Phantamancers

        ("Vision Witchs")

        “I had a dream which was not at all a dream”

-Lord Byron,                                  

Honorary Phantamancer            

The Phantamancer's Decree:                   

       For all wishful Djinn, the real training begins
       When their Phantasy faculty's unshackled within.
       Dare you gain a feigned mastery of mundane reality?
       Let your brains entertain any flame sustaining fallacy,
       And know your soul as you grow your own independant galaxy
           Deep within your well fertilized mind.
    Right here... Right now... as we plow towards the end of all time...
                Refind your affinity for willed insanity,
                 Rebuild the lost Djinn Kingdoms astrally
                   And suffer this make believe divinity placidly
       Until your Mujnun makes lucid this Dream of Mankind.

    Welcome to The Phantasmagora

    The Homepage for the Silsilah Monk's visionary Phantamancers

        Within the Scholastic school of greek philosophy there was once a concept that, like much of the infamous greek gnosis, eventually found its way into the magical practices of ancient Arabian magicians. This concept, "Phantasy," passed down into the english language having lost a great deal of its original meaning and with it much of the significance and respect that it had once carried in Greece and in the Middle East. A word that once denoted much more than merely "fiction," the Phantasy faculty in human beings is arguably the foundation of many lost or largely misunderstood magical practices from all over the world.

        The Phantasy is an organ of sensation for the soul, just as the nervous system is for the body. As the psychic engine responsible for the production of desire, imagination, and memory in mankind, the Phantasy plays an essential part in the creation of all internally perceived experiences and is responsible for the continuance of the inner life that exists above and beyond the merely objective and material sensations of the physical body. Due to the private and fleeting nature of the numerous Phantasmata that this sense generates, the Phantasy has become an extremely under apprieciated organ of the soul, one that has been nearly atrophied into extinction in far too many humans this age of materialism.

        The essense of Phantamancy, a discipline of dreams, visualizations, and so much more, is partially explained here for the study and use of potential Phantamancers within the Silsilah Monks, as well as for anyone else who wishes to tap the lost powers of the Djinn.

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