Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Pt. I : “Voudoo Energies”

Dedication” of this book

to the Hoodoo and Les Vudu,

To the Kami and the Kammamori,

To the Lares and the Penates,

And to the Numen and the Numina”

1.1-1.3 “Power of the Spirits”; “Ghuedhe Grimoire”; “Magickal System”.

1.1.1 pp. 1-2 the 2 categories of spirits

p. 1

the magicians … became spirits with fish-like bodies and frog-like bodies, and snake-like bodies. They did this so that they could continue their work under the ocean, in their big temple at the bottom of the sea.”

{There is a supernatural undersea city described in the 1001 Nights.}

p. 2

“”Papa Nibbho” … is the king of the spirits of the Dead, and they have the name of Ghuedhe … . … His spirits look … like walking … skeletons”.

{cf. the walking skeletons Citipati & Citipatni in Vajra-yana.}

p. 3 rite for one's own “DEDICATION TO THE HOODOO SPIRITS”

1.1.2 p. 6 colors of the cardinal directions (for, e.g., candles to be placed in those directions for rites) {N.B. The colors of the 4 cardinal directions here are identical with those used by the Totonac of Veracruz (AA&OEM, p. 59a).}

direction

its color

North

yellow

West

blue

South

green

East

red

Centre

black

AA&OEM = Yves Bonnefoy (ed.) : American, African, and Old European Mythologies. http://books.google.com/books?id=GYjc5POwJjAC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=

1.1.5 p. 16 forms of money attracted by the several religions

religion

its money

Son-Pa” {/So^n/ is the Korean pronunciation of Japanese /Zen/, Chinese /C^>an/, Skt. /Dhyana/.}

gold”

Huna & Voudoo

Lucky Silver”

Witchcraft

liquid or fluid money” [bank account?]

Shamanism

invested Funds” [stock-certificates, bond-certificates]

1.1.5 p. pp. 17-18 modes of contact with spirits

p.

contact

17

FEED SPIRITS : … make an offering to the spirits of your own energy by rubbing your hands together and then extending them to the gods.”

{This is done by worshippers in Vais.n.ava temples.}

18

POSSESSED : The shaman may be possessed by both anthropomorphic and theriomorphic spirits, appearing as men, animals, insects, or other fantastic beings.”

{Actually, spirit-mediumship (while possessed by a fox- or by a badger-spirit in Omoto) is usually distinct from shamanry, which instead is usually a matter of being guided and helped (the spirit-helper often being an animal-spirit) in dreams.}


LYCANTHROPIC : The were-animal mediumship of the shaman … .”

{A dreaming shaman may have (be in) an animal-body during a dream. This is distinct from spirit-mediumship while awake.}

{It may have been Japanese Omoto mentors who misled Bertiaux into supposing that spirit-mediumship is identical with shamanism.}

1.1.6 p. 19 everyone is in need of help from spirits

When we say in ordinary life, “He/she is not in good spirits,” what we really mean is that he/she does not have enough or any good spirits in him/her to make him act happy … .

in Lucky Hoodoo we have discovered ways of correcting this problem of lack of spirits. … .

the spirits of Lucky Hoodoo want to help you, … they really want to … help you … .

However, there are many people who are so foolish that they want to keep the spirits out, so that they are constantly under the … negative influences of being poor, being sick, being ignorant, and being foolish … . Those people are really … in very serious need of help, but they close the door in the face of the help that the spirits can give them.”

1.1.10 p. 35 “How the Hoodoo Can Have Lifelong Success as a Reader and Advisor”

Anyone who has made a practice of the Hoodoo faith, … sooner or later many people will hear about him and his abilities and they will come to him [so that he will be able] to help them with their problems. Sooner or later he will be asked to do certain things for which he will receive some kind of payment … . This is the way in which the spirits want us to spread the religion of Lucky Hoodoo, which is a religion of help … . Lucky Hoodoo is therefore the most practical religion in the world. …

After a while you will find that you are growing deeper and deeper into the faith of Lucky Hoodoo, for the spirits are teaching you more and more things. They will teach you new ways to heal the ill, to make the poor more successful, and they will teach you how to … help others in their love and sex life.”

1.2.4 pp. 52-3 zombi

p. 52

monde Squeletelique {'world Skeletalic'} … the place of the Three skulls … is the temple meeting place of the initiate and


Ghuedhe l'Horizon.”

