Jason’s having a Fall sale on the Strategic Sorcery Course through September 22. Take advantage while you’ve got a chance!

I fully recommend Jason’s course because I can see the effects it has on our shared students. A lot of my students are also his, and I can always tell which ones have also been through his course. They get the practical applications of things a little better, and they’re better prepared to take what I provide and turn it into an effective approach to living.

If you look over at the blog list on the right of my actual blog page, there are several that belong to people who have been through both of our courses. It’s no coincidence that these are also the ones who are providing useful content, interesting explorations of the arts, and finding amazing ways to apply traditional magical techniques in modern ways.

I found this today, and it’s a great analogue of what I think happens when we do the conjurations of the Great Work.

In this example, what we think of as our “selves” are represented by the table under the oscillators. They are the foundation of our experience in this spiritual, mental, and material existence we call life.

Our lives when we get started on the Work look like the oscillaors when they first get going, out of harmony, kind of chaotic, a lot of din.

If the board under them were static, that is, fixed and unmoving, unpliable, they would remain that way. But because they are on a moveable surface, watch what happens:

Similarly, as we perform the Work, I think we are made more pliable, and move with the motion. We harmonize, and slowly one part begins to get together, and then it spreads to the rest of our areas of our life until everything is working together. Of course, there’s always that one pink one over on the right that seems to be completely out of sync for a bit, but eventually even that gets its shit together.

You’ll note there are no hands interfering and manually making the things harmonize. Any kind of interference wouldn’t really help, it would just make it take longer to harmonize. By working on the substrate, making that pliable and able to transfer the oscillating energies, the stuff built on the base just sort of automagically comes into harmony.

“Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things are added unto you,” is how Jesus put it. go after God, your source, go after cleansing the stuff that keeps you rigid and inflexible and non-adaptive, get rid of the things that hinder the flow from the Source through the Spheres, into the World, through our Senses, and back up to the Source through us as experience, and everything just sort of comes into balance and harmony.

And then when the motors wind down, you can start again.

If you want.

Back in January, I did a post about my friends who had cool stuff to promote. At the time my fellow Gent for Jupiter and long time friend and counselor Monsignor S.R. sent me a manuscript to pimp for everyone’s benefit, and I friggin’ totally forgot about it until he reminded me today.

Sheesh.

Angels at your Doorstep is a little eBook on the conjuration of elemental angels, and a quick and insightful overview on working with each. It doesn’t cost a lot, it’s straight to the point, simple, and easy. The methodology is incredibly tight and direct, and it would make a good companion piece to the Modern Angelic Grimoire in terms of its direct tone and style and ease of implementation. This is exactly the kind of magic I like. Quick and easy, no heavy lifting to get what you need gathered together to get immediate responses to your conjurations.

I didn’t recognize the sub-angels, so I took some time to conjure them and interview them personally this afternoon. I was very impressed with each. They responded quickly to their names and seals, and filled the conjure space with a sense of their presence. They resonated well with my expeirence in the elemental realms, and seemed extremely competent in introducing people to the material realms. My HGA confirmed their potency and authenticity.

I asked each their function, and they each indicated they ruled the elemental properties of the material realm. I tested them a little further, and even did a little Work with one of them on some issues I’m having in my own sphere at the moment. I’m quite pleased with the experience, and will be making some more permanent seals to Work with them again in the future. I’ve been meaning to get some handy elemental angels in my portflio of useful spirits, and here this was the whole time.

I’m also going to be recommending one of my clients work with these spirits right away. This is just what you need to get some assistance in learning how to bridge the spiritual to material gap.

So a very talented artist, who has done some amazing custom work for my upcoming site redesign, has submitted a T-Shirt design to “Designs by Humans.” They have this policy that you have to receive an undisclosed number of votes to have them even consider printing the shirt. Getting a ton of votes doesn’t even result in a guarantee of getting your design printed.

But it’s the first step.

So I really want this shirt, and I’m not above using my status as Flamen Dialis to get what I want. I think it’s that cool.

So I posted a deal on FaceBook that I’ll make here too:

CLICK THIS LINK AND VOTE for the design, and I will intercede on your behalf with Jupiter tomorrow morning at dawn during the morning rites.

