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Ritual To Awaken Magical Awareness
by: Donald Tyson
by: Donald Tyson
Everyone learns best by doing. The ritual described below is representative of the rituals worked in modern magic. It should be used as a general pattern indicating the essential elements and sequence of rituals, and will also, I hope, be of some value in awakening a magical perception of the world, which in no small measure consists of just being aware that it is possible to see the world in a new way. Because few people reading this essay will possess a full set of ritual tools, I have designed it so that it does not require any instruments except the flame. It can be worked in any private place where there is half an hour of quiet.
Wear loose, comfortable clothing of neutral colors. Take off your watch, jewelry, shoes, and anything that hinders a free circulation of blood or irritates the skin. It is best if, before beginning, you bathe, or at least wash your hands and face. Remember, you are invoking a spiritual awareness into the temple of your body.
Place a candle on a low table, such as a bedside table, a plant stand, or other support, so that the candle is just below waist level, and light the candle. Take a few minutes to collect your emotions. When you feel inner tranquility, stand facing the south with the candle in front of you. Raise your arms wide and lift up your head in the traditional posture of invocation. Look into infinity and focus your attention upon an imaginary distant star overhead. Speak this cleansing prayer to whatever is your concept of the highest divinity:
Have mercy upon me, O God.
Blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquities
And cleanse me from my sins.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be as white as snow.
Create in me a clean heart,
And renew a right spirit within me.
Thou, who art the Crown
(touch your forehead with your right index finger)
And the Kingdom,
(touch your groin)
The Power
(touch your left shoulder)
And the Glory,
(touch your right shoulder)
And the everlasting Law,
(touch your heart center)
Amen.
(point at the flame)
As you speak this cleansing prayer, visualize a cascade of clear, sparkling water falling upon your head and body and refreshing you while washing away all your cares.
Turn sunwise on your own axis and mentally project from your extended right index finger a blazing circle of white light that hovers in the astral shadow of the place where the ritual is being conducted. Try to picture this circle clearly at the level of your heart, the energy that composes it growing out from your heart center down your right arm and out your fingertip. Be sure to join the end of the circle with the beginning in your mind. If necessary, mentally expand the circle as you project it to include the ritual place.
Speak these words as you project the circle:
From my heart of being I extend this flaming circle of power. Let no evil or discordant influence enter herein nor abide within its boundary.
Once again facing the south, stand with your feet together and your arms spread wide, making a cross with your body. Visualize a massive column of red flame rising from the Earth just beyond the limit of the circle and extending up into infinity. Concentrate upon it and speak these words:
Before me Michael, Lord of Flame, the lion of the south.
Without moving, visualize behind you in the north a similar column of yellow fire. Speak these words:
Behind me Raphael, Lord of Air, the angel of
the north.
Visualize in the west a column of blue fire beyond the circle. Speak these words:
On my right hand Gabriel, Lord of Water, the eagle of the west.
Visualize in the east a column of green fire. Speak the words:
On my left hand Uriel, Lord of Earth, the bull of the east.
Then say:
The four surround me,
(raise your hands slightly above the level of your head)
Fire above,
(lower your hands to the level of your waist)
Water below;
(bring your palms together in a prayer gesture over your heart)
I am the heart of the four, I am the center of the universe.
Visualize a cross of light radiating from its point of intersection in your heart center. The vertical beam of the cross is red, and runs between your feet and through the top of your head to infinity. The horizontal beam running under your shoulders is blue. The horizontal beam which enters your chest between your clasped palms and exits your back is yellow. Your heart center blazes with a clear white light that fills your entire body as if it were a glass vessel.
Sit upon the floor before the candle and contemplate the flame. Let your breathing be light and regular. Be aware of the turbulence in the air and wait for it to be completely stilled, so that the flame rises straight up in a cone with hardly a flicker. You should be far enough away so that your breath does not disturb it. Try to become tangibly aware of the body and substance of the flame from all angles. Involve yourself with it. Imagine that you are surrounded by it, and that it does not discomfort you in the least. The sensation is like being encased in an upwardly flowing teardrop of sunlight.
