Category: Magick

When we do any kind of spellwork we are working with energy. Where that energy comes from can differ depending on the practitioner and the work being done, and it can come from various sources. One of these sources is our own emotions, but there are learned skills that makes the use of emotions in magic more manageable and useful.

Probably the best emotion to use for this purpose is anger or rage as it is extremely potent, so for the purposes of this discourse I will use the example of anger to explain the use of emotions within magic and spellwork. However, this can apply to any emotion and you may want to explore different emotions to apply to different types of Workings.

The first thing we need to do is feel the emotion, and if you are not in a situation where you are not feeling angry, you may ask, well how do I do that? This can be accomplished two ways. Firstly, you may want to get yourself into a situation where you feel the rage building. When that happens stop and examine it. Where do you feel it, what part of the body? Is it in the chest or the stomach? How does it feel, what sensations do you get? Really examine it so that you can later recall it. You may need to ask the person who made you angry to just pause for a while, but that’s ok, they will get angrier and you can suggest they do the same exercise. Now that you know how it feels and where you feel it, try to pull up that emotion at will when you are in a relaxed state.

The second way you can do this is to become the beast. We all have a beast within us, we just tend to cage it and ignore because we are told we cannot expose it to the outside world, it is evil, it is not wanted, but it is there for a reason, usually for protection. The following is a bit of a shapeshifting exercise in that you will become the beast, you feel its rage and its lust for blood. You may even move your body into a form that represent the beast within.

For this exercise make sure you will not be disturbed as you may feel self-conscious to begin with and you don’t want the idea of someone walking in on you to repress the experience. You will also be making noises, so make sure you are really alone. Get yourself into a ritual setting and close your eyes. Start by reaching out to the beast, make contact, and then invite it in. Start to move as you feel the beast would move, whether that is crouched and stealthy or on your belly on the floor and slithering, connect with the beast. Now start to make noises that are the beast. Begin to snarl and then to growl. Open your mouth and release your jaw, circling it. Open up your vocal chords, let them adjust to the sound of the beast. Circle your lower jaw around and open your eyes with the eyes of the beast. You may at this point see differently to what you are used to. Colors may be different. Sniff the air and see what your sense of smell can pick up. Flick your tongue out and hiss if your beast or more serpentine. Then begin to feel the passion of the beast, the rage and hunger that it has. Get on all fours and growl or howl. Whatever your beast leads you to do.

You can do the same thing by invoking the energy of an animal spirit. I once used this to help cure someone’s cancer by calling on Jaguar and using the energy of that beast instead of the beast within me.

By now you should feel the power coursing through you. Take some time to experience it. Feel it flowing and note how it feels, where it runs through your body, how it projects out of your body into the space around you. Now you will need to bring it under your control. All of that energy that is spiking and sparking beyond you body needs to be reigned in. Pull it in and start to concentrate it. Once it is in your body you then begin to bring it into a point, usually in your belly, often in your dan dien, let it ignite the fire within you and cause it to blaze. Once you have it focused and concentrated you may find it difficult to maintain this concentration of such a powerful force within you. Bring the purpose of your working to mind, go through the visualization of the outcome you desire, and then move it from the belly, let it seperate at your solar plexus and course up the right and left side your body and into your arms, running down into your hands and project it at your target. The target may be a talisman, a sigil, a poppet, something that represents your goal. It could be a person you are healing, or someone you are cursing, in which case you point your hands in the direction of the person or straight up. Through the visualization you would add your intention and Will to the energy, giving it purpose, giving it direction. Expel all of the energy, don’t let any of it remain inside you. Let it burst from you.

When you finish you will probably feel completely exhausted. Thank the beast that you summoned forth to help you, and then let it receed. Come back to a normal state.

There is another aspect of using emotions in spellwork that we should spaek about. When doing a spelling you would be feeling emotions for the work you are doing and the outcome that you desire. This is required as without the emotional state you would not have the Will to direct the energy or even do the spelling. You would simply be going through the motions with no outcome. However, those emotions can often get in the way of your spellwork.

As an example, you are financially drained, broke, and in desperate times. You do some spellwork to help you get out of this rut, but the desperation you feel gets in the way and shortcircuits everything you are trying to do. This is the one difficulty with any manifestation technique. You need to bring yourself into a future position so that your attempt at manifestation is already achieved and therefore bring what has now been created in the astral, through into the physical, i.e. manifest the etheric into the material. But when you are feeling emotions that are contrary to your need, that is usually what you are creating because they are prominent.

This is where we need to become the observor, and this is where meditation comes in very handy. Through a regular practice of meditation we become more removed from our reactions, as it is our reactions which stimulate the chemicals in our brain to create emotional states. If we become removed from those reactions, we then observe situations and can choose how to react instead of the knee-jerk reactions we often find ourselves regretting later. When we can do this, then we can get into any magical Working and feel the emotions we need in order to do the work which is required, but not be attached to them so that we do not shortcircuit the Working with our errant emotions, feelings and desires. It is also why we are taught to not “lust after results”. After a spelling we are told we should forget what you did and not think about the outcome. Let the energy go and do what it needs to do, if you think about it, you may start to doubt, and then you will knock it off course.

All of the above and any form of magic and spellwork requires control. We need to remain pointedly focused on the work we are doing and the outcome we desire. If we start to think about a hoard of other things during our ritual then the energy will disperse in various directions and have no power behind it. If we are laser focused on the spell, then we push all of that energy in one direction, and then it has power and force. So, go and meditate.

To understand Elemental Balancing as described within spiritual practices, we first need to understand what the Alchemical Elements are.

In alchemy, there were believed to be four elements – fire, earth, air, and water – that were present in all matter, including the human body. These elements were seen as symbolic representations of different qualities and characteristics, with fire representing transformation and purification, earth representing stability and grounding, air representing movement and communication, and water representing emotion and intuition.

In addition to these four elements, alchemists also believed in three additional elements – sulfur, mercury, and salt – that were seen as essential components of all matter. Sulfur represented the soul or spiritual essence, mercury represented the mind or mental aspect, and salt represented the physical body or material aspect.

While these alchemical elements may not have a direct correlation to the essential minerals and nutrients found in the body, they do represent different qualities and characteristics that are important for overall health and wellness. For example, maintaining a balance between stability and movement (earth and air) can help prevent injuries and promote physical fitness, while balancing emotion and intuition (water) can help promote mental health and wellbeing.

Similarly, maintaining a balance between the spiritual, mental, and physical aspects of the self (sulfur, mercury, and salt) can help promote a sense of wholeness and balance in life. While these elements may not have a direct impact on physical health, they can certainly play a role in overall wellbeing and happiness.

Therefore when we consider Elemental Balancing, we have to consider the entirety of the energetic bodies, which includes the physical body as an energy body, after all, it is made up of atoms which vibrate and are therefore energy.

One way to maintain a balance is to incorporate something like Ayurveda. The Ayuvedic principles are not just aimed at a good diet, but a balance between all states of the body and bringing them into alignment with the natural energy flow that is found around us.

Ayurveda is a traditional system of medicine that originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It is based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit. Ayurveda seeks to promote this balance through a variety of means, including herbal remedies, diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes.

According to Ayurvedic principles, each person has a unique constitution or “dosha” which is determined by their individual characteristics, including their physical and emotional traits. The three primary doshas are Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and they correspond to the elements of air, fire, and water, respectively.

The goal of Ayurvedic medicine is to help individuals achieve optimal health by bringing their doshas into balance. This can involve a variety of practices, such as dietary changes, herbal remedies, yoga, meditation, and massage.

There are several other ways that we could balance the Elements, some of those being:

Elemental meditations: These meditations focus on visualizing the different elements (fire, earth, air, water, sulfur, mercury, and salt) within the body and balancing them to promote optimal health and well-being. For example, one may visualize the element of earth in their bones and muscles, air in their breath and communication, water in their emotions and intuition, and fire in their transformative energy.

Elemental rituals: These rituals involve creating a sacred space and using elemental symbols, such as candles or stones, to help balance the different elements in the body. For example, one may light a red candle to represent the element of fire, a green candle to represent earth, a blue candle to represent water, and a yellow candle to represent air, and meditate on balancing these elements within their body.

Elemental yoga: Yoga poses can be used to balance the different elements in the body. For example, grounding poses such as Tadasana (mountain pose) can help balance the element of earth, while invigorating poses such as Urdhva Dhanurasana (wheel pose) can help balance the element of fire.

In regard to the meditative and ritual aspects we could look at the exercise that is mentioned in S. Connolly’s books which incorporates a meditation and visualization of removing the Elements from the body which may be exhausted and in ruin from the inclusion of negativity, placing them in a box and discarding those sick or diseased Elements, and then filling the box with new, fresh and sparkly clean Elements and pulling into you.

