ASTRAL RATS?...
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - AL I: 40
On this webpage I want to discuss the poltergeist activities that began in my apartment in 2008 which is a block off UC Berkeley Campus but the actual story began years earlier when I use to give OUIJA BOARD lessons in my apartment based on the teachings of Grady McMurtry and Aleister Crowley. My building is filled with college students and my talks on magick and Ouija boards were very successful if not entertaining. A few of the girls wanted to 'experiment' and on November 23rd 2003 I noted in my diary - “They are so ‘wired’ about playing with the board that it’s kinda amusing. I told them that I’ll get my Ouija from storage and we’ll do some experimenting.” I did and the following entry is from my diary on November 29th – “Went down to the girl’s apartment (2-5) with my Ouija & implements etc & etc. Everybody was there, with lots of wine. We chatted awhile. I set up the circle & other pre-requisites etc & etc. Beside the curtains being drawn, the only light came from a huge candle. Two girls worked the board. Everyone sat on the floor inside the circle. I stood and after doing the preliminaries, Enochian Call etc & the evocation of an elemental of Earth of Earth, I asked the elemental to identify itself but, before the triangle could even move, the big candle on the coffee table simply ‘went out’ and a loud noise like bang came from the bathroom, like someone slamming the toilet seat. Everyone freaked, to say the least. It was funny watching everyone get scared, scream and grab each other. Sadly, even though it proved success, they wanted to go no further. So we closed down the ritual and spent the evening just drinking and chatting. Also, amusingly, both girls decided to stay down the hall with one of them uttering to the other, “I can’t stay here!” ... the following day one of the girls came by my apartment, still obviously shaken. I noted in my diary – “I went to her apartment to ‘banish’, if for no other reason than to pacify her. She is still scared. I should have known this was going to happen?” ... Obviously something came through the board but sadly, the girls were afraid to talk to it.Three years went by and nothing strange occurred. The girls inevitably moved out and two new ones moved into Apartment 2-5 in 2006. Then, on September 6th 2006 as I was standing in the hall with the old Property Manager Russ, one of the girls walked up; and as I later typed in my diary – “Out of the blue she asked if anyone has ever said anything about this building being haunted? I replied no and asked why? We chatted awhile about ‘ghosts’ ... it appears her bedroom may be haunted? She explained that it has a “weird energy” in it like a “presence.” How funny, I couldn’t bring myself to tell her or Russ about the Ouija ritual that we had done in there with some of the previous tenants etc and what we might have summoned! I guess my ‘banishing’ didn’t work but was only a temporary fix to the problem? Or better yet, how sensitive are these two new girls? Has she re-opened the portal? I did give her a copy of my Ouija book! 6:00pm Tum. A knock on the door; it’s it girl next door again! She wanted to give me a beautiful flower in thanks for my book. I graciously accepted. Ah, life!”It it important to understand that by 2006 I had moved out of my old apartment down the hall and into 2-7 which shares a common wall with 2-5. A few odd things worth noting started occurring in my new apartment ... On Sept. 27th 2006 I recorded in my diary - "Out of the blue, while Pook & I were watching TV, his battery operated toothbrush turned on in the kitchen. It was so loud it was heard over the TV. What gives?" Three days later, on the 30th, I recorded - "Couldn’t find the papers I printed out for M today. Where the Hell are they? I left them right on the printer. Damn Elemental! [Oct 1 - Found the paperwork that I printed out for M. I happened to turned, look up and noticed they were sitting atop the printer? They were not there yesterday.]" ... and October 1st I recorded in my diary - "4:45pm Again, for the second time in so many months, the picture of myself, Luis and Phyllis jumped off the shelf and onto the floor. Its impossible where it sits to make the ‘leap.’"On December 23rd 2006 I ran into one of the two girls who had moved into 2-5, I wrote in my diary - “She joked that they are leaving the ‘haunted apartment.’ She also joked how they kinda got use to the thumps, bumps and banging on the walls, ceiling etc but they won’t miss the ghost hiding things.” ... The new tenants never reported anything strange occurring but then again, I never made friends with them to be able to ask intimate questions about 'ghosts.' ... All appeared to be quiet for almost two years but it wouldn't last. Then on, Monday. Oct. 22nd 2008, I wrote in my diary - "11:45pm I woke to something ‘touching’ or running their fingers through my hair. Half asleep, I initially thought in my mind that something was walking across my head like a big spider but I found nothing. Odd. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion after years of working with elementals that, even though a ritual is closed down, they still don’t believe that they have to go home."
