So you wanna be a magician? Then you should work on and study imagination in all aspects. Francis Bardon begins the education of magick in his famous book Initiation into Hermetics with imagination. Every cult, every magickal order have imagination at the core of their teaching even if they are not aware of the fact.
So, what can you do in order to develop your imagination and improve it. I assume that you have already read and tried many traditional ways of imagining things and events. I suggest you to use digital images and videos to enhance your imagination. Doesn't that sound authentic? Does it sound not old enough?
When I was studying Havass (islamic magickal system), I noticed something. When a new talisman or a magick square is going to be told, it reads "find a clean piece of paper". Now that was interesting. Why would I use a not-clean paper for any type of magick I want to operate on? Then it hit me. Those texts were written hundreds of years ago and finding a clean piece of paper was whether difficult or really expensive.
However, we live in the 21st century and we have access to many different tools in comparison to the past. We should use them. We should use any tool that could improve our imagination. You can find related images for your work on the net and you can look at them for the sake of imagination. If it is necessary, you can spend hours staring at a picture so that you can have all the feelings necessary to create the energy for your work.
I think you get the idea.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Rising on the planes 1
I knew this time would eventually come. It started last year and I have posted some of this experience in different forms on this blog. However, when it comes to occult knowledge and culture, there is vast amount of difference in perspectives and definitions, therefore it is hard for a novice to tell whether she has been in an astral plane or in another sphere of existence or just in alpha state. Isn't it possible that all those definitions indicate the same experience for any magician in any level of experience? It is very possible. The truth is, there is no absolute truth at all when it comes to a magickal operation or a magickal school of thought and practice.
Having said that, lets talk about a little bit on how is it possible to produce a magickal effect without using any physical tools whatsoever. But before that, let me ask you this one important question: Is it possible that magickal weapons have any significance? Can you find and use John Dee's wand (if there was any) and produce decent magickal effects with that? Do you think it might be useful for you to bring Crowley's sword (if there was any) to your ritual?
First of all, I don't reject the idea of an accumulation of a certain type of energy in a magickal tool. Once, I slept with a t-shirt which I have used in a magickal operation (to fold around a wax-doll for physical protection purposes while carrying it in a backpack) and my sleep was not full of nightmares but there were enough of them to remind me the effect. However, apart from this energetic effect, would it be useful for a person who would take my t-shirt and try to use it in magickal purposes? I don't really think so. Most probably, he will only have one or two harmless nightmares while he sleeps or some mild headache and nothing beyond.
Second, I want to evaluate mantras and similar words in effect. As most of the readers of this blog know, Jupiter's number is four and you repeat everything four times when you address Jupiter in a ritual. Some say that the vibration is important, others say that there is an accumulation of energy in those words just because people used them for thousands of years. Then why, why on earth should we perform a long ritual with all those hexagrams, pentagrams, swords, daggers, robes... why isn't it sufficient to vibrate all the right words?
Those two examples should lead you to think and try to exceed your current perspective. This is a difficult and tense matter, therefore I will not go into detail and force the issue further.
Let's come back to our main topic: Rising on the planes.
After a year of hard work on magick in almost all types of schools and alike, I had some contact with Isis. After a certain period of time, an imaginary place had emerged with very precise details. The reason that I don't tell you the whole picture is not to influence your imagination. You need a clean imagination to start with, because imagination is the key to further discovery of such "places". If I now go about filling your mind with some descriptions, you would get stuck with a preconditioned imagination. A preconditioned (or conditioned in any conventional way apart from self-managed conditioning) imagination for a magician is the key to failure.
Some day (actually night) a couple of months ago, while searching for something in the backyards of that imaginary place, I came across with an entity (spirit? demon? who is going to decide that?) who calls herself Seta (or Sata). I am calling her a she because she was in the form of a female human being. It was easy to contact her although our contact in the beginning was very mechanical (such as yes or no's or very rough explanations). From all the bibliotheque I have read so far, I immediately thought that she is going to lead me to different spheres or different dimensions so to say (some call this a plane, plane of existance: e.g. astral plane, physical plane, etc.). However this wasn't how it happened. We had minor conversations for almost 2 months. Conversations were about both private magickal practice and general information on dimensions and planes of existence. Then Seta told me that she is going to leave me and my imaginary workplace since she (kind of) decided that I am not quite ready to learn more than what she already told me. She also told me that ordinary magick we talked about with her is just enough to achieve almost every purpose in the mundane world. Finally, she added that it is not possible to know by now whether we are going to "see" each other again or not.
In the days coming, I am going to post about the magick that she taught as well as some concepts we talked about.
Although a bit late, I wish everyone a happy new 2010!
Having said that, lets talk about a little bit on how is it possible to produce a magickal effect without using any physical tools whatsoever. But before that, let me ask you this one important question: Is it possible that magickal weapons have any significance? Can you find and use John Dee's wand (if there was any) and produce decent magickal effects with that? Do you think it might be useful for you to bring Crowley's sword (if there was any) to your ritual?
First of all, I don't reject the idea of an accumulation of a certain type of energy in a magickal tool. Once, I slept with a t-shirt which I have used in a magickal operation (to fold around a wax-doll for physical protection purposes while carrying it in a backpack) and my sleep was not full of nightmares but there were enough of them to remind me the effect. However, apart from this energetic effect, would it be useful for a person who would take my t-shirt and try to use it in magickal purposes? I don't really think so. Most probably, he will only have one or two harmless nightmares while he sleeps or some mild headache and nothing beyond.
Second, I want to evaluate mantras and similar words in effect. As most of the readers of this blog know, Jupiter's number is four and you repeat everything four times when you address Jupiter in a ritual. Some say that the vibration is important, others say that there is an accumulation of energy in those words just because people used them for thousands of years. Then why, why on earth should we perform a long ritual with all those hexagrams, pentagrams, swords, daggers, robes... why isn't it sufficient to vibrate all the right words?
Those two examples should lead you to think and try to exceed your current perspective. This is a difficult and tense matter, therefore I will not go into detail and force the issue further.
Let's come back to our main topic: Rising on the planes.
After a year of hard work on magick in almost all types of schools and alike, I had some contact with Isis. After a certain period of time, an imaginary place had emerged with very precise details. The reason that I don't tell you the whole picture is not to influence your imagination. You need a clean imagination to start with, because imagination is the key to further discovery of such "places". If I now go about filling your mind with some descriptions, you would get stuck with a preconditioned imagination. A preconditioned (or conditioned in any conventional way apart from self-managed conditioning) imagination for a magician is the key to failure.
Some day (actually night) a couple of months ago, while searching for something in the backyards of that imaginary place, I came across with an entity (spirit? demon? who is going to decide that?) who calls herself Seta (or Sata). I am calling her a she because she was in the form of a female human being. It was easy to contact her although our contact in the beginning was very mechanical (such as yes or no's or very rough explanations). From all the bibliotheque I have read so far, I immediately thought that she is going to lead me to different spheres or different dimensions so to say (some call this a plane, plane of existance: e.g. astral plane, physical plane, etc.). However this wasn't how it happened. We had minor conversations for almost 2 months. Conversations were about both private magickal practice and general information on dimensions and planes of existence. Then Seta told me that she is going to leave me and my imaginary workplace since she (kind of) decided that I am not quite ready to learn more than what she already told me. She also told me that ordinary magick we talked about with her is just enough to achieve almost every purpose in the mundane world. Finally, she added that it is not possible to know by now whether we are going to "see" each other again or not.
In the days coming, I am going to post about the magick that she taught as well as some concepts we talked about.
Although a bit late, I wish everyone a happy new 2010!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Wealth and magical practice 2
When I study magical practice concerning wealth, I realize that wealth on an astral plane is very, very abstract in comparison to what we experience here on earth, I mean the physical plane. That makes it more and more difficult.
