The paperwork was done and recorded in less than 48 hours. The people are...not amenable. It's a ridiculous scenario when tests are good, but Oahu Animal Quarantine nonsense is more concerned with money from making them stay, than science. They use Science as a reason to keep them there, but disregard it when it means they should be able to leave. There were no problems 5 years ago, with the simpler process, so this is clearly a revenue generating enterprise at this point with the excessive additional rules they enforce arbitrarily
Back in MD now until mid-June. I went to HI for 10 days to house hunt. Found out last night that this was successful and we're waiting on the rental agreement paperwork to be sent to us! House hunting in Hawaii with cats and needing a good school isn't easy, so that's a big relief.
@@hollyvangaalen No, we fly Alaska Airlines. The cats are allowed to be put as a carry on and sit under the seat in front of you, in place if a bag. Otherwise, we'd need a crate and our experience with United and their jackassery with pets is why we fly Alaska!
Thanks! I'm working on typing things up for a more organized and concise presentation for some distant day. I will have more coming up soon for larger area targets.instead.of a single target like this one is.
@@hollyvangaalen You're too kind. I have stuff here and there on the Internet as Norse900 on several public forums. I'm anonymized on one at my request, but The Occult Mirror is still going.
@@hollyvangaalen Ah, good! I needed a change of pace. Moving back to Hawaii in June and additional work responsibilities added serious stress. I knew I couldn't do it all.
So, who do you owe this debt to? I don't understand why you owe money for existing here? I hate it here so the thought of having to pay extra just makes me tired.
The belief system is that there is a sort of mirror world for the dead that mimics the world of the living. There's a central bank that collects and disperses funds. It's important to remember a few things. One is that this was for a time very long ago and for a specific geographical area that would make up the majority of any "world" someone would live in where this practice originated. As for your point of view of not liking it here, I can actually relate. I wanted to "go" in Iraq. My way, on my terms. DId extra missions, took some extra risks. I was an Infantryman living outside the wire, but it wasn't to be. Body broke a little over a year later to add insult to it. I am self-aware enough to know that my "mission" to make this my last incarnation is related to that. That happens to be a useful source of motivation for making progress in several Occult paths, since I will also work my ass off (like an Infantryman) to "earn" it.
forum.theoccultmirror.net/t/norses-ingot-production-process-for-yin-debt/3118/ The bottom of the page has a reference to it. The original video in this process is here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MPI9F6kksSc.html The payment of the Yin debt is tied to the Maoshan school of Taoism in my case, so the book link and reading about it there is the best you'll get. Debt for the Repayment of Life, Loan for Life, and Yin debt are the same thing. The book can also help someone calculate it, as the methods I used are from the Maoshan private methods.
They were $25 for the physical book and $10 for electronic (Kindle) when I bought mine. As thick as it is, that seems fair to me. As another user pointed out, this is a print version of the online one. I can't remember what the differences are, if any.
Sure, when/if I hear back. I can say that there was reduced talking again and one of the things I wanted changed was them holding prolonged conversations 20 feet away, instead of going to one desk or the other. That did start to happen, but it'll take more than a single day's worth of "success" to see consistency.
I was told a week ago that the friend with the medical condition has had no more episodes from it and is awaiting test results. So that's better, but all I know. The talking has once again subsided outside of regular chit chat. The long, drawn out, distracting convos are largely not happening.
Nice review. I've also read the book and I do see it more positively (really positive), but I did come from a completely different direction. I mainly came for the stories and wanted to be immersed in this Lovecraftian world. So I actually only browsed over all the celestial stuff. However, I'd like to comment on the impractical sigils. I think it's important to take the background story of this particular book into account as it was laid out in the preface. This is a translation of the late 15th century Black Letter Edition of the Necronomicon. That's also where these woodcuts come from. So we're not looking at the original sigils but at reinterpretations of late medieval/early modern artists. Basically, we're looking at things through a medieval filter. As such, the artists surely embellished the designs and made them more beautiful and more complex than they needed to be. Also, from other sources (like the Picatrix), it seems as if the actual specific design of a sigil isn't really important as long as the image can somehow be identified, e.g. if it says that a sigil should display a woman holding an apple, it doesn't really matter how detailed woman and apple are as long as they can be somewhat discerned. Apart from that, the book is big. And it's supposed to be. It's a collection of various stories, topics and sources. I think it deliberately was designed like that, like an ancient holy book, which includes repetitiveness. If you read ancient Holy Books like the Bible or the Quran, or magical books like the aforementioned Picatrix, they are filled with repetitive phrasings. I think this is all part of the world building here. Sure, you could have shortened the Hymns to Cthulhu, you could have kept out celestial stuff which can be found elsewhere. But this is supposed to be Abdul Alhazred's collection, so it's bound to contain a lot of that stuff. So for me, the book is designed to be read like you'd read the Bible: Not front to back, but you pick individual stories here and there. Also, while it clearly is disjointed (and I believe deliberately so), I did get a kick out of some of the cross references. For example, in one of the stories (don't remember which one) Abdul Alhazred describes in passing how he found the Hymns to Cthulhu that are included in the book. Or I'm sure you have noticed that the woodcut of the Silver Key is adorned with some of the sigils that are explained later in the book. If you cross reference those two, otherwise independent, sections, the narrative around the Silver Key becomes a bit clearer. Regarding the tacked on stories in the end, I think you may be right. Though there is some logic to it. There are basically three types of stories, as far as I can tell: Autobiographical stories of Abdul Alhazred, stories that Abdul Alhazred received through visions and stories Abdul Alhazred collected through other means (those are in the last book). So I get the separation of these stories along those lines into various different books. However, I think the book should have started with the Book of Forgotten Lore, not ended with it. Instead, I would have put the visions at the end of the book, like it is with the Bible and the Book of Revelation...then again, maybe that would have been too on the nose and of course there are many more books about visions in the Old Testament of the Bible.
By the way, did you know that you can find a digitized version of the "original" on the Internet Archive? I can't post links on RU-vid, but if you go to the homepage and add "details/the-necronomicon_202308" to the address, you'll see it. Pretty cool if you ask me. The images are pretty high-res, so if you like some of the woodcuts, you can print them out yourself or have them professionally printed as props.
I appreciate your reply. If I had come for the stories or mostly for them, then I would've been more than overjoyed. I think your suggestion that backend stories be pushed to the front would've been much better and removed the inconsistent feeling of it.
Thanks a lot for this comprehensive review! I was looking to get this book now it just went down on my priority list. I guess I'll start with Simon or Asenath Mason. Very unique perspective and I agree with what you said about planetary magick.
Well, if you aren't into Planetary stuff, then I wouldn't bother with Tyson's works on it. He crams things into ceremonial cans, too. If you're into dream work or astral work, then you may like Mason. I'm not into those areas, so her works haven't done anything for me. I've only read a few all the way through, to be fair. Love the artwork, but she's a bit too far down the fluff dark wording path for my likes. If I liked dark fluff wording, I'd read the Balg stuff or the Cabal's material.
@@borednorseman8814 I see. The thing is Thomas M.'s book is pretty expensive where I live, so I'd rather invest in sth I can make better use of. I'm still an apprentice, not exactly sure where I fit in yet. I've worked a little with Runes but nothing too in-depth. I was interested planetary magick at some point but never actually worked with it, so I don't have an opinion. But in dealing with The Great Old Ones I think it's just unfitting to say the least, for the reasons you've mentioned. Back when I was hyped on my occult studies I liked to correlate a lot of stuff and create my own systems, I guess I might do just that. I'm also planning on getting more acquainted with Lovecraft so I can take it all in. By dark fluff you mean she uses too many "dark" words at once in her writing? And finally, what are your areas? What do you like to work with?
So, I don't know that I would go searching the the Old Ones quite yet if you don't have an established practice. Just my opinion, but you'll likely find that there are several levels and different types of egregores that will answer the call and you'd probably want to have more experience with spirit interactions first. You do you. That's just an opinion. About the dark fluff. There's light fluff, too. Normally, published modern "grimoires" have a lot of flowery and emotional language in them that is designed to fill space, use an emotion to cover up a lack of depth to what's being talked about, convey an authority by talking above the education/experience level of their target readership. If they keep reverting to flowery language, trying to impress with pretend scientific understanding of unprovable things, or rely on a dark, edgy or a divine vastness and grandeur, they're probably guilty if this is used a lot. There are places where this is appropriate, of course. Whether a book is using it can typically be judged by asking what usable material was just presented. Usable is the key part to latch onto. Another would to ask if that material would work in a DnD story. This can't cover everything, naturally. I'm not going to write a novella in YT comments :)
@@borednorseman8814 rest assured I'm not thinking of doing anything reckless. All I'm after is some stories for inspiration and a good material for studying. Maybe one day I'll try calling them but that's still years away.
Thanks! It was a nice find from Ali Express. This is the "large" version. I've thought about getting another one and leaving it in the box, just in case. But the thing is mostly metal, so it should last a while.
Thank you. I move back there in June, so I was safe from those. No family lives there and most of my friends are on Oahu, so they were safe too. I appreciate your concern.
@@borednorseman8814 you didn't know this but I was keenly watching your review and held off investing in it myself, another cool book on this line I think is called something like 84 genies of power something like that
I haven't read through the 84 book yet. I've thought about it, but would need to read some reviews first, I think. Still working my way through the Luban text.@@Mike_Bee11
@@borednorseman8814 I really Baal Kadmons "How to bind the djinn and make them do your bidding ". Not that I am an advocate for enslaving entities no, but many of the binding techniques presented there can be applied in consentingvcircumstances also
