@MorganBlack
Sounds great to me, AlfrunGrima!
I've made so many off-hand comments peppered about about how I think it's a core practice. It would be nice to have a mega-thread. Or even an entire Chaos Magic / New Thought / Positive Mind Metaphysics sub-section.
New Thought (NT) communities are incredibly positive and supportive. Nobody thinks someone else's method takes anything away from theirs - at least among the Neville Goddardian "Law of Assumption" peeps. In New Thought, techniques are seen as just that - techniques - and are cumulative and reinforcing, rather than singular, specific, and insular.
The work great in that context - and same good ideas percolated outward later in the mid-20th century 'Wiccanate' formulations (as Prof. Ronald Hutton calls most modern paganism), which adopted and applied a lot of those same ideas.
These good ideas percolated on from the Gardnerians to other Wiccanate influced modern magic systems and most of WitchTok, where they became a creed, - and then later became bad ideas if appled without nuance to Sublunar 'Daimonic' systems. When someone yells at a traditional grimoire magician, "Just do magic, ya dummy," that is where that idea comes from.
So, if we had more operative separation between - variously - "Above and Below," "Heaven and Hell," "The Overworld and The Underworld," or "Mysticism and Sorcery," that would help a lot, I feel.
Underworld daimons, at least in the Grimorium Verum do have, or appear to have, very much their own preferences, and will let you know. "Doing whatever" because you don't like the protocols can get you in trouble if you're working with the "hot" part of the Infernal Hierarchy. Aside from a few, they are all quite particular, fitting what the myths of Hell/Hades teach us about dealing with beings from whatever that world is. As a wise man once said, "When in Rome, or Hell, speak Latin."