When you want to work on love, hate, health, etc., those concepts are really easy to imagine in the astral plane and do whatever you want to do with them. You can take anybody anytime, imagine his/her form in the astral plane and then work on that form. You can heal someone, make someone sick, make someone lose his/her sanity and then finally you can have the desired outcome.
Disturbing or destructing wealth is easy in that sense because it has many correspondence you can find easily. When someone got sick for a long time, it is obvious that his/her wealth will be affected in a negative way. However, how to enable magical forces for yourself or someone to create or increase wealth? When you work on someone and make him/her sick, it's pretty sure that you can make them worsen their wealth but healing someone doesn't necessarily lead to a consequence where he/she can work more in terms of business or be luckier than the past and thus create or increase their wealth.
Therefore, building or increasing wealth is easier when the target has an already established business and he/she can tell you about prospects, potential clients/buyers/contractors etc. Then you can work on those people easily to make them act for the benefit of this person. Then, wealth comes in the form of increased sales, it's that easy.
But again, you didn't do anything concerning finances, money itself. You worked on people, influenced their flow of thought and emotions and you made them act towards new business, sale, and alike.
So, in that sense, so far, it is obvious that magical practice for developing/improving your finances means working with other people's forms or spirits or souls or minds or whatever you want to call them.
Even in the case of an isolated island where you have to live forever and you need food, this still means you will work with the souls and minds of some animals, trees, flora etc.
You can easily affect the minds of hundreds of fish and then you can catch them.
Therefore, it's time to remember that magic is not something very far from the conditions of a physical plane. What you do by heating the water and combining it with some filtered coffee is already a magical process. As a result, you manifest a cup of coffee.
When you buy flowers for your date, it's magic. You play with her mind. You already know (kind of an esoteric knowledge) she will be affected in a romantic way when you hand her a bunch of flowers and you do it.
So, if you want to create wealth, increase it or improve your financial status, the key isn't money itself. It's not about turning stone into gold. It's mostly about finding, figuring out people who will be profitable for you when you interact with them and then finding proper ways to influence them in order to make them act.
That's my opinion so far. I am sure I will come up with different views on this. Time will tell.
When you want to work on love, hate, health, etc., those concepts are really easy to imagine in the astral plane and do whatever you want to do with them. You can take anybody anytime, imagine his/her form in the astral plane and then work on that form. You can heal someone, make someone sick, make someone lose his/her sanity and then finally you can have the desired outcome.
Disturbing or destructing wealth is easy in that sense because it has many correspondence you can find easily. When someone got sick for a long time, it is obvious that his/her wealth will be affected in a negative way. However, how to enable magical forces for yourself or someone to create or increase wealth? When you work on someone and make him/her sick, it's pretty sure that you can make them worsen their wealth but healing someone doesn't necessarily lead to a consequence where he/she can work more in terms of business or be luckier than the past and thus create or increase their wealth.
Therefore, building or increasing wealth is easier when the target has an already established business and he/she can tell you about prospects, potential clients/buyers/contractors etc. Then you can work on those people easily to make them act for the benefit of this person. Then, wealth comes in the form of increased sales, it's that easy.
But again, you didn't do anything concerning finances, money itself. You worked on people, influenced their flow of thought and emotions and you made them act towards new business, sale, and alike.
So, in that sense, so far, it is obvious that magical practice for developing/improving your finances means working with other people's forms or spirits or souls or minds or whatever you want to call them.
Even in the case of an isolated island where you have to live forever and you need food, this still means you will work with the souls and minds of some animals, trees, flora etc.
You can easily affect the minds of hundreds of fish and then you can catch them.
Therefore, it's time to remember that magic is not something very far from the conditions of a physical plane. What you do by heating the water and combining it with some filtered coffee is already a magical process. As a result, you manifest a cup of coffee.
