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Some books carry a charge far past their pages, and the old grimoire called The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage is one of them. In this recording, Lyam Christopher holds up his own copy, an older hardcover translated by Golden Dawn founder MacGregor Mathers from a French manuscript. There are two known versions, he notes, one promising a six-month operation and the other stretching the same work to a year and a half, and both of them show the marks of having been debased from an older source.
Yet the book was treated as sacred by the Golden Dawn, and the reason is more surprising than the spells. Its real promise is the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, a process of purification that fits the order’s elemental grades. The work is not really about commanding demons on command; it is about becoming clean enough, level by level, that deeper forces may be safely met. The book is also radically egalitarian for its age, opening the path to any sincere person rather than a closed priesthood.
The wonder, then, is that even a flawed grimoire can still function, because the transformation matters more than the literal details. The magic squares may be bogus and the claims of golden florins may be folklore, but the inner operation still works. The practice in Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation offers a similar completeness: earth, air, water, fire, and planetary intelligences, until karmic baggage is recognized on every level and a charmed, dynamic stillness begins to follow you through ordinary days.
Full Video Transcript
Okay, we’re trying this again. Interesting thing is that this video is about the sacred magic of
Abra Malin the mage, and whenever people talk about this system, unusual things tend to happen.
So yeah, the computer crashed, and I’m going to try to record this again and see if the computer
works properly now. All right, so the Book of Abra Malin. This is my copy of it. This is
probably worth something now. It’s like from the 1930s. The Book of the Sacred Magic of
Abramelin the Mage. And you can see I have the hardcover version. There is another version of
this book. I am aware of it. I do have it. The Book of Abramelin. And so the one I obtained first
many years ago was, this is the one that is translated by MacGregor Mathers, who is one of
the founding members of the Golden Dawn. And he translated this from a French manuscript.
And the French manuscript that he had obtained was not the original. And there apparently was
a doctored version of it. And so the older manuscript was found, I think it was German,
I’m not sure what language it was in. They found another version of the same book. And it was
different so the system of magic that uh the primary difference is that the system of magic
that this book gives uh includes an operation that takes six months to complete and then that same
operation of magic and this book takes a year a year and a half to complete big difference
i think both of these books and this probably won’t surprise many of you on this channel are
both of these books are debased.
They’re debased forms of magic.
Most of the grimoires you see
were basically maybe remnants or echoes
of an older tradition
where practitioners of magic would keep books of spirits
so that they could work with those spirits.
But basically, working with those spirits
was a means of obtaining enlightenment.
it was not really uh or obtaining you know illumination whatever you want to call it
whatever they called it uh it was not necessarily about um casting spells and things like that right
uh though not that that’s impossible um but the way that we think of casting spells nowadays
is a misunderstanding, really, of how magic works as a system of enlightenment, okay? And I think
we’ll be talking about that in a bit to clarify what I mean by that. So what’s the big deal with
the Abra Malin book? Why did the people in the Golden Dawn like it so much? Interesting thing
is that the author of the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra Malin the Mage, the original author,
abraham the jew um by his own account he would not approve of the golden dawn system of magic
he would say it’s superstitious and impure okay he didn’t really like pentagrams and hexagrams
and planets and planetary hours he didn’t like any of that stuff uh he wanted a system of magic
that was pristine and pure which is kind of funny because he ends up basically in the end of the
book presenting a system of pentacles or a system of magic squares that help the magician wield
authority over wicked spirits. Okay, well, anyway, we’ll get to that because that last part of the
book with the magic squares was probably an add-on of some kind or a corrupted version of something
else, I think. This is my opinion, of course. The big deal about the system of magic that
Abra Malin taught to Abraham the Jew. The big deal is the Holy Guardian Angel. So this book contains
a six-month formula of ritual for obtaining the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian
Angel. And so the idea is that once this knowledge and conversation is obtained, then you have
magical powers. Okay, that’s the way the book is marketed, packaged, you know, put forward.