Gradually let your breaths grow deeper and longer without forcing them or straining yourself. Remain relaxed. As you inhale fully, hold your breath for five or 10 seconds and focus your awareness solely upon the uppermost point of the flame, where it vanishes into nothingness. Try to focus like a microscope of infinite power ever more finely upon the exact place where the transition between flame and space occurs.
When you release your breath, let your mind once again embrace the entire body of the flame. The next time you inhale, again halt your breath for a few seconds and focus upon the tip of the flame. Try at each stoppage of breath to get ever closer to the elusive vanishing point.
It is vital to the success of this technique that you do not strain yourself by trying to breathe too deeply, or retain your breath too long. If you end up short of breath that is where your attention will be, and the whole purpose will be defeated. It may require several practices before a light, effortless rhythm of breaths and retentions can be established. I cannot stress enough that the actual length of the retention, or the number of retentions, is of no importance whatsoever. Only the rhythmic shifting of your awareness from the body of the flame to its vanishing point is of significance. At each focus upon the tip of the flame, try for at least a fraction of a second to direct all your perception and will upon the dimensionless margin where it disappears out of the universe.
After a few dozen breaths, and before you even start to grow tired either mentally or physically, stand up facing the south. Raise your arms in the gesture of invocation, saying in a calm but confident voice:
I give thanks for the successful fulfillment of this ritual to awaken a true perception of the Light of Spirit.
Extending your left index finger to the magic circle in the south, rotate upon your axis widdershins—to the left—and mentally reabsorb the ring of astral flame into your heart center as you speak these words:
I hereby absorb this flaming circle of power into my heart of being, returning this ritual place to its former level.
Facing the south once again, cross yourself as you did in the opening of the ritual, speaking these words:
May the grace of the Light
Guide and protect me,
Who art the Crown
(touch your forehead)
And the Kingdom,
(groin)
The Power
(left shoulder)
And the Glory,
(right shoulder)
And the everlasting Law,
(touch your heart center)
Amen.
(point at the flame)
Clap your hands together four times and spread your arms wide with your fingers splayed, saying:
This ritual for awakening an awareness of Light is well and truly completed.
Blow out the candle and relax for a few minutes before turning your energies to any other task. Do not try to go over the ritual in your mind. Just be passive and let it work itself upon your unconscious.
I chose this ritual because it is not dangerous, and so requires no banishing formula. Since it is worked primarily in the astral by visualization it can be done without magical instruments. However, it is still a very potent ritual. If you work it each day for several weeks, you should notice subtle yet unmistakable changes in your awareness. The ritual purpose has deliberately been left unspecified in order to promote those transformations most natural to each individual. A general stirring of higher perceptions, as well as an increase in vitality, are to be expected. Other effects will depend on the personality and abilities of the person using the ritual. For a lasting change, it should be worked regularly for several months.
For people who you really want to just calm down
Ok, this technically isn't really a spell, but, you know those people who really annoy you and you just kind of want them to take a chill pill, relax, and leave you alone. Well, this was taught to me by my grandmother.
You'll need some stuff though.
A freezer, or some ice
A plastic bag, like the sandwich ones
A piece of paper
A pen
And the ability to write. =)
K. You write the person's name. You need their first and last name, if you know the middle that's even better. After you do so you put that piece of paper in a sandwich bag, then the bag in the ice or (the better choice) freezer. Now while you do this the only thing you need to be thinking, is for them to leave you alone or to stop harassing you or pissing off genrally
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Lil_JaLs
Ok this happen a long time ago like 3 years ago.See when I was little every year around Halloween I would get this weird nightmare,where it was really dark,it was hard to breath,I would see these neons light,and long pillars that become small and tall would squish me into this big grass feild.It happen every year since I have remember.In stop a couple of years ago though.Right now I'm 12 turning 13 next weak on the 5th.
