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Jul 17 2007, 05:52 PM
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I was reading Dion Fortune´s "Psychic Self-Defence" in which came a paragraph that caught my particular attention, followed by a brief experience of hers. The paragraph reads as follows: "There is a very curious aspect of the occult field concerning which something must be said in the present pages, though not a great deal can be revealed, and, to be frank, I do not know a great deal about it myself, but only such aspects as I have actually come across. I have always heard it called the Occult Police; others may know it by different names but I believe it to be a very real and concrete thing, though its organisation is not upon the physical plane, nor, so far as I know, are its mundane activities gathered up into any single pair of hands. I have crossed its trail upon a number of occasions, and played my part in its activities, and I have talked with others who have also been concerned in it, and they have always said as I do, that it is the inner voice and circumstances alone that direct our activities when we co-operate with this mysterious organisation." It caught my attention because I have heard of the Occult Police but always (mis) took it for a joke. Oh dont tell anyone or ill be in trouble with the occult police and such. Then Dion Fortune came into my life. (IMG: style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) I also read, in the same book, that there are certain lodges called Hunting Lodges in which the purpose of the group is to stop the wrong doings of Black Lodges and that the Hunting Lodges have some sort of link or direct connection to the Occult Police. So I was wondering, is there such a thing as "Occult Police"? What are your experiences with this organization if any? or just jot down your opinion about them. (IMG: style_emoticons/default/blablabla.gif)
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Jul 17 2007, 06:52 PM
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The "occult police" definately exist... but there is also an "occult resistance". This polarity between order and chaos was written up pretty well in a novel by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea called "The Illuminatus Trilogy". It existance on all levels of society, and has functioned althrough out history, taking the forms of opposing political, religious, philosophical, class based, and national factions. Marxism even says that "class conflict" (that is factional conflict) is the motor force of history. The "occult" police usually consists of any organized groups of occultists... or anti-occultists (atheists) like organized religion, and occult socieites like freemasonry, the rosicrucians, etc. The resistance is composed, at least in theory, more of individuals, but onces they band up into factions, they also "police" their own spiritual turf, or ideological interests if you will. An example of this is actually freemasonry, which was consolidated in the early 18th century with the purpose of combatting catholicism and really most organized religions. It was effective in so far as introducing secularism to the masses, but became another force of reaction once it became comfortably entrenched in state power and became so dependent on capital...
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Jul 17 2007, 09:59 PM
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QUOTE There are however "entity organizations" that literally observe various planets for signs of practices that "they should not have", I've encountered some of them before and they base themselves on various issues such as "nature", "balance" and the like. Yes, that is what i also think. I read a while back that in the angelic orders there are angels assigned to each planet, these angels are called Thrones and are part of the second choir of angels. The job appointed to the Thrones is to impart divine justice for the planet they watch over. QUOTE getting a significant number of people to participate in things like Occult Cops is absurd QUOTE There may very well be a group that fancies themselves "Occult Police" but the fact is that no individual or cult can limit the practices. I didn't mean that there were actual humans who do this job of Patrolling the Occult world, rather than "ambassadors" if you will, ambassadors for other entities of the astral maybe?. I don't think it would be a job appointed by astral beings though. But it does sound unlikely, and I will stick to the theory of astral entities instead.
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Jul 20 2007, 02:39 AM
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Three may keep a secret... if two of them are dead. Like Imperial Arts said, secret occult orders are not powerful, and powerful occult orders are not secret.
Any yokle can claim to be from the "poe-leese", broadcast it all around, and claim it to be their "big secret." If you encounter any of these "justice people" you're likely encountering a loner who let their magickal practices ebb their sanity, which does sometimes happen if one lets it. At most, you might come across a small cabal of said loonies. That, or some have genuinely gone the Buffy the Vampire Slayer route and tries to save the world at every turn. But again, these would be isolated cabals at most.
Now a good Samaritan or vengful Punisher would be different. A good Samaritan would just be a person either passing by or who lives in the area and decides to help whatever situation that has arisen. The Punisher types can either be rolled into the lone yokle types, or they're out try to satisfy their own personal revenge on others and don't truly care about justice one way or the other as long as they vent at the expense of another. Again, these are all isolated types.
