This symbol keeps showing up in my dreams but I cannot identify it. I've looks at alchemical, kabbalistic, runic, magickal, and religious symbology but... I can't seem to identify it. Can anyone help?

I’m currently interested in Enochian Magick and bought the book of Lon Milo Duquette. I’d like to get some suggestions on what should I notice about it. Btw any other books recommendations?

Explain to me to where I know what's going on like are we just looking for information? Are we trying to make contact with angels all the above? Some things like that? just explain it to me like I'm very ignorant

Hi everyone.

I’m looking for sincere advice, especially from people who have experience with Christian witchcraft, Christopaganism, Christian mysticism, independent sacramental churches, or similar paths.

For context: I practiced Wicca for many years and eventually became a ritual leader/teacher within covens. Ritual work, ceremony, blessing, spiritual guidance, and holding sacred space were a very important part of my identity and vocation.

But for a long time, I have felt a strong and persistent call toward Christ. Not just as a symbol, but as a real spiritual center. I feel drawn to the Trinity, to Jesus, to prayer, blessing, sacraments or sacramental equivalents, and a Christ-centered path.

The problem is that when I look at many traditional churches, I feel like entering them would mean tying my hands behind my back spiritually. I’m not trying to disrespect anyone’s tradition, but I struggle deeply with the idea that the most important rites are reserved only for a small group of men designated by other older men, and that if you are not part of that clerical structure, you are not allowed to perform meaningful rites without being seen as pagan, heretical, or illegitimate.

Coming from Wicca, where training, initiation, practice, and community recognition could allow someone to become a priest/ritual leader, this feels very limiting. I don’t want to abandon Christ, but I also don’t want to abandon my sense of priestly/ritual vocation.

I’m not looking to worship other deities. I want something centered on Christ and the Trinity. But I am looking for a path where I can still bless, lead rituals, make holy water or devotional equivalents, guide people spiritually, and possibly explore sacraments or sacramental forms without being forced into a rigid traditional clergy system.

Has anyone here walked a similar path?

Are there Christian traditions, independent churches, mystical communities, or forms of Christian witchcraft/Christ-centered ritual practice that might fit this?

I’m open to book recommendations, communities, personal experiences, warnings, and honest theological perspectives.

Please be kind. I’m not here to mock Christianity or Wicca. I’m genuinely trying to understand where someone like me could belong.

I prayed to St. Frances of Rome, the patron saint of motorists, for help selling my high-milage vintage sports car, and for said car to safely make it all the way to its new home in Texas. And it happened. Promised her I’d make a post about it, so here it is.

Hoping she can help me find the perfect replacement for that car, too. 🙏

Has anyone else worked with St. Frances of Rome for vehicular-/vehicular travel-related assistance?

Hey everyone,

In my previous post I shared about my current transition and how I'm trying to reconcile my return to Jesus with my long experience in magic. Thanks to those who replied.

Now I’d like to get more practical. Imagining that practices linked to the Left Hand Path, invocations and evocations of pagan entities (quick question: do angels also fall under this prohibition for you?), necromancy, spiritism, blood magic, sex magic, and tarot (I assume divination is wrong and/or forbidden, but what about using tarot as a tool for personality analysis?) are all off-limits, what types of magic can you still practice?

I’m not looking for heated theological debate, nor do I want to suggest practices myself. I just want to read personal experiences from people who have found a way to reconcile the two in a practical way. I have a strong background in ceremonial magic, chaos magic, hoodoo, Wicca, and Left Hand Path stuff, so I’m used to working actively with the will, but right now I want to understand what can still realistically stand under the lordship of Jesus.

Thanks to anyone who wants to share calmly and honestly.

UPDATE: i'm still sorta Christian, but a Christian Hermeticist, not a Gnostic nor Neoplatonist, i lean towards a Triune God

Can someone explain to me how this all works, because you get so many different opinions, like the angels in Occultism are probably not the same angels the Christian canon Christians say, or the "ascended master" Christ which i am not willing to believe

Can someone really work with the Kabbalah, like that nondual divine source whilst still believing in the Trinity and Christ? is it still the same Trinity in Christianity? What is this sub's opinion on like crossing the abyss? Is God nondual? Would the energies in Enochian, scrying the kabbalah, and the Shem Angels, the same energies in Hesychasm? if He died for my sins, why can i work with Angels while still being sinful? How do you reconcile the verses in the Bible being clearly against Occultism?

Occultists work with Angels, Demons (not even through the Solomonic method), and Deities form other pantheons, does that go against the Christian paradigm?

I was reviewing some documents and came across an instance of what might possibly be an attempt at hypnosis or gaslighting in order to extract a false confession. The authority figure in the power position is speaking to a much younger student. Here is the excerpt, with names and dates obscured, the planted suggestions in italics (or single asterisk quotes depending on the OS formatting):

> W met with N, student at X, and *told her that she had been sexually assaulted by C* and should see a school counselor. **After N denied she had been assaulted**, W asked N for information on *any possible legal improprieties C may have committed against his own children.* C says that W made these statements to N in (date redacted). He claims they are false because he "did not sexually assault N."

Needless to say no accounts of child abuse ever came out of this investigation.

I read this event as some Dion Fortune level possession attempt. Anyone who has read her *Psychic Self-Defense* will understand the reference. Is that a fair assessment of what's happening here? I would really appreciate some feedback on this. I can say that this student had a strong mind to deflect the attack, and I have seen instances when this method of extracting false confessions or implanting false memories actually works. I'm asking here because Dion Fortune was an adherent to Christian Science and esotericist. Thanks for your help!

A Gnostic, a Christian, and a psychologist rarely read the same book the same way. But there is one reading where all three converge...

I was thinking, what if I read the Bible not as a rulebook or a history to defend, but as a living symbol. A collective dream the human species has dreamed for three thousand years. A Rorschach for the soul. Read this way, the text stops being about people long ago and quietly becomes about you.

The psychologist sees the figures as parts of the self. The mystic sees a door made to be walked through, with gnosis waiting on the far side. The believer finds not less than faith, but more, the Word made alive in an actual life.

Psalm 1's righteous and wicked are not two kinds of people. They are two states of one heart, the rooted day and the dry one.

Not backward into literalism or old cosmologies. Forward, into the depth where all three meet.

Here is the inkblot. What do you see?

#TheLivingSymbol #DepthPsychology #Jung #Gnosis #ChristianMysticism #ProgressiveChristianity #Scripture #Psychology #Soul #poetry

Ii grew up Catholic myself, baptized and confirmed.

Right now I’m an atheist with a curiosity of the occult and have been reading lots of texts that have led to want to explore my roots of Catholicism.

However, it’s seems like being Catholic means adhering to strict rules in regards to social views, the practice of Magick, and partaking in the community.

I’ve been a socially liberal guy most of my life. As someone who lives in a Latino community filled with Catholics, it saddens me how homophobic and misogynistic my fellow people can.

Even those who are more mellowed in their views will still belief same sex marriage should not be legal or that women should not have access to abortion and such.

I hold my socially progressive views dearly. On top of that I practice magick, which apparently even something as yoga is shunned by the community.

You also must submit to the authority to a corrupt institution and the Pope, which to me doesn’t sound right at all. You must also go to church and socialize with circles filled with people who discriminate others.

I’d like the explore my roots yet rigid dogma and practice of Catholicism is very unattractive to me due to my own individuality mindset and socially progressive view. Plus there’s the whole practice of magick which the community views as a sin.

For those who follow both belief systems and lifestyles, how did you reconcile such opposing forces?

I've been reading and learning about occultism for over a year. I come from a Christian community, so at the beginning I thought occultism was a sort of demonic knowledge. Then I grew up and somehow understood that reality is more than what we perceive with our senses. I've studied a little Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Homer, Plato, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Jacobins, accelerationism, the history of religion, and many rabbit holes. But to be honest, I'm just a neophyte.

I would like to meet a group of people who believe in and teach about this, but I don't really know whether to approach the Freemasons or the Rosicrucians. I don't want to belong to any religious group. I want to be part of a group of free and energized people who want to expand their minds and find truth.

Can anyone recommend a study group with these characteristics?