And this brings up something else. Asking gods to do things for you. This can be tricky. Asking Kali to blat the guy in the next flat who plays his stereo too loud when you’re trying to meditate is a bit like using a tac-nuke to swat a fly with. It is said by some that gods have a different sense of time than we do and our sense of ‘now’ is a lot different to theirs. I got the impression, when doing some work with Isis a few years ago, that she wouldn’t actually get round to doing anything for a few thousand years at least. Elementals are easier by far. Though again, they can be tricky. I blame all this magical psychology. It lessens the impact of all the entities and let’s face it, it someone came up to you and said “you’re only a subpersonality of me, so do this sharpish mate” would you go for it? No, you’d punch them in the face (hopefully) and half the time I think that entities feel the same way about all these jumped-up magicians saying “do this, do that” without so much of a please, thank you or a decent sacrifice.

Phil Hine 
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