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Use Mirrors in magic rituals?

Aribus

20:45 / 01.03.14

I´m new here, but have been lurking around for a almost a decade.
I´m hoping that there will be someone here who can help me with this.

I´m looking for some insight in how to use mirrors in rituals, magick & sacrifices.
Mostly on sacrifices in a ritual manner.

Is there a way to bring a demon through a mirror, and to offer the demon a sacrifice?

No worries. In the end it´s all fictious.

jgbell

05:13 / 26.03.14

Well, most use of the mirror, as an actual tool, not just a decoration or such, seems to me to be related to scrying. Certainly one of the most famous such uses is the obsidian mirror from Mexico used by John Dee and Edward Kelly their Enochian work. There's a section of Benjamin Rowe's "A Short Course in Scrying" about the Magick Mirror, which may be of interest. I guess I'm not sure what you mean by using a mirror in sacrifices, specifically, but one could certainly construct a sacrificial ritual with a mirror as either a scrying device or as a surface on which to sacrifice something, and so forth; why not? You might start with gandering at how the mirror was used by Dee and the discussion by Rowe.

jgbell

06:04 / 26.03.14

Two quick additions: 1) you can start exploring Goetic work as well, since you specifically mention that kind of entity, and consider a mirror could certainly be useful as a surface in which to manifest, perhaps especially when placed behind burning incense, and 2) the mirror itself could be sacrificed ritually as well, and the mere fact that breaking mirrors is such a taboo could give that action a lot of interesting weight, worth thinking about.

Aribus

19:13 / 27.03.14

Thank you for your insight on the obsidian mirror. I had that in mind, but at the same time I had these doubt about it, mainly, and this might seem a little weird, Minecraft...

The game played by the hundreds of the million, has such an obeject in the game (to acces the netherworld), and my concern was that the game had taken the idea of an obsidian mirror and melted it out of context and into the game. Sounds plausible? he..

But you just turned me right back at it! Lovely pointing!

The destruction of a mirror was something I had in mind too. The breaking of the glass as an lock or inverted, kinda, seal to finish of the ritual.

Once again, thanks. Glad to see that some still stroll around here.

jgbell

19:48 / 27.03.14

I hadn't ever thought of the Nether portal in Minecraft as a mirror, per se; but, there's certainly some connection between mirrors as portals and so forth, case in point Alice's Looking Glass or the mirror in the horror flick Phantasm, both of which come to mind as examples. Entities from the Nether do indeed come through the Nether portal as well, on occasion, but there's not much ritual involved, unless one wanted to role play that part!

jgbell

21:36 / 27.03.14

Of course there is also a topic here about the magic mirror in The Invisibles which may be of interest, including connections to mirror as corresponding to primordial substance and in the work of Michael Bertiaux.

Aribus

07:41 / 28.03.14

Ah. The invisibles. That's where it all started!
I find the pointing to John Dee and the Mexican obsidian mirror as the best advice so far. Mainly cause it cemented my own thoughts, but also cause it sent me out on some very interesting research this night.
It was literally like I was looking behind the mirror, instead of looking at all the familiarity in the glass, it started with John Dee and then I dug around back to Hathor.
I just love when these things happen! Once again, thank you for very valuable insight and pointing.

When it comes to Minecraft I would say that the portal might or might not be a mirror. And entering the netherworld in Minecraft, might or might not be seen as a ritual. But the power of obsidian in the game, is a strong one.

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