“The Clavis Inferni (“The Key of Hell”) by Cyprianus, is a late-18th-century book on black magic. Written in a mixture of Latin, Hebrew, and a cipher alphabet (namely that of Cornelius Agrippa’s Transitus Fluvii or “Passing through the River” from the Third Book of Occult Philosophy written around 1510) the book has remained rather mysterious due to its unknown origin and context. It is said to be a textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, a supposed school somewhere in Germany where one could learn the dark arts. As for the name of the author, it seems to have become a common name for people practicing magic. Benjamin Breen writes in The Appendix of how the existence throughout history of various magically-inclined Cyprianuses – from “a Dane […] who was so evil that Satan cast him out of hell” to the Greek wizard St. Cyprian of Antioch (who later converted to Christianity) – led to the name becoming a popular pseudonym for “people at the edges of society who were trying to do real black magic”.”
All forms of magick need 3 fundamental things in order to work. These three things are intent, will, and action. These basic understandings will allow you to manifest your desire into existence in a basic fundamental way.
Intent:
Intent is what you want to bring forth through your manifestation. This is your goal, and what you want to accomplish. This understanding is brought into magickal workings in order to be used as a focal point in order to target your desire, and to set forth your will upon it through your actions. This intention can be pretty much anything that can be achieved through magickal manifestation, and it will usually be meticulously crafted in order to focus on a specific outcome over others. This intention will be expressed mentally, or out loud during the magickal working, so that you will be able to focus upon it, and move towards it. Your intention must be very clear, so that you are able to allow your will to fly true. Remember that your intention is only the foundation of magickal practice and it is not the only thing that is needed.
Will:
Your will is the power that pushes you towards your intention. It is the fuel and the energy that allows your magick to move forward into manifestation. Your will be charged, focused and brought forth through many different means, and will be released in order to manifest your desires. In magickal working this can be brought through your own personal power, or the power of another entity, or construct. Such as spirits, and deities that you have called forth, or construct such as crystals, herbs, and other objects that have metaphysical properties that are in line with your intention. All of this builds up your will towards your desire, so that it will be able to be released through your action.
Action:
The action is the final step that releases your will, so that it will be able to go out in order to manifest your intention. this is the ritual, or working itself, and is the crescendo in point of realization between your will, and intention that leads to manifestation. It is the first action which brings forth the movement of the magick, and allows your will to start doing when it needs to in order to bring for it your intention. This act can be pretty much anything as long as it signifies your will to start working in the world.
“Being The Magician isn’t about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don’t. […] The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.”
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves (via starswan11)
One of my nice followers ask me if I had any experience with depression and how it pertains to magick. They gave me permission to share this in case it helps anyone else.
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Short answer, yes, absolutely I have dealt with depression. In fact, almost all of my early magical breakthroughs were associated with depression. And I am not saying that magick necessarily causes depression or is a cure for depression. All I can say is what I experienced which may be much different for you.
I think that when Crowley talks about crossing the Abyss, he is talking about depression. In spiritual terms it is often called the Long Dark Night of the Soul. Depression is what led me to decide to become a magician in my late 30s. I was in a terrible place, a place of my own making. I had the realization that I was not the person I thought I was, and that I had to figure out who I am. Becoming a magician helped.
Going through my training in the Illuminates of Thanateros triggered a major bout of depression, as I was very much adrift and doing the exercises brought me to a lot of uncomfortable realizations. I also had a major depressive break right in the middle of my initiation. I was a total blubbering mess.
Magick taught me that I could create my own narrative. The motto I use now, shamelessly stolen from Miguel Conner is: “Write your own story. Live your own myth.” I am also a big Joseph Campbell fan, and believe that every mythic journey is a trip through the underworld. Being able to mythologize my life and see the threads of myth in my own experiences has helped a lot. Also, I am able to have magical breakthroughs now without a full blown bout of depression because I work with a solid group of magicians who care deeply for each other.
Also, if you are suffering, please look for help. I was lucky. Although I never sought out professional help, I have a lot of strong supports in my life. I know that not everyone has that, and there’s no shame in going to a professional. I would say that the support of caring and understanding people helped me more than magick did in going through depression.
The act of sending energy is a practice that can help, or hurt people, and can bless, or curse objects. You are able to do this without anything else all you really need is your own spiritual energy, and to be able to focus your mind, body, and spirit. By choosing a target, and taking your time to focus upon it will allow your spiritual energy to interact with the target affecting it. This can be used in order to make amulets, and charms, or in order to imbue energies into certain ingredients, and magical components for ritual work. You can also use this as a simple way to curse people, or to bless them with your energy. And, because of how fundamental, and non tool heavy this practice is you will be able to do it in public without being noticed, which can add some versatility to your practice.
1) First what you need to do is focus on what you want to send the energy to, and what type of energy you would like to send. This can be positive, or negative energy, or can be an energy associated with a certain type of feeling, or state of being such as something like love energy, or healing energy. Sending these types of energies allow them to effect the mind, body, and spirit of the entity, or can be infused into constructs in order for them to become an enchanted item.
2) Next visualize the energy that you are sending, and see it as a ball of light. Visualize it as strong as you can within your mind well also greatly associating it with what energy you have selected. See things that are associated with that concept inside of the ball of light spend a good amount of time doing this until you feel that it is ready.
3) Once you feel that it is ready you release it by pushing the ball out, and away from you, while also visualizing it flowing to the object that you want it to interact with. This will send your energy out, so that your Will, will be able to manifest your intention. Repeat these steps as many times as you would like in order to continue sending energy.
The Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream (DEILD or dream re-entry) is a condensed version of the WILD technique, allowing you to slip into a lucid dream from a waking state.
Under the right conditions, it’s a wonderfully effortless way to become lucid.
Once you get to know the DEILD technique, you’ll be able to use it multiple times per night in dream chaining. You can also use it to deliberately re-enter a great dream (lucid or non-lucid) if you wake up prematurely.
*be aware that this does not involve directions for any precautions you should take, i would recommend grounding, cleansing, and warding yourself before anything!
Find somewhere comfortable and lay down flat on your back with your legs straight and arms by your sides. Make sure it’s dim and quiet, you don’t want any distractions.
Close your eyes, focus into the darkness behind your eyelids and begin to make your breathing equal. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth, if that feels uncomfortable then do whatever works for you. Lay here for awhile, whenever a thought or feeling comes upon you, acknowledge it and then move on.
Once you have your mind under control, feel your body relaxing into the bed. As your body begins to fall asleep you may feel tingling or an itch. DO NOT REACT. I know it’s really hard to stay still but it will wake up your body and you’ll have to restart.
As your body falls asleep, focus on the darkness. You will begin to feel a vibration in your body, to some people this is a tingle or to some it feels more like a true vibration. I know it can be scary but do your best to stay focused.
Once you’re here, you can begin to push your energy out of your body. When you do this, the tingling feeling should leave your body and transfer into your energy/astral body. Once you’re here, feel free to ward yourself from the outside and travel wherever you like!
To come back to your body, imagine a silver chain extending from the direction of where you are laying. You can pull your energy back to where it belongs. If you fear that you will get stuck in the astral realm, just remember that your energetic body will always go back into it’s shell so don’t worry about this!
Speak of the Devil presents Third Side Intelligence. Reverend Campbell is being joined by Victor Wicked and Satanist Cameron John to discuss Depression. We will cover the statistical realities of depression, how a Satanist can see themselves as the highest embodiment of human life and suffer from depression as well as personal stories and coping mechanisms.
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