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The Black Sun Covenant with Lucifer, E.A. Koetting & Kurtis Joseph on The Harvest Moon September 24
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Finding Spiritual Sanctuary Can Bring You To The Gates Of The Primordial Abyss... My Reflections From A Two Week Pagan Ritual & Pathworking With The Third Demonic Gatekeeper Azazel
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Hey Friend,
Throughout my career in teaching magick, I constantly warn against what I call “Magickal Escapism.”
What I mean by that is that too many magicians use magick as a way to engage their imaginative fantasies without pushing them through into reality through actual magickal methods.
For instance, I’ve known several would-be Sorcerers who use their Temples and altars as places to go to escape reality, rather than fulcrums of focus used to change their realities.
I was recently challenged by an onslaught of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual chaos, and I now have to admit that a degree of escapism in magick is not only forgivable, but is essential to the magickal process.
When I was a child, the concept of “escapism” as a negative thing to vigilantly avoid was drilled into me. As a survival mechanism during severe circumstances of abuse and neglect in my earliest years, my mind can easily drift away from this world and its circumstances. I can’t quite say that I would “go somewhere else,” but I could definitely detach from reality in the instant of a perceived threat.
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When I was a child, the concept of “escapism” as a negative thing to vigilantly avoid was drilled into me. As a survival mechanism during severe circumstances of abuse and neglect in my earliest years, my mind can easily drift away from this world and its circumstances. I can’t quite say that I would “go somewhere else,” but I could definitely detach from reality in the instant of a perceived threat.
While this has absolutely given me an advantage in the field of magick, this would have been a handicap in most other areas of life, if I hadn’t directly addressed it.
Through mental, physical, and magickal training, I’ve learned to balance myself between the worlds, in between the internal and external realms, and in so doing I have garnered truly Godlike Powers.
When I see magicians NOT using magick, but instead playing with it for their entertainment, I can hear the admonitions of my adoptive mother saying “Get your head out of the clouds and be here now!”
Neither of us knew that she was a spiritual Master at that time.
In beginning my pathworking with Azazel, he recently told me, “Attachment is when you buy the reality that is shown to you rather than creating the reality that you choose.” That is a very interesting view of attachment, and shows that the path to the Holy Grail of Non-Attachment is not found in rejecting or even detaching from reality, but simply not accepting the first reality that is presented to you, instead pushing your vision of reality into existence.
In order to do so, we do need to escape this reality to a degree. This is the real point of meditation practice and ritual focus: Your attention shifts from this reality into a neutral reality, a zero-point timespace within your own consciousness. You have escaped!
What we need to remember, as Black Magicians, is that this primordial darkness is the birthing place of reality. From this nothingness, all imagined things may emerge. Imagine then the reality that you’d prefer, and push this with all of your will through the veils of creation until it arrives with you back at the physical plane, forever changed by your creative intervention in the vortex of darkness.
Alash Tad Al’ash Tal Ashtu
Talk again soon,
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