Month: October 2011

Magick Working Journal

10/17/11

Getting back into the swing of things with meditation and banishing now that my circle is complete. The space definitely feels warmer and more secure. The downside being that I am now constricting myself to a 5-foot circle during banishing. Since I am using a 4-foot sword that doesn’t leave much room to manoeuvre. I am sure I will get used to it.

Meditation did not yield anything specific, but once again, it just felt good to do it.

This weekend, I brought my wife with me to my class on ceremonial magick. She mentioned to the owner how I have performed banishing rituals for others to help them ward off negative influences. The store owner now wants me to offer this service to customers. I’m not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I don’t like the idea of performing magick for money. Besides any other considerations I don’t know how effective it would be for the person. On the other hand, I don’t mind helping people. And the end of my unemployment money is looming up on the horizon.

Magick Working Journal

10/13/11

The paint was dry enough to take the tape off, I’m pretty satisfied with the results. There’s some bleed around the edges, however, so I probably will give it a black outline later. Cleaned out the temple some and I am now ready to dedicate it tomorrow.

Some good music on tumblr tonight. Different from what I usually see. Sometimes I think I must be a bad pagan for not liking death metal.

I’m fairly familiar with formal magick books like the Lemegeton and the like but what other books would you suggest? What about books that would be a good introduction to Chaos Magic?

The first book everyone will tell you to read is Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll. It lives up to the hype. If you want a pdf copy let me know and I may know where you can find one. With Miskatonic Library recently having their tumblr account closed for distributing copy-written books, I’m not taking the chance of posting it here.

Most people leave you hanging after that. The second book I recommend you read is Oven Ready Chaos by Phil Hine. He gives that one away here: www.philhine.org.uk/writings/pdfs/orchaos.pdf

Then you’re ready for Liber Kaos, Psybermagick, The Apophneion, and The Octavo by PJC and Prime Chaos by Phil Hine.

One resource that has been a great inspiration to me is not a book but a speech given by Peter J. Carroll called General Considerations on the Philosophy and Practice of Magick. You can find that here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bx9jMDq9aWMIOWI0ZTA4NzktODgxYS00NDAxLWJkNDQtNDA1NmI4MzYyY2M2&authkey=CLLBteoF&hl=en_US&authkey=CLLBteoF