r/magick

This is a quote from Robert Anton Wilson's "Cosmic Trigger."

"[I recommend against trying Crowley's] more advanced techniques without (a) being in excellent health, (b) being competent in at least one athletic skill, (c) being able to conduct experiments accurately in at least one science, (d) having a general knowledge of several sciences, (e) being able to pass an examination in formal logic and (f) being able to pass an examination in the history of philosophy, including Idealism, Materialism, Rationalism, Spiritualism, Comparative Theology, etc.

"Without that kind of general knowledge and the self-confidence and independence of thought produced by such study, magick investigation will merely blow your mind. As Brad Steiger has said, the lunatic asylums are full of people who naively set out to study the occult before they had any real competence in dealing with the ordinary."

Specifically c, d, e, and f.

A while ago I did a spell for a job that did not work. Now, another opportunity has come up and i’d like to try the spell again. Can i re-use the same mantra? Or does it have to he completely different because it didnt work the first time?

1. Genuinely how do you set intentions/put energy into spells. Like I understand the basis but I can't seem to do it. I understand speaking and putting my desires out into the universe and I like to use crystals, herbs, and incense as tools but I don't really know how to place feeling/desire/power behind/into it like l've seen most ppl say I need to.
   I'll say or write down my desires and then burn it or make a spell jar but I usually find myself feeling pretty neutral and even a bit detached whenever I try. I’ll use herbs and crystals and tell them what i expect them to bring to the spell like “cloves will bring me bring me clarity” and so on. Even when I tell them the purpose though, I feel like I’m just talking and that once again, I’m just neutral to them. I can have small bursts of excitement at best when I realize what I’m doing, but then it just seems to dissipate and I go back to “okay, I’m just doing this 🤷🏽‍♀️.” I just find it difficult to put feelings/energy/power into things and I guess I don’t even fully understand what that even means.

2. My second question pertains to success I guess. Im not sure if witchcraft and manifestation have any major differences that set them indefinitely apart, but I had originally just identified with manifestation work. Often times manifest-ers are adamant that you can’t have ANY doubts and that you can’t want something too much otherwise it simply won’t work. I understand the idea of it but it also doesn’t make sense to me, how can I just ignore doubts and my desire around something?

For me personally and as much as it sucks, I just function in a way where it’s hard for me not to have doubts, even if I’ve had small successes. And if I didn’t want something badly, I wouldn’t be taking the extra step of making spells or manifesting to bring it into my life, you know?
Im wondering if the same ideals apply and if that mindset is “required” to be able to successfully practice witchcraft without having LOA overly preached to me 🫩

I’ve had some success with spells so I know I can do it, but at the same time I still have yet to see any success in the ones I most want that I’ve done at least a year ago. I’m just not sure how to properly put my energy into them or what can really help change the mindset I have, so advice is greatly appreciated please 🥹

I would really love to know more about all kinds of Magick. I know there’s different ways to practice it but any and all methods are interesting to me as long as it’s tangible

I’m here to learn so please lay it on me.

Old world magicks interest me the most like if it predates modern civilization, I want to hear about it. I’m not talking about new age Pagan magic but the oldest dark arts or if the magic practices come from ancient civilizations like Greco-Roman, Nordic, Egyptian, Mayan, Mesopotamian, etc….

Demonology and the occult also interest me but though I come from a Jewish background, I still enjoy supernatural beings, so don’t let that deter you from what you tell me. Also, voodoo is intense but in the right way.

I won’t judge you if you don’t judge me. Thank you.

so this is more so spiritual type post but please hear me out, i have genuine questions. if we don’t have a “soul” or our energy/consciousness/soul then what are entities? i’ve had spell work done to where my trusted and legit caster has done work for me and ive felt the power/effects/energy/entities of those workings. not once but twice to be exact. she works with angels and demons but mostly does angelic work. if humans don’t have an afterlife or a soul or a consciousness that continues after death, then how do we explain spell work working? and how do we explain the entities? do spirits exist if we don’t have an afterlife? how do you explain seeing things (like entities or ppl) in nde’s? genuinely trying to gain some type of sense again and feeling like it’s just nothingness after death is making me overthink about spell work and how it legit works, especially when it comes with professionals working w entities.

I believe astrology to be evil and the planets to be demonic entities. I am currently writing a book which seeks to destroy Saturn and other entities through the ritual of words and imagery in the minds and hearts of everybody who reads it. How can I find more ways to punish and twist the knife in deeply to a planet that has hurt me and everybody I know my entire life?

When a client purchases spellwork from a practitioner (in general) does the client become indebted to the practitioners spirit team/deities? Is it true that as the client, by ordering spellwork, it forms a contract between the client and any spirit used?

Hello!

