Sacred Chamber: Replacement of the Qabbalistic Cross of Light

Stand still and take few deep breaths.Visualize about 1ft wide orb of white light about 1 or 2 feet above your head.
Point at the orb with your index finger and say: "Crown above my head, Kether".
Visualize a ray of the white light descending through your body down to the core of Earth while guiding it with your index finger.
Say: "Kingdom under my feet, Malkuth".
Open your arms like you are welcoming someone and during opening your arms, visualize the ray of the light becoming thicker and thicker till it covers the whole room or space around you. During this say "Through the worlds".
When you are finished, standing with your hands wide open, say "Back to the Adam Kadmon".

Merry Christmas

Christmas is finally here :). I have enjoyed the celebration in peace, considering that I had quite wild December. My family members got in wild argument, I was chasing for presents as a crazy person and weather forecast "predicted" that we will have 10 degrees Celsius today and no snow. I am proud that I solved the argument of my family, got all the presents and won my little battle with the forecast. We do have snow during Christmas just as I remember it when I was a child, everything worked out nicely.

And now, I would also like to wish a merry Christmas to you, my dear brothers and sisters in Magick. Merry Christmas to all of you :).

Correct replacement?

I started thinking whether I should substitute a magickal condenser with a sigil. One of the reasons is that herbs for the condenser won't be growing here till the summer.

Unfortunately I don't know what intent to state for the sigil. Should it be something that makes the sigil the condenser? Or something that enhances effects of the mirror? Or something that enhances my divination skills? Will I be able to use the mirror charging techniques I am used to or will I have to abandon my current system?

Night visit

It's Friday night (early Saturday morning, 3AM).
I spent the night on the computer when my girlfriend came to me and told me about her nightmare.

She had a dream about entity made of flies and no matter how much she tried, she couldn't run away from the room or scream (typical scenario).
We spent some time with Simon's Necronomicon, reading exorcisms from Maqlu scripture and banishing various entities.

I doubt this one a visit of some higher demon, most probably just some lower entity trying to annoy before I set up my usual barriers before sleep.

Mayan calendar

I guess this post was expected from me for a very long time now.
I originally didn't want to write anythin on the topic as I have believed in common sense and some basic level of human intelligence...

Mayan calendar is (according to some historians) ending on 21st December 2012 which is said to mark End of the world. Another version speaks about 2112 but they weren't able to match all the historical data.

There is also this wheely version of the calendar, which never ends because it's made of gears.

My dear readers, open bottle of good wine, eat some cookies and sweets, and enjoy your holidays.

End of a calendar never meant end of the world, our calendar ends on 31st December every year for centuries, and we are still here :-).

Also remember what YHWH said: There will be no prophet, no angel and no demon knowing the exact day of the end of the world, only I have this knowledge.

I am not sure whether I will have time till the end of the year to write new article, so...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Quick update

Sigil to have a lot of snow during Christmas.

Art of Shinobi: Simple Protection Ritual

Introduction

I made my mind to slow down during holidays and return to my old hobby from the childhood: ninjas. As an occultist I have found few jewels. These jewels certainly weren't created by ninjas, but they were extensively used by them, given by the time, place and tradition.

Kuji Kiri

Kyu - nine
Ji - syllable(s)
Kiri - cut(s)

Kuji Kiri is a simple ritual of doing nine cuts in the air with your hand, each of them being associated with one syllables.

Sorted syllables and meanings associated in Ninjutsu are:
RIN - power
PYO (or HYO or KYO) - energy channeling
TOH - harmony (with the universe)
SHAH - healing of self and others
KAI - intuition, sense of danger
JIN - telepathy, reading thoughts of others (can also be used for suggestion)
RETSU - control of space and time
ZAI - control of heaven and earth (control of elements)
ZEN - enlightenment

To say more of the syllables we would have to mention its chinese origin and I am not really a historian so let's just say that this kuji is a mantra that calls celestial forces to your aid.

How the cuts look like

Ordering of cuts is same as ordering of syllables: RIN, PYO, TOH, SHAH, KAI, JIN, RETSU, ZAI, ZEN.
Cuts are usually executed with a formed "fist" with index and middle fingers extended.

Usage

When cuts are made with your hand in the air or on the palm of the other hand, this rituals symbolizes banishing and protection.
When cuts are directed agains some object or symbol of the object, it adds a new meaning: gaining control of the object and banishing negative influences that could break the control. Similar technique was used by sailors, directed at the sea or the depiction of the sea to bring luck and protect from drowning or sinking.

Sigil charging

Kuji kiri can also be used for charging sigils:

1. Create a sigil for you specified intent and place it on the wall in front of you at the level of your eyes.
2. Relax your body and your mind till you get to the low trance state (you will hear a buzz sound).
3.  While looking at the sigil, visualize your deed being accomplished. Visualize the process and also desired result of your spell
4. Perform Kuji Kiri directed at the sigil.
5. Forget about your intent and about the sigil, get rid of the sigil if that helps you or let it hanging there, effect will be the same, it will just take more time.

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New world

During my priesthood service this month something changed, I have no more desire to perform sorcery (to make small changes to occur). Bad weather? I don't care. I don't know why, but I just don't feel like changing anything lately, it's like this life was just temporary and didn't mean anything anymore, like none of it ever mattered.

Wisdom of Kabbalah, part IV

5 lights of NaRaNCHaY
To understand Etz Khaim properly, we have to learn about five lights and related terms.

Kia
Kia (vessel) is our physical but also our spiritual form. Imagine it as an engine and imagine that ist fuel is a light (aur).
Kia in its basic stage cannot receive the aur directly from Creator because kia isn't pure enough, for that reason there is a collection of filters that reduces and adapts this light for kia.
These filters are: Worlds of AK and ABYA, sephirots, and five lights of NaRaNCHaY.

Five lights
There are five lights in total. Each light is result of each given filter but for ascension to be possible, each light also contains spark of the light above. Highest light in one sephirot contains spark of light from the sephirot above. For example the highest Aur of Malkuth contains spark of lowest Aur of ZA. This is also a reason why lower sephirots contain fragments of higher sephirots: through the light.

What NaRaNCHaY stands for?
NaRaNCHaY is a short of names of lights:
Nefesh
Ruach
Neshama
Chaya
Yechida

Nefesh is the lowest Aur in the sephirot and Yechida is the highest one with spark of Nefesh of next sephirot.

When we ascend through all lights, through all sphirots and through all worlds, we will be able to obtain the whole light from The Creator, this light is called Ein Sof Aur.
This state is commonly called Salvation, Reunion or Samadhi.

Problems of modern society.

I have been planning to write this article for around one year now, problem always was to name the main issue correctly and to provide a suitable set of arguments supporting my thesis, now I can do both :).

Tradition

So, where to start? We, humans, are little scared creatures, whatever makes us nervous is a reason to get rid of it and we do so for thousands of years. This way we used to get rid of demons, bad dreams, bad luck, then to get rid of witches, sorcerers, devils, then to get rid of church and finally, to get rid of all the sanity.
Consider our perfect education system. Do we really study truth? Yes, of course, at least a certain portion of it. You might learn something about Pythagoras' triangle, but you will hardly learn about his pentagram or about his occult activities. Same applies to Archimedes, same applies to Platon... We got rid of the "supernatural" bogey-man but as the result we do not accept anything supernatural, just mentioning it on public will lower your prestige. Magick is taken as a complete opposite of science, as something completely unscientific and "childish".
Yeah, of course, someone forgot to mention those silly horoscopes, right? Some fool just takes some symbols and puts them down on the circle and... And now we should explain something: those "funny" horoscopes don't use random silly symbols in random silly order. These symbols are symbols of zodiac, symbols of 10 star constellations of zodiac, and are placed into the circle in the exactly same order as they can be found on the sky.
Magick, including astrology and alchemy was a foundation of modern society, foundation of modern science, alchemy with its knowledge of chemicals and herbs was foundation of chemistry, astrology gave complex set of rules and methods known collectively as Mathematics, it also gave us clear understanding of astronomy. It was an astrologist who said first that Earth isn't flat, it was an astrologist who said first that Earth isn't centre of the universe, I hope you can conclude that geometry exists thanks to astrology, as well.
Time changed, we once again became scared of what we don't know and we found another shell where we can hide ourselves, the tradition. Scientists became traditionalists, traditionally rejecting anything "silly" and modern "magicians" became traditionalists in rejecting anything new or scientific. We made this split between science and Magick but even after this virtual split, truth is still the same, science isn't any different from Magick, science is Magick's child, identical in more things than you can actually see, unfortunately...

