The Lord of the Elements

A mysterious book written by a reputed devil worshipper with immortality of which only one original and six copies were ever made, has been found and Edward is tasked with unlocking its mysteries. Is the book the original or one of the copies that brought fatal bad luck to their owners and were supposedly destroyed? Meanwhile, William attends a party with his friend ostensibly to meet the rich and famous where he is introduced to the charismatic but rather strange Ralph Meister and finds himself searching in the Arizona desert for salvation as result. This is the beginning of the Lord of the Elements, the forthcoming prequel to The Last Observer. How are these two sets of events related and how will they set the scene for an explosion of tragedy and black magic?

Well, you will just have to wait to find out.

Meanwhile, why not buy The Last Observer to learn a bit more about Edward and the Lord of the elements?

Available now in paperback and ebook formats at all reputable book stores. Includes a super new low price for the Kindle version on all Amazon sites.

Read what other readers have to say about this chilling cornucopia of murder, mayhem and magic here.

Okay

Four seasons
Seven days
Disputed reasons
Whatever she says
Years pass
Many cycles
Memories amass
Of deft survival
Still
I know you didn’t mean it
Until
The emotional deficit
Changed it all
Rearranged it all
Suddenly
We were sliding out of control
Glibly
You said it was just like parole
But you meant its over
You didn’t dare say
But it was truly over
Like the end of a darkened day
Done
Washed away
Gone
Okay
Lost forever
Until
We could never
Fill
The gap that was left
Soiled
Bereft
Of meaning
Celebrating
Endings
Eternal blackness
Death and decay
There is no other way
And nothing left to say
Okay

New Kindle Price

The Last Observer has a new and significantly reduced price on Kindle on all Amazon sites. I managed to talk the publisher into reducing the kindle price for the book and they have followed through.

The Lord of the Elements wants to change reality. He has enlisted the evil Zeltan to help him and together they will try to recruit Stanley, a man gifted with incredible imaginative capabilities to help them. Unless Edward and his friends can stop them. A tale of white and black magic, quantum physics and a plot that twists and turns….

Features a compelling foreword by Anthony Peake, author of Is There Life After Death? and many other best selling books.

Rumors of War

Inspired by a Facebook friend’s sarcastic post.

Ebola
Plane crashes
Israeli war
Russia may invade
We will make you very afraid
Climate change
Murder
Fracking too
There is nothing that you can do
Crucify
Christians die
Islamic terror
Middle Eastern war
Whatever scares you more?
Don’t stop to think
Don’t dare to breath
Worry and worry more
Be afraid, very afraid
Ending times
Prophecy
Revelation
Rumors of war
But we have seen this all before!
Controlling
Cajoling
No question
Doom times are coming
Why are you not running?
Fear
Keeps you mine
Fear
Keeps you in line
Me? I am unafraid
Laughing at how hard you try
What will be will be
But I will always be free
Because apparently you forgot
That in actuality
this is my reality

I Can’t?

Growing up my favorite expression was “I Can’t”. So I am told anyway. I do recall my father trying to explain to me that I should probably at least try before saying those words and my mother rolling her eyes as I paced up and down a room having a lack of confidence moment. Two particular instances spring to mind. The first was my ‘A’ levels. I won’t pass, I can’t pass was my mantra. I still have nightmares about “A” levels levels let me tell you! Actually, the results were very mixed but I scraped a place at college anyway because despite thinking I couldn’t – I did. One of my parents told me to do something like writing to all Universities asking to be accepted since my UCCA choices all rejected me based on those results. I did. I sat and I wrote to about 20 Geology programs across the country and was accepted at three! I chose Aston University. It was the farthest away I could get from Hull. The second instance was passing my driving test. I had been accepted into a PhD program at Strathclyde University (in conjunction with the British Geological Survey) but in order to do the fieldwork in Nova Scotia, I needed that license. It took me two attempts but I passed with a week to spare and I made it to Sydney Nova Scotia.

I can’t.

