Find Your Inner Voodoo - Part 1 of Soror Mae West's Series

This is the first part of a series by a magical friend of mine, taking a completely different approach from ceremonial, more to come!

1. Find your Inner Voodoo

I have never been to a ' Real ' voodoo ceremony.
If I ever do, I might feel a phoney.
For me to truely believe in Papa Legba would be a lie.
So I lie.
Does it work ?
Maybe. If I say so. I am God.

What works for me is my own inner voodoo.
It is easier for me to believe in what I have grown up with
and is in my everyday culture :
James Dean, The Beatles, Jimmy Durante.

The method is the same : Belief - Intent - Charge !
Only instaed of Ghede and all that lot , it is easier
to use something more familiar. Play a favorite piece of music. Dress up as Mae West.
Masturbate over a photograph of Yootha Joyce. That sort of thing. Gain Gnosis.

What I call voodoo is really Chaos Magick. My Holy Gaurdian Angel is really
the best part of what I am. The Queer me, The artist. The nice me. The good cook and
sweet guy.

When I used to drink, the angel disappeared. I didn't feel it again for 20 years.
Then I quit booze, started meditating and the angel came back.

- Soror Mae West

Virtual Pooja

This can be very useful if you can't get to your altar/shrine, you can do an online pooja to a Hindu deity of your choice, you can also download the flash file:

http://www.eprarthana.com/virtual/vpooja.asp

Two Week Bhakti/Devotion to Krishna

Today marks the start of a period of no less than two weeks Bhakti (devotion) to Krishna, the Hindu God who is an avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu.

This period will involve reading the Bhagavad Gita, in which Lord Krishna appears on the battle field giving advice and wisdom. I will also give offerings of incense, food/drink and chant the mantric invocation:

HARE KRISHNA, HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA, HARE HARE, HARE RAMA, HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA, HARE HARE

A good chaos magician should be able to adapt to any paradigm, even a none western one!

Demons and the Holy Guardian Angel

Many people over time have been fascinated with the "dark side" of the occult. When I was a kid everyone knew someone who had played with a Ouija board and the glass has shattered, or some such story. For me as an adult this later became a process of finding out what it was really all about, more often than not from a sceptical point of view.

Of course, one of the first things people seem to want to get into when doing ceremonial magic is the goetia, probably because of this childhood fascination with the dark side, and maybe a bit of curiosity as to whether all this really works. I certainly don't claim to be any exception to this, though I did wait until I had been practising magic for a while before delving into the dark murky world of summoning up nasties from the infernal region.

One of my current magical projects, if it indeed can be called that, is working with my Holy Guardian Angel, which consists of a daily banishing and invocation (using the bornless one). Recently I got to a stage where I had to confront a demon, it appeared as a very hazy vision during trance when reciting the bornless one, at the point where the invocation talks about "from an abyss of darkness came I forth ere my birth". I was seized by a terrible sensation of being powerless, dropped the wand and the book, and had to rely on my HGA to guide me through what to do next. I'll not go into all the details of what happened next, but this experience with the demon was not like goetia, there is a certain "right feeling" to this, almost as if the demon actually has a definite place and purpose, and you just need to put it where it rightfully belongs, rather than threaten it. So maybe the circle and the triangle, and the threats involved in goetic evocation are sort of a hammer to crack a wall nut approach, maybe it's better to simply work with the HGA, let the HGA become your circle, your protection, and watch as all the demons have no choice but to submit. Remembering that these demons, are demons of our mind, and everyone elses mind too.

I don't know, I still remain open to possibilities.

A Few Notes On The Five Aeons

The Aeonic Litany presented in Liber Null, "The Mass of Chaos" declares the five aeons of Baphomet:

1st - Baphomet as "The Great Spirit": The "shamanic" aeon.
2nd - Baphomet as "The Horned One"/"Pangenitor Panphage": The "pagan" aeon.
3rd - Baphomet as "The Dark One"/"The Devil": The "monotheistic" aeon.
4th - Baphomet as "The Hidden One": The "rationalistic" aeon.
5th - Baphomet as "The God Before All Gods": The "chaos" aeon.

New website now up and running!

The new website I promised is now up and running. It includes a library, a writings/resources section, and a projects section. This is still a work in progress so it will continue to grow.

Check it out now at: http://ritualchaosmagic.co.uk/

Oh yes, this website also gives you an idea of my skills as a web developer/designer in case you are looking to hire one!