Observation - divergent and convergent thinking

Now we are getting to the sad part, why similarities between science and Magick are not seen? Education... As I said, we are not taught the complete truth in schools. We are not trained to use divergent (intuitive) thinking, we are trained to focus on convergent (logical) thinking. We are trained to reject our feelings in sake of logical thinking. Do you think that Archimedes discovered his law under conditions of controlled experiment? No, he was in the bath when he yelled "Eureka", he got the aha moment when he was bathing and AFTER that he used convergent thinking to validate the experiment.
Don't take me wrong, logic has its place. It helps us to deduce same or similar qualities and possible usages from observation. Logic gives us structure we can use to search for new values of already learnt, it helps us to build solutions based on previous experience and also to analyse our past experiences.
Bad thing happens when we are exposed to something outside our scope of convergent thinking, to some situation we consider "irrational", situation that shouldn't exist in our little world. That's the situation when we should switch to divergent thinking and obtain new knowledge, new understanding of the situation, but can we do that? Were we even taught there is this possibility?
This is not a problem of science or of Magick, this is problem of tradition, problem of dogma.
Go and study the daughter of mysticism: psychology. You will find amazing things: Exercises for relaxation and meditation, methods how to fight stress, how to fight our demons. You will also find out a lot of sad things about our society. Results of experiments that could improve our situations, but no change ever happened... Did your teachers teach you how to learn effectively? Or did your teachers act with everyone in the class as with a talented student?

Pygmalion effect

There is this nice think called Pygmalion effect. Experiment was done where psychologist randomly selected a group of "talented" kids and "foolish" kids and a new teacher was notified of these students as if they truly were parts of these groups. This experiment has shown a very shocking result. Students taken as talented had improved a lot from their previous state, they didn't only obtain better grades, their intelligence advanced, as well.
Why? Observer (in this case teacher) had a certain formula in his structure and he subconsciously affected the process of observation to match this structure. As a result these students, marked as talented, were really seen as talented and acted with as with talented students, which motivated them for better performance.
Same thing applies to "untalented" group, as well. They truly were observed as fools and many of them had to try their hardest to break this view, unfortunately many of them stopped trying and acquired worse results, their motivation was gone.

Human development

Human being needs a set of things for correct development. This set is well known by psychology. Things and supports or damages intelligence of children, things that should be followed or avoided during education and interaction. Psychology teaches about both convergent and divergent thinking, psychology teaches about relaxation, it teaches about importance of love, just like about influences of these things on the development. But our society still funds old and deprecated institutions, it still funds services that are proved to limit our brains, to limit our minds and our ability to discover, to invent... There was so much talent wasted in this and in previous generations. Do we really want to waste next generations, as well? Do we want to limit our children? To expose them to same issues and faults as we had experienced before them? Is that really what we want?

What to do

Study psychology. You will see mistakes. Mistakes that were done by your parents, mistakes that were done by your teachers, mistakes that were done by you. Psychology is not science about something, it is science about you and me, it is science about all of us and we all can learn from it. Learn what you can and spread the word. Do so through communication with your friends same as through publications, through public service or through courses. Do what you can to change this society, what what is our responsibility as Magicians, bring enlightenment to this world just like our predecessors did.

Oath Breaker: Priesthood

Introduction

Priesthood nowadays is a term exchangeable with clericalism, but in Magick the priesthood means still the same thing. Adept* of Magick should take a role of priest and do common actions associated with priesthood: Blessings, exorcisms, healings, confessions listening, public service and at least 1 month each year, during this time the adept should follow a simple set of rules to remain pure.

Rule #1: No exceptions

Whether a person in need is of opposite religion than you are or a complete skeptic, there is no reason to avoid your duty, you should also be able to pray in any holy house whether it is church, mosque, pyramid or ancient temple. If you do not believe in God then you can pray to and bless through divine force or whatever sounds appealing to you.

Rule #2: No anger

I personally hate this rule, no matter whether someone just stomped on your foot or burned down your whole house, there is this "no anger" rule and whenever you start having any kind of anger symptoms, you have to immediately banish them by sending blessings to the person that is causing you the trouble.
The blessing can be as simple as saying "May God bless you" with the cross gesture or as complex as a complete 2 hours ritual (be creative).

Rule #3: Nobility

No vulgar words, no curses, no paid occult related services, priesthood must be executed nobly and for free. You also must dedicate yourself fully to the priesthood, even if just for that one month per year.

Advantages

Priesthood is categorized as one of the Greater Oaths, that means the successful execution and finishing of the priesthood will greatly improve your willpower, cleanse your astral body from any external influences and improve your personality (rule #2 is great anger management exercise). Priesthood is also one of very few oaths that also increases your spiritual authority, that will be fully apparent even after finishing the first priesthood cycle.

Notes

Definition of Adept in this article is a bit different than what you usually consider an adept to be. Modern definition is a person that is very skilled in occult phenomena, an enlightened person if you wish, definition used in the article is the older one: Adept is a person aspiring to the next degree in Magick.

Recommended reading

Sometimes people ask me what book they should read. I usually recommend works of Papus, Levi, Crowley but also non-occult books. Magicians nowadays tend to forget one fact, we are still inhabitants of this planet and learning something about it is not a bad idea. Books regarding science, psychology, herbs, alternative and modern medicine and biology can turn to be of a far greater value than New Age books like "Are you an Atlantean?".

But most importantly, before you start buying books like crazy, think about what do you want from Magick? What is your goal? Our goals in Magick reflects on our paths and without a goal you will get nowhere in this divine art.

Finally

I finally understand why Anael manifested in that weird look, Papus talks about Anael as about the king of salamanders, that would explain the eyes wide apart or the cross shape formed by the face (mark of kings)

Late calling

I really need some magickal condenser. I found out that my mirror is depleting pretty fast and reason might be lack of the condenser.

Unfortunately the herb I could use doesn't grow now for winter reasons. I guess I will have to wait for next season.

Joke's on me.

I should really stop looking for occult forums, I just found one "underground" forum where people believe that hypnosis is a black magick and deadly dangerous, funny enough I got picked by same people who use "Hail Satan" as a greetings phrase.

Papus, where are you when I need you?

Recent update

I have memorized about 99% passages from the bornless ritual. Now I have to sort them out to know in which order they come.

Last few days I also have a very good dream recall, about 4 dreams per night which is very good result if we consider I am not focusing on remembering all my dream.

I thing I am slowly converting to high magick.

Today's study

.I spent today by memorizing Bornless ritual by Crowley.
During morning travel by train I was sitting facing the train's entrance door. Strange thing happend. When memorizing the passages from the ritual, this door opened. It was quite creepy as this was the first time I have ever seen it. The door should be blocked during the ride.

I would like to say I have memorized half of the ritual already but after learning third set of names starting with Roubriao, I have quite troubles recalling previous 2 sets of names.

Maybe I am just tired.

Quick update

I know I am not posting much during last few days so I just wanted to make a quick update to explain what is going on.

• I renewed my old practices to gain full contact with HGA
• I changed my daily practices a bit and returned fourfold breath combined with pore-breathing in it
• It seems I will get into duel sooner or later so I am making my preparations for it.
• And, I am saving money for Christmas :).

Interview with HGA

Last week I had one of those days when the whole world is against me, it ended up with evocation of my HGA. His face partially appeared in the mirror but I didn't manage to strengthen the link to get the whole visual aspect.

Funny enough, for the whole time communicating with my HGA, I had never seen how he really looks. For example once we made an agreement that he will appear in my dream but his condition was that I won't remember the dream.

So, after the partially successful evocation I got following understanding: These things are happening because of my anger. My task was to figure this out and get rid of the anger. I tried doing so for a couple of days and I have to admit you can solve problems even without being angry.

Proof of supernatural?

This is documentary I had seen a long time ago and today I found it while randomly clicking on the videos on YouTube.