Two very small words but so negative.

I realize that I have changed a lot in the last 30-years especially when I hear myself say I can. You see, I realize that I very rarely say I can’t anymore. Those words take away your power. I can’t takes away your magic. By admitting defeat like that you are programming yourself to be a failure. You are really. You are telling yourself with conviction that you will fail when you say I can’t. Think how many times you say those two words. Has it become your mantra? I can’t, I can’t and trust me – YOU WON’T!

Perhaps it having kids myself, perhaps it is a function of being older and hopefully wiser or maybe it is because I read, study and try to make magic, but I try never to utter these two words. Instead, I believe I can and I will. In fact, I believe it so much it already is. This is how I have achieved everything that I have achieved. It’s how I built my own business, sold it and created a new business all over again. It’s how I moved to become CEO of a 2 billion Euro turnover power trader in Prague – because I knew I could do it. It’s how I gave up that job and joined with my friend and colleague Patrick to start a new business that is now thriving. It is how I write books, publish poetry, blog, create websites, give presentations 20 times a year, interview on the radio. It is why I thrive in almost everything that I do. Because I CAN.

Think how important that ‘apostrophe t’ is at the end of I can. Instead of victory we create defeat. In a word.

Words have power. We create with our words and imagination. In the beginning was the word and I am pretty sure it’s first words were not I Can’t.

Ripples

In the interview with Rob McConnell on X Zone radio, the concept of ripples came up several times to explain how we impact upon one another. It made me think of this post from Asetroth’s Domain I wrote a little while ago. Asteroth’s Domain is my blog that is more focused on magic – please do visit it.

In meditation, I often see ripples in a pool. They start at a point and move outwards as small waves. If the small wave meets an object, an interference pattern occurs.

Thoughts are like ripples. They start with a focus. Something triggers that focus but then, if we are able to, the thought expands like a ripple moving ever outwards into the world having who knows what impacts out there. Words, words are sounds and sounds are waves too so when we speak, ripples move out from ourselves and those words can impact – not just those who hear them – but everything those sound ripples touch. Who knows what interference patterns result from our thoughts and words.

Those wave forms or ripples that we all create oscillate all around. Perhaps the smallest thought or word starts a ripple that becomes a tidal wave of change.

Silence. We are often instructed to be silent. And, if you think about it, with good reason for if our thoughts and words create ripples through the substratum of reality then when we think or speak in anger – what effect does that have? Speech is a gift that we so often misuse and abuse. God help us if we could hear thoughts!

Think about it and contemplate what effect your ripples are having on reality?

Thanks to a student for raising this topic and providing me with an opportunity to gain these insights.

From Inner Journeys: Explorations of the Soul
“When you enter the pool, the surface is absolutely calm but your body movement causes ripples and activities on the surface. The more you thrash around the more the waves and ripples grow in intensity and knock you off track. The more you fight the more ripples and waves and the harder it gets. Go with the flow, align yourself with the will of the Creator and minimise the waves.
Diary Extract.”

Originally posted at http://asterothsdomain.com/2013/12/12/ripples/

Talk, Talk

Talk, talk
A talking head
A constant stream
Of incessant chatter
Talk, talk
Words in my head
Is anyone listening
Does it really matter?
Aren’t we all talking to ourselves?
A running commentary on our lives
Describing that reality
Emphasizing finality
Gibbering our thoughts aloud
Streaming podcasts in our head
Writing, filming or recording
The words we just said
Talk, talk
The walking dead
It’s a constant dream
That doesn’t matter
Talk, talk
Words that I have read
Is anyone listening?
Or am I already dead?

X Zone Radio with Rob McConnell

So in the early hours of this morning – 2-3 am to be precise – I was a guest on Rob McConnell’s X Zone radio program. The show will air tonight at 10pm EST and be repeated for 24 hours. It will also be available across a wide variety of media outlets worldwide. I gave to say, I really enjoyed it and Mr. McConnell turned out to be a great host and interviewer who has invited me back on the show already. Here is the interview and also the X Zone website.

