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Random Magickal Advice Thread.

21:12 / 02.02.05

Sometimes I come across small but pertinent revelations about magickal practice. There often is nowhere to put the little tidbits of wisdom in the Temple. Instead of waiting for a relevant thread, I thought I would start a thread for random bits of magickal advice.

For example: This one is about the interplay between a mundane situation, where by one needs to make up an excuse say to a teacher or boss, and one's magickal life. One very dangerous thing to do, is to make up an excuse that involves fibbing about another person's health, especially for the magickally minded. The young, old, and sick being the most vulnerable to such thought forms. So saying to your boss I can't come in because my grandfather is sick/dying/dead, could lead to possible complications with them. Especially if they are already of frail health.

Equally, I have found that (and this is not rocket science) that being disturbingly negative can effect the young, old or sick around us, especially if they are unable to get away from the negative person on their own, (as in being a minor, in a wheelchair, or worse bed-ridden, etc...).

Another bit of advice I have found helpful is, when visualising, roll your eyes a bit downward and look into the depth of the blackness behind your eyelids. Go into it and give it more dimension than just a flat screen.

Bothersome entities really hate the smell of Benzoin.

Well, that's all I have for today. I am hoping others will find this thread useful to share some personal observations, and ponder other people's. Not exactly a hard-cold-facts thread, but some experience you have had could be useful to another.

21:41 / 02.02.05

Two things that are useful in every moment, Humility and Tolerance.

02:11 / 03.02.05

Cool, I was thinking of making one of these a while ago, I'm glad to see it here. If any newbies come in asking about Magick we'll hopefully be able to link them straight to this as it grows.

A few that I can think of :

1) Never forget how important the idea of balance is. Think about it, feel it out, use your intuition, sense it, meditate on it. The more you understand it, the better you'll be able to walk between worlds.

2) Something I remember Crowley suggesting : Look for the connections between things. It's one of the most important parts of Magick.

3) If you find yourself thinking too much, feel. If you find yourself believing you've gone from neophyte to being able to see and know everything there is about the universe, come back down to earth. If you've started getting over emotional and hung up/over reacting to everything, analyze the situation, analyze yourself and your good and bad qualities, get some perspective. If you find that you're stuck in the pit of inertia, move, get up and do something, get in touch with the fire element, then remember to keep balance in mind, if a rush of fire gets you out of a bad spot and you think that lighting the big flame will get you out of anything, it won't. Re-balance once your moving again.

4) You've been doing something and you've landed up being 'attacked' by an entity. Clear your mind. It could be a negative thought attachement as much as it could be something really there. Even if it is 'real', clearing your mind and focusing will lead you to the answer if you do it right.

5) Enjoy the ride! Aligning yourself with positive energy will do you the world of good and it will also lift the spirits of the people around you.

07:56 / 03.02.05

You are a walking skeleton. You might dress yourself up in fancy skin and muscle tissue, ego and personality, but that's not what you are. You know what you are. You are a creature constructed from bones. You are born, you have sex, you party, and then you die. That's it, and it is beautiful, and it is enough. The skeleton is a shell of a human life. After you die, everything is stripped back. The flesh rots. The ego rots. The personality rots. Revealing the core of you. The bones of you. The truth of you.

Everything else is just the details. Don't kid yourself that you're anything more than that. A chattering skull and a bunch of bones, wrapped in warm flesh, animated for a little while, soon to be dust in the air and dirt in the ground. Sooner than you think.

Don't get me wrong. Malkuth is Kether in its densest form. Everything that is, is God and is divine. Those bones and that dirt are holy objects. But that doesn't change the essential nature of you. You want to eat, you want to drink, you want to fuck. You have a limited time in which to do it. When the flesh, the ego, the personality whither away, shrivel up, and fall from you; there'll be no more time to do those things. They are your function. Your worldly purpose. Don't waste your chances. The clock is ticking.

Never forget that you're just a cold, empty, hollow skeleton waiting to happen. Never forget that this is all there is, and you have to seize every single fucking moment and opportunity that comes to you. Death is coming. Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

08:16 / 03.02.05

Yeah! It's good to be reminded of that.

rising and revolving

10:14 / 03.02.05

Anytime you think you've got the galactic answer for mankind, look to yourself. Because while it's possible you've just solved the worlds problems, it's much more likely you've only solved your own - and that only if you actually apply it to yourself.

