Category: Methods and Tips
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Which of the 4 powers of the sphinx is associated with which element?
The powers of the sphinx appear originally in Eliphas Levi’s work Key to the Mysteries. Since then they have appeared mainly in the works of Aleister Crowley. There are 4 actions which are associated with the mystery of the Sphinx. The initiate is required to meditate on the mystery of the sphinx and obtain the 4…
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Working with Earth
My personal experience of working with the element of Earth is that my attempts to use earth to cause change directly is often ineffective. Earth is normally perceived as a passive element. It doesn’t act; it is acted upon. How does that work in the real world? We will have to experiment and see. This…
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Relationship with the divine
So many of us, especially me, get stuck in a mindset where we are trying to do the right things in magic. Our focus is on formula. This can easily be blamed on Crowley who wrote extensively about formulae. His Magic In Theory and Practice (which encouraged the name for this site) is full of…
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Unverified Personal Gnosis and Reality
Knowing the difference between Unverified Personal Gnosis and Historical fact is very important in the teaching of Occult matters. It’s the difference between telling you the opinion of the man on the street about government and a Political Science student’s essay. Every man on the street has an opinion, and some of them are very…
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Energy balls: The how to guide
I recently received an archive of a website called Psipog.net and this article is a clumsy rip off of another named “Psiballs: The epic tale of how-to” that used to be online by a person who calls themselves, “SheepKing”. It was websites like Psipog.net that really got me started with energy work. When I was…
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What’s your motivations for the practice of magic?
Frequently I stand in circle with people whose paths are very different from mine, but with whom I share a lot more in common than people working the same kind of magic as me. That’s because I want to get to the why of people.
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Qabalistical Cross
This is the first part of the banishing ritual known as the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and it should also be the last part of the same. It involves spoken words and hand signals and can be accompanied with visualization. The visualization gives one the sensation of energy flowing through the energy body…
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The Importance of Syncing up
When I met with a magic student of mine whom I was teaching energy work. I noticed an important step in the energy work learning process that is emitted in Energy Work by Robert Bruce. The author fails to mention an important step in connecting with another person’s energy. Often you will have to sync…
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Is Energy Work important in Ceremonial Magic?
Yes it most certainly is! Next question please. As with anything. There’s almost always two sides to the story. Many students of Ceremonial Magic always practice energy work and they have never questioned that. Crowley taught it, the Golden Dawn taught it, Reiki is just as spiritual as their Llewellyn Ceremonial Magic and that also…