When you buy flowers for your date, it's magic. You play with her mind. You already know (kind of an esoteric knowledge) she will be affected in a romantic way when you hand her a bunch of flowers and you do it.
So, if you want to create wealth, increase it or improve your financial status, the key isn't money itself. It's not about turning stone into gold. It's mostly about finding, figuring out people who will be profitable for you when you interact with them and then finding proper ways to influence them in order to make them act.
That's my opinion so far. I am sure I will come up with different views on this. Time will tell.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The difference between Law of Attraction and conventional magick
There was an anonymous comment on the last post and Ananael's answer to that. Let me quote them first:
Anonymous said...
Ananael answered:
I had this happening in my personal experience too. I remember once I was using law of attraction to manifest a new notebook computer for myself and that has manifested for a friend of mine within two weeks. She didn't know about my intention.
I think it lies in what Ananael described as "...in some way you feel unworthy of receiving...". I am pretty sure about this. Here is a short relevant blog post: Psychotherapy can make you a better magician.
Here, we can see the use of entities. I understand that an entity you interact and delegate a certain job is performing far more better than your intention (I mean intention alone). Although you must imagine the outcome, formal rituals ensure that the outcome is not affected by your subconscious mind.
I turned those two comments into a blog post because I am impressed by that.
Anonymous said...
I would appreciate more information on this subject of "unintentional manifestation." I've got some doozy examples: Walking up the sidewalk to a hospital front entrance for three weeks, everyday I noticed an older model black Range Rover vehicle near the edge of the side walk. Owning a "new" Silver Range Rover remains a manifestation I desire. After a week or so of noticing the older black Range Rover, I noticed that it's replaced by a new silver Range Rover exactly like the one I imagined and have plastered all around my home. Heck, I manifested the vehicle I wanted for someone else!
Another one: An older, wealthy gentleman interested in me, just like I wanted him to be and I wanted him to marry me and move to Virginia. He moves to Virginia, like I wanted him to but he marries another woman just like me. Again, my scenario exactly. But for someone else!
Oh, there are many other occasions too: my brother's trip to Vegas and the Wynn Hotel that happened for him exactly the way I wanted; my sister's trip to the salon I wanted to visit for a long time; a neighbor making a move exactly like I wanted. The list of these sorts of events "manifestation for others" has been seemingly endless for me!
Why am I accomplishing "magick" or "attraction" for others and not myself? Of course, these events did entertain me but I found them hurtful (because of their exactness) and they made me incredibly jealous. Fortuitously, these events did draw me to this blog and this entry because it was the subject of a burning question for me.
Ananael answered:
My question would be whether or not you have done a ritual for any of these things, or if you have just thought about them and kind of hoped they would come your way. In the former case, you need to examine and redefine your statement of intent, and in the latter case you need to start using actual magick instead of vaguely focused daydreaming.
While the "law of attraction" model can work if your thoughts are exceptionally clear, a problem with the method is that your desire for a specific outcome often gets mixed up with other aspects of your personality. The actual resulting "intent" can include all sorts of other information besides from the desire itself. One way that I could envision something like this happening in your case might be that you have enough talent to manifest the outcomes you want, but in some way you feel unworthy of receiving the benefits. So the things you visualize happen around you rather than to you.
If you are working formal rituals, make sure that your statement of intent explicitly mentions you receiving the thing you are conjuring for. "It is my will to summon a silver Range Rover" is not sufficient. A statement like that could have produced what you experienced since the Range Rover did appear. With this example, the statement would need to be modified so that it includes acquiring and owning said vehicle.
I had this happening in my personal experience too. I remember once I was using law of attraction to manifest a new notebook computer for myself and that has manifested for a friend of mine within two weeks. She didn't know about my intention.
I think it lies in what Ananael described as "...in some way you feel unworthy of receiving...". I am pretty sure about this. Here is a short relevant blog post: Psychotherapy can make you a better magician.
