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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > The Occult
For several months starting February 1, 2011, I committed myself
to sitting at my computer once each day after meditation for the
purpose of opening my mind and energy to receive information. I had
no way of knowing what would come through these sessions or where
the information would lead me. But I felt compelled--body, mind,
and spirit--to commit myself to this endeavor. The Open Door
Manuscript is the result of that focus.
Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can
remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of
High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy and
Terrestrial Astrology" which has become the standard work on
Western divinatory geomancy. Books on Nostradamus and Millennium
Prophecies followed in highly illustrated editions. Stephen is also
the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first one
written in English in the 20th century. In the 1970s he was
responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic
by publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's "True and Faithful
Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some
Spirits", and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic
language "The Complete Enochian Dictionary". With David Rankine, he
discovered what happened to Dee's most important manuscript, his
personal book of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and
how it was preserved and developed in the 17th century into a full
working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached
the unpublished archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
and even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it
did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order
rituals and documents. They have also traced the routes down which
were passed the classic techniques of invocation and evocation from
late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via Ashmole, and the
aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, and Frederick
Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.
Since the Genie is the "ghost" writer for the book, it is
appropriate to let the Genie say a few words about himself:
"I am a genie. You may wonder what that really means and how I
come to write this little book. Well, fi rst of all, I am not from
or of your world. I live in a dimension of fi re and light. I am
basically a fi re spirit. Just so you know, we genies are alive. We
don't experience life as you do, but we are living, thinking
creatures.
"You humans take us genies for granted. Most of you have very
little idea of the tremendous service that we provide for your
kind. Everything in your world that is of a fi ery or electrical
nature is administrated by a genie or djinn assigned to that
function. Without us, your world as you know it would cease to
exist. Even the very sun that is the source of life and nourishment
for your planet is a mighty Djinn."
From within the book, the Wizard Merlyn has a few thoughts about
the book that he would like to share:
"Know, my little friend, that what you hold in your hands is a
key to the mysteries of life, and that it has greater depth and
importance than you initially can discern. Through these pages you
have been given permission to enter other realms, and-once you have
entered in, and as you maintain the requirements of each domain-you
may travel within again and again for growth, learning, healing,
inspiration and creation."
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