Ceremonial Magic: A Guide to the Mechanisms of Ritual

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However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology (calculating the influence of heavenly bodies), bibliomancy (reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching), Thoth Tarot (a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern), and geomancy (a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns). They may be a symbolic representation of psychological elements of the magician or of metaphysical concepts. The art of divination is generally employed for the purpose of obtaining information that can guide the adept in his Great Work. He was one of the few who were qualified to provide first-hand, personal insight into the character and personality of one of the major figures in Western Magick.

A magical record is a journal or other source of documentation containing magical events, experiences, ideas, and any other information that the magician may see fit to add. Crowley saw magic as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny. The grimoires agreed that the hours of Saturn, Mars, and Venus were good for communion with spirits — the hour of Saturn for invoking souls in Hell, and the hour of Mars for invoking those who have been slain in battle. Israel Regardie (1907-1985) was an Adept of the Golden Dawn and he was one of the greatest exponents of the Western Esoteric Tradition of the 20th century. In the GURPS Alchemical Baroque setting book, ritual magic is the local magic system, along with and closely linked to local forms of Alchemy.SCP-2848 , known as "The Deer", a being so powerful and dangerous that it was downright a Physical God. It involves chanting a "plea" to the Night Mother by an effigy of the intended victim (made from actual human bodyparts) surrounded by candles.

He also noted that in this sense, the world's first grimoires were created in Europe and the Ancient Near East.Day by day matter is replaced by Spirit, the human by the divine; ultimately the change will be complete; God manifest in flesh will be his name. The god invoked in black magic was not Satan but the Jehovah of the Jews and the Trinity of the Christians. Ritual Magic is essential reading for all interested in the history of magic and in the way that magic traditions change as they move from culture to culture and from century to century. Other gestures facilitate the drawing of geometric or esoteric figures as focal points for summoning divine/angelic beings.

The other ritual, The Gnostic Mass, is a very popular public ritual (although it can be practiced privately) that involves a team of participants, including a Priest and Priestess.This book shows exactly how ceremonial techniques can be used to concentrate and harness the enormous psychic and spiritual potential of human consciousness.