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  • Business Report

    Following up on the last post, I thought I’d go into some more detail on recent projects.

    Business Booster: Lite

    I put together the Business Booster: Lite ritual for a client who didn’t have the time to do the Gates Rites. I don’t think it will be as effective, and I strongly encouraged him to find the time to do the rites for ascension purposes, but nevertheless I expect it to be very successful.

    The trick was trying to find a way to anchor the forces I’m releasing during the rites into his sphere. I think we found a way using the spirits of the talismans I made for him, and a link to the forces using a phrase from the rite spoken at appropriate times.

    If you’re interested in test flying it with me and him, you need to have a business idea in mind already, you need to have the means and will to get started on it, and then we’ll get together and do the magic to supercharge it and increase the chances of its success.

    If you’re interested in being part of the test group, I will take on 2 additional clients for it. Email me by clicking on this link and we’ll talk price.

    It’s a five-week cycle of rituals I perform on your behalf, it comes with two talismans, and you’ll need to, on the appropriate days, perform a micro-rite that will take a few minutes, tops. And you’ll need to visualize some stuff while you’re falling asleep.

    Hermetic Diagnosis

    And the plural is diagnoses. I wish I’d thought of that before picking a name. You know how annoying it is writing “diagnoses?” Well, try it if you don’t believe me. You’ll see.

    Anyway, the Hermetic Diagnosis is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever done for people. In brief as a refresher, the Hermetic Diagnosis is a careful inspection of your spiritual health. It includes a tarot reading, a check for any curses or crossed conditions, and an analysis of your current relationship with the forces represented by the planetary spheres.

    Now imagine me doing this for people several times a week. Each time, I’m conjuring up the Seven Archangels of the Planets. I’m ascending through all the heavens and getting an intimate view of a person’s personal relationship with the forces that create the universe. I’m tapping into the forces that flow through the intelligences into the world at large to get a glimpse into how these forces are playing out in a person’s spiritual life.

    Oh, my brothers and sisters, it changes you. Immerse yourself a few times a week in these powers, see for yourself the things that happen. It’s beautiful. You learn so much about the planets and your own relationship to the forces involved in the unfolding of fate as you work with them. It’s a series of progressive catalysts that kick off chain reactions in your sphere that all work together to create the processes of experienced existence. It’s the DNA production of enzymes and proteins that results in life. Tick tick. Kerplooie.

    And the intimacy with the powers gives you… well. You lot know I don’t mind looking crazy, right? I’ll talk about conjuring archangels and I’m totally comfortable acknowledging that yes, yes I do talk policy with God, in fact. Regularly. This is the kind of stuff that’s kinda nuts, you know? Fringe stuff.

    But the deeper stuff I’ve gotten into I’m hesitant to talk about a lot. First, the words I’d use are lies. They’d be true, but still, reading them is direction and any direction I’d give would be misdirection, distraction from the Source that you need to be looking to for the direction. I can only talk around it, about it, and it’s not ideal at all. Maybe with the caveat up front that you’ve got to look beyond the words to the thing I’m dancing with would help. Maybe not, because of the second thing.

    The second thing is, it’s fucking insane and most rational folks reading about it would be like, “Whoa, RO’s totally lost it. I thought that shit only happened with Enochian magic.”

    But third, and probably the most compelling reason not to mention it is because I really don’t want to talk about it. The Projection stage is about doing it, putting the magic into practice, applying the spiritual lessons to the world at large, making it better as you see fit.

    See? I’ve used those words for years, so really, I’ve been saying it all along, talking the most important thing. So you already know it. Gah. Do. It’s a verb.

    Enough sermonizing. Sorry, it slipped. Can’t help it.

    As I’ve done more and more of these things, I’ve exercised my divination muscles a lot, and in all honesty, I’m pretty buff at the moment.* I find myself using the crystal ball less and less, and using my astral sight more and more. I’m seeing things about people’s spiritual state in rich detail, and the results are getting spooky for some clients. Here’s one recent response from a client:

    RO, I just read the diagnosis and I had to move away from the screen too often!!! It is scary how accurate it is and the Moon and Venus issues are just astounding. I never trusted my earlier attempts at anything astral as they seemed to subjective (I am very analytical – BS in chemistry – Hence you were dead on on Mercury as well!!!) Venus, this is the part that I could not handle, it was TOOOOOOO accurate – [personal information removed.] I cannot believe that you picked up on that at that level.

    Another client wrote: 

    There´s so much things i could refer in the diagnose that are extremely
    correct, and you know that :), so i´ll just say that i am very glad with
    it !!!

    I would post a lot more similar responses, but they usually go into specific details that I’m not comfortable sharing publicly. These are at a high enough level that I can post them without getting into too much detail, but they’re a good sample of the kinds of things people say. There’s usually one major area that someone is working on, or that is primarily impacting their lives, and the diagnosis reveals it in a way that lets people work on it directly.
     
    Oh, and doing these has been great for my self confidence. Like many magicians (and humans in general) I tend to think that I’m dealing with issues that no one else could understand. Come to find out, most of us are suffering the same kinds of things. After providing the diagnosis, I always ask my clients if they have any questions or if there’s anything they want clarified, and in the ensuing conversations we get into specific details about the path magic takes us on, and it’s great to be able to reassure people that the things they’re going through are normal, and that some things that seem terrible are actually really good indications of success to come.

    And I really like it when I can help. Obviously I can’t go into details, but a client was contacting me to see if they had anything blocking their financial success,** and something came up about their relationship. I gave them the warning, predicted the struggles they’d have to face, and provided some hints about what would bring them through it faster. A couple months later I got a beautiful report of their struggles and triumphs, and how the advice I gave ended up being the solution that worked for them.

    Overall, this product is my favorite to do. It’s benefited the clients, providing them an overview of their spiritual health and upcoming situations that require their attention, and it’s put me right where I need to be to keep moving forward in my own spiritual path.

    Good times!

    * At divination. Still pudgy physically.

    **  Money’s a big issue for everyone, that’s why I write about it so much. Simple solution: Do magic to get rich, man. It works.

  • What happened to RO?

    So I made a comment on FB about politicians needing to wipe the jizz of their donors off their chins before lying to me, and a couple people were all, “Where have you been!?” I didn’t realize I was missing. Then I checked, and I haven’t made blog posts or been on FB or much of anything for the last couple of weeks.

    I’ve been busy, yo. I have a lot of shit in process. Since April when we started the Jupiter cult and the subsequent outpouring of blessings and grace, both financial and spiritual, I’ve been steadily getting more and more ideas, plans, plots, and opportunities to take over the world. Instead of talking about it, I’ve been doing it.

    I made a pretty major breakthrough in the 8th sphere stuff a couple of weeks ago. It’s not even 8th sphere sturff, it just takes the 8th sphere stuff to make sense of it all. It’s really nothing “more” than Kundalini and the Sacred Fire that flows. It’s what a lot of new age books have been talking about for years and years. I’m using techniques I learned from C. W. “Pedobear” Leadbetter’s Chakras. Things I’ve mocked and ridiculed for years are turning out to be useful Tech, in spite of the bullshit wrapper it comes in. Babies and bathwater, I suppose.

    Whatever.

    Suffice it to say that the stuff I’m doing now is not at all like what I was doing before. It’s the difference between visualizing the archangels of the corners of the world during an LBRP and actually conjuring them and knowing them intimately in a communal rite. All that meditative stuff I did before without initiation, stuff I was sure was real and making a difference in life was in comparison total crap.

    Real quick, I just want to say that going up levels in initiation does not result in leaving behind the “trappings of ritual” at all. You don’t get to a point where you no longer “need” the implements of ritual to “do magic.” There are things you can do without full rites and rituals as you progress, but they are still predicated on having done the rites and rituals previously. And when you do the full rites, the difference in power and effect is monumental.

    I did some more work on the Business Booster Lite rite, and that will be another post. And a ton of Hermetic Diagnoses, which led to the insights into the kundalini thing and a new “level up” experience. I’ll be posting some reactions to the Diagnoses people have had. It’s kind of funny now to hear some things.

    I’m also getting ready for the upcoming Crucible presentation. Next weekend in Jersey.

    Anyway, many blessings upon you, and expect to see more of me in the coming days. I have a couple other projects that aren’t getting any exposure until they’ve reached a bit more solidification. If all goes according to plan, all will be revealed in the coming weeks.

  • Shop Smart

    Had to get gas here. If I didn’t I’d be dead by dawn.

  • The Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter from the Key of Solomon

    I’ve decided to make a talisman of the fourth pentacle of Jupiter from the Key of Solomon. The timing is all wrong, at the moment, and it would be a while if I waited until the stars were aligned right. So this post is about how to make the best of a bad astrological timing through the conjuration of spirits.

