morkewitch:

theoldcottage:

Ritual of the Cleansing Candle

Take a candle, preferably of white or black, and run it over yourself from head to foot and back up to head again, saying a prayer of your choice or simply stating an affirmation of intent. Place it onto a plate, place salt on the plate and light it, saying a prayer again or a chant as follows:

“This candle harbours all ill from me
Burn away, burned it shall be
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
As Fire Burns, so too shall the ill around me”

Light the candle and let it burn down to its entirety, diving from the wax if there were specific areas that were affected, and if there were still things that needed to be worked through in more ritual. For example:

A broken heart could represent that emotional pain is the source of the negativity
A cross shaped piece of wax could represent suffering or burdens, as well as protection or that someone has placed an obstacle in your path
A scorpion’s tail represents betrayal and that someone has been sending negative energy your way
Candle wax that represents an eye could represent evil eye or that someone has been envious of you, or speaking ill of you
Moons in the wax could represent deliberate spellwork, harmful spirits or negativity surrounding you.

These are then neutralized and further rituals are taken. If the ritual has delivered auspicious symbols, depending on the person who is reading the wax, then it is to be taken as a good sign.

An alternative could be to add salt and white vinegar to a bath in order to cleanse any debris from the person. This is to be done over three days to seven days depending on the severity of the energy. Always wash from head to foot.

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hadit93:

The Holy Guardian Angel is a term often thrown around in Western Mystery Traditions that is often badly defined often bathed in contradictions and misconceptions. The title of this post should be focused upon ‘my current perspective’ as your relationship with the Angel develops and your experiences broaden your perceptions and understanding changes. This is the nature of magick- it may be a science as well as an art, but even scientists have to update their theories when new data comes to light! Everything I say here is most definitely subject to change.

1) The Angel is not ‘an angel’ it is ‘The Angel’.

I used to believe my Holy Guardian Angel was an angel that was already established. For example Raphael or Auriel, I believed the Angel was a being tied to me but also would be found within other belief systems. Ironically it has been my experience that the Angel can appear in this manner. It can use a name and a form which is conducive to our aesthetics when it comes to magick. But this is a mere mask, an image of an image. It is not the true nature of the Angel but a reflection, a refraction of its name and image. 

2) The Angel is the Self…….but the Self is complicated.

Aleister Crowley once wrote that the HGA is the higher self and then famously disagreed with himself later in life. I believe the HGA is the higher self in the sense that the Self is in fact a spark of God and that reality is an illusion and a manifestation of Nuit which is the Qabalistic triple veil of negative existence. You, me, Raphael, Hekate and every other being is a part of this Self. The Self is God head in which unity is achieved. The Angel is the Self in this context.

In the Thelemic system the Vision of the HGA is attained at the Neophyte grade assigned to Malkuth. Later on, the Knowledge and Conversation, union, of the HGA is attained in Tiphareth, Later on all is abandoned at the gate of the abyss before another type of union is attained. I won’t pretend to have achieved these later stages. Indeed I have not attained knowledge and conversation. But bear with me as I go through what I believe the Angel is.

I believe the Angel is Nuit, or at least a reflection of Nuit which is the total potentiality of manifestation. It is the entire Tree of Life and is thus a manifestation of the void from which the tree emerged. The ‘Angel’ is an image, an interface, a state of being in which we can connect with the divine. It is where we can interact with God. The Angel takes the form of God, of course God takes the form of Angels for those people who cannot make icons of their God, for a Pagan it could take the form of any God or Goddess. At least at first, later on you will probably find a form and a name more relevant to you. The name and form of the Angel is your personal reception of the Logos- the word of God and the formula of your existence.

So below the abyss the Angel is indeed a separate being, above the abyss and beyond Kether things certainly get more complicated!

3) Knowledge and Conversation is not simple seeing and communicating.

In the Thelemic system knowledge and conversation establishes an adept into the sphere of Tiphareth. The vision of the HGA occurs really early, usually at the beginning of the Neophyte phase. Sometimes as early as probationer. The vision of the HGA is not the same as Knowledge and Conversation. A neophyte can communicate with the Angel. It develops and changes over time. It gets richer, sometimes it fades to the background. But it is always there once established. It is sort of like an underlying current which is often synonymous with my view of True Will- but that is a post for another time!

Knowledge and Conversation refers to biblical knowledge and conversation which implies sexual union. The Adept literally bonds themselves to the Holy Guardian Angel, they are able to access the state of being, the state of union, and the understanding at an Adeptus context at Will. It requires no effort. Once the marriage occurs there can be no mistaking it, there is no doubt left and the state of union, the communication, the current of the Angel can be accessed at will.

4) Life is still hard and you are still human after the Angel.

Many people seem to think life becomes structured and ordered and that challenges will not arise after the Angel. This is not the case. Once you are married to the Angel you will truly be an incarnation of the Angel’s Will which is what the True Will really is. You should be able to follow your Will and avoid many potential conflicts and challenges. But you do not control the Will of other people. Some, if not most, people do not follow their Will, they will conflict with yours still. Challenges will still arise usually due to the influence of other people. You should be in a better position to recognise this and overcome them, but sometimes the best thing is to walk away and become a hermit. Furthermore it is likely people will begin to hate you, detest you, see you as different. Because you are. You are still human but you are a different kind of human, marked with the flame of the divine. Mystics are rarely praised in all corners of the Earth.

5) There is no set method for establishing contact.

 Many people perform the Abramelin for 6 or 18 months and believe this is the only method and you should have no contact with the Angel prior to this. I humbly disagree. The Angel is always there, other magical work particularly astral work will highlight the Angels current. Furthermore once you open yourself to the astral your dreams will also be more informed by the Angel’s current. The courtship can start then. In time the Angel will direct you to resources you can use to fashion a personal invocation suitable only for you. Some traditional methods are the Abramelin ritual, Liber 8, Liber Samekh, Stele of Jeu (the original headless rite), and simple prayer. 

You can dress it all up however you want, however your personal aesthetics direct you to do so. But Crowley was spot on when he said the key is to “enflame thyself in prayer”. The ritual should inspire such devotion, such fervour, that kundalini rises naturally, that your entire being is inspired to ascend to the height of the Angel. The Angel should be the only thing you are concerned with, your only focus. Your true love. But more than this you also need to be able to yield. To wait, to allow the Angel’s presence to descend. You need to be able to accept the presence. As magician’s we like to take the active role, but this is a mystical experience and I would argue the receptive role is far more important.

I don’t believe this is an operation that should be undertaken over 6 months. I know people have done this, but a lot of them have messed their lives up doing it. I think the operation worked, but the lack of growth already present means that the operation, the Angel, the universe has to cause spiritual maturity in a short period of time. This means it has to fuck you up a little! Whereas if you cultivate the relationship slowly and over the course of years, your life will have already changed. You will have matured, you will have grown and the effects of this growth have been spread out and have been gentle. The marriage is a culmination not a beginning in my view.

These are my thoughts as I currently understand them and they are most definitely subject to change. Years ago I would have disagreed with all of these points, but in time I have come to see the truth you think you know is never THE TRUTH and I believe we all fall into the traps of false dichotomy when in fact the Angel is most definitely more of a holistic experience.

musicktoplayinthedark:

COIL

Hooray, i now have a general ham license

isbergillustration:

Ghosts on Wood in Deep Winter, Here With A Blessing

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eventhorizonoflabour:

Cameron Rowland, Life and Property, 2020
Recording of NYPD radio communications in Manhattan,
Recording of NYPD radio communications in Brooklyn,
Recording of NYPD radio communications in the Bronx,
Recording of NYPD radio communications in Queens,
Recording of NYPD radio communications in Staten Island / Citywide

The NYPD does not retain publicly accessible recordings of its two-way radio communications. These communications can be accessed live using a UHF radio scanner. Due to the amount of simultaneous radio communication throughout the city, multiple scanners are necessary to receive all transmissions. Public access to recordings of these transmissions allows these internal communications to be reviewed collectively. When Life and Property is exhibited, recordings are produced continuously. Each day the prior 24 hours of recordings are made publicly accessible on the exhibitor’s website. The recordings for each day of the exhibition are hosted as documentation.

Looking out, documenting, and inverting surveillance have always been practiced by Black targets of policing. Internal documentation of the police that is produced by the police is only available at the discretion of the police. External documentation of the police is essential to understanding what the police actually do.

The radio communications of the NYPD make evident that the vast majority of police dispatches are in response to 911 calls reporting perceived disorder. The dispatches show how frequently callers report people to the police for “loitering,” “being disorderly,” “refusing to leave the business,” “panhandling,” “drinking and gambling,” “harassment,” “trespassing,” “disputing,” and “being uncooperative.”

The purpose of calling the police is to subject the accused to scrutiny, dispossession, incarceration, and death by enforcement. Calling the police to stop violence discounts the violence inflicted by the police. Survived and Punished organizes in support of incarcerated survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Their publication Research across the Walls details that:

In 2000, a study of domestic-violence survivors under New York State’s mandatory arrest policies found that survivors of domestic violence were arrested in 27 percent of cases reported through a domestic violence hotline…[A] decade-long study found that a law enforcement officer is charged with sexual misconduct every 5 days, and that motorists, crime victims and witnesses and young people are the most frequent targets.

As a paramilitary institution, the primary object of the police is the protection of white citizens and the property they own. White citizenship remains the benchmark for legal protection the United States. 42 USC § 1981, “Equal rights under the law,” last updated in 1991, states that:

(a) Statement of equal rights. All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.

The designation of who the police are sworn to protect is determined by the de jure and de facto withholding of citizenship. The NYPD’s mission statement openly states that its protection is contingent on citizenship as it pledges to:

Protect the lives and property of our fellow citizens and impartially enforce the law.

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