You may have noticed how everything seems to be speeding up. The changes that used to take 20 years now rip through in a single year. Last year’s cutting edge gadget is now pretty much obsolete, like my three year old computer.

Remember 78’s, 8-track, cassettes, 35 mm cameras,VHS, MS DOS, 640k limit on computer memory? Creation is happening more and more swiftly, giving the illusion that time is speeding up.

Last posting I talked about the rune UR, sometimes URUZ. In every kind of magick work there is always what we call the related Urthin acceleration effect. The student’s life seems to speed up suddenly. Your life movie goes into fast forward, and you seem to be dealing with several incarnations at once; and that is what is actually happening.

It's been just a few years since the world was going to end, for the umpteenth time. Let's look at us and the world for a moment.

The world is always filled with pain and grief and cruelty. This is the land of karma. It isn't where we come for a vacation. It's where we come to work off some of the stuff we have accumulated, so really unpleasant things happen here.

And as long as people are cruel to other people it will continue to be like this. If one group of people bring up their children to hate another group and be cruel to them whenever possible, maybe even to the point of exterminating them as painfully as possible, what is their karmic reward? Are they all going to be born to families of enlightened beings? Do they die and go straight to their idea of heaven? Or do they come back to experience the fruits of their karma?