Apart from meditation and visualization, another great way to do Elemental Balancing is through breathwork and the assignment of the alchemical Elements to the areas of the body. In this method we find Air in the head, Fire in the upper torso, Water in the lower torso and Earth in the groin and legs, although some systems swap Fire and Water because Fire is found in the gut with the digestive system and Water is emotional and therefore associated with the heart. However, we can also say that Fire is passion and much of the digestive system that requires a balancing of the Fire Element is found in the upper torso (think acid reflux and heartburn), whereas Water is in the gut because this is where we find all of the soft and watery organs such as the intestines and bladder.

Once you have the location of these Elements within the body, you can then use visualization to surround yourself in a particular Element, and then using breathing techniques, pull it into the body and use it to balance an area of the body. If for instance you suffering from acid reflux, you may have too much Fire in the upper torso, you can then pull in Water and direct it to that area to balance the Fire. If you are not feeling grounded and your legs are feeling weak, you may have a lack of Earth in the area of Earth, and so you can pull more Earth into your legs.

The applications are endless, and they reach beyond the physical. If you are studying and finding it difficult to retain the knowledge, then you may want to work with Air or Earth in the head. If it is a matter of your mind racing and not being able to concentrate then you may have too much Air in your head, in which case you could ground those thoughts with Earth. If you are however just “drawing a blank”, you may need to increase your communication, and therefore may have a lack of Air in your head.

We also need to consider that within all of the areas of the body, although we assign an Element to each part, all of the Elements exist within all parts, therefore, even though we may focus on Fire being in the upper torso, this is just the main Element within that area. Another Element may be causing a problem, such as Water coming in and quelling the Fire in the chest, bringing in emotional instability, therefore we need to dry up some of the Water with opposing Fire to bring the emotions back into balance.

The first thing to do is to understand the Elements on all levels; physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and then you can figure out how to counter an Elemental imbalance within yourself, pinpointing which level it is on, which Element you need to work with, and if that Element is in overdrive or in lack. If it is in overdrive, you can decrease the Element by removing some from the body or countering it with an opposing Element. If it is in lack, then you simply pull that Element into the body to bring everything back into harmony and balance.

Quite often, finding or trying to find information about something spiritual, something magical, some specific information is quite difficult because of the number of authors, websites, blogs, YouTube channels and everything that is out there, so how do we test what’s correct and what’s not. 

There are a few things to bear in mind:

Don’t believe anything that anybody says, including myself. 

Go out, check, double check and triple check the information. 

I say this because it came up as I was reading one of Michael W Ford’s books.

Michael W Ford is considered to be an authority in the LHP communities. I don’t particularly like Michael W Ford’s writings, I don’t like his books, but that’s just me and it’s my opinion.

A lot of people do, they find value in it, and they find it worthwhile, however, I did come across a few things, but one of the glaring obvious things or mistakes, was that in this book, he shows images of different kinds of circles that you can create. 

In two of them, in the middle, is the evocation triangle, with the name Azazel in Hebrew, and in two of them, he got them correct. It reads as Azazel in Hebrew.

Then he talks specifically about the evocation triangle and gives an image of the evocation triangle, with the Hebrew letters, and states that it is the name of Azazel in Hebrew, and it’s not, it’s completely different. The letters in there have two lameds, Azazel only has one lamed. I don’t know what name he has put in there, but it definitely wasn’t Azazel.

This is why I want to bring this up. 

It doesn’t matter how accomplished somebody is. 

How authoritative they are, what position they hold in the community.

Check, double check and triple check the information.

Don’t just take it at face value because it doesn’t matter who it is, they’re going to make mistakes, we all make mistakes, we are only human, but if you have published and re-published a book several times, somewhere along the line you should have picked up a glaring mistake like that.

The spelling and other errors in the book is absolutely unbelievable. 

Right through the book it’s supposed to say ‘acausal and causal’, but it gets written as ‘casual and acasual’. 

There are a few things to bear in mind here.

There is UPG, which is unverified personal gnosis, and a lot of people have that, and they do write about it. It doesn’t mean that it’s wrong, it just means that it’s personal knowledge that they gained in their own practice. They may have been given particular knowledge or information, and all they are doing is talking about that.

At some point it could become a group collective, where a lot of people are experiencing the same thing, given the same information and then it becomes verified gnosis eventually.

When people do speak about UPG, they should rightly say this is the experience I had, or this is the knowledge I gained from a particular practice, and just state that it is UPG.

A lot of people don’t because they talk about a particular topic and then it just comes up somewhere and they just carry speak about it. 

Even with UPG, UPG doesn’t mean that it’s wrong, in fact, in some cases it could be more accurate than something else, but just bear in mind that it hasn’t been verified. The knowledge has not been verified.

When you are reading this type of information, or hearing about this type of information, or whatever information or knowledge it is, take that knowledge, take that information and test it, and as I said, check, double check and triple check everything.

You have to do your homework, or else you will end up believing something somebody else does and just follow like a sheep and, especially on the left-hand path, that’s not the way to do it.

In fact, in that book of Michael W Ford’s, what I found quite disturbing was that he basically mentions that you should not ask questions.

If you had an experience, you should not ask another practitioner, and bounce it off them and try and get their perspective, because it makes you appear weak, and this is something we’re experiencing quite a lot in the communities.

People feel that they shouldn’t ask questions, because it makes them appear weak and that is very wrong. You should be asking questions. 

If you are having experiences and you’re not sure what the experience is about, you need to ask people if they have had the same experience, and what their interpretation of it was and what they took away from it, so that you can verify your own experience. 

At the end of the day, if you’re not asking the questions, if you are just blindly reading other people’s information without checking or double checking it, you’re going to just follow. 

The left-hand path is about creating your own self, you own self-worth. You’ve got to ask questions in order to determine if what you experienced was actually something that you can take with you on that journey. 

Something else to bear in mind when reading information, especially when it comes to mythology, well not mythology itself, but how people relate to the spirits, for instance.

One person may say that Satan and Lucifer are the same being, another person will say they are separate beings. One person will say that Lilith, Babalon and Hekate are the same being, another person will say they’re not, they’re all separate, they’re all individual. 

Just remember that not everybody has the same viewpoint about these things and some people can be hard polytheistic and other people are soft polytheistic.

You have all of these different paths and traditions in the world. 

In a lot of cases, they are following a similar pattern, but not quite the same. They’re kind of going parallel, sometimes they veer off completely, but we all have our different beliefs and our different understandings of the deities, of the universe, how things are created, how things are manipulated.

So, when you’re reading somebody else’s information, see what resonates for you and discard the things that don’t, but at the same time remember them, because at some point in your life you could come across a particular bit of information, which does resonate with you, which changes your entire perspective of what you believed in the past.

There is no harm in that, you shouldn’t think that there’s something wrong or that you were wrong or anything like that. It’s just a matter of your path developing and growing, and with growth comes change.

You could, at some point, veer off completely from what you’ve believed in the past and go in a new direction, and if you have all that knowledge gained from other people, you can go back and start pulling out what now resonates with your new journey. 

So, read all of the stuff, but check, double check and triple check the information.

Do not take things on faith or blindly and also remember there is UPG, it doesn’t mean it’s wrong, doesn’t mean it’s right. It needs to be tested.

Also remember that everybody has their own beliefs, their own understandings, and how they came to these understandings in their own logical sense, and if it fits in with their path, and their beliefs, it doesn’t need to be your belief. 

I have found a lot of people pick up a book of magick and that’s really the only experience they’ve had at that point, and that becomes their bible. This especially happens with a beginner, they pick up a book, it makes perfect sense to them, it helps them progress, move away from the path that they’re trying to move away from, for instance, and they feel a sense of responsibility.

It’s gratitude, and so they will then continue with that information and disregard all other information, and when somebody comes along and challenges that information they have, they kind of freak out and say “You’re wrong!” 

Don’t do that, get as much information as you can.

If you’re studying one particular topic, study 10 different authors on that topic. 

Find out where the overlaps are, find out which information is correct, and which is not. Compare, check, don’t go on blind faith. 

I hope this helps in developing your own path and your own journey, just a little bit. 

Please remember, it doesn’t matter who it is, it doesn’t matter what authority they have in any community, or on any particular topic. Check them, don’t go on blind faith, because, as I’ve said, I’ve found mistakes in people’s books who have written 20 plus books which tends to make them an authority. It doesn’t, it makes them human, they are still human and they will still make mistakes, but when they are glaring mistakes that they have not corrected over years, you’ve got to question that.

Today I would like to talk about manifestation techniques and really how things manifest, the process that happens, as there is a bit more to it than what most of these new age manifestation channels talk about, so I just want to get into that. 

We’ve got all these new age manifestation people all over the place, and they usually portray themselves having these amazing lives, traveling and rich. They did some manifestation technique and all of a sudden, the next day they had $5 000.00 in their bank account. They carried on from there and they make it sound so easy.

You then sit and you try this technique, and nothing happens and you’re trying to figure out if there is something wrong with you, but there usually isn’t.

With magick we realised at some point what’s going on, and we have spoken about this in the Black Hat chats, as it has come up a few times, but I don’t think we’ve actually done anything specific or focused on the topic itself, that’s why I want to mention it today.

In order for something to manifest physically, it first needs to manifest astrally. 

What this means is that something will manifest on the astral plane and then it will slowly bleed through to the physical plane. 

When we do spell work and things of that nature, if it’s for something that is not already manifesting on the astral, then it first needs to form in that realm. Therefore, it can take a while for that thing to come through and manifest physically because it first needs to form on the astral.

There’s no real definite answer as to how long it can take, but I usually suggest about two to four weeks, a full or half moon cycle.

When you see all these people on their YouTube channel saying that I did a manifestation technique and the next day it manifested, what is probably happening is that these people are tuned in on what’s already manifesting on the astral plane, which is why it happened so quickly. 

This is where people are having a lot of difficulties with their magick or manifestation techniques, because they do the same thing and the next day, they don’t have it and then they give up. They start thinking there’s something wrong, they start thinking negative thoughts and those negative thoughts block the manifestation itself. 

You need to understand that it’s not going to happen immediately, especially if it hasn’t started manifesting on the astral plane already.  These people are in some fashion sensitive and they are picking up what has already started manifesting and they tune into that flow of energy. Most of the time, they don’t even realize this.

Once they have this positive manifestation experience, they then have this confidence, but because that flow already started, the next thing then starts manifesting and the next and so on, but it’s already manifested on the astral plane.

All they are doing is following that flow, so they carry on doing these manifestation techniques and the things keep manifesting and they become these “master manifestors”. 

Nothing wrong with that and I’m not saying there is anything wrong with them. I’m not saying that they are bringing you a lot of bull, I’m just saying if somebody else tries the same manifestation technique and it doesn’t start working immediately, they start thinking negatively and they start to think that they are useless and can’t do it, and they shouldn’t. All it means is that you are trying to manifest something that hasn’t started to manifest, and that’s the difference. 

These people are manifesting things that already started to manifest on the astral plane, and it’s gotten to that point where it’s about to bleed through to the physical realm. They do their manifestation technique and suddenly it manifests physically. 

When you are doing your magick, when you are doing your manifestation techniques, if it doesn’t manifest physically in a day or two, don’t think there is something wrong with you or your magick or your spell work. Give it at least two weeks, if you can, give it four weeks. 

Between two and four weeks is usually a good time period to judge whether your magick is working or not. 

However, not all of your magick is going to work. There are a lot of elements that can come in and cancel out what you’re doing. It could be your own thoughts. It could be something that is bigger than what you are trying to manifest.

When you are doing your spell work or your manifestation techniques, just give yourself the time it needs to physically manifest. 

Do your spell work and put out the energy. That energy then goes into the astral and it starts to form the thing you desire on the astral. Then it’s got to come and bleed through to the physical, and you need the period of time to allow it to happen. 

If it’s something that is already manifesting on the astral, and you do your spell work, and in a day or two you’ve manifested it; great, all you’ve done is pick up what is on the astral plane already and you just followed through with your manifestation technique to bring it through to the physical realm.

If it’s something that you need to manifest completely from scratch, just make sure that you give yourself the time. 

I do think that a lot of people on YouTube at the moment are giving the false impression that you can do this 5-5-5 technique, as an example, and the next day you’ll have $10 000.00 in your bank account, or something like that.

It’s not going to happen the same for everybody, it’s not going to happen in the same time frame for everybody, and you just need to be aware of that, and don’t think there is something wrong with you or you’re not doing something right. 

You could be doing everything right, but you’re not allowing yourself enough time, and when it doesn’t manifest, you then block it, you then push it off the tracks or rails, because now it’s not working.

Just be patient.

Patience is a very good thing, it’s a virtue they say. 

Be patient with your magick, be patient with yourself and allow things to happen the way they need to, the way they should.

I want to talk about how energy can be manipulated and formed, morphed into an actual being, a servitor. 

When we think about magick, there are certain models that people explain how it works.