You were hiding scared, but someone was trying to get you out. You must overcome the obstical it was helping you overcome.
Sorrowsong
I do, and my friend does too. I often feel like I have wings. Once I even had a dream where this rpg character that belonged to another friend was encouraging me to spread them and fly. When I saw them, they were black and white. As in, White with black specks and marks on them. I especially feel them when I'm in a meditative or peaceful state, and when I'm healing people. I will often feel them when working with magic and/or Lucifer.
I don't see the same among other magicians, and I'm wondering what these wings are for. My friend thought I was a valkyrie in training, but I don't know. Despite being magical, I still become skeptical of such things happening to humans, like angels being in human bodies and the like.
Have any of you experienced the sensation of wings? Do you know what they might mean? Should I be asking the Otherkin forum instead of this one?
I don't see the same among other magicians, and I'm wondering what these wings are for. My friend thought I was a valkyrie in training, but I don't know. Despite being magical, I still become skeptical of such things happening to humans, like angels being in human bodies and the like.
Have any of you experienced the sensation of wings? Do you know what they might mean? Should I be asking the Otherkin forum instead of this one?
I have. After it happened I wrote it down and forgot it until now. My mom's grandfather died thinking that it didn't exist. He is her gaurdian since he has finished being mortal. I think it means you are not looking in the right places for the answer. Contact your spirit guide and your answer will come in full.
TheOneTheyKnowAsSorrow88
Gosh I just read the other dream posted in this forum and how he was saying his friends had similar dreams. Well I didn't have a similar one but reading his dream reminded me of one of my older ones.
First off every time I dream it's just like real life. Color, Sound, Taste, Length. I've had dreams that have went on for years (in the span of one night) and I'll wake up being confused because I thought the dream was real.
I'm in India, or so I believed it to be India. Either on just a vacation or some other reason. All the women were wearing brightly colored sari's orange and blue and green all with gold swirls in them and yellowish/golden mesh shawls. And they all had gold ribbon or wire in their hair and their hair done up nicely with it.
It's night time but there are lights and torches everywhere. There are very few street lights, and their more like lamps than lights really, they give off that old whitish yellowish glow. Beside those lights and everywhere else were torches and fires (controlled, like bonfires if you will). The air is very humid but pleasant, and all the fire makes everything dance and swirl in orange/red/yellow.
I'm walking down the street wearing beige/white cotton pants that are very worn in, and a long sleeve white shirt with buttons down the middle. Also I'm barefoot but so was everyone else. The road, well it wasn't pavement but it WAS the road, was cleared of everything and of all people. Some people I passed were dancing and celebrating and everyone was screaming in pleasure and just overly happy.
I loved the atmosphere of this place. The warmth of the fires and the glow they gave off. It was as bright as day but not as clear. Almost as if you were looking through glass that changed the colors of fire. Not only the outward atmosphere but the feeling of the people, they were so happy and celebrative, and even though I was much different than them in appearance they treated me like one of their own.
I walked down the end of the street and stopped by a few cheering men and their fire. For some reason I watched down the road where I had just walked up because...I just did.
Coming down the road was a float, or I think it was a float, with dancing women in their gorgeous costumes all around it. I couldn't make out exactly what was on it until it got closer. The float was decorated so beautifully that it almost brought tears to my eyes. Gold cloth, gold string, gold mesh...Orange and green and blue and just a little red. Diamonds too and white glitter everywhere. The top was shaped sort of like a box, but their were doors to either side that were wide open. Sitting in the middle of the doors was a little girl dressed up with a lot of gold in her hair and I think some gold on her face.
I was so awestruck by the beauty of it all, and my curiousity about the girl, that as the float and it's dancers went on so did I. I followed it down it's path along the road until it stopped and so did I. I found myself standing beside another man from another country. He had either a british or australian accent.
