ATTENTION:THE PASSING OF A SALEM, MA. ICON!
I still can't believe it! I'm so sorry to hear the news that a close friend of mine and Warlock (in fact the King of the Witches of Salem) Shawn Poirier passed away early Sunday Morning March 18Th!
Though I've never officialy met him in person, I feel like not only I have, but it's like I've known him and Christian forever! Kindread Spirits and "Brothers" in The Craft often feel this way. With his Rakish goodlooks, Shawn reminded me so much of a "Witchier" Harry Blackstone Jr. (lol)
I'm NOT going to say "Rest in Peace" to Shawn like many others have since I believe not only that he's still around and now free of his Mortal Coil but being The Warlock that he was we won't hear the last of him!
Those of you who were lucky enough to be closest to him will be "hearing" from him I'm sure! If Anyone can reachout through the Veil and contact anyone here...he can!! Also, what he's done for Salem will NOT be forgotten. Nothing is Never Truely forgotten!
It is as important to The Witches of Salem (Shawn's and Christian's Coven), as it was to Mr. Poirier, that what they do is NOT confused with Wicca, a Neo-Pagan Religion that claims roots to pre-Christian, Pagan Europe that was popularized in the early 1950s by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner.
"Being a Great Witch does require selling your soul," Mr. Poirier's MySpace page says. "But to whom and for what price is the question I want you to ponder. WE ARE NOT WICCAN, AND NEVER WILL BE! WE ARE SOMETHING ELSE!"
As far as I'm concerened, Salem has lost a Modern Hero in the Occult Community! We are in dire need these days of more Witches and Warlocks like him!!
I'll Miss him!
~MstrMacabre~
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Our Moto: "SIC GORGIAMUS ALLOS SUBJECTATOS NUNC!"
Latin for "WE GLADLY FEAST UPON THOSE WHO SEEK TO SUBDUE US!
My Wife and Myself Semi-"Gothed" out in front of the PC w/Webcam!
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My name is Brock Alexander. I'm a "Romantic Moderate Goth", practicing Warlock/Occultist, as well as a Multi-Media Artist (Drawing, Painting [both Oil's and Acrylics], Sculpting, etc.), and an Occult and Paranormal Advisor. I'm also working on a couple of books: One a Macabre Thriller Novel and the other about "Old School" Witchecraft, Sorcery, and Magick. Besides being an Artist, Writer, Lecturer, aspiring Linguist......I'm a "Mr. Mom" which means I stay home (mostly) and with the help of my Wife Lady Noticula, help raise our two boys: Aleric (pronounced "Ale-rick") aged 8 who also happens to be a Type 1 Diabetic (he's my little Hero for coping so well with living with such a condition everyday! SEE HEROES!), and my precocious Devlyn aged 5!
My personal political viewpoints goes from Moderate Liberal.....to Independent.....to Mildly Conservative. I don't much care for Extremes of any kind! (So does that make me more a "Moderate" more than anything else? lol) and then it usually depends on the subject matter!
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"O CANADA!"
I'm Canadian by birth (Hamilton, Ontario.....a Suburb of Toronto), I try to keep in touch with my Canadian Relatives often and I still retain my Canadian Citizenship. I may return to my Homeland of Canada one day in the near future especialy if things don't change for the better here in the United States!!
I grew up in the US since I was 5 years old in Bangor, ME and from a teenager in the 1970's in Los Angeles, CA. I also served in the US Marine Corps! So the United States has been my home also for many years.
You are The Magician
Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.
Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.
The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Brock Alexander
Birthday: 07/13/1960
Birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA
Current Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Eye Color: Blue/Green
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Right Handed or Left Handed: Left Handed
Your Heritage: Scottish Candian
The Shoes You Wore Today: Steel Toed Stanley Workboots
Your Weakness: Math
Your Fears: Becoming too Bitter and Misanthropic
Your Perfect Pizza: Pepperoni with Anchovies.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Have all the paperwork for completed for my Family to be able to Imigrate with me to Canada later!
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LOL
Thoughts First Waking Up: "I Need Caffeine!!"
Your Best Physical Feature: Only my Wife knows that one (and my X-wife and a few X-Girlfriends! *evil grin*)
Your Bedtime: 3 AM
Your Most Missed Memory: Living in Bangor, ME as a small kid.
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Buger King
Single or Group Dates: Both
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither....prefer REAL Tea!
Chocolate or Vanilla: Both
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: Nope
Do you Swear: Hell yes!
Do you Sing: sometimes
Do you Shower Daily: Or at least bathe...can't get through the day if I don't!
Have you Been in Love: OH YES!!
Do you want to go to College: Sometimes.
Do you want to get Married: Already been Married...TWICE!
Do you belive in yourself: Most dDefinitely!!
Do you get Motion Sickness: nope
Do you think you are Attractive: YES!
Are you a Health Freak: Nope
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes.
Do you like Thunderstorms: Love 'em!!
Do you play an Instrument: Drums
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes, Sake and a Marguerita.
In the past month have you Smoked: Don't Smoke
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Except for Perscription...I Don't Do Drugs!
In the past month have you gone on a Date:
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No...but I LOVE Oreos!
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: YES! LOVE SUSHI!!
In the past month have you been on Stage: Nope
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Hell yes!
Ever been called a Tease: Yep
Ever been Beaten up: Yep....many years ago in Elementary School.
Ever Shoplifted: Nope
How do you want to Die: Old Age in Bed...prefferably after some good Sex!
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:
What country would you most like to Visit: Japan
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Violet
Favourite Hair Color: Redheads
Short or Long Hair: Long Hair
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 120
Best Clothing Style: Classic Film Noir or 1940's Gown's
Number of Drugs I have taken: N/A
Number of CDs I own: Can't count...too many!
Number of Piercings: 3
Number of Tattoos: 1
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 1
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!
Later, partially due to Eastern Mystical practices, I resumed my interests (from since a child) in Metaphysics and the Occult Sciences which led me to seek teachers much like my teachers in the Martial Arts. I've been regularly exposed to the Japanese American Community growing up in Los Angeles. On my own in the late 1970's and 1990's, then via my first marriage to a Japanese American Woman (Grace Akiko) from 1979 to 1992 who gave me two very wonderful children Brandon.( ~*~Nahgem and Nodnarb~*~ 5th on Friend's list below with my daughter-in-law) and Stephanie (Emiko 4th on friends list below)
Besides being Wytches/Warlock's and "Goths", we are heavily into the Japanese culture and Lifestyle. THUS, PLEASE CHECKOUT MY OTHER MYSPACE SITE AT MAHOUTSUKAI'S MYSPACE.
My Wife Lady Noticula at her Tarot/Palmstry Reading Booth at the COLORADO DARK ARTS FESTIVAL in Denver, CO., 2006.
If you would like Tarot and Palmstry Readings by a Professional Reader, please email Lady Noticula (at her MySpace site below) for to discuss Prices and to set up an Appointment!
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I first got my exposure to "Real Witches" in my High School years when I used to frequent a little Occult shop on Broadway in Long Beach, CA called 'THE EYE OF THE CAT' and some years later I went on to study there and eventualy was intiated into 'The Druidic Craft of The Wise' (or DCW) to the 2nd % by Judith DeFrain.
I later trained in Gardenerian/Alexandrian Witchcraft of which I felt was closer to "The Source" at the time and Brittish Traditional Wytchecraft (BTW) to the 3rd % by Lady Raven Adora in the early 1980's....which in turn lead to Celtic Witchcraft and Northern Italian (Aradian or Stregharia) to the 2nd % in the mid 1980's.
Adding to this I later incorporated some of my Families own Voodoo/Hoodoo Crafte (learned from my Southern raised Step-Father) and Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) or Thelema from 1989 to 1993. (I was Minervaled by Lon Milo DuQuete in 1989. He also was my Lodge Master and good friend for many years when I lived in SoCal.) Also from what I learned from my studies in Gnostic, Luciferian, Typhonian, and LaVeyian Traditions and I've been practicing the ART'S OF WYTCHECRAFT, MAGICK, AND SORCERY ever since which happens to be for well over 30 years now.
I consider myself to be an "OCCULTIST" first and foremost...NOT A WICCAN OR A NEO-PAGAN (at least by todays standards. What was "Wicca/Paganism" back in the late 1970's/early 1980's IS NOT what it has become today! Back then it was SO MUCH CLOSER TO THE OLD SCHOOLS OF WITCHCRAFT...ESPECIALY THE "BRITISH" OR "ENGLISH" BRAND OF WITCHCRAFT!)