For instance, if we are specifically talking about sigil magick, we may talk about the model of how the sigil, the glyph is transferred from the conscious to the unconscious mind, and through the trance state, we bypass the psychic censors etc.

When talking about magick in general, we’re talking about manipulating energy to our will and that happens with all forms of magick, no matter what it is.

Everything is energy, and we interact with that energy on a daily basis, but in different ways.

If you think about it. If we just walk down the passage, we are shifting the air around us. That air is energy, and our body is a ball of energy. The energy lines and energy filaments are just moving all the time.

Have a look into Chinese medicine and the meridians that flow through the body. We are really just this big bundle and ball of energy. 

If you are walking down the passage, it’s really energy which is passing through energy and all of that is combined. 

We can look into Avir and Ruchaniyut from Kabbalah which is basically universal energy which is unformed (that is Avir), and then becomes formed (or Ruchaniyut) when it enters a body, but that energy flows in and out of that body constantly, all the time.

We’re all connected, everything is connected by this constant flow of energy. 

When we work with magick, I like to imagine it as picking up on these filaments, these threads of energy and forming them or directing them in a particular manner, in a particular way.

We can build up a ball of energy in front of us and find the thread that the magick needs to travel along to get to its destination, to its target, and then push it.

That ball of energy would be imbued with the intent, will and desire that you have for that particular spell working and then you push it along the thread. 

There are some advanced practices where you work with the threads. You can imagine it like a spider web. You feel the vibrations that are happening on a particular thread within that spider web, and you can pluck that thread and send the vibrations back to its source or target.

All of this is working with the energy that is flowing constantly around us, through us, in us, forming into bodies and then flowing beyond that body and flowing into the cosmos and into other bodies, so there this constant back and forth of energy which just keeps flowing constantly. 

If we look specifically at servitors, which is very much the creation of an intelligent being. That servitor, that being we are creating becomes a ball of energy and that ball of energy gets programmed with a certain intention, with a certain task, and then it’s sent off to do that task.

If we use the Element of Fire to fill this ball of energy, we pull the Fire energy into the body which then gets transmuted and pushed out of the body to be formed into this ball, so it’s a concentration of that particular energy. That energy then gets imbued with our will, our desire. 

We usually think of that as thought, so we speak to it, but in order to tell it what to do, we first need to think it, and thought itself is energy.

A lot of people like to explain thought as radio waves which we emit from our heads. That thought is energy and it gets transferred into speech and we speak it. The vibrations that come out of our mouths, again, is energy.

I think you can see what I’m trying to say here.

All of this is energy.

If it’s thought, it’s energy, it comes out as waves.

If we transmute that thought into speech, that speech is a vibration which is energy and gets pushed into a particular thing. 

We’ve pulled in a particular Element, that energy of the Element gets pushed through the body. It gets pushed out of the hands and gets formed, concentrated into this ball of the Element itself.

Then we have a thought which is energy that gets transferred to speech, which gets vibrated out into that ball of energy and that is energy itself being pushed into energy and that energy is imbued with our will, our intent. 

That energy is then sent off along a line of energy to go and do its task and meet its target etc.

All of this is working with energy and because everything is energy, it becomes possible. 

When it comes to magick, I like to think in these terms. Everything is energy, energy flows everywhere and we can form this energy how we want to, how we will it.

You can even take this into a non-magical scenario.

Let’s take the mob-mind for instance.

You have a group of people which become a mob. They all start to believe the same thing. They start to flow in the same direction. They become a mob and it’s only when that mob-mind is broken that they realize that they were just being pushed with this flow of energy, and it was so powerful that they couldn’t stop themselves. They couldn’t control themselves, they were totally taken over by this flow of energy and they became part of the mob. Once that energy is shattered, is broken, they become their own individual selves again and they flow in their own direction. 

It’s a flow of energy that pushes them, that takes them, and it’s all just energy.

If we look at the world, our surroundings, as we see them, it’s all again, energy. You may look at a tree or a wall or your computer or your phone and you see a physical three-dimensional object, but science has realised that what we see external to ourselves is only two-dimensional.  The brain interprets it as three dimensions, the brain fills in all the bits and pieces. 

Beyond ourselves, beyond our eyes, there is no colour, there is no smell, there is no shape. There’s nothing really, it’s just energy. There are certain refractions and reflections and vibrations that happen so the light gets reflected off the energy of the body, into our eyes and the brain interprets everything that we’re seeing, so we see three dimensions and we see colours. The scents come into our nose as vibrations and the brain interprets those vibrations as being certain scents.

