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WISHES

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THREE WISHES

A wish is a hope or desire for a thing or person to appear, for an immaterial thing to become real, for a condition to change, or any of an unlimited number of desires for change.  Traditionally, a wish is request from a supernatural being to cause something to be changed or created.  A template for fictional wishes could be The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, specifically the tale of Aladdin, although in the tale of Aladdin the actual wishes were only part of the tale.  Classically the wish provider is often a spirit, Genie or similar entity, bound or constrained within an object, like Aladdin’s oil lamp for example.

In the case of the Magic Lamp, there are several steps to getting your wish fulfilled:

  1. The first step in wishing is to assume or discover that a “supernatural being” exists!
  2. The next step is to assume that the alleged Supernatural Being is LISTENING to your request.
  3. Then, the magical Supernatural Being must have the ABILITY to make the wish become reality.
  4. Finally, the Supernatural Being must actually WANT to make your wish happen for you.

What are the odds that all of these circumstances will ever exist?  You do the math….

However, there are other forms of “wishing” or asking for something from a supernatural being.  The most common kind of “wishing” is prayer.  Another kind of wishing is daydreaming, or imagination or meditation.  Another kind of wishing is figuring out how to make something happen and working hard, and persisting long enough to MAKE it happen!  

This is almost always the most reliable way of making a wish come true.  And, YOU are a Supernatural Being that can make YOUR wishes come true.

—  Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013.

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THE PRICIPLE OF GENDER

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GENDER

  “This Principle embodies the truth that there is GENDER manifested in everything–the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes. On the Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as SEX, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same. No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle. If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re-generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life. We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender. Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature’s principles. If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them–Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base.”

— The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of “The Three Initiates”.