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Feeling a little nostalgic today.
This routine was posted by Julio Cesar Ody to his now removed Tumbler around October 2015. I hope he does not mind terribly if I post here his very pragmatic suggestions.
I've updated the broken links from Tumbler the best I could during a work break.
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(This is a slightly expanded repost of a post I dropped on Facebook. Recent turn of events has my attention focused on other things and a little less on writing, so I figured I’d give it as I have it. It’s phrased roughly the same. Plenty of similarities with the earlier post, so you know I’ve been doing this for a while)
Here’s my how to get to the door and open it:
Most contemporary distractions are harmful towards the goal of doing magic. This routine creates both the necessary space and the habit of detaching regularly.
The bulk of the work in the western magical tradition is planetary and nigromantic (dead and demons), with the former servicing the latter. Demons will still require a full operation. The following will get you the rest.
Planetary work in the tradition comes in many forms, from simple rituals preceding evocations for placating their angels/demons, to more elaborate talismans. There’s nothing wrong with those per se, but as with all things magic, the usefulness of increasing one’s sensitivity to their influences goes beyond merely acquiring their favour. This is the fundament behind the process.
As has been pointed out on Facebook, the use of a boveda is rooted in other practices, so I advise coupling its use with a little research. The essence is that the dead are an inextricable part of all magic that gets done anywhere, and in a similar mindset to the above suggestion, making oneself capable of empirically recognising their presence so to eventually enlist their aid is key for more than average magics.
Use of the Four Kings relates significantly to the yet undisclosed approach I use for evocation, though references aplenty can be found where it happens. Employing them in prayer has to do with building a rapport through frequent use of their names.
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Prayer to the Four Kings, Chap. 11
O Oriens, distinguished king who reigns and rules in the East, whose rule and kingdom had its beginning in the ages, and will last until the end of the ages.
O Paymon, mighty king who rules in the western part of the sky.
O Egym, strong king, whose kingdom and rule extends to the icy North.
O Amaymon, most noble king whose domain is in the South.
I powerfully invoke and arduously implore you, through him who spoke, and it was done, and who with a word alone created all, and whom all the creation obeys, through the seat of that majesty, through his will and his name, which existed before the ages were created, and who is described in four letters, Iod, He, Vau, He, and through all the Canderias, and their virtues, and through the emblems, and the names of the Creator, so that this image here present may be appropriately consecrated and formed, that it may obtain the desired virtue. Through the most holy name Adonay, whose virtue has no beginning, and will have no end.
This routine was posted by Julio Cesar Ody to his now removed Tumbler around October 2015. I hope he does not mind terribly if I post here his very pragmatic suggestions.
I've updated the broken links from Tumbler the best I could during a work break.
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A magical routine
(This is a slightly expanded repost of a post I dropped on Facebook. Recent turn of events has my attention focused on other things and a little less on writing, so I figured I’d give it as I have it. It’s phrased roughly the same. Plenty of similarities with the earlier post, so you know I’ve been doing this for a while)
Here’s my how to get to the door and open it:
Most contemporary distractions are harmful towards the goal of doing magic. This routine creates both the necessary space and the habit of detaching regularly.
The bulk of the work in the western magical tradition is planetary and nigromantic (dead and demons), with the former servicing the latter. Demons will still require a full operation. The following will get you the rest.
- Make a boveda (references: through Google, or Nicholaj Frisvold’s ). Or at least set a table with a white cloth, glass of water and a white candle. Choose a place for it where you can remain undisturbed a few times a week.
- Wake up daily just before sunrise. Don’t talk, don’t text, head to where you do your magic.
- 30 minutes of timed inhaling/exhaling and sitting in complete stillness. If you spasm and/or cramp, you’re doing it right. Trance and deep dreams while awake will ensue a few months in. Your mileage may vary.
- As the sun cracks in the horizon (time it), get up and perform the PGM XIII. 763-889. Follow it with a burning of suitable incense as you recite corresponding Orphic Hymn, which you should know from memory, and then a petition for favour from the day’s planet. The extent to which you take this can vary. See as well as the rapport post above for references on suitable incense.
- Anytime after the sun sets is for nigromantic work. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are for contacting the dead, for their benefit and yours. In all nights, precede the work with another 30 minutes of breath/stillness as in the morning.
- The dead: open with a prayer to the Four Kings for protection/assistance (see ), (Updated link. Text added below. -MB), change the petition to reflect the intention of speaking to the local dead). More on this in Jake Stratton-Kent’s . Offer a glass of water or fruit in exchange for communication. Use an ouija board or pen/paper. Ask who’s around and what their name is.
- Remaining nights: in the absence of pacts to look after, scry on a lapidary. No hard rules. I advise simply staring at an obsidian mirror for 30 minutes in addition to the 30 minutes of preparation. With pacts, bid them to return, scry them and make offerings. Definition of scrying successfully: images or being appearing on lapidary.
- Days when operations are undertaken, do nothing but pray to superior deity(ies) for favouring it. Better not talk to anyone if possible. Fasts are worthwhile but less necessary in time.
Notes
There are no break days. As alliances begin to designate other tasks, start replacing the above with what is given. The work then becomes more about trafficking with spirits, at which point you’re a useful gateway between here and there and titles such as “magician” or “witch” become less ridiculous.Planetary work in the tradition comes in many forms, from simple rituals preceding evocations for placating their angels/demons, to more elaborate talismans. There’s nothing wrong with those per se, but as with all things magic, the usefulness of increasing one’s sensitivity to their influences goes beyond merely acquiring their favour. This is the fundament behind the process.
As has been pointed out on Facebook, the use of a boveda is rooted in other practices, so I advise coupling its use with a little research. The essence is that the dead are an inextricable part of all magic that gets done anywhere, and in a similar mindset to the above suggestion, making oneself capable of empirically recognising their presence so to eventually enlist their aid is key for more than average magics.
Use of the Four Kings relates significantly to the yet undisclosed approach I use for evocation, though references aplenty can be found where it happens. Employing them in prayer has to do with building a rapport through frequent use of their names.
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Prayer to the Four Kings, Chap. 11
O Oriens, distinguished king who reigns and rules in the East, whose rule and kingdom had its beginning in the ages, and will last until the end of the ages.
O Paymon, mighty king who rules in the western part of the sky.
O Egym, strong king, whose kingdom and rule extends to the icy North.
O Amaymon, most noble king whose domain is in the South.
I powerfully invoke and arduously implore you, through him who spoke, and it was done, and who with a word alone created all, and whom all the creation obeys, through the seat of that majesty, through his will and his name, which existed before the ages were created, and who is described in four letters, Iod, He, Vau, He, and through all the Canderias, and their virtues, and through the emblems, and the names of the Creator, so that this image here present may be appropriately consecrated and formed, that it may obtain the desired virtue. Through the most holy name Adonay, whose virtue has no beginning, and will have no end.