um even at the time that it was printed you know way way back when in the 15th century i think it
is if you read this book uh i highly recommend you do if you are practicing the kabbalah magic
curriculum i highly recommend you read the book of the sacred magic of our melinda mage
so you can absorb uh its spirit its fervor or its uh its zeal its zealotry right so you can get the
feel of it many people say that the operation of abramalin that six-month uh regimen of ritual
is very difficult to do it’s like you have to live like a monk or a hermit right and you have
to be absolutely pure and it’s so difficult that most people nowadays would not be able to do it
that’s what they say anyway okay when i look at the system in there i’m not so sure but there are
are many things about the system that wouldn’t really work so well today. The nice thing about
this book is it can work. You can actually do almost everything in it based on the things that
we have available to us today. That’s one of the really cool things about this book is that it’s
not ridiculously absurd or impossible to undergo the operation, at least for the six-month formula
that is. Is this a real grimoire? No, I don’t think so. A real grimoire is something that
hopefully you guys are making. In other words, if you have a book of spirits, if you’re keeping a
magical journal, the kind of encounters you have with psychological baggage, you’re writing about
this, okay, and you’re labeling it and you’re making meaning out of it, this is basically
already it. And so a book of spirits is basically a book of difficult sticking points in the psyche
that you are, that somebody who is undergoing the process of self-transformation, these are the
kinds of entities or complexes that they encounter as they go through that process. And it really
helps to write about them and to speculate as to how they came to be as they are and give them
names so that every time they pop up, you can see, oh, there it is again. Okay. So this is really
important. That’s a real book of spirits. That’s a real grimoire. And that’s what you make for
yourself. And I think what, this is my opinion, but I think what happened is that these books
fell into the hands, they might’ve been passed from teacher to student and said, here’s what I
did with my spirits. You can do something similar, right? And so these, they fell into the hands of
people who didn’t understand what the teachings were about. They thought the spirits were all
about obtaining magical power over things and then basically securing a good harvest or putting a
curse on your neighbor’s cow or something like that, right? So that anybody would want to achieve
enlightenment is really of no interest really to anybody who would be interested in selling a book
like this or marketing it or putting it out there. And so naturally the inclination would be to say,
what the hell is this it’s really cool but i can’t figure it out let me just make some changes
to it so we can market it print it sell it you know and that’s what the grimoires uh eventually
turned into and i think that even in the process of that people were able to do magic with them
to some degree like the goetia and things like that um because of the original echo of what the
system of magic actually was or and still can be again you have to remember that the golden dawn
basically is an attempt to rescue this tradition of self-transformation from the vulgar forms of
magic that are out there so most of the magic you encounter out there like the law of attraction and
things like that are considered the vulgar forms of magic okay not that there’s anything wrong with
them it’s just like um there’s a lot of you know delusional stuff going on essentially um what i
would propose is that the sort of new age systems that are out there um they they’re perfectly fine
but they’re completely inside out upside down and backwards okay and so in order to really work them
properly and restore them to what they used to be you have to turn yourself inside upside down
it backwards somehow a total totally thoroughly process all of the conditioning that you have
obtained doesn’t mean you have to um see it all clearly you basically just have to recognize it
what’s happening with this form that you’ve arisen in you have to make peace with all of
this manifestations okay that’s yeah anyway it’s not easy to describe that so uh the reason i say
this book is not for real is because there are so many unbelievable parts to it. For instance,
Abraham the Jew claims to have conjured an army out of thin air at one point. It was like a
thousand cavalry or something like that. And the system of magic squares itself doesn’t fit the
book because the book essentially says you spend six months obtaining the knowledge and conversation
of your holy guardian angel and then that holy guardian angel would dictate to you the rest of
the system and then suddenly there’s another chapter or a bunch of chapters with magic squares
in them this is the system that his angel gave to him apparently but of course if you were
contacting your angel your angel is not going to give you that system okay so in that regard i
wonder if the original abraham the jew if there was such a person if he had a system of magic
squares and they did serve a particular function but then they were of course misunderstood and
repackaged and re-represented as um magical talismans that exert power over the material
world or something like that right also something unbelievable about the book is that he claims to
have obtained three million golden florins now it would have been possible for someone at that time
to have that kind of wealth but not really a merchant okay abraham the jew apparently was a
very good and a merchant very talented making money uh but making three million golden florins
would have been really obscenely high if you could it’s possible that a king could have had that much
maybe at that time now the thing believable about the book is the the book’s liberal nature
like liberal arts it’s very egalitarian it insists that anybody of any spiritual tradition
whether they be abraham uh whether they be abrahamic so in other words like um uh if they
if you’re arabic or sorry islamic or christian or or a jew uh doesn’t matter you can obtain the
knowledge and conversation of your angel okay and i think he doesn’t even say it needs to be those
it could be probably other traditions as well possibly even pagan um it just basically would
say that you can do this and i think that’s interesting too because the book presents itself
as a system of kabbalah magic it’s not kabbalistic there’s there’s virtually no kabbalah in it at all
but it does have the flavor of the egalitarian magic that came out of alexandria of ancient
alexandria so that was ancient alexandria had all these traditions coming together which
created their hermetic tradition of magic and the hermetic tradition of magic is not just kabbalah
kabbalah was only part of that it was also uh had a large christian element and an egyptian element
as well okay and so you can see how the golden dawn is combining all these things together the
kabbalah the christianity the egyptian stuff is it is it is an attempt to rescue the magic of
antiquity and restore it to what it used to be okay we can’t we don’t know what it actually
looked like back then we only have fragments but the golden dawn is an attempt to create a system
of self-transformation from what we have left and of course uh it has done a fantastic job with that
and of course golden dawn literature has also become debased over time because people don’t
understand what they’re looking at. They still think it’s a way of securing power over the
material world and casting a spell to get a car, something like that, right? The believable parts,
yeah. So the egalitarian nature of the book, that really appealed to the original Golden Dawn
members because they were very egalitarian for their time. For example, they admitted women into
the order and they considered men and women to be of equal status in the order. Now, another really
cool thing about the abramalin book is that he he talks about his search for a true system of magic
and and in the process of that search he describes several systems of magic that he came across which
he considered not pure and uh and those are very interesting too like for he he he did several
years of training under a rabbi but he thought the rabbi’s practice was impure and superstitious
because it used astrology and maybe alchemical symbols and things like that right and he thought
that these symbols and these planets were um it’s it’s understandable because at the time
there were fortune tellers and purveyors of amulets and talismans who who were not really
true uh adepts right and so all of these magical symbols have are being you know sold in the
the marketplace as in a vulgar sort of way and so when he encounters those those symbols again
in something that’s supposedly sacred um he can’t really he basically says that’s not pure this is
not um this is not the pure magic that i’m looking for all right so the believable parts is this
system of magic really so difficult to do so those who have undergone it they say it is they say it’s
really hard um it doesn’t look that hard to me the only hard part i can see is that uh for four
months you cannot hold a job you cannot work you don’t work for a living um the operation takes six
months to complete this operation to obtain the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian
angel and so it takes uh six months to complete but the first two months you can still work you
can still take care of business, but you have to keep it to a minimum. And then for the remaining
four months, then you can’t work at all. And it’s daily prayer, fasting, and restrictions on
conduct. Your recreational activities are limited. Doesn’t seem that hard to me. The kind of purity
that Abraham was after, though, he took it very literally, which is fine. But we’ll talk about
that in a bit. The kind of purity that’s actually required is more of a psychological type of
purity. So Abraham the Jew, the author of the sacred magic of Abramelin the mage, he spent
years looking for a true system of magic, and then he finally found a true adept, he claims,
and that is Abramelin, who lived, I think, on the banks of the Nile in Egypt. And so Abramelin
taught him the system of magic, which consisted of the method for obtaining the knowledge and
conversation of the holy guardian angel, a method for conjuring the four princes of evil and eight