Oath Breaker: Mastery of elements exercise

Introduction

I have made my mind to once more break the oath of silence and share with you another advanced technique. This technique is basically the essence of Magick. It is simple technique, you will immediately remember it, but it's dangerous for beginners and you will find out why during the course.

Quality of elements

Those of you who know IIH, you also know that each element has both positive and negative quality. In MHP we don't really care about these qualities, elements are taken as wholes. Advantage of this doing is withing much greater source of energy, energy MHP can use is raw, powerful and aggressive. That's why there is also a disadvantage. Leading unfiltered full elemental energy into your body creates a great distress and if this energy is kept in the body, major elemental imbalance happens. Such stress to your body can easily develop into sickness, being it mental, emotional or physical.

Procedure of the exercise

Procedure is pretty simple, one by one, you invoke elemental energy into your body and then you let it out. In the beginning you visualize being surrounded by the specific element, then you slowly start inhaling the energy with pore breathing. After your astral body is full of the energy, then you exhale the energy with the pore breathing.

During fire element, you should see flames all around you and you should feel sensations of the heat. Transparent water visualization with sensations of cold for water element, transparent visualization with feeling of lightness for air element and green/brown/black visualization with feeling of the heaviness for the earth element.

Warning

Make sure that after working with each element you feel just like before the exercise. Even a small fragment of the element left in your body may lead to major changes. Always make sure that all of the invoked element gets out of you.

What's next

I wish to continue in the oath breaker series and slowly expose a whole system of Magick in it. In this series you will learn the most efficient way how to work in Astral plane. Look forward for the next article in the series.

Boosting observation ability

In certain cases we need to boost our ability to observe so we can quickly come up with solutions. I will show you a very simple trick how to temporarily boost the observation ability.

Observation, as any other mental ability, is associated with the Air element. This makes things pretty simple.
First thing you have to do is to visualize Air element and impregnate it with property we want, in this case with the property stating that we want to be better observers. This is very simple because we are already surrounded by Air element and both air and information we want to use are transparent (no hard visualization there).
After impregnation is set up we just need to get the Air element to our body through pore breathing (or once again, visualization). After our body is full of impregnated element, we simply move it all to the brain.

That's all. No cleansing is required because we are automatically going to deplete the element we have gathered through our work.

A gift to the public

I have made a mutual agreement with my servitor to release him for the public.
This servitor's name is Erlis. It's a fox that is well versed in energy manipulation.
He will help you automatically with any type of energy work.
Only requirement is that you will repeatedly chant his mantra over his symbol, atleast 4 repetitions per day.
His mantra is Enecal umuka aksil eigr
His symbol is:

Reward for Marbas?

Yesterday I left the bus and wait for my wife to pick me up as usual. After waiting for 25 minutes I called her.
Call was taken by her sister, she told me that my wife fell asleep and she is going to wake her up.
I waited for another 30 minutes and then called again. My wife was still sleeping.
I have told her sister not to wake her up and I went home by foot, 7 kilometers :-).
Could that be the price that Marbas took for his work?

Oath keeper: First fruits

So today I have smoked as I wanted without stressing anything. I have smoked 13 cigarettes. That means I have reduced my daily need by 7 cigarttes by sheer willpower.

Notes from yesterday's evocation

Yesterday we had evoked Marbas, 5th Goetic spirit. His appearance was a bit terrifying, incantation for the spirit to take more friendly visage had to be repeated a couple of times. After this was settled I have stated my wish and asked the spirit for some sign to prove the goal will be accomplish.

My apprentice, who was sitting next to the black mirror has described what he saw as a moon with the drop in the middle, during the course of time both the moon shape and the drop started "developing", more branches appeared and the whole structured seemed to be a growing tree.
We have taken this as a good sign but we still have to verify the result.

Spirit left right after he was licensed to depart and no more problems occurred. Today the waking up was a bit hard, feeling no energy, strong signs of tiredness but that was expected.

Oath keeper: Regain of concentration

Yesterday was nearly same as two days ago, desire for the cigarette was much smaller than before, but I was still lacking concentration.
It went so far that I had to reserve one meeting room where I could walk and use the whiteboard to regain concentration, hopefully thanks to that I was able to finish the work for last two days.

Today I already had about 6 cigarettes, reason is that I am preparing a grand ritual for the evening and I really need to concentrate on that.

Oath keeper: Moment of silence

I kept my promise the whole day, price for that was a great lack of concentration and horrible strife for the cigarette (and some money for 5 packs of tic tac as the replacement).

But I won't lie, I had one cigarette during night when I got home, which is still better than the original state, I just hope it will be easier for me to keep concentrated tomorrow.

Oath keeper: out of ammo

Rest of the packet finished yesterday. I have prayed above the last cigarette for God to grant me strength. No signs of the addicton needs but they will appear, sooner or later. The whole day is before me.

Oath keeper : test of will

story is pretty simple. I am chain smoker for 13 years now. My daily need is over 20 cigarettes.
I currently have 13 remaining cigarettes in my packet and I made my mind to quit smoking after I finish this packet. That will be some hell of the challenge.
I will post results here gradually.

Nine breaths

Introduction

Nine breaths is old eastern exercise for balancing energies in one's body. From personal experience I can say that this exercise can reduce duration of sickness, can boost the clairvoyance level a bit and has great centering effects, what I present here is Tibetan version of the exercise as presented by Bran O. Hodapp in his Magische Spiegel als Tor zu anderen Welten (very good book about Magick mirrors, btw).

Start of the exercise

Sit comfortably in your favorite asana and relax, take few deep breaths to calm down and to get ready. Rest your hands in your lap, left hand should rest on the right hand, hands should be open and with palms facing upwards. Make sure that your back is straight.
Imagine three channels going all the way from the root chakra up to the crown chakra (from head to spine). Central channel is blue, males have right channel white and left channel red. Females have right channel red and left channel white.

First three breaths (male version)

Lift your right hand up and use your ring finger to hold your right nostril (thumb should be pushing on the root of the ring finger). Breath in the green healing light with your left nostril, Put your right hand down and then use your left hand in the same manner to block your left nostril and breath out lightly blue smoke from your right nostril. This smoke represents male negative energy.
Repeat this exercise 3 times.

First three breaths (female version)

Because males and females have the side channels switches then females start first exercise with left hand for breath-in and right hand for breath-out, rest of the exercise is same, for that reason I will write the rest of the exercises in male version and I kindly ask my female readers to simply substitute right/left in the exercises.

Second three breaths

Use your left hand to hold your left nostril and inhale green healing light into your right nostril. Switch hands and breath out pink smoke from your left nostril. This smoke represents female negative energy.
Repeat this exercise 3 times

Final three breaths

Now let your hands rest in your lap for this whole exercise, inhale healing energy in colors of rainbow and fill both of your side channels with this energy, make sure to visualize how this energy bridges from side channels to the main center channel in the root chakra during the end of inhale.
During exhale visualize how this rainbow energy elevates to your crown chakra. At the same time visualize black smoke leaving your crown chakra while your central channel is being filled with the energy. This smoke represent the main channel being cleansed of negative energy.

Simple but powerful protection amulet

I have shared this method for creating amulet with one of my clients and I was thinking that when I have this already written down in English, I might share it here as well.

1) Get some small container (glass is the best). The container should be small enough so you can wear it on the neck.

2) Fill the container with salt

3)Breath on the salt in the container for 3 times and then place your hand above the container and say aloud the following incantation:
In isto sale sit sapientia et ab omni corruptione conservet sicut mentes nostras et corpora nostra, per Hochmael et in virtute Ruash-Hochmael, recedant ab isto fantasmata hylae, ut sit sal coelestis, sal terrae et terra salis, ut nutrietur bos triturans et addat spei nostrae cornua tauri voluntatis. Amen.

4) Then seal the container, attach some string and wear it in your neck.

Positive experience with nine breaths exercise

I haven been feeling very sick for last couple of days. Today I had to do some hard manual work but I wasn't even able to stand up from bed.
I performed Nine Breaths exercise and after that my body felt numb, but I was able to move and do the work, this effect lasted for about one hour.

