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Time to Brag!

IllusiveOwl

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It can be difficult to share your accomplishments with others without seeming like you're full of yourself, so I wanna give a space for everyone to share your magical accomplishments! This stuff is difficult and alienating, it's important to feel proud of yourself!

What are you most proud of pulling off? What results have you reaped? What kind of power have you seized? What divine insights have you gleamed? What elaborate artifacts have you made? What daring heist have you managed? How have you grown and transformed since the beginning of your practice?

Don't be shy!
 

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I started practicing for a healthier mental health. Needless to say that's when my sorceries started to actually work
 

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The four pillars of the Solomon's temple, or by other name four aspects of magic work are: To know, to dare, to will and to forget.
To forget can also be understood as to be silent and also to keep your mouth shut...
 
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I pathworked through the 72 of the Goetia, 72 of the Shemhamephorash, and the angels of the 42-fold name as well. Didn't go full Solomon, but things got interesting and all said and done it did elevate my path. Lately though I've been focused on some more specialized theurgy that I'm working on.
 

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It can be difficult to share your accomplishments with others without seeming like you're full of yourself, so I wanna give a space for everyone to share your magical accomplishments! This stuff is difficult and alienating, it's important to feel proud of yourself!

What are you most proud of pulling off? What results have you reaped? What kind of power have you seized? What divine insights have you gleamed? What elaborate artifacts have you made? What daring heist have you managed? How have you grown and transformed since the beginning of your practice?

Don't be shy!
There are two aspects of this.
The bragging is when one's intention is to get a feedback response.
Sharing experience on the other hand is about ... sharing, no feedback needed, something like "I had this challenges and I did this and I overcome my challenges in this way" <- can be helpful, a lesson, steps to follow, supportive, informative.
So no, it is not so difficult if you share your experience without expectations. What other's do with your information (with what you share) is their business.
When seeking some sort of validation, pat on the back so to speak is not sharing.
Sharing your success also means sharing the steps which manifested the benefits which come from that success otherwise is just ... bragging.

Example:
"Using magic knowledge I got rich" vs "Using magic in this way (bla bla bla) I was able to build a company..."

Because it is much simpler to approach this as an interview (has many questions) I will sum up some of them and respond to the other.

What are you most proud of pulling off?
I am proud because I was homeless for some time and I discovered magic and you know, when low, low, low, the only way is up so I self-educated and studied symbiology, a bit of astrology, basic numerology, sacred geometry, Jungian psychology, tarot and some other esoteric knowledge, got a job, got married, build a company using what I've learned and bought a property, cofounded other projects and developed the Entity Signature Sigils and with some help we've started a new project, Dascentian Academy of Arcane Sigils where I teach the craft of reading and creating Entity Signature Sigils.
It might sound like "woa" but I'm not materially rich like having eccentricities and Instagram-like life but I keep myself humble because there's nothing to prove to anyone and it makes me happy in my world were I get to work with amazing people.
I took advantage of all these opportunities because I've learned the human archetypes from the major arcana of the tarot cards through the Jungian interpretation.

What works for me might not work for others so I follow no path (or I follow all paths, take your pick) and build my own with the knowledge, experience and intuition presented which serves me.

The above also answers these questions: "What results have you reaped?" / "What elaborate artifacts have you made?" / "How have you grown and transformed since the beginning of your practice?"

What kind of power have you seized?
The Observer. It is an amazing state which allows me to not react but observe first, analyze what works for me and architect reality the way my human me prefers.
The thing is... when we Observe, a lot of other states come in play, a lot of energies are more present and active in one's awareness, energies which can be used, interacted with...and of course a lot of human interactions too, even if "just online" .

What divine insights have you gleamed?
- started with knowing myself, discovering aspects of myself within me and see these aspects reflected by others so I work with Self in service of others.

What daring heist have you managed?
- there are some things I can't disclose not because I am bragging or to promote some sort of mystery but because involves 3rd party individuals and reps.

If one is asking what is the foundation, the building block of transformation, well, it is confidence in self, will to act and follow the passion.
These work for me.
 

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keep your mouth shut.
Given that this is a forum, where people are expected to communicate and contribute, I would think your participation here at all would put you on Solomon's naughty list.

So no, it is not so difficult if you share your experience without expectations.
This half of your response is pedantic wordplay, semantic nonsense. I simply am giving people an avenue to share their victories and experiences, which is difficult to do unprompted. I'm glad you accepted the offer and shared nevertheless.
 

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Given that this is a forum, where people are expected to communicate and contribute, I would think your participation here at all would put you on Solomon's naughty list.


This half of your response is pedantic wordplay, semantic nonsense. I simply am giving people an avenue to share their victories and experiences, which is difficult to do unprompted. I'm glad you accepted the offer and shared nevertheless.
That's me, difficulties because of my limited vocabulary yet I'm labeled as using wordplay and semantic nonsense.
I appreciate the opportunity tho.
 

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I lost everything.

That said, I literally asked for it in many different ways. You get what you ask for. It's your fault if you don't like the results.
 

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Given that this is a forum, where people are expected to communicate and contribute, I would think your participation here at all would put you on Solomon's naughty list.
:ROFLMAO: 👍 Indeed.

In fact I think that it is way harder to stay silent than to speak about magic success.
 

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What are you most proud of pulling off?
I actually finished writing my gorram book!
What results have you reaped?
Sold about 1500 books, and had some (although not as many as hoped) interesting conversations with people about the nature of magic. Gave a very successful talk about same at 2024 WorldCon. Been on Coast to Coast Talk Radio (what used to be the Art Bell show). Interviewed on the Neon Galactic (that was a lot of fun).
What kind of power have you seized?
The power of understanding. Not everything, obviously! Thirty plus years of research have given me a consistent picture of how magic, and the universe, works.
What divine insights have you gleamed?
You do not change the world; you experience the version of the world which contains the change. Also, there is no such thing as the supernatural; there is instead plenty of natural things that we do not yet understand. Calling a thing supernatural just throws into sharp relief how little we understand the thing.
What elaborate artifacts have you made?
I like the idea of my book as an 'elaborate artifact' :)
What daring heist have you managed?
I get free meals from restaurants from time to time :D
How have you grown and transformed since the beginning of your practice?
My work has given me greater confidence, and at the same time teaching me that confidence is one of the linchpins of being a wizard.
 
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