sub-princes, and then the system of magic squares, supposedly. Or did he get the magic squares from
the holy guardian angel? I forget. So anyway, so that first part, the six-month formula for
obtaining the knowledge of conversation of the holy guardian angel. Now, this whole system of
magic, it resonated so well with people in the Golden Dawn because the Golden Dawn grade system
functions this way. It’s kind of funny to say that too, because if you read the book of the
Sacred Magic of Abril and the Mage, you’re not going to recognize any Golden Dawn stuff in it,
hardly at all. But in the Golden Dawn grade system, what happens is you go through a series
of elemental grades. And as you’re going through these different elements, you are supposedly
purifying that aspect of yourself, the earthly element, the air element, the water element,
and the fire element. This is done in many spiritual traditions, by the way, not just in
the West with the four elements or there’s more elements than that. There’s light and darkness
and space and things like that too. And then the interesting thing is that once you have attained
a certain level of purity, then things turn up the volume times 10. And basically, you can now
conjure evil spirits. Okay. So the interesting thing is that this gels very well with what
happens in the Golden Dawn system. Because in, in the Golden Dawn system, once you become an
adept, then you obtain the names of the four elemental kings. And of course, a hierarchy of
spirits that exist beneath each one of those kings okay so and this is not something you would work
with unless you have the knowledge and conversation pretty much right unless you have obtained that
enlightenment experience this is not so hard to figure out okay so in other words what we’re doing
in the magical work is we’re taking every aspect of our experience and we’re learning to see it
in a more clear way so that we can recognize our own divine nature in everything. And if we were
to simply try to do that, whatever I’m working with, I’m going to try to see it as pure and
holy or whatever. If you try to do that without a system of elements, what happens is you’re going
to miss a few spots. So it’s a comprehensive system of elements because you have to remember
when you’re walking around in the material world all you ever see are or experience are air water
fire earth light and darkness that’s it these are the only things you experience so um when you
process each of these elements this gives you a chance to look at every aspect of daily life and
experience whether it’s internal or external it makes no difference there isn’t really a difference
then you learn to process whatever psychological baggage is tied up in those areas of your life
the earth the earth area the the air area the water area and the fire area okay also the light
area and the dark area and the space area right so um so once somebody has gone through the
elemental and elemental grades and purify these elements to some degree then they obtain enough
clarity and power supposedly so they can finish the job they can go back into the elements
deliberately and do psychic surgery on the various elements and so the words in other words now you
can conjure forth the demons from these various areas of your life the air area the water area
the fire area right and then help them self-liberate help them process their karma whatever that is
um so that not so that you so that everything around you becomes more enlightened okay because
it gets to the point where it’s like there’s really isn’t any you anymore not not any literal
you anyway okay so um now the the third part of the teaching with the magic squares those are the
things that uh you would develop for yourself that represents basically once you get your knowledge
and conversation of the holy guardian angel you will make your own system of magic okay and you
won’t necessarily you won’t be using the magic squares from the albert millen book i guarantee
it you’re going to be coming you’re going to come up with your own stuff okay and we’re going to
talk about what the what the knowledge and conversation is actually in a moment okay if
you’re wondering what that is what what the heck is that like it is a very christian element of the
magical system, because the Christians believe that every person, at the time anyway, the
Christians tended to believe that every person has a personal guardian angel watching over him or her,
okay? But of course, we’re not aware of the angel. Where is it? I don’t see it.
We’ll talk about that in a bit. What does that really represent? So if you try to undertake
the abramalin ritual of six months today it would be difficult mainly not be it’s mainly because
well first of all because you can’t work for four months okay um it would also be difficult because
um of the kind of purity that’s needed and we can talk about that in a bit i’m sorry i’m going to
get to that um the hardest part i think is that it doesn’t have a lot of detail you go into an
an oratory, and you have an altar, and you have some incense, the Abramelin incense, which is
basically just myrrh and calamus and something else, pretty much, and some anointing oil.
Eventually, you’re going to have a magic wand. That’s about it. There’s really not much to it.
