confessions of a gadfly

Written by thehouseofvines

I realize that the positions I am advocating may seem a little severe, and if it was just a case of some idiots dabbling in magic they do not comprehend, spouting off on political matters they do not comprehend, or giving their opinions rather than making proclamations on behalf of Gods they do not comprehend, I would not care. But all of these things have consequences, especially when they are coming from people who want to be seen as leaders within our communities.

If you want the respect, power, authority, and other benefits that come with such positions then you must hold yourself to a higher standard, and if your behavior fails to meet that standard expect that you will be met with criticism and forced accountability. If you are not willing to submit to that from the people you would presume to lead, let me assure you that you will answer to the Gods for your shortcomings, and if the myths tell us anything, it is that such chastisement rarely stops with the wrongdoers themselves, but spreads to everyone who accepts that authority, or who recognized what was happening and did nothing to stop it.

Harsh, perhaps, but divinities, magic, and the like hold to an older law, a truer law, than anything you will find in our modern, progressive representative democracies. (Yet another reason why I am a tribalist and traditionalist, and not some pathetic right-winger or leftist.) I speak from experience here, which is why I am remaining an outsider (Orpheotelestai have always been marginalized religious specialists moving from community to community as needed) and not hesitating to speak out when I see such behavior and attitudes taking root and spreading through modern polytheism.

I am not here to be liked or to make friends or found groups and lead them. I attempted all of that, failed, and manfully met the correction doled out by our divinities.

Because of the task given me I have to clean up the esoteric messes these bumblers are creating through negligence, stupidity, greed, arrogance and impiety. They are just useful idiots, not the true enemies I fight against, which are the powers allied with the unmaker. But I am going to be a gadfly on these people’s asses until they stop making my job harder.

5 thoughts on “confessions of a gadfly”

    1. Oh, come on. Do you think I’d set things up like this just to leave it at that? I have every intention of sharing stories, and maybe even with identifying details (though this is more of a didactic thing than a series of “my colleagues are wicked, stupid or both” kinda exposés.) I will tell you this isn’t just limited to neopagandom and the occult. I’m currently dealing with a case where I advised a woman to seek help from the Catholic church; I expected there might be some hoops for her to jump through, as she has a severe medical condition that might be grounds for exclusion, but they took it seriously and rushed her through the preliminary examination. Unfortunately the conclusion they reached was wrong (affliction rather than possession) and instead of dealing with it in house they referred her to a charismatic evangelical faith healer who did the absolute bare minimum and even that incompetently. (I.e. calling on the Holy Spirit rather than Jesus Christ. If you know anything about exorcism it is a Christological charism, not a Pneumatological one.) This left her still possessed, but now convinced that she’s perfectly fine — even though the erratic behavior and minor supernatural phenomena has persisted. The frustrating thing (beyond the complete failure of the Church) is that I’m in New York and she and her husband, whom I’m continuing to counsel, are in Washington state, and I don’t have a single colleague in the area that I can refer them to, or who can assist me when the time comes to confront this thing. I have both of them reciting prayers and performing minor rites consistent with their faith to keep things from progressing while I gather intelligence and formulate a plan, but needless to say I am not very happy with the Catholic church or the idiot they brought in — which is incomprehensible to me: 1) since when did Catholics start working with Charismatics? and 2) I understand that an exorcism would necessitate bumping it up the hierarchical chain, but any parish priest worth his blessed salt ought to have been able to perform the deliverance rite/house blessings this fool did, so why outsource it? Thankfully I performed a successful healing on them before this, so the husband trusts me enough to follow my advice or this situation could have turned into a complete clusterfuck.

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      1. yeah, this one has been a real pain in the ass for us. It would not have been half as bad if the god damned catholics had done their fucking job. Jesus was, first and foremost on earth, an exorcist after all. They can’t maintain their liturgy. They insult His mother. and they can’t do the ONE THING that he spent most of the gospels doing. wtf.

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