Introduction & Premise
As much as books are useful, one must always remember that all mystical knowledge emerged from somewhere, or more specifically, someone. What many on this site consider "Valid and citable sources" are simply other occultists who have gained prominance for recording and sharing their own personal insights and coinage.
My purpose in this coven was to find a sanctuary to share my most heartful discoveries and realizations in this existential mess that we call reality, and this would be the place where said sharing might just reside.
I call this place in virtual space the Book of Madness because the very moment anything is associated with madness it becomes a work of art, an expression of the heart, mind, and soul of the one who chooses to bear his soul for all to see. I do not consider what I post here to be insane, but I figure the title will lighten to burden so that I can focus on the subject matter at hand.
On this post I will be talking of many various topics in a relatively UPG setting. I am posting them here because there is a certain danger to posting this material anywhere else, as it may be taken as research material from years, maybe even centuries, of trial and error. Nothing is out of the question, New Age spirituality has a few gems in the rough, as well as Judeo-Christian theosophy, Wiccan principles, Universal Polytheism, Pantheism (the Universe AS God), Panentheism (the Universe as WITHIN God), and even LaVeyan and Jungian Atheism and Depth Psychology combined with Neoplatonist philosophy and Hermeticism. Just to be clear, most of this information was found online in a raw and separatist format, upon which I have done my best as the puzzle solver that I am to try and connect a few dots. In each post I will do my best to first speak of the subject matter as it would be seen on any number of sites based on purely pre-existing data, and then taking that data and formulating further extrapolations, connections, and possible origins of that material.
It is not my intent to personally attack, offend, insult, or degrade the spiritual teachings or practices of any creed; this is an attempt at synergy that may or may not blow up in my face, I am ready to face that possibility, but I hope that I have chosen the right coven that I may be in the right space not to fear of such persecution for expressing what may turn into some rather contraversial material.
I am an Archivist, a historian, and a voice for the distant forgotten, from the lowest of Demons to the highest of Angels, everyone of them has a side of the story, and every one of them deserves respect and their own time in the spotlight.
And most importantly of all: I love all things, I do my best to remember this in my dealings with others on this planet, and even the planet itself, I love every Devil, every Angel, every God, and even every beast lurking in the mysterious expanses of creation. We all have shadows in our past, it is a part of our nature, and every being with the will to feel emotion is capable of loving, but is also capable of making mistakes in the name of love.
Pardon the rant, I just thought that it would be important that I lay down a framework with some of the reoccurring principles that I have found in the histories of many beings.