better version of yourself, so that you become a more effective channel for the divine?

Being properly grounded means that you not only reach for Heaven, but that you are also rooted in the Earth, and you are actively contributing on making Earth a little bit more like heaven.

 

Magnum Opus

Western Esoterism is not only focused upon Heaven above, but also actively working at the realization of the Heaven inside and the Heaven on Earth.

Spirituality is not an excuse for escapism. It is a system where you can develop yourself esoterically, psychologically and materially, in a way that contributes to making this world a better place. This is called the Magnum Opus, the Great Work. Because you transform yourself by the spiritual process, you transform your life and spiritual forces will materialize through your work. That is grounding!

 

In LVX
Ina Custers van Bergen
Magical Order Temple of Starlight

Do you want to do the Great Work, and better yourself and the world, than the Solo Magical Training might be something for you.

 

Magic isn’t real, or is it?

The famous Paracelsus thought that epilepsy could be cured magically by grinding the horn of a unicorn in a mortar. That is quackery, isn’t it?

For a very long time, important magical books of great scientists gathered dust in the libraries of the World. The magical grimoires from the Middle Ages until the Renaissance lie mostly undiscovered and undervalued in the cellars of our museums. The presumption is that this material is not worthwhile being translated and studied.

The difficulty of these books is that in order to understand them one needs to train different areas of the brain. In our time, the rational side of the brain is trained continuously, the creative part is often neglected. Among the specific skills of the creative brain are all the arts, but also prayer, meditation and ritual. In ancient times these skills were considered to be crucial to understand the reality, to generate healing and receive insight and inspiration about the Divine Nature of the world surrounding us.

Ora Et Labora

These processes were investigated and described by ancient scientists; to understand the books of the Mediaeval Alchemists, Magicians and Astrologers and to benefit from the results of that training, one needs to follow their methods. They searched for the Divine Principle and Pattern of Creation in each and every appearance. Only by following the same methods we will understand the magical connection Paracelsus discovered between epilepsy and a lightning strike, and why he wrote that the cure of this disease was to grind the horn of a unicorn in a mortar.

Everything present in the greater World is not more and not less, also present in the human body. Similar kinds of wood, stone, herbs etc. that are present in the outer world are also present in the human, only not in the same appearance as in the elements…

Whoever is capable of recognizing the appearances in the human body – thus: this is the sapphire in the human, the Mercury, the Cypress, the Flos Cheiri etc – he has studied the book of the human body and seen through it.

Paracelsus

Fortunately the Magical Grimoires are gradually being taken seriously again the last couple of years. But to extract the pearls from the material, it is necessary to push aside the rational mind for a minute, and to train the spiritual side of the brain; to make a shift in consciousness to an ensouled world, and then you will experience that magic is no superstition, but really works!

Meditation

The nature of reality is not material but spiritual. Matter is crystallized consciousness. The Spiritual Vision on reality learns us: God is comatose in stones, asleep in plants, dreams in animals and is awake in humans.

 

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Ina Custers van Bergen

If you are interested in developing these meditation techniques then read more about our Solo Magical Training.

 

A world loaded with … Magic

A world in which unknown forces cause the next events to happen,
A world loaded with … Magic.
When you know how that hidden creative force works, you can master its rules.
Then the Deep will illuminate the wasteland around you,
reveal it’s enchanting beauty
and unlock its hidden mysteries.

David Bowie on Magic

Bowie writes about his experiences with Magic, and tells joking that it actually works 😉

Q: “So were you involved in actual devil worship?”

A: “Not devil worship, no, it was pure straightforward, old-fashioned magic.”

Q: “The Aleister Crowley variety?”

A: “No, I always thought Crowley was a charlatan. But there was a guy called [Arthur] Edward Waite who was terribly important to me at the time. And another called Dion Fortune who wrote a book called ‘Psychic Self-Defense‘. You had to run around the room getting bits of string and old crayons and draw funny things on the wall, and I took it all most seriously, ha ha ha ! I drew gateways into different dimensions, and I’m quite sure that, for myself, I really walked into other worlds. I drew things on walls and just walked through them, and saw what was on the other side!”

