Common Mythological Symbols

There are often common symbols, or even stories in myth which seem to occur across cultures, and around the world. This list is not meant to be exhaustive it is simply reoccurring themes and symbol...

The Algorithm will destroy good content

The internet now is a sequence of algorithms surfacing content in an attempt to keep our eyes glued to the screen for as long as possible. This means content that maintains certain metrics like &qu...

Productivity Brain ruins content

A consequence of The Cult of Productivity and the related brain rot I will call Productivity Brain[^1] is that all content created by these Productivity Maximizers begins to take a similar shape. Y...

Ceremony externalizes the locus of power in an individual's life

There is an instinct in modern magical circles to try and understand all magical experiences as functions of our internal psychology. For example, some magicians like to think of the various spirit...

Arguelle's Method of Language Learning with Assimil

Before starting a lesson, make a quiet and focused space to study in Listen to Audio of lesson and attempt to speak along with the audio without looking at or having seen the text Next listen...

Shamanism

Overview Shamanism, or NeoShamanism, is a collection of techniques and practices that primarily involve imaginal journeys and interactions with spirits. Common to this cosmology is the concept of ...

Magical Gender

Many magical and occult texts and teachings involve references to gender from ancient times into the present. This gender I think is a poor naming convention because I think it distracts much of th...

A taxonomy of Magical Techniques

Magic as an artform is composed of a handful of mental functions which are applied singularly or in tandem to produce the desired effect.AAuther B Here is a rough list of some of these techniques:...

Soul Loss

Soul loss the process through which, during traumatic events, a part or all of the soul leaves the body. This occurs to protect the victim from the worse effects of the trauma and saves the soul fr...

Programming

– Ref Notes –/Ruby Splat Operator Ruby Splat Operator Building a CLI with Rust Ruby Flatten Vs. Flat Map Dependency Inversion Conditional Rendering in React

Creating internal conscious beings through compartmentalization of the ego and soul loss

We can create an Internal Conscious Being by using the souls ability to split off parts of itself (seen commonly as Soul Loss) Soul Loss, functionally, is simply a compartmentalization of some asp...

Magic as an Academic Field

Aleister Crowley famously stated that Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. I am not sure I entirely agree with him. Does magic necessitate change? I am ...

Laws do not Make us Safer

There's this idea that capitalism and laws to protect capital and property keep us safer. A fear that if we had no law then the strongest people would simply take from the weak whatever they wa...

Ishtar, Queen of Heaven

Goddess of Love and War and Fertility 8 pointed star Venus Lions Doves Inanna and the Huluppu Tree Innana brings a tree to her garden and wants to make it into a throne but a snake, an...

The Sleeping Tree

In myths, trees are often depicted with people living in them or sleeping in them. For example, in the myth of Ishatar and the underworld Dumuzid, Husband of Ishtar is depicted sleeping under a tre...

How to nap

Best way to learn to nap is to adapt to nonreducing Biphasic schedule. It will take longer but will allow me to learn napping with out forced sleep deprivation A faster way to learn : Pick a sched...

Polyphasic Sleep

How to Prepare for Polyphasic Sleep Sleep Cycles Schedules Many different patterns have been developed. Important for me is : E1 core: 23:00 5:00 nap1: 14:30 14:50 everyman 1 is a bi...

A Method for meditating upon Love

This suggested meditation is the practice of unifying opposites. In The Bliss of Inner Fire , Lama yeshe suggests a tantric meditation of normalizing our reactions by imaging people we hate and peo...

Newton proposed that white light was the combination of all colors

This observation might have been bolstered by The Occult Studies of Isaac Newton. It seems very similar to many kabbalistic and occult understandings of god and the universe All exists on a spectru...

False ego

The illusion that we are our material. Attachment to the idea that our identity and selfhood is defined by our bodies, relations, and possessions on this planet. Some would argue that there is no...

Imagination is the yoke that binds our will to the external world

The mechanism through which phenomena like The Magic Circle operate is Imagination. This is our ability to contain The Will . It is actually through this limitation of the Will that we are able to ...

