Em Hotep, Friends. Something Short...

The mastery of energy and consciousness is the mastery of spirit. The mastery of spirit is magic. Em Hotep, creatures of the violet banner, dark flames in the night, sparks of a new horizon. Forever be honor and loyalty to Her Crown. Dua Nefer Aset.

Indeed for those so-willing to wield it. Glad to see your exploration shared as it has been.

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:The mastery of energy and consciousness is the mastery of spirit. The mastery of spirit is magic. Em Hotep, creatures of the violet banner, dark flames in the night, sparks of a new horizon. Forever be honor and loyalty to Her Crown. Dua Nefer Aset.

How all forms of Majiq works
The adherent needs to truly Believe in the process, have an intense Desire for the process to work, and has developed the Will to enable the process to work.

The actual practice is not what is important, it is the adherent's Belief, Desire, and Will which is important.


Lesser Majiq سحر أقل (Sahar 'Aswad 'Aqala)
The influencing of other's subjective reality of you by occult means. It involves creating an illusion that impels someone to believe that an occult force has been activated by you, the Maji. This is created by subtle yet complex manipulations of psychological factors in the human personality. In simple terms, Lesser Majiq is placebo magic.


Greater Black Majiq (Sahar 'Aswad 'Akbar)
Seeks to evolve the Self/Soul/Isolate Consciousness as an entity distinct from the cosmos. This is essentially the goal of the Western Left Hand Path (apotheosis/autotheism/self-deification)

The way it works is that we have the ability to experience our True Self, our Full Potential Being, this might be referred to as our GodSelf. It is the perfected you and is your Psyche/Soul/Greater Self. What is referred to as Apotheosis on the LHP does not entail 'becoming' a god, it entails realizing one's Greater Self, and bringing this Self into your everyday life in order to become more than Human.

The way this is accomplished is through various ritualistic actions intended to awaken your Greater Self and harness It.


White Magic (Alsihr al'Abyad)
The effort to deceive the consciousness. This type of magic embraces not only all conventional religions but all pagan or nature-worship ideologies as well. Efforts to deceive the consciousness into believing that it has been accepted into the objective universe through some form of Deity.

The problem I note in your exposition is its focus on magic as something merely psychological, which is not the true magical arts we speak of that tell about actual consequence beyond the psychological by energies woven into the fabrics underlying life and death, bound to initiation and inner exploration in a quest for higher understanding and mastery. It does inevitably impact the psychological but not as a subtle psychological trick, no matter how elaborate. The masters that are able to kill by their wands certainly don't do so by inducing the complex idea of a mere trick into the minds of their opponents as it does touch the ethereal fabric of life and death, not physical to psychological theatrics or lesser actions - no matter how intelligently devised. This is all bound to the hands of responsibility, eyes of wisdom and honorable hearts, for the impure intentions don't pass the gates of understanding.

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:The problem I note in your exposition is its focus on magic as something merely psychological, which is not the true magical arts we speak of that tell about actual consequence beyond the psychological by energies woven into the fabrics underlying life and death, bound to initiation and inner exploration in a quest for higher understanding and mastery. It does inevitably impact the psychological but not as a subtle psychological trick, no matter how elaborate. The masters that are able to kill by their wands certainly don't do so by inducing the complex idea of a mere trick into the minds of their opponents as it does touch the ethereal fabric of life and death, not physical to psychological theatrics or lesser actions - no matter how intelligently devised. This is all bound to the hands of responsibility, eyes of wisdom and honorable hearts, for the impure intentions don't pass the gates of understanding.

Couldn’t agree more. Alas to understand what you are saying individuals would require access, wisdom and experience with such gnosis and praxis, which many often lack thereby only finding explanation in the plasticity of the psychological or the theatrics of ritual to justify what that they are unable to comprehend or incapable of learning.