{In Kemetic parlance, 'to have died' is expressed by 'to have gone to one's horizon'.}

p. 53

the Ghuedhe-Universe or system-G … Is … another ultra-topology or logico-magickal realm …, as well as … magickal encyclopedia of worlds. … These worlds are living, all ideas there are alive. … Les-Faiseurs-des-Zombi … In their own universe … are alive, we are by reference to them the dead ones. … . … you may go there if they decide to take you.”

1.2.5 pp. 54-7 families of Loa; colors of those families

p.

#

family

its traits

its colors

55

1

Nibbho”

research oriented”

white


2

Cemetery

automatic writing, … trance”

black


3

Initiatic

royal” “giving initiations to … the dead”

purple & gold


4

Divinatory

oracles” “mysteries of blood”

red & gold

56

5

Black Magick

sexual … magick” “temple making”

black


6

Transvection

uses were-animal masks” “insect-forms”

dark colors”


7

Big Baron

magickal days” “stellar”

purple, black, & red


8

Spider

divinatory … of the negative type”

black & red

57

9

Lewd

sexual exhibitionism” “deflowering dead virgins”

any & all” colors


10

Magick

voudoo monks” “initiation”

black & purple

1.2.5 pp. 57-8 membres of those families of Loa

p.

#

Famille __

#

membre

57

I

Nibbho

1

Mirroir-des-Sessions




2

Histoire Fantastique




3

Mirroir Fantastique




4

Mirroir Mystere




5

Mirroir Royal


II

Cimitiere

1

Ghuede Veillee




2

Mystere Linglessou




3

Mystere Grand-Aran




4

Ghuedhe Cadavre




5

Mystere Allonge


III


1

Roi Louanges




2

Mystere Sacredoce




3

Mystere d'Aphotheose




4

Mystere Lutteau




5

Ti-Retirer




6

Grand-Retirer


IV

Divinitoire

1

Mysteres-des-Sanges




2

Mysteres-des-Craines




3

Mysteres-des-Houdeaux

58



4

Mystere Royal


V

Magie Noire

1

Ti-Mauvais




2

Macando




3

Bacaloubaca




4

Bossu-Diabolo


VI

Transvection

1

Ti-Pied-Mille-Fois




2

Ti-Moufette [“skunk” (p. 56)]




3

Mystere-des-Blattes


VII

Grande Baron

1

Baron La Croix




2

Baron Cimitiere




3

Baron Samedi




4

Baron Piquant




5

Baron Scorpion




6

Ti-Jean-Zombi




7

Baron Zombi




8

Ghuedhe Nibbho




9

Ghuedhe Brav'


VIII

Zariguin

1

Mystere Araignee




2

Ti-Zariguin




3

Mystere Toile-d'Araignee




4

Maitre Baron Zariguin


IX

Impudique

1

Mystere-Limbi-des-Lutteurs-Nus




2

Maitre Baron Limba




3

Mystere Baron Lundi


X

Magique

1

Legbha Nibbho




2

Histoire Nibbho




3

Grand Maitre Baron Ghuedhe




4

Marrassas Nibbho

1.2.7. pp. 62-4 Grimoire Ghuedhe {GEDE, a god in Dahomey} {/ghe-/ would be the Italian, and /gue-/ the French, spelling for phonetic /ge-/}

.105

p. 62

[The main centre of Liberian culture in the the Caribbean, a little to the west from Port-au-Prince,] “Leogane is the Holy City … . … .

.108

p. 63

Look at your fingers and see them with your natural African clairvoyance – … see them … as tubes of light, or occult energy, which is both coming into each of the fingers as well as going out into the nearby space. … .


... Ghuedhe died on the Cross, so really they are Holy Powers of the hand. … .

{cf. [in law] /mortmain/ 'dead hand'}

.108

p. 64

slowly allow the voudoo energy come to you from Leogane, by using your hand as the occult TV receiver.”

.109

p. 64

the power-space of my base of the penis for generating power … is an occult space and there are various spirits of the GG which come to dwell in that space or can be called into it.”

1.2.8 pp. 67-8 sexo-alchemical angelic magick

p. 67

the Rites of Zom {also pronounced /Zum/ in other Leogane lineages} … is based on sexo-magickal and sexo-alchemical contacts between certain magickal angels and other … planets … . This type of contact work has already been written about … via the book “Cults of the Shadow,” by Kenneth Grant, p. 188, viz., “The Trans-yuggothian Transmission Station.” … Those who practice these rites are known as Zomates … . The priesthood of Zom is the most secret part of … their spider-magick”.

This is the way in which the mind of the Earth-sphere was actually influenced by the Zom-Consciousness, and the way whereby the powers of Aiwaz and Amalantrah were diffused over the face of the globe to prepare for the coming of Spider-Magick.”

p. 68

we have to realize the sphere of the planets as the senders of the cosmic counterpart to the Zom-forces. … We must view each act of the Rites of Zom as it emanates from the magick of the magician's bodies {multiple subtle bodies?}, connect with the magickal planets …, and then going beyond ultimately pulls in the magickal power and presence of the terrific angelic forces of the Zothyrian … . … In a three-fold way, therefore, we pull in the powers of the highest form of ultra-magick known at this time on our planet, the Aiwaz-Current … . The mysterious exchanges of these energies … of Mystical India is discussed by P>B> Randolph, Eulis (Toledo, Ohio …, 1874 edition, page 209.) …

Sexual Alchemy of the Zom-Rite … takes one of man's occult powers … to … enter upon the astral world of planets and the powers which they generate. Here, the angels are called upon to serve as agents between the Zom-powers and the very terrific Loa. … However …, we have to see each angel as a projection outwards of … the hyper-esoteric spiritual force of each planet.”

1.2.8 pp. 69-70 categories of Loa

p. 69

The destructive Loa are those as follows :

Marassas Nibbho,

Mystere Baron Lundi,

Mystere Araignee,

Baron La Croix, and

Mystere-des-Blattes. …


The indifferent Loa, who may be either destructive or constructive, are as follows :

Ti-Mauvais,

Mystere-des-Sanges, and

Grand-Retirer.

p. 70

The constructive Loa are only two :

Mystere Allonge and

Mirroir-des-Sessions.”

1.3.1 p. 80 Carl G. Jung & Jungianism

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, who was born in July, 1875, … was a special world-teacher of the renewal of the gnosis … . … The Mandala Center is simply the organization of …

(a) metaphysical and metamathematical … construction of mandalas,

(b) phenomenological ontology and the metaphysics of symbols,

(c) analytical radiopsychology and the gnostic psychoanalysis of alchemical processes,

(d) zothyrian ufology and the theology of consciousness, and comprises

the Jungian-Zothyrian inner order of the Rite of Memphis-Mis[.]ra[y]im.”

{The term “Zothyrian” is reputedly “Moorish” (“ZCMS”), i.e. Moroccan, so that if this were so it would rank a nigh congener to Kemetic MN-NFR-MIRE^ (Memphis) and Mis.rayim.} {Howbeit, /Zothur/ is (and more accurately so) a Magyar personal name and an Estonian place-name.}

ZCMS” = http://www.moorsgate.com/2011/01/26/the-zothyrian-concept-of-moorish-science/

1.3.2 pp. 84-5 psychological categories

p. 84

Self = That which can be experienced introspectively as a dynamism.”


Conscious Mind = The mind that is here and now.


Sub-Conscious Mind = … memory experiences of a human.


Un-Conscious Mind = The transpersonal matrix of all psychic energies … . …


Super-Conscious Mind = The transpersonal lattice of all psychic energies … .”

p. 85

Syzygy = Anima and Animus”.

{More customarily, “syzygy” is the term for divine husband-couples within the Valentinian Pleroma.}

1.3.3 pp. 86-7 Aiwaz physics

p. 86

1

the material basis … in the materialization of the Absolute”.


2

the intelligence of the Aeon.”


3

magickal forms of possession.”


4

the hieron or holy place of initiation.”


5

the shadow, which is hidden by the personality.”

p. 86

6

the principle of the Logos.”


7

sexual radioactivity.”


8

erotic magick.”


9

The German ... Fraternity of Saturn possessed special magnetic methods – derived from P. B. Randolph -- for directing … energy along eight distinct “tubes and tunnels of magnetic power,” a mystery communicated”.


10

all the elements of consciousness and being are united in Abraxos”.

1.3.4 p. 88 Kenneth Grant

Aleister Crowley … happily … has been corrected, extended, and improved upon by Kenneth Grant … . … Grant writes favorably about my work”.

Michael Bertiaux : The Voudon Gnostic Workbook. New York : Magickal Childe, 1988.