Journeys into the Underworld

  In answer to Jackson Crawford's video " The Afterlife and Hel in Norse Myth ": Baldr is welcomed with a feast because he reached a place of need. If you look at her attributes, storm-increaser, it reminds an emotional upheaval/chaos; hunger, not satisfaction; starvation, not abundance; the walking pair of slaves, that is, mankind; and half dead, half alive, well, this can be best understood learning the meaning of the myth of Osiris, but essentially it has to do with reincarnation. If the higher gods and entities are not trapped by this cycle, they can be portrayed fully alive, and never subject to dying. But because the soul (Baldr) in the cycle of reincarnation experiences growth and decay, like a plant that grows and shrinks, but never really dies, it can be said that the soul that goes to Hel blossoms (after physical death), and, because it's a cycle bound to Earth, shrinks on the way down to Earth (death, Kor, deathbed). That's why Hel, the Being, and the S...

Ghost at crossroad Today I finnaly understood the meaning of crossroads whether in mysticism or just plain witchcraft. I recall reading about rites concerning the deceased being performed in crossroads , because that's where spirits are usually found. Why? Obviously the physical crossroad is of no use to the spirit of a recent deceased person, but the meaning of crossroad is important precisely because that kind of spirit finds itself in a sort of crossroad. "Where do I go from here?" Thus the rites to communicate with them are performed on crossroads, because non-physically, that's where they find themselves. Symbolism is everything. 1   But why should it be a crossroad? Because like attracts like: a) if there's ignorance of the life after death, the ghost will seek what it knows - the physical habits, and will remain close to this plane. b) if there's knowledge of life after death, it will go after a spiritual life, and will distance itself from here.   Also...

The god Diónysos is one of the most difficult to decipher. The knowledge of him belonged to the mistery cults, and those are lost. Nonetheless, there are a few interesting clues.   It all started when I was searching about the meaning of dwarfs and deers in norse mythology. Apparently the dwarfs Dáinn and Dvalinn share the same name with two of the four deers who eat from Yggdrasil, Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór, and so are related. But how and why?   In Samael Aun Weor's lecture on Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung he says that the dwarf Alberich symbolizes the mortal ego, which is frail and afraid, trying to encapsulate or dominate the soul that pervades the body, represented by Siegfried, who eventually taunts and even mocks Alberich, for his small stature, ugliness and overall small-mindedness. This is probably not the meaning of a dwarf in norse mythology, but the dwarfs, also associated with the svartálfar, the black-elves, may suggest a "light" being (el...