The true magic you speak of is not for everyone, just like the virtuoso musician, the breakthrough surgeon, the innovating mathematician and the strongest athlete are not commonly found among the masses. The genuinely gifted have always been few, yet known to rise above the many to paraphrase one of the mightiest of Masters, there undoubtedly a true virtuoso of the magical Arts. Such is a truth difficult to digest for those on the sidelines of power, dabbling only on the aspects of the psyche and unable to reach for higher achievements of pure manifestation.

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:The problem I note in your exposition is its focus on magic as something merely psychological, which is not the true magical arts we speak of that tell about actual consequence beyond the psychological by energies woven into the fabrics underlying life and death, bound to initiation and inner exploration in a quest for higher understanding and mastery. It does inevitably impact the psychological but not as a subtle psychological trick, no matter how elaborate. The masters that are able to kill by their wands certainly don't do so by inducing the complex idea of a mere trick into the minds of their opponents as it does touch the ethereal fabric of life and death, not physical to psychological theatrics or lesser actions - no matter how intelligently devised. This is all bound to the hands of responsibility, eyes of wisdom and honorable hearts, for the impure intentions don't pass the gates of understanding.

Just as there is no proof or evidence of deities outside of one's imagination such as there isn't any proof or evidence of most forms of magic. Most magic is manipulating the psyche of another so they believe this or that, then reinforcing that notion to create an effect on that person.

Greater Black Majiq (Sahar 'Aswad 'Akbar) however takes place Within yourself, it creates a change in your self, and through an evolved Belief, Desire, and Will, is projected into objective reality where it manifests the Maji's Willed Desire into objective reality.

The day someone can wave a wand and kill someone is a day that will never come.

Magic is both a science and an art. The ones able in such fields of high magic can replicate it with artistic precision and scientific effectiveness. Of course the ones swimming in magical illiteracy will see it as a trick, or a mentalist gimmick, just like a Hobbit watching Gandalf’s fireworks in the absolute bliss of their own ignorance. Those without an experienced grasp of such forces or lacking in ability will always cast doubt unto those that can. Such are the ways of desire and resentment. It is merely a reflection of the ego, in truth little more than a simplistic form of envy. That is my interpretation.

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:The mastery of energy and consciousness is the mastery of spirit. The mastery of spirit is magic.

Which mastery leads to mastery of All {in all}?

[friendly inquiry]

Good day all, brand new here and wanting to chime in. To be clear I have been practicing magick for 5 years...yes I know that is like a blip in the the cosmic timeline, BUT I have read and studied multiple sources on magick and unless (and I really hope anyone here can) someone can show me different all I have experienced is an inner emotional/psychological change. The idea of manipulation of energies in order to cause change on the "physical" level has not been my experience or anyone that I have been in contact with. I'm open to ideas...

SoulTower0 wrote:

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:The mastery of energy and consciousness is the mastery of spirit. The mastery of spirit is magic.

Which mastery leads to mastery of All {in all}?

[friendly inquiry]

Believe so, as by the Asetians magick is considered the art of all arts. And since magick is by mastery of the subtle forces that hide within, to paraphrase Master Marques, and are manipulated and wielded without once that is attained. It can be vastly employed to greatly excel at any aim or endeavor, by a further amplification of finesse and focused deliberate development, as energy moves to your purpose, though that it's wise to be judicious and understanding of higher occult principles like its sacredness in use, lest it lose its flavor of a much purer state of funneled energy, just like drinking clean water is paramount to health of the body and mind perhaps, so the purity of intent, wisdom of awareness and potency of energy to magick.

ATLANTICIDE wrote:Good day all, brand new here and wanting to chime in. To be clear I have been practicing magick for 5 years...yes I know that is like a blip in the the cosmic timeline, BUT I have read and studied multiple sources on magick and unless (and I really hope anyone here can) someone can show me different all I have experienced is an inner emotional/psychological change. The idea of manipulation of energies in order to cause change on the "physical" level has not been my experience or anyone that I have been in contact with. I'm open to ideas...

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MysticLightShinethForth wrote:so the purity of intent, wisdom of awareness and potency of energy to magick.

Thank you. This is a correct one I also believe strongly in & have experienced it at various degrees.

SoulTower0 wrote:

MysticLightShinethForth wrote:so the purity of intent, wisdom of awareness and potency of energy to magick.

Thank you. This is a correct one I also believe strongly in & have experienced it at various degrees.

Very essential. A simple synergistic key. Awareness, energy and intent. That's a lesson learnt from another remarkable teacher. Just how it's put together fascinated me. That's really all there is to anything, I believe, in terms of metaphysics, being its very fundamental backbone. Is there anything outside of this, I wonder, for the sentient being in terms of their own workings even if they be by extensions of it, apart from independent or outside entities (but they're also composed of this for the most part as long as they have sentience I believe)? Is there anything we can do metaphysically outside of this triune model? Does it not contain the whole of our practical and experiential spiritual/magickal reality? Isn't every ritual just a tool of this, every spell a projection of this...?

I know it might sound so very simple... but it's so very simple and that's an alleviation for any form of overthinking or complication that doesn't actually lead to any tangible results, though it takes to the extents of application and various ranges of developed mastery over its fundamental mechanisms also by extension into other arts and crafts of course and those can be so very extensive and thorough, but fundamentally this is the most basic unit, the necessary building block, that must quite be ever present.

I could be speaking the most obvious but I was just so intrigued by the idea. I believe conceptualizing it like this, however, and thusly implementing it with its clearness can be somewhat helpful for some - beginners first and foremost, because it gives a simple yet, at least essentially, complete perspective in my humble opinion (though more needs to be fleshed out from its backbone), needing not stray and wonder so much into impractical speculations or into complicated situations but return to this again and again even if it needs more built up/developed from within it for its expansion in order to advance beyond the basics of its understanding but that's done by work with it organically, experientially, and then learning other methods or techniques by extension, from outside, or some may even be self-taught from within on rarer occasions, that apply - and they are not at all separate from it, then, of course, as we learn.

Just like we have hands and feet in this world to walk and interact with objects, eyes and ears to perceive and so on and so forth, in the realm of the subtle we have awareness, energy and intent as the fundamental constituencies enabling an analogous experience of perception, embodiment and interaction (or use of ability), being so roughly correlated in equal order - awareness, perception; energy, embodiment; intent, interaction (or use of ability) - more or less, though they are actually much more interwoven there and quite inseparable from each other, as they're much more fluid, and one benefits the other and vice versa in a mutual triangular relationship.

The visual/geometric model of this can be just like an equilateral triangle with each angle of 60 degrees being the point for one of the three aspects of the model, each point touching the other two points by the lines that move between them and so being interconnected on every point, moving between each other and this triangulating the very most essential fundamentals of metaphysics in a practical nutshell but that does carry the further and higher implications for work of course. One'll have to expand a lot upon it through the various theorems of occult curriculum, spirits and their interactions, planes of reality, metaphysical specialized or magickal operations, etc.

Just a simple idea - as usual. Keep it simple, keep it real, keep it Mystic. haha

ATLANTICIDE wrote:Good day all, brand new here and wanting to chime in. To be clear I have been practicing magick for 5 years...yes I know that is like a blip in the the cosmic timeline, BUT I have read and studied multiple sources on magick and unless (and I really hope anyone here can) someone can show me different all I have experienced is an inner emotional/psychological change. The idea of manipulation of energies in order to cause change on the "physical" level has not been my experience or anyone that I have been in contact with. I'm open to ideas...

I think your question directed itself towards more tangible, direct impacts of energy and magick apart from merely psychological and emotional effects? That's one of those understandings that grow through time and by applying proper energy work first and foremost as basic fundamentals, learning the groundlaying sensing, and other conjoined practices of energy to elevate its potential into the higher domains of magickal consequence that isn't bought easily but paid through sacrifice, mastery and dedication that often is difficult (both inside and outside of traditional covens and Orders but for very different reasons, where one may offer arduous training that very few would survive apart from those deemed ready and suitable and the other being strenuous through trials of careful errors repeated through learning of different techniques and systems, perhaps, but on your own, mostly, which can be challenging as far as precision is concerned especially I believe...).