r/HighMagic

I have dabbled in occult interest since I was a preteen. I am 36 now. I have read the kybalion, the Satanic Bible(La Vey), some Manly Hall(Secret Teachings of All Ages), I own the Golden Dawn by Regardie, but it's pretty dense. I spent 6+ months very dedicated to practicing Tibetan Vajrayana meditation and became laser focused and noticed many synchronous events in my life. As if the road were rising up to meet me. My divorce ended that practice, and I fell off the wagon l, so to speak.

My ex wife died shortly after our separation, and in the subsequent months, and for about 10 years, continuing to today, I have been subject to intense synchronicity.

In many ways it feels as if it could even be interfered with, as so much of it is potentially explainable by intentional human action. I hesitate to use the term "gangstalking", but it tracks, and it does not normally replicate itself in acts of the "natural"(non-human) world. I do possess qualities and a history, both online and off, that would be of genuine interest to a number of organizations.

I noticed a recurring theme of freemasonry and poked at that, going and spending time with them, but I simply cannot bring myself to trust them with myself in such an exposed state as their initiatory rituals place their candidates.

HOWEVER, recently (since I decided to return to college for electrical engineering) events have been overwhelmingly synchronous, at times hourly, thoughts and actions synchronizing with various events, symbols, and actions, both human and otherwise.

I have been reading W.E.Butler over the past few days...

Looking for the trail of breadcrumbs for self-initiation... A nudge in the right direction on the path... Or maybe just a kick in the ass... Not really sure how best to proceed...

I asked about self-initiation and described my interest in hermetics and such in /r/occult, and was dm'd this place as a resource.

Thank you for your time.

You have been told that the imagination is a faculty for making things up. This is a lie.

The imagination is not just fantasy. The imagination is a perceptual organ.

Henry Corbin, the great scholar of Islamic theosophy, recovered a lost term: the mundus imaginalis, the imaginal world. Not the imaginary (unreal), not the intellectual (abstract), but a real intermediate realm, as real as the physical world, accessible only through active imagination.

In the traditions of Iran, this realm is called Nâ-Kojâ-Abâd, the “country of nowhere.” It is a place with extension, color, and form, yet not located in physical space. The prophets and sages traveled there. The mystics and theurgists still do.

Giordano Bruno understood this. For him, the imagination was not a passive mirror of the senses; it was a magical engine. To imagine was to act. To form an image in the mind was to shape the cosmos.

The artist knows this instinctively. When you draw, you do not “make up” a figure; you bring forth a form that was already present in the imaginal. Your hand merely traces what your inner eye has seen.

The theurgist goes further. He learns to incubate images, to invite them, to purify the vessel so that the imaginal can descend. This is ontological engineering.

The dream is the gateway. In sleep, the pneuma loosens from the body and walks the imaginal world. The symbols you see are not random; they are the language of that world, so pay attention...

The gatekeepers of modern thought have told you that the imagination is unreal. They did this because the imaginal world cannot be controlled by priests, politicians, or scientists. It is the realm of direct revelation. It renders intermediaries obsolete, it totally depends on the strength of the practitioner and their own creativity.

Magic is not about commanding spirits. It is about aligning with the imaginal. The purified soul becomes a mirror, and the imaginal reflects itself in that mirror.

The image becomes a telesma. The telesma becomes a door.

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“The Angels exist substantially only in the free sublimity of the absolute Heavens, where reality is one with the ideal. They externalize themselves only in the ecstasy to which they give rise and which is inherent in them.”

- Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam