Tag: magick

Heh.

brewingdreams:

Just realized the synchronicity involved in birthing my servitor on Wednesday. It is Odin’s day, after all, and the servitor is a raven.

Anyway, I finally took the plunge and bought a carving knife, the wood I’ve had my eye on, and some protective gear so my little monsters don’t get to taste my blood unless it’s on purpose. 

Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras – dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies – may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition – but they were there before. They are transcripts, types – the archtypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body – or without the body, they would have been the same… That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual – that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy – are difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into the shadowland of pre-existence.

Charles Lamb: Witches and Other Night-Fears,

Quoted at the beginning of The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft.

(via qaneh-bosem)

Taking science at face value is a willful disregard for the power of the human mind. It is a flight from the obvious fact that each time we open our eyes we create the world anew. We can only perceive based on what we are. We will NEVER see the universe for what it truly is, it is impossible. Asking why we perceive the universe that way we do is just as valid as quantifying those perceptions.

I just finished my second Philip K. Dick novel in less than a month. The guy’s writing blows me away. It’s hard to believe he did most of his work in the 1950s and 60s. 

Also of note, something most critics have missed, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch* is in many ways, a story about two dueling magicians. An excellent examination of the kind of hubris and paranoia a magus can suffer when they feel beset by enemies.

*You think this obvious symbolism in the antagonist’s last name would be a clue.

Invocation of Pan

I realize I need to do some more invocation. Partially for the sake of protection. Having a god inside you can help drive out nasty influences. I’m not one to say the Devil did it, but my previous little jib at Orias may have pissed him off. I did not approach him with respect, and may have gotten smacked for it.

This is in a skeletal form right now. I performed it for the first time today, and it was pretty good but obviously needs more substance to bring on a full trance state. As I continue to perform the ritual i’m sure more of it will come to me.

Music: Afro Celt Sound System  – Riding the Waves
Enter the circle wearing only an open robe.

Opening the Channel – Perform the Middle Pillar using wand

Devotion – Trace the symbol of Pan before you.
“Hail Pan. Lord of the beasts. All wine, all songs, all dances are to your glory.”
Make offerings of incense and wine

Calling Forth – Assume the god form.
Perform Invoking pentagram to the East
“Breath of Passion”
Turn to the South – assume the god form – pentagram
“Inflamed with rage”
Turn to the West – assume the god form – pentagram
“Buried in pleasure”
Turn to the North – assume the god form – pentagram
“Drunk with desire”
Turn to the East – assume the god form
“Enter me”
Bring self to erection or point of excitement.

Drama – Perform the Dance of Pan (for me a sort of hopping circle, scratching at the ground with my hooves and snorting).

Release – Howl