There’s no magic circles. There’s no sigils. There’s no planets. There’s no planetary hours.
there’s no pentagrams no hexagrams and so there’s not a lot to to work with in a hardcore sort of
way and so the golden dawn system has a lot of those old superstitious elements reattached okay
that’s important because the real purity comes in the form of rescuing magical symbols from
the vulgar forms in which they appear among the uninitiated okay so in other words you see the
symbol of aquarius you you’re now taking that out of astrology you’re now repurposing it
for your own magical purposes for your own magical discipline as and you’re using the astrology of
aquarius now that symbol as part of your system of personal enlightenment practices you’re no
longer using them to predict the future necessarily you are using them to become more truly who and
what you really are okay and so um abraham the jew didn’t like these systems mainly because they
were associated with the vulgar arts of magic at the time which were not truly spiritual blah blah
but the idea of the golden dawn is that we take these things and then we uh we restore them to
their original purity. That’s kind of a fantasy, but we don’t know what they originally looked like,
but we’re restoring them to the purpose of securing enlightenment, not for the purposes
of casting a spell and getting a car. And of course, the Golden Dawn system lets you play
with all kinds of magical tools and things like that too. And even as you’re doing that,
you are repurposing these things from their Harry Potter-like associations toward a system
of personal enlightenment, a system that’s going to help you become who and what you really are.
And this process of becoming who and what you really are, is what tends to give you a charmed life. And it makes you look as though you’re casting spells to get what you want, because your life is turned around, and you can do things of extraordinary value in the world.
okay and these things might make you wealthy might not one thing about living a charmed life is you
your life does become enviable maybe because people would say wow i have a lot of money
and a lot of stuff and you don’t have a lot of money and you don’t have a lot of stuff but all
your stuff is really cool and mine’s not and everything you do is really cool and everything
I do sucks you know so um that kind of uh wealthy existence is kind of what’s in store for you
when you achieve the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel whatever that is
which we’ll talk about in a bit and I should also mention that um the most fantastic part
of the golden dawn magical system is their use of color you won’t get any of this in that
Albert Malin book, I’ll tell you that. And the system of color was probably created
by Moina Mathers, which is Gregor Mathers’ wife, largely probably created by her, but based on
the color theory of Goethe, a famous romantic poet slash scientist, a really cool guy. And he was
the one who wrote the epic version of Faust’s poem. So the system of the color system is
very very potent in the golden dawn magical framework so they combine all of these
oh all of these symbols and sigils that used to be superstitious which you are now repurposing
restoring back to the practice of in of achieving enlightenment right uh you do the same thing with
all the colors in your world all right so in the abramalin book uh there’s the magic squares who
knows they might have been something that was part of the original text but became corrupted into
you know casting spells you know pretty much something like that right um these are interesting
devices um they basically are like a system of fascination and so uh the way talismans supposedly
work is that the spirit becomes um enchanted with uh whatever you’ve created right because it keeps
looking at it again and again there’s a repeating pattern that it has to kind of keep doing
And I find that interesting because when we are dealing with a spirit in the psychological terms, it is a repetitive impulse that tries to take you over to possess you again and again and again because it keeps getting triggered and then you do stupid things and you have no idea why you did that.
I just did it again.
I can’t believe I did that.
How do I stop this from happening?
It just keeps taking me over.
That’s a spirit, right?
A demon.
And so the idea is that you can create sigils or talismans or magic squares that fascinate this demon or spirit because there’s something repetitious going on that’s similar to the kind of repetition that is exercising over your life.
And one of the examples of that is the magic squares that come from Agrippa’s work. And this is kind of very entertaining, of course, but each of the columns and each of the rows adds up to the same number.
and so you can see that your spirit will become fascinated by i can’t believe it every single
row and every single column adds up to the same number how is that possible and it keeps adding
them up again and again it’s like so you see if it’s a some kind of math obsessed spirit would
become so fascinated by this and the idea was that the number of squares itself i think this is
there’s seven rows and seven columns here right um that corresponds to venus the number seven
corresponds to Venus. So a spirit of Venus would supposedly be drawn into this magic square and
would linger for a while so that you can work with it. It’s very interesting. And these things
do seem to work to some degree, if you’re aware of how they work. But of course, if you were to
obtain the knowledge of conversation, you might use these or you might just use your own system.
