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find that I have to go back to page 12 and work up some extremely basic, unexciting, tedious-looking exercises in order to move forward. What you described there is every system of magic. Ever. There is no system whereby you get to start doing cool shit and gain material results without first putti...

I think I'm in exactly the same position you are: novice who has had some minimal (but very encouraging) success in a few areas but needs direction to extend his abilities & skill-set. Fair description? (Questions 1 and 2, I got nothing for you.) I just got a copy of "Hands-On Chaos Magic&q...

The story in the bible is about ignorance vs knowledge. The deity in the bible wanted man to stay stupid and ignorant (a perfect slave that would love its master) and the story works that men are evil because they disobey and seek knowledge. Knowledge is power and can break the shackles of slavey. ...

Well, the snake/walking stick is a classic archetypal image (see: AARON'S ROD.) I'd start by investigating that and seeing how you respond to the psychological (Jungian) or spiritual interpretations given to it. That''s all I've got, but it might be enough to get you started.

Yes,it's possible and yes it's been done and several times at least, on forums I frequent occasionally. There were two experimental attempts I can recall,among them and one of these was very successful,but it had a wee backfire effect too. Some chargers got given the intent instead of charging the ...

Going off on a tangent here, something that puzzles me about the methodology for charging a (chaos) sigil. Why would it not be possible for one person to create a sigil and pass it off to a second person who didn't know what it represented, so the second person could charge it? That would bypass the...

Hold on, Azkhet; you and Aftiel may not be on the same page. Be patient; (s)he may not be aware of Simon's Necronomicon. (neophyte... fourth post... ) The Necronomicon, treated as a fictional book, appeared in HP Lovecraft's stories. Forty-fifty-sixty-seventy-eighty years later, a magickal treatise ...

This thread looks like it migght be useful for you to deal with the spiritual presence you're feeling:

http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewto ... 55&t=34555

That any help?

Uber-noob question... and it may be that I've already answered it for myself, but... One or two times when I've done/tried to do bits of work without clearing the space with a banishing at the beginning, I've had enough results that I'm beginning to get a sense of what the gnostic-trance is like and...

There was an article in the local weekly newspaper today about a local artist named Daniel Martin Diaz; he paints, does music, runs an alt gallery.... holds an annual festival in honor of Santa Muerte... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ee/TheSevenSorrows.jpg/220px-TheSevenSorrows.jp...

This all sounds a bit sketchy to me. I shouldn't offer opinions about practices beyond my own experience, but seeing how uneasy you already are about the irregularities of being passed from one entity to another, I'd have to say I think your suspicions are justified. Santa Muerte may not be who you ...

Thanks for the welcomes.

Tip o' the hat to Jack; seeing a still from Napoleon was one of the things that convinced me I was in the right place. Antonin Artaud has popped up unexpectedly in my life at least once before; it's fun to think he might be following me around a little.

Greetings to all. First, I am DELIGHTED to have found this forum, just what I was looking for -- fully interactive, almost realtime, peer-peer discussion of the magic(k)al stuff. I'm sure I'll benefit from it, and I hope to progress to a point where my opinions will be beneficial to others. I'm 53 y...

As the greenest and newest of newbies, I don't feel qualified to comment on any of the threads I've read through on this site, but I think I can help you out a little here. A couple of people have nudged you toward Chaos Magic as a framework for the ideas you want to develop, and I agree that that's...