I’ve begun the somewhat painstaking process of writing out the events that lead to the creation of my spirit pot, the details of making it, and the results. Maybe it’ll turn into an actual published manuscript. Time will tell.
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Sometimes the Magic Works…
Jason Miller’s got a neat post about his recent experiences with St. Expedite. One of the things that caught my interest is that in his blog post, Jason mentions that he suspected the work was failing when it began to seem like he had been hit with a prosperity spell. He says:
I had all the signs of a prosperity spell being cast on myself, which could mean one of two things:
1. Just from working with that kind of mojo, I picked up some good juju.
or, more likely…
2. The Saint could not accomplish his task so all the energy was just zinging around like a stream of water hitting a wall.
I haven’t had anything like that happen, and I’m jealous. I want a ritual to not work and result in me getting prosperity too! Is that so wrong?
I don’t know of any rituals I’ve done that haven’t worked. Lots haven’t worked the way I expected at all, but I’ve always had some kind of result. Sometimes they try, but the spirits just aren’t of the proper type to address the problem you sent it to deal with. Some Venus spirits are great at delivering riches. Others are not. Haniel won’t necessarily make you rich, but if you try and it fails, you can ask him which Venus spirits would be better for this kind of thing.
Maybe my problem is that I don’t think of that as a failed ritual. I consider it an incomplete ritual. Every rite I’ve done has lead me to new rites, and a single ritual rapidly becomes an ongoing project, like the Bune spirit pot thing.
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Saturn and the Sun
I strongly urge you to do a ritual today that involves conjuring the Intelligences of Saturn and the Sun together at the same time. There is a beauty in the interaction between Saturn and the Sun that is truly profound and life changing.For your convenience:
Saturn: God name – Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh (IHVH Extended), Archangel – Tzaphqiel, Magical Calendar Archangel – Cassiel, Intelligence – Agiel, Spirit – Zazel.
Sun: God name – Eloah, Archangel – Michael, Magical Calendar Archangel – Raphael, Intelligence – Nachiel, Spirit – Sorath.
Links for sigils:
Agrippa’s Seals of the Intelligences and Spirits
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Goetic Magic
Everyone should read the Goetic Magic blog.http://goeticmagic.blogspot.com/
Brother Boyle from the Conspiracy of Pleasure blog has been posting a few interesting tales, and I’ve received an email from Yuzuru detailing his conjuration experiences with the four archangels of the LBRP. I’m cleaning it up a bit, but it should be posted soon. I’m including it because it’s technically a sub-lunar rite, sort of, depending on how you look at it.
I’ll be updating it more frequently too, lord willing. I invited most of the people I know to co-author the blog, but most folks have worked primarily with celestial spirits. I’m surprised, personally, because I thought I was pretty average, and I’ve been doing this goetic stuff for a couple of years now. Most folks into Magic that I tend to befriend are into the Great Work, and don’t seem as interested in goetic stuff as I am.
However… I expect the posting to pick up as soon as people start reading it. Something about being read makes folks want to participate.
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Enduring unto the end…
I just left one of my online message groups today. I had joined because someone invited me there, and it was a Rosicrucian forum so it looked interesting. I’ve been reading about alchemy to get ready for this upcoming series of blog posts I’m noodling over, and I thought I might get some insight into some symbols or something.
Man, what a let down. A couple days into it, I had received about twenty or so posts about the nature of Will. Great topic, wonderful exchange of ideas and opinions and theories, and all that. These people were smart, witty, and nice.
But I’m so bored with that kind of talk. I mean, this is stuff that we went over in like metaphysical kindergarten. I’m at a point now where everyone is saying the same things I’ve already seen other people say before. Sometimes they’ve been said better, other times they’ve been said worse. It doesn’t matter much to me, I’m bored either way.
I’m a little concerned. This is the stuff that I thought would be passionately interesting. I’m finding out that no one’s got anything to say that Solomon didn’t already say in Ecclesiastes. I used to think that if more people did magic, I’d have more to talk to about stuff. I’m finding out that isn’t true.
