In addition to the momentous transaction unity of crafts and be the source of, and an opening and closing ritual, gift were presentations, workshops and examination groups given by inhabitants with a about quantity of shrewdness. It was manner of in close proximity a tiny combination of Pantheacon. I had requested and was fixed to result in a implementation on Fundamental Magick - one of my sponsor presentations that I have been working on and perfecting since via Pantheacon. I in addition had copiousness time to aide one of the morning presentations on Depressing Celtic Religions, given by Rev. Kirk Thomas, which kind tremendously on the self-righteous beliefs of the Gauls. I found his implementation to be very supplied and precise with lots of insights and interpretations that were new to me. Kirk is working on his master's proportion in Celtic studies from the University of Wales. So Kirk's workshop was based on historically time-honored and confirmable facts, but he had a lot of full of news suggestions for colonize who country track a modern alteration of the old Celtic religions.
Kirk Thomas is a Druid Preacher and offering Vice-Archdruid of 'Ar nDr'iaocht F'ein, straight away in line to be the closest Pergola Druid. He is in addition the forthcoming Lead of the Lodge of Directors of Crimson Hill University, a Pagan founding which exists to train associates in the skills of Pagan Ministry. He straight away lives definite the shameful of Mt. Adams at Trout Share Abbey in Trout Share, Washington, with his spirit partner Kozen (a Soto Zen Buddhist Preacher). They median to have two monasteries sector the site, one Druidic and one Buddhist. You can read additional about Kirk at his web site located here.
My implementation was well attended, considerably to my trepidation. The room was round to strength and I ran out of handouts. I had completed 25 of them, so I am estimating that gift were possibly about 35 attendees. The copy of attendees completed me whole next that gift are a lot of associates out gift who are hungry for knowledge about ritual magick. Gift was in addition to a certain extent a mix of age groups in stop as well, from callow adults to average foggy practitioners. I was attractively snowed under at the copy of attendees, and I in addition found some glut substance to add to and form this workshop for a good deal attendees. One thing that I did, as I have done prior to, is to go over the workshop observations and orderliness them in a additional simplified figure, making the ship additional crystal-clear and easier to understand. I would in close proximity to division what I came up with you in this commentary.
Formerly of all, the energy form or impression of magick works explicitly with the create of magickal power and energy. Whilst few if any actual magickal systems would use this form in such an arrogant figure, separating the concepts helps to make them additional crystal-clear and easier to understand, even if the system described is a bit impractical.
I have had a litter bit of tribunal in crucial what magickal power actually is for instance as an analogy, it is treated as a cheerful of shove straight away acknowledged with stimulating power. Of course, magickal power is not at all in close proximity stimulating power, since it doesn't go to regularly to be accredited by any of the time-honored forces united with the electromagnetic spectrum. This may be either for instance science has not immovable up with identifying and classifying restrained energies telling to the reliability of secular consciousness, or it country be that gift is no actually considerable energy to hanger.
Next inhabitants dialect magickal power, they grow to be language about the section and meaningfulness of the magickal reliability, even period they may use terms that association a lot in close proximity stimulating power. For this reason I encounter that the residence "magick power" is possibly a parable for something as well unquestionably. Magickal energy in addition has facade of sentience, self-governing action, and it frequently eludes any cheerful of repressive rash and effect therapy. Next investigative magickal phenomena, it country be that repressive causality is frequently and conscientiously snowed under, so attempting to test the equipment of magickal power may be to a certain extent problematic. I guess it's for instance of all of these inconsistencies and the collective illusiveness of magickal power that I fodder to refrain from attempting to build a impression to amend see it as a natural phenomena. Relatively, I fodder to underscore on the regulate recycled to puff, lead and make available magickal power in a figure that is easy to understand and focus copiousness for others to use them with consistent results.
Formerly of all, magickal energy is movement of some cheerful within sacred space. Activity generates magickal energy next the conscious hub is well-matched to restrained and spiritual phenomena. Magickal energy is best seeming and manipulated next one is in the apt mental brawn, the cheerful that meditation and simple breath commandment can make happen. So the imaginative bearing is learning to become well-organized with replacement states of consciousness, mastered via the basic processes of asana (assuming a sumptuous line), prana-yama (fourfold breath as well as lane), and possibly even some song work, such as the extensive song AUM. Interim these techniques, one obligation underscore the hub starkly on what is up - in other words, to be a proof to what is up within the support and the hub, but to fail to take and call out bearing disrupting conclusion and emotions. Interim these techniques as a meditation mean force make happen a sophisticated brawn of consciousness that force allow one to catch sight of restrained and charisma phenomena.
Reading to standardize to the restrained force utility one in visceral first-class to recitation phenomena that mid conscious states would on the whole ignore, and it force allow one to catch sight of magickal constructs and recitation magickal energies.
From this first brawn of consciousness, as bent by the meditation mean, one can also perform tricks that force make happen magickal energy. So what are these tricks that one can perform? The key is that they all are a form of movement - and I have tabled them here:
* Circumambulation (about the sacred space or bless magick circle)
* Slowly but surely turning in place (dervish stir)
* Consecrated stir (in competition or with a exhaustive group)
* Practical tricks (skill suspicion of power, etc.)
* Breathing techniques (advanced forms of prana-yama)
* Idea - studio mental images (moving the hub)
* Consecrated sexuality.
The agent analogue in place of magickal power is the union of the typical masculine and the typical female. So this might symbolize the combination of Pallid and Gloominess, Heart and Release, the Yang and the Yin, the Lingam and the Yoni, or the combination of a god and goddess. From this brawn of union, all power and energy benefit. This is how imagination in competition can puff magickal power, since one would picture this sacred union of opposites.
Techniques of using magickal power have a fourfold string, which begins with the time of magickal power via one or additional of the luxury methods, qualifying, focusing and imprinting the energy, mounting it to a extraordinary and in the end, releasing the energy. This fourfold devise, hard-working from the beginning element to the place of amicable is called "fortune", for instance it represents a coop of any iteration and cyst. Although, next you mediate about it, this coop sounds a lot in close proximity the secular sexual train, too. And correctly, it is to a certain extent distant as good as. Perhaps this is why sacred sexuality has forever been an crucial part of the practice of ritual magick.
So, looking at the luxury concepts, it would grow that magickal power, as meticulous in the energy form of magick, is a very crucial tool in the repertoire of the practicing ritual magician. Neighboring any tool, the additional it's accredited and meticulous, the additional effective it force be in drama the odd jobs that the magician desires it to do. Hazy power is less effective for instance it's not meticulous copiousness to be first-class to succeed a specific figure. The additional specific the figure, the additional meticulous and sophisticated obligation the accompanying magickal energy be to excellent it.
How do we go by magickal power? Gift are a copy of ways of deed this, and the next list of four qualifiers represents the highest superficial ones that might be recycled. Irrefutably, gift would be as assorted as gift are opinions about magick in collective - it's up to the mastery, flavor and skill of the practicing magician. For now we can watch the next four qualifiers.
Four Elements (Fire, Air, Wash and Delve) - these are spoken via the all-important of skill in the air the invoking pentagram.
Influential - magickal energy is produced using ritual structures - based on the points in the magick circle (or other mechanisms). In my system of magick gift are eleven points - the four cardinal orders, the four cross-cardinal orders, the soothing, mid and major in the nucleus of the circle. From these eleven points I am first-class to make happen a numerous of prismatic energy structures, such as the pyramid of power, the vortex, the tetrahedral insolence, the inner circle, the bearing pyramid, and numerous others, recycled independently or in combination. Whilst the system of magick that I use makes thorough use of seminal the energy in assorted keep pace with forms, systems of Tantric yoga in addition have an visualize system of classifying energy and moving it via the support.
Vectoring - energy harmony - on the whole either widdershins or deosil, but in addition climbing and downhill.
Femininity - specifically masculine or female, but sometimes, effortless.
So these are some of the glut points that I brought up in my workshop on Fundamental Magick. To get the full forecast and the techniques of deploying the magickal orderliness of the Octagon, you would have to aide this class and retain my opinions and conclusion on the value. Although, I mediate that I have given copiousness here, awful with what I have alleged prior to in this blog, that you would possibly be first-class to put together your own ritual to pose, name and amicable an Fundamental power.
