People's interest in demons is generally quite narrowly focused: they're fascinated by the capacity for temptation, destruction, and damnation that's typically associated with demons. If an uninitiated person warns of the dangers of working with demons and tells you that you're in peril for your mortal soul, ask yourself a simple question. Would that same person help you carry your groceries in on a rainy day? Listen to your life story? Help you through a break-up? Pay your overdue electric bill? They're not concerned with you or your fate; they just want to put themselves in a position of moral and spiritual superiority to you and everyone else. And that's what many people want. Including many of those who work with demons. They just happen to also want to appear dark and dangerous as they go about doing it. The truth is: everything is a Divine emanation and therefore at the deepest level of being All is One. Dealing with Angels tends to remind us of Divine Unity through exaltation, epiphany, and revelation, while dealing with demons tends to remind us of Divine Unity by exhausting our earthly desires. Demons both excite and repulse us because we're excited and repulsed by our sensual experiences. When we see a demon we see the illusion that the Divine is divided. Anything less than Divine Oneness will be less than the Most High and is therefore, by definition, "fallen." Demons represent our will to fall and to experience the illusion of disunity -- and with that comes struggle, passion, power, karma, and desires. There is a real danger in dealing with demons, but it's a bit trickier to understand than "God will send you to Hell for eternity." Here's the danger. Think of Angels as the Mind, as inspiration and creativity; think of demons as the muscles, the body, the earthly tools that translate inspiration to action and manifestation. Now, consider that when most people find inspiration, or learn new talents, or explore fresh creative capacities, they're in a place that's free of struggle, interpersonal strife, and so forth. Not always, clearly, but often enough that we all instinctively know that, to find your genius you need "alone" time and lots of it. In fact, it's even more precarious than that. If someone merely "dings" you emotionally in the morning at work or on social media or elsewhere, this single incident can block your creativity and inspiration. Temperamental artist and all that... Well, demons are here precisely to get you involved with earthly desires, imbroglios, and ambitions. You'll be mixed up in the world, but good. The noise of your earthly involvements interrupts your ability to hear the Angels of inspiration. This is what typically happens to people who "sell their souls" for fame and fortune. They get a bunch of earthly stuff and lose the creative inspiration that made getting it possible. This is also what's meant when adepts and even some masters warn that demons can "steal" your abilities. They aren't stealing anything; you're just so involved in earthly life that you stop listening to the Angels of inspiration. Furthermore, it's hard to get out of these earthly, karmic entanglements: hence the metaphor of the "burning pit of fire" that never ends. So the danger's quite real. So much so that I'll blog some more on the topic soon. Categories
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The reason I'm presenting the Ghost Flower ritual and the Jophiel Youth ritual together is because the Ghost Flower ritual is a healing ritual and the Jophiel Youth ritual will have fleeting results for anyone who's deeply wounded, which, sad to say, is most of us before the ritual! Jophiel is a feminized version of "Jove" or Jupiter -- or jovial. There's no true beauty or youth in this life without joy and expansion. In fact it's growth and joy for life that define youth and, in youth-obsessed cultures such as ours, beauty. You can cover over your wounds with materialism and still appear attractive to people from a distance. But the Jophiel Youth ritual will actually restore you to the levity, lightness, and inspiration that's the true source of beauty and youth. The problem is: the ritual isn't easy. The mechanics of the ritual and the tools you need are rudimentary, but the knowledge and dedication to personal transformation necessary to make it really work are best suited for adepts. That's why I suggest you perform the Ghost Flower ritual before beginning the Jophiel Youth ritual. But you don't have to do so. Do consider that the Jophiel Youth spell requires a series of eleven eleven-day rituals. The rituals only take about 5 mins and every other eleven day period is a "rest" period, but you still have to make a long-term commitment to make this thing work. But it does work. Once you feel you're ready to start the Jophiel Youth spell, the first thing you need to do is absorb a bit of background information and magickal theory that I'll blog about in my next post on the topic. Eventually I'll post the whole ritual on this blog so feel free to follow along. Meanwhile, if you haven't done so yet, consider reading up on and perhaps even performing the Ghost Flower ritual which will increase the results you get from the Jophiel Youth ritual by a hundred percent or more. Use the button below to get started.