Sounds are vibrations which hit the eardrum and the brain interprets those sounds as particular things, but all of this is just vibration, it’s energy. 

Everything that we experience, everything around us is purely just energy and we can take that energy and form it into different things. 

It’s just a nice way to view the magical process, I think, and it’s one that I like to use myself, especially when it comes to things like servitors, but as I say, if you’re doing candle magick, you may go through the process of putting oil on the candle, of praying over the candle, of putting herbs on and around the candle and then lighting it and you may interpret that whole process as just being you thinking it, therefore it will be, but I like to consider it a bit more than that.

You’re not just thinking about it. Those thoughts are energy.

The vibration from the herbs and the oils, the energy that is imbued in them and the natural energy of the herbs get added to magick, so you’ve got a plate or some container where you place your candle, herbs and oils, but there is this build up of energy because of the oils and herbs, and because you’ve prayed over it, you’ve concentrated the energy. 

You’ve concentrated your thoughts and speech into this small area, which is around the candle. 

That then becomes this ball of energy, this ball of spell working that you are filling with this particular task, with this particular thing.

As the candle burns, your intent then goes off to its target and does what it needs to and therefore through the process of burning that candle you are letting the energy move along its energy filament, along its thread to reach its target.

We also speak about lusting after results. Once you’ve finished your spell working, you forget about it. 

The reason for that is that you might start questioning the working you were doing.

Did you do it right? Should you have done it another way? And such things. What then happens is that as that ball of energy is moving along its thread, you have these other thoughts that come along, and don’t forget that those thoughts are also energy, and they start hitting the ball of energy which was your working. They then start to knock the ball of energy off course and it shifts onto a different thread and goes in a completely different direction, where it has absolutely no purpose and therefore it doesn’t fulfil the spell working which your desire was intended for.

All of it can be seen as working with energy, moving energy through the body, the thoughts, speech. All of it is just energy.

I’ve seen a lot of people in the magical community talk about belief as if it’s something we as magicians shouldn’t have, because belief is something that is based on the understanding or acceptance of something without proof.

I don’t believe that belief is something we should not have. We definitely should have belief.

There are different stages we go through with our magical practice, with our path, our journey.

Right at the beginning, belief is going to be a necessity because we don’t have the proof yet, but even later when we do have proof, there are still things that we need to believe in.

I previously spoke about God, what is God, God versus Satan, and in that podcast I say that God is Everything and No-Thing.

When we speak about the No-Thing, it’s something that we can’t quantify. Something we cannot define or explain. We can’t even experience it, so there is a belief that must happen there. 

Let’s just have a quick look at what belief is from the dictionaries:

• An opinion or judgement in which a person is fully persuaded 
• An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof

When we talk about the nothing or the No-Thing it is something we can’t experience, something we can’t quantify, define, explain, anything like that.

We must sort of get to that point where we do believe in something. It’s not necessary and of course, everybody’s going to be different. They are going to be going down their own path. They are going to be experiencing different things and they are going to be pursuing different things.

Somebody who is doing magick, who doesn’t have any kind of belief or worship of deity, or God or anything of that nature and is just purely using magick as a science, there is still belief that must be present, because we can’t do magick without the belief. 

For instance, if you do a candle working or a sigil magick working or something like that and you sit back and say I don’t believe this is going to work, then it’s not going to work because there is no belief that it will. There’s no belief in yourself, there is no belief in the magick, there’s no belief in the spell work or in the working itself.

If you don’t have that belief, then the opposite of what you think is going to happen, or what you expect is going to happen, will happen.

We also see this a lot with cursing work, hexing, jinxing and things like that, 95% of curses are psychosomatic.

The person who has the curse put on them, believes that the person who put it on them is strong enough to do so, therefore they believe in their magick, they believe they have been cursed. Even if that person hasn’t done anything, they are still going to believe it and the curse is going to come true, it’s going to manifest, because they are going to manifest it themselves, and that is because they have a belief that the curse was done, the curse is working, the curse is attacking them and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you do a magick working and you don’t believe it’s going to work, it’s not going to, so you have to have belief in yourself, you have to have belief in your magick.

That’s difficult sometimes, especially when you are a beginner, because you haven’t got the proof yet. Later, as you carry on you do the magick working and you see the proof firsthand and that makes it a lot easier to believe.

It’s kind of like coming out of a negative state and trying to get yourself into a positive state. Until you see the positive things happen, you’re going to stay in this negative state. While you are in that negative state it’s just going to be negativity because all you’re doing is thinking negatively.

If you are in a negative state where you are financially crippled, to try and come out of that is extremely difficult because you don’t have the belief that it’s going to happen. You don’t think that anything positive can come through for you and therefore you continue to think negatively. 

All that negative thought is magick work itself. That negative thought is projection of thought, it’s a projection of energy and what is going to happen is that you are going to project that negative energy out and what you’re going to get back is negative energy. 

To try and break that and push out positive energy in order to get positive results is extremely difficult, especially when you are in that cycle.

Same thing with belief, belief comes into play there also. If you don’t believe that you are going to get out of this cycle, you’re not going to get out of it.

You have to try and believe that you will, you have to believe that it’s possible. If you don’t believe in what you are doing, you are not going to be able to manifest it because, while you are busy doing visualisation or whatever method you’re doing, you are usually instructed to see that thing as if you already have it. If you don’t have it, if you are in that negative state, you just keep revolving and cycling around this negative circle.

Then visualising yourself as having a particular thing to the point where you feel it, you feel the emotions, you feel the desire, you feel the actual act of having it, of possessing it, is going to be very difficult to manifest, because what is going to start creeping in are the negative thoughts and those are your beliefs. 

All of this revolves around belief. If you don’t believe something is going to work, it won’t. If you do believe there is a possibility that it will come true, then it will. But in the back of your head, there are still those conscious thoughts. 

Sigil magick is a perfect example here.

When you do sigil magick you do the working, you sort of vacate yourself of any conscious thought that could actually counteract what you’re doing. While you are doing the working, you believe in the working. You do the sigil working, you go into that trance state and then transfer the glyph or the image to your unconscious mind. 

Once that is done, you may start thinking it’s not going to work, didn’t do it right, or you say things like, maybe I should change the will sentence, maybe my glyph wasn’t good enough. All of these things will start punching at your magick work, will start entering the unconscious mind then it will start pulling the sigil back into the conscious mind and start attacking it. 

You need to suspend all of that, so you need to believe that what you’ve done is right, you need to believe what you’ve done is going to work, no questions asked, and it will work.

That belief becomes extremely important.

Now, this is different to faith. Faith’s definition is:

• Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing
• Belief that is not based on proof 

Faith is different to belief. Although they do sort of go hand in hand.

You believe in something you have no proof of, but at the same time you have faith that that thing is going to happen.

Faith requires action, so let’s come back to doing magick working.

You do your working. You don’t have proof that it’s going to work, so you believe it’s going to work, but by doing the action itself, by doing the working, by doing the candle magick or sigil magick working, whatever type of magick you’re doing, you have faith that by doing that action, it is going to bring you the results that you want.

The whole thing is to believe.

Believe in yourself and I’m going to come back to cursing because it’s one of the easiest examples.

If somebody comes to you and says, “I have cursed you”, you should believe in your own magick, in yourself, in your protection. It goes a very long way to counteract that curse, because if your belief is stronger that the other person’s, you’re going to win.

It’s all a case of believing in yourself and as I say, as you go through the journey, you get more proof. You do magick workings that you can see the results of, so you get the proof that your magick works.

You work with spirits and you get proof they exist.

As you carry on through your journey you do get the results and you do see the proof and therefore belief in these things becomes a lot easier.

Even years and years down the line you’re going to have moments where you’re going to doubt and that’s normal. We are human after all. 

Every now and then we do a working and it doesn’t work and then you start doubting yourself but then you bring yourself back to the fact that you have had proof in the past, therefore something just went wrong. 

Maybe you’re having a bad day.

Maybe it was the wrong time to do that working.

Maybe it is not the right time for it to manifest. 

There are a lot of elements that come into play as to why something didn’t work, even if you have the belief.

All you have to do then is go back to the drawing board and just re-evaluate, redesign and redo.

When you redo, have belief.

Sometimes it can simply be using a different type of magick.

Maybe you used a technique that wasn’t quite right at that time, wasn’t quite right for that thing you were trying to manifest. 

Using a different method, using a different technique might bring results because in the past that particular technique had better results than the first one you used, therefore your belief is stronger in that technique itself.

It’s belief, it’s all about the belief, so believe in yourself, believe in your magick, believe in the spirits you work with if you work with them and don’t forget that and everything should be fine.