I once read somewhere that if what you are doing doesn’t work, then try something else. Something else I read was about alchemical gold and turning lead into gold. The way to create alchemical gold is to take the gold you have and multiply it! First you need to have some!
So you take what works, even if it is not a huge success and multiply that. It seems simple enough but the reality is more challenging.
I recently made my books, Anarchist Knight-Apprentice, Magister Tempi, Modern Survivalism and my translated stories available on Scribd.com. I did this after careful consideration of stats and on sudden impulse as well.
This is all based on my thought that readership is much more important than making any money on my writing. How to boost readership has been a question that baffles lots of people on the internet. I am pleased to see a steady growth and don’t really have any complaints. I’m just impatient.
Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism are the study material for the 1st and 2nd degrees of the OAK magickal system. What about study material for the 3rd degree? It can’t exist yet!
The 3rd degree material is about group energy and group dynamics. It is about the power of collective purpose and collective agreement. It is about joint effort and beleif in a common system of values. Until there is a group there can be no 3rd degree. This is true for any magickal system, political system, religious system, educational system of any structure involving a number of people.
In these two books I’ve put down the morals and values that I believe will guide humanities future. It is a belief in hard work and individual competence. Today’s world has become so fragmented that people are following individual paths and not collective paths. They are opting for individual goals and not collective goals. There is nothing wrong with this. It is where people are in their development. All that I’m saying is there will be no progress until people once more learn to work together in collective agreement.
Forcing individual compliance through force backed laws, fear based coercion and rules will not work.
From a personal note Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism say everything that I feel I need to say. There is no more I can do until people gather together in common purpose. I was a member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC for twenty two years and studied weekly monographs. The power that bound Rosicrucians together was a common education, a common conceptual understanding. The fact that everyone studied the same monographs in the same order and progressed through the material in the same manner was a very powerful and empowering thing for a person to do. I know that my Rosicrucian studies shaped my life and my very soul. No matter who I might become later in life I will always remain a Rosicrucian because of the way they have shaped me.
Hanns Heinz Ewers believed in a Nation of Culture that was destroyed by the two world wars. In his writing we can track the development of his soul as he first pursues spiritual and philosophical things, then confronts his own shadow and personal demons and finally late in life pours his heart and soul into the group.
He spent the first part of his life in selfish and solitary pursuits and only later became an ardent nationalist. Unfortunately his nation was Hitler’s Germany. Still, is there much difference in saying that one should be proud of their country, proud of thier roots, proud of their culture, proud of their own people?
As long as it is America that we are proud of it’s alright, or even any other country in the world except Nazi Germany. Ewers was a strong supporter of the Jewish cause and helped many aquire the visas they needed to leave Germany before World War II. The question is not about hate or race or superiority. It is about love of home and country taken to an extreme degree. It is about the belief in a nation of culture.
As I translate Hanns Heinz Ewers I realize that I share a passionate belief in human potentials, rugged individualism, high ideals, personal freedom, and a longing to belong to a group of like minded people. I feel frustrated at a society that feels it no longer needs collective agreement but can use blind force to attain compliance to its whims. I feel frustrated at a society that rewards weakness and dependency and punishes competency and skill.
The nation of culture that Hanns Heinz Ewers knew and loved was the mystery tradition of the west, namely Free Masonry, Rosicrucianism , Kabalistic groups and the sciences. One could even make the claim with some degree of accuracy that Masonry ruled the world. That is not true today. To be a mason is to invite persecution once more.
Aleister Crowley dreamed that his organization, the OTO, could reinvent Freemasonry on a higher level and bring back the nation of culture but it never caught on. Without members even the most worthy ideals and goals will fail.
The OAK materials contained in Magister Templi and Modern Survivalism synthesize a life time of personal study and experience. Most importantly they have been simplified down to the point where they represent self-evident truths. They represent things common to everyone and experiences common to everyone. They represent a starting point of a new nation of culture if they can draw enough support from enough people. They stand upon the solid ground of the past and look with self-evident eyes into the future exposing the frauds and illusions of political correctness.
Let’s face it. Some things will never be popular and truth is one of them! As Hanns Heinz Ewers says, beautiful lies always destroy ugly truth!