You can call me a Heathen, a Wytche, or a Warlock (SEE "RECLAIMING THE WORD WARLOCK" BELOW) which for me is not only a return to the Old definitions of the "Old School" of Occultism, but a re-afermation to the Old Practices of Wytchecraft, Magick, and Sorcery!!
RECLAIMING THE WORD WARLOCK!
Much like the term "Wicca" which comes from the root term "Wicce" and means "to bend," or "to shape." NOT "The Wise" or "Wise Ones" that has been continuously circulated around the Metaphysical Community by many misinformed Wiccans and Neo-Pagans for years, the word Warlock has befallen the same gross misrepresentation.
Contrary to current popular belief, it does NOT mean an "Oath-Breaker" in "Scottish" as again many Neo-Pagans and Wiccan's love to tell you (which they get from the Old English and later Colonial Wytch Hunter's jargon) but in fact it is a derivative from the High German word "Ward-lokkur" (BTW...W is pronounced V in german) meaning "Spell-Caster" for Enchanter or Sorcerer, much the same as the German word "Hexen" which just means "Wytch" or the Old English "Wizard!" It is generally applied to a "Male Wytch" who practices some form of Magick usually in the Nature of Conjuration or Sorcery....thus, the reason for it's application as a definition for the Male gendered Witch in "Pop Culture" society today!
In her book ---"An ABC of Witchcraft" Doreen Valiente, the 'Mother of Modern Witchcraft' makes another observation:
"The Word 'WARLOCK' is most likely an old Scottish term for a 'Wizard' as Henry More observed..."it's simply 'Wise-ard', meaning a 'Wise Man'."
If you wish to learn more about the term "Warlock", take the time and click on the following links below and read the articles
Warlocks by Lady Abigail,
Warlocks by Matthew Sandow.,
Warlock, the Other W-Word by Runewolf
---MrMacabre
"Wicca for the most part...is for people who are ashamed of being called a Witch or Warlock! Its like Politically Correct Goddess ONLY Nothingness! It's saying, "I'm too ashamed to call myself a Witch or a Warlock.....I'm too ashamed to be associated with True Witchcraft so I will call it Wicca!"
"
-- Anonymous
A "Black Magician" does not define him/herself as such based on the popularly predominant idea in modern society that "Black" or "Dark" means "Evil" or the practice thereof. But rather a "Black Magician" defines him/herself as such because he/she works dilligently with Forces and/or Energies forged from the Fabric of Darkness itself and through aquired knowledge and personal experience, is able to extract the "Light" of Darkness (LVX = Light in Extension) for to manifest his/her Magickal Works.'
--REV. SYNHEXEN 2006
NOX = N.O.X.: The Night of Pan. Contrasted with L.V.X. (Light in Extension), N.O.X. could be characterized as "Light Withdrawn". It represents the "negative" pulse of the Creation/Disolution cycle, much like the Vendantsit concept of Pralaya, the Universal Sleep that precedes and follows creation. Perhaps the most significant characteristic of the Magickal Formulae of the Thelemic Aeon of Horus is the recognition of this fundamental fact of life, and the joint application of L.V.X. and N.O.X. in the Initiatory career of the Thelemic Magician.
Thus, in a "round-about" way NOX OM PAX to a Thelemite means "Darkness In Love" as a response to LVX "Light In Love".
-- Anonymous
Twilit Groto -- Esoteric Archives. Many Classical Grimoires and Texts available.
The .. Magickal Library. Many Famous and Infamous Occult Griomoires in PDF Form.
Church of the Hermetic Sciences and Ordo Templi Astartes Solomonic Ritual Magick-- They are the folks who summon spirits to visible appearance in the Dark Mirror.
The Vampire Codex Index. This is the Internet Edition of the Vampire Codex.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
-- Walter Savage Landor, Melanchthon and Calvin, Imaginary Conversations
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C.S. Lewis (1824-29)
The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. There is nothing more dangerous than a people convinced of their own moral superiority. Tyranny, a form of disorder posing as order, is the result."
--Henry Kissinger
"To defend oneself against the accusations of a knave is to seek justice from the verdict of fools."
--Aleister Crowley
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
--Euripides
"I know of no other belief system that measures its success by one's misery, as well as religion!"
---Roy E. Klienwachter