Here are the youtube versions of the interview too…

Prague and Magic

One might think the Czech Republic would be teeming with occultists, mystics, and magicians. After all, at one point in history it was the center of the Universe for alchemy and magic and even John Dee spent time here along with Edward Kelley. The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, was extremely interested in the occult and gathered many alchemists and occultists in Prague in the 16th Century. Apparently, however, Dee and Kelley didn’t impress the Emperor and instead found favor with a Bohemian Count instead.

Rudolf patronized natural philosophers including the astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. He was also the earliest recorded owner of the mysterious Voynich manuscript. Rudolf even performed his own alchemical experiments in a private laboratory. According to Wikipedia, when Rudolf was a prince, Nostradamus prepared a horoscope which was dedicated to him as ‘Prince and King’. Rudolf gave Prague a mystical and magical reputation that persists to this day, with Alchemists’ Alley on the grounds of Prague Castle a popular tourist attraction.

Rudolf II

Then, there is the Golem brought to life by the Rabbi of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel to defend the Prague ghetto from anti semitic attacks. Wikipedia again has the story..

To protect the Jewish community, the rabbi constructed the Golem out of clay from the banks of the Vltava river, and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations. The Golem was called Josef and was known as Yossele. It was said that he could make himself invisible and summon spirits from the dead. The only care required of the Golem was that he can’t be alive on the day of Sabbath (Saturday). Rabbi Loew deactivated the Golem on Friday evenings by removing the shem before the Sabbath began, so as to let it rest on Sabbath. One Friday evening Rabbi Loew forgot to remove the shem, and feared that the Golem would desecrate the Sabbath. A different story tells of a golem that fell in love, and when rejected, became the violent monster seen in most accounts. Some versions have the golem eventually going on a murderous rampage.

The Prague Golem

The rabbi then managed to pull the shem from his mouth and immobilize him in front of the synagogue, whereupon the golem fell in pieces. The Golem’s body was stored in the attic genizah of the Old New Synagogue, where it would be restored to life again if needed. According to legend, the body of Rabbi Loew’s Golem still lies in the synagogue’s attic. Some versions of the tale state that the Golem was stolen from the genizah and entombed in a graveyard in Prague’s Žižkov district, where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands. A recent legend tells of a Nazi agent ascending to the synagogue attic during World War II and trying to stab the Golem, but he died instead. When the attic was renovated in 1883, no evidence of the Golem was found. A film crew who visited and filmed the attic in 1984 found no evidence either. The attic is not open to the general public.

Then there is the more recent master of magic Frantisek (Franz) Bardon who wrote several books on magic. He was born and lived in Opava close to the Polish border and worked as a stage magician in Germany and the region before WWII. Persecuted by the Nazis who, apparently were intent on using his magical skills to their advantage but he refused, he almost died in a concentration camp. Unfortunately, he was equally popular with the Communist regime after the war and did eventually die in Brno Castle prison.

Frantisek Bardon

Despite this rich occult history, I have found the Czech Republic to be sadly lacking in anything mystical or magical. Perhaps communism took its toll or perhaps I simply haven’t found it yet (I have lived here 7-years tho!), but compared to Britain, where in the right place at the right time, you can FEEL the magic, the Czech Republic seems rather rather lacking. Yes, there is lip service played for the tourists but anything truly and deeply esoteric seems to have long gone.

Originally published at http://asterothsdomain.com/2013/03/21/prague-and-magic/

All Sixes and Sevens

Six strings
Strumming along
Six stars
In this song
Six days to work hard
And one to rest
Six metals to reduce
To the best
A sixth sense
Or six of the best
Perfection
Add one for
Completion
Six points to make
Six cakes to bake
Six maids a dancing
Around a point
Six gates to open
Six planets around
A golden Sun
This song is nearly done
Seventh heaven
Seven seals
Seven balanced
Gently heals
Six
Seven
On our way
To that place heaven