The Occult Studies of Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton had a fascination with alchemy and wanted to find the philosophers stone and the elixir of life 1 Isaac Newton was deeply influenced by Rosicrucianism2 #todo read newtons entry in ...

Isaac Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation united the heavens with the earth

Isaac Newton was working off the highly descriptive work of Kepler and Kepler's Laws of planetary motion, when he posited his Law of Universal Gravitation: Every particle in the universe attra...

Brief invocation of the HGA

Take my left leg Take my right leg Fill my belly so that you may eat take my left arm to meter out compassion and take my right to hand out justice Take my throat that you may speak s and take ...

In group ceremony, a formal structure can synchronize all participants

When performing Ceremony in group spaces, a more formal structure can be useful. While Ceremony can be intuitive and improvised , in a group setting it is beneficial to have a more formalized struc...

Health, wealth, and love are the only things we need

According to The Master Key System The Master Key there are only three conditions which a person need manifest in their life to be truly content: Health, Wealth and Happiness. It gi...

Developing an ego is like building a fortress

An Ego is a collection of desires and beliefs. It is developed so often through rejection of the "not self". Our early growth is marked by learning what is "not self" when we fi...

Incarnate beings are not fixed in one plane of existence

The amazing power of our minds and Imagination allow us to freely move about in many different Planes of Existence. see, Astral, for examples of ways we can do this. Perhaps it is this quality t...

Ceremony is a somatic metaphor for magical action

If Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will then Ceremony 1 is the visible part (the material part) of the process. Magic encompasses a whole sequence of spi...

A modified invocation for the LBRP

This passage should replace the traditional invocation of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram _Before me to the east is the swift sword of reason, the penetrating winds, Raphael Behi...

Tantra

Semen retention Inner Fire Meditation Desires Vajroli Mudra (NonEjaculatory Orgasm) Four types of karma

Inner Fire Meditation

Preperation Dissolve into nothingness and visualize yourself as the godform of Heruka Visualize the Guru, he enters your body and energizes your Heart, Throat and Head chakras Clear the crow...

Evocation of entities within lucid dreams

While this technique is specific to the Evocation of The Succubus as a Dream Initiator it could be adapted to evoke any existing entity or manufacted entity within a dream. Simply apply the Evocati...

WILD method

Wake Induced Lucid Dream This method is simple, but there are many tips and variations to help it. Here are the basic steps: Be relaxed and ready for sleep Best time to attempt is after 46 ho...

Black magic is focused on material results

#todo create a better title for this concept Although Goetia and black magic in general is associated with "Evil" and "Dark" spirits or spells Black magic is simply a way of de...

Hypersigils are formed by deeply identifying with a narrative work

Hypersigils are ultimately formed by a deep a connection with a narrative work. In Steps for creating a hypersigil we, as operators, have decided to create a work for this express purpose but it ca...

The Practical Guide to Astral Projection

Authored by Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips, the pen names of Vivian Godfrey and Leon Barcynski. The pair were leaders of a magical order called The Aurum Solis.

The Harem Mandala (Succubus School)

Faustus Crow writes at length about a sort of hypersigil / meditative mandala he uses which he has modeled after an all girls magic school and hogwarts. He has mapped the various parts of the Kabba...

All exists on a spectrum of vibration

All things which exist the material universes, the archetypal worlds, the Godhead all exist on a spectrum of vibration. This is affirmed by the Principle of Vibration of the The Seven Hermetic Pri...

Matter is just the spectrum of energetic vibration that is tangible to the mundane senses

Just like how color is merely the spectrum of light that is visible to our senses matter is the spectrum of spiritual energy that is tangible to the human senses. Not just matter but All exists on...

Chaldean Scheme

The Intelligibles **The Paternal Depth The First Mind World of Supramundane Light _The Intelligible Triad Pater: Mater or Potentia: Mens The Second Mind Intelligibles and Intellectuals in ...

By creating magical tools, we are creating important symbols in the astral planes

When making magical tools, it is important to remember that the physical object is not the true tool. In fact the physical object that results from the creation of a magical tool is simply the bypr...

Geburah

Continued Dreaming Practice can cause Anxiety and Depression

Writing about Shamanic Dreaming , Faustus Crow mentions that continued dreaming practice can lead to a state of anxiety and depression because the land of dreams is the land of the dead. They menti...

Chokmah

Wisdom

Astral Projection Techniques

Techniques to induce Astral as well as etheric projection Preliminary Sit in front of mirror. Close eyes and imagine body. Persist until easy to imagine full body Then move consciousness to the ...

Altered States of Perception

States Samadhi Mental, Astral, and Etheric projection Shamanic Dreaming Shamanic Journey Techniques Astral Projection Techniques Phase method of OBE

Mental, Astral, and Etheric projection

The three sorts of projection are often conflated with one another. These terms are the most standard that I can find Mental: Uses the imagination and symbols to communicate meaning. Feels like...

Holy Guardian Angel

The primary work of A.’.A.’. is the knowledge and conversation of the HGA Ritual for invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel Brief invocation of the HGA Knowledge and Conversation

A presupposition of communication is that partners can mutually surprise each other

Communication presupposes the ability to be surprised it implies that we are receiving information that we did not previously have or in a context we would not have seen were it not for the other c...

Phase method of OBE

Out of body experience here refers to Etheric Projection usually see: Mental, Astral, and Etheric projection Upon awakening, do not move or open eyes. Simply get up out of your body. Each time...

ACTS elements of prayer

All prayer should include the following when written for Rituals ritual purposes Adoration State the greatness of the deity you are beseeching. The key is to instill Awe Contrition...

Ritual for invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel

Any ritual designed to achieve Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel. The primary work of A.’.A.’. is the knowledge and conversation of the HGA Most of these rituals are inspire...

The Emerald Tablet

First appears referenced in early medieval Arabic sources (Late 8th/early 9th century) in The Book of Causes Foundational to Alchemy Credited to Hermes Trismegistus A translation of the tablet by...

The Seven Hermetic Principles

The Principle of Mentalism The world is mental. Consciousness precedes material. Action is preceded by desire . The ALL… May be thought of as an universal, infinite, living mind. – The Kybalio...

As Above, So below- As below, so above

Refers to the principle of correspondence from The Seven Hermetic Principles This principle was first mentioned on The Emerald Tablet an ancient hermetic text The microcosm reflects the macrocosm...

Magic is the art of making a true Decision

 …I think what I am mainly saying is that if you want something, then all you need to do is decide to have it or do it the ritual is just symbolic of that decision not causal an excerpt from a co...

Magic can Align The Chain of Desire

The Chain of Desire must be aligned for a desire to manifest Conditions for a desire to manifest Action is preceded by desire Desires Will expresses itself through desire Magic is an ex...

Rituals

Chaos Magic Steps for creating a hypersigil Creating an Internal Conscious Being The Harem Mandala (Succubus School) Personal Rituals The Threshold Ritual Ritual for invocation of the...

Peter Carroll, Liber Null

Evocation

The "Evoking" or summoning forth of spirits or entities. Typically involves the appearance of the desired entity in the material plane but can also be a "feeling" or "heari...

Invocation

Invocation is the act of "calling in" a spirit or deity. This is different than Evocation which typically involves "summoning" a spirit or entity to appear in an external form t...

Hexagrams transmute energy, Pentagrams manipulate elemental matter

The pentagram is symbolic of the microcosm, and the hexagram symbolic of the macrocosm. Another way of thinking about this, pentagrams can transmute matter, hexagrams can change frequency and vibr...

A method of Scrying the Enochian Aethyrs

This is a simplified version of the scrying Rituals|ritual put forth by David Shoemaker in his book, The Winds of Wisdom : Begin with a Banishing and a general Invocation Read the Second Enoch...

Enochian Prayer to achieve Knowledge and Conversation

The primary work of A.’.A.’. is the knowledge and conversation of the HGA To Obtain Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel The Knowledge and Conversation of one’s Holy Guardian An...

Allow time to process cane strike- slower rhythm

Dominance Because of the swiftness of the damage of a cane strike it can take several seconds for the brain to process. This means that rapid strikes will not be more painful then a single strike....

Chaos Magick

The 8 Colors of Chaos Magick Chaos Magick is not free from ideology Non Paradigmal Magick Chaos Magick is Modernism applied to Magic

Internal Conscious Being

This is my catch all term for any being that has its own form of conscious beingness and is still internal to our own consciousness. This term includes but is not limited to: golems servitors ...

Egregores

An egregore functions like a servitor for the collective uncouncious. While servitors exist within the mind of the magician, an egregore exists within the collective mind of a group.

Chaos Magick is not free from ideology

Chaos Magick operators often seem to think of themselves as being "above belief" and that they are able to use belief as a magical tool. This then tends to turn into a sort of smug superi...

Goals can be used to align desires with the True Will

Because Intentions, Goals, and Desires exist on a spectrum of Order to Disorder we can use this relationship to align our actions with our true will. As we become more clear on our Will we can beg...

Eight-circuit model of consciousness

Model of understanding various "experiences of consciousness" . First proposed by Tim Leary and then refined by Robert Anton Wilson. Terrestrial Circuits First Circuit VegetativeInverte...

Bluefluke, Psychonaut Field Manual

A plain language compedium that seeks to broadly survey many magical topics. Geared toward the absolute beginner. Takes a strong stance on a "brain first"/psychological model of magic. H...

Is imagination another form of memory

Connection between hippocampus and Imagination: hippocampus vital in constructing novel scenarios (also used for memory recall) patients with hippocampal damage have trouble imagining future eve...

For magic to work the result must be possible

Magic alters prematerial conditions to cause material expressions to manifest(Magic Aligns The Personal Chain of Desire). Because all things material must eventually come to us through material the...

The Chain of Desire must be aligned for a desire to manifest

#todo : clean this up / split into smaller parts The Chain of Desire There exists a Chain of Desire between the initial impulse or desire and the physical outcome/experience of that desire. Becau...

Desires are reducible into smaller sequences of desire

All desires are infinitely reducible into smaller sequences of desires Action is preceded by desire. Desire in this case is the impulse to Will the Chokmah that precedes every form. It follows th...

The Master Key System

Haanel, Charles F. The Master Key System. St. Martin’s Essentials, 2023. Overview The Master Key System is a work of New Thought literature that is heavily influenced by the concept of the Law of A...

Ceremony

Fundamental and common elements of Ceremony Participating in ceremony and ritual embeds the symbolic meanings into our subconscious Ceremony orients us within a cosmology Ceremony centers us ...

Fundamental and common elements of Ceremony

elements of Ceremony Orienting ourselves in space This usually involves placing the elements or other concepts around us in space. This centers the ceremonial space as the center of the universe w...

Ceremony orients us within a cosmology

When we perform Ceremony 1 Ceremony centers us within the material and temporal universe This informs us of a way of seeing the universe. The more that we perform a ceremony that conveys a speci...

Ceremony centers us within the material and temporal universe

During Ceremony 1 we often place representations of the universe around us. (Fundamental and common elements of Ceremony) placing us as the center. From this position in the center of the universe ...

Nature Follows Truth

We can expand on the idea that Life imitates art , by saying that not only does life imitate art but in fact there is a causal relationship between material reality and Truth. If Kabbalah can reve...

Kabbalah can reveal the universal truth in mundane objects

When using Kaballah to “decode” sacred truths from texts it is not actually important that the text in question be written by “occult masters” who have used kaballah to encode secret messages. The ...

The Will

The divine impulse inside. The Will is the our impulse to action that is not in response to external influence The True Will The true will, represented by the Holy Guardian Angel is the deepest im...

The Threshold Ritual

The power of the Door, or threshold is that it is a focused representation of The Will. We must choose to step through the threshold and once through it, we are in a new space. A place that is fund...

Truth precedes Nature

Truth, as a concept is typically thought of as a description of nature. Nature is in a specific state or configuration and truth is an accurate account or representation of that state of nature. Im...

Speech is a magical tool

#in_progress The First Manifestation of Thought is Language Many magical and mystical texts put great weight behind telling the truth. Truthfulness and truthful speech are core tenants of buddhis...

Four Powers of the Sphinx

The four powers to be mastered in order to not only do magic but to be a master of one's self. Knowledge (air), to know, vide Will (Fire), to will, vole Courage (Water), to dare, aude ...

Desires can be fed to other desires

Because Desires eat each other when they conflict we can perform a sort of sacrificial magic by "feeding" a lesser desire to a greater one. Austin Osman Spare proposed this idea initially...

Lesser wills and desires must be organized under a single aspiration to attain

most people have scattered and conflicting Desires which cancel each other out, because Desires eat each other when they conflict. This leads to a dispersion of willpower. According to Aleister Cr...

Crowley, Book Four

#litnote MAGICK LIBER ABA ALEISTER Aleister Crowley WITH MARY DESTI AND LEILA WADDELL BookFourano.pdf the circle Symbolism of the circle when performing ritual The circle represents the infini...

Abramelin Holy Oil

A recipe for Abramelin oil. This is the same recipe found in Mathers translation of Abramelin's ' The Magic of Abramelin but Aleister Crowley has added correspondences to various sephira ...

Action is preceded by desire

This is perhaps a contentious statement to some philosophers, but that contention comes from the fuzzy definition of desire. When I talk about Desires in this case I am simply stating that before t...

The Slipbox note taking method

The zettlekasten (slip box) is a method of note taking designed by Niklas Luhman in the 1950s and 60s. While his system was done by hand on index cards using a linking system to connect cards to ot...

The Zettelkasten is a magical object

The Slipbox note taking method, or Zettelkasten method, is designed to create a sort of automated conversation partner. Luhman was very explicit in this use of the slip box as a sort of automated c...

The Cult of Productivity

Repurposing the tools of self mastery towards the ends of maximizing "productivity". There is an intense pressure to "produce" in capitalist culture because that production is t...

Life imitates art

AntiMimesis is the philosophical stance that Art influences life. It stands in opposition to the idea of Mimesis, popularized by Aristotle; the idea that art attempts to mimic the perfection of lif...

Hypersigils

A hypersigil is a type of Sigil or encoded Desires that is encoded not as a visual symbol but as a narrative or any work of art that changes. Hypersigils are sigils extended into the fourth dimensi...

Hypersigils are sigils extended into the fourth dimension

If Sigils are visually encoded desires then a hypersigil takes this concept and extends it through time by adding plot or narrative. This means that the sigil is not a static image but a seqence w...

Desires

What is desire? What I mean when I say desire. This term should be defined clearly because I use it everywhere. I do not have a concise and atomic definition of Desire however we can infer a defin...

What is Magic

#todo _my thoughts on this have changed, I now believe magic to be a living art just like dance or painting or any other mundane art. It implements common techniques (A taxonomy of Magical Techniqu...

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will –Aleister Crowley, Book 4, Part III This is a famous quote from Aleister Crowley, and for good reason. The questi...

Magic is an expression of the will

Magic is a tool through which The Will of the magician can be expressed into the world. To express the will in the world can be very simple I am thirsty, I will to have water, I stand and get some...

Intentions, Goals, and Desires exist on a spectrum of Order to Disorder

Intentions Goals and desires live on a spectrum of orderliness and specificity. Desires Desires arise from the lower senses and as such are based in material reality. For this reason they are spec...

desires eat each other when they conflict

Action is preceded by desire Before we do anything there is the urge to do ( the idea of reflexive action seems to exist contra to this explore more ) . This is based in the idea that imagination...