Any powerful order that forms is quickly made known, whether via divination, asking a spirit, direct contact with them, etc. Remember, three may keep a secret... if two of them are dead. Well, in this case I guess you can just whip out a ouija board and ask, so the adage is moot when it comes to magick, but you get the point.
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Jul 20 2007, 11:14 AM
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Greetings! To SPoison: Dion Fortune (aka Violet Firth) was one of the first female psychologists in the then mostly male field of Psychology. She was the founder of the Inner Light Society and was a member of a number of more popular occult lodges. She was a prolific writer on occult topics and alot of her work remains highly esteemed by occult practioners the world 'round! She knows her stuff...I highly reccomend her work! A general comment: The idea of the Occult Police has occured due to a number of incidences sighted by various practioners and with the mystique engendered by the lodges themselves. Blavatsky was another who has hinted about such a 'group'. During the later eighteen hundreds and early 19 hundreds there was a massive upheaval in the European occult lodges. I'm sure that the story has its origins within those times. But even farther back there are myths and stories that allude to mysterious saviour-like beings that come to mans rescue in the hour of need. Look at your religous dogma etc. for these hints. I have had a few brushes with some mysterious group/force in my lengthy meanderings within the occult community. 'Occult Police'? Who knows. Keep a pragmatic approach not a scoffing one. (IMG: style_emoticons/default/diablo.gif)
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Jul 20 2007, 07:09 PM
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QUOTE(bym @ Jul 20 2007, 07:27 PM) The 'Occult Police' hinted at by Fortune stems from a common (within various occult communities) belief that there are 'ascended masters' that look in on the occult darings-do of the world. They employ a variegated collection of real life and spiritual personages that adhere to a higher 'ascetic' cause (these are my poorly chosen words, i apologize). According to this 'ascended master' ideology the 'occult police' are a collective that responds to pleas for intervention. This belief has been passed down through a number of modern day occult 'lodges'/orders both, incidently, of Western AND Eastern philosophy. What the Aztecs may have believed....who knows? The idea to fit this belief into the status quo vs progressives paradigm is oversimplification, IMHO, of course. (IMG: style_emoticons/default/i_triangle.gif) I dunno anything about ascended beings besides that they are a large part of the "I AM" ideology, and I am pretty sure I have never met one, but it is undeniable that established religions tend to try to crush and cut down rival and nascent ones... Roman paganism tried to do it with Christianity, and when it found it could not it converted itself to a state endorsed version of Christianity ... When the Spanish arrived in the new world the way they "policed" what they saw as a Satanic religio-social structure was baptism in blood and bacteria. Where ever Christianity has gone it has played the role of judge, jury and executioner when it has found opposing belief systems. Basically I guess I am saying that any faction or group can play a policing role in terms of the occult, and the faction that has the backing of the most wealthy or politically powerful individuals usually comes out on top. I guess I am boiling it down to mean occult policing essentially equals religious or holy war. For what else is policing besides clashes of armed violence by one faction who wants to maintain order and another who jus don' give a fuhk. Conflict theory I don't think is a simplification on this one... conflict between factions truly has been the motorforce of political and religious history, from the 30 years war after Protestantism was introduced in Germany, to the regional war between Sunnis and Shias in the Middle East right now - being on one side or the other of an occult, metaphysical or holy war means coming into direct conflict with other humans who want to police your occult and metaphysical beliefs and activities.
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Nov 21 2007, 11:18 PM
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QUOTE(Imperial Arts @ Jul 17 2007, 08:42 PM) I have read this book and recall the Occult Police note. It is my opinion that this is pure hokum, as is a great deal of other material in Dion Fortune's body of work.
The secret occult orders are not powerful, and the powerful occult orders are not secret. It should be obvious to all that bodies of esoteric thought like the Freemasons, AMORC, the Jesuits, and even the OTO have an admirable degree of success to boast. They are all widely known and most of their doctrine is available for public inspection.
