Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Points



POINTS

Reflecting on past failures and accomplishments in Hermetic Magic.
Hope you find some of these useful.

On Practice

  1. Magic is a personal experience.  No other person will experience life the way you do nor, will they experience magic exactly from your perspective.
  2. Theugery and Thaumatergy, pick one.
  3. Grand ceremonies and complicated ritual are often unnecessary to achieve the results required.
  4. Perfect meditation is the goal of magic that should never be accomplished.
  5. Keep open flames off of unstable structures and make sure your working area is big enough to avoid tripping hazards.
  6. Obsessions, as written about by Mathers, will make you feel and seem mad.  When you feel this way its important to realize that no one else is suffering your form of madness.  Take a break.
  7. Obsession, as written about by Mathers, is a real issue and the only cure for this affliction seems to be either to take a long break from ritual or to make sure you verbally state an intent to every ritual.
  8. Verbally state an intent to every ritual.
  9. Most current popular authors on the occult are knowledgeable but, suck as human beings.  Never take their suggestions at face value.
  10.  Evil magic backfires....rather than tell you not to perform any evil magic I recommend that you try a hex or two and see if I'm not right.  
  11. Try not to spend your entire paycheck on magical hardware.  Often the best wand is the finger and the best robes are the work clothes.
  12. Learning the arcane symbols and alphabets is a process that is slowly perfected with study and use.  Try not to get bored, overwhelmed or frustrated.  
  13. Physical rituals are not always possible as much as we would like to perform them, meditating on physical rituals (i.e. performing them in altered state with your imagination) is just as effective as doing them physically as most physical rituals are at least 80% visualization techniques.
  14. Take breaks but, don't give up.
  15. When making a salt for an herbal spagyric tincture burn the left over herbs and then fry them in a pan over an open flame.  You will get the white ash needed.
  16. Doing the LBRP, LBRH and middle pillar exercise daily will accomplish memorization and allow you to tinker with intents and visualizations until you find what works for you.
  17. When starting ritual magic on a consistent basis you may see hallucinations and feel certain ways that seem odd.  This is a form of obsession, be sure to state your intent aloud before ritual if this is happening to you.
  18. Write down the results of your divinations....you can come back and re-evaluate them later.
  19. Do not try to boss around entities you invoke or evoke that you identify as angels.
  20. Do "clean up" with banishings and the like after you have performed a ritual or ceremony which invokes energies and spirit.  If you don't, I promise you'll be sorry.
  21. Synchronizations are about as useful as deja vu if you are not constantly trying to recognize them before they happen.  Pay attention to your surroundings and you'll be able to predict events out of thin air.  Impress your friends at parties.
Don't take anything seriously...if you are not enjoying what you are doing then, whatever it is, is not for you.

    

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