Akenu's Initiation

What is a shadow evocation During evocations we need some vessel for the spirit through which the spirit will manifest. It can be a smoke, black mirror, fog, water, or light. During shadow evocations you use your own shadow as the vessel for the entity to appear through. Setup To set up the operation you need a very dark room. Sit on the floor and put a big candle with strong flame behind your back, far enough so you won't burn yourself, it is actually not a good idea to have the candle too close, because you need to have a good sharp shadow projected on the wall in the front of you. Oh, yes, you should be facing a wall if you didn't figure this out already. The candle should be the only lightsource in the room so there is only one sharp shadow without any disturbances. The operation The format of the ritual is as always, just for the incantation you are sitting on the floor and you passively observe your shadow on the wall, repeat the incantation a couple of times and th...

Recently I became horribly lazy in using pen and paper so I am currently doing Sigils on the phone again. Let's hope it won't have so devastating effect on the phone as it had few years back.

What is a Magickal chain Magickal chain is a protection ritual. Papus called it the absolute defense. The practice itself is split into two categories: the ritual and the use of the chain. Point of the ritual is the creation or re-assurance of the chain, usage involves calling the master of the chain to activate it. How to create the chain First of all you should already have some experience with the Magickal prayer, these two are closely related. Secondly you should choose a master of the chain. This can be any long diseased occult master that somehow influenced your art (e.g. Crowley, Bardon, Papus, Spare, Paracelsus, Pythagoras...) During the ritual you call and pray to the master of the chain. Then you call for guardians of cardinal directions, elementals, spirits, demons, angels... in other words you start at the bottom of whatever hierarchy and you work your way up till you reach whatever force you are used to pray to in Magickal prayer. Entities in the chain can be called s...

Portable rune circle.

April, the month of Rune Magick has started, so I will be going for the month-long training. More information about Armanen runes can be found here: http://www.american-buddha.com/cult.runemagic.kummer.htm

Who is Anael Anael is one of angels of Venus. He is associated with the Fire element and he is called the messenger of God. anael's field of work are visions, messages, predictions, simply contact with the divine. That's also why Anael should be the first one to be evoked through a black mirror. First scrying evocation Prepare your incantation. Make sure you call Anael a couple of times and you ask him to bless the mirror to give you messages through him. Mirror should be placed in an angle so you can see a reflection of your face (scrying bowls and crystal balls do not have this requirement). Your environment should be completely dark except two candles placed on the sides of the mirror. Play around with the position of the candles, your reflection in the mirror should be neither too sharp nor too vague. The reason is that your mind needs some reference point in the mirror to start with but having too sharp reflection will beat the idea and too vague image won't give y...

Smoke evocations are probably the most used ones in ceremonial magick. The setup is simple, has a lot of variations and can be done with any level of experience. Idea behind the smoke Many Magicians believe that to have a visible contact with an entity, one needs a physical vessel to operate upon. For that purpose sensitive mediums were used to get possessed by the entity and hadle the message. Unfortunately this method makes the whole ritual fraud accessible. Is the medium a real deal? Can we really identify a genuine medium. In the second grade I gave you few tips about how to recognize suggestible Somnambulic subjects, but it can happen that some fraud will know Mesmerism or will be lucky enough to pass the test, so naturally we had to come up with something to get rid of our human oracle. Naturally, the next step were inanimate objects (animals are not very good mediators). But what object is light enough and easy to manipulate, after all we usually do not possess the power to c...