Imajica, 82

Reincarnation I incarnated for this passing and raising test within our Solar Lodge as an American of Colour. I grew up in Cleveland Ohio USA. At the age of 16, I was sent off to the only black military academy the US has ever had "St Emma Military Academy" located in Virginia. A year after graduation I joined the US Army and became a proud member of the 5th Special Forces Group, i.e. a Green Beret. I served 3.5 years in Viet Nam, finishing up as One Zero Team Leader of a SOG LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Team). I was Honorably Discharged after 4 years 11 months and 29 days.
I joined the Cleveland Police Department where I served for 8.5 years. During this time I began to look for something else in life for I did not feel that what was on offer was enough to satisfy my growing consternation with the inconsistencies that confronted me in a ever growing manner every day, at work, and in my private life.
I was attracted to and started studying "the philosophy" of Ceremonial Magic. The reason for this though was not by chance, though I do not care to elaborate more on this point presently. This continued for several years when I realized that almost all of the Western Magical Tradition revolved around something called Kabbalah. My view was and is that if what I was or am studying revolves around Kabbalah or any other system of thought for that matter than I owe it to myself to find out what that system of thought represents, is or was "really about", and "to understand it" in its "operative manner".
The study of Kabbalah in its "universal essence" and the integration of its principles into my life would lead me to finally resign from the Police Department and to go to live and work in Israel in what was at that time known as The United States Sinai Field Mission.