MR May 31 to June 6 2010 Louis Martinie
Posted on 06/07/10 01:39 am
Monday
May 31, 2010
Mgdln Abyss Working.....Perhaps the most difficult things to give up are not those one wants to keep but those things that one may not want but are ingrained in the sense of self.
Maggie....perhaps the only thing a magician truely owns is their faults. Perhaps it is easier to leave the perfected selves than the damaged selves.
Tuesday
June 1, 2010
There is an odd sound on my audio recording at the swamp. it shows up in a number of the segments of the recording. Gutteral clicking...almost metalic.
Wednesday
June 2, 2010
New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple...drum prayer in courtyard. I follow the sounds of the drum into my self.
Ritual: Oil Will: The spirits of the waters push the oil back into the pipe.
Love: Levee. Rhythms to Legba open and close the gate. gate
Success: Clearer mind / more committed to the stoping of the oi
Thursday June 3, 2010
New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple....
RITUAL: Drum Prayer Oil Will: Oil back down the pipe Love: Legba and Bamboula rhythms
Success: Again I was advised to clean my own internal "Oil" out. All of the weak and poluted emotions, thoughts, selves. Bamboula rhythm appeared to be good for this. Ah! yes, bringing the self to order.......bringing the house to order...bringing the Mar Assi, the Gulf, to order. he twins are out of balance.
Friday June 4, 2010
I burnt out. Too much. The oil the birds the hurrycanes, economy....all to gether. Refuge in Nuit. I got into bed and set my mind on basic body sensations. The feel of the pillow and cover on my skin."Nuit is your refuge." Could not fight any more and there is no dishonor in finding refuge. Like Crowley said, the magician should find their limits.
I was careful to show this weakness to Mshln. So often I am the strong one. She needs to know that we are all in this balttle together. She took care of me which made her feel better, strong. I believe that illustrates a great benifit to others in showing personal weakness.
RITUAL: For Nola: bad reaction to wasp sting. Will: Healing Love: Offering of sugar to insect loa. Called in favors I have done for them to help in Nola's healing. Annie Christmas...Dad's machette in ground with water running down blade (Al rivers run together - Jessica) as a magickal link. Success: Nola well Treated in hospital by Dr. Blackman
Saturday June 5, 2010
I've reassembled a strong self and can hear the Angel again today. She said "Need" is from the Old Norse nauthir which means "distress or compulsion." You can not fight well if you are motivated by compulsion or distress.
Sunday June 6, 2010
Preparation for Babalon. The ritual of the Order of Service is set and valuable as it is. The other ritualI am to do is much more open. having the angel speak through the drums of the ritualists is worthy. I would like to include the oil.
MR: February 1 to February 7
Posted on 02/15/10 12:36 am
Monday
2.1.10
Rite to Manman Bridgette. Blanc rite / white foods. Manman Bridgette and Brigitte walk the same road. I had a strong contact with Manman in Dublin.
Tuesday
2.2.10
Charlotte’s Question:
How do you define blood, within the context of your own experiences and beliefs?
Is this definition just applicable to venous blood, or does it apply to menstrual blood as well?
My Reply:
Blood is more of a metaphysical term to me. I would identify it as a substance possessing certain necessary characteristics. Blood is a liquid, life embracing, personal substance that flows within the body of its host. Liquid means flowing or capable of flowing; life embracing means carrying the grace of life, and personal means that the entity identifies some portion the self with the blood. This way of seeing blood certainly includes menstrual blood.
Given the above understanding of blood; what constitutes blood to one entity would not be blood to another entity. It would be tremendously ethnocentric to think of the red stuff in us as the only form blood takes.
Referenced to myself, water is not blood but water is the blood of the earth. This is particularly apparent to me on an experiential level when I’m fortunate enough to be in the presence of a stream of water spilling out from a hole or serration in the earth. There is such grace, such mysterie in this. In a practical ritual sense, the loa walk a water road. I pour water out from the veve (signature/ritual drawing) creating a Water Road for the loa.
I had a friend who worked as a janitor. His friend was angered by a supervisor so his friend got a red ink pen and scribbled 12 pages of everything from pictures to grocery lists in the red ink and gave it to the supervisor. Also, I teach in a High School here and it is very bad form to use red ink in most any capacity. Here a red liquid carries the power of human blood and is or becomes, in a very real sense, blood.
