Give Us This Day Our Daily Blog

By D G Mattichak, Jr

An anthology of the best articles from dgmattichakjr's blog: blogging about everything. An eclectic collection of essays covering a wide range of topics.
Forty one blog posts from my successful websites over the past couple of years. Witchcraft and magick, the art of writing, modern religion, people's movements, politics and money are among then melange of topics from a blog that can be about anything and everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D G Mattichak, Jr
• Release date: Nov 28, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465983398

D G Mattichak, Jr

D G Mattichak jr was born in 1963 in Syracuse New York and immigrated to Melbourne Australia with his family in 1972. He was educated in one of Melbourne's exclusive private schools before studying art at Preston Technical College.D G Mattichak jr has been a student of the occult arts since the early 1980s and has become well known in Australian magickal circles and, in recent years, around the world due to a string of essays on a variety of occult subjects http://www.scribd.com/dmattichak/shelf . He discovered the "key to the order & value of the English alphabet" from Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law in 1983 and has since used this English Qabalah to unlock the secrets of Thelemite magick. Success in these methods admitted him to the highest levels of attainment in various Hermetic disciplines and until recently he has been passing on his knowledge to private students, many of whom have gone on to become notable occultists in their own right.After almost three decades of study and development D G Mattichak jr has finally been able to distil his knowledge of magick and Thelema into a book- A Comment on the Verses of the Book of the Law, the first in a planned series of books on Hermeticism and Thelemite magick, revealing, for the first time in over a century, the secrets of magick that have been hidden in Crowley's magnum opus, the Book of the Law.D G Mattichak jr currently lives in Melbourne Australia with his artist wife Michelle and their two cats. He has had a long career as an al a carte chef in Melbourne's vibrant hospitality scene and now spends his time writing blogs on cooking, writing and, in the guise of Master Ankh af na Khonsu, about magick. He is also one of the founding members of the Mt Franklin Annual Pagan Gathering and regularly contributes to its official website http://mountfranklinannualpagangathering.blogspot.com/ as both an administrator and as an author. D G Mattichak jr's first book Loot was released in 2009. His books are available through amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=D+G+Mattichak&x=13&y=20 .

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Blog

an Anthology of the Best of

dgmattichakjr’s blog: Blogging About Everything

by

D G Mattichak jr

Published by D G Mattichak jr at Smashwords

 Copyright 2011 D G Mattichak jr

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Writing & Blogging

Give us this day our daily blog

Pointers for Effective Blog Writing

The Ever Evolving Blog

The Self Made Author

The Pen is Mightier than the Magick Sword- Writing for the Mount Franklin Annual Pagan Gathering

The Artist and the Retrospective Nature of Publicity

A Slice of American Pie

Yesterday’s Papers

Part Two: Economics & Politics

Printing Money

Debt- the Never Ending Story

A License to Print Money

A Poor Standard of Value

285 Million Dollar Golden Parachute

What Did the Economic Stimulus Package Actually Stimulate?

Where Have All the Good Times Gone? A Critical Look at the History of Australia’s Ever Faltering Economy

Tax: Now with 10% More Carbon

Uranium is a Many Splendored Thing for Julia

The Warm Fuzzy Feeling of a Pointless Occupation

Occupy Wall Street: Now 99% More Chaotic

Part Three: Observations

True Friends Stab You in the Front

Time

Anything but a Camel

My Cyber Spring Clean Feeling

Spiderbots Are Crawling Through My Relationships

Belligerent Foodstuffs

Brand Name Gods

December Haiku

Part Four: Magick & Witchcraft

What is the English Qabalah

Thelemites and Crowleyanity

Perception of Tradition in Occult Societies

The Rosicrucian Roots of Modern Witchcraft Cults

Wicca’s Relevance to Thelema

Why you can’t learn Magick from a magazine

A Witch by Any Other Name...

Which Witch is Which?

A Question of Discipline

The Value of Intiation

The Power of Obligation

On Silence and Secrecy

The Watchtowers of the Elements

Blog Addresses

Introduction

I have been writing all of my life. I didn't just wake up one day and say to myself; I might like to start writing today, I have woken up and wanted to write every day since I can remember. I have always kept journals and notebooks and detailed studies of obscure subjects for future reference and tried many times to write books, both fictional tales and informative non-fiction, before I succeeded in getting one published. But it was getting this book published that is really the genesis of the current collection of my thoughts, essays and epigrammatic writings.

