Runes, Magic and Rituals
Spiritual Norse Development
Introduction
Many have been said and wrote about – and yet people says - but, ’many’ never is many once that this document appears based on personal research and, above all, with a deep personal practice in Portugal, for around forty five years, and now in Sweden, since 2008 September, date of myself and Yhonathannah (FozIber’s team) arrival at our little town in Sweden that has been decided by Heimddalr for us to live.
Heimddalr, for sure, has been the main source and the Power for we accomplish in half moon what we could not reach for five years, but the great master, that have deeply introduce us to Him like deep teach us how to reach Him, has been the world known that, in this process and quite daily communication through internet like some phone calls, has changed in one of the few best friends. Now, may we here deserve this so great friendship and for this, all we have done and we will do to deep keep it, much more we will intend to do and, this text, is a deep dedication to her like her webpage and her fantastic books. Freya Aswynn, you are a Master with the capital letter ‘M’ as well as the Lady like our main unforgettable Friend.
By an inexplicable coincidence and after so many unhappy searches – people without scruples, money suckers without any knowledge about what they are doing -, my wife has stopped to look for months and months, for about two years, until one day she has discovered through one of the musical bands Current 93 or 6 Comm project website, an album called Fruits of Yggdrasil of a Freya Aswynn. It was a strange or rare name for a person that only could be by initiatic reasons and my wife has felt it by listening the music and the singing poetry by her. After an internet search she has discovered the Freya Aswynn web http://www.aswynn.co.uk that has been and yet it is for us, a great way to learn about and to have access to her so great books.
Freya Aswynn is a great pedagogically writer, she does not only fill pages. In the other way around, Freya Aswynn deep shows, by her writings, the beginning middle and end in a deep pragmatic way without permit to be lost under inutile argumentation and, even less, speculation. All the writings of Freya Aswynn are fruit of her studies but and above all, of her years of research in the field and deep, deep practice and this has been always the way of this so great Holland Woman that we have the deep pleasure to have as our Master and Friend. This way, I reinforce to you all that are reading this text, to go to her web that, if it was not so good – like fantastic is to speak directly to her to observe, at least, her so great and deep personality -, I will never would give a so great and a repetitively about:
A Gift Calls For A Gift
« It is good to honor the Gods with prays. » For many people, based on their religion or systems that are not religious but for the spiritual development like occultist schools, the title of this topic like the first assertion, on this text, can seems rather strange and even egoistic « a gift calls for a gift… » But, in reality, is on these basis that all are built. If we put away our credos to analyze this two assertions, we will observe that are not any field of knowledge, religion, occultist school, humanistic activity, politics, etc, that is not based on this. A Buddhist can claim that they don’t believe in a God creator, but also the Celtic, Druidic people does not and, anyway, all the Buddhist practice claims for the plain realization: to stop of suffering, illumination and to reach the end of reborn, at least in this Earth planet. Maybe the Buddhists does not honour any God because they claim to do not believe in a God creator, but the Buddha is treated as a God and from this no member of the humankind, even the so called materialists in all the senses of this word, that do not feel something about life like a supra human action that all evolves. Anyway and in these matters, the important for the one who feels it is to develop a deep practice as well as a deep observation. How it works and why is definitively important but never a matter of preach or convince anyone. The Celtic Druidic people as the Norse ones never cared about changing the ideas of the others out of their communities like they had always accept as good the others religions for thus.
Many Gods, usually, show how the humankind projects as well as their own complex feelings – also complexes, phobias, etc, - and other aspects for what words do not can express. At least for this the variety of Gods has come to existence. At this the Catholic Church like also the Orthodox and Copts have turned the problem based on their own Saints, the intermediary Gods of a Supreme One. Of course those other Christian groups that do not accept Saints or any kind of intermediaries can claim against such idea. But, even this last ones cannot forget the Psalm 82 vss 6 « all you are Gods (êlôhyim) and all of you sons of the most high. » And if the one verse will be not enough to prove this concept, no problem, just read John 10 where Jesus Christ defends himself against the Pharisee with this assertion finishing that the Word cannot be changed.
