Welcome to Abrahadabra Forums!

[m1thr0s]

If you are a new poster with us, we'd really appreciate you taking the time to introduce yourself and maybe tell us a little something about yourself and your interests etc...

I'm m1thr0s and abrahadabra.com is my website. I've been a lot of things over the years and worn a lot of hats. I've got over 30 years into the theory and practise of occult philosophy, magick and mysticism, alchemy and tantricism and more... I'm not as young as I used to be but a whole lot smarter I think. I've been an active poster on a number of other forums, so some of you already know me to one extent or another. This is the first time I have started a forum of my own so I am very excited about it and hope it all goes well.

I've created a Mission Statement (in Announcements) that hopefully explains what these forums are all about but it's a bit longer than I planned. The bottom line really is that you don't have to know anything about Abrahadabra to post here and you don't need to be a Hermetic Alchemist either. If I wanted to be that snooty I wouldn't be starting a public forum at all! I am interested in all kinds of people and ideas personally. I love diversity and would go so far as to say I actually crave the stuff.

I hope that these forums prove both useful and enjoyable for most. I am sure it is impossible to please everyone but I think that the vast majority will be very pleased to have found this little niché and want to come back often. Expect some changes as we grow and a LOT of improvements and additions of interest as well...

Have Fun. Try to keep it clean and respectful so we all get the most bang for our buck here...

m1thr0s

[Ðanisty]

The bottom line really is that you don't have to know anything about Abrahadabra to post here and you don't need to be a Hermetic Alchemist either.Just so you guys know, this is true! I don't know the first thing about Abrahadabra...lol.

[m1thr0s]

You might just be surprized how much you know already Danisty. You're into the golden mean, right? Check out Wiki's breakdown on Pythagoras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras) for a minute. Scroll down a bit until you get to the discussion of Theano, Pythagoras's wife, and this statement:

Her most important work is said to have been a treatise on the principle of the golden mean. Pythagoras plays a huge role in this immediate Abrahadabra thesis because some of the most amazing stuff we have to work with is to be found embedded in the geometry of the word itself...a word we happen to know was always approached in a uniquely geometrical sort of way...

Artists often know a lot more than they think they do, it's just that their way of assimilating knowledge may run to the aesthetic side of things even at risk to foregoing the more academic perspective if need be. We may not be all that enamored with academia anyway, yet still enamored with truth itself in whatever ways are most naturally accessible to us.

We'll see...the day is young and this project has only just begun. You may come to find you have a much better grasp of things than you thought you did...that's my guess on the matter at least.

m1thr0s

[Mindcore]

Hello everyone.

I signed up for this forum several months ago, but did not follow up.
I am a minerval in the O.T.O. So no big surprise, I am into Thelema.
I am very interested in naturalistic (scientific, non-supernatural) explanations for occult phenomena. Though I am open minded and tend to be more agnostic than dismissive.

I am also into Chaos Magick, Santeria (especially the Santa Muerte variety), Tarot and Qabalah (though I am a novice at all these things).

I was up until recently a hardcore militant atheist (though my own metaphysical world view has not changed much). I got interested in occultism because I dabbled pretty heavily in it as a teenager, and now as a 30 something find that its a great source of positive psychology and and a powerful force for self improvement and self control.

I have a blog called Occult Skeptic (http://occultskpetic.wordpress.com/), but don't let the name mislead you. I am definitely an occultist, I just propose a scientific and/or empirical approach.

I also really like to hang out on the occultist subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/occult/) on the website reddit. My name is EnriqueR on reddit if anyone here posts there. I actually heard about Abrahadabra on that site.

[AfterViewer]

:)Hey Mindcore! Welcome to the AF! Make yourself at Home!

[izi]

Welcome to Abrahadabra.

[MythMath]

Greetings, Mindcore... :yes:

[Mindcore]

Thank you AfterViewer!

[Mindcore]

Thank you MythMath.

[Mindcore]

Thank you Naomi.

[katiafish]

Welcome :)

[Vail]

Hello to everyone. I am Vail. I am a Satanic mystic, I have little interest in ritual magic. As a mystic one learns to live one's entire life as if it were inside a magic circle. You don't have to "do" anything in particular except follow the will of the Spirit, however it manifest itself to you. For me, Lucifer is female, a Dark Underworld Goddess. She is more of a chaos creation than anything else but this isn't saying a whole lot since everything ultimately is chaos magic. What I am saying, however, is that Lady Lucifer, Sister Satan is a reality which works for me. It's kinda funny too. I got the idea of a female Satan from my first time viewing of the classic horror movie The Omen. The two nannies in the film made such an impression on me with their devotion to Damien, that by the time the movie ended, I wanted one of my own. Sometimes what you ask for is exactly what you get. I ended up getting way more than I could have imagined or predicted. Life is good and weird as hell.
I am a black male, sporting dreadlocks, an inverted cross tattoo under my left eye and two fingernails of my left hand are always painted black. I am basically a friendly ghoul, I tell people sometimes that I am Casper, the friendly ghost.
I hope to meet some friendly spirits here. I am a firm believer in the proposition that: MEAN PEOPLE SUCK. The world is full of mean, unthinking people.
That's why I became a Satanist. Call it self defense.

[Bennu Lugh]

Hello All - I go by Bennu Lugh. I am a Hermeticist in the truest sense of the word. I study and practice the sciences developed from the philosophy of Hermes Trismegistus, not the religions and rituals that have evolved as a result. My specialty is Hypnosis but I'm also a student of Practical Alchemy and Traditional Astrology.

[m1thr0s]

good to have you with us Bennu Lugh. my own focus has been restoring the intelligence underscoring so-called *spiritual alchemy* - something that has somehow become lost in the shuffle over the ages, and without which the greater sum of alchemy is missing roughly half its knowledge and understanding. To achieve this we need to dive hard into the physics underscoring the Body of Light and related models - or - where there is no legitimate physics to be found, identify and establish one.

*It furthers one to have somewhere to go* I Ching

I am confident you will find various things of interest here on Abrahadabra Forums. Thank you for your introduction! :)

m1thr0s

[Bennu Lugh]

Fantastic! I'm very excited I found this forum. It's good to know there are others out there with a similar view. Interestingly enough, while I was trying to type my response, I found myself hypnotized by your avatar. The center is fascinating....