I wanted to post some link here on the exercise but I cannot find the version I am using on-line, I will describe the exercise next time I get here :)

Beauty of the hexagram

Hexagram. Beautiful symbol. Symbol of balance, symbol of noble Magick, but is that enough for post-modern time?
 


Here is the standard hexagram, the star of David, the Solomon’s seal, interconnection of heaven and earth

Fire element sign highlighted on the star



Water element highlighted on the star



Air element highlighted on the star



Earth element highlighted on the star.

Symbol of balance

Now let’s try something different, let’s add 2 diagonal lines and I will quickly explain to you why I call this one the symbol of balance, the better version of hexagram.









Pentagram highlighted on the star



Reversed pentagram highlighted on the star

 
Crowley’s uni-corsal hexagram, symbol of Thelema, highlighted on the star.

Although the hexagram already is a symbol of balance from hermetic sense of view, I find the new symbol to be more fitting for the post-modern age. This new hexagram seems to be more suitable to show the balance of different practices, of different paradigms, it’s a fitting symbol for Hermetic as well as Chaos Magick. For White as well as for Black Magick. It can be used in theurgy as well as in thaumaturgy.

From now on I declare this symbol to be symbol of the middle hand path and symbol of my paradigm for everything is in there and everything is in perfect balance. Nothing is outstanding, everything is included.

Wisdom of Kabbalah, part III

Tree of Life

Etz Khaim, the Tree of Life, is a pretty famous thing when it comes public knowledge of Kabbalah. Depiction containing the whole universe, the map of the life, Etz Khaim that contains everything and explains everything. Well, it depends on what you consider everything, language of branches is pretty wise choice here. I am now going to explain to you what is Etz Khaim, how to understand it (in general, abstract matter), how to draw it (many people find it hard to draw Etz Khaim) and how to use it (in terms of understanding).

Kether

Kether (the crown), is the very first sephirot (fruit) on the top of Etz Khaim. It's called the crown for where it stands and also for what it means). Kether is singularity, kether is non-duality, kether is the beginning, kether is the source, kether is the big bang. I will explain the rest when the whole EK (Etz Khaim) is formed.

Chochmah and Binah

 Two sephirots below Kether. Chochmah (wisdom) and Binah (understanding), this is where singularity splits and duality is manifested, creative and creating, intellectual and practical, here is where wiccan god and goddess reside. Here is where light is split from darkness and black from white.


Kether, Binah and Chochmah are considered as higher sephirots of EK. In the depiction above we can see relationship between Binah, Chochmah and Kether.

Zeir Anpin

Zeir Anpin(ZA) is a set of six sephirots, sometimes they are also collectively called Tipheret (Glory), which is the central sephirot of ZA. It is also said that Tiferet contains all qualities of 5 remaining sefirots of ZA.


The relationship might look a bit harsh, but let's take it this way. Tipheret, as the center of ZA, communicates with Kether, Binah and Chochmah. And, for the same reason, Tipheret communicates with the rest of ZA.
The rest of the ZA are also communicating with each other and Gevurah and Chesed are communicating with Binah and Chochmah. I will do a favor to you and I won't mention the rest of ZA here as it is not important yet. Now it is only important to remember Zeir Anpin and Tipheret.

Malkuth

Malkuth (Kingdom) is the lowest sephirot of the world (we will talk about Kabbalistic worlds in next chapter), it is our kingdom (in this world, of course).
On the finished depiction you can see Malkuth is linked with Zeir Anpin and it allows a soul to choose three basic paths on the Tree of Life. In hermeticism, right hand path and left hand path (left and right side of the tree of life) are usually considered, but beware, there is path in the middle, leading through ZA directly to Kether :).

What it means?

Going from above, we can see the story of creation. Kether, The All, chose to start the process of creation so The All limited itself, it split black from white and existent from non-existent, that's Binah and Chochmah. Through duality The All then went to the process of actual creation (ZA) to create Malkuth, our plane.
From the bottom EK shows the process of ascension from Malkuth up to Kether with a list of possibilities.
We can also see that Kether never communicates with Malkuth directly. The Reason is that Malkuth is not clean enough to obtain the Light directly from Kether. Chochmah, Binah and ZA are a form of filters to filter the Light, so Malkuth gets only what it is ready for (limited perception of reality).
Higher you get, more unfiltered the Light is and wider the perception of reality is. But for such ascension to be possible, every lower sephirot must contain a fragment of the higher sephirot, so Malkuth already has to contain a fragment of the Light from Yesod (between Malkuth and Tipheret) for Malkuth to be able to ascend on the level of ZA.
It's even more complex because higher sephirots of one world are lower sephirots of the next world. To simplify it a bit more: Kether of Asiyah is Malkuth of Yetzirah.

And because it isn't possible for Malkuth to even perceive Kether, Binah or Chochmah, there is Tiphereth. Tiphereth contains angels, demons, deities, demiurges, etc, whatever higher we can imagine. Tiphereth is what we usually consider gods or miracles, simply because we cannot comprehend or even imagine Kether.

Daath

Daath (Discovery) is sometimes depicted as the 11th hidden sephirot between Kether, Binah and Chochmah.
Zohar says there are not 8 or 9, but 10 sephirots, no more and no less. Daath isn't sephirot, it's a process of discovery, process of obtaining light (Aur) directly from Kether to Malkuth, this process is possible only through honest belief and solid introspection.

Conclusion

EK still isn't enough explained in this series. Reason is I have to describe Worlds and Lights first. The point is that I couldn't explain Worlds without sephirots and I will need to explain Lights to explain sephirots well enough :). But when I explain Worlds, process of ascension and interconnection of sephirots will become more clear and when I explain the Lights, the whole process of ascension will be explained.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please use the comments section :).

Reminder of choice

This is something as old as our society. Ability we all share but most of us do not use it. If you know another person enough, you can control the person. It gives you power to influence the other person according to your will, you just need to use the right words and right terms. You can also use this same ability to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Psychology is your friend, use it wisely :).

Vampire: Finishing line

So, in the end it seems that the partial incantation was enough to loose the leash, yesterday  the victim figured out the problem and ended the relationship. The incantation was finished during the evening by my apprentice, just in case :).

Wisdom of Kabbalah, part II

Language of branches

It is a major part of Kabbalah, pure Kabbalistic texts are not understandable without knowledge of language of branches.

The point is quite simple, you cannot talk about spiritual experience because spiritual world is beyond physical world and although we have words for physical objects and events, we don't have suitable words for spiritual objects and events.

Because Kabbalah believes that lower origins in higher (hermetic As Above, So Below) the system of deriving meaning was created, the system is the language of branches.

Usage is simple, if we consider that lower origins in higher, we can easily use same words we would normally use for the lower manifestation to specify the higher meaning. In other words, when a Kabbalist talks about a kiss. He doesn't mean the kiss as the physical touch of lips of two people. He speaks about the things that are above this physical output. If we go above, we will find emotions, emotions leading to physical kiss, if we go above emotions, we will find a reason, a cause that invoked these emotions. If we go above this reason, we can jump to many more layers of these factors till, in the end, we will get to the spiritual plane, a place where two spirits shared the same wish to interact, to interact in the manner that went down the layers to the physical one where it manifested as the kiss.

Of course we could go even above this layer, and above and above, till we would lose the feeling of duality and arrived at the place where everything is truly one, place of unity, place of singularity, Kether of Adam Kadmon world.

Of course that this solution still has its limitations. For example you can hardly talk about spirituality with someone that doesn't know the language of branches and sometimes you cannot even communicate well with a fellow Kabbalist because his level of understanding is a bit different than yours.

Vampire Update

So, obviously an incomplete incantation wasn't enough.
Well, that wasn't totally unexpected, I will fight. I just need to restore some strength, I haven't sleep enough last two days.

Psychic vampires everywhere

Yesterday was one of those days when pieces of puzzle start to fit in and the big picture is created.
I do not like psychic vampires. I do not like their manipulative behavior and especially when it affects people I consider my family.
Yesterday was a day of burning, day of exorcisms, the day of Maqlu text. Time by the time I like to dive into Necronomicon as I find its style refreshing, simple, usable and understandable. I didn't manage to finish the incantation as something very unexpected happen, still I hope that I loosened the leash of the vampire to the point where it loses its power over my friend. In case of need, I will finish the incantation this evening.

Wisdom of Kabbalah, part I

Introduction

Kabbalah is a quite famous and beautiful topic, but unfortunately the most misunderstood one. For that reason I made my mind to create a short series of articles regarding this philosophy, to explain some parts and touch the core of Kabbalah.

During the series it is possible that you will find some words being written differently. Reason is that I am not going to use common convention how to write these words in English, but I am rather going to write the words in manner to simplify the pronunciation.

In the series I am also going to explain common words like sephirots, worlds, lights and I am going to teach you language of branches. Language used to communicate Kabbalah, language used to communicate things that are beyond normal physical comprehension and therefore beyond any mortal language.

What is Kabbalah all about?

This is actually very direct question and very beautiful topic. Topic we will dive deep into during the course of the series but let me give a short summary here.

Kabbalah is the life philosophy based on deciphering ancient sacred scriptures through understanding of language of branches and finding a completely new meaning of aforementioned scriptures. Some people say that Kabbalah is a secret wisdom, but that's not true. Kabbalah doesn't contain any greater wisdom, just the path for obtaining the Wisdom. Once you understand the key, it's not a big issue for you to find the Higher Wisdom behind any scripture, behind any text.

No matter whether you are reading Old Testament or you are chatting with your friend about sport, you will be able to retrieve the higher meaning behind that, the ultimate truth behind the mundane content.

Why do I feel as an authority for teaching Kabbalah?

Kabbalah is my life philosophy for quite some time now and no matter what course of action my spiritual practice took, no matter on how much unknown ground I have found myself, I have always found a solid background in my life thanks to the Kabbalah.

Kabbalah change the greater portion of my life and honestly, it appeared in my life at the right time. Without this higher understanding it would happen a long time happen that I would take my life and ended my existence on this plane. Thanks to this practice I didn't only change my decision but I also found a new power to fight for what was rightfully mine, I found new inner source of power but also a new understanding for literally every system I was studying at the time. Enochian Watchtowers, Tabula Recensa, Hermetic laws, Goetia, Elementalism and even Chaos Magick, that all exposed a completely new meaning under light of Kabbalah, and this is something I want to share with all of you.

Take my words as you will, as a condescending eternal truth, or with a grain of salt, this choice is up to you.

Forgiveness

It's strange how things end up sometimes. Two days ago I have finally made the decision to pray. I haven't prayed for about half a year. So many things changed.  I passed one zonei, I conjured foreign deities and entities, petitioned demons, casted some curses... Although I know there is nothing like objective good and evil and that good and evil are just human thing, I still felt morally down to talk to the Highest One...
During the prayer I made a list of everything I did and I thought it was bad, I talked with opened mind and saying out loud what I was thinking, it was more like talking to my old friend than a prayer to the omnipotent being.
Result wasn't a punishment, but a sort of relief, I started feeling much lighter like a heavy brick fell down from my chest.
Yesterday I prayed to God to bring joy and adventure into my life. In the evening we went shopping and guess what I found. Three crystal glasses, waiting there for me. Crystal glass, something I wanted to use for necromantic operations but I couldn't find it anywhere, pure crystal glasses without any engravings and fancy decorations, waiting there for me, silently whispering the name Haniel, angel I used to conjure in God's name to bless the mirror.

Better work performance

Yesterday was one of those annoying days that work is slow and you will like complete loser, somewhere around the evening I have used my phone to cast a sigil to do my work better. Today I managed to solve a couple of issues and I also finally found out why my phone sometimes tend to loop in restarting as crazy. From all occasions I recall the restarting happening, it was always a day after I used my phone for sigil magick.
It seems that phone somehow stores the energy and then it lags after phone charging takes place. I guess I will have to ask some technomancer whether he has a similar problem and how to solve it. I usually just use simple Divine Light Manipulation technique to get dark energy out and positive light in, but it's pretty annoying.

Worth the watching

Nice relaxing video with amazing audio and impressive symbolism.

Recent updates

Nothing much happening nowadays. My apprentice is busy with his personal life so we are a bit behind a schedule. During weekend a performed an evocation of some goetic spirit, evocation failed and literally any Magickal attempt didn't attract any spiritual attention, that guy has to be spiritual anti-magnet...

After that we tried some tests for "paranormal" abilities, specifically suggesting a person with closed eyes to pick a certain card from 4 cards spread. It turned out that system I used to determine receiving hand does work only to determine natural receiving hand, not the current state.

Level of probability

It can happen that when you specify intent for sigil with tight schedule, result might be delayed by day or two depending on how complex the process must be. And when you are specifying when, be sure to be as specific as possible. Next day can also mean next day midnight.

Video about the mind's eye

Very good video explaining how our brain "shifts" reality to match perception with expectation.

Recent update regarding the amulet

I originally thought it could be a good idea to use reflective amulet to practice combat spells. Problem with my headache formula is that it doesn't take effect only during the execution, yesterday the headache built gradually and I was useless for the rest of the day (effects faded around midnight).

Headache

I have felt a bit tired so I went for a short sleep, headache gradually built up.

Recent experiment with the amulet

Today I have tried to cast the spell on the amulet by means of causing a headache. I have ended up with slight pressure inside skull and stiff neck.

I will see if the headache develops today or the formula needs more charging.

Seeking enlightenment?

I have already seen this for a couple of times.
Young guy wants to study yoga, or chi kung, or whatever, and he seeks enlightenment.
There is nothing wrong with that, just that these requests usually gets flooded by articles about various yoga and chi kung exercises.

Why is that wrong? Important part of the request is "seeks enlightenment" and you don't want to learn about enlightenment from non-enlightened person same as you don't want to learn swimming from non-swimmer.

And these non-enlightened "helpers" will then take our pitiful friend and flood him with a massive list of dogmas and meaningless exercises. Will it help our friend to attain enlightenment? Of course not, they will send the list just because they do the same exercises and sub-consciously they want some sort of external verification (it's good for anyone, right?).

When person is not enlightened then you cannot await enlightenment by doing same exercises that the person does.

But dude, I do not practice long enough to be enlightened, but these things really work

Nope. Until you gain enlightenment, this is just guessing. It's a guessing during self-study and it's a guessing even when you are led by some master, till you attain enlightenment, don't try to help anyone who seeks enlightenment by burdening him with your theory.

Update regarding reflective amulet

I just finished charging of the amulet and I made a decision to make a simple test before the energy from charging settles down.
I imagined a small figure on the surface and I try to use reiki on it, at first on heart, then on kidneys. I have felt both tests on my body.

I took the amulet and hid it on top of my cabinet, as I did so, I lost balance and nearly fell on the floor, it was like I was being "repelled".
Working with this amulet is going to be very interesting.

Logo 3D for TOHO

Reflective amulet

I just finished my work on the amulet.

I have chosen to use manufactured leather but instead of standard ink I had to use red permanent fix, this is the result:

Sigils from left to right:

• ADAROZ - To reflect
• INKHESHU - Everything
• TOZAP - Back

Usage

After charging takes place, this amulet should reflect any kind of energy back at its caster. That way it could be used as a great protection amulet against black Magick.

My personal idea is much more practical, I will use the amulet to practice combat spells.

Lost paper

I cannot use the ink I have chosen for the amulet on manufactured leather because it is not visible there, so I wanted to use my hand-made paper but I cannot find it anywhere, I really miss my oratory, there I was always able to find things where I put them.

I currently have following options:
1) I will use a different ink on manufactured leather
2) I will create a new paper
3) I will use skin from rabbit that is currently drying on my backyard (but I will have to clean it, first).

Fell asleep

Yesterday I feel asleep before I did usual banishing and shielding around the house. Today I feel a bit tired and I have a sore throat.

I am not entirely sure whether this means that some entity visited me or there is an energetic imbalance due to unused energy. The first case is less probable because water in the glass near my bed didn't change, but I haven't charged it in days.

Anyway, I hope I will get into shape as soon as possible, today I finally want to make some time to finish my reflective amulet (I will post more information when it's finished).

P.S. Google finally approved AdSense on my blog, so if you want to thank me for articles I write, you can do so by clicking on the advertisements (you can do so either under this post or in the panel on the right side).

Setting up your daily practices

Introduction

One of the key points in succeeding in occult arts is a steady practice. By using a ritualistic approach of fixed practices in fixed times you are creating a habit.

Habits build half of your personality. Mundane habits include tying a tie, brushing your teeth, even bathing. When you do one of these things, you don't really think about what you are doing, hygienic procedures have become a part of your life so much that you do them automatically. During brushing your teeth you don't think about the brushing, it has become an automatic action and you can think about different things during that. By choosing a steady training regime, you will build a habit of using Magick and that will project into your life.

What are habits?

Habit is an action repeated so many times that it imprinted into your neural pathway and became automatic. To put it simply, it became part of your brain, part of your neural system, part of you.

To read more about habits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit_(psychology)
To read more about neural pathways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_pathway

Why is it good in Magick?

By developing a habit of certain rituals you develop a habit of practicing Magick, by the repetition you also strengthen the habit and most importantly you strengthen your Magickal ability. Just like visiting the gym every day strengthen your body, repeating certain rituals every day strengthens your mind and your willpower, not talking about how the repeating of the rituals can also stretch the amount of magickal energy you can hold.

How should the daily practice look like?

Meditation is a very important aspect, you should meditate daily. Process of meditation was already described in different article so I won't put the description of the process here, I will just say that meditating once per day is good, but ideal would be about 3 times daily.

Three rituals

Meditation isn't the only thing you should do. You should also perform 3 rituals per day, ideally one after waking up, one during the noon and one before going to sleep (you can actually have more rituals during your day, either in different times or two or more one after another).

These rituals can all be the same or each can be a different one. From simple adoration of Sun up to complex evocation of all angels/demons/insects, choice is fully up to you. My personal setup is as following:

• After waking up: Self-empowerment ritual
• During bus trip to work: Meditation (optional)
• During noon: Invocation and empowerment of my servitor
• Before going to sleep: Banishing the whole house, meditation and repetition of mantra to remember all my dreams before I fall asleep.

As I said, the setup of the rituals is totally up to you, make your own rituals if you wish, habituation is the important aspect here, not the rituals themselves.

Conclusion

With this said, you have everything you need for your spiritual development, persistence in the practice will be gradually rewarded with results. There is no need of initiations, no need of secret formulae and mantras, no need of masters, teachers, deities, religions or dogmas. Just take the responsibility for your self and build the rituals so they will suit your needs.

Cause and effect

Time by time I notice some discussion regarding the topic of whether Magick is or isn't real.
This discussion is usually spiced up with a sad story of failed practitioner that "did his best" to practice well and still he got no results.

It's funny, but we pay and study hard to graduate school, we go to work every day to get money so we can pay our rents and afford some food and some comforts of modern society, still some people think that Magick is different. People think that you just come here, do something from the book and KAZAM, it works.

If you want to get anywhere in your Magick path, you need to fulfill following criteria:
1) Belief - Magick cannot work if you don't believe that it will, no matter how much you try
2) Dedication - Gazing into candle light for 5 minutes won't allow you to levitate cars, get over it.

I hope that I am doing my part for you to gain needed belief and dedication, by articles I write and by techniques and teachings I share. Just remember that reading isn't enough. You have to go there and practice. Magick cannot be just some "what if", it must become the everyday part of your reality, it must become as natural for you as breathing. And reason? Reason is simple, you cannot have something you didn't pay for.
Sportsmen and martial artists spend a good deal of their lives by solid training routine, going beyond pain and beyond their limits to gain their goals. Why do you think that the Magick is so different?
If you want to gain an ability to perform "miracles", you have to do something for that. It's this simple.

Recent update

I managed to develop a healing method that has a positive effect on bigger problems, it can heal literally overnight. I successfully tested it on my girlfriend, I got her from hospital in just one day.

Still I seem to have one patient that is resistant against any kind of healing I try, I will try doing the same thing for couple of days to see if any change occurs.

Oath breaker: Meditation

Introduction

Meditation is very complex and beautiful topic. Unfortunately one bound with a lot of garbage. After all, it's a good business model to allow this knowledge only to those who pay well. But because there is no copyright about meditation, no one really can keep this knowledge for their own gain.
Some fragments of full meditation were already revealed, either by initiated or through revealed wisdom.

Many of you have already practiced with these fragments and had great results because even fragments of full meditation are powerful enough.

Today I am going to break one very old oath of silence and learn you something you would normally had to pay for, be guided into or had to figure it out yourselves.

What is meditation?

Meditation is a complex process of self-initiation and self-empowerment, many fragments of this sacred procedure were already published and made available to broader public. Practices known as focal meditation and void meditation are just pieces of bigger pie, mantras are just another way of focal meditation, but purpose stays the same.

How long time does it take to master meditation?

It is said it take years to master meditation and it takes a long time to get results. That basically applies just for individual fragments, when practicing meditation as the whole complex procedure, mastery can easily come in mater of months, minor results comes during the meditation itself and major results in couple of days.

I am not going to reveal all effects to spoil it for you, just to name few:
Minor results include buzzing, tingling, unbearable feelings of heat and cold, losing feeling of any borders, losing feeling of one's own body.
Some major results are: Clairvoyance or OOBE experience.

How does the full meditation work?

Full meditation is a process consisted of couple of steps, gradually building energies, changing mindset and reducing one's mundane senses in regard to allow the practitioner to fully concentrate on more subtle experiences.

Fragment #1: Comfort

First important fragment, unfortunately being omitted, a lot. When your body feels some pain or stiffness, this feeling is projected into your mind, causing mental chatter and reducing effects of another fragments of meditation.

First of all, you should take comfortable position, any position where you can sit/lay a couple of hours without problems and nothing bothers you is fine enough.

As next step you should relax your body. Best way is to focus on specific body part with intention to relax it and when this part is completely relaxed, then move on the next one, till your whole body is relaxed.

It is also a good thing to do some stretching exercise before you start with body relaxation, you will be able to relax your muscles with greater ease and more oxygen will get to your blood, as well.

Note: During this fragment, it is pretty common that flashes will start appearing in the front of your eyes, being it either scenes or simply some color filling your whole field of vision and then slowly vanishing in the center. This is pretty common and you don't need to worry about it. Actually this can happen at any point of the meditation, so it is good to know it is nothing wrong.
Another common effects are: tingling, vibrating, itching. Especially itching of the nose is very annoying, but you shouldn't move during the whole meditation, simple way how to get rid of itching focusing on the itching part and direct your breath there, feel your breath, feel how it fills your lungs, direct this feeling to the part with each breath-in and directs it out of your mouth during your breath-out.
It can also happen that you will astrally project during this fragment.

Fragment #2: Mental relaxation

 Our body is relaxed and as next step, our mind should be relaxed, as well. During this fragment you should get to the point when no new mental chatter appears, this is preparation for the void mind (mind vacancy).
You should inhale and exhale slowly and deeply, still the whole process should be natural, make sure each inhale and exhale takes about the same time.
Slowly focus on your breath, feel how it fills your lungs, feel your lungs from inside, feel and direct the breath through your lungs from up to bottom. Breathing to the bottom of your lungs is easily accomplished when your chest stays still during the breathing, but your belly expands during inhale and gets to the original state during exhale, focus on your breath for couple of minutes.

Fragment #3: Vacancy of mind

During this fragment, you should fully stop the mental chatter in your mind, no new thoughts should be created  and your mind should be as clear as lake's surface under the Moon light. And most important of all, this state should be passive, actively non-thinking doesn't equal to void mind.

There are couple of ways how to accomplish this task. You can either actively command your mind to be quiet and then slip into passive observantion, you also can imagine two completely opposite things at the same time (black/white vision screen), you can also try to induce two completely different emotions at the same time (eg joy and sorrow). Practice this for couple of minutes.

Note: During this fragment, it can happen you will completely stop feeling any border of your body or you will even astrally project, don't worry about it and don't let your fear to destroy your experience, be completely open-minded and positive about whatever happens to you, feeling of no borders, feeling of void, feeling of your self melting, are pretty common in this stage.

Fragment #4: Concentration

In next fragment you should slip from vacancy of mind state to full concentration upon one object/event, state. For this fragment you can use symbols, candle flame, mandalas, noises, some point in your body, generally any single object. Focus and fully concentrate on the object, gaze at the object when the object is visual. You can use symbol of your religion or even a custom crafted sigil. Gaze at the symbol and let your whole mind and get devoured by it, Keep this concentration for couple of minutes.

Then slip back into vacancy of mind and then back into state of relaxation, then you can consider your meditation session complete.

Few recommendations:

For fragment #4: When you are using symbol of your religion, being it chaosphere, hexagram, pentagram, Jesus on the cross or some sort of saint's picture, be sure to put your hands above the symbol after the meditation and let the accumulated energy enter your body. You can use visualization to help this process, but choice is yours. This way you can also use Reiki symbols, by drawing accumulated energy from Reiki symbol you can then use Reiki with greater ease without official attunement. You can also use this fragment to concentrate eg on some chakra or energy center of your choice.
Visions can be induced when you concentrate on some reflective surface, being it glass, coffee's surface, black mirror or water's surface.
You can also concentrate on tarot cards to gain new understanding regarding the cards in the process.


Switching between stages: At the beginning, the switch should be as slow as possible, do what is natural to you. Later you should learn to how switch between stages more fluently but without omitting anything.


Annoying/scary noises: Very common during meditation and during astral projection are very loud noises that can easily scare you. Point is that during the meditation we are more aware and even the most silent noise in great distance can sound as being very near and very loud, some undeveloped entities can also scare you this way, don't pay any attention to it, it is not worth of your attention.

Visions: During meditation you can have visions. When some vision appears, don't focus on it actively, the vision will fade, simply keep doing whatever fragment you were at and vision will become more clear and self-explaining. Same applies to astral projection as well, don't pay any attention to the process and don't focus on vibrations when they appear.

Sleep paralysis: It can happen that your body will become too relaxed that you will actually lose ability to move the body for short period of time. This event can be reduced when you focus on some specific body part with intent to wake it up. Good method is to wake up your hand this way and use it to massage rest of your body, this way you will be fully operation-able again in no time.

Conclusion

I tried to make this article as descriptive and as universal as possible so no matter what you practice or you believe in, you can still use it.
Still it is possible I omitted something or didn't make it clear. Feel free to ask for clarification and I will update this article accordingly.

Phone working again

Similar problem like with tablet, a lot of energy somehow got stuck into the device, but this one one different, it certainly wasn't mind and it kept discharging the phone when I was around.

Tablet fixed

I managed to fix my tablet today. I performed a bigger ritual yesterday, which wore me out. Today when I had taken the tablet into my hands I have felt a great excess of energy, it was mine. I drained the energy from the tablet and now it's working fine.

I wonder if I can fix my phone this way, as well.

Energetical overkill

Sorry for vague title, but I don't know how else I could name this.

My practice changed a bit, during my procedures I have a recurring vision of myself being wrapped by some unknown energy, going upwards just like fire.
My phone somehow cannot stay charged for more than 2 hours (already tried a ton of things to fix that, so I thought the battery is dead). Today my tablet started clicking by itself, computer switches on and off and the strangest thing. I charged my phone yesterday and let it on the table. Today when I got back home, I found out that the phone is still on, with just half battery consumed (normal consumption for the smartphone).
Another strange thing: My girlfriend has an orchid, she didn't water it for over the week and the soil is completely dry, orchid doesn't seem to care and still flourishes.

Defeating theory, part II

So, let's get started :).

Model case

Close the book, grab some clothes, go outside, I will tell you something about Magick.

You look out of the window with suspicious face, weather isn't very good today, the rain doesn't look like ideal condition for the journey. OK, change the weather.

You get outside, you think that you could go grab some food while you are there, ouch, traffic light says that you should wait. Fine, change the light and let's get going, there is a lot of things we have to do before we can call it a day.

Fast food is far away. Go for public transportation service, there is a mundane solution for that.

You are in the bus when you notice a beautiful lady/guy in front of you, sitting there and reading newspaper. Only problem is that you cannot really see her/his face as (s)he is turned away. Time to make the subject turn back at you, focus...

Fine, you got out of the bus and now you even have someone's number, nice catch, now let's go to grab the food. You are waiting in a horribly big queue, waiting slowly makes you angry... Perfect! Time to beat your anger with some self-control, induce different emotion to make the previous one melt and vanish.

You are finally first in the queue and you are ordering, use telepathy to suggest the cashier to give you some extra fries, pay and go away.

Give the extra fries to some homeless guy you meet on the street, go to the park to eat your meal, when you are in that you can also suggest that dog owner in front of you that he should really collect his pet's poo and throw it to suitable container.

Go grab some coffee, it's time for the relax. It's slowly also time to go to bus to get home, but coffee is still hot. Why don't you simply make it to lower its temperature?

You successfully got on the bus and you are on your way home, the end.

That sounds fine, but could I do any of that? I don't know how

Then I don't see a reason why you are reading these books when they didn't teach you that. Intention, focus, dedication, desire. You can use visualization, you can say what you want in your mind or you can simply focus on what you want. You also can use affirmations, litanies, silent mantras, sigils, whatever feel suitable for you. There are so many methods how to manifest your desire and the only thing you have to do is to experiment and find out what is the most suitable method for you.

Finally some home project

This is not occult related, but it certainly made my day.
I have been planning to create some game for over 3 years now. There was always a problem with lack of people that would cooperate on the project (making scenario, character models, environments, textures, lightning, game logic, everything on your own is quite depressing).
Today I have talked with my gf about the problem and we choose not to make a game, but rather some movie, she said she will try to make some scenario :). WOOHOO

Defeating theory, part I

Introduction

I am going to create a series of articles talking about theory versus practice in Magick. Reason for that is to help those who wish to practice but are scared of possible road blocks. In this part we will focus on some general ideas behind Magick

Part I: I should know all theory before starting with practice

Actually opposite is truth, more mental garbage you have associated with Magick before starting with your practice, worse it will be. You don't really need to know much to start with practice and through practice you will get a lot of knowledge on your own.

Call it sorcery, if you wish, still I would rather be sorcerer than arm chair. Magick started with practice and through practice science was born. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, it all started with Magicians. Unfortunately Magick lost its leading role on scientific field during the ages, all the arm chairs do now is using scientific labels for Magickal phenomena to make it sound more "scientific".

Ether, electro-magnetic fluids, collective unconsciousness, archetypes, metaphysical energy, chaos theory, quantum theory, subtle energies... Do you know what is the difference between these labels? Some were already declined and some are going to be declined in the future. Science still develops and Magicians cannot keep in the flow when they are using theories that are going to be outdated some day.

Demon became part of the psyche, then part of the ether, then part of the subconsciousness, then some information in information matrix called reality... From my personal experience I can say that the demon is still demon no matter which scientific label you use and no matter in what you believe.

Regarding belief: Jaroslav Polak and Jozef Karika, two very good Czech occultists wrote a course book about Magick. There was very interesting part that I am going to quote:

"I don't really believe in fairies, elementals, demons, gods. I do not believe in Magick at all except the times when I practice. When you meet a fairy, relevance of your belief/non-belief equals to zero".

When you meet some "supernatural" being, you don't really care about your beliefs and about labels at the moment, first idea that goes through your mind when you meet a demon created from black shadow with flaming eyes isn't "Do I believe in this guy? Is he the etheric projection of my subconsciousness?", it is more something like "Ok, am I fucked, now?".

Take this to your heart. Don't care about labels, make your own if you want to name things. After all, ability to name something and control it through the name is Magicians' real source of power. Don't use scientific labels of theories that are going to be outdated sooner or later and don't study Magickal theories based on these labels, their explanation is fine, but just till the point when the scientific theory behind the Magickal one is still taken as slightly positive.

Do you want explanation for how Magick works? Don't search it in books, it's not there. Go search it yourself. You will probably find out sooner or later that there is no objective explanation. If I can give you a suggestion, don't care about how Magick works, you could break it. Take as a radio. If you are going to open the radio for the first time in your life because you simply want to know how it works, you might get it to the state when you won't be able to re-assemble it ever again. Magick works because it works.

Internet is full of weird people

Woman/witch/seer/medium with vast experience and ultra leet skills begging for spell on how to get rid of another woman that is supposedly attacking her...

http://evocationmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6493

Internet is fun :-P

Value of evidence: Video recordings

To put the story short, I think all of you have seen some videos proving supernatural abilities.
Telekinesis, levitation, teleportation, even ghost and alien stories.
Video from unknown source shouldn't be considered as a evidence from following reasons:
1) You don't know what set up happened before the video was taken (wires, levers, platforms, mirrors, etc)
2) You don't know what effects were applied to the video during post-processing.

Applications and effect studios like ADOBE After Effects allow user to create effects of Hollywood movie quality.
It is also possible to use tracking tool like Voodoo Tracking and export vertices to more available graphical studios like Blender. Blender itself will have integrated motion tracking system in next release of Blender 2.6x (currently a development version of the studio with this functionality can be downloaded and used till the official release hits the fan).

Example of After Effects:

Example of Blender's functionality:

Sample of possibilities:

With current technology accessible to broader public, especially in case of Blender which is free, it is possible for every individual to create effects worth of Hollywood quality. For this reason a video cannot and should not be considered as evidence of supernatural abilities.

3D Art

Few misconceptions in Magick

It takes years of dedicated practice to obtain results

Well, it takes years, decades, sometimes even lifetimes to obtain mastery in Magick, true indeed. But you don't need to be a master to have results, results are usually granted along the path, first result can be obtained in range of days.

Practitioner must believe in God

God that requires faith is not God worth the faith, you don't need to believe in anything supernatural to practice Magick and any faith-related Magick can be easily adapted to suit your needs

There is only "this" way of doing things

There are currently 7 billion of people with individualistic needs, desires, thought processing and talents. Thinking that there is only one way to do Magick is silly, Magick is limited just by limitation of practitioner's imagination.

Chakras do/do not exist

This is a bit hard topic so let me explain in greater detail. There are information from many clairvoyant people, some that do see chakras and some that do not.
This topic is usually explained by chakras being a metaphysical constructs created by "gurus" and implanted to their students through faith and concentration.
My apprentice was never interested in chakras and I never forced that idea to him. Once during our session I have noticed his crown chakra and touched it. He felt the touch as a very real and quite disturbing, I also managed to slightly displace his chakra, but that's a bit different story, now.
From my story you can see that my apprentice had no way how to get this construct implanted, which means it was there to begin with, so where is the truth? Why do some clairvoyant people see chakras and some do not?

Answer is simple. There are different layers of our reality and chakras are not part of every of them, I would say that there are actually very few layers containing chakras as we know them, only clairvoyance adapted to such layer can perceive chakras and only Magician vibrating in such layer can work with them.
Most important thing of this story is: You don't need to work with chakras unless you see them, no requirement in there.

Practitioner needs specific elemental energy to cause the desired change

First of all, energy is just one, but in many different shades. Shades are funny thing to begin with, as these are not specific to objective laws, but to specific subconsciousness.
Elementalists perceive elemental energies, astro magicians perceive planetary energies, necromancers perceive life versus death essences and every one of them can easily work and distinguish their native energies.
Point is that the elementalist, when he needs to eg cast a spell to improve his memory, will use Air element because Air element is associated with memory, intelligence, etc. He can easily say what shade of energy is of Air element and how to use it.
In reality you are subconsciously selecting shades of energy that are easiest to manipulate for the given task and this shade of energy is subconsciously attributed to correspondence list you know (eg elements).
If we were to filter our sub-c from the process and work directly with shades of energy, we would find out it is an impossible task for our brain to process such subtle data, sub-c has a leading role in this process, translating into correspondences we know just shades we need and in form that we understand.
Without elemental practice you won't perceive elements, you won't understand elements and you won't be able to use elements because there are no elements for you. Same applies to planetary energies, life and death essences, etc.

Practitioner must be initiated by master/temple to obtain magickal faculties

Misconception and lie, nothing else. I am used to say this quite often, but let me repeat myself: Magick is our birth right. We were created with everything we need for Magick, good master will just show us the door, bad master will blind us with a lot of moral garbage and then he will lead us through the same door with blinded sight.

Astral projection is dangerous for beginners

This lie is actually very dangerous because a beginner that spontaneously astral projects while having this in mind, surely will get into some trouble. There is only one enemy in Astral, our own mind. During astral projection your mind gets power over matter. Power that is our birth right, power that is dangerous for weak minds that are damaged by this dogma. Throw the dogma away. Throw away the idea that astral projection is dangerous for you. Throw away the idea that some entity can harm you in Astral and throw away the idea that you can die in Astral, and you will project without any problems.
One more tip:
During Astral projection, all our senses (subtle and physical) are enhanced, you can hear very weak noise being actually multiplied and you can perceive actions of undeveloped entities with such intensity that these can scare you.
Don't worry about that, this happens around you normally, you usually just don't perceive it with such intensity, just don't put your attention into these noises. Projecting might seem scary, but when you are already in Astral, everything is completely fine and returned to normal with your only threat being your expectations.

You need to know all the theory before you start practicing

 Simply no. You need to take few deep breaths, man up, and start practicing, don't delay the funny part, don't read about the process, be part of the process.

Incorrect energy work can harm you

If you believe in this, then it really can harm you. Same hint as with Astral projection applies. Throw away your fears and old dogmas and you will find yourself as winners.
Common premise in this misconception is that there is some energy body that works with energy and this energy body can be harmed by the energy work. Energy body is in fact just perception, our highest form of being is our mind, your thought has a power over energy, your mind has power over your whole life, your mind is eternal and absolute state of being and only thing that can harm your mind and thus your body is your mind (or mind of a more skilled practitioner, but we will talk about that later)

Curses can harm you

Very complex topic. There are real curses and there are false curses. False curses are the most common ones, based just on psychology, harming your mind from inside. These curses will get you just if you open the door, just if you start questioning yourself.
Real curses are potent mind spells. Only mind with stronger willpower and inhuman concentration can attack another mind in such manner and I can assure you that you will never find a person on the internet that would attack you in such manner. Simply because they either do not have the skill or they will never have the reason to do so, such practitioner will never give a damn about your existence and making such person angry is usually impossible on your state.

Request #1: Magick is only for gifted people

This is partly a misunderstanding of old grimoires and partly a mental masturbation of some practitioners with low self-esteem. As I already said, Magick is our birth right. I myself have lived for 22 years as a complete skeptic and atheist, during my practice I have recalled few mysterious childhood memories I have suppressed during my life but everyone has such stories.
Usually when I meet someone new and I am introduced as a Magician (which I do not like, please respect my privacy), I usually get into occult talk and during such talk the person I just met usually recalls one or more of such stories from their childhood too. These stories can contain aura vision, astral projection, prophetic dreams or even breathing under water. These memories are usually suppressed because the brain cannot process them with current information, but everyone have them.
Except these few memories I have lived pretty average mundane life, actually during my earlier life my intuition sucked in the most horrible way and my opinions about occult were rather arrogant and blind.
After that I encountered an occult problem that had to be solved with occult solution, that opened my eyes and a completely new world appeared before me.
But one thing is true, you cannot practice Magick if you don't have deep roots in physical plane, or better said, you have to have solid background in this world before you can explore the new one. That's why old grimoires were talking about long spiritual journey and a lot of items that normal person cannot afford, having obtained worldly riches was usually considered a sign of being successful in this world, to be having your own place on this plane.
So, Magician never lives in his parents' basement (unless he/she moved back to help them financially or because of health reasons) and Magician is usually very independent.

Request #2: Learning curve is same for everyone

I've got two separate requests regarding gifted people so I have considered to take is as another request.
Yes, gifted people do really exist. Their gifts are usually granted from previous lives or from family bloodline. Sometimes they simply have a natural talent without any apparent reason.
But most important of all, every person is a completely unique individual with different needs and desires, with different dispositions. Some may need weeks to master a technique that a different folk will master in a couple of minutes, same as someone will learn to play guitar in a hour and someone else will need months to learn one song.

Final words

Just remember that your mind is your strongest weapon and your most fearful enemy, christian Hell is nothing compared to what your subconsciousness can cause to you, don't let yourself be leashed into dangerous dogmas and let me know if I omitted some topic, I will gladly update this article.