Demons are sexy. Demons are dangerous. Demons are forbidden. Demons make us do what we wouldn't otherwise do. Demons trick us, bind us in deals, drag us away from God and the Holy Light of Salvation. And yet, when you mention magick or the occult to people, the first thing they want to know about is usually demons. Why? Because demons represent our earthly ambitions and desires. They excite us because they promise entanglements, liaisons, battles, and even power. Most of us are more interested in earthly entanglements than Salvation -- after-all we're alive and we're sensual, ambitious creatures made of flesh, blood, and fire -- and so much more! What I want you to do is to simply consider that someday you'll have no earthly ambitions. That day may be soon, it may be far, but some day, even if the moment is only seconds before your death, you'll lose your earthly ties. The earth is about ties. It's about imbroglios, intrigues, and desires. Believe it or not, you're free to cast off your desires anytime you like and when you do, you'll feel -- light as air. You'll start to soar, you'll start to see that All is One and that love binds the Universe in a single Holy Light of never ending Creation. And once you see that, you'll be exalted beyond any earthly gratifications. You may start to value only spiritual things. But then at some point, you'll feel the pull of Earth again and you'll fall back / rise up to pursue sensual desires. Because the Oneness of Creation is the only wholly fulfilling experience, all others, no matter how momentarily gratifying will someday reveal themselves as less than the experience of Universal Oneness. In oneness, there are no desires, hence no demons or angels. But here on earth, both demons and angels serve our desires; the trick is they know our desires eventually lead us back to God, to Oneness, to a place where our desires no longer bind us to karma and gravitas, a place we're free to return to any time we like, because we've never actually left it. CategoriesIt's my contention that, despite the public record, Yeats eventually succeeded in performing the Ghost Flower ritual. I also think that he made contact with Jophiel and this is how he obtained his famous "second adolescence" which enabled him to write and live passionately into old age. After-all if it were "monkey gland" implants and injections of other biological/animal extracts, everyone would be taking them by now. So why did so many people fail in performing the Ghost Flower ritual? And how did I figure out how to make it work? The answer is actually pretty simple. Those who followed Yeats's original instruction to perform the ritual failed to consecrate the items, make contact with the Archangels, and time everything to the proper moon cycles. Also, they were all looking for an apparition at the end of the ritual, rather than understanding that the initiate enters into a magickal bond with the flower perhaps even before beginning the ritual. I failed the first time I tried the ritual as well. The second time, I was careful to consecrate everything, time it all astrologically, and I knew what to look for in the "down time" between plucking the flower and burning it. Also, Yeats states that the purpose of the ritual is to see the ghost of a rose. This is a nice poetic gesture, but the real point of the ritual is to bond with the spirit of the flower. It's a form of spirit-bonding that was once called "eudaemonia" or -- you could say -- the esoteric meaning of the word eudaemonia is more or less the substance and result of the Ghost Flower ritual. While its mundane, Aristotelean meaning is quite noble, the esoteric meaning of eudaemonia is much more profound. As such it's like a minor bonding with one's Holy Guardian Angel. The difference is: this nature spirit is here to specifically to lead you through obstructions to your True Will, to heal you from trauma, and give you unending creative inspiration and vitality. To clear a path for your earthly life and ambitions that leaves you joy and energy to spare. It's a daemon rather than a demon. So, I intend to reveal the youth ritual I believe Yeats found via Jophiel. Though this ritual requires a greater devotion of time and a greater degree of knowledge of magick, it's something that I plan to make available just as I made the Ghost Flower ritual available. If you want to know more about Yeats and his second youth click the button below. If you want to see me before (and after) I performed the Ghost Flower and Jophiel youth rituals, click the other button. CategoriesWhen you mention magick to someone, particularly in America, it's usual to hear the words "Satan," "demons," "Lucifer," or "black magic" within seconds. There are reasons for this that I'm not going to get into right now, (I will later) but I'd like to take some time in this short post to make a couple of comments about the nature of Demonic and Angelic intelligences. Typically, when an initiate avoids working with Left Hand paths, or with the Goetia, it's because they fear doing so, they've been instructed not to do so, or they simply see no need to do so. This latter point is the default position of the Golden Dawn. Any magickal system that directly descends from Golden Dawn practices is therefore likely to work primarily with the Archangels. By the same token, the great majority of aspirants who start a magickal path find working with the Angels to be slow, incomplete, and often very weak. This is why so many people turn to the demons of the Goetia to fulfill their desires. The problem Westerners seem to have is understanding that they're all the same entities. The demons of the Goetia are former Gods and Angels of Canaan. They'll tell you this themselves if you make pacts with them or scry. In Magick in Theory and Practice. Crowley states: "In evocation, the Magician, having become the macrocosm, creates a microcosm. You invoke a God into the Circle. You evoke a spirit into the Triangle."1 What most people miss is that it's the means of summoning that determines the means of manifestation. If you turn to a spirit with the intent of focusing your will on an earthly goal, a solitary goal, then you don't need God to do this, you need only a lower emanation. So you turn to a demon, which in happier times was known as a daemon. If you're trying to reach a higher plane of being and knowledge, you call God into your circle. This is where magick will take you, life and existence will take you, no matter what you do, so why not just do it now? That's the Golden Dawn pov. But you can also call on Angels for earthly things and demons for salvation because they are the same entities. It's your intent that determines the kind of interaction you'll have. When summoning spirits, angels or demons, it's quite usual for demons to appear right away, ready to make a pact, while angels often make a momentary apparition in your scrying glass at the close of a ritual. This is because angels provide guidance and growth first and give earthly things (like beautiful apparitions) when you're ready for them. Demons give you what you want right up front and let you experience the often very painful lessons and growth after the fact. You want to see evidence: check out any celebrity that's worked the Goetia for fame and fortune. That's the only real difference. Either way, the lesson is going to be: "forget your earthly desires and seek God" but you don't want to hear that, you want to know about demons and devils. And now you know slightly more than you did before. 1. Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p. 12. Archives |
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