Recognizing Magical Influence

Time to open the box and access your inner wizard. Few of us access the array of powers that exist, at least as potential, within us. Probably the single factor that most limits our access to power is the central spell or enchantment of the Babylon Matrix, which causes us to pursue outside objects, persons or entities to find our wholeness and fulfillment. Once you are set on that quest you become as enchantment bound as a Ring Wraith. The hot pursuit of the external agent is the anti-magick, a heatsink like a black hole for any radiance of Self or personal power. If a person is inanely infatuated, for example, it is easy to see how much power he has abandoned. But if you instead focus on your own center, the Self, the source that flows through you, if you shift your gaze from the Precious to the fires of chaos, the boiling cauldrons of ones and zeros, the stuff that matrices are made from, then you become a subcreator and have access to the Wizard Within. According to Aleister Crowley’s definition,”Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” One of my [...]

Don’t forget that there are good and evil spirits. There are unseen forces at work — some of them hinder us, manipulate us toward darker feelings and appetites so that we produce the sort of energy they can harvest. Other spirits watch over us, respecting our free will, embracing us with love if we allow them. You are never alone, not in your body, not on this planet, and not in the spirit realm where your soul and psyche live. Our bodies are a colony of 50 trillion cells working together to allow us a corporeal existence on a planet where there are another six billion of us and myriad other living things. But we are even less alone in the spirit world where location is irrealized, and sympathetic vibration transcends boundaries of space and time. Invisible allies in the spirit world and in the microbiological realm work to keep you alive. As above, so below. In the unseen realm there are watchers and helpers always available. Sometimes we need to tune into their subtle messages, other times to call out for their help, other times merely to allow their ministrations to occur while we are scarcely aware of their [...]

Every new technology cuts both ways. Value the tools you need to use, but be careful about becoming obsessed with them. As Sophocles said, no great gift enters the human sphere without a curse. Use the technology, but be careful about it using you. Note: Although this card will focus mostly on technology, it also has a more general meaning for which overvalued gadgetry is metaphorical — focusing on the extrinsic at the cost of the intrinsic. Infatuation with a person, desired object, method of success, and various other outer goals, are all examples of finding an outside object, a “Precious,” to rule them all. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of The Future, 1961 (Clarke’s third law) Accepting Crowley’s definition of magic as the science and art of causing change in conformity with will, it becomes apparent that we live in an era when technology not only blurs with magic, it is magic. It is always magic for those who create it, since that is an act of their will; it is magic or anti-magic for others, depending on whether they use it with conscious intention or become used by it. The key [...]

Few of us access the array of powers that exist, at least as potential, within us. Probably the single factor that most limits our access to power is the central spell or enchantment of the Babylon Matrix, which causes us to pursue outside objects, persons or entities to find our wholeness and fulfillment. Once you are set on that quest you become as enchantment bound as a Ring Wraith. The hot pursuit of the external agent is the anti-magic, a heatsink like a black hole for any radiance of self or personal power. If a person is inanely infatuated, for example, it is easy to see how much power he has abandoned. But if you instead focus on your own center, the self, the source that flows through you, if you shift your gaze from the Precious to the fires of chaos, the boiling cauldrons of ones and zeros, the stuff that matrices are made from, then you become a subcreator and have access to the Wizard Within. According to Aleister Crowley’s definition,”Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” One of my principles of magick is that the most powerful ritual is [...]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — Hamlet, Shakespeare Forces unseen by our waking eyes pull and push us. Some unseen forces may be malevolent or parasitic, while others may be loving, symbiotic and encouraging our development. Other people influence us in ordinary ways, but also magical ways through their unexpressed inner thoughts and fantasies. You are also a magical influence in ways you may not realize, and therefore have an obligation to be aware of the energy and thought forms within that act as magical influences on the collective, and especially on those to whom you are connected by inner ties.

Don’t forget that there are good and evil spirits. There are unseen forces at work — some of them hinder us, manipulate us toward darker feelings and appetites so that we produce the sort of energy they can harvest. Other spirits watch over us, respecting our free will, embracing us with love if we allow them. You are never alone, not in your body, not on this planet, and not in the spirit realm where your soul and psyche live. Our bodies are a colony of 50 trillion cells working together to allow us a corporeal existence on a planet where there are another six billion of us and myriad other living things. But we are even less alone in the spirit world where location is irrealized, and sympathetic vibration transcends boundaries of space and time. Invisible allies in the spirit world and in the microbiological realm work to keep you alive. As above, so below. In the unseen realm there are watchers and helpers always available. Sometimes we need to tune into their subtle messages, other times to call out for their help, other times merely to allow their ministrations to occur while we are scarcely aware of their [...]

Working with focus. There are times to relax and allow your awareness to become diffused, but this is not one of them. This is a propitious time to work with focus and determination, completely engaged with what you are doing. Strike now, because the iron is very hot. To strike while the iron is hot means to form something, a time to get to work because your influence, your will can create useful change. When iron is hot it is malleable. There is a temporary window of opportunity where it is relatively plastic, and through effort it can be given a form that will become semi-permanent. Aleister Crowley’s definition of magic is: “The science and art of creating change in conformity with will.” What are the areas of life where the application of your will can create the most effective and life-affirming change? Using myself as example, at age 50 the iron is no longer hot if I want to break athletic records. But at this age, the iron feels very hot for writing, working on the oracle and other creative tasks. At this age my cognitive/creative skills have matured, but I am not so old that dementia or lack [...]

Often our attention focuses disproportionately on the perceived deficiencies of our present incarnation and we miss the myriad blessings that were necessary to allow us to be alive and reading this right now. We also tend to think that blessings must be warm and fuzzy. But a warm and fuzzy universe would retard our spiritual development. A blessing is more likely to be something that provides you with a developmental challenge, an opportunity for spiritual growth. The occurrence of this card indicates that unseen forces are blessing you right now. You are never alone, not in your body, not on this planet, and not in the spirit realm where your soul and psyche live. Our bodies are a colony of 50 trillion cells working together to allow us a corporeal existence on a planet where there are another six billion of us and myriad other living things. But we are even less alone in the spirit world, where location is irrealized and sympathetic vibration transcends boundaries of space and time. Invisible allies in the spirit world and in the microbiological realm work to keep you alive. As above, so below. In the unseen realm there are watchers and helpers always [...]

This is a propitious time to create your own designs. This is also a time also to be wary of submitting to the designs of others. “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.” — William Blake A conscious human being is designed to be a magician, an entity that designs, creates and transforms. According to Aleister Crowley’s definition,”Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” One of my principles of Magick is that the most powerful ritual is not one inherited from tradition, but the one created spontaneously with full conscious engagement in the moment. The ritual you create today will be more individual and unique and consciously intended, more relevant and applicable to your current conditions.

It is an illusion to believe that you are abandoned in the universe without help and must do everything yourself. There are helpers, spiritual allies. Turn the problem over to the cosmos to heal. Don’t forget that there are good and evil spirits. There are unseen forces at work — some of them hinder us, manipulate us toward darker feelings and appetites so that we produce the sort of energy they can harvest. Other spirits watch over us, respecting our free will, embracing us with love if we allow them. You are never alone, not in your body, not on this planet, and not in the spirit realm where your soul and psyche live. Our bodies are a colony of 50 trillion cells working together to allow us a corporeal existence on a planet where there are another six billion of us and myriad other living things. But we are even less alone in the spirit world where location is irrealized, and sympathetic vibration transcends boundaries of space and time. Invisible allies in the spirit world and in the microbiological realm work to keep you alive. As above, so below. In the unseen realm there are watchers and helpers always [...]