Category: Ceremonial Magic
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Formulae of Magic
The following are interesting things that can be done to add a little extra spice to one’s magical practice from time to time. They are formulae for power, but remember sometimes something overused losing its power.
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Invocation of Ariel
According to Agrippa’s Three books of Occult Philosophy Ariel is angel of the element of Earth. Ariel should not be confused with Uriel (who I will often spell as Auriel due to the Hebrew letters that make his name). Uriel is the Angel of the South quadrant although most modern practitioners place Uriel in the…
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The Four Empedoclean Elements
The four elements, known commonly in many Wicca, Hermetics and Thelema-based practices around the world, are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. These form a powerful way to work with the universe and with the self. They seem on the face of it, to be a massive oversimplification, but that does not stop the idea of…
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Curses
This section is about magic, which is done with the intention to harm or destroy another person. Curses can be called a variety of different things: hexes, jinxes, banes (although this is usually a poison), the evil-eye, bedevil, malediction (specifically spoken curses) and even a, whammy (yes as in “double whammy”). All these words have…
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Drawing the Circle
This is a stub … I hope to just add notes here when I come across things that inspire me to add more. A circle can be draw in many ways, in some cases with symbols interwoven with the edges of the circle like in the ritual form of the LBRP. In some instances however…
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Cardinal Points
87, This was in response to a message I received asking a good question I could answer. Thank you for your message at Magic Pure and Simple . com I genuinely didn’t know what to do with a genuine message like this. Like all my messages are either web development sales trying to get money out…
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Give a blessing
So I’m having a quick flick through an old fluffy bunny book for ideas on things I could post about. Long gone were the times when you would find anything they say helpful or authoritative, but they always were fun and remind me of the times when I first got involved in the occult and…
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Meditation Techniques and Elemental Grades
Not only is it important to develop the faculties of the soul in their reflection of the elements, but it is important to develop the initiate’s capacity to meditate and practice yoga since their meditation is what will catapult their spiritual attainment. I write this article to provide yoga techniques associated with every elemental grade.…
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Astral Plane Path Working
This is a Script for a path-working, seeing inner visions and potentially stepping into the astral plane. We do a similar thing with my local coven particularly, when the COVID-19 crisis is going on, so we can still meet up and do our ritual work together, but since we are still socially distancing we use…
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Ritual of the Pentagram
Introduction This article is mainly about the various banishing rituals using the pentagram symbol which are handed to the initiates in the occult order known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This ritual forms the core part of a very complicated initiatory tradition. It is one of the basic rituals and is attributed to…