It had been an illusion. The monster that haunted my dreams and plagued my waking hours had faded to dust before my very eyes. It had seemed so real in the shadows of this dark night through which I wandered. Under the glare of the moon it had danced in many guises, on the edge of my vision, always in pursuit when I ran.
But when I had turned upon it, when all had seemed lost and I had steeled myself to face my end, there I stood, made of glass. A reflecting reflection that crumbled into dancing shapes in the dust. All my hopes and fears projected outward onto a kaleidoscope of empty shadows. My refusal to face them had been their only power over me. I had been running from myself and the very moon that I had blessed for its guiding light had amplified my delusion.
I closed my eyes then, blotting out the stars and the moon. In the dark I saw it, a brightness within, and I knew that this whole dark night, like the moon, was as a mirror. As I opened my eyes dawn broke and the fire within me awakened. The hills were bathed in gold and I was overcome.
http://janiceduke.deviantart.com/art/Freedom-398950661
http://janiceduke.deviantart.com/art/Awakening-398951891
Beautiful @Spiral, thank you. :-D
I guess this could well be an eloquent and profound way to confirm, that we really have nothing to fear, but fear itself, (if we are courageous enough to want to believe it…)
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Really beautiful, indeed!
Paraphrasing Frank Herbert (Dune) to complement @trace ‘s comment: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
– Only KIA remains then.
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Also very beautiful, thank you @leoholmes too.
synchronicity seems to be the rule rather than the exception these days, just after i left the last comment, my fortune cookie said…
“When the heart knows no danger, no danger exists.”
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Beautiful art and poem. And beautiful quotes from @trace and @leoholmes. I have recently begun some magical evocation work with childhood “imaginary” monsters that is proving quite rewarding. Starting with the earliest one I remember from about 4 years old. Really powerful and rewarding. I’ve experienced no evocation like it previously…
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Amazing!
I’m curious if the mountains come from physical place or a dream? They seem familiar somehow.
It makes me think of my fear of heights and circumstance when I conquered it (even if only temporary) because of being faced with a bigger threat- that of spending night on a cliff side.
Sometimes to conquer our fears we need to evoke a scary demon.
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Got one, if you ever need to borrow him @dana…
Although, these days he is making me work very,very hard indeed for my blessings.
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Many thanks also to @Lolta and @Anton. The mountains and the monsters are only there if you want them to be.
Fear appears to be very important in magik. It can be so very restrictive.
(Although there is a large difference between fear and dis-chord.)
I have never once encountered childhood ‘imaginary monsters’, although my childhood was not exactly ideal. nor do I have a fear of heights…. (And for some reason, both of these things seem strangely appealing from the distance that I see them., I am not sure I could explain that statement, but if asked, I will try.)
However… Although i am not aware of the fears that must surely be there,
It seems that just maybe, it’s the best place to keep them.
in the next few days or so…if we so desire, we could no longer be afraid. If it is essential to our magik becoming, then that is how it will be.
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@trace Maybe the word isn’t “imaginary monster” as such, since really it didn’t look monstrous and it didn’t do anything monstrous either. It was more a kind of imaginary friend that didn’t quite look human. I was a little afraid of them, but I don’t know why.
Later I learned to reject these experiences as ‘imaginary’ childhood fears. Meaningless childhood phantasms.
However, as a magician I (eventually) came to realise that contacting these entities as spirits could prove deeply empowering and an overcoming of deeply repressed childhood phobia. Phobia not just of the entity, but also of ridicule for treating it as real…
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@Anton, I do apologise, guess I did it again… 2+2= 5 1/4
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RT @kiamagic: Freedom by Spiral http://t.co/XxdnTqhRdF
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That’s why people fall in love…… apparently. Â :-D
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