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  • The ocean is a woman

    The ocean is a woman
    Calling you deeper
    Further
    Into her embrace.

    You don’t know
    how far you’ve gone
    Into her
    Before it’s too late.

    When you realize
    You’ve gone out
    Past the swells and
    Still she takes you further

    And no amount of
    swimming will take
    You back to shore
    You know in your bones

    That you have gone too far.

    Let go.

    And when she has had
    her way with you
    She may return you
    Where you began

    Or not.

    But you will be
    a better man for letting go
    And surrendering
    to her embrace.

  • At the Beach

    The magic of the waves is healing.
    All orders are on hold until tuesday, except for one business booster rite done early in the morn.
    I might post like this from my phone. Might not. Gotta reboot.
    Look:

  • Enlightenment Bombing

    Wow, I didn’t expect to stir up any trouble with my last posts. Apparently I’ve left some Golden Dawn initiates all concerned though. Fr. Sincerus Renatus expresses his respectful opinion here. Morgan Drake Eckstein follows up here.

    I think I addressed the concerns they express in the Follow up post, specifically in the last few paragraphs. The idea of enlightenment bombing your enemies is a very tricky ethical issue. It’s thorny. That statement I made about being a Christian and doing this kind of magic for their own good was drippingly sardonic on purpose. I don’t know if that came through strongly enough. My ironic wit perhaps doesn’t translate well across borders.

    The warnings at the end are all about the consequences you face when you take it on yourself to “make someone better.” If you’re going to play god, you’d damned well better be at least a lower-case god, or it’s going to hurt.

    It’s approaching hubris to think you’re at a point where you can determine where someone else is at in their path and what they need to do next, right?

    Well…

    You know those Hermetic Diagnoses I provide? It’s part of my job to know where people are at in their path as it relates to the planetary spheres. I’m a professional, and my clients tell me I’m damned good at it. I know where people are at, if I check, and I happen to have a lot of faith in my divination talents when it comes to this arena.

    So yeah, as a matter of fact, I can tell where people are at and where they need to go. But that’s not all I did that got people upset. I had the audacity to send a punishing spirit, AND to then dare to put someone in the Alembic and start the fires below. How dare I take it on myself to mess with their spiritual destiny, their fate…

    Well…

    Fate. See, I’m in the flesh as I type this. I’m not just a spirit floating around with highly developed telekinesis powers that let me type without a body. I’m really human, ten fingers, ten toes, one nose. As a result of being in the flesh, the experienced Hermeticist will understand that I must have passed through the sphere of Saturn on my way down to the material realm. Consequently, I TOO am subject to Fate. I’m part of it, in fact. An agent of Fate. It’s my fate to suffer the shit talkers in life, but it’s also their fate to be in my kingdom, and to become the subjects of my god-practicing sessions.

    Which brings us to another point. Do I think I’m God? Long time readers know I do not think I’m God. I’ve argued against that a lot. I’m part of the sum total that is God, but I am not all of it. I’m just part. I’m an individuated consciousness, I have a divine spark, but as long as I experience my existence from my point of view, I know I’m not God.

    I am, however, made in his image. God made us, in my opinion, to experience his creation, and also to keep him company. We are like God. We are the answer to the question that is “Michael.” We’re little-g gods, made to participate in the creation and maintenance of the world the same way God did it, as outlined on the emerald Tablet. We take ideas, we speak them into being, we pass them through the Spheres and we create the world. We Work with our brothers and sisters in the cosmic hierarchy in maintaining and ruling our kingdoms. We are equipped through occult practice to meet the responsibilities of running our world as we see fit, in power.

    The initiations we go through bring us wisdom as well as power. The wisdom keeps us from using the power wrong. The wisdom also comes from using the power wrong. Those warnings at the end about how much hypocrisy the universe will put up with? Yeah, that’s called “experience.” Painful experience that I wouldn’t trade for a life of luxury and wealth.

    The nice thing about this kind of rite, this enlightenment bombing, is that it cannot succeed if it is outside of God’s will. Or the True Will of the person, or their Destiny or Fate or Karma or whatever. It is the kind of thing that if you try to do it and you ought not to, you will personally reap the rewards of the attempt instead of your intended victim.

