psynapz wrote:A synchronicity, by definition, is simply a meaningful coincidence. Things that line up in time in a way that you personally find subjectively meaningful. So there's no such thing as a meaningless synchronicity. That's just called a coincidence.
Surely far greater wisdom than merely that of the author of the Celestine Prophecy has surmised that synchronicity is your own creative feedback loop from the fabric of reality that lets you know that you're on the right path.
Ok. Here's an interesting one...
A few weeks ago, I posted in the Data Dump thread found
here, an essay by Arthur Versluis on Dr. John Pordage, a 17th century theosophist and founder along with Jane Leade, of 'The Philedelphia Society'. I've posted elsewhere on the writings of Leade and how she relates throughout her diaries (in essence) and tracts, experiences that mimic to a great degree, those told by by Alien Abductee's. I'll not digress into that at this point, but Pordage too, seems to have had and written about experiences with "Angels". A few examples:
"Pordage’s visionary experiences began in August of 1649. This opening of the worlds was the revelation to Pordage and his family of the good and evil invisible realms that inform this visible world of ours. Pordage and his family saw firsthand the Mundi Ideales, or invisible realms, one full of love, the other of wrath. The wrathful realm was evidently quite unpleasant: Pordage and his family, he wrote, witnessed not only the presence of evil hierarchies—in monstrous theriomorphic forms, all “misshapen,” with cat’s ears and cloven feet and fiery eyes—but their physical manifestations in sulphuric foul odors and even the imprint of their images on the windows, ceiling, and chimney of the house. He and his wife, being unable to remove these various images from the chimney using wet cloths, resorted to smashing them off with hammers.""Further, “That Mrs Pordage and Mrs Flavel had their Angels standing by them also, Mrs Pordage singing sweetly, keeping time on her breast, and that his children saw the spirits coming into the house, and said, look there, Father. . . And the whole roof of the house was full of Spirits (Innocencie, 14-15).”These passages piqued my interest in Pordage and since two of his tracts are available in the book
The Wisdom of John Pordage, I decided to order a copy with the intent that I would add whatever I found that would lend support to thread linked to above. I'm confident that when the book arrives, you'll see those additions appear. It may even be worthy of it's own thread in general.
So I'm waiting for the book, and a small box eventually arrives from the bookseller. However, the book I find inside is entitled
"The Practice of Magical Evocation"by Franz Barden. I turn to the Title page and the full title happens to be:
The Practice of Magical EvocationA Complete Course of Instruction in Planetary Sphere Magic
The Evocation of Spirit Beings from The Planetary Spheres of Our Solar SystemJane Leade referred to her 'visitors' as "
Magia".
I am completely unfamiliar with Franz Barden (never heard of him) and do hope someone can add some insight into his works. I mean, it's a very nice book ($44.95), the last third probably a hundred pages of glossy print entitled "Seals of the Principals, Intelligences, Genii and Beings". These are filled with some sort of symbols, hundreds of them, of varied design. I was reminded of Betty Hills book with symbols as well Jane Leades "Glassy Book".
Fortunately, after contacting the seller, I was informed I could keep the book as their gift for the inconvenience and my original order is in the mail.
(Theologia Mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever microform ~ by a person of qualitie, J.P., M.D - More to come...)
psynapz wrote:Surely far greater wisdom than merely that of the author of the Celestine Prophecy has surmised that synchronicity is your own creative feedback loop from the fabric of reality that lets you know that you're on the right path.
We'll see...
~C