Others claim about the schizophrenic aspect of Odin. Also Jesus Christ – and before Buddha, like many others. In the Psychology of the New Testament Jesus has been declared as a schizoid and for the ones that have developed this work I only can regret their own craziness and the same I apply to all that expend paper, ink and time for publishing all of these (garbage) without any basis being “pure” speculative in the bed sense of the word and so, to tendentious. Anyway and in the case of Odin, only reveals the total ignorance about the world of magic, the world of spells and the cults of nature, at least, and the best is to let this one’s remaining as they are.
«A gift calls for a gift. » That is the way of the spirituality in any field that each one chooses to get results or stops all for a while, like the Taoists, for reaching the highest levels of spirituality and, better, the illumination.
We give and in return one receives back and to this interchange at Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology of Compared Religions we recognize it as a Spiritual Economics aspect: Economics in the sense of the Economy science. But even out of this University Department, the Buddhists, at least the Theravada as well as the Zen, also deep recognize this aspect of the Laws of Economics in the scientific sense. So, a gift calls for a gift is out of any selfish superficial activity. Better, is the way of the humankind until each one reaches the supreme state also called the Buddhic state or something similar where, there, one stops to be. At this point, ‘one’ does not exist in the humankind sense so nothing calls for nothing.
In meantime it is good to honor the Gods with prays. The Buddhists in general, like the Dalai Lama has said and always says that there are no reason for praying: no God, no reason for prays. Anyway, they recite long sutras or suttas for long time intending to go inner the most deep meditation state. Well and in the same way like even calling it to pray, the Celtic Druidic and Norse practices do not pray in the sense of the Christians and others like Jewish, Islamic or Muslim and more. The pragmatic pray activity so called pray related to the Celtic Druidic and Norse is totally out of any guilt complex like offenses made by the people to God or to the Gods. The Sutras or Suttas, only constantly remembers, without stress, the Laws of the way. The negative always walks in parallel with the positive, like the Yin and Yang at the Taoism, the bad and the good are skills that a person should not only must embody the idea. And embody, not by concept or theological imposition but by a good mind understanding for a natural assimilation, like a digestion, where after what is ingested will belong to us in a way that we don’t need to discuss or be aware about, once that this awareness is deeply natural.
Freya Aswynn, in her books, explains this more accurate than me and talking with her we can observe that as a fact in her personality so, and I repeat again, contact her across her web http://www.aswynn.co.uk and you will be able to realize her power of indifference, as the Taoists, like her so strong personality developed by the Norse and Celtic Druidic practices. This Lady has many years of practices at different occultist schools like the AMORC (Antiqua et Misticǣ Order Rosǣ Crucis or Ancient and Mystical Order Rosa Crucis).
The Gods Characteristics
« All you are Gods (êlôhyim) and all sons of the Most High. » One of the main characteristics of the Celtic Druidic like the Norse Gods is that all of them have been humans. In this context and in the context that these people never have believed in a creation of the Universe(s) by a God, one of the most interesting parts of this evolution is that also beings have incarnated in this (and eventually others) planet to perform their eternal evolution. Great people of the humankind have reached other levels of the High Spiritual Hierarchy in a way of from there to act in a way to help or, even, prejudice the advance of the beings on the planet(s).
At the beginning the good and the bad has been manifested. The good under the form of great heroes and the bad under the form of great giants full of power like, also, physical limitations. In this the main points rests on the good and the bad like in the fact of a High Spiritual Hierarchy like Alice Bailey and few others have deeply written at the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
The Bible reports to the Nephylym as a kind of very high spiritual beings that seen that the earth woman’s was so beautiful that they had incarnated for having sexual intercourses with them and from this great giants and heroes have born the gods of the antiquity. The sex desire of these angels can be described in a small text with a speed that is fulminating. That is not less than more than a residual form a deep kind of reality. Anyway and like the dream of Jacob where he saw a leader from the skies to the Earth and the angels were in a continuous coming down and up.
Lots of examples of reincarnation like about the High Spiritual Hierarchy are universal and the fall of the angels is not less or more than the come down of the gods to keep this garden like to destroy it. But the main point of this is that the human kind appears for going back to other spiritual levels where even there they die and they will die until reaching again the plenitude. Observing this is like to look to something from some distance, this way what we are looking can appear be out of time, static, but near or using a microscope we will be able to see that all is under the function of time.
Now, it is not my intention to develop here these aspects even because many have written about but the main point about this is that the Celtic Druidic like the Norse ones have adopted the Gods, knowing that they are deeply aware, even because they have lived here as humans, in the function of their manifestation, i.e: the tradition what a person is looking for and this way the God is chosen for reaching the goal. Initiatic, before of a great long time, was based in this and even today we can observe these practices around the world. I always say that there are not dead languages as there are not dead ways or believes, they are always remaining or just sleeping for a while to awake again in the right moment.
To know the Gods and each one action is the fundamental for getting balanced and the one who knows few or nothing speaks about, because is not by words that we reach the understanding or the realization but by the magic to reach the seer capacity that is inner us and inherent to us.
The Logic of Magic
Not logic at all. You can read established prays, you can imitate or adopt established rituals and nothing works. The same way the process of one is not the system of other and here the creativity under the intuitivity is the key.
Since the Industrial Revolution but, above at all, since the great shut of the science research and the great discoveries that the religions begun fight between them not with weapons but based in logic; « my religion is logical and more logical than any other... » The logic has assumed a basis in a world where the human logic has no place at all.
All what belongs to the dominion of the infinite we call Theory of Limits and theory is, at maximum, Epistemological, not scientific. What is God? Why God wants this way today and after He changes His ideas? We have lots of Sacred Books showing very clearly these aspects and the Bible is one of the biggest evidence about.
Where is God there is no logic, where is Buddha there is no logic and the same way the magic is not under the laws of logic. Learning about life in general has no logic because what has validity here does not work there and if so, why did we need the successive approaches like the Combinatory Analysis and the Statistics like the Stochastic?
I think that when Jesus Christ spoke about how to pray and teach about the successive repetitions like a lot of words in prays he was just speaking about the knowing by heart prays that the tradition transmits and the people repeats under afraid of some hell but not thinking about the meaning. In reality was not because of the quantity but the quality like to be aware of. A person feels to speak with God and can be all afternoon speaking and pausing like if speaking with someone physically present. I have seen this among the Indians of Central America and essentially relate to Saint Judas Mateus (Mathew). There an old man, a widow, alone at his very poor barrack had a small seat in front a kind of a table.
There was his plate, a knife, some bread, meat and wine and marrafo (a kind of bagaceira or cognac but stronger), and I went to this home sweet home around 1 pm at a mountain in a small bank at 1,5 km high. In front of him and at the end of that table a shrine was settled like a leader and on the top was that big and very beautiful image of Saint Judas Mateus. The down parts of the leader were filled of herbal plants, seeds, grains and more varieties always full of utility to have at home for to fight any sickness or any animal byte, but in the middle of this I could see a lot of Christian as also pagan Indian images of great Gods heroes and also ancestors.
When I have arrived, invited by this beautiful as old man, I seat near him in front of the table and the food was there for both of us and more a portion that, each time one of us took from the fire, we will offer a portion of each plate to the ancestor, Gods heroes and San Judas Mateus. Eating and drinking wine very slowly and with a lot of talk in the middle also smoking the hand rolled cigars or masking some green leaves of coca, I have been there for more than six hours that was the time drinking the marrafo in honour of us and all saints there, but a second more portion of marrafo like cigars and green leaves of coca was dedicated to Saint Judas Mateus that also had his share of the all.
Remembering this so great afternoon I could observe that we have been praying all the time during our talk. Of course that all images and, above all, Saint Judas Mateus had his own and main word and was always completing and correcting our mistaken words.
So, is this to pray with too many words? No! This was and is to pray. This was and is a true ritualistic; this was and is really contact between the subtle worlds and much more. All of us there were really speaking, we were not two but many and the spiritual value of my visit there has been and yet today, enormous.
The End for Now
I close here this resume of my document for your appreciation and meditation, so give me the logic that I will give you the magic to ask for. Or, just show me the logic of a religion that I will give you the non-logical aspects of science. Do as you want but if some aspects corroborate with you, please do not look for the logic of it. Only work deeper on your discovery and the wisdom will be with you.
Sweden, October 10th 2008
Yochanan
Background made with a photo taken by us
on the 13th day of our arrival at Sweden
