The Magickal War Update - Summer Solstice 2017

Fellow Magician,

On Independence Day I nearly lost my life in what could have been - perhaps even “should” have been - a fatal car crash in the Mojave desert. Those who have followed my career will recall how 3 short years ago this same desert claimed the life of our Son, Adam Kadmon Griffin.

Adam Kadmon Griffin (1992-2014) and Redd Dogg

The parallels between what happened to Adam then and what happened to me this Independence Day are striking.

Suddenly, we each found ourselves off road in the raw desert in a fast moving vehicle struggling to maintain control. Whereas the desert claimed Adam’s life that day, she was more generous with me this time around. By the grace of God, I was able to maintain control of our Jaguar Vanden Plas limosine and bring it to a safe stop. Although our precious Jag was totaled, I climbed out without a scratch!

In my position as Rosicrucian Imperator, I must of necessity ask when things like this happen:

 

Was this the result of Magical attack?

You may recall my article from earlier this year "Ancient Mystery School Gives Dire Warning to Army of Witches” in which Leslie McQuade and I took a position contrary to a series of misguided and fake news media fueled rituals “to bind and curse the President of the United States and all who support him.” This initiative was led by a Satanist named Mike Hughes, was fueled by the notoriety of Lena del Rey, and attacked Trump voters and the First Family every waning Moon.

This presented a serious problem due to media attention swelling the numbers of the attackers, with the New York Times and Rolling Stone promoting their rites in the USA the Daily Mail and The Sun jumping on the bandwagon in the UK.

The issue here is not whether or not you agree with the politics and policies of Donald Trump. 

The real question is whether or not a gaggle of Communist leaning magicians and witches should be permitted to topple a duly elected President of the United States or bind and curse the American people who voted for him. I mean, really - WTF?!?

Let's call these extremists for what they are - magical terrorists. What makes such magical terrorists think they have the right to subvert the will of the American people and topple our Republic?

They struck in synchronized rituals month after month, always just before Black Moon when the energies of darkness and evil are at their most powerful. The series of rituals was to reach its crescendo on the Summer Solstice. 

This configuration presented not only a credible magical threat, but due to media hysteria fueling mass participation it also presented a clear and present magical danger to the President and his family.

Unfortunately, the Secret Service does not yet have a magical arm. Leslie McQuade and I therefore stepped up to the plate to neutralize the magical threat to the First Family ourselves.

We spread word through the Magical community looking for magical aid - and many did quickly come. Witches, Magicians, Shamans of all stripes, united by a spirit of chivalry, standing in magical defense of our Republic.

But there was a problem. Due to media hype, we were badly outnumbered. Not just outnumbered either, for those who had answered our call to defend our people were mostly untrained in battle magick. Sure, we managed to pull together a rag tag magical defense at the drop of a hat, but our situation this past Winter looked as hopeless as Washington's army faced at Valley Forge!

There was no way we could defeat that growing magical army. Thanks to Lena del Rey, Rolling Stone and the New York Times, their numbers would simply swamp us!

There was a one way left to defeat them though - a desperate way - a way that would be extremely risky for Leslie and me.

Now that we have crossed beyond the threshold of the Summer Solstice, I can finally speak more openly about what happened in this war in recent months.

We knew we could not defeat that magical army directly with celebrities and the media gathering recruits to their misguided cause. No matter what we did, we would remain hopelessly outnumbered. 

So, how CAN you defeat a superior magical army?
Using superior Magick, of course!
And that is precisely what we set out to do ...

WARNING: Do NOT try this yourself at home!

From the moment the terrorists cast their first Spells, I took personal responsibility for the magical protection of President Trump as did Leslie McQuade for our First Lady.

We used a simple technique drawn from High Battle Magick to draw all of the binding and curse energy hurled at the First Family to a different target instead. With so much curse energy flying, it would have to he a juicy target for this to work. A target like, say - David Griffin and Leslie McQuade!

Leslie and I therefore created magical lightning rods to attract the curse and binding energy, effectively transforming ourselves into living "Poppets" (magical body doubles) for the POTUS and First Lady, drawing the energy of the attacks from the First Family onto Leslie and myself instead, where we could safely neutralize the energy on our magical defenses here at AΩ Temple.
 

Hey Wi-atches ...

Leslie and I knew going into this we were putting ourselves in harm's way. We knew, in fact, this series of magical operations could cost us our lives. There is no room for the smallest error with something like this. One miscalculation or misstep could be fatal. As good as our defenses are, we have after all been up against an ENTIRE MAGICAL ARMY.

But wait. There is more! It is finally time to share this with you too ...

As a matter of fact, last month Leslie McQuade nearly lost her life as well!

Leslie was out hiking on Shadow Mountain when our late Son’s dog, Redd Dogg, ran off and injured his paw at the mountain top. Leslie, desperate, did her best to save him, carrying all 70 lbs of him in her arms down the mountain as far as she could. 

Ultimately, however, Leslie's strength would prove no patch for Shadow Mountain. Unfortunately, Leslie began to notice signs of heat stroke (it was 117º outside). In the end, Leslie was forced to make a terrible choice. Leslie had to either leave Redd Dogg behind, or both of them would die together there on Shadow Mountain.

By the time Leslie made it back she had full blown heat exhaustion. We organised a search party, but by dark our rescue efforts to save Redd Dogg had failed.  Eventually, we faced the fact that we had lost him to the mountain. As great as our loss is, we find solace in that Leslie is safe and sound and still with us although we nearly lost her too.

So, you see. The Magical War of 2017 is very real. We have taken heavy fire and have experienced casualties. Although Leslie an I remain highly protected, we were nonetheless very lucky considering he risks associated with such a operation. To be honest, under the circumstances I consider it fortunate we are still alive.

That rite nearly destroyed us! It was a dangerous magical idea, but at the time it was the best effective option we had available to protect our First Family and Republic in the face of such massive, raw evil.

As a Viet Nam era Veteran, this is not the first time I have put myself in harm's way for our Republic. It will likely not be the last either. We may not be out of the woods completely yet, but the magical terrorist witches have at the Summer Solstice taken their best shot to destroy our POTUS and our Republic - AND THEY FAILED.

Along the way, Leslie and I suffered losses as some of you did as well. Redd Dogg will be sorely missed and our Jag is now a pile of twisted junk. Speaking of which, the real hero in this story is Redd Dogg. He never understood our mission, but he was with us every step of the way. Ultimately, he laid down his life to save Leslie's. I will always remember Redd Dogg as the embodiment of chivalry.

Redd Dogg (2011-2017)

Yes. The ancient magical war heated up again in 2017! Leslie and I have lost a a beloved companion and cherished vehicle. Others fared even worse.

But in the end as I look back, only 3 things really matter today at the end of operation "Desert Poppets":

     • Our POTUS and his family are safe and still here.

     • Leslie is safe and still here.

     • I am safe and still here.

Yes. We suffered losses, but our enemies failed to take us out. We are still very much on the chess board.

Moreover, Leslie and I still remain united. Although the tempest has raged around us, our center holds strong.

Today the AΩ flag still flies proudly over AΩ Temple!

And although our Commander in Chief will never read this, I end today with words from one LVX warrior defending our Republic on the front lines of a magical war our POTUS doesn't even know exists...

“Mission accomplished, Sir."

In abundance, power, and truth,
David Griffin, Imperator, Rosicrucian Mystery School of AΩ
Veteran, US Army, 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment

PS: Something inside Leslie and I changed during our brushes with death on Shadow Mountain and out in the Mojave Desert. All that really matters any more is our core mission: "To teach the Magick of Emancipation so that all who wish to ascend need never return to this slave planet again!”

PPS: Please pray for Leslie and me. Our power united is greater than each of us alone!

PPPS: Stick around. More on the Magick of Ascent soon!

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MEME MAGICK: Pepe the Frog and the Golden Toad

by David Griffin

The Rise of Kek

One of the most interesting events of 2016, came when a bunch of "4chan kiddie coders" made the "discovery" that Magick is real and woke up to the reality of cultural magic (which I have been doing for years by the way - just look at some of my avatars). They called this "newly" discovered science "Meme Magic."

Everything got blown out of every proportion when to an angry old lady running for President screamed at meme frog Pepe on TV, calling him a racist and basically declaring Pepe an enemy of the state.

Getting yelled at by America's most famous angry old lady made Pepe the frog famous almost overnight (even while he was still in jail with meme cooties for getting hijacked by Nazis).

Meanwhile, the lore around Kek continued to grow, and Pepe fans began to view Kek as the God-like personification of the Internet itself, which Kek cultists view as SENTIENT!

And so it came to pass that in 2016 that Pepe the Frog ascended to heaven assuming the mantle of God-like Meme status - and the first internet spawned religion was born - The Cult Of Kek!

Kek cultists see Kek is the personification of the Internet. In the Golden Dawn, we use a technique called the "Assumption of God-Forms". To get to the bottom of this Kek mystery, I did substantial experiments to discover the magical functions of the Kek God-Form. It turns out that the Kek GodForm is best used for political magick and for exposing "fake news" and propaganda coming from mainstream media.

David Griffin Assumes The GodForm of Kek

II The Golden Toad

The bad news about Kek arriving on the cultural Magick scene in 2016 turns out to be terrible news for China. You see, the most widely used Magick figure in all of China is a Golden Toad called "Chan Chu" also known as the money toad. Chan Chu is a meme God who brings money and fortune into a home or business.

The Chinese have invoked The Golden Toad for centuries. In fact, many attribute China's economic boom in recent decades to all of the Golden Toad wealth magick Chinese businesses and households have been doing.

Consider this, together with what we know from the Golden Dawn about the power of God Forms, and the Magick of assuming them.

From where I sit, it looks to me like the Chinese have cast a powerful wealth spell. For sure, China has prospered greatly in recent decades at America's expense. Many of our factories have moved to China and with them went American jobs and American prosperity.

Clearly, the Chan Chu money magick of the Chinese has been highly effective.

There is only one problem for the Chinese in the magickal battle for the future of humanity.

Because of rules imposed by the Chinese government to fight overpopulation, for decades Chinese families have wanted only male children. Girls have either frequently been aborted, or when possible Chinese mothers have come to America to give birth to their baby girls.

As a consequence, the energy of Chinese fertility has withered in China and blossomed bountifully in American! Is it any wonder, that when the Golden Toad finally incarnates as answer all those invocatons and prayers, that he gets confused by all that energy of Chinese fertility ...

... That the Golden Toad does not incarnate in China.

But instead comes to AMERICA to lead our nation back to the economic prosperity that is rightfully ours?

That's right. The Golden Toad has come to America as ....

The Rarest Of All Pepes!

Chan Chu - The Golden Toad

Sorry China, you just got TRUMPED!

Presidential Meme of the Year

So - Who should lead America into the future?

Boss Hog or Richie Rich?

Who will YOU choose this November 8?

Alt Right Porn, Weaponized Abuse Stories, and Mass Spiritual Awakening

by Rosicrucian Imperator

David Griffin

In my opinion, there is a mass spiritual awakening underway in the USA, unlike anything ever seen in my lifetime.

Whether you support Donald Trump or you are against him, one thing is certain...

Win or lose, America will never be the same again after this election.

The single most important thing that has occurred, in my opinion, is that a huge cross section of the American public are awakening to see how weaponized our mainstream media has become.

In the past, the media at least attempted to maintain at least the illusion of impartiality and objectivity, especially in major elections. 

Today, however, as the Wikileaks Podesta emails have unmasked, the mainstream media has been largely largely reduced to the propaganda arm of the Clinton campaign and a means to rig the debates by getting the questions in advance, etc.

And then there is social media ...

DISCLAIMER: I certainly do not support any man groping women against their will.

But what happened over the past week appears to be more sinister than things appear, as Leslie and I discovered by happenstance.

One of my Facebook friends, it turns out, is heavily involved in the Clinton campaign. She even has a picture of herself and her husband together with Hillary Clinton as her Facebook banner photo.

I have therefore been keeping a watchful eye on her page in recent months, to better analyze and understand what the Clinton campaign is really up to.

Last Sunday, together with Leslie, I watched a new interview with Juanita Broaddrick, who accuses Bill Clinton of having raped her and bloodied her lip. You can watch the Broaddrick interview HERE (WARNING! Not for the faint of heart).

Juanita Broaddrick

I was sickened by what I saw and heard Bill Clinton did, even by how badly Ms. Broaddrick was subsequently mistreated by the media and the Clintons over the years. Leslie was so upset by it, she couldn't sit through entire interview.

Imagine how what happened next on Facebook astonished us!

Monday morning , October 10, our Clinton activist friend, published a long personal missive on her Facebook page about "how she had been groped in her youth by a man in an elevator, how traumatic this experience had been for her, and how this is the first time she had talked about it."

Of course, Leslie and I felt empathy for our friend and what she had gone through. There was something that felt wrong about this post though. The feelings apparently were genuine and I do not doubt her story at all. The problem is though, that at the end of the very same post, our friend weaponised the entire story, attempting to engender outrage towards the Republican nominee in the presidential election, Donald Trump. Our suspicions were confirmed over the course of the week. This story was perfectly in line with Clinton campaign talking points for the week.

The post was quickly followed up by army of  commenters agreeing with the poster, pointing out how terrible an abuser or women Donald Trump is, and talking about their own rape experiences.

Leslie and I nonetheless our friend the benefit of the doubt. All women who claim they have been abused deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt. This is very important for recovery.

But still, in the interest of emotional honesty, Leslie posted a comment with a link to the Juanita Broaddrick interview, agreeing with our friend, and pointing out that also Juanita Broaddrick deserves the same right to be heard and deserves the same support as any other woman.

Guess what the response was over there? Leslie basically got run off the page. 

Astonishingly, one poster, "David K", commented almost immediately, calling Juanita Broaddrick’s heart wrenching interview „Alt Right porn,“ simply because the interview was hosted on Breitbart news' website as well as on YouTube!

Leslie pointed out the hypocrisy of saying on one hand that victims of abuse deserve to be heard, -

but refusing to give Juanita Broaddrick a fair hearing, merely because Bill Clinton is the accused rapist rather than Donald Trump. 

After other commenters supported "alt right porn" commenter, Leslie and I left the conversation immediately in astonishment, and went on about our business. 

The next day we checked in on the page - and guess what?

Entire MONTHS of pro-Clinton activism and manipulative propaganda had been completely sanitized from the Facebook page - all the way back to August 1! Why? Merely to keep the story of Juanita Broaddrick suppressed from reaching the audience of that page? Wow! Astonishing.

We had read somewhere about how the Clinton campaign has a army of social media trolls paid to manipulate public opinion. We can now confirm this having had a first hand encounter with one such operation.

Such social media propaganda operations are easy to disperse it appears, because they can not stand up to shining a light of truth on them. All those posts on that page. All those cleverly crafted memes designed to inflict maximum damage on the opponents reputation. All of the weaponized feelings All of it - Poof! Gone. Suddenly disappeared like cockroaches scampering away from the light.

In closing, let’s come back to mainstream media and the awakening sweeping across our nation.

It would be one thing if they only weaponised the nightly news. Sadly, this is not the case though. They have weaponised EVERYTHING, from NFL football to Jimmy Kimmel and Saturday Night Live. They have turned the applied anthropologists loose to manipulate public opinion on ALL network programming these days.

Thank you, mainstream media, for being so zealous in your social programming agenda that you have exposed your rigged game for all to see.

A recent poll shows that only 6% of Americans continue to trust what they hear in mainstream news. All across America, people are waking up from the trance.

"Awakening sister and brother Americans .. 

We call you from hypnotic slumber 

into waking truth!

Quit the night and seek the day!"

No matter who you will vote for this November 8, we can ALL still reclaim our power together in the mass awakening sweeping across America. How do you awaken? It's easy.

"Just Turn Off TV!"

Are Successful Magicians "Hucksters?" (OTO Llewellyn Author Attacks Golden Dawn Magickal Community)

by Golden Dawn Imperator

David Griffin

Over the past week, the blogosphere has been abuzz again about money and Magick teaching. The whole flap started when Nick Farrell decided to close the Magikal Order of Aurora Aureae correspodence course, then wrote an article suggesting that overall interest in Magick is on the wane in the 21st Century. You can read Mr. Farrell's article, entitled "Ten Reasons Why Public Occultism is Dying" here. Peregrin Wildoak threw his two cents into the discussion on his "MAgic of the Ordinary blog here.

Frater Barrabbas
(Brian Watling)

Everything remained quite civil until Llewellyn author and OTO member, Frater Barrabbas, gratuitously launched the following personal attack on Mr. Farrell on his "Talking About Ritual Magick" blog here,

„Some folks are saying that where the past decades were the golden age, the whole [Magick] movement now is in obvious decline in the second decade of the 21st century. I am, of course, referring to yet another “counter intuitive” whining rant from Nick Farrell on his blog of personal propaganda and self aggrandizement.“

Barrabbas, Farrell, and Wildoak each raise interesting points in their articles. The subject of money and marketing in Magick atually does deserve civil debate. Name calling, like that exhibited by Frater Barrabbas, however,  belongs on the school yard playground, not coming from a putative spiritual leader.

Anyone who has been around the Magickal scene for any length of time already knows that Nick Farrell and I agree about precious little. For example, we have completely different approaches to Magick and the Golden Dawn.

Despite our differences, Nick Farrell remains a valued teacher in our Golden Dawn community. I will therefore not stand by idly while an outside agitator - in this case a Llewellyn author and OTO member- attacks the Golden Dawn community by personally attacking its leaders.

Barrabbas' attack on the G.D. community continues:

"Conversely, those teachers who engage in it expecting to be financially rewarded or by receiving the accolades of their students and peers should consider doing something else. Because they won’t ever become rich or famous teaching occultism and magic unless they become supreme hucksters like Koetting, Zink or Griffin. Even then, it isn’t guaranteed that they will be successful, but to promote one’s tradition and persona like Donald Trump is probably the only way to make occultism and magic really pay."

In addition to Magical Order of Aurora Aureae leader, Nick Farrell, Frater Barrabbas above personally attacks leaders of two other Golden Dawn orders, calling us "hucksters," together with a Satanist!

This  bahavior is so over the top that it merits a public and harsh reply to "Frater Barrabbas" - who in the real world is Brian Watling, a computer programmer and database administrator for Optuminsight in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Here is my reply:

"Dear Brian Watling/Frater Barrabbas,  

Please quit acting like such a dick. No one asked you for your opinion. Why not go back to Llewellyn and OTO and mind your own business? Peace in our Golden Dawn community has lasted nearly a year now. The GD does not need outside agitators like you stirring shit in our community."

Brian Watling calls me a "huckster." Is this true? Of course not. I am not a huckster. What I AM though is a better Magician than Frater Barrabbas will ever be in the real world.

Want proof? Fine. Here:

Even today, Brian Watling continues to slave his health away 9-5 (+overtime) at his database administrator Muggle job with Optuminsight ...