Before 2009 blogging was something that I had heard of but never had time for but in the middle of that year as I went through the long process of publishing my first novel Loot I was informed by my publisher in no uncertain terms that I needed to start a blog in order to promote myself and my book. Dgmattichakjr's blog began on March 22nd 2010 and at the time I wasn't sure what I would blog about but keen to stay onside with my publisher and agent I went to Wordpress and got myself a standard blog. I fussed over formatting (I went with Titan), and chose an array of widgets, obsessed over the stats as the site got going and gradually warmed to blogging. Soon the initial rush of publicity for the book had passed and while I was still using the site to sell books the blog had developed a life of its own.

I had moved on to preparing my second book A Comment on the Verses of the Book of the Law for the publishers but at the same time I was also producing a lot of interesting material that was attracting more and more traffic to the blog. In the beginning I shared my experience of going through the publishing process, networked with other authors and then with other bloggers, sharing links, advice and encouragement with one another in an organically developed cyber community of writers, readers, bloggers and assorted like minded folk. As I felt more affection for the blogging process, the immediacy of its messages, the interaction with your audience and the sharp derision that meets every poorly written, ill conceived sentence that gets posted, I started to concentrate more on writing quality articles for my blog's growing fan base. As I became more confident of my medium I became bolder and more vocal- my blog had become my personal cyber soap box.

Over the months that I have kept Dgmattichakjr's blog, and later Ankhafnakhonsu's Magick Blog, I have written quite a number of articles that have ranked well in the search engines and while the overwhelming majority of the traffic through my sites is on the Home pages there are certain articles that constantly get the majority of the traffic from visitors that linger and look deeper into my archives. As the blogs have grown much of my best writing is buried deep in the archived pages of the blog making them hard to find which inspired me to collect them all together in one e-book.

When I came to assemble this anthology of essays I found that the material fell into four broad groups. Writing, publishing and blogging are common topics in the posts and the collection that I have included here touch on the art of writing and my experiences of blogging. I have included my most radical posts on economics and politics and explore the issues of debt based currencies and bubble economics in pretty straight language. The third part of the anthology is a collection of my written observations and ends with some self indulgent Haiku poems that I have written and the last part covers the topic of Magick and Witchcraft and includes several posts from Ankhafnakhonsu's Magick Blog.

The blog has been instrumental in my development as a writer, an occupation that now pays at least some of my bills, and I am now a dedicated enthusiast to blogging so this anthology is hopefully only the first volume in a series of my best blog posts. Hopefully you will like these enough to visit me in cyber space and see what I am blogging about in the futrue. One thing is for sure- blogging isn't going to go away anytime soon.

David G Mattichak, Melbourne, November 2011

Part One: Writing & Blogging

Give us this day our daily blog

Followers of this blog (there are a few of you out there) might have noticed that my web address has changed. In place of the dgmattichakjr.wordpress.com in the browser’s address window there now appears dgmattichakjr.com. I have become my own domain. Whilst I went through the technical process of registering and linking my new domain name it occurred to me that I was leasing a piece of the cyber world, I was now a virtual tenant. I mused on the ways that blogging had changed for me from my first tentative posts, the excitement over the first comments and the pleasure that I have gotten from joining the online community of bloggers.

Originally I started this blog in support of the publication of my novel Loot (), in order to develop a public profile, but it soon developed a life of its own as I saw and started to realize the potential of the site. Blogging has gone a long way to developing my confidence as an author, widened the audience for my work and put me in touch with other writers everywhere in the world. After a very short time I found that I had invested a lot of time in dgmattichakjr.wordpress.com, it had become a part of my plan for world domination, as it were. Some of the posts are works that I have spent a lot of time and effort on, doing research, writing and editing (and often re-writing), and one day I may find that there are enough good ones to make a book of them viable. The stand out essay for sheer numbers of hits is The Rosicrucian Roots of Modern Witchcraft Cults, which here and in a couple of other places where it can be read (scribd) has amassed several thousand reads. Before I used the internet to circulate my work I couldn’t have imagined being able to reach such a wide audience.

But it is more than just the success that I have had with writing for the web but the community of bloggers that make this part of the virtual universe so interesting. After all of these months I have accumulated quite a number of blogs that I subscribe to and even more that I follow semi-regularly and I find myself