Luciferian Dialogue: On Asking Spirits Repeat Questions
Me: So we have established that it does not annoy you when I ask you the same question over and over again out of anxiety and looking for reassurance.
Lucifer: Mm, yes.
Me: What of in other cases where the repeated question isn't out of anxiety, does it annoy you then?
Lucifer: In what case do you mean?
Me: Well, I once had a friend, or maybe it was out of a book I read, who told me they accompanied another friend on a trip in Salem. The friend went to multiple divination readers and asked them the same questions. The person telling the story was uncomfortable with this conduct and thought it may have frustrated the spirits to be asked the same questions repeatedly. Then there was last month at the zendo retreat where one of the Buddhist teachers admitted that they "have been a bit of a stinker" by sitting sanzen with multiple other teachers, giving them each the same question.
Lucifer: Share with the class what the Buddhist teacher learned.
Me: First the Buddhist teacher thought the answers were all different. Then when they shared with one of their friends, the friend said, "Don't you see they are all saying the same thing?" And the friend was correct.
Lucifer: If there is an underlying motivation to asking the question repeatedly, an impure intention if you will, such as the person trying to trick the readers or teachers they are sitting with, that is a concern. However, if the individual is asking out of curiosity for the process or is using the repetition as part of the process, this is acceptable. What is always most important is that the querent has respect for those whose services or time they are soliciting.
As you have realized recently, the past and the future are always within the present* whether or not you ask a question. I would say rarely am I annoyed, or even know spirits who are annoyed, by repeat questions. The answer is always in revealing what is already there, which is simple enough.
Me: What of your followers who don't seem to understand what you are trying to tell them? Particularly those whose lives get worse trying to access pathways not optimal for them?
Lucifer: Still, the issue is not in the asking. The issue is in the journey they must undergo to turn elsewhere and the asking allows a prompt to help them to steer.
Me: Thank you, teacher.
Lucifer: Thank you.
*Prompted by my reading about the views of Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen, and then making a wish to experience time-being in practice, answered then by Lucifer with the aid of cannabis