Flags, Flax, and Fodder

Flags, Flax, and Fodder

The Secrets of 1734 Revealed.

Wm Gray letter #8

Thank God someone has at last understood what I have been driving at in this Troy maze of witches and wizards. Hooray! Paganism is a religious pantheism, a comprehension that Nature is a reflection of the Hands of God and that God is in Nature complete. Witchcraft, on the other hand, is a science, an occult science with it's own distinct traditions and philosophy that in it's lower stages can be confused with Paganism, but in it's higher stages can no more be Pagan than the Qabbalah. It's origins lie in Paganism, but for that matter so does every other philosophy that is genuinely concerned with the spiritual. For instance the Old Testament's JIEVOAA is A.E.U.E.I. oe to put it closer. II.I.E.U.O.A.A.A. which are the Sacred vowels of witchcraft, Read them sunwise from Hebrew to Latin and they become the Sacred Name of the Sun King, (Jah! IIO. miss two). But apart from this display of erudition, the vowels are the sacred tree sequence of the North, which amount to a statement of the mysteries of witchhcraft as opposed to Paganism. All this points toward a common magical tradition based upon a transcendant God, not a God of the Sun or the fields, but a God that represents the transcendant spirit of Man, the unknown God in fact. The Jews had no actual vowels in their language since to write the Sacred Name was blasphemy. The witch holds up five fingers. Now then what is a witch? A witch today is an unlicensed practitioner of the mysteries of witchcraft since there is no longer (apart from one clan in Dorset) an unbroken tradition of discipline. What do witches call themselves? They call themselves by the names of their Gods. I am Od's man, since in me the spirit of Od lives. Now you know how that old country dance 'The Goddesses' got it's name. Want to argue 'simple old pellars' now? In other words there is only one way of finding the witch, judge them by their works, and their silence. If one who claims he or she is a witch can perform the tasks of witchcraft, that is they can summon spirits and spirits will come, they can turn hot into cold and cold into hot, they can divine with rod, fingers and birds, they can claim the right to omens and have them. Above all they can tell the Maze and cross the Lethe (all this and many more in our surprise bumper packet). Now what do I call myself? I don't. Witch is as good as any, failing that, 'Fool' might be the better word. I am a child of Tubal Cain, the Hairy One.

Bald mountain and Halloween. Are you sure? The ritual is our hardest and the pace is killing. It is also our most rewarding, the one with the objective phenomena. Last year I sweated fearfully as I heard the crying of a baby, it prophesied a death which came true later that year. Since I do not normally have eyes that see I have to give you others descriptions of the things observed. A woman dressed in white pacing with us, a skull from the North and the many others all seen by the group. Necromancy? Never, just the opening of the castle's gates, these things appear for a short while only, then the big event begins. One cannot cross the Lethe without some heart searching and nail biting.

It is hard like this until our Guide appears, then we are through. If you really want to join in with us then I will give you these warnings. Discipline is absolute seven days before, and it means fasting, simple foods without any form of salt, and considerable preparations that concern the bringing through of various images in a sequence. Really to do it well, I would have to tell you the master keys since I do not think your own will work on our myth. The sequence is Keltic, and since I have been thinking of holding it in Wales instead of the Mendips, we will be in Dylan's territory, which for me is untried. Anyway I have shot over it as quickly as I can, and will leave you to make your own decision. I would prefer that we get together and work out a mutual arrangement beforehand, so that neither of us tread on the other's toes in the process of working. God help us if we do. Will any of your group be joining you?

I cannot whisper sheep, cats or birds (except chickens which are dead easy) but I can make a dog do practically anything. Horses need two mechanical aids, fennel and the issue from a mare in heat. Basically it is based upon two things, Love (sex and pure) and overlooking. If you can transmit a strong enough desire to the animal it will respond. Try getting into Selina, transferring your motive desire to her motive energies and you will probably make her do anything. I can't touch cats at all, too independent. My one waggles her ears when I waggle mine, but that is about all. I have tamed ferocious dogs, in fact I have sent them crazy also by a bit of extra knowledge that concerns itself with their language.

I can stop burns, bleeding is another matter since I have never tried a severe case. Aches and pains are relatively easy. Incidentally I have straightened John's neck out, he now has no hump on his back and is an inch taller.

Received an offer from Mrs. Bone through a friend of mine, to make contact with her group. She knows nothing of me except that I live in Slough. I had a feeling that an offer was coming from one of the "others", but I wrote it down as August, I was six days out.

I will write to Gerard Noel this weekend, I doubt if he will answer though, which is not a piece of foresight, but an intellectual guess.

I have no intention of selling my soul to 'sperritts' merely a piece of mutual aid. Even God can't do everything, in fact He has left more than enough for us to do.

Regards and Briget Bardot (I reckon that's a better wish than Blessed Be.)
Roy and Jane

P.S. See you on Saturday at approx 2pm.

PPS Reading another authority, he claims the bardic tradition during thee 11th and 12th centuries was base upon the O.T. and not upon Paganism. Robert Graves states the same thing in "King Jesus", and Graves is an ardent Ladies man. It apparently works out much the same as we were tending to think. Influx of Semetic (Arabic) influence lead to the O.T. being taken up by witches.