you would come up with your own system which is dictated to you by your holy guardian angel
and of course the golden dawn uses all kinds of fantastic symbols which are repurposed from
ordinary life it was alistair crowley who basically made the the funny little joke he was
saying the golden dawn swore me to secrecy with terrible oaths and they entrusted to me this
ordinary system of the hebrew alphabet you know like we already knew the hebrew alphabet like
why is this so uh why is this so secret and of course they gave him a system of the um the signs
of the zodiac all the sigils for the signs of the zodiac and the sigils for the planets
and he’s like i already knew these this is not secret i think he did understand though like but
of course he was making fun of it because the um because the new student of magic would say what’s
so secret about this the thing that’s secret about it is that these things are being repurposed and
being installed into a system of enlightenment practices and the manner in which that done is
handed is is worked back and forth you know between the um the the student and the spirits
he’s working with let’s say in the ritual and of course back and forth between him and his teacher
the the actual knowledge of how to rescue these things from vulgarity is that’s the secret that’s
being imparted here to restore sacredness to all of these vulgar symbols of evil purveyors of
amulets and talismans in the marketplace so i just want to make a brief mention of this um
people would say why would i want to use the abramalin book or why would i think it’s valuable
if you’re saying it is a piece of fiction like it was basically a corrupted form of
maybe some original grimoire that might have existed at one time, you have to remember that
everything is fictional. So if something happened to me yesterday, and I tell you about it,
I’m making up a version of it that is more or less correct. And my memory tends to be somewhat
creative. So you have to remember that everything that you regard as factual is fictional. And I
guess the better way of looking at this is to give an example if you go see a movie it’s a fictional
story and the movie changes your life ever since you saw the movie things are different and now
you’re suddenly things are turning around for you right you’ve finally realized something right
and so you tell a friend about it you say you know go you should go see this movie it changed my life
and then so your friend goes and sees the movie and then your friend says are you are you insane
that movie it never happened that was fiction you do realize that don’t you how could that
possibly change my life it was if it was fiction and then you would just be puzzled and be just
staring at them it’s like it doesn’t matter whether it was happened or not it changed my
life that remains a fact right so um that’s very important in regard to all magic okay in other
words and of course all fields of study for that matter all of them are fictional really they’re
just versions of the truth or or versions of something that are conveying some kind of truth
right so the real efficacy is really in whether or not it is a self-transformation tool whether
it changes your life and that’s why even a corrupted grimoire like the book of the sacred
magic of abraman the mage even a book like that has immense value to it and of course the original
members of the Golden Dawn knew that. They recognized it. I’m sure they knew that the
system of magic squares at the end of the book was kind of bogus and silly. I’m pretty sure they
were aware of that. So what is the Holy Guardian Angel? So supposedly, when somebody goes to the
Golden Dawn curriculum, they’re working their way up the Tree of Life. They start in the neophyte
grade, and they go to the earth grade, which is Malkuth. And they’re going up the Tree of Life
in a sort of zigzag pattern, and their goal is to reach Tepharoth, which is in the center of the
tree. The center of the tree of life also corresponds to the experience of the knowledge
and conversation of the holy guardian angel. Surprise, surprise. So if you were to successfully
navigate the outer order grades of the golden dawn, you would eventually reach the sphere of
the tree of life where contact with the holy guardian angel is possible, and that’s the sphere
of Tifareth. Now, the sphere of Tifareth is the sphere of beauty, but it’s the sphere of true
beauty, not misleading external beauty. It’s the beauty that comes from within. It’s also the
sphere of authenticity. Basically, the experience of the knowledge and conversation is you experiencing
yourself as you really and truly are okay there’s not really much of a self left when you do that
okay but of course there’s the fictional version of the self which is perfectly fine and we’ve
already established that fiction is very important and very powerful but it is still fiction so that
your idea of yourself is fictional but then of course you realize that now when you have that
experience and you really live it in your bones you make contact with an aspect of yourself which
is no longer affected by anything and that’s the dynamic stillness within dynamic still stillness
i’m getting that from the eastern traditions okay so and so um on the level of buria on the tree of
life buria is one of the four worlds of the kabbalah um there’s there are no forms on that
level of existence only pure substance let’s say right and so on that level of existence
um i would say that that’s where the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel emerges
and i’ve had i’ve heard people like eckhart tolle describe this where he has a sense of stillness
that seems to follow him around wherever he goes and sometimes it turns it it um it turns up the
volume it gets more intense and then it withdraws okay um i have that experience as well um and
and probably many of you do too. Okay. So if you listen to Led Zeppelin and your socks creep up
your legs, that’s already a, some kind of presence that it’s making itself felt, you know, um, that
that’s already how this magic sort of works. Okay. Um, but when it comes to the Holy garden angel,
this is the true you that is coming forth to assert itself. Okay. And that’s why sometimes
I say the holy guardian angel is very much like Plato described it in the Republic. It is this
entity that makes sure that you are true to your true self. Make sure that you, there’s an
assumption that you came to this earth to do something, or you arose out of the earth to do
something, and that you have a purpose here. And the holy guardian angel is what holds you to that
task. It says you’re not going to shrink away from this. Okay, it’s going to hold you to that task.
And so this is why many people say that the holy guardian angel is really just the real you, okay?
You can see it that way too, but it’s also this sort of spirit that says you’re going to do this,
you’re going to live your life as you, not as some version of it that’s been handed to you, okay?
So this thing that makes you be true to yourself, that’s it, okay?
So many of us already have an inkling of what that’s like, you know,
that we have a sense of cosmic guilt that comes over us when we are not being true to ourselves
even though we don’t know what that true self is and it’s so painful you know sometimes not to know
and people are telling me to be myself but I don’t know how to do how do I do that I don’t
know how to do that that’s why we do this magical work there’s a lot of there’s purification
required and so the sense of stillness it follows you around wherever you go well yeah it’s more
like you realize that the the movement of your body through the world is really just um a display
it’s not really happening that way okay only only in the relative world does it happen that way
so the sense of the angel following you around is not really like that it’s more like when you’re
walking around at night and the moon seems to follow you wherever you go that’s really more
the experience of the angel following you around it’s just always there in the background okay and
the really cool thing is that when some situation calls for you to really jump on your life’s
purpose, it’ll intensify and it’ll come over you. And it can be like a tingling sensation at the top
of the head or something like that, where it’ll come over you and then it’ll charge the atmosphere
around you. As a yetzeratic presence, the angel can come forth in some kind of form, which is
usually a beautiful form of some kind. It can manifest in various ways in dreams, okay? Once
again, that’s not really the angel itself. The angel itself is more a briatic presence, okay?
But of course, it might take on certain forms or speak to you or something like that in an audible
voice, at least in the astral realm or in the realm of dreams. And that’s the yetzeratic presence of
the angel, okay? And the kinds of things you get there, you would just notice them and let them go
because they’re not the angel itself they’re simply manifestations of the angel okay and then
the asiatic presence is the the tingling that comes over you in other words this is the material
world when your own authenticity turns its own volume up and the urgency to be truly who you are
it becomes more intensified this is the experience of the angel let’s say it’s kind of funny too
because the angel can be experienced as something that’s always behind you pushing you forward
saying you’re going to be you’re going to be who you are right so you never really see it it’s like
behind you and it’s just making you it’s it’s basically saying you’re going to do this aren’t
you okay just remember who you are who and what you really are that’s kind of the experience of
the angel as i understand it okay and it is very much in accord with everything in on the tree of
life and kabbalah and golden dawn okay and this is so this is the experience you’re after pretty
much and uh you have to remember that the golden dawn uses all these fantastic aspects of the
universe earth air fire water light darkness space um so that you make sure you you’re processing
all of the karmic baggage that you have associated with all of these aspects of experience
okay not only earth air fire water but also various perspectives various intelligences
such as you know the intelligence of venus or the intelligence of mars or things like that right
you’re also practicing you’re also processing your evolutionary baggage in terms of all of
these forces and that’s why a comprehensive system of cosmology is required in magic so
every aspect of the karmic realm can be recognized for what what it really is and once you get that
complete picture things just settle into place and you have that dynamic stillness following you
around and sort of blessing everything or or making everything into a charmed life okay it’s
not all roses because it’s gonna the things you the things that you believe you have to do like
your reason for living, right? It’s not necessarily going to be easy. All right, I hope that was clear
and I’m glad that the computer didn’t crash. Let’s see if some evil demons intervene and
keep me from uploading this video. All right, so until next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher