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Do you do magic, or does magic do you? That is the quietly unsettling question at the heart of this lesson from Lyam Christopher. A grimoire, he explains, is really a book of spirits rather than a grim textbook of advanced rituals. In the old days, a magician would meet a spirit, receive its name and its strange drawn signature called a sigil, and write both down so the friendship could be called on again. That friendship, he says, is exactly why such spirits were called familiars: they were made familiar.
What is a spirit, then? This is where the wonder deepens. He walks through the old idea of the imp, a garden word that once meant a new shoot growing from a mother root, and shows how a demon appearing outside the magic circle is like that: a smaller outward sprout of a much deeper force. The great false choice, are spirits only inside your head or truly out there, he calls a wound too. Borrowing from the Grail legend, he pictures the Fisher King suffering a wound that split him from his own land, the same split that separates mind from world. Healing it begins with the Romantic view that your imagination is not inside you; you are inside the imagination.
Then the lesson turns wonderfully practical. The fears and longings that haunt us, from a near miss in traffic to an old terror of snakes, are spirits asking to be made peace with. A magician gives them a name and a form, thanks them for sharing, and either befriends them or lets them dissolve back into the vast mind that holds us all. He offers three gentle questions as the real ritual: what do you want, what do you truly need, and how will you feel when you truly get it? The slow unhaunting of the psyche is the same quiet course laid out in Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation, and the goal is beautifully simple: little by little, to become the one who does the magic instead of the one being done.
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Alright, it is Sunday evening, and it is time for another recording.
This week, we are talking about the true nature of grimoires.
The first time I heard this word, it was spoken by a British author, so I started pronouncing it grimoire, because British people tend not to pronounce their R’s.
I guess the Americanized pronunciation is grimoire.
Alright, so what is a grimoire?
First, we should start with a question.
Do you do magic?
or does magic do you and what i’d like to propose is that a magician’s personal grimoire is a means
of gaining control of magic and keeping the magic from controlling him or her okay we’re
going to revisit this question later so many people say well the grimoires are mainly advanced
magical textbooks. Grimoires are multiple things, but I do have to say, as I’ve said before, that
Western magic in Europe pretty much is a debased form of magic that appears to come from some kind
of authentic tradition in the past, but it got corrupted over time. And so the various techniques
of magic were leaked into a non-initiated public more or less and then taken and sold you know
reworked packaged sold and proliferated through the clerical underworld of the medieval times
and the original nature of the magic um it still exists pretty much unadulterated in some of the
eastern traditions like tantric shivism and tibetan buddhism but even in those conditions
traditions it has become somewhat debased and corrupted you know along various lineages
and so you’re lucky if you find you know a teacher who has a legitimate attainment in the tradition
much less in the western tradition and what i have to say is that the the golden dawn
system of magic the way that i learned it was essentially or is essentially a restoration
of magic to its proper form a system of initiation or assist a system that presents a means of
achieving enlightenment in a single lifetime it’s essentially a tantra of the west and what you’ll
find is that the magic of the west bears many resemblances to tantric shivism and tibetan
tantric buddhism and i wonder if they sort of arose from the same practices maybe in some kind
of you know mother tongue of magic somewhere i don’t know but the principles of the achievement
of enlightenment are are universal because they’re based on how this human nervous system works
how the human nervous system deceives us into entering a world of suffering or it deceives
us into identifying with this sort of outward world of physicality supposed physicality anyway
um so the uh i wouldn’t say that the grimoires are advanced i would say they tend to be more
individualized so you might see that some magician in the distant past created for himself or herself
a book of spirits and how he is to conjure them so you might imagine he might get in contact with
a particular spirit and then the spirit would say oh hello you’ve happened across me if you would
like to talk to me again this is my name and here’s the sigil by which you can call me up to
a visual appearance again to call me forth okay and then the magician would write down the name
and and draw the sigil uh so that he could conjure that spirit again and that spirit
supposedly gave the magician various powers through a uh through its friendship now that
friendship uh friendship to become friends with the spirit is simply to become familiar with it
so you get on familiar terms with the spirit and it therefore becomes your one of your familiars
or your one of your familiar spirits so you begin to see where magic comes from it comes from this
sort of spirit work um what you might find surprising is that um a flat out system of
just meditation kind of accomplishes the same thing as the magician who draws a magic circle
and conjures spirits to appear outside of it and inside of it uh so we’ll talk about that in a bit
okay uh so is a grimoire a more advanced system of magic that you should only read later on
no it’s more of a system of magic that was originally uh individualized it was really
only for the magician himself to keep as a record for himself, for conjuring up various spirits.
When you meet a spirit, the name it gives you and the sigil it gives you would very likely be
different from a sigil or a name it gives me. It doesn’t mean that you and I can’t contact the
same spirit. We most certainly can, but you have to get to know what a spirit actually is before
we start to talk about whether you know you and i can contact the same spirit we most certainly can
but we’ll get to what a spirit actually is okay so is it advanced no not really but once you get
to an advanced level you will very likely create a book of spirits for yourself okay or at least
maybe keep a system of i don’t know index cards or something like that so is a grimoire a book of
Spells? Not really. As you probably already know, ceremonial magicians don’t cast spells.
Wiccans supposedly do. But if you think about what a spell really means, if I call upon a spirit,
I use its name. So I sound out its name. I spell out its name. And a lot of times these words of
power are like you know made of hebrew letters or or just a bunch of consonants and you sort of
lay out the consonants in front of you and you spell them out or say them especially in the
enochian system a bunch of like um just garbled letters like stacked together and you create a
word out of them and so you’re kind of spelling out the name of the demon and or the spirit and
it supposedly will appear so um and then some somehow out of that comes the idea of casting a
spell well to spell out the name of a demon is really what you’re doing um and really it’s the
name yes which helps to conjure forth a spirit that you’ve met before but i would say it’s it’s
the imagery it’s the image that’s more powerful book of spells here’s another wizard or another
this is my diablo 4 sorcerer okay or rather frightening looking i might say but diablo 4
is kind of a scary game uh and if anybody wants to join me on diablo 4 that is my profile number
you can friend me on diablo 4 and maybe we can play a game together the wiccans or the folk
witches have the tradition of the book of shadows but i have to say that many uh witches have a
better idea of what a grimoire should be i think uh basically a book of shadows or book of images
okay and the um wiccans have the idea of shadow work which many ceremonial magicians also have
which i i would really like it if more ceremonial magicians had the idea of shadow work that
basically comes from um something that carl jung put forth uh when you um call forth uh the
troublesome aspects of your own psyche supposedly the things that are troubling you so that you can
call them up to make peace with them because that’s that’s essentially a demon summoning
okay and so uh i guess i’m sorry ceremonial magicians but the witches have uh kind of a
better take on this um at least when they have their the book of shadows is basically a book
of troublesome spirits uh that they are calling up to um to make peace with them to uh and to
draw power from them okay and so we’ll get to what they actually are what is a spirit
and the golden dawn in the neophyte initiation ceremony i believe it’s the hegemon that says
by names and images all are all powers awakened and reawakened this is the key to magical
work particularly in regard to demon summoning or angel summoning there isn’t much difference
by the way okay at least not at first so there comes this idea of the imp now an imp is supposedly
a little demon so what i’d like to propose is that any demon or spirit that you conjure outside
your magical circle is going to be an imp and uh the reason for that is is because the word imp
comes from a uh agricultural word an old agricultural world this is from old english
an imp or an impay an imp was a basically a daughter plant that arose from a a mother plant
okay so in other words there’s a big demon who basically uh manifests itself outside its own
circle as a little demon a little imp okay and supposedly you know the so the imp is like a
little offshoot of a some kind of master demon okay or you might say satan himself is the master
demon and he spawns all these imps something like that right well so uh you know is when you work
with archangels and angels and elemental spirits and demons are they merely psychological complexes
or do they actually exist objectively out there in the world um that question itself
basically displays a lack of initiation and i get that question quite a lot uh in response to the
videos okay uh so i think i’ve answered it already in the discussions the that the question itself
um is a demon just inside your head or is it really out there in the world this either or
scenario is a false dilemma, and that results from the wound of Amphitas. The wound of Amphitas
is a mythical wound that the Fisher King receives. Essentially what the wound of Amphitas is,
is a separation of the person or the king, the king from the land. So the separation of the ego
from the rest of the universe is the wound of Amphitas. And that’s basically just the split
between mind and body. So this belief that you are this mind inside your body, and there’s a
big bad world out there. This is what’s creating the necessity for you to ask that question.
Is the demon just inside my own head, inside my little psyche, or is it out there in the world
out there. Now, in order to heal the wound of Amphartas, it’s rather simple. The king must be
reunited to the land. And so, like in many of the old traditions, supposedly, the king would
be sacrificed. The king is dead. Long live the king. The king would be sacrificed. Well,
ritually, yeah. So, he would die, but that basically means just being reabsorbed back
into the land or into the goddess so what the king had to do was his ego had to die and he
had to acknowledge that he was merely an extension of the land okay so he was or an extension of the
goddess uh why do i bring this up well uh it’s very important um to acknowledge uh that the
question about the reality of demons comes from this um duality of mind versus body or
or me versus the universe okay in order to fix that problem of i’m stuck in i’m this little
person inside here and there’s a big bad universe out there um simply adopt the romantic worldview
and the romantic worldview is that essentially that the imagination is not inside you you
are inside the imagination so this body that you supposedly have that you think you are
is actually being imagined by something by the mind of the universe uh and so you uh and you
alongside it or within it or around it are also imagining yourself possibly operating inside it
or within it but you aren’t limited to that and so when you have personal demons let’s say you
were abused as a child or something like that um yeah those are kind of personal they come from
your like personal history okay but they also resonate with much deeper forms of trauma shared
by everyone all around you okay and we uh so not only do we have our own personal demons which sort
of hover near us or or supposedly within you uh but there are also demons all throughout the
magical universe that uh not only are you traumatized but the entire universe has been
exploded in the big bang supposedly that the whole place is traumatized and there are demons
everywhere okay so yeah you deal with some personalized personalistic demons but those
demons even though they seem personal to you they actually resonate and are connected to deeper
scars or deeper traumas born by the entire human race born by all of the mammals born by all of the
animals all of the life forms on the planet the planet itself and of course the greater universe
which also appears to be alive at least in potential okay i don’t know if i’m answering
that question or not like are they inside you or are they out there yes both are true can we both
contact the same spirit yes sort of uh and if you’re working with you know spirits and things
like that um they will affect the circumstances of your life and yes the people around you
of course yeah and of course um i think people who have the same types of looming spirits will
attract others who have the same kind of works that way and so this idea that like in this little
picture here the shadow is being originated entirely from the mind of the kid well no but
in order for demons to arise they do need a little bit of help from your own sort of personal
imagination your brain consciousness so yeah you do some initial work to give them a form it’s
almost like there’s this spiritual force out there that says well i’m really kind of vague and and i
exist as potential but sometimes i arise in your behaviors and in other forms as well what i’d
really like for you to do is give me some kind of form by which you can now you know converse with
me and then um maybe come to terms with um what i’m trying to do in your life as i screw it up
basically right and so it does help to um come up with some of your own imagery once you get skilled
at that uh and then uh so the the spirit says aha so i see you have you have some skill with magic
or with literature or with art and you have some images that are sort of ready-made that i can sort
of adopt and take on i might assemble several of them to create a form so i can now talk to you
and you can talk to me okay so uh yes a magician does learn some of the tricks of magic at first
as far as all kinds of different forms of correspondence different names of power
different mythologies different images and eventually as he develops his skill with working
with the psyche the psyche of the universe begins to come forth and pretty much put on these various
forms and names so that he can now have this sort of dualistic dialogue going on with it okay now
why would he want to have some kind of dualistic dialogue duality is not real right there’s there’s
very important reason for that all right so is this kid generating his own demon like um
no but he’s participating in that demon’s ability to appear uh before him and now some kind of magic
can happen right now that he’s conjured up and normally the idea of a magician who conjures a
spirit is like well you conjure the spirit and interrogate it and derive some secrets from it
and it gives you it teaches you secrets of magic and then you uh you give the spirit license to
depart and it goes away sulking okay yeah it’s not exactly what happens but it’s pretty close
this comes from one of the articles i wrote in forbidden realms so the guy is sitting here
meditating and as he meditates some kind of fearful scenario arises as a spirit fear of snakes
um the things that trouble us in meditation or and in our regular lives always involve
fearful scenarios or desire scenarios that’s why demons are both frightening and violent
and seductive both fear and desire are what cause humans both what cause humans to suffer
And so spirits take on the forms of fearful imagery or desirous imagery, tempting imagery.
And so when you are doing this work with spirits, what eventually dawns on you is that, wait a second, there’s always this one spirit in the room that I can’t ever seem to quite get a handle on.
okay so i always seem to be focusing outward on whatever’s arising outside my magic circle
but then suddenly at some point you realize that wait a second in order to confront this imp on the
on the outside of my magic circle there’s also me who has arisen here inside the magic circle
so that this confrontation can happen then eventually and this is a this can come as
quite a shock to your system that you realize that you are a spirit too or you are a demon yourself
that has arisen kind of like um that thing that appeared outside of your magic circle is a
manifestation of trauma either experienced by you or experienced by the human race you know many
generations ago or possibly even experienced by some kind of previous life form we have many
horrific scenarios embedded in our cell memory which can come to the surface when we do magic
and many of these scenarios embedded in our cell memory continue to haunt us okay so let me give
an example here you’re driving your car in traffic and you do you do something dumb you cut somebody
off oops and that person beeps at you and almost hits you right and swerves and almost hits somebody
else something like that and then you realize i think that was my fault oh my god but everybody’s
okay but for some reason for several more miles you can’t stop thinking about it it’s like was i
really at fault the other guy was probably an asshole you know like he probably did something
wrong right or was i at fault and you keep reliving that scenario over and over now you’re
That’s not happening deliberately. It’s happening compulsively. So what’s happening is that scenario
is now haunting you. It’s basically coming after you saying, hey, excuse me, you need to come to
terms with what just happened so that it doesn’t trouble you again. So it’s not going to happen
again. It’s like an instinct, okay? So it crops up and says, you need to make peace with this
scenario and learn from it. Otherwise, I’m just going to keep bothering you until you do. It’s
of the way the psyche works okay it’s it’s the way the nervous system works maybe but really it’s
kind of the way the universe works all right so um and if you let’s say you pull over to the side of
the road it’s a little bit extreme but you pull over to the side of the road and you um process
the scenario and you say you know what i did screw up there i did make a mistake back there in
traffic uh and from now on i’m going to check that uh not only check the rear view mirror on the
the right but also glance over my shoulder something like that okay and then so the spirit
that’s haunting you that wanted you to basically say hey you need to figure out something for this
scenario says okay you’ve now acknowledged my fear um and i no longer need to possess you and
take you over uh to force you to make peace with me you’ve done it you’ve deliberately done it
yourself you’ve made peace with uh what happened and you’re moving on and it kind of disintegrates
of course um that that won’t be the last you’ve heard of that particular spirit okay now that
particular spirit is not just unique to that situation there are many other times where human
beings can screw up and the same kind of spirit’s going to arise again and say hey you just did
something you need to address it and move on okay and there are many scenarios like this not only
from this life or this generation but also from deep in our evolutionary past where we’ve screwed
something up made a mistake and um you know other life forms died or we died and uh the scenario
comes after you to um to get you to learn or confront something okay so um it might be a
little bit kind of i don’t know a letdown to describe spirits in that way but remember that
these kinds of screw-ups happen on a cosmic scale too and there are forces always kind of like
tapping each other on the shoulder trying to reconcile trying to get other forces to reconcile
with them okay and so yeah you have all kinds of stuff that you possibly inherited from the past
some traumatic scenarios that you’ve inherited that you never experienced as a person in this
life in this generation but they’re still there in cell memory and they’re haunting you and you
kind of can’t let them go or or be free of them and unless you conjure them up and basically
acknowledge what they’re trying to show you i think a really good example is fear of snakes
uh i just it’s astonishes me i think we’re starting to grow out of it now but it just
astonishes me like when people come across they come across a snake in the yard it’s like oh yeah
we killed it so what do you mean you killed it you killed that but we we found a snake and we
killed it that’s that’s what you do right i think wait oh okay so in other words a fear demon took
you over and forced you to compulsively kill the snake um so if you were to actually confront that
demon you would you would basically say you want me to kill this other life form um compulsively
hold on a second um i’m looking at this snake it’s not venomous thank you for sharing but you
you need to turn up only in places where or at times when it is appropriate and it is not
appropriate for you to compel me to kill this snake because it’s not venomous and then the
spirit goes oh right of course so now we’re learning to to basically only go after the
venomous ones okay and and that spirit might even be thankful says oh thank you now okay
so i’ll only crop up when it’s venomous or i’ll every time there’s a snake i’m going to warn you
i’m going to i’m going to sort of try to take you over to possess you and get you to kill it but
then you can um stay my hand now that you know me you might even give me a name right fear of snakes
um you might you might stop me from taking you over and say hold on a second there’s no need
to compulsively kill a snake here okay and so that spirit becomes more on friendly terms with you
uh and it won’t take you over so much anymore but the interesting thing is that when there is
a venomous snake inside the house you might very well want to kill it okay because then it’s a
legitimate threat at least if it’s in the inside the house right all right um all right so that’s
uh and of course so when you conjure a spirit like that you either make friends with it and
you know it’ll keep coming back it says oh uh another snake should i give you energy and power
so that you can strike at it and kill it or uh are you going to send me away because it’s not
poisonous something like that right uh so it eventually uh the spirit of fear that tries to
take you over will get weaker and weaker because you’re quite capable of rationally deciding whether
you’re going to kill the snake or not you don’t need to be compelled to do so in a sort of dumb
stupid way so eventually that that demon won’t come back anymore and it’ll be gone okay so um
What we do with these spirits or demons as they arise is we either dissolve them or we make friends with them.
They become familiar, familiar spirits.
And when we do that, we can actually make some effort to give them some kind of form and some kind of name so that we can understand them better.
And so we can recognize them when they crop up.
Because every time one of these urges kind of compulsively tries to take you over, you can’t really recognize it.
It just happens unless you have a form and a name by which you are capable of objectifying it and recognizing it.
All right.
Now, the interesting thing is that in order for this sort of dialogue to happen between you and the spirit,
there also is this other spirit that arises within you which is called the ego which is also
impulsive it’s a compulsive um a compulsive vehicle that allows itself to become possessed
by the fear demon or the desire demon all right and not only do you learn to dissolve the spirits
outside your circle but eventually you realize i can also dissolve the ego spirit and inside
the magic circle this is not a spoiler alert it’s still when you when you realize in in your very
bones that the ego itself is a demon that’s summoned into existence it’s a it’s a shock to
your system uh it’s truly a frightening experience and it’s very much akin to the plot twist that
happens in the sixth sense if you’ve seen that movie spoiler alert um the main character played
played by bruce willis is a psychologist who’s helping a kid who can see dead people and what
we don’t realize until the end of the film is that uh bruce willis is actually already dead
but when he realizes finally that he’s dead and he’s been talking to this kid it’s a shock and
that that shock that he experiences i’m already dead is really the reason it’s so resonates so
strongly with us and why the movie is such a masterpiece is because it’s the same shock we get
when we realize that the persona that we’ve been compulsively becoming doesn’t really exist it’s
just a spirit that’s gone that’s being compulsively pushed up into existence and then the fact that
it can just dissolve right here and right now it’s terrifying and i’ll be dead i’ll die if that
happens then what and so um like i said when the ego dissolves um it’s like it feels like you’re
dying and all that remains then is the persona so in other words i use the word ego just to
describe something unconscious that compulsively arises to confront this or that um demon in some
kind of dualistic scenario okay um when the the compulsive ego dies um you can still arise in your
personal form but you do it consciously now and so there really is no ego anymore they’re just
there’s just the persona okay and this is supposed once that happens permanently you’re supposedly
enlightened okay uh so and what happens you know on the way is that you spend less and less time
in ego mode and the ego really begins to dissipate and there are times when you might be sitting on
the couch and there’s no ego and suddenly you’re thirsty and oh the thirst demon has come up thank
you for sharing and yes the body is thirsty uh so thank you for serving me i’ll go get a drink of
water or have some tea and uh and then of course i once my uh thirst is sated uh i’ll thank the
spirit for sharing and give it license to depart be there peace between me and thee and be he ready
to come when called this is really the way that the adept sort of lives might sound strange and
so if you or once you get good at conjuring spirits in this way like i’m giving them some
kind of objective form so that you can talk to them you do this so that you can really work
through these traumatic scenarios one by one in a sort of controlled fashion and eventually they’ll
either dissolve or they’ll just get on very friendly terms with you okay and these traumatic
scenarios they take on some kind of personified or animal form or spirit form um they give you
energy first of all if you if they dissolve entirely and never bother you again all the
energy that was being pushed out into them creating that sort of haunting scenario out there
is reabsorbed becomes yours it’s not being taken up and and you know trapped inside that scenario
anymore it becomes yours and you’re free of it and you have more energy yeah so the more things
that haunt you and chase after you the more your vitality is drained okay so the more the more
ghosts you have from your past um the more drained your vitality is they really are vampiric but
basically it’s because you are they’re just kind of um your own being is divided into all these
separate bits that are all at war with each other trying to make peace okay and one by one you
dissolve those they they um or get on friendly terms with them okay uh and when you’re on friendly
terms with the spirit it will give you its power to do various things in various scenarios okay
and so look at some of these names he’s come from various grimoires grimoires um i have various
grimoires here this is the key of solomon as published by mcgregor mathers uh the grimoire
of armadel these are all like renaissance and medieval grimoires the arbitel of magic which
has the olympic planetary spirits in it which is pretty cool it’s got these sigils so we’re going
to talk about sigils in a bit oops there various sigils for conjuring these planetary spirits
apparently this is the version of the goetia which many people ask me about now the goetia
and the lesser key of solomon they pretty much arose from the corrupted form of the grimoires
from the past um so they even arose from various form uh catalogs of demons that were comprised
to debunk magic or to criticize magic and uh and the various spirits and demons taken from those
catalogs of demons uh they were they were taken from sources that were compiled to sort of make
fond of magic but it doesn’t matter because um they were these are culturally derived names they
kind of have it’s a bit of history to them and what you’ll notice here is that um these the
names of these various demons here they come from various grimoires okay um golmarie so if you were
to conjure spirit something appears to you um and you ask it to tell it your name its name uh it
might tell you it was something might come up okay uh and if it doesn’t you can kind of give it a
name and that’s kind of the same thing so if you if you end up giving it a name it’s kind of the
same thing is it telling you the name okay it’s you’re co-creating with the spirit out there at
the same time okay uh so the funny thing is that when you if you think you’re making all this stuff
up well where does it come from come from you you don’t really exist it comes from the psyche
so whether it comes from the spirit or from you it’s still going to be meaningful okay but you
know the the more skill you develop with magic the more you allow the psyche of the universe to speak
to you without you having to sort of force it and like you know um put a name on top of it until
it’s willing to tell you its name something like that all right uh yeah so the the real initiation
for somebody doing work with spirits and demons is that you develop the ability that allows the
imagination or the psyche of the universe to speak to you artists know how to do this you know when
you know when writers write fiction sometimes they say well i didn’t really write it the main
character told me what to say the main character came like when anne rice finished her um vampire
chronicles uh what she claimed is that um i didn’t really intend to finish them but then
the vampire lestat came to me and basically wanted me to tell the rest of the story and so i did
might even be true interesting and my favorite grimoire still not really uh it’s still a debased
form of magic i think um but as this is the um the sacred magic of abramalin the mage yes this
is the older six months version i know there’s a newer version not too fond of the new version
it’s because it tries to get everything correct um there is no correct in magic um except in terms
of initiation um the pattern in the in this book is very good for the work before you’re an adept
and then the work after you’re an adept it kind of shows you what you should do once you achieve
the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel whatever that means okay so once
you have some uh you have attained at least the grade of five equal six in the golden dawn this
kind of tells you what the next step is yeah but even so you’ve got these towards the end you have
these series of magical squares which are you know spelling out the names of spirits casting spells
right um that whole system is very fanciful and i don’t know what who wrote this it’s kind of like
they took a system of magic that they knew had some validity to it it had already become corrupted
over time and they kind of just you know packaged it and say well let’s make a let’s make a magic
book out of this um and then i don’t know publish it somewhere karanzan that is a spirit that i have
met. That comes from the Enochian system. Supposedly, Alistair Crowley wrestled with
Karanzan. Karanzan is essentially the spirit that exists underneath you, ready to devour you,
or the spirit of the abyss, which is ready to devour you. And a lot of these names of spirits
come from old pagan deities. Baal, I think, was one from, it’s an old Hebrew god when the Hebrews
were still pagan um asteroth i can i think it comes from a starday or something like that
paimon appears in the movie hereditary very um horror one of the most horrifying horror movies
i’ve ever seen um paimon paimon has comes from the lesser key of solomon i believe or from the
goetia abraxis is an old spirit from um gnostic times but once again when you uh meet a spirit
it might take one of these names maybe pulled from your studies in magic it might combine names
together okay it’s amazing um or let’s say if you have um a spirit of that represents the fear of
drowning okay or the basically that would be the spirit of mastery over uh swimming underwater
okay in other words you need to get over your fear of drowning in order to really swim underwater
and enjoy the water watery environment um that spirit might take some kind of name that sounds
like gurgling or something like that right maybe or it might sound like water it might have a water
like sound to you uh you never know how these things might pop up in your imagination and we
have the sigils so when you meet a spirit supposedly it will tell you its name or you
will give it a name it’s kind of the same thing and um by names and images are all powers awakened
and reawakened so there will be a sigil also that you can use which was probably more potent
now the interesting thing about the sigil is that it’s better to think of um if there is a traumatic
scenario uh or uh you know from uh that’s deeply embedded in cell memory let’s say or it’s cosmic
you know embedded in your cell memory um in order to experience that challenging scenario of fear
or desire um you kind of have to reimagine it okay but some of these um traumatic scenarios are
scenarios are so uh deeply embedded from maybe they might come to us all the way back from
primordial times when we were single-celled life forms they could be that old so they’re no longer
vivid. They’re just kind of abstract. We don’t really know what that is, but they’re always
dualistic. There’s always something I’m escaping from. There’s always something I’m bothered by,
or there’s something I want, something I need, something I desire, like running away from
predators, fear, or chasing after food, something I need, right? Also fear of the environment,
like something like you know fear of lightning or storms or things like that uh so these fears can
be so deeply embedded that they are all that remains of them as abstractions but the outward
sigil is going to sort of conjure up that that tension that exists between you and it whatever
that is okay so um a lot of times uh so if you’re dealing with a traumatic scenario from this life
like let’s say you were traumatized as a child it might be better just to re-imagine that scenario
okay but you could also create a sigil that’s sort of abstract that conjures up that scenario
more succinctly for you so you don’t have to play a whole movie in your head
you can kind of condense that movie into a single sigil that can now conjure up that um
that challenge that you faced at the time okay and so once
this is how you would conjure up the spirit of that challenge so you could then make peace with
it and either befriend it or dissolve it poof gone so a method for conjuring spirits conjuring
demons um is presented by me in a an article called meditation versus ritual magical evocation
part two and this is in the publication forbidden realms and there’s a link to that in the
description box below the video in this article i disclose a technique for conjuring a demon okay
i give two versions i give the hardcore version which is magic circle and magical spell or magical
ritual and um the light version which is basically done through writing and so anybody who’s doing
the kabbalah magic curriculum really shouldn’t be doing any practical magic yet or demon summoning
at least not directly, because the LBRP does tend to prod demons to appear, as we’ve discussed in
an earlier video, you can still do the light version of magical evocation. Because essentially,
when you do work in your magical journal, that’s what you’re doing. Things that bother you,
you label them, and you reimagine them, right? You imagine them and you label them. It’s like,
oh i think that’s an i think that’s an empowerment issue oh why do i feel so weak when that happens
oh it’s like and so it’s some kind of empowerment spirit that you’re dealing with you can give it
so by names and images are all powers dealt with and so you kind of come up with a word for it
and the imagery of what happened is you’re now beginning to explore how demon magic works
as you do your magical journal work all right so in the article meditation versus ritual part two
i do uh give a light version which you could do and of course the hardcore version which
involves drawing a magic circle and all that stuff um that’s also presented there and the
interesting thing about that is um when people conjure uh demons there’s always this sort of
like wow you conjure the demon and then you interrogate it and then it gives you secret
magical powers right but um there are three questions um that you can ask a spirit once
it has taken on a form and it has a name uh and those questions are what do you want what do you
truly need and how will you feel when you get what you truly need there that’s not so much of
an interrogation now is it okay and then there’s more involved with that so you basically it will
end up then feeding that demon what it needs and you can see what might happen when you do that
because once it becomes sated satisfied it might just go away forever dissolve and never bother
you again yeah you can do this with a lot of demons actually even the ones that haunt all
of humanity not only when they dissolve do they give you energy but you can you might also just
make friends with them and and as they crop up they kind of materialize again and say oh you’ve
got a situation here should i would do you want me to give you my power in other words do you want
me to possess you and take you over um and then you can basically um use that power if you’re
unfriendly conscious terms with them yeah it’s just not really all that mysterious because if
you think of a kung fu master they have four or five different spirit forms that
they use to be to become really powerful as the adepts of kung fu fighting the
tiger the dragon the snake the crane and I think there’s a leopard in there too
there’s like five of them I’m sure there are others but you’ll notice that these
Animal forms are frightening, traumatic spirit animals for the most part.
Humans were probably at one point hunted by saber-toothed lions or saber-toothed tigers.
And there were also cave bears, which are also…
Bears are still pretty dangerous, but cave bears must have been really bad.
And I think humans thought that they were so awful that they pretty much hunted them to extinction.
Yeah, humans have a very strong tendency to kill anything that kills humans.
But anyway, these various spirits are basically traumatic scenarios from our evolutionary past that you can make peace with, make friends with, and borrow their power.
And to quite stunning effect when it comes to the Kung Fu arts.
okay eventually as the kung fu master gets older he dissolves the spirits entirely and then that’s
really interesting stuff can happen then because he can a kung fu a true kung fu master can defeat
someone without fighting at all by simply overpowering that person with presence humility
compassion and because all these spirits have now been completely mastered and dissolved there are
other spirits too other than animal spirits spirits of the land spirits of flood and fire
this is why we conjure the elements because there’s wind storms and fire and flood and
avalanches lightning strikes these are all traumatic dangerous forces that we also need
to come to terms with not just animals so do you do magic or does magic do you remember that the
psyche exists not inside of you you exist inside the psyche and most humans run around possessed
by the various unresolved traumas that exist out there in the universe kind of roaming around
waiting to possess you to to get you to either confront them and make peace with them or just
compulsively act them out again so if you are a typical human then magic just just does you
it simply possesses you and takes you over makes you yell when you and of course afterwards you’re
like i can’t believe i don’t know what came over me i’m so sorry um a magician isn’t like that
magician is somebody who has mastered that who cannot be taken over in many cases anymore
by any spirit all right well i hope this helps um once again i’m worried about whether i’ve just
made uh the subject of grimoire’s fuzzier than it’s ever been for some people um and remember
when i when i describe magic as psychological um yeah that’s fine because the psyche does not exist
inside you it’s not brain consciousness uh it’s the consciousness of the universe okay so you
yourself are being imagined you are not imagining things okay yes you can imagine things with your
brain consciousness that imagination that kind of imagination is relatively weak um but it’s
possible for you to participate in that greater imagination where things are much more powerful,
much more vivid, much more energetic. Yeah, you can awaken in that realm and then operate in that
realm. That is the realm of the superpowered adept. All right, until next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher