How to Be a Friend of the Devil Within

By Paul C Burr

If you listen, relationships tell you everything that is ‘incomplete’ within you.

Your actions, thoughts and deeds (what you put out to the universe) return to you amplified, be they of love or not-love. For example, if you project fear, you will attract things to be fearful of. If you project compliance, you will attract things which require your compliance. Neither fear nor compliance are love. These negative emotions inform you of something that is incomplete within you, i.e. something that is not your true nature.

To unearth these oft-hidden incompletions, in the world of light and shadows within, you ‘dig’ (The ancients used the word ‘dig’ synonymously with ‘think’.) below the horizon (sunset) of your consciousness.

The ancient Egyptians deified the god, Set, to help you ‘dig’. Set etymologically became Satan (and the Roman god, Saturn, the most distant planet, visible to the naked eye, from the Sun), demonised as the harbinger of evil (de – evil,), the devil. We even name a day of the week after him, ‘Satur(ns)day’.

Set was charged by Ra (the sun god) to repel the serpent, Apepe (ego), an allegory of darkness and chaos. The darkness and chaos caused by the negative karma, invoked by incompleteness.

Set can thus be treated as a demon or as a harbinger of wisdom; either a devil who entraps you in his evil ways or an all(egor)y who presents you with a reflection, in the outer world, of the chaos and darkness that still lurks in your inner world – you choose.

It matters not whether you treat Set reverently or not, Set won’t begone; he will still reveal the chaos and darkness your inner world. Yet...

When you figure out a way to release all incompletions (forms of not-love), all that remains is love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul C Burr
• Release date: Mar 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311547767

Paul C Burr

I’m in the business of equipping people to improve their effectiveness by 30%+ in a matter of weeks, sometimes days.Business Client: “I have worked with Paul periodically over the past 8 years to gain solutions to a number of people issues / opportunities. If you are looking for a Personal Coach to make a High Performer / High performing Team even better (particularly a senior player) – I would not hesitate to recommend him”.Sandra Ventre, Management Development Director, Reckitt Benckiser (now with Qantas)Private Client: “You have been so instrumental in the positive changes in my life, I set quite a few goals, and one by one my goals are being achieved, thanks to you, showing me how”.Debbie (via Skype) Cape Town, South Africa.The Skills and Passions in MeLife doesn’t get better by chance; it gets better by change. And change is a journey that’s two parts, emotional, to one part, intellectual.Most of us don’t achieve what we set out to achieve at the first attempt. If the outcomes you sought were down to a purely intellectual exercise then you would have achieved them already - would you not? Whether you’re a top or moderate performer (or underperforming right now) - every change you make in life is a journey, two parts emotional to one part intellectual. We are twice as likely to hold ourselves back because of self-imposed emotional blocks as opposed to intellectual problems. Put simply, I equip people to tackle challenging emotional journeys.Corporate clients use me as a ‘business coach’, personal clients probably see me as more of an ‘energy healer’. In both cases I help clients to release the emotional blocks so that they cultivate and apply their innate willpower, imagination, courage and creativity to achieve the business and personal outcomes they seek.I’ve over thirty five years of ‘b2b’ corporate sales and management experience, fifteen years of which overlap with my business and personal coaching work. I’ve a PhD in Statistics and a First Class Honours Degree in Mathematics. I’m qualified as a Master Practitioner in: NLP, this/past life regression and hypnotherapy.I write books, blogs and have just started a series of business articles based upon my own original research, experience and observations in corporate and SME business.I study and practice ancient wisdom, astrology, casting runes, dowsing, the I Ching and the Tarot.I love listening to music – rock, jazz, country... you name it. I sing a bit too.I’m a passionate football fan of Newcastle United Football Club, in “Geordieland”, in The North-East of England.

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How to Be a Friend of the Devil Within

Quick Guides to Ancient Wisdom Series, No 2

&

Mindfulness Exercises in Relationships, No 2

By

Paul C Burr PhD

http://paulcburr.com/

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Copyright 2015 Paul C Burr

Contents

Preface • Summary • What Will Make You Truly Happy? • Choose your Devil • Why Be(-a-)friend? • The Devil, The Occult and Addictions • Let’s Dispel some Myths about Addiction • Mindfulness Exercise – Integrate the Light and Shadow Within • Closing Notes • Appendix: About me, Paul C Burr

Each of the images on the front cover depicts the major arcane card, The Devil, from the...

1. Ancient Tarot Deck of Marseilles by Jean Dodal, 1712

2. Thoth tarot deck, by Lady Frieda Harris in collaboration with Aleister Crowley, completed in the 1940s

3. Rider-Waite tarot deck, originally published in 1910

Acknowledgements

Andrea Kurucz, Graphic Designer, Artist and Illustrator

Kathrin Lee, Book Editor

Kelly Scales, Management Consultant and Entrepreneur

Penelope Walsh, Writer and Book Editor

Business Booklets by the Author

Quick Guide: How Top Salespeople Sell

Quick Guide II: How to Spot, Mimic and Become a Top Salesperson

Quick Guide III: How to Bridge the Pillars of Successful Business Relationships

Quick Guide IV: A Scorecard that Accounts for Mindfulness in Business

Quick Guide V: How to Apply Mindfulness to Business Relationships

Quick Guide VI: How to Sell Coaching

Quick Guide VII - A Top-notch, Sales-Relationships, Account Management Template

Other Books and Booklets by the Author

For The Love of Lilith & How to Put Love into Practice (and Non-attach Yourself to It)

The Mystique to the Game of Life (and Unrequited Love)

Defrag your Soul

2012: a twist in the tail - a novel

Learn to Love & Be Loved in Return

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This series of guides is dedicated to ‘you’ who struggle to avow free decisions from the depths of your heart: the creative will to reunite, through the love of Lilith, with your true nature and all that exists.

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Preface

A few years back, I was having a couple of problems that pale into insignificance compared to people far less fortunate than me. Nonetheless, I felt not-good about myself over two recurring issues, one addiction and the other, a relationship that became somewhat of an obsession of mine...

1 - I'd put on several pounds in weight. I had allowed my fitness levels to fall. I was drinking quite a bit of alcohol. I felt that I was not as productive in my work as I could be. I felt lazy quite a lot of the time too.

Previous diets and abstinence from alcohol had always helped me lose weight in the past. But