I'm going to teach you one of the most important and powerful spells in the universe. In fact, it's so important and so powerful that the universe is, in many ways, built on it. If you've never cast a spell before, or dealt with magick, you can still do this all-powerful ritual. If you're a magus whose summoned Archangels and demons, you still have a lot to learn from this simple, essential spell. Here it is: Go somewhere away from everyone you know. Make sure there's no-one around, not even a pet. Turn off your phone (even better don't take it with you), turn off all other noise. Shut windows and doors and seal yourself up in a quiet place without any distractions whatsoever. If you really want the spell to work, empty out your pockets and take off all your jewelry. Now just sit there. For a minimum of five minutes. If you're feeling inspired, go for ten. Don't meditate. Don't pray. Don't wait for anything to happen. Just make yourself comfortable, breathe naturally, try to relax. Once you've found that pocket of silence, consider one simple idea: not all of your thoughts have words. In fact, your most important thoughts, feelings, and inspirations are beyond words. That's it. Once you really feel that reality, you've cast the most important spell in the Universe, the Spell of Silence. This is where all magick starts. You have to make a place in your life for that quiet space, which isn't actually all that quiet!! It's filled with all the magick "ordinary" life sometimes covers up. Use the Spell of Silence as often as you can. Make it a ritual. If you think you're already doing it, I challenge you to go even deeper into silence. Silence can put you in touch with "wordless" thoughts and you can learn to use these powerful manifesting energies via ritual magick to accomplish wonders!!! If you'd like a bit of guidance on your magickal path, please consider joining the Order of the Crow by clicking the button below. You can also send an email to [email protected] with the subject heading OTC, and just ask to join. I'll get back to you asap. If you want to support the blog or the OTC use the button below OR Make a direct contribution via Paypal to [email protected] You can also support me at Patreon where I offer full mentorships in magick and post exclusive rituals, spells, and other occult related content. Categories All
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I've had some inquiries about doing spellwork for people. Also, about summoning or invoking for people. And, in one case, about summoning a demon on video. So let me deal with these one by one in case they come up again: 1) I don't do spellwork for other people. There's a lot of reasons why. There are many people who will do this for you, but I won't recommend anyone by name. I'll say this though: nine out of ten people are just trying to steal your money. So, no I won't cast spells for you, but I'm happy to teach you magick and then you can cast your own spells. It's not as hard as you think and it's your right to do so as a living soul in the universe. And it's a lot more fun being self-reliant. 2) Summoning for dollars. Again: no. Also, you should seriously consider why you'd even consider this. If you want to summon a spirit to do "dirty work" but use some other magician to do it, just how stupid do you think spirits are? My advice is: summon your own spirits, but study up and be precise in your methods, or look out. 3) Summoning a demon on video. There are people who do this, but I think you'll be quite disappointed in the results. If you want to see a demon on video that fulfills your urges, I think you'd be better off watching a Disney movie. If you really want to see a demon up close, get a grimoire and try summoning one on your own. It's easy as fishing for eels. Last thoughts: whatever you do in magick starts and ends with you. That's why it's kinda silly to ask someone else to cast your spells or summon for you. No-one owns magick. It's everyone's and just because someone seems to know more about it than you do at the moment doesn't mean much. It's pretty much just an illusion. We all share a Universal Mind. I can help you get in touch with that, but I won't cast spells or summon for you just like I wouldn't try to live your life for you. There's nothing inherently wrong with people doing spellwork for others; but the best magick will always be your own. Please support me by clicking the "support the blog" button below for a unique opportunity. Or, if you prefer, buy a Tarot or Bibliomancy reading by clicking the "Readings" button. You can also send a direct donation through Paypal to [email protected] Thanks so much!!!!! Categories All Here's an easy way to look at demons and angels. Consider a beautiful flower, a rose, growing in a park. One day a lonely poet comes by, stands captivated for twenty minutes scribbling in a notebook and writes a poem about the Universal imagination that transcends all races, classes, and faiths. It's a great poem that's destined to be published and bring joy and inspiration to thousands of people. Later that same day, two retired ladies, both amateur gardeners, happen by the same flower and have dispute over the kind of rose the flower is. They have a heated argument over its name and wind up not speaking to each other for several days. That evening, the groundskeeper of the park comes by and sprays pesticides all around to stop the slugs and aphids from eating his flower. After hours, when the park's closed, a drunk comes along and steps on the rose, crushing it to bits without even noticing while cursing his ex-wife for cheating on him decades past. Think of the flower as Angelic inspiration. Think of the interpersonal entanglements that obstruct hearing or seeing this inspiration as the noise of earthly life, the entanglements that demons are obliged to immerse you in because -- without them -- you can't fulfill your earthly desires. So, if demons are dangerous because they lead you away from Angelic inspiration, are angels dangerous in any way? Yes, they are. The reason angels can be dangerous is that when we're filled with Divine inspiration, we're less bound by the gravity of life and we reclaim the joy of experiencing a glimpse of Divine unity and our own unimpeded will. Playing spoiler here: the angels are happy to serve our earthly desires, but their real job is to guide us to a Higher Life. So, one of the dangers in working with angels is that they, by necessity, try to point you to and immerse you in this higher plane of being at all times, and this sometimes can make regular life seem twice as heavy and lethargic. There's a way to deal with all of this, to balance out Angelic and Demonic forces in your life, and it's actually not as difficult as it may seem. I'll blog on a topic soon called the Ladder of Love, which is a magickal spin on Diotima's Ladder of Love analogy in Plato's Symposium. This is the esoteric version of that. It's not as egg-heady as it sounds. So stand by! But my next post will once more be on demons. This time literally answering all of the questions and comments I get about them, one by one, in as concrete as possible way, so that I can refer future commenters and questioners and those who are fascinated by demons to these blog-posts. CategoriesPeople'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. CategoriesDemons 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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