Black Lodges, Occult Police, telekinetic Tibetan masters... all of that is bull. The real occult work is done with hesitation and any serious magician views his or her own work with some measure of skepticism. The exceptions are either loonies or liars. Organizing a body of people to do something as simple as bake cookies every tuesday is fairly difficult: getting a significant number of people to participate in things like Occult Cops is absurd. i disagree with that, every order has an inner order within it which consists of the elite, fewer members. does those type of order do not need to recruit. why do order need to recruit, why do they need power?
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Nov 22 2007, 07:52 PM
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Made me think of Twin Peaks! (IMG: style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The Bookhouse Boys and the Black Lodge. "The owls are not always what they seem" It sounds like what Dion is saying is that there is a kind of astral egregore or conglomerate of egregoric beings responsible for resisting the forces of black magick, "evil" forces, and occult "wrongdoings". This egregore can then be tapped into consciously or unconsciously when one is pitted against these sorts of things. That's my interpretation anyway. For anyone, who has seen Twin Peaks, remember the Giant? I haven't seen the whole series yet, but from what I've seen the Giant might be considered a kind of occult police, helping Agent Cooper. Lynch is awesome!! This post has been edited by flyingmojo: Nov 22 2007, 07:53 PM
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Dec 12 2007, 12:12 PM
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QUOTE(Imperial Arts @ Jul 20 2007, 07:36 PM) Funny how an Occult Police force could fail to stop the 3rd Reich.
Assuming the "Occult Police" is composed of superhuman entities from higher planes of existence, I think it would be hasty to project our own value systems onto them. Even among humans, values differ greatly, although there are certain tendencies that seem to be universal amongst us. When we're talking about beings of an entirely different order, I think it's safe to take our own ideas about what is prudent, just or necessary and throw them out the window, as such ideas are based on what we can discern given our modes of perception and comprehension. To illustrate, I ask the question: What do dogs concern themselves with from day to day? How about ants? Amoebas? On what do they base their decisions about what actions to take or not to take? When it comes to policing, ants will fight to protect the colony, or invade other colonies for the purposes of survival. How much of this is based on conscious forethought and how much is pure instinct? Can ants understand human politics? Economics? Sociology? Astronomy? I can't say for sure, not being an ant, but it's safe to assume that an ant can't even imagine the kinds of decisions and possibilities humans are faced with. We can see and comprehend more than them and the scope of our decisions is greater. A chain of worker ants in a human's kitchen probably has no idea why the human comes along with a can of Raid and wipes them out by the dozens, while we generally leave the ants living outdoors to their own devices. Again, without placing any value judgments on their actions, if the occult Police exist, there's no way we can say why they were "unsuccessful" in stopping the Third Reich. Did they even try to? What are their values and how do they decide such things? It could very well be that they let the Third Reich carry on as long as it did on purpose because they comprehend some consequence of it that we can scarcely conceive of. How far ahead can a human look compared to an ant? How far ahead can an archangel look compared with a human? Who knows what goes into the decisions of such beings?
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Dec 13 2007, 08:26 AM
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QUOTE(Imperial Arts @ Dec 13 2007, 02:30 AM) I agree with the substance of what you are saying, in that we should not project our opinions into the affairs of things more complicated than our personal biases.
On the other hand, the notion of an Occult Police even vaguely similar to what Dion Fortune proposes is (IMO) nonsense. Are the neighborhood witches gathering to curse your pigs? Just visualize this green cross and all will be handled by authoritative spirit-masters! While I am sure she wrote this with the best of intentions, it is purely her fantasy. Perhaps there are spirits or even occultist humans who keep watch or take vigilante action, but the Occult Police she describes are not such a general body but rather a specific and supposedly secret magical fraternity. I disbelieve in their entire existence, and I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of any group waiting for some random person to visualize a common symbol so they can take magical action against that person's adversaries. I concur with you there. I've read the book in question and I found the idea a bit farfetched myself. Besides evrything you've said, I'm also inclined to think that while a supposed Black Lodge could do some harm, there would also likely be inherent limitations built into such a group's philosophy and methods, and they couldn't do the kind of harm that would even necessitate action from a group like an Occult Police force. What I'm trying to say could be summed up with an analogy using fire: A candle's gentle flame burns steadily and slowly, providing light for a relatively long period of time. A hotter, more violently-burning flame will quickly consume its fuel; unless more is constantly provided it will burn itself out. Its power may be great, but its life is relatively short-lived. In this analogy I would liken a "Black Lodge" to the violently burning flame. Its purposes would likely be self-defeating in the end and it wouldn't be quite so easy to find new recruits, especially given how secretive such a sect would need to be. So who would even need Occult Police? Of course there are always exceptions, the Great Chicago Fire being one of them. Maybe we can compare the Third Reich to that? I dunno. In case you can't tell yet, sometimes I get caught up in an afterthought and stray from the central topic, and that's what I did in my previous post. Everything else worth saying was already said in one form or another in previous posts. In the general sense, I do agree with you.
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Sep 29 2008, 08:32 AM
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I believe that there are Occult Police, to the point where I know there are. If you get their attention they usually warn first, it would be best to listen. I'd guess that there is no one here in these forums that would warrant their attention. They don't have a 911 line, or a police station.
Nazi Germany: Hitler had his staff of Magicians some of them played both sides, they did what they could. Hitler defiantly had some entity on his side. Too many coincidences of him escaping assignation attempts. More of this I can not say. But they tried, remember the occult work of the Nazis started way before 1939. In fact had Hitler Died in 1936 we would all be praising him as one of the greatest people of our time (some do to this day). So it took a while for the German people to really see what was happening.
Thank you bym, Dion Fortune, was amazing. She lead her group through the war doing what they could in probably the best possible way. Her letters to her group and any one that wanted to join in the effort, have been published a few years back, they had been classified in England which by law hold classified stuff for 50yrs. Sorry don't recall the title. If there is an interest I will have to dig through my books to find it. Ok, she wasn't summoning spirits for the war effort, there was nothing very colorful in the way she went about it but (IMO), the book is worth reading it has a lot to teach. Of her writings my favorite is The Secrets of Dr. Tavener, I have 3 copies and have read it many times, I even got a hard back of the book. It is good reading no matter if you believe it or not, it is said to be true, and I believe it is. She was one of the first authors I read, way back when her books were in hard back, I have them all. When I was young her books while good advice were perhaps less thrilling then Crowley or Mothers and the others. However I think I got more out of her writings.
As for the Ascended Masters, they can not interfere in Karma, they can direct they can, teach, but they can not do much to interfere on the physical. I believe that FB was one of them, although he did not come out an actually say he was an ascended master in Frabato The Magician there is little doubt, he did what he could in Nazi Germany, it is a very good book also.
Ascended Masters: I did not really believe in them myself, my teachers did, they spoke of them form time to time, but there was no real emphasis on them. By a long series of "coincidences" they came to my attention. I started to look into them and found that much of what my teachers were talking about had to do with the Ascended Masters. They apparently are numerous Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, some of the saints, FB or Hermes 3x and Thoth are probably the same entity, many we never heard of, it's a long list. The whole Ascended master thing just plane makes sense to me, explaining many things. Anyway I have found that aligning myself with the Ascended Masters (by understanding the tradition) is life altering, it has removed all that remained of fear as far as I can tell.
An example of how they seem to work: I have found that they seem to help guide me in my exercises. I do a series of exercises and meditations every morning before I start my day this Sadhana (sp) is a thing I have been doing, on and off for 40 yrs. It has grown from 20 min to the present of 3 hrs. I'm retired Ok, so I have the time. Since I have actually took the time to try to understand the Ascended Masters I get pointers on my exercises, they have been reordered, and have become unbelievably powerful. Nothing more then I can handle but once I get used to the level, the bar gets raised. I have even had them physically move my hand to change something. I work with several but one is the most prominent he also hangs around my mother, she is 86 and fell a few months back. He has helped in the healing process, she talks with him and has felt his touch.
The big point I have gotten is that they CAN NOT do a lot with out our help, they work with people as a team members. They are powerful and that is why we don't see much of them... Jesus is a prime example they turned him into a god. By the way in my life time I have seen him go from the son the GOD himself. This of course is a perversion but it is an example of what happens when these guys show up. They don't want to be treated as gods, they suggest the rest id up to you. If you have the right relationship with them then you get to see some incredible things. Most especially they do not interfere with your development or Karma however you want to look at it.
Krell
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