Note that you have to register with the site to vote, it’s not just a click-click-done thing. That’s what earns you the honorable mention. You help my friends, my friends help you. Like the mafia. Or Hermetics. 😀

Anyway, I’m doing the rites tomorrow morning, so hurry up.

[Edit 9/12/13: Wow! He went from 29 to 95 votes in one day! Thanks much! After reading the names of 40 people during the rite this morning, I asked for the spirits to continue to bless anyone who votes for this design. I won’t be reading that many names again any time soon though, so don’t worry about sending me the screenshots of your votes. Just know that you’ll get the blessing if you place the vote. And seriously people, thank you so much! This rocks so hard! WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!]

[Author’s Note: I’m writing my ass off. I’ve got to finish the clean-up of the manuscript I’m going to have published through Nephilim Press so I can move on to the web site redesign and then the ROPOCALYPSE. I’m on the part of the book where I’ve summarized the method of accomplishing the Great Work that I practice, and honestly, I need a break from the manuscript. Writer’s Angst is much worse than Writer’s Block. And a brief interlude is good for me, and this is stuff I felt like putting in the book that maybe shouldn’t be there, maybe it should, I dunno. But here it is.]

The other day I posted this on FB with the caption as a comment:

“Stop doing the things that make this necessary, and they won’t be necessary.”

When I posted that, I was thinking about how Mondays suck, in particular. We go back to work after the weekend’s festivities, and it’s a major pain in the ass. We have to put on our happy faces and pretend like we’re getting along, and for what, really? So we can show fake smiley faces to other people with fake smiley faces, when really, secretly, we all want to set the fucking place on fire and go home.

Jason Miller pointed out that it’s “Not that easy for most people,” and it got me thinking about a lot of things.

Why ain’t it that fuckin’ easy? Why can’t we just quit doing shit that sucks, and do things that make us happy instead? Why are we miserable, when we don’t have to be? What’s so hard about doing what we want to do?

And seriously, Jason’s right. It’s not that easy. We find ourselves stuck in weird shit, and the layers of dependencies get woven more tightly, and we find ourselves tied to situations with nets of obligation and fear. We compromise our happiness for what we think is our well-being. We don’t take risks because it can impact us, or our families negatively.

I’m talking about jobs you can’t leave because of medical insurance, or a family that expects to eat regularly. A relationship with a spouse or partner who makes you miserable, but you won’t leave because you fear being alone, or you’ve got kids who you want to come from a nuclear family, or you made a promise you regret now but feel bound to fulfil anyway.

Believe me, I get it. I know how hard it can be. I spent years in a shit relationship for bullshit reasons I might go into sometime for you, if you want to hear some bullshit. I kept jobs I hated for the insurance coverage it provided my family. I poured myself into creating and maintaining a life I didn’t even enjoy, and I didn’t even end that life on purpose. It just broke down permanently at the end.

So I know all the reasons we don’t do what we want. I understand how we get stuck in the lives where we’re so miserable we need those fuckin’ wires to put smiles on our faces so we can get through a day at work with all the other miserable people. I totally get it.

But it’s bullshit. It’s all bullshit, it’s lies. Fucking damned lies.

You are completely free to start over at any point in your life. Today, right now. You are a powerful giant of an entity who has the potential to do amazing shit. You have power, real power to change your existence. It’s not “easy,” of course, but what is? It comes from sweat and pain, but the sweat dries, the pain passes, and you’re left seasoned and salty… and fucking happy.

Remember happy? Happy.

I mean it, really. I’m not shitting you or being hypothetical or rhetorical. You can be happy.

It’s a pain in the ass though, and the realm of happy lies on the other side of the fence. The barbed wire fence. The electrified barbed wire fence. With razor wire coils at the top. And big black dogs patrolling the grounds looking for escapees.

With big pointy teeth.

Basically, you need to become fully yourself. Fully aware of who you are, and what you are. You need to remember that you were born of immortal stock, a god in the flesh. You need to remember you were given the power to create your reality from the Seven Planetary Intelligences themselves. You need to remember what the Sun is all about, and what “light in extension” is all about. Every man and every woman is a star, ffs. Sole vice-regent and shit. You’ve got to learn how to position yourself to accomplish your desires.

You’ve got to learn to be a god.

That’s where people like Harper and I come in. And Jason Miller, Michael Cecchetelli, the rest of the blogosphere who are too numerous to be named, a lot of my students and clients who I’ve helped… many an holy bard. We get called up to do stuff that reminds other people who they really are and what they can do, and some of them go on to become gods ruling their lives, while others go on to become the next generation of teachers who go on to remind more poeple who they are, and what they’re capable of doing.

And that’s basically what I responded to Jason with, that we need to write more books and teach people how to make it so easy. You go deep into the magic, you get the initiations, you go through the crap storms it stirs up, and you conjure more spirits to deal with it as you go along. You learn who you are, you remember your power, and you structure your life as you see fit. The more you do, the more you can do. Work the Kingdom magics, take authority and put it to work for you. It’s not easy at first, because you don’t know who you are and what you can really do.

I teach a course on this kind of thing. It’s a crash course in my kind of Hermetics. It takes time, but it does wonders in the lives of people who really put it into practice. I also offer personal Hermetic Diagnoses to get a quick overview on your personal spiritual health from my perspective. And I’ve been known to take on clients to set up personal sessions to completely change their lives in 5 weeks. I’ll post more details on that service in a bit, but I don’t want this to be the place where I get into that.

Whatever you do, do it hard core, go deep and get through the shit as quickly as you can so you can move on to making life rock so we can laugh about shit over beers on the beach, or at the conferences when i come to your part of town.

Because that’s awesome.

While taking to a new friend at NOTOCON this weekend, the subject of money magic came up. We joked about how money fixes everything (it doesn’t) and all the problems go away (they don’t), and the conversation turned.

But I’ve been thinking about it a lot more. I make a lot of money. I used magic to get a good job and I make lots now, it works. Fairly simple stuff with magic can set you up financially, and do so relatively quickly.

Your problems do not go away when you make a lot of money, it’s true… But your money problems do. Money problems take up a lot of bandwidth. Moist of us have serious shit to take care of in life, tell purposes for incarnating that make a difference. But it takes power to be able to do that. Wisdom. It takes initiation, and the kind of dedication and focus that you can’t get when you’re worried about feeding the kids and paying the mortgage.

So money magic matters a lot, honestly. You don’t do it to solve all your problems, you do it so you can get to Work solving the only real problem you have: the accomplishment of your Will.

You are a manifestation of an eternal deity expressing itself in an individuated multiplicity for fun.

In case you forgot.

I call this “being a creator god.” That’s what I mean when I say that. Thou art god. God is our source, we are manifestations of God. If “God” is light, we are light in extension.

OK?

OK.

So “the great work” is first of all remembering that you are God, then remembering how to God. Then godding your world up. Like a boss.

Now…

You are experiencing existence on purpose. You are doing it for fun, existence is pure joy. Even the pain is for “fun.” It’s not fun really, but it’s better than nothing, and that’s what we get without life. Nothing.

Boring. Nothing.

So now you are illuminated. I told you secret, and I put it in small words that even I could understand. You’re in on it. You get it, you see me and the things I do and you now have the context to put it into perspective. RO is drunk, or sober, writing or not, laughing, fucking, teasing people or mocking himself. He is depressed, angry, frustrated, sad. He is ranting, frothing at the mouth. He is laughing and ecstatically praising Jove, or encouraging you to be an awesome God. He is sharing the secrets of the universe. He is cursing and blessing like a pompous ass.

All these are lies, or perhaps not lies… But certainly incidental to what I am actually doing. I’m really secretly just enjoying my existence.

On purpose. Doing what I like to do, creating, experiencing, destroying as I see fit.

For fun.

Every once in a while, I discover my stuff has been posted to Scribd, or some other place. While I consider piracy inevitable, and I consider it a form of advertisement, I also submit takedown requests every time.

Most of the stuff I write in the eBooks is the result of my research and practice. The research is all free at esotericarchives.com. The experience you can get the same way I did, drawing out the circles and conjuring the spirits. I highly recommend it.

If someone wants to spread the things I teach, post a link to my blog, or to my eBooks page. Write a review on your own blog.

If you’ve got friends you want to share the stuff with, contact me and we’ll talk about it. I’m on G+ and FaceBook. It’s really easy to reach me.

That’s all great, safe, and fun stuff to do that I strongly encourage you to try out for yourself.

But please, don’t post my stuff online.

Thanks,

R.O.