-David Bowie, interviewed in NME, 1997

 

The Book of the Caves – Tarot project

As you know when you follow me on Facebook, I am currently working on a tarot deck.
This is a long term project which will develop gradually. During the process of the making, I will publish images of the cards and audio files with related meditations. If you want to listen to the meditations and follow the creation of the Tarot Deck, follow me at the @Western Mystery School group on Facebook and subscribe to my newsletter.

In LVX
Ina Custers-van Bergen

 

 

Angel of Fulfillment – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 31 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Eleventh Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Now you are ready for the step into the New Year,
for ahead of you lies a road of joy!

Now that you are standing exactly at the portal of manifestation
I ask you:
What will you manifest the coming year?
I will now introduce you to the Angel of Fulfillment.

 

 

Angel of Fulfillment

I am the Angel of Fulfillment:
Nothing can be achieved without contemplation,
without decisions, without planning.

Magic really does work
it happens, not because you express a wish,
but because you choose to manifest by your will.

Make this New Year into a Magical New Year,
A year in which you change your life!

 

Angel of the Matrix – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 30 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Tenth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

I have introduced you to one of the most important instruments
of the spiritual art that is called Sacred Magic.

Meditate on the gifts of the angels
and the angels will reveal it to you.
Listen to the Angel of the Matrix.

 

 

Angel of the Matrix

Welcome in my atmosphere.
I hold the matrix of the cosmic pattern of your desire.
When you activate my gift
I take your desire into the Astral light.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration
I bring you the Blessings of the Pattern.

The Tree of Life penetrates deeply in all layers of the Universe.
It holds all the powers of manifestation.
But without desires
nothing can manifest in your life.

Your desires are building blocks.
What do you wish for the world to manifest in 2018?
I invite you to share your insights with the world.

 

Angel of Glory – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 29 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Ninth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Take this offer, and use it as a foundation.
Note that the Tree of Life is in you and around you.
Use its strength constantly and with intent,
These meditations are building blocks;
but you need something more to make them solid.
Meet the Angel of Glory:

 

 

Angel of Glory

Dreams can only become a reality with effort
A dream needs an action in order to manifest.
The first step is to make this dream into a target.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration
I bring you the Blessings of Activity.

Dedicate your personal goals to the service to the unity.
A dedication is a magical tool for the mind.
Formulate in your mind your dedication towards the Good of All.
And share your dedication with the world.

 

Angel of Beauty – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 28 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Eighth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Forgive yourself, and you can forgive others.
Love yourself and you can love others.
Cure yourself, and you can heal others.
Now, cleaned and refreshed,
I introduce you to the Angel of Beauty.

 

 

Angel of Beauty

Welcome in my sphere of love and beauty.
In my sphere everything is possible;
I build landscapes from your desires.
I invite you to establish a sanctuary here that is yours alone.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the Blessings of the Inner Light.
I bring you the Spirit of Unity.
Not only the connectedness between the people,
but also at-oneness with the entire planet.

 

Angel of Purification – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 27 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Seventh Angel of the Turning of the Year.

The next angel that will reveal himself to you
Is the golden Angel of Purification.

 

 

Angel of Purification

I embrace all who are wounded and have pain,
I bring healing, let me comfort you:
I take away your fears, and I clean old wounds.
I lift your mind and spirit.

My gentle touch initiates a beneficial healing,
there is no need for tears, no need for sorrow or regret.
I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the Blessings of Healing;
I love you and I embrace you with the Mantle of Love
I teach you to judge with your heart and the power of humanity!

I clean you from everything of which you think to be guilty.
There is nothing stronger than love.
I am love and light, I am the way forward.

Give me one thing that you want become free of
and I will accept this.
I would like to invite you to share your love with the world.

 

Angel with the flaming Torch – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 26 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Sixth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

It’s gift is Memory,
Look, it carries a torch.
Learn how to use this powerful tool, and it will serve you well.
Prepare yourself because now you come face to face
with the Angel of the Flaming Torch:

 

 

The Angel with the flaming Torch

Be blessed, I bring you light.
I lighten up the caves of memories,
which you have deep shelved.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the blessings of clear judgment.
I am the guardian of the thoughts that you have hidden deep within yourself
Follow me and I will lighten up the dark places
where the Inner Light appears to be hidden.

Open up these caves to the Light of the Spirit,
let my torch lighten the memories that are hidden behind the doors.
Do not be afraid to take a look, for my gift is Balance.

 

Angel of Mercy – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 25 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Fifth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

See how the doors between the worlds are now completely open,
hear how the trumpets shout!
The bridge between the worlds is build from pure light!
And on that wave of light
the Angel of Mercy brings his gifts to the world.

 

 

Angel of Mercy

I bring you the Breath of Divinity:
the power to build in thoughts and ideas.
The development of humanity has my special attention.
Together we build the Castle of Potentialities.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the ability to rebuild your life.
Every building block is created from your memories,
every flush connects the blocks with love.

I bring you the power to build your highest aspiration.
My gift to the world is Mercy.
I would like to invite you to share your mercy with the world,

join me in the Great Invocation of the Light:

 

The Great Invocation[1]

From the Point of Light within the Spirit of the Deep
Let light stream forth into human minds.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of the Spirit
Let love stream forth into human hearts.
May the Becoming One return to Earth.

From the center of the Web where the Will of the All is known
Let purpose guide the little human wills –
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the center which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power
restore the Plan on Earth.

[1] The original version of the Great Invocation of Alice A. Bailey is slightly modernised by Ina Cüsters

Angel of Connectedness – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 24 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Fourth Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Today is the day of the Sacred Change
The Holy Night when the Sacred Chalice
pours out its blessings over the world.

Watch how a bridge forms between the worlds
See how the Spiritual Worlds and the Earth are connected
Realize that the past and the future are one.
See how the Angel of Connectedness
Crosses this bridge and walks towards you.

 

 

Angel of Connectedness

I am the Angel of Wisdom
I carry a chalice with me.
It is filled with seven colors of light.
It carries the potential of all that will manifest.
I in order to fulfill bring your hope and dreams,
I collect your longings and your desires.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the Blessings of the Grail:
the power to build your life from your highest aspiration!
My gift to the world is Wisdom.

 

Angel who collects Sorrow and Fear – Angels of the Turning of the Year

December 23 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Third Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Today, the powers to change are at their full strength.
This it is the sacred day
of the Great Mother of the Cosmos.
She blesses Her Creation,
and She sends down the Angel with her Mantle of Love
and instructs it to collect all Sorrows and fears.

 

 

Angel who collects Sorrow and Fear

I am the Angel of Understanding,
I give the gift of reflecting of the last year.
Nothing that has happened can be undone,
nothing that has happened can be changed.

My secret name is regret.
You cannot change what has been done,
but you can learn from it
and choose differently in the future.

I am the Angel who cleanses the world from desecration,
I bring you the gift of the flaming heart.
The power to prevent what has gone wrong!
My gift to the world is Understanding
and the embracement by the Mantle of Love.

 

Angel of the Proclamation – Angels of the Turning of the Year

These are the dark days. This is a time of contemplation. Look back on the harvest of last year, evaluate what is important, look ahead and formulate good intentions.

 

December 22 of the year 2017.

At this day, I, the Archangel Gabriel, introduce the Second Angel of the Turning of the Year.

Watch how I open the Portals of Heaven even further.
Do you hear the sounds of joy?
I introduce you to the Angel of the Proclamation.
This Angel will broadcast the birth of the New Light
with a Wave of Jubilations.
He has a personal message for you,
and a message for all:

 

 

Angel of the Proclamation

I proclaim the message for the coming year.
My wisdom comes to you in many ways;
hear my message in the wisdom of strangers,
become aware of my presence through written texts
feel my presence in the silence of your heart.

I am the Angel who cleans the world from desecration
I take with me your despair and fear.
Listen to me; I can speak to you through the sounds of nature,
I am the Angel with the Vision of the Future.

Be quiet, listen and watch.
My gift to the World is the realization of its perfection.

 

Winter Solstice – Angels of the Turning of the Year

Today is the day of the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year. The last few months we at the Northern hemisphere have witnessed the light decreasing. We all experienced the Wild Hunt, that army of ghostly supernatural huntsmen who blow their energies over our lands with the Winds of the autumn storms.

These natural phenomena affect our personal lives and force us to go inside of ourselves and contemplate on the choices we are making.

On a planetary scale we all face the misbalance of the planet; the climate change, the devastation of our fellow human beings, subject to earthquakes, super hurricanes, forests aflame with huge wild fires. We see people who lose everything they own. Still war victims leave their home country in a mass migration and undertake that devastating journey, in the hope for better circumstances.