Here, we can see the use of entities. I understand that an entity you interact and delegate a certain job is performing far more better than your intention (I mean intention alone). Although you must imagine the outcome, formal rituals ensure that the outcome is not affected by your subconscious mind.
I turned those two comments into a blog post because I am impressed by that.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
How to use magick for relationships?
Magick can be used for relationships. There are many love spells out there that are both new and thousands of years old.
People always have a tendency to deal with the metaphysical when life becomes boring or depressing. Love and relationships are also an aspect of life that may bring great happiness as well as troubles.
There will be many more posts about how to execute magickal creation but now I'll try to give the basics and show you some examples.
Here is our scenario: You are in love with someone. You either don't know each other yet or you are being introduced and you are not sure whether he or she is interested in you or you feel shy about getting closer with him or her.
Let's try the most basic form of conscious creation. You don't always need spells for that, it is not really necessary. Magickal forces do not hear words from you. It is about what you think and what you imagine.
Visualization is very important in magick. Many rituals just exists to help you concentrate on your subject.
Let's use a candle for your concentration. Light up a tea-light candle. Some people may be more comfortable using certain colors for certain subjects. The most compatible color for love and relationships in magick is red. It represents fire, passion, love, and alike. Therefore, you may want to use a red candle. In my humble opinion, any candle would do because magick is in fact your intention.
Look at the flame of the candle and concentrate. Focus on some scenes with you being together. Try to dwell upon the end result. Don't concentrate on imagining how bad you want him or her. Just concentrate on the image of you two being together and having romantic moments.
Try to visualize details about having a date with him or her. Try to visualize every detail. The table, candles, flowers. Try to imagine that he sends you flowers or you send flowers to her and imagine how happy you are together.
Try not to concentrate on not having him or her by your side at the moment. Try to feel that you are already lovers and you are very happy together.
Concentrate on that imagery as long as you wish or as long as you can. Then leave the candle lighting. Take care of the environment so that the candle will not cause any damage.
Repeat this process for a certain period of time. If you feel that this should take days then repeat it for a couple of days.
The most important point here is your concentration and your good and excited feelings. Give it a try :)
People always have a tendency to deal with the metaphysical when life becomes boring or depressing. Love and relationships are also an aspect of life that may bring great happiness as well as troubles.
There will be many more posts about how to execute magickal creation but now I'll try to give the basics and show you some examples.
Here is our scenario: You are in love with someone. You either don't know each other yet or you are being introduced and you are not sure whether he or she is interested in you or you feel shy about getting closer with him or her.
Let's try the most basic form of conscious creation. You don't always need spells for that, it is not really necessary. Magickal forces do not hear words from you. It is about what you think and what you imagine.
Visualization is very important in magick. Many rituals just exists to help you concentrate on your subject.
Let's use a candle for your concentration. Light up a tea-light candle. Some people may be more comfortable using certain colors for certain subjects. The most compatible color for love and relationships in magick is red. It represents fire, passion, love, and alike. Therefore, you may want to use a red candle. In my humble opinion, any candle would do because magick is in fact your intention.
Look at the flame of the candle and concentrate. Focus on some scenes with you being together. Try to dwell upon the end result. Don't concentrate on imagining how bad you want him or her. Just concentrate on the image of you two being together and having romantic moments.
Try to visualize details about having a date with him or her. Try to visualize every detail. The table, candles, flowers. Try to imagine that he sends you flowers or you send flowers to her and imagine how happy you are together.
Try not to concentrate on not having him or her by your side at the moment. Try to feel that you are already lovers and you are very happy together.
Concentrate on that imagery as long as you wish or as long as you can. Then leave the candle lighting. Take care of the environment so that the candle will not cause any damage.
Repeat this process for a certain period of time. If you feel that this should take days then repeat it for a couple of days.
The most important point here is your concentration and your good and excited feelings. Give it a try :)
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