    Mathers‘ edition of the Key of Solomon has the following to say about the Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter:

    The fourth pentacle of Jupiter.– It serveth to acquire riches and honor, and to possess much wealth. Its angel is Bariel. It should be engraved upon silver in the day and hour of Jupiter when he is in the sign Cancer.

    Being the erudite occultist that you are, you are no doubt aware that Jupiter is not in Cancer. Nor will he be until June 25, 2013, five years and three months from now. How do we make an effective talisman for a spirit that is specifically supposed to be made at a time that’s beyond our reach? No matter what we try to do now, when Jupiter is in Capricorn, we aren’t going to be able to have it be as propitious as it would be if the timing were absolutely right. But we can try to come close.

    The first thing we’re going to need to do is create the same kind of astrological influences as we would have if the timing were right. We’ll need something to bring in the forces of Cancer to create a backdrop, and then something to bring in the forces of Jupiter to focus those forces through his lens. Since I work so much with the angels of the spheres, I elected to use Muriel, the Angel of Cancer, and Tzadqiel, the Archangel of Jupiter to bring their influences to bear upon this talisman.

    Considering that I’m trying to replicate the sphere of the constellations being in a particular relationship to the sphere of Jupiter, I thought it would be a good idea to draw out the talisman with an additional two spheres represented.

    When I look at any seal that is made of circles, in my mind’s eye I see it as a cross-section of a sphere. The center circle represents the core of what you’re trying to manifest in the mundane realm. Around that is usually some specific manifestation of God or his representatives. Each space between concentric circles represents a particular sphere, and within that sphere you write the symbolic representations of the forces of the higher sphere that you are depending on to make what you want in the center sphere manifest.

    So in the center sphere of the Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter, there’s the Name ADNI on one side of the seal, and the Name Bariel written on the other side. Within the center is the figure that represents what it is we want to manifest, riches, honor, and much wealth. I personally feel it is a derivative of the geomantic symbol “Joy, Laughing, Healthy, Bearded.” It’s in Agrippa’s Three books of Occult Philosopy, Book II, chapter xlviii. Page 398 for those with Llewellyn’s Tyson translation, or here for people looking for a link.

    In the table of geomantic figures, the figure is listed as corresponding to the planet Jupiter and the constellation Taurus. That makes sense. Because the intent of this talisman is to pull down not only the wealth and riches that a luxury-loving Taurus would desire, it is inscribed in silver when Jupiter is in Cancer to include the manifestation of honors and glory that come with Jupiter in Cancer.

    Around this inner circle is inscribed a star of David and Psalms 112:3 “Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endureth for ever.” The Star of David represents the “as above, so below” principle of the Emerald Tablet, and the Psalm describes what part of the above should be made to manifest below, specifically wealth and riches.

    Now, since I’m not in the mood to wait five years for this ritual, I created another circle around this inscription. Within this sphere, I wrote out the name and seal of Tzadqiel and the planetary images of Jupiter. These are all available within Agrippa’s Three Books, and I’m not looking up the reference for it right now. It’s where I found them though.

    Around this circle, I drew yet another circle and inscribed the name of Muriel, the Angel of Cancer along with its seal from The Magical Calendar. The end result is a talisman with four concentric spheres (fitting for Jupiter), with the Seal, the Versicle, Tzadqiel-Jupiter, and Muriel-Cancer represented.

    While drawing out the seal, I definitely felt the presence of Bariel, or at the least the forces represented by the seal manifesting. As I wrote out the versicle, the feeling of the presence became even greater. I felt a tingling in my forehead, which was not anointed with Abramelin oil or any other substance that might have made it feel odd. This spread around my head, and I felt quite stoned by the time I was finished with that part of the talisman.

    I finished the other parts of the talisman another day, in the hour of Jupiter. Before beginning, I conjured my HGA, and then I conjured Tzadqiel to bring the forces of Jupiter to bear and Muriel to bring the forces of Cancer to bear. Within their presence, I wrote out their seals on the talisman. Later tonight, since this is the Jupiter Day, I will be performing a full consecration as I paint the image. I don’t have the tools to inscribe a finely detailed silver talisman at the moment, and to make it big enough to capture all the details, I would need quite a bit more silver than I have on hand. As a result, I’m sticking with Virgin Parchment and paint in the appropriate colors from Agrippa.

    Note that for the conjuration I will be using the modified formal conjuration I discuss in my ebook A Modern Angelic Grimoire, available for purchase from my web site.

  • Oh, Christians!

    The role of the Christian in the world, according to the bible, is to love god, to be kind, and to share the gospel. Do that, and you’ll fulfill all the commandments. 

    The Gospel is this: Jesus died for your sins and you’re forgiven. That means you can sit down with God and talk to him. You can talk about your life and find out what your purpose is for being here. You can know and be known by your Source. There’s nothing separating you. You don’t have to be good and nice and kind to hang out with God, all that sin or bad behavior is not a barrier between you anymore. God can be a friend, like he was with Adam, and Moses.

    That’s what Christians are here to do. They aren’t here to push the gospel on anyone, or to convert anyone. The Holy Spirit does that when you speak the gospel, if it needs to be done. You don’t tell people what to do.

    And Christians aren’t here to run for political office. They aren’t here to establish the Law of Moses as the Law of the Land. They aren’t here to picket abortion clinics. They aren’t here to deny gay couples the right to marriage. They aren’t here to meddle in the things of the world.

    Christians who do more than Love God, Love their Neighbor, and Speak the Gospel are exceeding their mandate, giving in to their evil natures, trying to dominate and control the world so we’re safe, when god says to depend on him for our safety, not politics, not police, not the military. He places the government in place, and Christians are told to pray for the leaders of the land, not against them, and certainly not to try to become them.

    If you’re a Christian, read this and remember, God wants you, to spend time with you. Let the world go to hell if that’s what it wants to do, God is in control. Pray for our fellow Christians to change their hearts and return to God. Pray for this message to spread through the Body of Christ like a prairie wildfire.

    If you’re not a Christian, please try to remind Christians that this is all they’re supposed to be doing. They’ve been lied to, coerced by evil men, and they’ll argue and fight with you at first. Sorry about that.

  • Again.


    In the Mask of Zorro, there’s a scene where Anthony Hopkins (Diego) is training Antonio Banderas (Allejandro) in sword fighting. Throughout the scene, as Allejandro gets better and better, Hopkins keeps saying, “Again!”

    I tried to find the scene I’m talking about, but I could only find it in Czechoslovakian.

    But anyway, that training scene is cool. Gaining proficiency in magic is a lot like that, a process of mistakes and gradual improvements, each time you get it right the universe hits you with “Again!” It takes practice to get good at it.

    The first money spells I did were abysmal failures. I tried Jupiter, and had no success. The opposite of success, which is not failure, but actual regression. I tried Bune to win the lottery (cliche, I know), and failed. I changed my approach with him and found success, and failure. I tried the Solar Heptameron Angels, and failed, miserably. I haven’t went back and tried them again since. I tried Och of the Olympik spirits, and had some success, and some failure. I tried Jupiter again, this time with some experience under my belt, and found bountiful success. I tried Mercury and found another kind of success. I put Jupiter and Mercury together and found still yet more kinds of success.

    These days, I’ve got the knack of it. I have everything I need, and then some. I’m working on increasing that, too, aiming for an impossible goal by dividing the process into steps, and magicing each step to be a great success. Building my way up to the million dollar idea. Strategically.

    And it’s working.

    But I wouldn’t be able to enchant for success without having tried, again and again. I failed and was told Again! I succeeded and was told, “Again!” Each time I learned something new, learned the things that had to be in place to ease the transition from idea and thought to actual experience, learned how the forces manifest, learned how to apply them in ways that are better and more successful.

    Magic doesn’t always work. I mean, it always does something, but not always what you want or expect. That’s because we don’t know shit about shit going into this. Words don’t convey the process adequately, and a lot of the people writing when my generation of magicians were learning were talking out their collective asses about things they hadn’t experienced, advanced concepts of a system they had never been initiated into.

    These days we’ve got magicians doing the magic and posting the results, and it’s a beautiful thing. But still, my words can’t convey the experience that brings skill. I can tell you about it, but I cna’t make you feel it. Book smarts aren’t hands-on smarts.

    Do the magic, do it and fail, and do it again. Steps towards the goal. You can’t change the world with your magic until you learn how to use your magic, and you can’t do that reading about it.

  • The Same and Different

    If you’ve become spiritually and or magically aware enough to have had the passing thought that, yes, that motherfucker who just cut you off in traffic, that lazy bitch at the MVA, and even that oh-so-irritating n00b magician on the Great Work list is in real reality some manifestation of yourself because God is All in All, or It’s all One, or All that is is Light, Light in Extension, then you know that everything is the same.

    One God, One Monad, but at the exact same time, in the exact same space, it’s also multiple emanations manifesting as different individual, unique combinations of the elements, planetary and astrological influences. Proportionally, things manifest differently. there’s no thing in this world that is separate from any other thing, it’s true, but don’t forget, things are different at the same time. Unique. Like the old saying goes, you can never cross the same river twice. You’re different, or the water’s different. Not the same.

    Things are different for a reason. The Monad emanated on purpose. It wasn’t some cosmic acident. Everything between hell and heaven has a divine purpose, an assigned trait, a role and a responsibility that it must fulfill. When I hear modern magical mofos going on about how it’s all One, or how the HGA is the Atman, or that Krishna is Christ, or that Ashtaroth the Daimon is Asherah the Goddess, I want to rip their faces off. They obviously don’t appreciate having a unique face through which to interact with the rest of existence after all.

    Look, yeah, every god, goddess, daimon, angel, spirit, man, woman, child, rock, tree, and shrubbery is an extension of the same God. But it’s extended itself in its own way for a reason. Things are the same in higher levels, but those levels are so much higher that we can’t access them, not from where we are, and not without giving up that which makes us uniquely us.

    So the next time someone tells you that the HGA is the higher self, do me a favor and give them a good solid bitchslap. Tell them it’s from me. After all, we’re all extensions of God, right? So obviously, that makes you and everyone else… Me.

    All your base are belong to us.

  • the thing about the HGA…

    The HGA conversation rolls on, as it always has, and always will. I’m hesitant to continue to throw my cents in the pot, and hesitant not to as well. The discussion is heading the way it usually does, interpretations offered, categorizations of others’ experiences are being made, and comments about the veracity of those experiences are being bandied about.

    And now we have what looks like someone (John, I’m looking at you) thinking of conjuring their Evil Genius from Agrippa’s third book, chapter 26 to serve as their chthonic version of the HGA.

    And it might even work, who fucking knows?

    You see? It gets complicated.

    For me, the SA/HGA I work with is sufficient. It’s a spirit with supercelestial, celestial, terrestrial, and chthonic attributes. It functions well across the spectrum of experiential existence. Some folks will doubt my experiences, others will validate them, and in the end, it doesn’t matter for shit.

    My biggest concern at this point is that all the conversation and words and terms and definitions will rob people of the actual experience of the spirit. It’s happened before. I think it’s a waste of time.

    Figure out which spirit (or which interpretation of the spirit) you want to work with, and do it. That’s all that matters. Onward and upward. Or inward. Or whatever.

    Do magic. Be happy.

  • The Next Two Weeks

    Well, with the New Moon finally upon us, and Mercury Direct, though still getting back up to speed, I’m planning a lot of manifestation magic. Now’s a good time to get in touch with me for things like Wealth and Prosperity rites, and “Good Luck on That” rites.

    Also, I’ve had good reports coming in from the folks who purchased the Business Booster rites. I think they’re ready to go live, full time. One client is looking at getting out from under a massive debt that’s haunted his family for years, has had business rivals become partners, and has continued to expand his business opportunities globally. Another who started more recently made back the initial investment in windfalls within the first month, and has since seen a remarkable increase in new business.

    As promised, the price has gone up. It’s now $1,200 for Business Booster rites. The rite takes what you have and enlarges the base, strengthening the core structure of the business, and then starts adding to it. The people who are seeing the most success have a strong business model already in place. It takes five-figure a year revenues and pushes it to 6 figures, or six-figure revenues and pushes them to seven-figures. It’s not always manifesting in 10-fold business growth immediately, but it does add a certain momentum to your existing business that continues to grow as you continue the rites.

    The Theurgic effects of the rite are also something that a couple of my clients have mentioned. For example, one client writes:

    I agree strongly with you that working on the spheres in general brings positive benefits throughout my whole life. I seem to get along with people better. People around me are more proactive at problem solving. In others its like all the right tracks have been greased a bit in my life. Its to such an extent that even if I didnt get any thaumaturgic results, the theurgic results are more than worth it.

    I’m going to be working with one guinea pig clients on establishing new revenue streams, tweaking the initial Secret Rite I offer to be more specifically aimed at getting new businesses going. I have one client in the chute now, and I’d like to find a couple more. If you’re interested in a Business Launching rite, a modified version of the Business Booster, I’ll keep it at the $695 price tag for now.* It will include the same basic stuff as the Business Booster, but will also involve some specific Birthing rites of Venus, and will be adapted accordingly.

    I’ll have to update my products and services pages soon. For now, if you’re interested in the higher-end services, please contact me via email.

    * The higher rate separates the sheep from the goats, and time is precious these days.

  • The HGA(s) and Cosmological Principles

    In a recent post on the HGA, Conjureman Ali addresses the idea of having multiple spirit Assistant/Guides, one for the Celestial realms (the traditional role of the HGA in modern interpretations of the Abramelin Rite), and one for the Chthonic. On Moloch’s EvocationalMagics yahoo group, Aghor Pir, Aaron Leitch, and Conjureman Ali have discussed the topic a bit.

    To summarize, we all agree the Abramelin HGA has a primarily Celestial role. Aghor discussed how his Genius from the natal chart (as in “Genius and Evil Daimon”) seemed to be a Chthonic entity, and that the Supernatural Assistant he received using my course materials was of a mixed Celestial and Terrestrial nature. Aaron talked about how the combined nature of the Supernatural Assistant was split in the Abramelin rite, with the celestial roles going to the HGA and the terrestrial roles going to the demons. There wasn’t any argument, which is nice. Lots of mutual respect.

    My take on it is that all the spirits, the Supernatural Assistant, the HGA, the Angel of the Nativity, the Genius, Scirlin of the True Grimoire, they’re all reflections of a single Idea in the mind of God. I think the “Helpful Spirit” is the Idea that manifests in different ways for different people in different cultures, and that there are many approaches to find the kind of spirit that will function best for your needs. You may find one spirit is of mixed nature and is more than sufficient, or you might find that your HGA name harmonizes with the celestial spheres, but a blood pact with Scirlin is more effective for working with chthonic entities.

    A lot depends on your worldview, your cosmological view, your experiences and training, and the things you’re here to do with your life. Your culture factors in, the religion you were raised in, the morals and values you absorbed and formed on your own.

    I’ve been reading Geosophia and True Grimoire by Jake Stratton-Kent lately, glowing reviews to follow, and there’s something he does in those works that is simply beautiful. He removes the false divide between the Chthonic and the Celestial. At least, he did for me. I don’t know if he did it for everyone, but I suspect that was his chief aim in writing the books. He blew the lid off the Great Secret in ways that no one has done for me in a long time. Flipped my lid.

    There is no heaven, there is no hell, no Celestial/Terrestrial divide. Those are descriptors of various points on the spectrum of experienced cosmos, but imperfect ones at best… and lies, damned lies at worst. There are demons who want to ascend and unite with the godhead, and there are angels that delight in war and murder. The heavens of Theurgists and the hells of the Goets were the same places in the old days. The forms evolved, but the essence, the stuff that really matters to magicians remained the same. Magic puts us back in conscious interaction with our fellow spirits who inhabit every plane, all at once, in various forms, each a manifestation of an Idea in the Mind of God just like us.


    But then we get to the complicated parts. There are parts of the spectrum that are best described as celestial, and parts that are best described as chthonic. Goetic magic is not celestial magic, and the HGA is not the Supernatural Assistant, is not the Genius, is not Michael, is not the Hagios Pneumatos, is not Scirlin. Different systems give us different results, and I think it is wrong to say the Genius of your Natal Chart is the SAME SPIRIT as the HGA. They aren’t. They feel different, they are reached differently. But the practical application of their role in your life sure seems to be the same for all the magicians I talk to. They teach, empower, and connect you to other spirits as needed. They protect and attack for you, or at least coordinate attacks for you. They can be faithful lieutenants or generals, depending on the role you’re best suited to taking in your situations.

    I think the most important thing to remember in these discussions is that they are discussions. Conversations, words that point to ideas, but remain approximations only. They can guide our actions, but I think the most important thing we do with the results of our conversations on the subject is the part where we actually take action. Whatever “Helpful Spirit” model or models work best for you is fine with me, I’m much more interested in talking about what you do with the relationship with the spirit you have than anything else.