Masters Of Fairies Certificate

I think it's getting close to that time when some of you who have been here for a good while now, are entitled to get some kind of certificate of mastery over the occult.

I wonder if some here feel as if they might be getting close to that. 

'Peri Khan!' Master of the Fairies!

Fragile, existing only in a few moments.

Of course, we have to admit to yourselves that we are not really their 'masters' but maybe their friends, as much as we can be.

And then, we'll have to get their okay about acclaiming ourselves that way, even if falsely.

Real mastery of course, is determined by real attainments.

So, we'll see. But it's getting close to that time, I think.

Meanwhile, let me go into this Jung mandala thing a bit more.

Jung says his mandalas were a discovery of his own internal 'self.' And that might be so to some extent, no doubt.

I prefer to think of it the way it is used by the Zen masters: here, they practice drawing a circle in the air, and then drawing it perfectly on some rice paper or whatever. And, if they have to use a sword, well, then they can make perfect circles with that too.

In Taoism and Zen practice, it's all very similar to witchcraft, in that the sword or the pen acts in the same way as the 'athame.' It conveys some kind of invisible energy and power from this place to that place.

It isn't only the outward meaning of the words that are written that are the important matters, but so many other things going on in the act of, for example, calligraphy - the ink, the colors, the paper, the time of day, the intentions...

When you devise a mandala, to protect your sleep and your dreams for instance, it's the color of the ink which implies a certain harmonic... ...And then, only whatever is able to be in harmony with that color can enter in through the effective circular walls of the mandala. It isn't that these walls are meant to keep everything out, but only to allow in certain harmonious things instead.

Unfortunately, this is another case of when we talk about something, there is this inclination to go out and buy some cleverly-marketed product.

You don't need to do that.

This is called 'firefly glow.'

All you have to do is go and ask nicely for some fireflies to give you some of their glow stuff...

...Otherwise you'll be stuck with going to your local expensive art papers and ink place and seeking the Japanese high quality fountain pen inks.

Oh, gewd they got all kinds of beautiful stuff.

Not cheap, either.

They still haven't come out with the 'actual genuine fairy master ink' yet.

But they will, I'm sure of it.

Me, I can't read or write music all that well so there'd be not much point slipping me notes on cute paper that made sense to some real musician - but not to me.

I'd just go 'Huh? What's this?' And prolly turn it upside down and stuff; chew on it, maybe.

...Which kind of is an indication of how come fairies don't talk to us. Well, that is to say, they do, and they mean to communicate - but we don't listen, or we just don't really understand them.

Before we get into this sending out certificates of occult mastery here, we need to understand these fairy people and maybe getting a couple of them to show up to you - where you are; for real. Physically. That'll spin your head! Won't it?

All the stars and planets have to be aligned, though: