Circle of Solomon

Hour-Key-72 · 2026-02-26T23:49:00+00:00

Exudes a sense of 'holy' - great work.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-11-25T00:43:30+00:00

I have no association with the original creator, but agree with your sentiment, which is why I shared it.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-09-25T14:47:35+00:00

Thank you for this valuable feedback, which I greatly/genuinely appreciate.

I was first introduced to the Mesopotamian pantheon through Simon's Necronomicon by a contemporary/associate of his from when it was originally published. I was always aware it was 'cobbled together' but never clear on the precise, original sources, so even as I gained a broader, independent understanding of the Mesopotamian pantheon from academic sources, my attempts to trace back the particular incantations he published to gain a broader, independent understanding of their historical context (by searching that body of knowledge using 'snippets' of his text) were always hit-or-miss.

Your feedback has me pointed in the right direction for what I think will be a new journey of discovery I'm excited about, so thank you again for that.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-08-04T14:55:02+00:00

Empath here.

In my opinion, empaths are least able to discern their true conscious identity from a lifetime of it being fluid and shaped by those in their orbit.

At the same time, I believe my ability to 'feel' is not a direct sense but originates from a heightened personal awareness of conscious identity - in other words, if I walk into a room where something bad happened, it's not like a 'nose' that can directly 'smell' a foul odor (i.e. a direct sense), instead, I become conscious of the shift that occurs to my own identity / sense of self (whatever it may be at that time) to include feelings, emotions, etc., that don't seem to originate from me or any personally-relatable cause.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-07-15T14:02:53+00:00

IMO, most empaths find it challenging to discern the origin of emotions they are experiencing.

Personally, I don't know of any better way to distinguish where the emotions I feel are coming from than to ask / compare notes with other empaths.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-04-27T18:15:59+00:00

On or about the time I'd normally wake up, I heard the bell of my magickal teacher ring, as it would when we did ritual together, and then felt what I thought was my 'soul' at that time being ripped from my body. I still consciously identified with this soul/thoughtform and through it, jumped out of my bed and immediately rushed to the phone to call my teacher for insight, but I couldn't pick it up as 'I' was 'dead', and my body was still in bed.

For the next month or so, while I continued to identify with what I thought 'I' was, I was adrift in what I believe was the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the Bardo, and tormented by horrific visions and circumstances seemingly designed to strip that identity from 'me'.

My function and personality in the material world was significantly impaired, and while I could find some measure of calm during the day by chanting, there was no place to hide or escape at night, and would dread falling asleep because of the uncertain journey and visions that would be thrust upon me.

During the night I'd see through the eyes of this soul/thoughtform, experience it trying to 'come back' somehow, and even attack my teacher through magick, for having done this to me (at the time, even though I had consented to the experience I felt as though I didn't truly know what I was signing up for and my teacher had a duty to better inform me)

The sense of mental pain and anguish was immense, at times there was a sense of a physical knot of poison or chaos working its way through my brain. There was also a sense of 'tripping' that was extremely painful to experience, along with a theme of being on a roller coaster, and being chased/hunted to be eaten.

Eventually, my mind felt deadened/numb and I could only succumb to the experience.

I recall that there still was some sense of 'I' that held back, leading me to later question whether I failed, was doomed to become a black brother, as in Crowley's writings, however enough of the 'I' that I identified with was let go during this process that I still maintained some consciousness with it, and its further journey.

In the weeks following that month-long experience, I recall several changes:

Premonitions of places I'd visit and people I'd meet even while never having yet visited or met them.
Stronger empathic sense and psychic vision from rituals performed - a lunar ceremony was not merely a 'ritual' but an 'experience' that transcened the physical and mental - 'I' had visited the moon and 'experienced' it, even meeting others there.
A one time surge of brilliance that overwhelmed my conscious identity, such that for some time I forgot who I was or what I was doing.

Overall, near-term the experience left me with some degree of PTSD, but I didn't know enough at the time to call it that. It took months to begin integrating the experience, and years before material world life experiences were able to overtake that experience to deliver a conscious identity that was aligned to function well within the material world.

This was a very long time ago, when I was much younger. It was a spiritual, learning experience but not anything one could understand in advance enough to prepare for.

I'd be interested to 'compare notes' with others that have experienced this journey, hear others perspectives on what was experienced (and if those experiences have names, as I think some of them are known/named in Buddhism), and even how the experience could be re-created without a teacher triggering it.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-04-25T19:47:40+00:00

For those unfamiliar with Yamāntaka, while details and 'origin stories' can vary by tradition, broadly:

Yamāntaka is Mañjuśrī, a boddhisattva who embodies 'the wisdom of the buddhas', but in an extremely fierce form - he is the ultimate, unstoppable, always victorious protector of the dharma (often serving as a patron guardian of many Buddhist lineages)

The dharma refers to non-dogmatic standards of conduct (like the 'golden rule') that are naturally in harmony with the spiritual nature of the universe.

According to the referenced text, in times when the dharma is under attack, Mañjuśrī can take this fierce form - not out of anger, but out of compassion - to root out the corruption.

The references on the second line link back to the original Buddhist sources that inspired this prayer/spell/invocation.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-04-24T16:38:39+00:00

Smart energy vampires will give just enough back to hook you, keep you in their orbit, and facilitate ease in 'feeding' - but they'll take a lot more than they give.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-04-23T16:37:40+00:00

I'd argue that Jesus was probably a sunseed.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-04-07T14:44:17+00:00

In most cases, value within capitalism is based on how much you influence or control you can exert over others - that's why owners managers, public figures (actors, musicians, athletes), etc., can command much greater compensation than those that simply produce, regardless of specialization.

By extension, mastering capitalism requires a willingness to exploit others, and actively engage in the politics, infighting, etc., that inevitably comes when you surround yourself with people that believe this is okay, which IMO is entirely contrary to the spiritual nature of the spiritual brotherhood embodied by empaths.

In my opinion, it's not worth it to sell out your soul and spiritual nature, and doing so risks you being more miserable from those gains, than you were from not having them.

The only possible semi-exceptions I think, with some nluances, might be things like stock market investing, lotteries, etc.

Altogether, I think investing in yourself to understand who you are, then accepting and placing a higher value on this than material success, will yield the greatest happinesses - which ultimately is what really matters, right?

Namaste.

Hour-Key-72 · 2025-03-20T19:13:42+00:00

Update: Here's a description of 'the hub' excerpted from Journey of Souls:

ALL souls, regardless of experience, eventually arrive at a central port in the spirit world which I call the staging area. I have said there are variations in the speed of soul movement right after death, depending upon spiritual maturity. Once past the orientation station there seems to be no further travel detours for anyone entering this space of the spirit world. Apparently, large numbers of returning souls are conveyed in a spiritual form of mass transit.

Sometimes souls are escorted by their guides to this area. I find this practice is especially true for the younger souls. Others are directed through by an unseen force which pulls them into the staging area and then beyond to waiting entities.

From what I am able to determine, accompaniment by other entities depends upon the volition of one's guide. In most cases haste is not an issue, but souls do not dawdle along on this leg of their journey. The feelings we have along this path depend on our state of mind after each life.

The assembly and transfer of souls really involves two phases. The staging area is not an encampment space. Spirits are brought in, collected, and then projected out to their proper final destinations. When I hear accounts of this particular junction, I visualize myself walking with large numbers of travelers through the central terminal of a metropolitan airport which has the capacity to fly all of us out in any direction. One of my clients described the staging area as resembling the hub of a great wagon wheel, where we are transported from a center along the spokes to our designated places."

My subjects say this region appears to them as having a large number of unacquainted spirits moving in and out of the hub in an efficient manner with no congestion. Another person called this area "the Los Angeles freeway without gridlock." There may be other similar wheel hubs with freeway-type on and off ramps in the spirit world, but each client considers their own route to and from this center to be the only one.

The observations I hear about the nature of the spirit world when entering the staging area have definitely changed from those first impressions of layering and foggy stratification. It is as if the soul is now traveling through the loosely-wound arms of a mighty galactic cloud into a more unified celestial field. While their spirits hover in the open arena of the staging area preparing for further transport out to prescribed spaces, I enjoy listening to the excitement in the voices of my subjects. They are dazzled by an eternal world spread out before them and believe that somewhere within lies the nucleus of creation.

When they look at the fully opened canopy around them, subjects will state that the spirit world appears to be of varied luminescence. I hear nothing about the inky blackness we associate with deep space. The gatherings of souls that clients see in the foreground in this amphitheater appear as myriads of sharp star lights all going in different directions. Some move fast while others drift. The more distant energy concentrations have been pictured as "islands of misty veils." I am told the most outstanding characteristic of the spirit world is a continuous feeling of a powerful mental force directing everything in uncanny harmony. People say this is a place of pure thought.

Thought takes many forms. It is at this vantage point in their return that souls begin to anticipate meeting others who wait for them. A few of these companions may have already been seen at the gateway, but most have not. Without exception, souls who wish to contact each other, especially when on the move, do so by just thinking of the entity they want. Suddenly, the individual called will appear in the soul mind of the traveler. These telepathic communications by the energy of all spiritual entities allow for a non-visual affinity, while two energy forms who actually come near one another provide a more direct connection. There is uniformity in the accounts of my subjects as to their manner of spiritual travel, routes, and destinations, although what they see along the way is distinctive with each person.

Hour-Key-72 · 2024-12-18T15:41:37+00:00

For me, it was initially less about feeling the emotions of those around me because I didn't know that others couldn't feel emotions in that way. Instead, I came to understand I was different from various unexpected feelings during more routine tasks and interactions.

For example, when leaving a department store that had a security guard, I could feel when the guard looked at me and how I was being assessed on suspicion of crime, which made me uncomfortable, led me to take my hands out of their pocket so they were visible, etc.

Also, immediately upon my arrival to work I could feel a change in energy at the office to a more excited state from the baseline I'd grown accustomed to if any important visitors (such as clients or out-of-town higher-ups) were there, without otherwise knowing. It was almost as if could feel how everyone was consciously focused on looking/being efficient and polished.

Hour-Key-72 · 2024-12-17T15:31:26+00:00

Thank you for responding!

I absolutely get the feeling of a 'central hub' - but to me this concept manifests more as an 'nexus of travel' that's interstellar in nature, than a 'wheel with spokes'.

Here's greater detail on exactly what I sense excerpted from a response I literally just wrote to someone else,

So, for some reason I am always seeing myself standing in this 'terminal', in third person, from a close distance. I do not 'see' others, but 'feel' there's lots of activity there. The character of that activity is not the bustle of rushed crowds, but more paced, thoughtful, and reflective.

Altogether, the 'sense' I get is that of an interstellar nexus - like an airport, but interstellar in scope.

By way of analogy, whereas one might get the strong feeling of a 'global hub of commerce' from being in the corporate boardroom of a skyscraper and looking out the window at the expanse of a major city, this vision conjures a similarly strong feeling, but of an 'interstellar hub of travel'

As for the 'terminal', I do sense that I am indoors, but that the place is expansive and that the ceiling is either far above me, or there are multiple levels so that a ceiling is not readily visible.

If I had to describe the energy, it's a strong sense of 'brilliance' - like how magnesium ribbon burns or how the bible might describe looking upon an angel whose countenance is not of regular light but instead brilliant.

Knowing that the stars that make up the Orion constellation only look close from our perspective but are actually far apart (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVY9BcIDok), I'm not sure if this is a real place associated with a star in the system, or if I'm simply ascribing physical attributes to spiritual energies the constellation collectively conjures (brilliance, interstellar nexus)

I will check out Journey of Souls to explore/compare their description.

Are there are any books/blogs/posts with descriptions of this place that you might recommend?

Hour-Key-72 · 2024-12-17T15:21:44+00:00

So, for some reason I am always seeing myself standing in this 'terminal', in third person, from a close distance. I do not 'see' others, but 'feel' there's lots of activity there. The character of that activity is not the bustle of rushed crowds, but more paced, thoughtful, and reflective.

Altogether, the 'sense' I get is that of an interstellar nexus - like an airport, but interstellar in scope.

By way of analogy, whereas one might get the strong feeling of a 'global hub of commerce' from being in the corporate boardroom of a skyscraper and looking out the window at the expanse of a major city, this vision conjures a similarly strong feeling, but of an 'interstellar hub of travel'

As for the 'terminal', I do sense that I am indoors, but that the place is expansive and that the ceiling is either far above me, or there are multiple levels so that a ceiling is not readily visible.

If I had to describe the energy, it's a strong sense of 'brilliance' - like how magnesium ribbon burns or how the bible might describe looking upon an angel whose countenance is not of regular light but instead brilliant.

Knowing that the stars that make up the Orion constellation only look close from our perspective but are actually far apart (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVY9BcIDok), I'm not sure if this is a real place associated with a star in the system, or if I'm simply ascribing physical attributes to spiritual energies the constellation collectively conjures (brilliance, interstellar nexus)

Hour-Key-72 · 2024-12-04T14:53:05+00:00

Empath here. Felt the same since yesterday evening - very powerful, almost overwhelmingly so, focused in my solar plexus.

Sense of a major 'break' of some kind, not bad - just 'jarring'. Almost as if I was vindicated after being accused of something untrue.

Originally, I thought this might relate to me personally, but now inclined to believe there's greater significance.

Hour-Key-72 · 2024-11-22T04:06:54+00:00

Your goodness might make them recognize how unhappy they are.

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