Post No. 1,618 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 15 - Alliances

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I have been writing about improving the world through a range of means on my blogs: this blog has been focused on spiritual and psychic means, including strengthening  BPM  units and clearing nonBPM units, and meditation to generate BPM energy (and units, if you know enough).

This has been done before - particularly during times of crisis.

The climate crisis has been our World War III for some time (with the denialists being, at the very least, the WW3 equivalents of Quisling, Vichy France, etc), and we now have the COVID-19  pandemic, caused by the zoonotic  SARS-CoV-2  novel coronavirus (there are other novel coronaviruses), on top of that.

World War II was probably the biggest global crisis before our current dual crises, and during those terrible events, there were a number of people undertaking magickal work, including  the work by Dion Fortune (there were others) outlined in the Gareth Knight edited book "The Magical Battle of Britain" (my copy pub. Skylight Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-908011-45-9), which I reviewed here. Ms Fortune directed her team through a series of 136 weekly and (I think) 19 monthly meditations (I originally intended to publish a list at some stage, but it’s so long and comprehensive that I’m concerned about breaching copyright, so I may either see if I can find an online list, or publish something listing the broad themes only). At the end of this, she was exhausted, and that work is considered to have contributed to her death, but a change for the better had been accomplished.

We already have a lot of people doing a lot of work on making the world a better place (including before the current crises), but I would like to extend my contribution to also include a series of weekly - or near weekly - meditations along the line of those directed by Ms Fortune.

I am proposing this be added to the Sunday meditations which are part of my regular psychic work. For convenience, an outline of the meditation is provided at the end of this post.

The notes on each week’s meditation will probably be brief to the point of being terse.

This Week: No. 15 - Alliances

Alliances

Before I get into this week’s topic, I want to remind you all of the importance of self care.

·       Self-care (begin with nonphysical health, strength and wellbeing), protection, and preparation (see here).

I’m doing reasonably well on much of this, but have fallen down on the exercise part of self care - I am looking to being able to go for walks in the bush again in  due  course, when it is safe for me and others to do so.

I also need to start watching my energy commitments, so this week’s post will be a little abbreviated.

The best alliances are more like friendships than deals in pursuit of a temporarily shared ambition - and by “best”, I am judging the matter from a spiritual and psychic work perspective. If you do not have a sound basis for forming the alliance, then you are risk of being in a deferred-backstabbing scenario - the sort of problem situation that, as an example, the USA got itself into when Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979 by supporting the mujahedeen (but not after the war), a situation that bit the USA badly in the form of the 9/11 atrocity, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

But even “friendship” needs a little commentary, as many “friendships” are actually one-sided. “Friends” who only contact you when they need - or want, is probably a better word - something, or who do not return a favour, are not friends.

This is actually something that crops up in Paganism, as well: Patron Deities are not a choice from a list that best suits you, it is a relationship that is worked at and developed - do you know what your Patron Deity wants to accomplish, and are you working to help them?

A few decades ago, the same cropped up in terms of Guides, with few people having the basic courtesy of asking how the Guides are, or of sending them healing.

A similar matter also applies to crystals, with not many people thinking to send healing back to the places where the crystals were mined from. I think what helped me do that is that, as a kid, I would pick up happy rocks, and then, when they felt like they were “missing their family”, I would take the happy rock back to where it was.

So . . . the most important guide for developing an alliance is:

·       Listen - find out what they want, and, as long as it complies with your ethics, support them in your aims as you would like to be supported - however, do so because doing so is important and right, not for an expectation of future return.

There are some matters to consider, and I’ve alluded to those already:

·       Ethical congruence and dissimilitude between you and the ally, and how such differences will be handled (ignore or overlook, judge on a case by case basis, or is it serious enough to change the “alliance” to a joint specific project task force only, after which you go your separate ways only - don’t get into trying to convince each other of the rights of your views: that is NOT appropriate for an alliance);

·       Congruence and dissimilitude between your strategies and tactics, and how to:

o   take advantage of each other’s strengths;

o   how to cover for each other’s weaknesses;

o   how to address vulnerabilities / weaknesses - including of others’ perceptions, whether true or false - that are caused by the alliance;

o   how to properly take advantage of holistic strengths that are created by the alliance;

·       what “success” and “failure” look like.

On a personal note, you need to decide whether the cost (time and energy input) is worth the potential benefit - but also the benefit for your possible ally, not only your aims.

There are other thoughts on this here, here, here, in a broader sense here, and Week No. 3 - Together.

One final thought is that people and circumstances change: having done all this, be prepared for the fact that you may have to revisit this - just as others may to do if you or your circumstances change.

Post script: generating light will, in due course, draw potential allies to you - but be patient and persistent - it may take years (that is based on personal experience). Also, change of circumstances includes major change of life circumstances - e.g., major family illness, war, pandemic, etc - the sort of things that (a) are likely to be outside of personal control, and (b) could just as easily happen to you, so don't be judgemental when considering such possibilities. 

Previous meditations in this sequence are:

1.       Introduction, definition of the problem(s), and Realisation;

2.       Determination;

3.       Together;

4.       Caution, respect and integrity (aka cunning);

5.       Momentum;

6.       Insight;

7.       Preciseness;

8.       Progress;

9.       Learning;

10.   Purposefulness;

11.   Conciseness;

12.   Measurement;

13.   Faith;

14.   Proficiency.

The Meditation (see here, here, and here) consists of:

 - appropriate and responsible protection (see here, here, here), prayer and ritual (e.g., here) to establish and check protection (re-do the protection, or re-schedule the meditation, if you don’t feel safe and secure);

 - establish a personal connection to your Higher BPM influences;

 - flush one's aura with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple;

 - fill one’s Heart Chakra (and maybe one’s Earth Star, Solar Plexus, Third Eye and Crown Chakras) with emerald green, royal blue and royal purple; send a weave of three streams of this colour from the Chakra(s) to a visualisation of a gigantic, multi-faceted emerald (which has been created to facilitate networking of BPM workers) through your facet until you see your energy enlivening other areas of the emerald and can feel similar energies flowing back to you;

 - visualise the rune / bindrune (if given - or, on Sunday, the group of symbols provided);

 - generate  feelings of love, peace, joy and respect;

 - strengthen those feelings (energies);

 - radiate those energies to the world for nine to eighteen minutes;

 - then, on Sunday, also perform the additional meditation work for around 15 minutes or so: contemplate the topic, and the spiritual (i.e., nonphysical) implications of it, and seek insights and understanding. Do not be distracted by thoughts of physical actions - those are necessary also, but this exercise is about the nonphysical, in the broadest possible sense, and the focus should be on nonphysical actions, energy flows, symbols, and the like, all with the intention of bringing about a change for the better. As a second stage, if you wish, you can meditate on any physical actions which may be necessary, but get the spiritually focused work done first;

 - when finished, close your chakras, centre and ground yourself and close your aura, use the banishing version of the LBRP to open circle, ground and release all excess energy; and make sure you are grounded and closed down – eat, if you need to, or seek help from someone capable and trusted.

WLNGRHDMT

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