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Can a person really build an astral being in their own mind? Lyam Christopher takes up the question with both fascination and careful honesty. He begins with the story of a traveler in Tibet and an X-Files episode, two very different places where the same idea of a tulpa appeared. The popular version says we can forge an entity by concentrated imagining, and many students pour enormous effort into creating these inner servants.
His Golden Dawn view is a gentle reversal. Thoughtforms, he says, already exist because the mind is already crowded with shapes, and a servitor is less a new creature than an image that lets us speak with a force that was already there. We are not so much inventors as discoverers, fashioning masks through which existing presences can appear. The effort, then, shifts from forcing something into being to learning how to recognize what is already present.
The wonder is that this requires less labor and more attention. Rather than manufacturing an entity and demanding it obey, the initiate shapes an image, offers it meaning, and notices what answers. It is a quieter, older kind of magic, closer to conversation than construction. By the end, the lesson feels like a door opening onto a room made of imagination that has always been inhabited, waiting only for our willingness to listen.
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This week, we are talking about servitors and thought forms. Someone suggested I do a video on Tulpamancy, and I was pretty sure I knew what that was, but I had to look it up just to be sure.
I do recall an X-Files episode where there was a Tulpa that made its appearance. And of course, when I saw that episode of the X-Files back in the 90s, I distinctly remember, it’s like, oh yeah, Tulpa, I know what that is.
Many people who have learned about tulpas probably read Alexandra David-Neal’s account of her travels through Tibet in, gosh, what is that, the early 1900s, I think it was.
She was quite an adventurous woman, traveled through Tibet pretty much on her own with guides and servants and things like that, but pretty much a woman traveling on her own.
Obviously, very hardy and strong enough to do that.
And she encountered many interesting phenomena in Tibet in regard to the spiritual practices, the various lamas and the magicians and now jorpas.
And she gives an account of her using a Tibetan technique to create a thought form in the mind, which is called a tulpa.
Some people claim that the version of the tulpa that she came up with or that she presented
is basically a misrepresentation of what a tulpa actually is.
I tend to doubt it, but I don’t know.
I never lived in Tibet, especially around that time.
So Tulpamancy now feeds in great measure off of her account of the creation of a tulpa or a thought form.
she created an entity in her imagination that eventually through a lot of work took on a life
of its own and began to take on personality characteristics that she did not intend
and somebody in her tour group apparently claimed to have even seen it like manifest in some kind of
vision or possibly even materially and this thought form which she created in her imagination
it began to appear in her thoughts and in her visions and in sometimes to her waking eyes
and took on a life of its own okay and now supposedly these entities that we
create in our imaginations can perform various functions for us sort of like a familiar spirit
and it like can we send it away to do tasks for us or can we implant a message in it and
it goes off and telepathically notifies a friend of the message that we intended to send these
kinds of things uh people claim to do in occultism so we’ll we will talk about what a a tulpa or a
servitor or a thought form is okay and hopefully demystify it to a large degree this is not so
difficult or unusual a concept we actually hear about these things quite often so let’s just go to
the idea of the servitor it’s just not in chaos magic i think uh maybe peter carroll and people
like him have been credited with coming up with this idea of the servitor an entity that you
create in your mind that serves a particular function or sir or performs a service for you
somehow manifesting things in your life for you okay um this idea is not really unique to
people like peter carroll uh i think even in enochian magic there’s the idea of the servient
angels they’re servitors the idea of a servitor is basically just a a spiritual entity that serves a
higher master okay so i guess the the idea is that uh the servitor is a thought form that is
a living entity that is now under your control because you created it and you are its master
okay you might begin to sense some echoes of the novel frankenstein or legends of the golem
and the harsh lessons or the the moral lessons that those works of literature supposedly teach
us okay or the arrogance of believing that you can create an entity and then have it do things
for you. Okay. And, you know, some people would say, oh, only God can create an entity. How dare
you assume that you can do such a thing? Well, this definition of servitor comes from Dr. Angela
Puka from her YouTube channel, Angela Symposium, kind of ripped it off from her and just straight
off the YouTube. And the definition of a servitor here, I wanted to quote it because it is a pretty
good example of an academic sort of dry academic definition of what a servient spirit is or
serviture okay an intentionally created metaphysical construct oh look look at that
there’s a typo oh well a metaphysical construct designed to perform specific tasks functioning
as bridges between the metaphysical and the psychological realms sorry Angela I misquoted
do um slight typo there um and the the the way this comes across to me is very dried up it’s
not very not a very soulful explanation of what a servitor is i don’t even necessarily like the word
servitor okay and the reason i react to this a bit harshly is because there’s something of the
fantasy of a robot here. Like I can assemble a robot entity in my mind to do things for me and
it performs exactly to my specifications. It’s very scientistic somehow, isn’t it? And yet magic
doesn’t necessarily operate in the realm of science so much. I would rather say that science
is a sub-genre of magic magic being a much larger endeavor than anything academic and anything
scientific okay and so if we wanted to restore this idea of topomancy or work with servient
spirits if we want to restore that back to the larger romantic realm of magic sort of rescue it
from science we could change the definition but still you know maintain some level of sanity or
modernity there so that we can understand it as modern people so uh i’m proposing a revision to
the definition of serviture okay this sort of broadens the definition too okay an image
stationed in the imagination that contributes to your overall ability to manifest your heart’s
desire. I just wrote that a few minutes ago. I suppose it’s okay. Notice how an image that is
stationed in the imagination, an image that arises in the imagination doesn’t necessarily
appear in any particular station because you deliberately created it. Most of us come
prepackaged with a host of images that are already stationed in place. We are not born a blank slate.
we have a lot of ingrained samskaras and vasanas from previous generations or maybe past lives
that are operating within us okay there are many entities already installed okay one easy way to
look at that is in terms of kabbalah or in terms of astrology where you have the planetary deities
already operating within your psyche sort of sort of conflicting with each
other or scheming like with each other against each other in an effort to
express themselves in your life okay that really is a more accurate way of
looking at a human being if you look at them as a blank slate and everything
that they have that they develop as a person is only learned in this
particular lifetime or generation that’s really rather absurd because we’re born
with a lot of habits fears instincts that come from somewhere else okay with
this the way we can see this magically is that we have entities already in our
imaginal space that are pre-installed that are already up and running that are
already doing things they’re already saying things they are already taking
possession of us they possess us yes when they are triggered they take control of us and we
we are not entirely conscious most of us are barely conscious at all okay so so an image that
is stationed in the imagination could be uh usually it’s just one that it’s already there
okay and because of life experiences they tend to morph and change over time new new images
might be installed that begin to operate and take control or do things and older images might fade
away or become others or they might evolve over time become something else okay the point is that
we were born already with a full cast of characters inside us okay we could just say we could just
decide that they are a bunch of planetary deities to keep it simple right or a bunch of sphere oath
in terms of Kabbalah or a bunch of Egyptian deities,
Egyptian god forms, as it were, right?
There are many ways of looking at it, okay?
It’s probably easier just to say that we are pluralistic entities.
We have multiple personalities within us that are sort of vying for control, okay?
Or that sometimes one becomes predominant and another one goes into abeyance.
And then, of course, the one that’s in abeyance becomes predominant
and another one steps aside, okay?
The interesting idea about the servitor
is that we have some control
over this cast of characters within us.
We can install new characters, okay?
Or better yet, we can acknowledge the ones
that are already there, that are already running things
and we can establish relationships with them, okay?
And we can possibly dissolve them or help them evolve,
help them become more nuanced over time
or we can make peace with them.
make friends with them. So let’s look at the various terms that have been used for these
servitors or thought forms, okay? There is, of course, the tulpa, which is a thought form,
pretty much an entity that is created through imagination, okay? It’s very interesting to
assume that you could create something, whole cloth, you know, to create something simply out
of thin air okay if you were to sit down and decide to create something this is this might
be hard to swallow okay but that’s basically the ego after the after it happens taking credit for
i did that i created that i decided to do that this is not how things happen okay so you might
think that you sat down and suddenly decided willy-nilly that you wanted to do something
but that that emergence of that thing you wanted to create has been building up for a long time
over time and it now has decided to come out and then the ego steps in after the fact and says oh
i decided to do that okay this is a hard thing to accept okay that that um what’s happening
with you and with me it’s not necessarily um the things that we do are not necessarily the things
that we decide to do right out of thin air okay it’s a very challenging concept too because it
challenges the notion of free will okay does free will actually exist seems to but does it
it’s a scary place to look but we’re not going to go into that here anyway this idea that you can
create a thought form all on your own is kind of silly because you don’t exist in a vacuum
you are not the god of this universe you are you are yourself a created thought form anyway okay
there’s also the homunculus this is from alchemy and it’s the originally the
homunculus was the an idea that you could create chemically like in a test
tube a little human being that combining the right chemicals together they would
form and then eventually evolved very quickly into this sort of miniature
human being okay over time the homunculus became something else it
became a more of an imagined entity. Okay, where you could
create a sort of mini me, if you wanted to say it that way,
right? Or even it became also noted as possibly even an
astral body. So you create an astral body that you can now
transfer your consciousness to, and then go off into other
astral worlds. This is kind of what happens. So when so when,
in other words, when you’re dreaming or, or astral projecting
somehow a body forms in that astral realm, and then you are imagining yourself inhabiting
a body that’s made of the substance of the astral plane. And of course, the really interesting thing
is that this material world where we’re in is not necessarily our home world. So the idea is that
we have astrally projected from somewhere god knows where into the material world and and our
projected consciousness has somehow created or conspired with various forces to create a body
made out of the substance of the material world and now we inhabit this body in the material
world and are moving around that’s the same thing that happens when we go dreaming at night or when
we actually project we create a body out of the substance of that mental world or astral world
inhabit that body supposedly and then fly around and do things right okay interesting idea this
whole idea that you inhabit a body uh is problematic in itself but i still like the idea
of um of creating a body out of the substance of a particular plane and then we appear to inhabit
that body or insole that body and then fly around okay so the homunculus is also known as that so
when you create a body out of the substance of a particular plane and then can now control that
body and have it do things or even inhabit that body okay so a servitor is more like a little
homunculus that you create that roams around so supposedly independent of you and carries out
various tasks okay and you spend some time every day maintaining it and charging it with its duty
or purpose programming it as the chaos magicians would say like it’s a robot see this whole robot
fantasy is a bit problematic and we’ll get to that later okay uh simulacrum simulacrum is kind
of the same thing except it’s more like a double okay uh say you have somebody close to you who
dies but you create a double of them in your imagination and you continue that relationship
with them and you might even visit their grave site on the anniversary of their death every year
have a conversation with that simulacrum okay now um now according to theosophists and many
magicians that simulacrum that you created or that simulacrum that forms spontaneously
is not necessarily your departed loved one some would say that it is the some astral entity
somewhere that is taking advantage of that empty shell of imagination that you have created or that
has arisen and then is pretending to be your deceased loved one in order to have contact
with the physical plane through you something like that so yeah an interesting idea it’s it’s
kind of um it makes the idea of conversations with deceased relatives a bit creepy because it’s not
really clear what it is that you’re talking to as these things spontaneously speak to you in your
imagination or in your psychic imagery whatever you want to call that okay and then there’s the
idea of the golem and the golem definitely in jewish legend or myth was a an entity made of clay
okay so in other words a being that through spiritual force has created a spiritual force
has created a body in the material plane and then inhabited that okay so supposedly that’s how we
came into existence uh like in genesis uh god takes the clay and then molds it into a person
he breathes life into it and then it becomes a human being or the first human being adam and then
the the rabbis thought well if we’re powerful enough we can do the same thing we can use the
various secret names of god to animate a statue of clay to become a man okay so the legend of the
golem rose from that it’s pretty much the origin also of the frankenstein story the frankenstein
story pretty much feeds off of that legend it’s pretty obvious and of course um because the golem
is not directly created by god but it’s created by an intermediary of a human being it is not really
um very sentient okay it’s more of a sort of automaton or robot it doesn’t have a soul
doesn’t have a conscience okay or it behaves very strangely and it’s a great way of exploring like
um what would an entity be like if it didn’t have a conscience or a soul or something like that
anyway and so various things that you create in your imagination might have golem like attributes
okay they might actually be maybe a little bit robotic okay once again there is some trouble
with this idea of servitors being entities specifically created for surgical tasks okay
that that’s a kind of scientistic robot fantasy which i’m going to maybe attack in just a little
bit now there are also things like domestic spirits and some of you might have like domestic
spirits that you maintain around the house in fact all of us do if we have we maintain a household
we do sort of have these sort of thought patterns and habit patterns that keep going and they’re
sustained by our weekly or daily chores, our routines. And in some form, we are already
creating these sort of thought forms or entities that persist. And if they’re not maintained,
it can be a little painful as they die away. It’s like, I used to do that every day, but I don’t do
every day anymore and i miss it and it’s dying now and i don’t know so this thing that you were
maintaining through regular repetition through repetition um sort of began taking on a life of
its own yeah and as you engage in it again you will find that it’s happy to see you okay i think
many of you who are doing daily ritual will discover that if you if you take a break from
ritual for a while like you go on vacation and and you’re traveling with somebody and you can’t
do ritual and then you come back you start your ritual practice again it’s almost as though the
ritual itself is great is is happy to see you okay and this is the experience of uh the thought
form or the tulpa that you have created basically through your uh daily ritual through your habits
interesting idea too because it would seem that um there’s a subtle level of reality where uh the
universe develops habits simply through repetition. So there’s some scientific theory behind that too
now. There’s a theory of morphic resonance, which proposes that many instincts that animals and
plants and other organisms develop are actually habits that are deeply embedded in nature’s
energy fields okay nature’s imagination and they in the imaginal realm they continue okay there’s
not really enough uh there’s no evidence uh as of yet how such patterns of instincts can be stored
in the physical realm certainly the dna can’t do it the dna have a limited ability to store
information okay so we don’t know where these complex behavior patterns and growth patterns
come from it would seem that nature has some kind of subtle energy matrix or imagination where these
habits can continue and thrive and change over time evolve over time but perpetuate themselves
independent of the material world and so we have domestic spirits and those are those household
chores that um you feel bad if you don’t do them or they feel bad because they miss you because
you haven’t been doing them for a while ah there’s the genius los genius loci um genius loki i guess
or uh genius loci however you want to pronounce that basically the spirit of a place now these
are much more powerful spiritual entities allegedly because they are they developed
from the landscape from a very large ecosystem of nature and geological forces and astrological
forces and things like that and within a particular area of land this the spirit of that
landscape has evolved okay this can be a very real thing and it used to be that when people would
move into a new patch of land they would tune into the spirits of the land to see what the
spirits wanted and to see what the spirits would recommend as far as should i build a house here
if i do what should it look like um which nature spirits need to be appeased before i decide to
build here or should i even build here at all okay or if i build here will there be consequences will
the nature spirits um be annoyed with my by moving in and then creating a mill here or putting up a
dam damming the river or something like that and then my least favorite word people who know me
know that i roll my eyes whenever a new student of magic uses the word gregor it’s kind of like
somebody in the academic world using the word paradigm one too many times you know you’re like
here we go again like um so uh and very often when people are getting into the occult or to
you know ritual magic they’re looking for membership in some kind of temple or organization
and so that they can i don’t know feed off of the energy field in that or or benefit from the
momentum of that energy field within that organization all right so um this is a real
thing okay so if you’ve ever been to a high a high energy rock concert you might be able to feel
the egregore okay the energy field of that uh like static electricity okay i’ve been to
uh i’ve seen jimmy page and robert plant perform uh and i’ve seen you two perform and those are
example is a very powerful act that i don’t know stir up the audience and get a huge now we get
some energy stirring up okay but you have to remember that an egregore is essentially kind of
a mob mentality okay it is sort of an assemblage it’s a it’s a mishmash it’s a sort of chaotic
soup of energy uh it’s not necessarily something that’s going to help you evolve okay so seeking
out an egregore is like kind of like saying well i just want the mob mentality to control my
behavior for me okay so if you really want to wake up it can be much more worthwhile to do some
banishings for a while to slough off all of the egregores that are sort of vying for your attention
okay um and then so you want to settle down into the essence of who or what you actually are
independent of the social forces that are around you that are sort of vying for your attention or
you know or at war with each other um yeah this is why the lesser vanishing ritual what the
pentagram are important and this is why the vanishing ritual the hexagram are also important
the um the pentagram ritual supposedly will push out all those primal forces out to the side so
you can look at their influence that at the influence they have on your life and then the
hexagram ritual will push the social forces out into the periphery so you can see what they are
doing in your life and once you notice that it’s like you don’t really want to be part of an
egregor at least not for a while okay so seeking to be part of an egregor it’s like we i think we
we’re developing a sense for this as our culture evolves over time because people who seek out
aggreggers we tend to call them oh he’s such a joiner or she’s such a joiner looking for a group
to be a part of right and so that’s a good instinct really because it’s like if you want to
be authentic it’s like let’s not be a joiner for a while let’s figure out what we’re about first
let’s figure out what i need to figure out what i am first before i get involved in these various
groups and things like that but an aggreggor can’t is a thought form all of its own okay and
And so just as a mob can sweep you up in its energy and then sort of surprisingly make you do things, it’s a form of mass hypnosis, okay?
That is a thought form that you are allowing to possess you, okay?
Now, for many people, it doesn’t seem like they’re allowing it to possess them, but they are, okay?
but they’re not aware of how these things work and they can easily be possessed and taken over by
the flavor of the moment and even by somebody’s hypnotic suggestions. Yeah, hypnosis is very
interesting and I’ve already done a video on it just touching upon it. And of course the thought
form. Now the thought form, I was going to say that could be the catch-all and all of these
various things, all these entities that arise in imagination could all be regarded as thought
forms but i’d like to criticize that term as well because in the modern world we tend to think that
there’s just the mind and the body so that there’s just the thoughts the abstract thoughts and then
material existence and that’s all there is okay this is not the way the ancients lived in the
world okay if we go back to the greek the ancient greek idea of metaxi there were three levels to
reality not just two not just the mind and body not just abstract thought and materiality but
there was the mind the soul and the body or spirit soul and body okay and the so in other words we
have the abstract thoughts supposedly right then we have at the bottom we have material existence
But in between abstract thought and material existence, we have the imagistic realm, the imagination, the level of the soul, which is peopled by images, by living, imagistic entities.
I personally have always thought it a bit strange that people regard thoughts as sentences.
okay i i think i know why they’ve begun to how that has arisen because um a thought essentially
is a subject object scenario and our sentences grammatically speaking contain subjects and
objects okay or subjects and complements and um that’s fine but remember thoughts if i did if i
never learned a language i would still have thoughts okay my thoughts would probably be not
as refined and not as sharply focused language does wonderful things and terrible things
to our minds okay and language is an instinct that we have evolved to use it’s not something
we invented it’s something that evolved okay and uh but to assume that our thoughts are made up of
language is a it’s a big mistake okay um the language has sort of arisen up out of the
imagistic realm okay it’s another level of the imagination okay the primary realm of the
imagination is just the images and the scenarios themselves moving images living images okay the
level of the soul and this is this is the realm that modernity tells us does not exist level of
the soul or level of the imagination it’s like it that’s not real it’s just in your imagination
and the imagination isn’t real therefore that dream you had last night didn’t really happen
that is utterly absurd to say that of course it happened okay and on the level of the dream it
most certainly did happen okay it’s a fact it’s even it’s even an objective fact really think
about it just because it doesn’t have a material um or direct or um it doesn’t arise directly in
material substance doesn’t mean it didn’t happen of course it did and so this level of the soul
does exist. And the level of the soul, by the way, does not just exist inside your head or inside
your third eye or inside your heart. No, it is everywhere. And you yourself are an imagined
entity. You are a dream character. So in terms of modernity, you don’t exist because you’re just a
dream. But in terms of the shamanic or the romantic worldview, of course you exist because dreams are
real on their own level. On the level of the soul, dreams are real. So I don’t like the word
thought form so much. I guess I would prefer the term imaginal entity. But even that term
suffers from, I don’t know, sort of science-y sort of flavor to it. It’s a little hyper
intellectualized. You could call it a dream character or just call it a character.
So a character that exists on the level of the soul. These characters are, once again,
We come, we’re born into this world with many imaginal characters already pre-installed,
if you’ll forgive that metaphor. Okay. That they’re already there. They have already arisen
and they are pretty much running things. And much of our life can involve recognizing that they are
there. And as they crop up, we’re like, oh, wow, there’s this force inside me that wants me to do
something? Where does that come from? How did that evolve? I didn’t create that. I didn’t create any
of these characters. In fact, the characters that I think I can create are also coming from this
realm of spontaneity from nature or whatever, okay? All right, so imaginal entities. Are they
intrinsically real? Well, don’t need to go too far into this, but nothing at all has any intrinsic
existence period okay the only way something can be said to exist is if it stands out in
relation to something else if there is nothing for one thing to stand out in relationship to
then it does not exist okay this is pure phenomenology okay if that this is if this
is puzzling look up phenomenology and study it see how it works okay um and uh but but basically
if you you have to understand that nothing no thing actually exists independently as a universe
all unto itself that’s impossible it always exists relative to other things okay and the problem is
our mind suddenly decides that oh this thing inherently exists over here this thing inherently
exists over here and now they’re interacting it’s like two universes banging their heads together
something like that right no this is one universe and these are um phantom images that are arising
relative to each other there are both both of these phenomena and those both of these phenomena
are rising in the universe and they are all both part of the same thing even though they don’t
appear that way in our sensory realm okay or our supposedly sensory realm so this is a very
important lesson too because um one of the problems with creating a servitor is that you
think oh i’ve created this sort of robot entity and now it has a specific task it’s going to go
do that task for me and problem solved right now it’s going to do it of course well it doesn’t
doesn’t really work that way okay if you really want to do this kind of magic you must acknowledge
that entities that you create that arise in your mind have an existence that is only relative to
other entities they have to play well with others in order to make things work okay one of the
problems is that the entities that are in our heads or minds or whatever and that are roaming
about in our imaginal space they don’t get along with each other okay and that creates havoc in our
engine of manifestation. It’s hard to get your heart’s desire when all the faculties or all the
various entities in your psyche are not cooperating to produce your heart’s desire. This is why the
great work is important and why the preliminary magical work is important. You must get your
house in order in order for that house to begin to produce wonderful results for you. This is not so
hard to understand okay so it might be better to see the psyche not as something inside your head
but as a vast ocean it’s the soul of the universe and you are an imaginal entity in that universe
okay and so if you’re going to entertain the idea of having various imaginal entities around you
that perform tasks tasks for you they don’t go out and get things for you and bring them back
It’s more that they are stationed within your imaginal field or within your psyche, and in those stations or positions, they perform functions that sort of steer you along different destinies.
It might be better to look at if you’re getting something you want, it’s not that the servitor goes out and gets it and brings it to you.
It’s more like the servitor helps you maneuver your craft, whatever that is, the sphere of sensation, into a new kind of reality, into a dimensional shift into the reality that you desire or the reality that your potentiality is trying to actualize.
okay so that one of the challenges in the magical work is that you have to tune in it’s not you can
get whatever you want willy-nilly it’s more like you have to tune in to what your true potential
is the thing that’s trying to be born in you which is not necessarily not necessarily pleasant by the
way okay some people apparently have this sort of uprising potentiality that is requiring them
to experience horrific things but if they really own up to it then going on that adventure and
experiencing those horrific things can be quite fulfilling okay um kind of like you know jesus
realizing that he has to be crucified and once he surrenders to that he’s okay it’s like this is
this is going to be utterly blissful even if it’s the agony this is going to be it’s going to be
very fulfilling. Okay. It sounds a bit twisted, but I think you guys can understand what I’m
getting at. The first example was one of surfing. Okay. This is a good metaphor because it’s
many people would think of doing magic in terms of I can control the ocean. No, you can’t. The
soul of the universe is infinitely vast in comparison to you. All you can really do is
do weather forecasts, and then learn how to surf really well, okay? Now, so one of the entities in
your imaginal space could be the surfboard itself, okay? Or the various techniques you use can be
different surfing styles. Each surfing style is a particular entity, a particular servitor that
you maintain. Notice how this is not really rocket science. We are already doing this kind of stuff,
But working with servitors is a way to leverage what’s already happening with us.
If you have a habit that’s up and running, that’s doing things well for you, that’s a servitor.
But it can help for you to make an image out of it or to look at that habit and notice what type of image form it takes so that you can then have a sort of interface to dialogue with it and tweak it and help it evolve, help it serve you even better.
okay so these servitors are already there you don’t create them willy-nilly right out of the
void that’s that’s arrogance that’s hubris they’re already present and the task is for you to
recognize them yes you can assign images on top of them that’s so like you can give them images
to inhabit or to um to arise in so they can talk to you sure why not that’s magic works that way
okay but uh you are not creating them out of nothingness supposedly only god can do that
right and of course there’s the idea of the sailboat okay it’s um this i’m not really much
of a surfer but i love the surfing metaphor i was or i guess still am a sailor i sailed a sunfish
as well as a yacht for a while, and the sensation of holding the sheet, the rope that holds the boom
of the sail, and the tiller at the same time, I cannot convey it, I guess, through words of what
that feels like. The power of the wind and the water are pushing your boat to go in a direction
that you want. That sensation is beyond compare. And with a little boat like this, a sunfish,
it’s astonishing these things can go really fast um so fast that when i ran aground i actually flew
over the the bow and plunged into the water pretty much um because these uh these little boats like
right here they can actually hydroplane they can go that fast on smooth water so but anyway um
uh but there’s no motor and to realize it’s just your cleverness uh and so if we were to take this
craft the sunfish boat okay we could say okay this is your psyche this is your individual aura let’s
say and stationed within the aura we have these various entities okay we have the um the skill
with the tiller the rudder right and the skill with the we also have the skill for managing the
length of that sheet with that um which is the rope that holds the boom of the sail okay and
those are two skills right there but there are also other entities installed in your sailing
habits that are helping you run the show and they’re all sort of working together to produce
this miraculous phenomenon of you being able to go somewhere really fast and there’s no motor and
there’s no there’s hardly any effort at all just your intelligence and these various well
conditioned habits okay you could even say like within the psyche you know the tiller itself is
an entity and then the sale itself is an entity and they are performing functions uh to and
they’re sort of like the apparatus of your psyche and then of course the entire psyche is now
traveling to various um places of adventure and if you know how to work with these entities these
parts of your psyche you can go to wonderful places that you actually want to go to okay
you don’t have absolute control just a sailor can end up shipwrecked yeah the weather can get
really nasty and suddenly nothing works the way you planned okay however you have some control
and that control is blissful i think this is why surfers and sailors can they compare their craft
to a spiritual experience that’s a very special kind of experience because it’s very uh rooted
in the material world too and there are other types of sports that that convey this experience
naturally but these are um the ones that i know of that are very profound this is from um an old
movie i guess it’s old now isn’t it it’s from um 1985 uh the movie is called the occult experience
and one of the segments in that documentary is about a professor who became a shaman who
he was initiated i guess by an amazon tribe or something like that and this is him doing a
workshop in which the participants form a spirit canoe and so you can see that the various people
in this spirit canoe are like entities in that craft and each of them has maybe a particular
or function let’s say okay and so when you’re doing magic you you basically you can envision
your aura let’s say or your psyche as inhabited by these various stations okay sort of like the
the crew of a ship and each particular crew member has specific tasks that he or she may be good at
or maybe maybe they’re not good at it okay and if they’re not good at it they can be you know
or they can be replaced or they can be trained or they can be evolved over time okay but you can
work with these various entities or thought forms or servitors okay to make a better craft so that
you can now navigate the waters of destiny with some sense of control not complete control but
with some sense of control and pretty much a great sense of freedom to be able to do
many of the things that you want. Not exactly in the ways that you want to, absolutely, but very
close if you can let go of specific results and not lust for specific results. You can go
and experience the kinds of joy that you want to experience. Most of that comes about from you
tuning into your potentiality the kind of potentiality that wants to emerge okay and
honoring that potentiality as opposed to the mission that your parents gave you or the or
the mission that society tries to give you okay this is why joining an egregor is not a good idea
okay because if you do what the egregor wants then you are neglecting the destiny that’s been
pre-installed in you okay so egregores are not good thought forms they are in at first i would
consider them to be evil thought forms because they’re not you they’re not authentic and of
course then we get the idea of the egyptian bark or the solar bark where you have various
entities on that it’s not really a canoe sometimes it’s a sailboat sometimes it’s just a paddle boat
And each of the Egyptian gods performs a particular function.
For instance, the evil god Set eventually gets sort of humbled and trained to act as a frightening countenance at the prow of the boat.
His fearsome countenance eventually, I don’t know, is that Anubis?
yeah sometimes it’s set who sits up the front and uh and who is so fearsome and evil that he
frightens away the waters of chaos or the serpent of chaos that’s in the waters of chaos okay uh so
so that it leaves the boat trouble free and the boat can travel on its way and of course you might
recognize this imagery from the four adorations to who he standeth in his splendor at the prow
and rahura abideth at the helm yeah who travels over the heavens and they bark at the midcourse
of the sun you know these kinds of imageries this is the the bark that travels through the sky and
through the underworld is basically just your aura navigating the waters of destiny and the various
god forms or servitors or thought forms that are installed within that aura are helping you steer
a path that is more or less in your control or more or less gives you that sense of freedom to
explore and if you’re not awake you’re not evolved you’re not very conscious then you don’t have that
freedom the craft is going in all kinds of crazy directions because the various servitors that are
already installed in it are not working together very well many crafts are floundering because of
that because they don’t know how to manage the tiller or the sheet or the boom or the sail
we do have various systems in psychology that attempt to get at this idea of servitors or the
various characters that you already have up and running within your psyche. Okay. This is from
the Myers-Briggs. And the Myers-Briggs, once again, it suffers really terribly from being
boring and dry and dull, unless you install fictional characters or mythical characters
under each of the Myers-Briggs types. Okay. If I have my wits about me, I will remember to
post a link to a Myers-Briggs quiz. So you, you guys can take a Myers-Briggs test to see which
Myers-Briggs type you are. Okay. But notice this is somewhat limited because all it says is this
is the type that you are, and this is how you can get along with the other types. If this were
really a useful or a super dynamic instrument for psychology it would somehow measure all of the
various types that are strongest in you or weakest within you okay so that in other words all the
various servitors that exist within your aura or within your psyche that are i don’t know uh maybe
at odds with each other or are not getting along or not very highly developed or overly developed
okay meyers-briggs only pretty much says oh you’re this type okay and then it says you can get along
with this type but you might have some trouble getting along with that type of person okay so
systems like this don’t really go far enough because they just basically define one entity
within you the ego and if you really want to be able to navigate the waters of destiny you need
to get to know the whole crew of your psyche, not just the ego. Incidentally, when I take the
Myers-Briggs, I normally measure as INFP or INTP. No surprise there, I would imagine. I do have a
friend who we took the quiz and I think she got Frodo and she hates Frodo. And I’m not particularly
fond of Frodo either. We both would hope to get Gandalf. And so sometimes I get Gandalf,
but sometimes I get Frodo. All right. Now, so a much more interesting and much more dynamic
model of the psyche is one that involves multiple characters. And lo and behold,
we have astrology, which is far more rich than something like the Myers-Briggs, okay?
It doesn’t mean we can’t develop a really cool system out of the Myers-Briggs, but we’d have to
somehow have a way of measuring all the various types that are operating within us,
which ones are strongest and which ones are weakest which ones don’t get along and of course
astrology does that it does that to astonishing effect sometimes but it’s not literally true
remember that psychology that astrology is a meaning making system okay it is not necessarily
a means of predicting the future so that kind of flies in the face of all of astrology doesn’t it
What I would like to propose, it’s not really a means of predicting your future.
It’s a means of navigating the waters of destiny.
It’s a means of kind of creating the future, not predicting it.
This is a secret that the adepts supposedly know.
I’m not doing astrology to predict the future.
I’m doing astrology to create the future.
But there’s another secret level behind that.
I’m not really creating it.
