{"id":4772,"date":"2017-12-27T23:14:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2017-12-27T23:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:14:57","slug":"meditative-acts-day-10-baphomet-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/27\/meditative-acts-day-10-baphomet-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditative Acts: Day 10: Baphomet 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s meditations opened up the second phase of my meditative acts: devotional ritual and prayer to the distinctly post-modern god\/dess Baphomet.\u00a0 If linear time were a thing, we would say that the god Baphomet began as an accusation whispered against the Templars — possibly a French bastardization of “Mohammed”.\u00a0 The goat-headed androgyne we recognize today was first attested by Eliphas Levi.\u00a0 (See Wikipedia<\/a> for the short version; enjoy your conspiracy-greased rabbit hole of choice thereafter.)\u00a0 Levi was, in fact, my first encounter with Baphomet — Doctrine and Ritual of Trancendental Magic was one of the first magical books I ever bought — but, like much of the world, my relationship with the god owes more to Peter Carroll’s “Mass of Chaos B”, as presented in Liber Null & Psychonaut.<\/em><\/p>\n

I built the altar slowly over the course of the day, but I inevitably found myself fussing with it throughout the evening’s meditations, trying to attune it so as to best please the god.<\/p>\n

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As I had planned from the outset, I opened my week devoted to Baphomet by returning to Carroll’s “Mass…”\u00a0 The effects were, in some ways, less spectacular than the last times I performed the rite.\u00a0 At the same time, I think my magickal voltmeter might be calibrated somewhat differently since then, and I now have an established relationship with the god, making a dramatic reveal on zir part somewhat unnecessary.\u00a0 The rite completed, I lit my candle and sat to listen.<\/p>\n

Four things stood out.<\/p>\n

Firstly, Baphomet’s presence in the room was far more immanent than that of Dionysos.\u00a0 Not that the god was closer, per se, but perhaps that zie had less distance to travel?<\/p>\n

Secondly, I was informed that tomorrow night’s meditation is to be a return (again) to DDRH’s Baphomet Ritual.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thirdly, I as I was meditating I became\u00a0acutely aware<\/em> of the attention of the other magical masks hanging in my altar room.\u00a0 I’m really really not sure what to do with that.\u00a0 Hopefully clarity will come with time?<\/p>\n

Finally, sitting still for that lone is getting much easier very quickly.\u00a0 So, something of a victory there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s meditations opened up the second phase of my meditative acts: devotional ritual and prayer to the distinctly post-modern god\/dess Baphomet.\u00a0 If linear time were a thing, we would say that the god Baphomet began as an accusation whispered against the Templars — possibly a French bastardization of “Mohammed”.\u00a0 The goat-headed androgyne we recognize today … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,328,332,331],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-baphomet","tag-do-magick","tag-do-magick-challenge","tag-meditative-acts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1eY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4774,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}