Caring less and less about more and more. That’s what seems to be happening as I continue in my work. I’m thinking I must be going through either a stagnation or putrification phase. If so, the solution to the problem would be steady and progressive addition of Mercury, Air, and whatever other alchemical symbols for that might be.
What gets me about all this is the damn time it takes. 30 weeks for the Stone, if you use lead and don’t mind poisoning yourself and everyone you “project” onto later. Just “Putrification” can take 6-12 weeks. Dissolving faesces, recondensing, blah blah blah.
Oh well. Perdurabo, as they say. There’s nothing more important to do with life, after all. The trick is to keep the heat steady.
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Goetic Magic
Everyone should read the Goetic Magic blog.http://goeticmagic.blogspot.com/
Brother Boyle from the Conspiracy of Pleasure blog has been posting a few interesting tales, and I’ve received an email from Yuzuru detailing his conjuration experiences with the four archangels of the LBRP. I’m cleaning it up a bit, but it should be posted soon. I’m including it because it’s technically a sub-lunar rite, sort of, depending on how you look at it.
I’ll be updating it more frequently too, lord willing. I invited most of the people I know to co-author the blog, but most folks have worked primarily with celestial spirits. I’m surprised, personally, because I thought I was pretty average, and I’ve been doing this goetic stuff for a couple of years now. Most folks into Magic that I tend to befriend are into the Great Work, and don’t seem as interested in goetic stuff as I am.
However… I expect the posting to pick up as soon as people start reading it. Something about being read makes folks want to participate.
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Bune and the Lotto Tickets
Well, I hate this part. Another MegaMillions Lottery drawing has come and gone and I am still not the winner. [Picture if you will: Fr. R.O., hunched over his keyboard, typing by the light of his monitor, heaving a large and exasperated sigh of disgust.] The jackpot would have been way beyond my desired amount, so maybe it’s my fault for expecting anything to come of the lotto tix. My past experiences with getting precisely what I requested were exactly that: precisely what I requested to the letter, not more or less. So I guess it wasn’t really a good expectation. Would have been nice though.
So I’m sitting back and waiting to see what comes of the ritual. I don’t count it a failure, because I didn’t specifically say the lotto had to be the way it manifested. I just figured that would be the easiest way. Moloch posted an interesting thesis on how bad winning the lotto is on people who win anyway. Personally, I think I could handle it, but it seems that whatever Bune has in mind is going to be different in some way. I can’t think of anything that would bring in $7,142, 857.14 off the top of my head other than a lottery, but that’s just me. Bune isn’t stuck with thinking inside the box that I’m thinking in. Maybe I’ll land a government contract or something.
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Not to be mixing belief systems
Ok, so I know, a lot of my friends thought I was nuts for playing with Tezcatlipoca. (The skull is in transit to his new owner, may he find all he seeks.) I got a lot of emails and IMs that questioned my sanity. Not directly, but more like… “I dont know what you’re intent is, but good luck…”I got sucked into Tezcatlipoca’s imagery and mythology while researching the Crystal Skull phenomenon in general. What I found was that the crystal skulls are deeply entrenched in the whole Mexican prehistoric religions, and to make the talisman more potent, Tez seemed an obvious choice.
My thanks to St. Faust for pointing out the Coyote relationship to Tez. My earliest researching hadn’t indicated that particular sode of the god, focusing instead on his roles in the creation myths and his role as the patron deity of Sorcerors. Knowing he was invoked to see visions in the Aztec Mirrors was enough for me to work with him.
However…
I’m a Christian. There’s a harmonic resonance to my Spheres from all the Work I’ve done with the Logos, Christ, and the archangels. Tezcatlipoca is not now, nor ever has been an angel. “Like” an angel, maybe, in the same way that Hermes or Mercury was “like” an angel, but he’s definitely his own manifestation of God, and is not particularly fond of being worked with from a different system’s rules. Or at least, he didn’t like me and the way I worked with him much. Or maybe I just didn’t like him. Who knows?
I’m writing this up as a successful experiment, but going forward, I’m sticking with the Christian Neo-Platonic systems’ spirits that have worked so well with me in the past.
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And it’s gone.
That went fast. The skull is on its way to its new owner, and is no longer available.
May the new owner enjoy their experiences.
