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  • 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.

  • War Wood

    This morning I went for a drive to survey the damage from the hurricane. Whatsername. Ilene, Irene, I can’t remember which is the song and which is the storm right now.
    I’m writing from my phone because the power’s out. They won’t start fixing that until the winds die down. So I was awake, the family were asleep, my phone was dying and I needed to charge it in the car anyway, so I went for a drive.
    I took a lot of pictures as I went. Lots of downed trees, a couple of closed roads, but overall not too bad. Except one person in town was killed by a falling tree.
    I was  driving by an old lutheran graveyard when I saw this tree had split and fallen. I parked and collected a bunch of the wood for magical purposes. “War wood.”
    I’m doing some work on it  with saturn and mars, and the elements. I can think of a few ways to use it. I gave lots of little slivers that will fit nicely into a mojo bag. I gathered the wood, bark, leaves, and branches. Some of it has mud on it from where it struck the earth.
    One chunk is the perfect size to make an elemental blasting rod. That’s going to be fun to make.

  • Getting the Million Dollar Idea

    Jason Miller posted a field report yesterday, and the client who wrote it closed with “I haven’t gotten the million dollar idea yet or won the lottery, but these developements are all welcome.”

    The million dollar idea. 
    I have a million dollar aspiration, but I don’t have the capital to execute a million dollar idea yet. I will, soon enough though, because I’m not hung up on waiting for the million dollar idea.* I’ve got a few thousand dollar ideas I’m working on. Over time, they’ll be the framework for the million dollar ideas, and those in turn will lead to the billion dollar ideas, if necessary. I think I’ll quit around $5 million. That really should be enough and then some.
    Thousand dollar ideas are great though. Gordon’s recent post about how he shouldn’t have gotten a degree in film got me thinking about it. He uses the phrase “Everyone can make an extra $1k” and links to a web site I haven’t checked out in detail, but I think the phrase itself is one of the most valuable things I’ve seen stated in black and white, clear as day, in a long long time.
    Anyone can make an extra $1k. I made $3,200 between October and January delivering pizzas three nights a week and all day Sunday. It took about five and a half weeks to make a thousand dollars. It wasn’t “an extra” thousand because I took the job to work off a specific debt, but it was something anyone can do, even if they already have a day job. And it doesn’t take long, five weeks is nothing.
    A thousand dollars is huge. With a thousand dollars, you can open five one-hundred-dollar businesses and have enough left over to put into advertising the ones that get the most interest. Start those revenue streams, and pretty soon you’ll have enough coming in to be able to make your million dollar idea a reality.
    The most important thing to remember is that you can always get started on the path to the million dollar reality wherever you’re at right now. You don’t have to wait. If a million dollar goal is out of your reach, build yourself a thousand dollar ladder. Make it a small goal, see how easy it is to accomplish it, and then you’ll know you can get to the million dollar mark just as easily. 
    Magic-ing up a Million Dollar Idea
    People who have million dollar ideas are geniuses. Ok, that’s probably arguable. A lot of them are really smart fellows, but they’re also lucky, connected, and have access to funding that most people don’t have. Steve Jobs got invested in early. So did Zuckerberg, and Gates. But you’ve got better connections iwth the spirits, and we’ll talk about that later.
    I’m not a genius. In a few years, people will say I am because I’m going to be really wealthy and I’ll carry myself as if I were a genius, and they’ll let me because they’re sycophants, and in fact their job security will likely be directly tied to whether or not they play along with it, but the fact is this: I’m subgenius. I have test scores to prove it. Tickle test scores, even, so you know it’s for reals.
    Still, I’m not worried about getting that million dollar idea. I don’t have to be a genius, I already have a Genius.
    I get a lot of questions about how to Work with the Genius of the Nativity. I don’t answer them often, because they’re just hard to talk about. I’ve sat down to write up an advanced ebook on the subject a couple of times, and it just doesn’t happen. The time is not yet, I figure, and focus on what I can write instead. It’s kind of how I deal with things.
    But for million dollar ideas and “Strokes of Genius,” there’s no better spirit than your natal Genius. This is the spirit whose role and function in classical Greece was the basis for what we use the word for now. They are the muse, the spirit of inspiration that we honor in people who we say are geniuses.

    Figuring out the name is the hardest part. Actually, getting the prenatal syzygy is the hardest part, but once that’s done you’re all set. When you have the name, you write it on a lamen from the Modern Angelic Grimoire and conjure it using the rites of Trithemius. And then you ask it for inspirational ideas to make money.

    And don’t get hung up on the million dollar idea. Go with what they give you. Trust that it will at least pave the way for the million dollar idea if it’s a thousand dollar idea to start with.

    Magic-ing up Success

    Once you’ve got your business structure in place, a web site, products to sell, paypal or google checkout buttons set up to process credit cards, once all that mundane stuff is in place, it’s time to play the trump card.

    Bless the fuck out of your business. Put your logo on your cash box. Use the Gates Rites**  to supercharge your business, balance your life, and master your Kingdom. Hire me to do it for you if you don’t feel comfortable doing it yourself, I’m really good at money magic for people. It’s the easiest kind of magic to do and track, imo.

    But you aren’t stuck with me. Jason’s got Dzambhala/White Mahakla talismans available right now. Chris Warnock sells astrological wealth talismans. Michael Cecchetelli can probably be talked into making you a Jupiter Talisman using his latest Marduk experiments to strong effect. Dhr. Balthazar and Fr. AIT and Mr. Valentine are available for the hoodoo.

    Or do it yourself. Every planetary Intelligence can help you get money, whether it’s plutonic wealth of Saturn to finding hidden treasure on the Astral planes of the Moon. You’ve got a Threefold Keeper, according to Agrippa, and the Genius is a third of it. Another third of it is the Daimon of Profession who has all kinds of good information to provide you. You conjure the Genius and ask to speak to your personal Daimon of Profession. It’s that simple. Every elemental spirit can help get you money. Your ancestor spirits can bring in cash. Hell, you probably have enough wandering ghosts in your house right now that you don’t even know about who could be tapped and asked for help. Your local Genius Loci*** know more ways to profit in your neighborhood than you ever will on your own.

    Put these spirit resources to work bringing your business success. My favorite method is a Jupiter-Mercury rite, but the most effective thing I’ve seen is the whole Gates series, it builds up the momentum nicely.

    Seriously, just try it. Get a job somewhere for a week delivering pizzas or waiting tables, and take the couple hundred dollars you make and start a business and do some magic.

    * Neither is the field reporter, that’s obvious, but I just want to make sure I acknowledge that before any wires get crossed. Mercury goes direct tomorrow.

    ** The complete set comes to $83.65, a relatively modest investment, and you can buy it incrementally as you need it.

    *** By the way, I consider the Fae to be specific classes of Genius Loci, and I honor them in my local area all the time. That last post was a total joke, an offering to Mercury in gratitude for getting me through the Rx in style.

  • Recipes for the Fey

    Knowing how to prepare for dinner with the fey can be very difficult. There simply aren’t a lot of surviving cookbooks that address the finer points of fey-cuisine.

    Fortunately, they’re a versatile bunch, and seem to go well with just about any combination of flavors. Mexican spices are as pleasing as lemon pepper, or garlic and shallots with a light sherry sauce. My favorite is butter and garlic with tarragon, liberally applied.

    Personally, when cooking with the fey, I’ve found that just about any recipe for shrimp works really well. Beginning at 2:25:

    I was originally concerned about their bones, and perhaps the scarcity of meat, but the bones seem to soften right up. You must be careful though, overcooking your fairies turns them tough and rubbery. I prefer them with the wings removed. Some have suggested setting the wings aside and using them as garnish, but they look too much like cecaida wings to me, and they put me right off my appetite.

    “Gosh, honey, Daddy sure HOPES
    the tooth fairy comes tonight!”

    Once you get the hang of it, you’ll find the hardest part is catching them in the first place. Word of your taste will soon spread throughout their realm, and they’ll rarely come within reach. Clever strategies can be devised, however, that play on their overriding instincts.

  • Oil of Abramelin Instructions (with Pictures)

    Aaron Letich has provided an excellent post on methods of making your own Oil of Abramelin.

    I use this oil in just about every single rite I do. It has consecrated all my tools, the candles I use to represent the Light of God, and myself. I bought mine from Soma Luna years ago. I got two ounces, and I don’t think I’ve used a single ounce yet. A little goes a LONG way.