Other people face their fears of not being able to cope with an influx of a cultural group with different ethical standards, they are afraid for their jobs, their future, their children’s future. A lot of people feel manipulated by their governments; we pay them to serve the Good of All. We hire them to protect our interests and our human rights. People feel that political systems have become corrupted, Big Money pulling the strings and laying the business risk on the population. Some of us become victims of the increasing decline of our cultural values in the naming and shaming of good an innocent people on the internet …

The Battle for your Light

We run the risk to be ruled by fear. The forces of Light and Darkness battle for your Inner Light! As a spiritual teacher I live in this world and I am subject to the same forces. I say that together we can change the outcome, starting with making changes in our own lives. The worldwide misbalance on all the fronts has one common force that we can influence on an individual basis; and that by concentrating on OUR HUMANITY. We hold the keys of that force in our hands.
So let us start to empower the connection on the level of HUMANITY and UNITY OF THE PLANET as a LIVING ORGANISM. At this longest night of the year we sow the seed of GROWING INNER LIGHT.

 

The Angels of the Turning of the Year

The Angels of the Turning of the Year will deepen our insight and help us to carry our intentions to raise our Inner Light and carry the Seed of Humanity to the hearts of our fellow human beings and offer it as inspiration. Join us and you will be able to formulate your best wishes for the coming year. Let me introduce you to the Angels of the Turning of the Year:

 

Today it is December 21 of the year 2017. Winter Solstice.

At this Yule day, I, Archangel Gabriel, I blow the horn of Annunciation that opens the Portals of Heaven. I have a very special message for you:

We are now amidst of the darkest part of the year,
approaching the turning of the year.
In these days we celebrate the return of the Sun.
I have some questions for you to reflect on:

What was your contribution for the community this year?
What do you want to invest in the people around you in the year to come?
What community goals do you want to take with you to the next year?
And what energies inside of you do you want to discharge?

In order for you to welcome the New Year:
clean yourself from all impurities and fears.
Thus you will be free to fully embrace the new challenges:

I invite you to welcome the Angels of the Turning of the Year.
Invoke them, and empower the world!
Invite them, and they will add their blessings to the new Time Spirit.

Today I introduce you to the first of a series of eleven angels.
I open the Gates of Blessings for you;
welcome the Guardian Angels of  the New Light!

Let me introduce to you the first one of these powerful angels.

 

Angel of the New Light

Welcome dear souls,
I am the angel who ignites the New Light.
I bring the new Light of the Year to the Earth.
With it, I light the Light of Reflection in you.
I bring both promise and hope.

I clean the world from desecration
I take with me your despair.
I illuminate the Light of Humanity of the coming year on Earth.

I bring you a present: your new Book of Wisdom.
Open it and fill with new goals and new insights.

My gift to the Planet is the realization of its sacredness.
I invite you to meditate on my gift …

The Mages

The temple community consists of trainees and initiates of different degrees.
Initiates serve as models for every member of the group to create awareness of ideal archetypes. The functions – not the people themselves – serve as transpersonal models for development of every member. These projections are part of the initiation process, called the “Illumination of the Interior Stars”, which I describe in my book “The Mystery of the Sea”.
Initiating trainees indiscriminately leads to ego-inflation and chaos  because the people who hold the grades need to be able to carry the load of the archetype and must be able to teach by example.

Ina Custers

 

Deep Night

While the World sleeps I float through the streets at night
Throwing billions of sparks around me
Bejewel the blackened sky
sew them as diamonds on my black mantle.

Thus I create that Mystical Space to give the Inner Self a Universe to fill:
with expectations, ripenings and potential.

For I am the Keeper of the darkened Gateways
of deeper and truer Understanding
As the Mother of Sleep, of Dreams and Death,
I separate Time and create the Immortal Hour
that Magical Space of Mythical Atonement.

(Ina Custers – The Body of Osiris)

 

The Deep

How do you experience your life?
As a wasteland, a barren place where nothing can flourish?
A place of constant trauma where you roll every day into the next drama?
Then come with me on a journey; I invite you to visit the Deep.

The Deep… a place that is not a place.
A force that reacts on our behaviour, desires and dreams
The Deep organizes the world around us.
creates events based on blockages, suppressed emotions and fears.
on wishes, dreams and ideals.

A world in which unknown forces cause the nexts events to happen,
A world loaded with … Magic
When you know how that hidden creative force works, you can master its rules.
Then the Deep will illuminate the wasteland around you,
reveal it’s enchanting beauty
and unlock its hidden mysteries.

(Ina Custers – The Enchanted Land)

 

White Lady

Flying away from the world I meet twilight’s dream;
The White Lady leads me to the forest fen
Illuminates my face and reflects me in Moonlight.

Where does she come from and where does she lead me?
She is neither human, nor night itself,
woven from ancestral memories and veils of fog.

She floats in misty fields, causes whisperings in nightly stillness:
“Remember me from long ago, I awaken you for lucid dreams
and open the Gates to the Otherworldly Magical Nights.”

(Ina Custers – The Body of Osiris)

 

Eternal Eye

I am the Everlight, the Eye of Timeless Space,
Constant and immortal, white and bright.
No shade has force to bind down my might.
I reclaim my Throne, and poor down a golden beam
Create the Shining Stairway seen by Jacob in his dream.
Set foot on that path of light, I open it in your heart,
I cause the frozen to evaporate,
the buried truth and cracked values.
I bring out your inner glow,
Emerge as I ascend!

(Ina Custers – The Body of Osiris)

 

Light

When the world is still In the darkness,
I lay on my dewy bed
My rosy cheeks glister with early morning dew.
I feel the blood-dimmed tide is loosed
and the ceremony of innocence begins:
The darkness drops and birth blood fills the sky.
I feel It is moving slowly now,
passing the gate in between my thighs.
a chorus of morning leaves sets in
and all nature starts to sing.
I catch It, wrap It carefully in my multicolored robes
Then, with a radiating gaze
It ascends the Golden Stairway

(Ina Custers-van Bergen – The Body of Osiris)

 

THE DREAM

This morning I had a lucid dream. A very familiar voice was talking to me: it was the voice of the Inner Plane Teacher that I work with most often. He took me to a very special place and started a very serious conversation with me…

You have to understand that the teachings of the Magical Order Temple of Starlight are deeply rooted in the Western Mystery Tradition. They are based on the teachings of the adepts that went the journey before me. They are based on the teachings of the teachers who went before me and the school I was trained in. But ten years ago, yes almost exactly ten years ago now, I was called by Him who is the Contact of the magical tradition; there was important work that needed to be brought through.

The Teachings that he communicated through me come from what we call the ‘Inner Planes’. They come from a Field of Wisdom that one can learn gradually to tap into. These Wisdom Fields exist for all professions. They are the planes where Mozart listened to his new compositions and where Einstein received his relativity theory.

Over the years the Teachings came through like the creation of a series of Art Nouveau paintings. First the visions came, together with auditory teachings in deep meditations. They were followed by studies like sketches in notebooks, translated into rituals and retreats. I often felt I was the canvas being prepared. Like a painting, series of single Teachings developed after a lot of sketches and studies.

Working for many years, testing and dismissing, the final forms started to take shape. The various teachings turned out to be different aspects of one big diamond with many facets that needed to be brought through and understood in their associations, correlations and their multi-layered nature. All the Inner Plane work needed to be tested by me and a group of very devoted and trained Adepts; we have been working on that for many years…

 

 

Then last night I received this dream. He called me to follow him to that place on the Inner Planes where the Book of Wisdom is always opened at the right page. We went through the entire teaching model, flipped through the pages of all the stages of development and then He said:

“The time has come to explain more about the work we have been doing, to a wider audience”. I was really flabbergasted; for the last 20 years he has emphasized to keep the teachings of the Magical Order Temple of Starlight Under the Rose. Now He asks me to start lifting tips from the Veil! So that is where I am right now… in my mind and heart I am looking a bit confused in all directions. Feeling strongly that I need to test these unknown waters …

 

In LVX
Ina Custers van Bergen

 

The taboo on practical magic

In esoteric circles there exist strong cultural blockages … that make spiritual people powerless. To what extend are these ideas helpful? Or are they blocking us?  A common idea that I hear very often in spiritual circles is;

You are not allowed to use spiritual energy for yourself or to achieve mundane goals. Spiritual forces are meant to be used pure and unselfishly for the wellbeing of others. Otherwise you abuse your forces and go downhill into black magic …

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