Tuesday Oct.23rd Sun enters Scorpio, the Moon is in Aries. 5:20am Up. Found a metal spoon in the middle of the floor. Being a very light sleeper, you'd think that it would have woke me had it fallen? I took a photo of it for my magickal record.
Wednesday Oct. 24th Moon/Aries. 11:30pmish While laying bed, lights out, I heard thumping. It was quiet but distinct as if someone was simply gently knocking their fist on the wooden wall. It sounded like it was coming from across the room near the mirror. Upon exploring I found nothing.
Saturday Oct. 27th Moon/Gemini. 7:45am Oddly, earlier while I was working on my financial stuff I reached for my calculator which I just had beside me on the desk two seconds earlier and it was gone. Searching, and tearing the desk apart, I found nothing! The reason I’m mentioning this is that I just found my calculator in the bathroom when I went in to take a pee. ..... 10:30pmish Light tapping continued tonight on the wood, on and off. Again, I found nothing.
Sunday Oct. 28th Moon/Gemini. 11:20pm Tapping woke me. It was kinda loud. Found nothing.
Tuesday. October 30th. Moon/Cancer.... Found a paperback book laying in the middle of the floor, face down. It was Plato’s Timaeus which normally sits on the fourth shelf up from the floor. I must have slept through it falling. [regretably, I didn't take a picture]
Saturday November 3rd. Moon/Virgo. 9:00amish. I had been up a while. While going into the bathroom I noticed, out of the corner of my eye that one of my books was pulled out from the shelf a few inches. It was Jean Overton Fuller’s bio The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg; second shelf from the top. I took a picture of it.
Tuesday. November 6th 1:00pmish. Tapping continued tonight. As usually, each time I turned on the light it stopped and I found nothing.
Wednesday Nov. 7th. Moon/Libra. 3:15amish Woke out of a dead sleep to a ‘crash.’ Upon investigating I found a book had dislodged itself from my book shelf and fallen to the floor. It was one of the bios on Sulla. I got my small digtal camera and put it above my head where I could easily grab it but the rest of the night was quiet.
Saturday Nov. 10th Moon/Sag. 11:45pmish Heard tapping on the wooden door frame, faint but only a few times. .... the astral rats are back!
Monday Nov. 12th. Moon/Sagittarius. I didn’t notice it earlier when I got up but just now I noticed one of my books had again been pulled out slightly from the bookshelf; third shelf down. It was Crowley’s AHA. I took a picture.
Tuesday November 13th Moon/Cap. 10:25pm I wasn’t asleep and as with the other night, I heard a ‘noise’ coming from my bookshelf. Again, it sounded like something shuffling or a book ‘moving.’ I carefully reached over and grabbed my camera and took a picture even though it was dark. I wasn’t fast enough. At the exact same time I took the picture a crash. This time three books had jumped off the shelf; the three volumes of Aleister Crowley’s The Collected Works from the third shelf down from the top. Again, I took pictures of the books on the floor and upon examining the picture that I snapped while laying in bed in the dark, it clearly shows the place where the books had been on the shelf but it reveals nothing that could have thrown them off. [below left]
Saturday Nov. 17th Moon/Pisces. 2:10am It’s been quiet for a few days but tonight I wasn’t a sleep yet and as I lay in bed I heard a ‘noise’ coming from my bookshelf. It sounded like something shuffling. I carefully reached over, lifted my camera up and took a picture. At the exact same time I heard a crash. Another book had fallen off the shelf; second from the top, it was Francis King and Stephen Skinner’s Techniques of High Magic. [above right] Unfortunately my camera didn’t catch anything. Again, upon investigating, I found nothing that could have made the book fall.
Monday Nov. 19th . Moon/Pisces. 11:40pm Tapping woke me. Found nothing.
Tuesday Nov. 20th Moon/Aries.10:40pm I’ve been hearing tapping all night. As I was laying in bed in the dark listening to ‘noises’ I could have sworn the ‘noise’ was moving to my bookcase. I carefully reached over and got my camera. Tonight I didn’t wait until the noise got louder, I simply snapped a picture. Then I heard a thud as a small book bounced across the floor. Upon turning the light on I discovered Crowley’s Gargoyles in the middle of floor. I took a picture of it [where it lay] and then upon reviewing my previous photo that I snapped I got the surprise of my life. I actually caught Gargoyles in the middle in air with nothing around it! Needless-to-say, I was blown away.
This is the actual photograph snapped and illuminated by the camera flash.
Left: This was taken after the lights were turned on and shows the book laying in the middle of the flloor.
Above: Close-up.
After seeing the picture of Gargoyles in flight Luis Alvarado wrote, "Kewl. Did the book finally fall, or did it just hang there wedged between the other books?" ... I again looked at the photo and realized it could be seen as 'wedged' but in truth, it really wasn't. I replied, “It actually shows the book about a foot or two in mid-air from the shelf.” And I added, “Look at the photo again. The second shelf of books down you can see a bright red book [i.e. The Book of the Law] just from the right, count three books to the left and then you'll see the Thoth Deck white box. Continue to the left and you can see a bright white book. Notice the space just to its right. That was where Gargoyles came from.” [see blow-up of book shelf below for details]
10:30am My friend Dave writes, "Jerry, Damn---That is enough to give me a heart attack! And just to think you mocked those poor Asian Girls when they thought their apartment was haunted!!! You got the SOMETHING too--- Good luck with your new found friend, David."
11:00amish Mike writes a long email but the basics are reflected in his question, “Weren’t you scared?” ..... Answer: Personally, poltergeist activities are like a shot in my arm reminding me that magick really works! I just marvel at magicians who panic when the first time something ‘happens’ and, scared shitless, they immediately banish in an attempt to get rid whatever it is. Me, on the other hand, I want to document things, to study the elementals behavior and try to realize what prompted it to act in order that I might better understand myself. Obviously, it’s ‘fulfilling something in my dreams’ but what? Anyway, why else would you do magick?
Saturday November 24th. It has been very quiet around the apartment these last four days. No bumps, no thumps, no books flying off the shelf etc ... ever since consciously posting this blog!
Thursday November 29th. 9:00am I received an interesting email from Dominic. He writes, “Dear Cornelius, 93 Re: Your recent visitors. May I ask if you have tried reading those books out aloud that were placed on the floor, perhaps they want you to read to them! 93 93/93 Dominic.” ..... Answer: What Dominic is referring to is recent poltergeist or elemental activity in my apartment where books were thrown off my bookshelf. Anyway, nope, I haven’t tried reading the books out loud. However, I have been focusing a lot of thought recently on which books from my massive archive I want to sell off. I think the elemental simply picked up on my thoughts, of which I often went to sleep thinking about and it was trying to help me make decisions. Of course, I don’t agree with its choices. After reviewing my diaries and analyzing data that is what I think happened and once I’ve consciously realize what was fueling the activity, it stopped. If I had banished as some emails originally suggested, I would never had been able to come to this conclusion with any certainty
Thursday November 29th 2007. 4:30pm Well, I should have kept my mouth shut about poltergeist activities this morning in my apartment. Just a few minutes ago my son Faustus was lying on the couch playing a video game about “catching ghosts” of all things and I was in my chair typing with my back to him. All of a sudden one of my oil paintings from the opposite side of the room leaped from where it was into the middle of the floor. We were both over six feet from the painting when it leaped! I jumped, my son, without missing a beat, kept playing his video game!
Painting lying in the middle of the floor
6:10pm Mike writes, "Hey Jer 93! How did Faustus take it? 93s Mike" .... Answer: It's funny. he & & I talked about it alot. I wanted to be sure he wasn't afraid or anything like that. He is only 11. He admits to being startled, looking over at the painting lying on the floor but quickly thought, “I didn’t do it” and so he turned back to the TV and kept playing his video game. Ah, yes, he's my son!
Monday August 25th 2008 The poltergeist (elemental) was active again this weekend in my apartment.
Its been quiet since last November. Anyway, my son Faustus was over for his sleep-over, when
late Saturday night around 9:15pma small black computer speaker above my desk leaped up in the
air and over the six inch wooden desk flange and clip on light, to drop behind the huge printer to the
left; which is kind of impossible! No one was even near it at the time!
It had been very quiet since August but on Monday morning the 23rd day of February 2009 [Sun is in Pisces,
Moon in Aquarius] things began to change. I was expecting
company so I decided to do a little straightening up but when
I tried to put my camera away I could not find its case. I
had left it right on the table by my knapsack. I searched high
and low but had no luck locating it. ... Later that same day
I recorded this entry in my diary - "5:40pm Now I can’t find
the cap to my flashdrive; I had it right here two seconds ago.
One second I was looking at it out of the corner of my left
eye, the next, it’s gone. This is the second thing I’ve noticed
today that has come up missing. But I wonder what I haven’t
noticed? Anyway, it’s got to be my favorite little poltergeist;
she’s been quiet for some time now and I can only wonder
what sparked this activity? " ... The very next day I recorded
this entry - "Tuesday Feb. 24th New Moon in Pisces. 5:35am
As I sat up, I just happen to look up and notice a picture
(of Karl Germer) is missing from the row of photos on the
wall. Odd. Searched for it but to no avail. It has glass in it so
if it had fallen off its high perch during the night there would have been a crash and smash. But where is it? In truth, it could have vanished anytime, I just happened to noticed it now. But it is no biggy. If ‘she’ is up to her old tricks, with hiding things, it’ll surface sooner or later."... The picture above shows the doorway into the kitchen, above it you can see where Germer's picture was located.
... and now the plot thickens because yesterday, on Tuesday March 2nd 2009 at 5:07pm while my son Faustus and I were chatting, we notice a bizarre thing. The framed picture of Attaturk is now missing but it has been replaced on the same spot by the picture of Germer that disappeared on the 24th, however, the Germer’s picture is upside down. Where is Attaturk? Ah, I am being messed with. Even more strange is that later I realized that on Saturday morning of the 28th I took a series of four pictures of me sitting next to my laptop so that I could send it around to friends to show off my new toy. Since I was sitting at the table below the row of pictures, with curiosity running
wild, I wondered if I captured anything. Two of the shots that I took were zoomed in
revealing nothing above my head. One did show me from a distance but wasn’t that revealing
but the other one clearly shows the (oval) picture of Germer from an angle and upside down
where the picture of Attaturk hadbeen or two photos over from the Ouija board on the
left. ... As to exactly when this was switched I don’t know but it had to be between the 24th
and 28th. Oddly, Luis Alvarado was over here on Monday March 2nd; we talked about
the ‘missing picture’ but neither of us noticed thatit had reappeared a few spaces down and
another picture was missing.... I have a chain lock with key on my front door and only I have
a copy of the key. Since the first incident I’ve been using it to be sure that no physical
outsiders were getting in and simply messing with me. ... Anyhow, I love elementals. Most
people get scared and want to banish them immediately when they appear. I want to
watch them play. This is how you learn about these invisible little creatures. I’m convince
d that they don’t want to hurt me but as to what they are trying to tell me ... I am perplexe
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AN ENDING ... (maybe)
One day when I was taking the garbage out I ran into one of the cute girls who lived next-door in the “haunted apartment.’ We chatted; they’re having “issues” since mid-February and, because I’m the Building Manager, she thought it important to mention that they have a few Buddhist Monks coming by to do a “ritual cleansing.” Chanting, bells, incense etc. It seems the monks will be sending the ‘spirit’ on its way. She wanted to know if I or anyone else might have issues with them doing this, I replied no. ... while she was talking I had a moment ‘outside myself’ as I realized that my apartment’s elemental got really active in February, so there must be a ‘connection’ … we chatted further. She just “cannot sleep in the apartment” because someone is always “watching her.”
... it has been well over a year now ... and all has been quiet.
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It continues ...
Sunday June 27th 2010 – 6:45am Here is a story worth telling. As my readers may (or may not) know from previous blog entries, there is an elemental or poltergeist that continually makes its appearance in my apartment but its been quiet these last few years. It reappeared last night. This has been my fourteen year old son's sleep-over weekend. Here is an excerpt from this morning diary :
"5:37am Up. Rough night, weird things kept happening. At 12:23am my son literally shouted while sound asleep – “It’s hot in hear!” It woke me, I jumped, he never rousted. I smiled and put the fan on. About an hour later someone started knocking. It kept waking me up. The first few times I simply ignore it, then twice I got up and actually opened the front door to see who was annoying me so late. Both times the hall was empty. And once, while wide awake after going to the door, a second knock occurred on the bookcase literally feet from where I stood. It was very loud and very distinct. That is when I knew my old poltergeist (Elemental) was making an appearance. Why now, why after so many years? It seems to me that my son might be the catalyst. Anyway, throughout the night, every time it knocked, it did so exactly three times. It stopped around four."
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This is 2011 and lots of other things have been happening over the year
but I just haven't been adding them in here.
Love is the Law, love under will. – AL I:57
Frater Achad Osher 583RETURN TO :
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