... just like he has for the past 26 years.

And me? I have been semi-retired since I was 25. That's right. For the past 35 years, I have been privileged to have had 6-7 months free each year to devote entirely to the Magick of Light.

Do you think such liberty just fell out ot the sky? 

Hardly. Wake up people. I created it Magickally - And so can you.

I put a spell on myself using a rare French grimoire when I was young, conjuring the ability to master languages. Eventually mastered French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish and English. Of course, I had to work to become fluent in all these languages, but this was nonetheless the fruit of my Magickal Will. 

Does this make me a „huckster“? No. It does make me a linguist though. It also proves I'm a damned good Magician.

Manifesting a Muggle career that left me half the year to pursue my passion for Magick was also a product of my Magickal Will.

Such liberty does not just fall out of the sky. I created it magickally. And you can liberate yourself as well.

I am sick and tired of Magick "wannabe gurus" calling other people names - I mean these are people who can't muster enough Magickal Will  even to liberate themselves for proper time to devote to Magick.

Maybe these armchair heroes should quit harassing real Magicians - and devote themselves instead entirely to their time-slave Muggle jobs.

No wonder people like this so frequently choke on sour grapes.

And if you think they've been envious of my life until now, wait until they see what I'm about to accomplish.

I can only share a tiny part of what is coming on the horizon, but here is a piece of juicy gossip for the occult paparazzi:

"When I turned 60 this year, I took a magickal decision to retire from my Muggle job as a tour guide to devote myself not just half the year - but henceforth the WHOLE year - to empowering people with the Magick of Light  and facilitating their spiritual awakening." - David Griffin

Does this make me a huckster? No. 

But it will further prove my Magickal abilities once it manifests.

NOTE: Before the occult tabloids rake me over the coals again, lets be clear about this. I still plan to lead a couple of Muggle tours each year despite my retirement. I ENJOY guiding tourists from around the world through America.

No doubt there will be others like Frater Barrabbas who will come along and call me names for devoting my life all year to Magick. Believe me. Such people would be better off to quit gnashing their teeth on sour grapes, and prove their worth as Magiciansinstead  by transforming their OWN lives.

Next Frater Barrabbas compares me with Donald Trump. This part is really silly.

Although I am flattered by the comparison, I am nothing like Donald Trump. I am younger than Donald Trump. I am better looking than Donald Trump. And most importantly - I have a LOT more hair than Donald Trump!

But there is ONE thing Donald Trump and I do have in common. Donald Trump is courageous enough to speak his mind and to tell people even uncomfortable truths.

As any reader of our Golden Dawn Facebook group (here) will attest, there are certain issues I am passionate about - like healing our environment, the right of American citizens not to be spied on without a warrant, and rampant abuse of government secrecy.

For example, Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations concluded yesterday, yet the American people are still in the dark about the full contents of this treaty. According to Wikileaks documents, this treaty could have profound effects on American sovereignty, potentially even dragging us into globalism in an EU-like "Pacific Union" - effectively abolishing our constitution.

People - wake up! Open your eyes to what is going on around you.

At a minimum, these issues need to be discussed openly, publicly, and thoroughly. We Americans have a right to know and to legitimately participate in determining which direction our nation will take.

Lastly, the underlying reason Frater Barrabbas calls me a "huckster" is because he doesn't like that our order uses 21st Century marketing. Well, guess what - so does Optuminsight - the tech company Brian Watling works for.

Big deal. Get over it. 

I have no problem with Bryan Watling voicing his opinion about marketing in occultism, even though he is wrong. He just shouldn't call people names. There is no call for that.

Besides - Let's remember that our order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn under the Alpha Omega is the largest and fastest growing Golden Dawn order in the world. In fact, today we are growing three times faster than ever before.

Success is my proof. I must be doing something right.

And yes - This is my REAL hair!

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