    And that’s a really good thing. I’m a “MOVE, or move me” kind of guy when it comes to obstacles. I’ve been around the block enough to know that I am not perfect. I know when I meet an obstacle or an ordeal that resorting to magic will help me, no matter what, because it will either move the obstacle, or it will teach me how to move around or even to use the obstacle to my advantage.

    It might hurt. Initiations usually do, and it hurts like building muscles hurts. Painful, terrible to endure, it really sucks in the moment, but when the pain is gone you’re left with two things, power and the wisdom to use it.

    I’ve been around the block a few times. I don’t think I’m a 9=2, or at Jesus’ level of ascended master. I don’t think that’s really necessary to accomplish my purpose here on Earth. I do know that if it is necessary, my life will unfold in a way that makes it inevitable. I’m not holding my breath though.

    I do think I’m at Jesus’ level in some ways, but mostly in the ways he said I would be. “These miracles are nothing compared to the shit you’re going to be doing!” he said. Sort of. “Have I not said you’re a god?” He said that too. He also said we’re all children of God. Just like he is. He’s our brother, our big brother, the eldest, the First, but still an emanation of God, just like us. We have the same Dad, and Dad loves us all the same. We’re all as necessary as Christ. We all have just as important fates to fulfill. And we’re given the powers we need to accomplish our goals.

    And the powers we receive are guides, too. You don’t get to conjure evil daimons if you’re not supposed to ever conjure them. That power exists for a reason. So far, I’ve found it exists primarily to cast evil spirits out of other people’s lives. It brings healing and peace of mind. But I also find in the Divine Pymander that the evil daimon is sent to the impious to afflict them until they return to the pursuit of their Source. And that’s all I did with my issue. I sent a spirit to afflict them in a minor way, and then I did what I could to bring them back to pursuing their Source.

    It occurred to me to do this because it’s my fate that it would occur to me. I perform microcosmically the same functions God performs macrocosmically because I’m his microcosmic image. I take all this stuff we’re learning and studying and practicing seriously. I believe it. It has strong explanatory force. It makes sense.

    And if I’m wrong, I’ll get slapped down, and I’ll emerge a better man for it. And that’s alright by me.

  • Pneuma Alalon Follow Up

    Ok, a few good questions came up in the comments on yesterday’s post.

    The first said:

    Now THIS is a series of rites I would love to have. Everyone has people who talk bad about them, and it’d be nice to make them stop, transcend themselves, and just worry about their own stuff.

    Ok, first you get a Supernatural Assistant. Then you say his name and he appears in front of you. Then you say, “[Spirit Name], go forth and search through the Aires and return to me with a Pneuma Alalon that I may direct towards mine own ends. Bring it here before me to appear within this crystal ball, and to communicate with me through the images that shall appear within.”

    When he returns with the Pneuma Alalon spirit, ask its name, explain what you want done, and give it the specific statement of intent, “Go now to [Shit talker’s Name] daughter of [Shit talker’s mama]. Let no word that will cause strife for me or my immediate family pass her lips, and let her be deaf to any words that might cause her to react.”

    Then start praying for [Shit Talker] to get over her shit already, for Christ’s sake; amen!

    I pray that a lot for people.

    Pallas Renatus said:

    Hah! Stealth-bombing with wisdom and enlightenment, I love it. Actually, this is an excellent example of an alternative to monkey curses.
    Any good references on the Pneuma Alalon? Definitely something I want to check out.

    Yeah, I’m really into making the world better in general, and my personal world specifically. I want my experiences to be richer and more meaningful overall than your average mundane life. I want more money, better cars, and nicer homes across the country. I want to be as free as possible, and enjoy my life as I go through it. You can’t have that shit if you’re surrounded by a bunch of fucking monkeys throwing shit at each other. “Evolve, bitches, I got work to do.” That was one of my first proclamations as King of my Kingdom.

    I found the Pneuma Alalon while researching Pneuma on Wikipedia. I worked my way down all the links on that page to get a multifaceted view and understanding of what Pneuma means, and how it applies to what I’ve been learning in the Eighth Sphere about how stuff works. It’s a piece I’ve been missing. It’s good to have a vocabulary that fits into the experiences and the Hermetics I’ve been processing. The Pneuma Alalon is discussed in the Unclean Spirit link. There’s a lot of gold to be found sifting through the links that pop up in those articles.

    Marcus says:

    That rite is a gold of mine, really, do you have any idea to how many people we can send those spirits and do a favor to the world?
    Really, hope you share the ritual or at least where to fin more info about the Spirit.

    Thanks for the compliments, and I totally agree.

    And John says:

    Now I’m curious as how you’d go about doing malefic magic to people who talk shit about you RO.

    In love and concern for their immortal souls, John. Of course. I’m a Christian.
    For malefic magic, I work with the malefic planetary entities. I don’t do a lot of that these days. There’s a time and place for it, but I’m not often in that part of the universe anymore.
    I think theurgic rites against another person are the truest form of black magic. You not only take away their bad behavior, you also take away their ability to enjoy that bad behavior. You alter their existence against their will, and you do it for their own good. 
    And you just happen to reap the benefits.
    Anyway, the rite consists of baptizing something to represent the person, and then putting it through initiations into the spheres, focusing on the particular character traits you want to affect. You put that on the Table of Practice and conjure the seven Archangels of the spheres into it. Or near it, anyway. You ask them to all work together to eliminate the negative trait, and to heal it at the root. Negative traits are usually twisted versions of a positive quality. The ability to speak great evil into being is also the ability to speak great good into being. It just got twisted somehow, damaged. Make the correction, heal the wound. Then ask them to make it retroactive so the effects begin manifesting immediately. Shift time and space itself to get this person into something useful.
    This isn’t nice magic. Growing up spiritually is always the most painful of processes. The most rewarding by far, but really shitty to endure during the initial stages.
    And it’s not always successful. Sometimes people’s shit is just their own shit, and your opinion on it doesn’t really matter. 
    And it can be dangerous to you too. There’s only so much hypocrisy the universe will take out of a magician, and you’ll get your own ass slapped if you go too far. It shouldn’t be one of the first times you’ve conjured the Archangels of the Planets, if you know what I mean. 
    You’ll note how little shit talking I do these days. 

  • Pneuma Alalon

    Shit talkers. I hates ’em. I mean don’t get me wrong, brotherhood of man and all that shit, compassion, yeah I got some for them too, but I hate dealing with the shit the shit talkers start.

    I’m talking specifically about rumor-mongering drama queens who start trouble by running their mouths, expressing opinions on subjects that are beyond the scope of their responsibility, and spreading talk that causes strife.

    I hate when they sneak up on me. See, if I sense that a person is a shit talker, I can usually deal with it proactively. I identify them, and start a series of rites to help them transcend that aspect of their character, transmuting them from a base state to a more refined state, weaving in the wisdom of knowing when to keep silent, and the compassion to be helpful when they do speak. It takes a while to get through that, and it’s a long-term solution, but definitely the method of dealing with shit talkers I prefer.

    Recently an extended family member reverted to being a shit talker. She had been on her best behavior for a few years, ever since she pulled some ignorant stunts that hurt a lot of people and herself most of all. She had crawled back with her tail between her legs, and became a very valued caregiver for a couple members of the family. I thought she had changed her ways for good, that her humbling experience had taught her some basic lessons. I was so wrong.

    She called up last week starting shit with my family. Same crap she’s been pulling for over 20 years, except for the last five or so. I’m guessing she’s stressed out and going back to the old ways, and I’m really hoping it’s a temporary reversion, but regardless, I had to act quickly.

    I had recently been studying the pneuma when this happened, and in my research I discovered the “Pneuma Alalon,” a spirit that makes a person mute, and in some cases deaf. I pulled a fast conjure, obtained the services of a member of this spirit class, and assigned it specifically to render her deaf and mute in regards to shit talking. See, she gets all worked up in a war of words with her victims, and will escalate it and force people to “choose sides.” When she’s like that, anything she hears will be twisted into a poisoned barb that she then speaks against her victim. So I told the spirit, “Let no word that will cause strife for me or my immediate family pass her lips, and let her be deaf to any words that might cause her to react.”

    Our family hasn’t heard a peep out of her since that day she started all this stuff. Immediately the shit-storm she had brewing dissipated and blew away, leaving me plenty of time to get that transformative rite in place for her.

    This was a weird case for me because I personally value the service she provides the extended family members. No one else can be a full time care giver, and the people she helps are very particular about who they let take care of them. In addition, when she’s not starting shit, she’s really a nice person. It’s just when she gets a hair up her ass that she turns all uber-bitch. I figure she’s just under stress and needed to vent a little. You don’t bind someone in Saturn and run them out of the Kingdom on the Martial rail just because they have a bad day, you know? My rite just made sure that if she vents, it’s not in a way that impacts me personally.

  • Business Booster Rite

    Ok, so since I started writing the Gates series, I’ve been working with one of my regular clients. He’s from the Philippines, and runs a family business. He’s been successful at maintaining a steady income, but he’s been blocked by some spiritual and mundane factors that were limiting his potential and keeping him from achieving his goals.

    He first contacted me about making him a talisman for success in his business. A Wealth and Prosperity talisman incorporating Jupiter and Mercury spirits, specifically. I made that for him, and he saw immediate results. Next he wanted something to help bring him victory in various struggles, and we came up with another talisman for that. Again he was very pleased with the results.

    Then he came to me with a problem that had been afflicting his family for a while, a spiritual issue involving a Chinese Sorcerer, the details of which I can’t share. We’ll just say the sorcerer had rigged the results in their own favor, and my client wanted a way out.

    Around this time, I was writing up the Gates series of rites. High on Jupiter’s powers (a great high to be on, by the way), I saw an opportunity for us to work together. He agreed to be my test case, and I gave him a discount on the whole deal. If it worked as great as I foresaw it would, I’d turn it into a product/service and offer it on my site.

    It involved a rite I did for him and his business followed by the performance of the Gates and some work with the Talismans I had made for him. I was eager to see what effect we could have on an established business that was already breaking even. Usually by the time people contact me, they’re in bankruptcy or the equivalent, and it takes a great deal of magical assistance just to get them up to subsistence-level living.

    He was also an ideal client for this because he was familiar with the basics of occult practice. He had worked with the Lemegeton’s Goetia before on his own, with the usual results (technical success, but in the same or worse condition he started in). He was ready to listen to me when I advised the Gates series of rites under the auspices of the rite I put together for him.

    When he began the Gates Series, he and I had a breakdown in communications. He was doing a rite every day of the week. When I posted the suggested schedule a couple weeks ago, he wrote to tell me he had been doing them much more often, and I suggested he back off on trying to do all the rites every week, and stick to the schedule I discussed before, one planet each week, but the Jupiter Gate weekly if possible.

    He did the magic, stuck to the regimen I prescribed, and the results are in. He agreed to let me publish his results, and I’m sharing them below. I’ve taken out some of the more personal aspects and some of the specific details of his case that are none of your business, but suffice it to say there are more benefits to our work together than are listed here. My comments are in [brackets] below.

    • Managed not to become manic and kill everyone in sight because of doing Planetary Ritual everyday in a row. [Even though the powers he was tapping into were accumulating in his sphere, the work with the Intelligences kept the integration process from burning him out or manifesting in destructive ways.]
    • Though the effect is snowballing since 3 weeks, the effects are already felt after doing my first Jupiter Ritual.  That would be after you did the Ritual for me.  It is like something is being cook up and I don’t know how it will turn out. [I did the framework rite that focused the powers released by his performance of the Gates rites specifically into his business first, and then he started with the Jupiter Gate rite. He felt the impact of the Jupiter Gate rite immediately, but it started manifesting in his life over the next three weeks.]
    • The effects would be getting job orders from clients in every directions and given orders not seen since before recession.  After development of the design is approved and ready for production, another tens of designs are pushed in our hands.  I think this is the time to do 80/20 rule.
    • I can finally understand and work your Talismans effectively. [After I sent him the Talisman Maintenance and Operations Manual, which I wrote mainly for him personally, and then passed on to everyone else. I snipped some personal details he provided that I don’t think should be public knowledge.]
    • I worked the Silver Talisman with same intent to apply it in business.  [This was a mild domination talisman designed to bring him victory in all situations, originally.] Back then, I couldn’t gain the attention of 3 clients because of a competitor.  This competitor was our employee back then, she got ambitious and go freelance.  She got our contacts and know-how and price and work for a richer company using these.  2 things I won’t tolerate and would go ballistic are stealing what’s mine and besmirching my name.  I can now work without concentrating much on the enemies since [the spirits of the talisman] are the ones who had their sights on my enemies.  Love working with those 2, they are automatic and stoke my inner mean streak.  Oh, and I got those 3 clients back.
    • Compared to doing it the way I did and doing it your way:  The way I did it back then, I became manic, like the way I felt when working with Goetia.  At least it did not become uncontrollable like Goetia.  Now, I feel normal with some wisdom on dealing things in life.  I’m not saying that I’m enlightened and I feel compassion for mankind, its just that I accept and come to terms with all things happening to the world.  I became poised, graceful yet grumpy to filter in people who would approach me. [This is why he mentioned that even though he did the Gates rites much more often than necessary at first, he didn’t get all manic up top. The rites  of Goetia he had used before had left him obsessed.]
    • I’m expecting all these work could cover expenses for months to come and [deal with some other issues that are personal].  When Christmas season is near, I’ll go crazy and maintain those wealth/opportunity/money rituals to generate lots of probabilities to earn more money.
    • Your rituals are successful, as long as the caster is diligent and neutral in expectation (Process may become unexpected and different from the plan but the result will be same). 

    I like that last point a lot. He wasn’t my only test case, I am also working with another client on the same process. The other client didn’t start doing the rites regularly until a couple weeks ago, and he’s already seeing the results come in much better. Still, he’s about a month behind the other guy. At least he has something to look forward to.

    Now I’m ready to start offering this service to others. It works best if you’ve already got a business in place that’s making money. It would be equally effective for businesses that are in the red, but when you start out in the negative, a lot of the power will go just to getting your business to break even.

    It’s not for the average American worker bee. It’s for entrepreneurs and professionals with good business sense and a healthy amount of ambition to achieve. Lazy slacker reactionary pussies need not bother, it’s a waste of your money and my time.

    This is best suited for those with self discipline and a decent understanding of the process of manifestation. If you’ve really understood the Neoplatonic Basics, you should be ok with the Gates rites you’ll be performing. They’re simple enough and require very little in the way of materials. Most of it you can make yourself. the thing is, you have to DO THE MAGIC to make this work. I’m setting up the framework, giving you some boosts, but you’ are applying the power to the engine of manifestation. You gotta do the rites. Once a week, maybe twice, for at least five weeks.

    Can you handle it?

    It’s a package deal that includes the following:

    • 1 Business Talisman to expand existing business, increase transactions, and to draw new opportunities.
    • 1 Victory Talisman aimed at giving you an advantage against your competition. Also will provide the spirits he mentions that keep an eye on his enemies. 
    • 1 Secret Magical Rite I perform on your behalf that provides the framework for the Gates to specifically manifest in your business life.
    • All Seven Planetary Gates Rites
    • Talisman Maintenance and Operations Manual

    The results are only limited by your own dedication and adherence. As you read through the Gates Rites, you’ll see a lot of advice on getting your kingdom’s shit together. You’ll need to apply that to your business. After you pass through each Gate, see what application you need to make from the books to your business. The spirits will guide you to apply it in the most beneficial ways.

    Now for the price:

    One MILLION Dollars!

    Ok, not One MILLION Dollars.

    Some day, though, oh yes, SOME day!

    Today, however, it’s $695 for the first three customers, with the stipulation that you MUST agree to provide me with weekly reports that I can use as testimonials for the service in the future.

    I won’t be offering this service again until these three clients have been through a complete cycle, which should be some time in August, unless the results are truly amazing. And August will be the right time to start preparing for the Christmas sales season. When I offer this service again, it will cost at least $1,200. Maybe more. One client so far is on track to break a million dollars in revenue this fiscal year after performing the rite. $1,200 is cheap for that kind of reward. If it manifests the same for these three clients, it’s going to cost twice that. This offering is to see what kind of consistency the rite shows in practice.

    I’m not targeting this at individuals with jobs, this is for business owners who can afford the investment. I can come up with something similar for individuals for less, but this package is designed for taking an already in place operation and ramping it up to total domination of its target market.

    If you fit my target demographic, you have a business already in place that you want to see take off and fly this summer, and you can commit about an hour or so a week for five weeks to see your profits go through the roof, please contact me by email, and I’ll discuss the arrangements with you.

  • Prepared for Death

    THIS. 

    This is what it’s all about. The epitome of why we do all this stuff.

  • The Most Important Tool

    The most important tool in the magician’s box. It all starts manifesting right here.

  • The GD Returning to its Hermetic Roots?

    Holy Crap! It’s totally working!

    The Golden Dawn is getting its shit together. It’s returning to its Hermetic roots. Halleluiah!

    Or at least, someone there finally got around to reading the Divine Pymander. ’bout friggin’ time.

  • Getting Started in Hermetics

    Well, when I wrote the Looking Forward… and Preparing for Death posts a couple weeks ago, I thought they kind of sucked. When I reread them, I thought it was like reading squashed roaches. Piles of words smeared across the point that barely communicated much of anything.

    But they’ve generated a lot of email for me. Quite a few people have been asking about how to get started in this path. Sometimes I forget that I keep getting new readers, and that not everyone’s read every post I’ve ever written. So it’s time to point out a few key resources for this stuff I do.

    For starters, read the Neo-Platonic Basics. It’s available for free on my main site. It’s also available for a nominal fee in a complete PDF file if you want to see it as an eBook through my eBooks page. This was a series of posts documenting my early experiences and understandings of the traditional Hermetic Path, and I recently re-read it. I thought I’d have to go through and update everything because I’ve grown as a magician, but it didn’t need a lot of changes. I found myself saying oh, yeah, that’s why this stuff happens. I wondered where I got that from.* This booklet/series of posts provides you with the basic map of the Hermetic Territories.

    From there, I’d get the Modern Angelic Grimoire. It’s basically a rewrite of the Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals, attributed to Trithemius, and it’s the best method of conjuring spirits quickly and efficiently I’ve found. It’s completely harmonious with the core Hermetic Texts. You can start conjuring the spirits in one evening, and it whets your appetite, makes you hungry for more.

    From there you can simply go exploring through the heavens and the grimoires. I think the best thing you can do, honestly, is to go out and adventure through the spirit realms. Once you have a basic map, and a basic understanding of the methodology, there’s nothing you can’t learn. Conjure the spirits, and they’ll guide your steps. They initiate, they teach, they guide. They’re much better at it than any human I’ve met. As you go along, you’ll find yourself learning all the correspondences of the planets, methods of attaining a Supernatural Assistant, sub-lunar spirit conjuration, followed up closely with lessons on fixing magic gone awry.

    It won’t kill you, probably, and it’s not very likely to make you any more insane than you already are. Usually. What it does result in is getting initiated and empowered and discovering that while you may not be able to control every aspect of your life, there is no thing of the Firmament or of the Ether, upon the Earth or under the Earth, on dry land or in the water, of Whirling Air, or of rushing Fire, or any Spell or Scourge of God that cannot be influenced through your magic.

    It’s pretty potent stuff. Good times, my friends, gooooood times.

    Now, some people have an adventurous spirit, but they want more detailed, more structured and organized training. I offer that through the “Red Work Series of Courses.” It’s a detailed set of instructions for accomplishing the Hermetic Great Work as laid out in the Corpus Hermeticum, the Emerald Tablet, and woven all through the Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Agrippa. Some people have told me the courses have turned out to be a practical magician’s guide to the Three Books of Occult Philosophy. One of these days, I might even publish something like that in condensed form. The courses, however, go into a great deal of detail, and would be as long as the Three Books. It’s probably never going to be published in entirety, there’s just too much.

    So that’s about it. The best thing you can do is get a basic understanding, and then start filling in the blanks through experimentation, study, and guidance from the spirits. The second best thing is to go through my courses, if you really feel called to doing things the way I’ve been called to it.

    The worst thing you can do is nothing at all, though. Time is just ticking the fuck away. Get busy, do something.

    * I have the shittiest memory on the planet for details. I remember things, I know them, but I forget why they’re true, or where I learned them. I’m trying to get through the Art of Memory, but I’ve been distracted.