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.