"What are they doing?" I asked breathlessly.
He was maybe six foot, thin, darkly tanned with blue eyes and thick black hair. His hair was short but tossled and sweaty from the fires. Oddly enough he was wearing the same thing I was.
"They rarely ever go through with this ceremony. It's a religious practice I've only ever read about or heard about. I thought I would die without ever truly being able to see it for real."
"So you're a scientist or something?" I asked him.
"I'm a sociological student from (some school in england I can't remember) and I was just sent here because I was the one with the highest test score. Watch!"
He said and pointed back to the float.
I turned my head to look back up at the float. All the women that were dancing were also stopped and looking up at the little girl. Four men in nothing but brightly colored pants, green orange and blue with gold streaks, went up to the little girl. She looked at all of them sadly and then stood up. She only could have been eight years old or so.
"What are they going to do?" I asked as we watched.
"They're going to stick her in that box and then what you see next you will never believe." He replied.
I shrugged and watched on, certain nothing bad would happen, since everything was so beautiful and everyone was so happy. They couldn't be happy to kill a little girl!
The men gently put the little girl inside the box and then shut the doors. The box was not solid and was more made up of poles than walls, so I could still see the little girl.
She looked down at me before something weird happened. As I watched there was some almost weird black fog that surrounded the girl and then I watched as she turned in to a big black cow/buffalo! I was dumbfounded. The man beside me was ecstatic as well as everyone else.
"How did she do that!?" I asked him but he was grinning and absorbed in what would happen next.
The four men that had helped her in the box now each through a torch on the float. It must have been covered in oil or something cause it went up with a poof. All the women that were around it started to scream and make that weird purr noise, rolling their tongue, and dancing more. Still celebrating that they're float is on fire.
The float starting going down the road again and I couldn't help but cry because that cow was once a little girl and soon it would burn with the float. I left the man there as I followed it down the road. As the fire reached in to inside the box and the cow caught on fire, it turned again in to something else, it turned in to a sheep. Oh and how it screeched.
Then I noticed that the man had been following it beside me. He said; "That is why they burned it, because the girl was a shapeshifter, by killing her they are setting their people free from evil. It's the way things work here."
We stopped by a big torch and watched it burn down the road. I just wanted to cover my face in sadness and lean against him but I didn't.
And then I woke up.
KEEP IN MIND...I don't know anything about India or it's religion or what they like other than cows. So It was weird for me that it turned to a cow and they burned it. If you want to interpret this dream feel free too. It sounds like it would be fun to interpret lol. I don't interpret dreams though cause I don't know how.
Did this dream mean anything too? Or was it just a dream?
First off every time I dream it's just like real life. Color, Sound, Taste, Length. I've had dreams that have went on for years (in the span of one night) and I'll wake up being confused because I thought the dream was real.
I'm in India, or so I believed it to be India. Either on just a vacation or some other reason. All the women were wearing brightly colored sari's orange and blue and green all with gold swirls in them and yellowish/golden mesh shawls. And they all had gold ribbon or wire in their hair and their hair done up nicely with it.
It's night time but there are lights and torches everywhere. There are very few street lights, and their more like lamps than lights really, they give off that old whitish yellowish glow. Beside those lights and everywhere else were torches and fires (controlled, like bonfires if you will). The air is very humid but pleasant, and all the fire makes everything dance and swirl in orange/red/yellow.
I'm walking down the street wearing beige/white cotton pants that are very worn in, and a long sleeve white shirt with buttons down the middle. Also I'm barefoot but so was everyone else. The road, well it wasn't pavement but it WAS the road, was cleared of everything and of all people. Some people I passed were dancing and celebrating and everyone was screaming in pleasure and just overly happy.
