Jake Stratton-Kent doth schreibble :
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> My point was that in a discussion of Western occultism, the finer
> points of historical Kabbalah proper might not be as relevant as the
> practices of contemporary NY witches. I thought my point was clear
> enough but allow me to restate: for various reasons contemporary
> Western Occultism has no well developed eschatology or hierarchy of
> the dead. Authentic historical Jewish belief - where such is present
> - has little relevance to this, since it is not part of contemporary
> Western occultism, except among a minority, it has no bearing on any
> likely source of folk religion in the present day either.
If you are referring to the NY Wiccans, who are largely
inheritors of the car-wreck known as the Golden Dawn, I
don't see the point of looking for a well-developed or
coherent account of anything /whatsoever/.
It is only among the minority that you can hope to find the
sort of praxis you appear to be interested in, and that is
precisely where you will find enormous overlaps with the
historical Kabbalah. That was certainly the case with the
Hoodooing and Powwowing and 'Seancing' in the Ramapos, and
it looks to hold true here in the Kaatskills.
Texts like the *Sword of Moses* and the *Sixth and Seventh
Books of Moses* enjoy a widespread and passionate interest
among the Native- and African- American communities here,
along with Apocrypha like *Enoch* and the Essene/Qumran
texts. I sometimes refer to the old "Borscht Belt" as
'Safed on the Hudson' ;)
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
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