In fact, learn early on that what's right for you ain't right for anyone else but you, necessarily. That's the joy of gnosis - it's yours.

11:42 / 03.02.05

Last week I created a Servitor to help two women I work with go the toilet

my own bowel movements are too frequent (probably the result of too much alcohol)

what does this prove

Shit happens

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:59 / 03.02.05

If you're going to claim Ipsissimus-ness, first learn to spell "Ipsissimus."

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:01 / 03.02.05

You are not the only person in the entire world to have watched The Matrix. Also, you are not the only person to have really properly understood The Matrix.

(See also: The Invisibles, Valis, anything by R.A.W., ect., ect.)

16:01 / 03.02.05

Don't rush mindlessly through anything--it's ALL worth noticing.

This doesn't apply to those who are maybe a little too good at servitor construction and need to rush to the bathroom--Joe

(I am the only person in the world who has not seen The Matrix)

19:20 / 03.02.05

When in doubt, doubt.

20:11 / 03.02.05

If something works, keep doing it.

If something doesn't work, stop doing it.

Just because something's really old doesn't mean it's any good.

When you fight Cthulhu, Cthulhu always wins.

· N · E · T ·

20:19 / 03.02.05

From an OF post by Kuroyagi:

". . . change one tiny thing in your life constantly: and a new world opens up. . ."

20:36 / 03.02.05

Enflame thyself.

Banish daily.

Enjoy nature.

Laugh.

Look strangers in the eyes.

Understand that you create your own reality. If you want to believe that the world is cold and dangerous, then it will be. If you want to believe that it's warm and loving, it will be. Choose wisely the type of world you wish to live in.

Listen to your dreams.

07:18 / 04.02.05

Watch all of Hayao Miyazaki's films, rip out the recurring themes, and live by them.

14:39 / 04.02.05

Laughing: When you fight Cthulhu, Cthulhu always wins.

Unless you happen to be Superman, 'cause superman always wins, so remember, your not Superman.

20:35 / 04.02.05

Look for Superman vs. Cthulu, coming from DC in 2006!!

Grant Morrison said he'd often invoke Superman when having to deal with problems, since Supes always wins...

I was singing "when you fight Cthulu..." to the tune of "When I fight authority, authority always wins" all the way home on the subway last night after reading that...

02:40 / 05.02.05

My insightful advice: don't be afraid to question and rethink all your ideas. Try not to get stuck in one place.

(I've been thinking of a more Clash style version, along the lines of "I fought the Elder gods and the Elder gods won.")

04:03 / 05.02.05

Whenever I start to wonder about the limits of the possible and I need to kickstart the magickal will, I think: Saint Joseph of Cupertino really, really fucking FLEW for real.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:04 / 05.02.05

I've said this before but: Magick is real. Magick does stuff. Magick happens. Therefore you should never do anything with magick that you wouldn't do with rohypnol, a chainsaw and a cunningly disguised log cabin hidden off in the woods somewhere.

Think before you curse. Look at your life and think to yourself: What do I want more than this guy's arse in a sling? What about that cousin of yours whose business is in trouble, or the buddy with the sick child?

And if absolutely nothing in the whole world is more important to you than laying the smackdown on this person, don't dress it up. Don't try to kid yourself that it's all for their own good, that you're simply giving them some tough love, ect. You're planning to harm someone here--accept that, prepare to face the consequences and only do it if you really mean it.

02:44 / 07.02.05

Don't try to kid yourself that it's all for their own good, that you're simply giving them some tough love, ect...

Self-righteousness doesn't work well with magick.

16:53 / 07.02.05

Or just don't curse anybody at all. Seems like the easiest way to go.

03:28 / 08.02.05

You are wholly responsible for every last facet of your diamond-like existence.

08:27 / 08.02.05

Don't let a fear of imaginary karmic consequences get in the way of doing what needs to be done.

18:28 / 09.02.05

Et in Arcadia ego

and

Never forget who you are, and why this person must die.

Unconditional Love

10:42 / 10.02.05

Remember to forget that all words are full, of emptiness.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:48 / 10.02.05

Any act can be magickal if you approach it as such.