I loved the atmosphere of this place. The warmth of the fires and the glow they gave off. It was as bright as day but not as clear. Almost as if you were looking through glass that changed the colors of fire. Not only the outward atmosphere but the feeling of the people, they were so happy and celebrative, and even though I was much different than them in appearance they treated me like one of their own.
I walked down the end of the street and stopped by a few cheering men and their fire. For some reason I watched down the road where I had just walked up because...I just did.
Coming down the road was a float, or I think it was a float, with dancing women in their gorgeous costumes all around it. I couldn't make out exactly what was on it until it got closer. The float was decorated so beautifully that it almost brought tears to my eyes. Gold cloth, gold string, gold mesh...Orange and green and blue and just a little red. Diamonds too and white glitter everywhere. The top was shaped sort of like a box, but their were doors to either side that were wide open. Sitting in the middle of the doors was a little girl dressed up with a lot of gold in her hair and I think some gold on her face.
I was so awestruck by the beauty of it all, and my curiousity about the girl, that as the float and it's dancers went on so did I. I followed it down it's path along the road until it stopped and so did I. I found myself standing beside another man from another country. He had either a british or australian accent.
"What are they doing?" I asked breathlessly.
He was maybe six foot, thin, darkly tanned with blue eyes and thick black hair. His hair was short but tossled and sweaty from the fires. Oddly enough he was wearing the same thing I was.
"They rarely ever go through with this ceremony. It's a religious practice I've only ever read about or heard about. I thought I would die without ever truly being able to see it for real."
"So you're a scientist or something?" I asked him.
"I'm a sociological student from (some school in england I can't remember) and I was just sent here because I was the one with the highest test score. Watch!"
He said and pointed back to the float.
I turned my head to look back up at the float. All the women that were dancing were also stopped and looking up at the little girl. Four men in nothing but brightly colored pants, green orange and blue with gold streaks, went up to the little girl. She looked at all of them sadly and then stood up. She only could have been eight years old or so.
"What are they going to do?" I asked as we watched.
"They're going to stick her in that box and then what you see next you will never believe." He replied.
I shrugged and watched on, certain nothing bad would happen, since everything was so beautiful and everyone was so happy. They couldn't be happy to kill a little girl!
The men gently put the little girl inside the box and then shut the doors. The box was not solid and was more made up of poles than walls, so I could still see the little girl.
She looked down at me before something weird happened. As I watched there was some almost weird black fog that surrounded the girl and then I watched as she turned in to a big black cow/buffalo! I was dumbfounded. The man beside me was ecstatic as well as everyone else.
"How did she do that!?" I asked him but he was grinning and absorbed in what would happen next.
The four men that had helped her in the box now each through a torch on the float. It must have been covered in oil or something cause it went up with a poof. All the women that were around it started to scream and make that weird purr noise, rolling their tongue, and dancing more. Still celebrating that they're float is on fire.
The float starting going down the road again and I couldn't help but cry because that cow was once a little girl and soon it would burn with the float. I left the man there as I followed it down the road. As the fire reached in to inside the box and the cow caught on fire, it turned again in to something else, it turned in to a sheep. Oh and how it screeched.
Then I noticed that the man had been following it beside me. He said; "That is why they burned it, because the girl was a shapeshifter, by killing her they are setting their people free from evil. It's the way things work here."
We stopped by a big torch and watched it burn down the road. I just wanted to cover my face in sadness and lean against him but I didn't.
And then I woke up.
KEEP IN MIND...I don't know anything about India or it's religion or what they like other than cows. So It was weird for me that it turned to a cow and they burned it. If you want to interpret this dream feel free too. It sounds like it would be fun to interpret lol. I don't interpret dreams though cause I don't know how.
Did this dream mean anything too? Or was it just a dream?
Sai Baba is a buhda(i think) in India, who will be willing to talk to anyone in meditation. Try to talk to him so he could give you a better answer. You were going into something you knew nothing about, but then you learned and still didn't understand. Try to understand something you refused to know.
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