I'm now just finishing a book I have been working on for some time.
It will be called "Goetia For Beginners", and as the title suggests - it's a book on the Goetia for Beginners!
It will cover some of the background and history of the Goetia, and the practical requirements for workings.
CONTENTS:
- Introduction (including background/history)
- Practitioners Of Goetic Magick
- Basic Requirements
- Performing The Evocations
- The 72 Spirits Of The Goetia (including seals and descriptions in modern english)
- Table Of The Spirits
- My Own Workings
I hope to have the book finished and ready for sale on lulu.com in the next few months.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Truth And Chaos Magick
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams (The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe)
Truth is a funny old thing. Many people search for it, some claim to have found it, others say they haven't, to which they reply - yes I have so there!
What initially attracted me to Chaos Magick, was the idea that there is no truth, just models and paradigms which can be useful for as long as we need them. I had spent most of my young life searching for truth, which led me to fundamentalist religion. When I had matured, and seen life in all of it's perplexing and bizarre paradoxical forms, and seen the problems having a monopoly on "truth" caused, and the endless quest for that "Ultimate Absolute Truth" I realised that if you take one of the T's out of TRUTH and re-arrange the letters, you get a bit closer to the mark = HURT. How many people have been killed or denied their basic rights as creatures sharing this planet, because someone or some group claim - THEY HAVE THE TRUTH.
Chaos Magick is often misunderstood by some of the more "traditional" schools of magick because we are seen as not caring about finding truths, we just apparently masturbate over sigils and don't ever take a serious approach to anything.
The actual "Neophyte Ritual" presented in Liber Kaos asks:
"Candidate, do you know that there may be no ultimate truths?"
To which the candidate replies "I do".
The problem with TRUTH is that it's not fixed, there may be no ultimate truths which never change - so we can build a computer and say HA HA, there it is, the truth is 42! Then find we have to build another to come up with the question that 42 is the answer to! Taking some examples, it may have once been true to say that man couldn't fly, but when the airplane was invented that was no longer the truth. It may have once been true that we couldn't split the Atom and so on. At this point you may be saying - oh, yes but you are now talking about what man once believed were truths at certain points in history, which were later disproved. At this point I say:
There may be no absolute truths.....
Check the expiry date on your Truths, you may realise that is where that dam awful smell is coming from!
Frater Therion
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams (The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe)
Truth is a funny old thing. Many people search for it, some claim to have found it, others say they haven't, to which they reply - yes I have so there!
What initially attracted me to Chaos Magick, was the idea that there is no truth, just models and paradigms which can be useful for as long as we need them. I had spent most of my young life searching for truth, which led me to fundamentalist religion. When I had matured, and seen life in all of it's perplexing and bizarre paradoxical forms, and seen the problems having a monopoly on "truth" caused, and the endless quest for that "Ultimate Absolute Truth" I realised that if you take one of the T's out of TRUTH and re-arrange the letters, you get a bit closer to the mark = HURT. How many people have been killed or denied their basic rights as creatures sharing this planet, because someone or some group claim - THEY HAVE THE TRUTH.
Chaos Magick is often misunderstood by some of the more "traditional" schools of magick because we are seen as not caring about finding truths, we just apparently masturbate over sigils and don't ever take a serious approach to anything.
The actual "Neophyte Ritual" presented in Liber Kaos asks:
"Candidate, do you know that there may be no ultimate truths?"
To which the candidate replies "I do".
The problem with TRUTH is that it's not fixed, there may be no ultimate truths which never change - so we can build a computer and say HA HA, there it is, the truth is 42! Then find we have to build another to come up with the question that 42 is the answer to! Taking some examples, it may have once been true to say that man couldn't fly, but when the airplane was invented that was no longer the truth. It may have once been true that we couldn't split the Atom and so on. At this point you may be saying - oh, yes but you are now talking about what man once believed were truths at certain points in history, which were later disproved. At this point I say:
There may be no absolute truths.....
Check the expiry date on your Truths, you may realise that is where that dam awful smell is coming from!
Frater Therion
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Being Discrete
Yesterday, I had to do something I thought I would never do, take down my Altar, or at least make it less obvious and more like a normal table.
I had to do this, because of the increase lately in visits from people who don't know me, and I don't have a seperate room to use as a Temple. Some people will pretend not to notice, but you can tell by their eyes, they are thinking "what the hell is all that about"? Some people will just come right out and say "what is that"? This then leads into a whole discussion of magick, which if I'm honest, I would rather not have at this time with someone unless they are genuinely interested, and don't see it as something dangerous or weird.
Of course, the most annoying one comes from people saying "oh well, why don't you just do some magick and make yourself well again"? Ha ha ha! I wish I had a needle and thread to sow up my sides that is so amusing - to which I feel like saying - I do, but like medical science, occult science is not exact and there are no guarantees!
So, for now, to avoid lots of silly conversations that lead nowhere, I'll dismantle my altar at the end of rituals and workings.
Frater Therion ^.^
I had to do this, because of the increase lately in visits from people who don't know me, and I don't have a seperate room to use as a Temple. Some people will pretend not to notice, but you can tell by their eyes, they are thinking "what the hell is all that about"? Some people will just come right out and say "what is that"? This then leads into a whole discussion of magick, which if I'm honest, I would rather not have at this time with someone unless they are genuinely interested, and don't see it as something dangerous or weird.
Of course, the most annoying one comes from people saying "oh well, why don't you just do some magick and make yourself well again"? Ha ha ha! I wish I had a needle and thread to sow up my sides that is so amusing - to which I feel like saying - I do, but like medical science, occult science is not exact and there are no guarantees!
So, for now, to avoid lots of silly conversations that lead nowhere, I'll dismantle my altar at the end of rituals and workings.
Frater Therion ^.^
Thursday, 7 July 2011
How Satan Saved My Soul
Some people who know me are aware of my current "battle" with quite a serious illness. It had reached a point recently where constant pain, very little quality of life and various other things had almost caused me to give up.
I had accepted that maybe my "incarnation" in this body was maybe over. It was while reading The Satanic Bible
by Anton LaVey, and another book about the Left Hand Path and a few other bits and pieces that made me stop and say - bullshit! This body still has some life in it yet, I haven't even been told what treatment the doctors have planned next. There is also still magick to add to any results medical science can "produce".
Conventional Religion and Mysticism give people a hope in a god who has their best interests at heart, even through suffering, and after that a brighter future in some kind of paradise.
The Mage relies on no such well meaning sentiments and pie in the sky theology.
Hail Satan
Frater Therion
I had accepted that maybe my "incarnation" in this body was maybe over. It was while reading The Satanic Bible
by Anton LaVey, and another book about the Left Hand Path and a few other bits and pieces that made me stop and say - bullshit! This body still has some life in it yet, I haven't even been told what treatment the doctors have planned next. There is also still magick to add to any results medical science can "produce".Conventional Religion and Mysticism give people a hope in a god who has their best interests at heart, even through suffering, and after that a brighter future in some kind of paradise.
The Mage relies on no such well meaning sentiments and pie in the sky theology.
Hail Satan
Frater Therion
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