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GIRP Fire, with Divination

Ave,

Performed the GIRP Fire as directed by divination-I needed to determine whether I should spend more time working with the force. Communion and divination revealed I needed to perform the GIRP once more for a specific purpose; to ask for Wisdom and Understanding of the element of Fire. I performed the battery as normal but with the recent addition of the LIRP directly before the GIRP, which worked quite well. I felt a receptivity to the force. The invocations hit me harder, in a good way.

After stating my intent and performing the Middle Pillar, I sat in the throne to meditate. I immediately saw a red triangle-a good sign. I continued the circulation, and then fell into vision. I felt as if I were an unborn infant. I was surrounded with red and gold, blood and flesh. I was still, and then I was struck! My heart began to beat, the bio-electricity flowed throughout me. The vision stayed here for a moment, and then I was born out into the world. At this point the perspective changed to the third person--I watched the baby as it took in it's first breath, and that breath was laced with Solar fire. The vision moved forward, and I saw myself as a teenager. My body again was lit with Fire, as the hormonal changes of puberty worked their magic to start another kind of growth. Again, the vision moved forward, and I lay with my wife-we are both transparent, and the Fire within us combines to empower new life. I asked where it went from there, but the vision was still--I felt it was being communicated that this was the natural culmination of that particular kind of Fire energy, that the life creating cycle was a sort of culmination. It was quite a vision.

It faded, and I continued to meditate upon the red triangle. Next, I saw myself projecting the red light that symbolizes fire, and I was struck yet again! The force that is Fire isn't something that can be visualized, it is formless by nature. The symbols I use to work with it are exactly that, symbols. They aren't the force itself, and each individual symbol may describe one aspect of the force but doesn't capture it's whole. Even the descriptions of Fire that we use (heat, expansion, growth) describe some functions of the force, but they aren't the force. For example- I am tall, dark skinned, with black hair and a burly build. This is an accurate description of my appearance, but the description isn't me. I'm not sure I'm describing this correctly, but it was a revelation.

The rest of the ritual went well. I was very grateful, and expressed my thanks. The subject of fire is massive, everyone of the elements is a multi-varied and subtle force. It will take more than one session to gain the full understanding of it, but all I need to do is meditate on the triangle to receive further vision, which I fully intend to do.

In LVX,

AIT

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