I’m just navigating into the waters that I want to be in and then it looks like I’m creating my
own reality more or less right it’s not exactly what’s happening and so uh there we we come to
the magic circle so doing daily ritual work now installs various entities around you okay
installs them is not the right word it acknowledges that they’re already there
okay and it sets the groundwork okay entities of fire i’m going to this fiery forces are going to
be in the south um you know what you find is that the psyche likes having order imposed upon it
to some degree okay it likes it when you basically look at it and then assign various meanings to it
and tasks to it, as long as you are interested in helping it evolve, helping it express itself,
helping it become more nuanced and expressive, and helping the various aspects of the psyche
learn how to work together as a team, more or less. Even helping them learn how to
fight each other, I don’t know, with a deeper purpose in mind. It’s not necessarily a matter
are functioning harmonious as a team there is a problem i’m not sure why i’m going into this but
there there tends to be a problem with magic because it tends to get hijacked by the idea of
optimizing your life for maximum yield i’m going to maximize my performance i’m going to become a
super productive uh problem with that is that you are um you’re still being controlled by
something in the egregore of society. In other words, you are pretty much hypnotized into
trying to become something that society says you should be. Okay. Anyway, so the psyche does like
to have systems of order put in place so that it can use those systems of order or drama to
talk to you, to communicate with you, and you can communicate with it. If you don’t make the effort
to do that then it’s just going to continue um a lot of forces in your life will continue flailing
around blindly it’s kind of like having that tiller flopping around and the sail just flopping
in the wind and you’re not going anywhere because the forces that were installed in your life they
don’t know how to work properly now some people come with forces in their life that are pre-installed
that do know how to work somewhat harmoniously with each other and they’re kind they kind of live
a blessed life or or a charmed life because wow they have it all together how come i don’t have
it all together well i don’t know they were born with forces that were already sort of harmoniously
working together as a team if you don’t have that then make sure you do so you have to contact these
various entities through the thought forms that you create so that you can communicate with them
and then help them evolve and help them work together as some kind of a unit so that you as
this imaginary entity can now go off into on into wonderful imaginary adventures this is you
navigating the waters of destiny with a crew on your ship that knows how to work together and lo
and behold we have the aura of a person which is constellated in terms of the tree of life which
looks very much like a spirit canoe or like a boat or a sailboat right and it’s sailing through
the waters to destiny and you could say that the uh the malkuth down below is the prow and it’s
pointed into the uncharted waters and it’s going into various places and if all of the various
spheroth there all those spheres if they’re functioning as a team harmoniously because
you have done some work to make sure that each one of them is cultivated within you and functioning
integrated within you um and working together you can now go places and you can do things okay
not in terms of what you want um whimsically but in terms of what your potentiality uh demands come
into being okay that’s another topic and i’ve already talked about that what what is the true
will. There’s the whimsical false will, and then there is the true will, which is the potentiality
within you that wants to come out and express itself. And that potentiality that wants to come
out can also manifest to you in terms of places that you will go in your magical sailboat or your
magical canoe or your magical solar bark. And so we come back to the idea of the servitors,
the way that the chaos magicians tend to define them all right so one of the problems with the
servitor is that the chaos magician will tell you that well you can just sort of create any entity
you want and then it’ll go off and do things the way you program it okay there’s a problem with
that like i said many of these entities are pre-installed they’re already there creating one
out of nothingness so like patching it together and basically proceeding under this fantasy of
that you can assemble a robot that’s going to be a very weak entity okay so you might want to
consider that something like the lord of the rings those the characters in that story are very
powerful and enduring and the various cultures that you encounter within the lord of the rings
are powerful and memorable and enduring because they are based on cultures that already exist
okay and those character types are based on archetypes which already exist okay if you
create something completely original it’s going to be most likely it’s going to be weak because
it doesn’t have archetypal power behind it so if you think you can create any kind of server to
you want you are wrong okay or if you think you can create any servitor you want and think it’s
going to be powerful no you basically have to work with forces that are already there if you try to
create something out of thin air it’s going to be weak it’s going to fall apart easily and of course
in order to understand this you have to get to know the archetypes you have to study culture
you can’t just proceed in this sort of sciencey sort of way and think you can assemble any kind
of entity you want. It’s better to proceed in terms of forces that are already there,
forces that already are asking for your attention. They’re asking to get your assistance in helping
them evolve. Why would you create some other kind of entity when you have stuff that’s happening
in your life that’s begging for your attention now? Notice me. Help me evolve. Help me become
better team player with the other parts of your psyche what are you doing creating these servitors
out there what are you trying to do i i need your help now this entity is saying right okay anyway
so i hope that makes sense uh so servitors are a very real thing but it’s best to acknowledge
the ones that are already there and that you know the funny thing is is that we i think we’ve come
up with the false notion that we can create servitors because yes we can create images that
we use to communicate with the entities that are already there but somehow we’ve lost touch with
the ones that are already there just because we can create the images to interface with
the entities that are already there somehow we’ve drawn the false conclusion that we can create any
any kind of entity that we want. No. Okay. So I hope I made that clear. All right. So until next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher