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Tag: Spirit Pot

  • Thar be Gold in them thar Grimoires, Arrrrrrr…

    Pirate treasure hunters. For the duration of this post, ye do be pirates, arrr, and pirates searchin‘ fer the treasure hidden in them thar grimoires…

    Abramelin, the Holy Guardian Angel, the Agatha Daimon, the Nativity Angel and Other Important Things that Must be Discussed

    Prior to finding any gold, and really, I can’t stress this enough, you need K&CHGA. You aren’t going to get anywhere as a pirate without a ship, or a sea, or a map, and a magician without K&CHGA is exactly that. You aren’t going to find the kind of success I have found without it.

    I used Liber Samekh and the complete and total intention of conjuring my HGA. Every night, or every other night, I would sit on my couch, light some Abramelin Incense (from Soma Luna), anoint my forehead and temples with Abramelin Oil (also from Soma Luna), and I would perform Liber Samekh in my Body of Light.

    In other words, I imagined a temple. I stood within it and performed an LBRP. I then performed Liber Samekh. When I got to the hard parts to remember, I cracked my eyes and read the printed rite, while trying my damnedest to keep the Temple and Body of Light in my mind’s eye at the same time. After that I’d meditate a while, stilling my thoughts and waiting for some kind of response. Then I’d perform another LBRP and call it a night.

    A couple of weeks into it, I met my HGA and we started hanging out formally. At that point, I got the spirit’s name, and it agreed to come whenever I called it by name.

    Now, you don’t have to perform Liber Samekh to get K&CHGA. You can also contact your Nativity Angel, who can foster a relationship with your HGA. You can contact Agrippa’s “Genius,” which I believe Aaron Leitch equates with the Nativity Angel for the same purposes. You can acquire a Supernatural Assistant using the Greek Magical Papyri. You can go to a pentecostal worship service and get slain in the Spirit of God. You can perform the Abramelin rites (I would use the Dehn translation of the Book of Abramelin).

    The point is to get in touch with the “Good Familiar” who has the authority to Speak For God into your life. I recommend reading through Bill Heidrick’s “An Abramelin Ramble” a couple of times, reading Crowley’s Notes on Liber Samekh, and reading the descriptions of the Good Daimons and Familiars in the Greek Magical Papyri. I believe the Dehn translation of the Book of Abramelin is a must-read for every modern magician who has been spoon-fed the concept of the HGA that we’ve inherited from the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley. Mather’s Introduction to The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage is also required reading, in my opinion.

    Take all these points of view together and look at the differences and similarities in the descriptions of the experiences. Get to know the authors of the work as best as you can. There are biographies of Agrippa, Eleazar of Worms, Crowley, and Mathers all over the place. Read through Heidrick’s other stuff to get a grasp of how he writes and what he means when he puts phrases together in different contexts. Try to see where the authors were coming from in their presentation of their experiences with these entities.

    When you do, you’ll find that you have an inventory of reports that you can use to help understand your own experiences with the entity that has so many names. You’ll be able to fill in the gaps that aren’t apparent in the writings of these authors as you develop your relationship with this spirit. You’ll be able to see what parts of Liber Samekh were just Crowley being Crowley, and what parts are effective techniques derived from thousands of years of practice.

    The cool part is this info is all online. I’ve got links above to everything I’ve mentioned. The only thing not free is the Book of Abramelin. You should also get Tyson’s modern translation of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy and read it a chapter at a time. That’s optional, but it teaches you more about magic than the rest of your occult library combined.

    Goetia Gold

    Now, assuming you’ve got that bit of business out of the way… You do be ready, arrr, for ye next steps.

    Get ye the Map to the Treasure. I used the Lemegeton’s Goetia. I went through the spirits and found one that brought riches to a man. Bune. That’s good. He brought eloquence too, and I’m a writer by profession, and that makes sense to me. something about spirits on sepulchres. Ok, whatever. I needs me some riches and I needs me some good talkin‘, the rest is fer whatever, y’know?

    I made a “Spirit Pot” based on Aaron Leitch’s article at the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition. I got a pot from Goodwill, brass, had a lid. I drew up the Seal Solomon used to bind the spirits in the vessel. I printed a Triangle of Art from a drawing on the Internet. I wrote out the stuff that was supposed to be on the side of the pot on thin strips of paper, licked them, and plastered them with spit to the side of the pot until I had a chance to get my dremel tool going and engrave it properly. I used 777 (that was a mistake, arrrr) to get some corresponding materials to line the pot with, herbs, associated “weapons”, and I threw in some dirt and rocks from a local branch of my bank.

    I threw it all together on a Thursday, lit some purple candles, and conjured Bune. I asked him to live in the pot. He was thrilled at the idea. I asked him to bring me riches in the amount of $7MUSD, and change. I drew up his seal with the prayer “Bring riches to the man [my name] in the amount of [an exact amount to the penny that I had come up with to cover the lifestyle I wanted based on the house, the cars, and the income I wanted left over after bills were paid].” I licked that and stuck it to a purple seven-day candle. When it burned out I wasn’t rich yet, so I stuck it to another one.

    A few months later, when that wasn’t working, I tried just lighting anointed candles near his pot, and left the seal I’d been licking for months in the pot. It had started to taste pretty gross. Oddly enough, my health improved after that. Must have been magic, I’m sure.

    So fast forward through several increasingly better jobs, a house, vehicles, and some Exorcisms and other sepulchre-related stuff to the present. A couple of weeks ago, I saw a statue I wanted to be able to buy. It would have cost $30,000. I was pissed that I couldn’t just buy it, and also that for TWO YEARS almost, I had been dicking around with Bune, and there were months when the money I had left over after paying bills and everything was like $35. Sure, I had everything on the list I had made and shown Bune all that time ago. But I never got the lump sum amount that I needed to get set up for life.

    Arrr.

    So I turned to my left from the computer I work at, and there is my Spirit Pot housing Bune. “THIS! This is what I want, Bune,” I said. “I want to so rich that I can see something that costs $30,000 and be able to BUY IT on the spur of the moment without it even DENTING my finances.

    That was on a Friday. By the next Monday, I get an email from a relative with an awesome opportunity. It’s going to take work and savvy to make this as profitable as possible, but not THAT much work. See the link for an explanation of the opportunity I got if you’re interested.

    That’s my story, my advice, and my experience. This is what I would do if I were you:

    • Get K&CHGA
    • Read the Goetia and the Pseudomonarchia
    • Make a Spirit Pot
      • Fill the pot with the herbs and other items that are related to their assigned planet or attributes (Use Skinner’s Complete Magician’s Tables instead of 777)
      • Engrave the sides with the right words
      • Leave off the seal that binds them to the pot so they can get to work
    • Conjure the spirit and ask it to get in the pot
    • Develop a relationship with the spirit
    • Tell it you want it to bring you SO MUCH WEALTH that large purchases won’t make a difference to your net financial worth
    • Watch for opportunities
    • Take risks to get rich only if the risks are not going to bankrupt you
    That’s it. The last line is just advice. Will this work for you? It should. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t, that’s for sure.
    And if it doesn’t, feel free to contact me. AFTER you’ve tried it out on your own and have some informed questions to ask. Like, “I read the Goetia, do I HAVE to have all that shit?” Not like, “Can I have some money to buy all the stuff I need to do the work?”
    And if you want me to pay me to do magic on your behalf because I’m SO successful… I’m totally going to refer you to other people. Like Jason Miller. He does work for people. I’m not up for it.
    I’m leaving my blog up and intact. That comment I made about taking it down, publishing it, and selling the info to make even more money was just greed speaking. Refer to my archives, and learn from my experiences. I’m going to keep writing here too, even when I’m rich, because I’ll be able to focus more on the Thaumaturgical stuff when I’m not worried about making the mortgage payments. That’s the goal, anyway.

  • Bune Update

    As I mentioned in the Crystal Skull post, I’ve been Working with Bune on making the carved skull into a tool to aid in speaking with the spirits of the dead in general.

    In addition, I changed out the stuff inside the pot. It’s been over a year since I last did that, and the raisins and dates were mostly turned to dust. I took out some sweet grass I had put in, and I removed about a thousand little steel BBs. I have no idea why I put them in in the first place, maybe something to do with them being brass-colored or something, but in retrospect it was pretty stupid. Iron is anathema to the spirits of the Goetia.

    So now my Pot contains the following:

    • Dirt and rocks from the local branch of my bank
    • Four Herkimer Diamonds
    • One Orgone Generator
    • Lignum Aloes
    • Decayed bio-matter from various raisins and dates mixed in with the dust
    • Mistletoe (Venusian Herb)
    • Vervaine (Venusian Herb)
    • Coltsfoot (Venusian Herb)
    • Three Rosehips (Venusian Herb)
    • Myrtle (Venusian Herb)
    • Three pinches of Abramelin Incense (Traditional from Soma Luna; It has Cinnamon in it, an herb of Venus, and he always likes it)

    Now, it took me a couple of weeks to research these herbs and ingredients, track them down, order them and then have them get here. I bought a stone mortar and pestle to grind up the herbs together. On the day of the changing of the herbs, I cleansed the old stuff, picked out the uck, and re-interred everything.

    During the time I was working on gathering and researching Venusian herbs, and then after I had ground up all the herbs together and placed them next to me in the pot, I noticed some results.

    I attribute these generally passive results to just working with the herbs of the planet in a magical capacity. I don’t attribute it to Bune specifically.

    Regarding Bune, he seemed pretty happy with the changes. Less than a week later, I received a job opportunity through email that could result in a doubling of my income for at least three months. One cannot beat that with the proverbial stick.

    Assuming all goes well with the interview (the first two interviews have gone swimmingly), I’ve just got to point out that even in the midst of a really bad financial time with Jupiter in Capricorn, here I am making a fortune. If I land the job and everything goes well, it will be a couple of weeks to a month before the income actually doubles. Maybe that’s part of waiting for the expansion in measured steps that the Jup-Cap placement requires, but it’s also how things manifested when Jupiter was in Sag.

    So I’m more convinced than ever that the astrological timing doesn’t apply to the spirits of the Goetia. They are sub-lunar in my cosmology, and this result seems to reinforce that. A friend’s HGA told him specifically to ignore the astrological timing when working with Bune, so this kind of confirms that.

  • Bune Update

    As I mentioned in the Crystal Skull post, I’ve been Working with Bune on making the carved skull into a tool to aid in speaking with the spirits of the dead in general.

    In addition, I changed out the stuff inside the pot. It’s been over a year since I last did that, and the raisins and dates were mostly turned to dust. I took out some sweet grass I had put in, and I removed about a thousand little steel BBs. I have no idea why I put them in in the first place, maybe something to do with them being brass-colored or something, but in retrospect it was pretty stupid. Iron is anathema to the spirits of the Goetia.

    So now my Pot contains the following:

    • Dirt and rocks from the local branch of my bank
    • Four Herkimer Diamonds
    • One Orgone Generator
    • Lignum Aloes
    • Decayed bio-matter from various raisins and dates mixed in with the dust
    • Mistletoe (Venusian Herb)
    • Vervaine (Venusian Herb)
    • Coltsfoot (Venusian Herb)
    • Three Rosehips (Venusian Herb)
    • Myrtle (Venusian Herb)
    • Three pinches of Abramelin Incense (Traditional from Soma Luna; It has Cinnamon in it, an herb of Venus, and he always likes it)

    Now, it took me a couple of weeks to research these herbs and ingredients, track them down, order them and then have them get here. I bought a stone mortar and pestle to grind up the herbs together. On the day of the changing of the herbs, I cleansed the old stuff, picked out the uck, and re-interred everything.

    During the time I was working on gathering and researching Venusian herbs, and then after I had ground up all the herbs together and placed them next to me in the pot, I noticed some results.

    I attribute these generally passive results to just working with the herbs of the planet in a magical capacity. I don’t attribute it to Bune specifically.

    Regarding Bune, he seemed pretty happy with the changes. Less than a week later, I received a job opportunity through email that could result in a doubling of my income for at least three months. One cannot beat that with the proverbial stick.

    Assuming all goes well with the interview (the first two interviews have gone swimmingly), I’ve just got to point out that even in the midst of a really bad financial time with Jupiter in Capricorn, here I am making a fortune. If I land the job and everything goes well, it will be a couple of weeks to a month before the income actually doubles. Maybe that’s part of waiting for the expansion in measured steps that the Jup-Cap placement requires, but it’s also how things manifested when Jupiter was in Sag.

    So I’m more convinced than ever that the astrological timing doesn’t apply to the spirits of the Goetia. They are sub-lunar in my cosmology, and this result seems to reinforce that. A friend’s HGA told him specifically to ignore the astrological timing when working with Bune, so this kind of confirms that.

  • Bune Update

    As I mentioned in the Crystal Skull post, I’ve been Working with Bune on making the carved skull into a tool to aid in speaking with the spirits of the dead in general.

    In addition, I changed out the stuff inside the pot. It’s been over a year since I last did that, and the raisins and dates were mostly turned to dust. I took out some sweet grass I had put in, and I removed about a thousand little steel BBs. I have no idea why I put them in in the first place, maybe something to do with them being brass-colored or something, but in retrospect it was pretty stupid. Iron is anathema to the spirits of the Goetia.

    So now my Pot contains the following:

    • Dirt and rocks from the local branch of my bank
    • Four Herkimer Diamonds
    • One Orgone Generator
    • Lignum Aloes
    • Decayed bio-matter from various raisins and dates mixed in with the dust
    • Mistletoe (Venusian Herb)
    • Vervaine (Venusian Herb)
    • Coltsfoot (Venusian Herb)
    • Three Rosehips (Venusian Herb)
    • Myrtle (Venusian Herb)
    • Three pinches of Abramelin Incense (Traditional from Soma Luna; It has Cinnamon in it, an herb of Venus, and he always likes it)

    Now, it took me a couple of weeks to research these herbs and ingredients, track them down, order them and then have them get here. I bought a stone mortar and pestle to grind up the herbs together. On the day of the changing of the herbs, I cleansed the old stuff, picked out the uck, and re-interred everything.

    During the time I was working on gathering and researching Venusian herbs, and then after I had ground up all the herbs together and placed them next to me in the pot, I noticed some results.

    I attribute these generally passive results to just working with the herbs of the planet in a magical capacity. I don’t attribute it to Bune specifically.

    Regarding Bune, he seemed pretty happy with the changes. Less than a week later, I received a job opportunity through email that could result in a doubling of my income for at least three months. One cannot beat that with the proverbial stick.

    Assuming all goes well with the interview (the first two interviews have gone swimmingly), I’ve just got to point out that even in the midst of a really bad financial time with Jupiter in Capricorn, here I am making a fortune. If I land the job and everything goes well, it will be a couple of weeks to a month before the income actually doubles. Maybe that’s part of waiting for the expansion in measured steps that the Jup-Cap placement requires, but it’s also how things manifested when Jupiter was in Sag.

    So I’m more convinced than ever that the astrological timing doesn’t apply to the spirits of the Goetia. They are sub-lunar in my cosmology, and this result seems to reinforce that. A friend’s HGA told him specifically to ignore the astrological timing when working with Bune, so this kind of confirms that.

  • 4-11-06

    Introduction

    Welcome to the Head for the Red blog. The title comes from the four stages of the Alchemical Great Work, Black, White, Citrine and Red. In the Red Work, the final stage is reached, and the base elements are transformed into the Philosopher’s Stone.

    That’s my goal, to reach the Red Work, and this blog is going to record my thoughts, ideas, and experiences along the way. I hope to play the Hierophant here, or at least to record the wanderings of one Hermit and his experiences. I figure I’m still at the Black stage, and I’ve got quite a ways to go before I get to Red, if I ever do, but I have no qualms in striving.

    Fr. R. O.

  • A Spirit Pot for a Duke of the Goetia

    After years of having people ask me where to find similar pots to the one I used with Bune, I’ve decided to put together a basic “kit” to build your own spirit pot. I found a brass hinged potpourri holder at a second hand store, and I’m engraving it with the appropriate language to make it a Brass Vessel.


    I’ve also gathered the herbs together that one would put inside the pot for a Duke.

    I’m creating a silver Pentacle of Solomon, and a copper blank suitable for a Duke’s Seal. If someone has a specific Duke they want to work with in mind, I’ll engrave the seal on the blank for them with my dremel tool, or they can engrave it themselves.

    I’m thinking of offering this kit on eBay. I’m not sure how interested people would be in it. The silver seal alone should probably go for at least $50, even though it’s not fine craftsman quality. I melted it myself and hammered it into a piece large enough…

    Anyway, I’ve got some other ideas I may have to implement on that front. It’s over an ounce of 99.999% pure silver, and it’s going to have a few hours worth of work done on it before I’m finished.

    If this blog post generates enough interest, I’ll go ahead and offer the kit on eBay, and the highest bidder can have it. I’m open to suggestions on what the starting price should be. Email your questions or comments by clicking this link, or just comment below.

  • A Spirit Pot for a Duke of the Goetia

    After years of having people ask me where to find similar pots to the one I used with Bune, I’ve decided to put together a basic “kit” to build your own spirit pot. I found a brass hinged potpourri holder at a second hand store, and I’m engraving it with the appropriate language to make it a Brass Vessel.


    I’ve also gathered the herbs together that one would put inside the pot for a Duke.

    I’m creating a silver Pentacle of Solomon, and a copper blank suitable for a Duke’s Seal. If someone has a specific Duke they want to work with in mind, I’ll engrave the seal on the blank for them with my dremel tool, or they can engrave it themselves.

    I’m thinking of offering this kit on eBay. I’m not sure how interested people would be in it. The silver seal alone should probably go for at least $50, even though it’s not fine craftsman quality. I melted it myself and hammered it into a piece large enough…

    Anyway, I’ve got some other ideas I may have to implement on that front. It’s over an ounce of 99.999% pure silver, and it’s going to have a few hours worth of work done on it before I’m finished.

    If this blog post generates enough interest, I’ll go ahead and offer the kit on eBay, and the highest bidder can have it. I’m open to suggestions on what the starting price should be. Email your questions or comments by clicking this link, or just comment below.

  • A Spirit Pot for a Duke of the Goetia

    After years of having people ask me where to find similar pots to the one I used with Bune, I’ve decided to put together a basic “kit” to build your own spirit pot. I found a brass hinged potpourri holder at a second hand store, and I’m engraving it with the appropriate language to make it a Brass Vessel.


    I’ve also gathered the herbs together that one would put inside the pot for a Duke.

    I’m creating a silver Pentacle of Solomon, and a copper blank suitable for a Duke’s Seal. If someone has a specific Duke they want to work with in mind, I’ll engrave the seal on the blank for them with my dremel tool, or they can engrave it themselves.

    I’m thinking of offering this kit on eBay. I’m not sure how interested people would be in it. The silver seal alone should probably go for at least $50, even though it’s not fine craftsman quality. I melted it myself and hammered it into a piece large enough…

    Anyway, I’ve got some other ideas I may have to implement on that front. It’s over an ounce of 99.999% pure silver, and it’s going to have a few hours worth of work done on it before I’m finished.

    If this blog post generates enough interest, I’ll go ahead and offer the kit on eBay, and the highest bidder can have it. I’m open to suggestions on what the starting price should be. Email your questions or comments by clicking this link, or just comment below.

  • Causing Spirits to Appear on Sepulchers

    In a previous post, I mentioned that I had asked Bune why he needed to be able to put the spirits under him on sepulchers. He answered me in a dream, and then I couldn’t remember the details. Last night and early this morning, he explained it to me again in a dream.

    That phrase, according to Bune, means that he will show you the ranks of his spirits. It refers to a process of “putting them in their place.” I got the sense that it was like a parade of soldiers, demonstrating the ranks and file of his legions. I also got the sense that it served him personally to keep the spirits in their place. They’re as unruly as people, and require discipline, to be shown “who’s boss” on occassion, and that what happens when he “puts them in their sepulcher.” It establishes a hierarchy of authority in their ranks, and teaches them where they belong. Like an exercise or drill in the armed forces. A spirit’s sepulcher is his place in the scheme of things.

    It seems like there’s a necromantic side to this as well that I don’t quite understand yet.

  • Spirit Pot Ritual

    Saturday night, in the astrological hour of Jupiter, I performed a full ritual using my spirit pot. I placed the Spirit Pot on the Triangle of Art I had printed up a few weeks before. I started with the LBRP and the BRH using my Dagger, and followed with an evocation of the energies of Jupiter (through the use of Tzadkiel, Tzedek, and El) using my Wand. The banishings cleansed the various energies, and the evocation of the planetary energies of Jupiter brought back in the Jupiter influence without any interference. Jupiter rules Sagittarius, which is the astrological sign corresponding to Bune according to 777.

    After gathering the Jupiterian energies, I performed the first conjuration from the Goetia in full. I hate to say it, but this is the first time I had done so verbatim from the text. When Bune showed up, it was in full power, and was quite impressive. After some introductory chit-chat, I set about the purpose of the summoning: to add more stuff to the pot, and to give the spirit full and specific directions “by the book.”

    So, I removed the contents of my Spirit pot, and added a small Orgone generator I had made (using Tibetan double-terminated quartz crystals). Then I added some dirt from my bank’s closest branch to give it a stronger connection to the place I want the “riches given unto a man” (read: ME!) to be deposited. The bank also had some small crushed white rock over their flower bed where I gathered the dirt, and a few of these rocks made it into the mix. I was in a bit of a hurry, as the bank was closing, and the tellers were watching me through the windows. I can only imagine what they thought. I placed these rocks around the orgone generator. So I have a small cone-shaped generator, some earth, and some white rocks surrounding it, resting in the center of a long length of woven rush grass. Looks real pretty.

    I checked the status of the dates I had put in the pot originally, and they were still in good condition, and the raisins looked ok too. No “Ick” factor yet, so I put most of them back in. I also put back the Magickal weapon, and added fresh incense containing the Lignum Aloes. I also dedicated a small unused-incense burner I had found at the local Goodwill earlier that day to Bune. Any incense offerings in the future will be given through this.

    About a week before, I had lit a purple seven-day candle with the seal of Bune affixed to it, along with my desired outcome written clearly on it: “Give riches unto [me] in the amount of $7,142,857.14.” This candle was about burned out, and I did the ritual by its light as well as three purple tea candles. I gave Bune specific instructions on what I wanted to have manifest, and then replaced the lid of the pot after removing the Seal of Solomon from inside the lid. I’ve sent him out to make my desires come true, so I don’t want him stuck in the pot. I placed the pot on a little stand I have, and set the remaining tea light candles in a triangle around the pot, and went to bed.

    Tea light candles burn for five hours.

    Around ten o’clock this morning, about 8 hours after finishing the ritual, I checked on my spirit pot, and found that one of the candles was still burning, and had quite bit of wax left to go. All the candles were from the same box. They were the same size, and I expect they were from the same batch of wax at the tea-candle factory. I lit them all at the same time. Nevertheless, here was a five-hour candle still burning eight hours later.

    I’m taking that as a very positive sign.

    The seven-day candle had burned completely out sometime in the night while I slept. I placed the seal that I had affixed to the candle while it burned back in the pot and closed the lid. I noticed that without the Seal of Solomon in the lid of the pot, Bune’s presence is much stronger. There’s a rich, brown feel to the air surrounding the pot now that wasn’t there when I had the Seal in the lid. Like a dense storm cloud, reminding me of the red spot on Jupiter, the storm that has blown for millions of years.

    I don’t know how Bune will be manifesting my desired outcome. I specifically mentioned “lump sum” and “no harm to others” in the instructions. I think a lotto award would work nicely, so this afternoon I went ahead and bought four quick picks for the next mega millions lotto drawing next Tuesday. (70% of MegaMillions jackpot winners are from quick picks, by the way.) I placed the lotto tickets around the pot and explained the rules of the game, told him where the lotto drawing would take place (Atlanta, Georgia) and when. That way he’s got a golden opportunity to send his thirty legions of spirits to Atlanta to make sure the numbers from one of those tickets get drawn.

    It makes perfect sense to me. Now I just have to wait and see if that’s the way this will all turn out.