by Anne Hamilton | Sep 18, 2023 | Anat, LIlith, Thresholds
Each of the threshold spirts has a different toolbox of tactics when it comes to testing and tempting us. Yet, once we’ve identified a particular spirit and its legal right to function in our lives, the vast majority of us are keen to renounce the vows, cancel the...
by Anne Hamilton | Aug 4, 2023 | Covenant, LIlith, Thresholds
As soon as Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden, they realised they were naked and felt shame. In a futile attempt at a cover-up, they made themselves clothes out of fig leaves. But it didn’t work. Shame led to...
by Anne Hamilton | Jul 10, 2023 | appointed time, guardians, LIlith, Thresholds
Each of the threshold spirits has a different approach to truth. Python doesn’t mangle the truth, but hides it in a riddle or ambiguity. Ziz tears truth apart with false accusation or memory reframing. Leviathan distorts and twists the truth in varying degrees,...
by Anne Hamilton | Jun 17, 2023 | Covenant, False Refuges, guardians, LIlith, Thresholds
The first tactic of Lilith, the vampire spirit and architect of dispossession, is—not surprisingly—staking. We should beware of attempting to ‘stake it down’ in return, however, following those old vampire movies. All that does is grant Lilith spiritual legal...
by Anne Hamilton | Jun 7, 2023 | guardians, LIlith, Thresholds
Lilith is only mentioned once in Scripture—in Isaiah 34:14. Together with watcher-jackals and goat-demons, she haunts the ruins of Edom. Her name is often translated as owl, since it derives from night. However, that’s not entirely satisfactory since Isaiah clearly...
by Anne Hamilton | May 19, 2023 | Thresholds, wasting
Back last century when, all unknowing, I was learning to research names, I spent some years laboriously piecing together a whole series of clues trying to connect two obscure but significant characters in Celtic folklore and Arthurian legend. Not long after I finally...