Your question brings up other questions. For example, “Do the loa have blood?” There is an odd invulnerability to injury when one is possessed. Blood does not flow easily. I have done things that later on do not make me happy to hear about. If a body shared with the loa does not bleed easily, this may mean that the loa have a sturdier form of what we call blood.
Wednesday
2.3.10
Mishlen…in love there is union and yearning. Separation is necessary for there to be yearning. We are divided for loves sake, for the chance of union. (LiberL)
Thursday
2.4.10
Charlotte’s Question:
I think one of the main reasons that I thought that it was important to talk to you as part of my research is the work that you have done merging the beliefs of the New Orleans Voodoo and Tibetan Buddhism.
I’m particularly interested in how you apply this integration to traditions of blood sacrifice. Although New Orleans Voodoo is syncretism and a living tradition surely blood sacrifice is an integral part of its core practice?
My Reply:
Yes, Blood sacrifice is a traditional part of our core practice. It is an important part, an essential part, and I now use the blood of trees. Red palm oil is an amazing substance. Okoko introduced me to it in the early 1980s and I have yet to sound the depths of its power.
I was able to spend a year with the Tibetan refugees between 2000 and 2001 and then, after Mademoiselle Katrina, they were numerous exchanges when we ourselves refugeed to a town populated by many Tibetans.
The Tibetans and their spiritual teachers were respectful of New Orleans Voodoo and would always politely indicate that blood sacrifice created problems for the voodoosant. They referred to “karma,” something I do not understand from their perspective.
Mr. Norbu, a head of the Tibetan resistance movement, would simply say, over and over and over, that all beings were at one time my Mother. He repeated this till one day I had the shattering AHA! That he was speaking literally. Given an infinite number of incarnations, every animal that I sacrificed was at one point my Mother. Shit! Man, I just fell out when this got through to me. My Mother, Charlotte, was so very kind to me and here I was sacrificing beings that had stood as she stood to me. I was in ceremonies that used them (her) as scapegoats. I get a little sick just thinking about it. Would I kill Charlotte to save my own skin. Fuck no! I stopped my own use of animal blood.
Blood sacrifice is a continuum and I am certainly still on the continuum. Shortly after stopping using blood in rites I was drumming for a rite conducted by an African Priestess based, I believe, in Nigeria and ended up drinking blood. So who would have known what was in the calabash? The point is that for me, doing the least harm possible is a matter of degree and we are all in this together.
The Tibetan people, in the past, used animal blood in their rites. They do not practice blood rites at present and they can successfully call powerful spirits. The same could be said for the type of New Orleans Voodoo that I practice.
Mammal blood is used in our rites for a variety of purposes. It is used for the sheer grace and power it contains. It is used to feed the loa. I have found red palm oil to be effective in both of these instances. Animal are also used for scapegoating. The Tibetans, and now I, believe in the transmigration of souls. Given an infinite number of incarnations, every sentient being one encounters has at one time been your mother. It seems cowardly to transfer my sins on to another being that has been my mother. Its like if someone shot at me and I was willing to pull Charlotte in front of me as a shield.
I am sure that at one time our loa ate people. This practice is infrequent now. The loa are not that far removed from us. As our tastes change so also do their tastes change. My ritual work has a level of success without using mammal blood that is satisfactory to me. My point is to get the most benefit for myself and others while doing the least amount of harm possible.
Friday
2.5.10
Signing copies of Voodoo at Café Puce with Severine. Severine has The book was done I 2005 right before the hurricane. Severine is one of my oldest and closest friends. I believe that the first time I saw her was in the late 80’s as she was doing a ritual with an African drummer named Tuesday.
Saturday
2.6.10
I am sorting through the last of the Katrina boxes. What once was quite a mountain has become a smaller, though not insignificant, hill of boxes. The Temple was flooded in Katrina and I have waited so that the Temples objects can be disposed of properly. Some will go to the levee but I’m saving much of the now quite moldy Temple objects for Mgdlyn for use in her art.
Sunday
2.7.10
Oshun dream…Ah! Decades ago I moved away from Santeria for Voodoo. This dream is a reaffirmation of a link with Santeria through, it would seem, Netzach. The location of the dream was a gasoline station. This is significant. My decision to move away from Santeria took place in a gas station when Ellegua locked me out of the car I freezing weather. My Angel appeared to Mishlen and told her to go and get me. My temperament is much better suited to New Orleans Voodoo than Santeria.
2.1.10
Rite to Manman Bridgette. Blanc rite / white foods. Manman Bridgette and Brigitte walk the same road. I had a strong contact with Manman in Dublin.
Tuesday
2.2.10
Charlotte’s Question:
How do you define blood, within the context of your own experiences and beliefs?
Is this definition just applicable to venous blood, or does it apply to menstrual blood as well?
My Reply:
Blood is more of a metaphysical term to me. I would identify it as a substance possessing certain necessary characteristics. Blood is a liquid, life embracing, personal substance that flows within the body of its host. Liquid means flowing or capable of flowing; life embracing means carrying the grace of life, and personal means that the entity identifies some portion the self with the blood. This way of seeing blood certainly includes menstrual blood.
Given the above understanding of blood; what constitutes blood to one entity would not be blood to another entity. It would be tremendously ethnocentric to think of the red stuff in us as the only form blood takes.
Referenced to myself, water is not blood but water is the blood of the earth. This is particularly apparent to me on an experiential level when I’m fortunate enough to be in the presence of a stream of water spilling out from a hole or serration in the earth. There is such grace, such mysterie in this. In a practical ritual sense, the loa walk a water road. I pour water out from the veve (signature/ritual drawing) creating a Water Road for the loa.
I had a friend who worked as a janitor. His friend was angered by a supervisor so his friend got a red ink pen and scribbled 12 pages of everything from pictures to grocery lists in the red ink and gave it to the supervisor. Also, I teach in a High School here and it is very bad form to use red ink in most any capacity. Here a red liquid carries the power of human blood and is or becomes, in a very real sense, blood.
Your question brings up other questions. For example, “Do the loa have blood?” There is an odd invulnerability to injury when one is possessed. Blood does not flow easily. I have done things that later on do not make me happy to hear about. If a body shared with the loa does not bleed easily, this may mean that the loa have a sturdier form of what we call blood.
Wednesday
2.3.10
Mishlen…in love there is union and yearning. Separation is necessary for there to be yearning. We are divided for loves sake, for the chance of union. (LiberL)
Thursday
2.4.10
Charlotte’s Question:
I think one of the main reasons that I thought that it was important to talk to you as part of my research is the work that you have done merging the beliefs of the New Orleans Voodoo and Tibetan Buddhism.
I’m particularly interested in how you apply this integration to traditions of blood sacrifice. Although New Orleans Voodoo is syncretism and a living tradition surely blood sacrifice is an integral part of its core practice?
My Reply:
Yes, Blood sacrifice is a traditional part of our core practice. It is an important part, an essential part, and I now use the blood of trees. Red palm oil is an amazing substance. Okoko introduced me to it in the early 1980s and I have yet to sound the depths of its power.
I was able to spend a year with the Tibetan refugees between 2000 and 2001 and then, after Mademoiselle Katrina, they were numerous exchanges when we ourselves refugeed to a town populated by many Tibetans.
The Tibetans and their spiritual teachers were respectful of New Orleans Voodoo and would always politely indicate that blood sacrifice created problems for the voodoosant. They referred to “karma,” something I do not understand from their perspective.
Mr. Norbu, a head of the Tibetan resistance movement, would simply say, over and over and over, that all beings were at one time my Mother. He repeated this till one day I had the shattering AHA! That he was speaking literally. Given an infinite number of incarnations, every animal that I sacrificed was at one point my Mother. Shit! Man, I just fell out when this got through to me. My Mother, Charlotte, was so very kind to me and here I was sacrificing beings that had stood as she stood to me. I was in ceremonies that used them (her) as scapegoats. I get a little sick just thinking about it. Would I kill Charlotte to save my own skin. Fuck no! I stopped my own use of animal blood.
Blood sacrifice is a continuum and I am certainly still on the continuum. Shortly after stopping using blood in rites I was drumming for a rite conducted by an African Priestess based, I believe, in Nigeria and ended up drinking blood. So who would have known what was in the calabash? The point is that for me, doing the least harm possible is a matter of degree and we are all in this together.
The Tibetan people, in the past, used animal blood in their rites. They do not practice blood rites at present and they can successfully call powerful spirits. The same could be said for the type of New Orleans Voodoo that I practice.
Mammal blood is used in our rites for a variety of purposes. It is used for the sheer grace and power it contains. It is used to feed the loa. I have found red palm oil to be effective in both of these instances. Animal are also used for scapegoating. The Tibetans, and now I, believe in the transmigration of souls. Given an infinite number of incarnations, every sentient being one encounters has at one time been your mother. It seems cowardly to transfer my sins on to another being that has been my mother. Its like if someone shot at me and I was willing to pull Charlotte in front of me as a shield.
I am sure that at one time our loa ate people. This practice is infrequent now. The loa are not that far removed from us. As our tastes change so also do their tastes change. My ritual work has a level of success without using mammal blood that is satisfactory to me. My point is to get the most benefit for myself and others while doing the least amount of harm possible.
Friday
2.5.10
Signing copies of Voodoo at Café Puce with Severine. Severine has The book was done I 2005 right before the hurricane. Severine is one of my oldest and closest friends. I believe that the first time I saw her was in the late 80’s as she was doing a ritual with an African drummer named Tuesday.
Saturday
2.6.10
I am sorting through the last of the Katrina boxes. What once was quite a mountain has become a smaller, though not insignificant, hill of boxes. The Temple was flooded in Katrina and I have waited so that the Temples objects can be disposed of properly. Some will go to the levee but I’m saving much of the now quite moldy Temple objects for Mgdlyn for use in her art.
Sunday
2.7.10
Oshun dream…Ah! Decades ago I moved away from Santeria for Voodoo. This dream is a reaffirmation of a link with Santeria through, it would seem, Netzach. The location of the dream was a gasoline station. This is significant. My decision to move away from Santeria took place in a gas station when Ellegua locked me out of the car I freezing weather. My Angel appeared to Mishlen and told her to go and get me. My temperament is much better suited to New Orleans Voodoo than Santeria.
The drum Jim has his hand on in the picture.
Posted on 03/10/09 03:20 pm
I think that a friend of mine might have the drum that Jim has his hand on in the picture on the drumming notes page. I have seen my friends drum up close and it is a hand made one of a kind drum. I thought he said he got it in a thift shop somewhere. There can't be many like that. His even has the leather handle tacked on to it just like the one in the picture. I noticed what appears to be a knot on the left side bottom of the drum in the picture. I am going to my friends house tonight and I will have a closer look at the drum he has. Even if it isn't the exact same drum, possibly these were drums that Jim was making...anyone know? I am going to take a picture of my friends drum tonight too. Maybe I can figure out a way to post it on here.
Enjoying the recent updates
Posted on 03/06/09 03:13 pm
I am really enjoying the recent updates here.Nema's readings on video are an exciting new addition. I like the one with Louis drumming on it too. Louis' new photo gallery is nicely done. 'Mademoiselle Katrina Contemplation' is particularly stiring. Also, Jim's drumming notes are packed with so much useful information that I'm sure I will be revisiting it many times. Thank you! :-)
Martinie – December MR – weekly entry
Posted on 12/14/08 10:08 pm
Monday
12.1.2008
New Orleans:
Work on series of visions I received in connection with Mr. Norbu.
Reading the Enochian of Ben Rowe.
Moon Meeting….It looks to me like our publishing schedule has hit one book every 6 weeks.
Tuesday
12.2.2008
Jessica…she wants a publisher to be a part of a family of writers. That is beautiful. I never thought of having a publisher in that manner. I see it now. So, I that sense, Alobar will be joining the Black Moon family.
Wednesday
12.3.2008
Magazine Street is not longer the Street of Dreams it was before the Storm. The dreams, the small shops and café’s like The Coven that open and close in the turning of a season are gone. Flowers that bloom magnificently and then close their petals.
Posted on 03/10/08 11:41 pm
February 11, 2008
Monday
Wiki entries for Black Moon. Rules with in rules but the importance of this resource is hard to underestimate. It is redefining what is believed to be real.
February 12, 2008
Tuesday
Writing ritual for Winter Star.
Monday
Wiki entries for Black Moon. Rules with in rules but the importance of this resource is hard to underestimate. It is redefining what is believed to be real.
February 12, 2008
Tuesday
Writing ritual for Winter Star.
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