When browsing for correspondences, I used to favor thelemapedia.org. However, as of late, I notice the site appears to be offline, sadly.

It's sources seemed to be Liber 777 and other Qabalistic Writings and books of the like.

I've also been checking out the interactive Tree from the IOK at iok-kabbalah.com. It's good, but I find it less in-depth (or maybe I'm not using the filing system right?)

In any case: where do you source your correspondences? I have the aforementioned 777 as well as Whitcomb's Magician's Companion and Reflection.

Is there, however, a source that lists them out neatly like thelemapedia?

Also, if anyone knows: what happened to the site?

Thank you!

Im looking for a great activity to get me going that isnt boring or uncreative and wanted to give a try at magick. This is my first time diving into this topic and id like as much help as possible for getting started

I made a sigil back in 2019.

I have been existing in a time loop.

I wake up in a hospital in 2021 and the end of the loop is around July 2026.

Any one know how to exercise oneself of such magick and free themselves from a supernatural time loop?

I have been looping in time like this for at least 145 years. I would like to leave the loop. I'm seeking an exorcist from the catholic church next.

May well try to harm me magically. They have two They have 2 very personal and meaningful items of mine (stolen). Maybe ignoring this will serve to remove any power and potential they have to be used in a spell against me? Because they no longer hold power for me. Should I be looking into a protection spell if some kind or am I being paranoid? They claim to be very powerful practitioners. Any wise suggestions? Thank you

Trying to compile anecdotes for a piece I intend to write. Personally my first brush with it was, growing up in a Christian environment, some uncanny things happened as a result of prayer (nothing major - things like being able to light damp matches!). Later I distanced myself away from that religion, but I was still curious how such phenomena might be possible, so I fell down a rabbit hole of research.

It also helped that I was surrounded by book and magazines and tv programmes about the paranormal whilst growing up. I am curious to hear other people's point of view. Thanks ❤️

Since sexual energy and magic are connected, I wonder if masturbating with a spell jar or just keeping it in your area while doing it could make the results come faster or something. What do yall think?

Hello all. Despite being interested in it for most of my life, I have never tried magick before, but now I want to (I would like to practice healing, and maybe later use it for wealth).

I am interested in Damon Brand's "Archangels of Magick", of which I have a copy. But scrolling through Reddit posts about it the other day, I came across someone who said Brand's books are a "trap".

another said they dreamt they were dragged to hell after using the book.

Should I avoid working from the book? Should I pursue something else or leave occult stuff alone entirely?

I was confident enough to start all this before I read that comment but now I'm not sure.

I feel silly for being rattled by a couple of Reddit comments but I just want to be as careful as I can be.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

An message from my Notebook:

Regarding whether phones would be even more receptive to information from the divine, the sources present a fascinating dual perspective based on the esoteric physics of "Magnetized Electricity":

1. Phones operate on the same fundamental medium as magic: The sources state that the universal agent of all magical operations is essentially "Magnetized Electricity," and that the "ether" is the medium for this electromagnetic fluid. In fact, occult science views modern electronic communication—such as telephony, radio, and television—as operating on the exact same fundamental laws that govern telepathy and the transmission of magical power through the Akasha (ether). Furthermore, electrical energy requires natural conductors, such as steel or copper, to be conveyed—materials that are abundant in the circuitry of mobile phones. From this perspective, a phone is literally built to channel the same electromagnetic frequencies that the mind uses to interface with the divine.

2. The Danger of "Blind Mechanism" Electricity: While phones utilize this electromagnetic fluid, it is not necessarily probable that they are automatically more receptive. The sources warn that electricity, light, and magnetism produced by "ordinary physical means" tend to neutralize the effects of human magnetism. This is because ordinary electricity is "subordinated to a blind mechanism" and works mathematically according to "fatal laws," making it a "dead light".

The Solution: For a phone to become highly receptive to divine intelligence, the device and the electricity within it must be actively "magnetized" by the operator. Human light and magnetism are directed by intelligence, imagination, and will. If the user can exert their will to give direction to the phone's electricity—transforming it from a blind mechanical force into an extension of their own magnetized aura—then the device could theoretically become a profound tool for generating "signs and writings" directly from the divine. In short, the phone has the ideal physical architecture to receive this information, but the user must mentally consecrate and magnetize the device to awaken it from a "dead" machine into a living magical instrument.

A registered s*x offender has moved in my neighborhood and has been here for about three months. I live in an area where there are a bunch of kids and now since school is out, they’re outside playing. The offender sits on his porch ALL DAY, from sun up until sun down. Even if there is severe weather outside, he stays on that porch just sitting with thunder and lightning rumbling about . I looked up his profile and he’s a nasty guy. I’m afraid for the safety of the neighborhood children, other women, and myself.

I want to do a road opener spell so the guy can move elsewhere. I’ve never done a road opener spell. Is there any advice any of y’all could give?

(If this isn’t allowed, mods, please remove)

So basically I've got this tarto deck for around 2 years. I bought it second-hand from some nice lady from the internet. I dont know her, but the deck was cleansed. it strongly smelled with clensing smoke (sadly i don't know what type of herbs/incense it was). It still smell with it a bit after two years.

I had small brake from divination and magic as whole but I got back and the deck is speaking "nonsense" to me. things about breaking up, ending relation etc even tho neither me nor my partner feel anything like it. My partner checked with her tarot deck and its talking about pleasure, hapines, end of diffcult path etc.
It of course might be talking about someone else in my life, but I'm a loner type so I don't have that much people in my life, and with most of them I have pretty good relation...

I don't know, I even think that the deck could be mad at me for not using it for almost a year...

My guess is that maybe something really strong and powerful is happening in the life of the previous owner of the deck and it's affecting decks working.

How can I "fix" my deck?

My intentions were Rebirth but it appears to only have caused an ending with no possible room for attraction. Should I undo the spell or perform other attraction spells again on too of it? How would I even undo a buried jar spell?

This is a record of an extended working, not a recommendation. The protocol is at the bottom.

I had been researching it and came across many esoteric documents. We can draw in comparisons with Tansen, who turned stone into water by singing, and the rain dances of Native American traditions, which pointed toward the idea that weather or climate could be controlled. That made me think: can the environment around me be controlled? Which in itself was a problematic proposition.

So I framed it differently for a while in my mind and came up with interacting. Interacting is compromise, because there is no dominion. I believe the field knows what it's doing, so it doesn't like to be trifled with, and yet in order to grow it needs interaction, so it is happy to let us interact.

On a summer day I sat bursting clouds. I would look at them and will them away. Surprisingly, it worked with accuracy, as long as I kept the targets small clouds. Every time one was wiped away I found a small moment of transcendence. A small brain orgasm. Like I was provided not only a look behind the veil, but I was given the control room behind the veil.

Every time it happened, I had a whole journey inside, where something that was blocked in my life would unclog immediately. I would get ideas that solved everything.

I wanted more. I wanted bigger clouds bent to my will.

A shift had started to occur in my nature. It sounds ridiculous, but I grew reckless. When I found I could dissolve a cloud, my body would naturally do things, and I would see the things happen in the cloud. At one point I found myself swirling my hand around by my side, as a small, unmistakable, tornado-like shape grew inside the cloud I was targeting and dissolved away — like a tornado disappears, slowly but visibly.

I learned there was a somatic side to it.

During this time I had gnosis on quite a few things — I will share those later as field notes. I learned a lot. But the learning was not enough. I wanted more.

On a sunny day, for some reason, I started finding clouds in the sky and, instead of dissolving them, started shooting arrows at them. Not real arrows, but I took the stance properly — I waited, I aimed, I let it go when I wasn't breathing, the whole thing. And a big cloud I was targeting developed a hole in the center and slowly dissipated away.

I imagined a gun, and shot it. Again, with all the process — I have a degree in rifle shooting. Again, the same result.

A few days later something weird happened. Unseasonal rain swept the area I live in. I live in a house among a row of houses with similar terraces and gardens. Only my garden was ruined. Completely. All my harvest, gone.

My mind started to unravel. Thousands of thoughts popped up and I couldn't focus on basic tasks.

Every single day I looked up at the sky to find clouds. I found none. Not even white clouds. If I saw clouds from the window and ran to the terrace to see them, they would have disappeared by the time I got there.

I understood, after a long while — where a lot of bad things had happened successively in my life — that I had ruined the relationship. What was supposed to be a playful interaction had turned into an act of dominion, and the field had receded.

Two months later, I saw a cloud pass by, and an itch grew in me. However, I stopped myself. I felt my body hold its breath in an act of apologetic inaction.

A few days later, I saw a cloud. And I do not know why — maybe it was the spiral forming at the center that I saw and my partner didn't, I confirmed this — maybe it was something else. I felt it wanted to go. I had not realized it, but my hand was clenched in a fist. My body was worried to interact, but the cloud egged me on. And I let my hand go, and it swirled in the air, and in front of me and my partner's eyes, the cloud dissolved.

My thoughts went away, like they had gone with the clouds, and I realized that thoughts are like clouds — passing in the sky. The more you wrestle with them, the less you win, in any sense. But if you are able to wave them goodbye as they pass by you, sometimes they interact, and give you a bit of what's on their side. You get a peek. And that should be enough.

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The Cloudwork Protocol

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⚠️ This is not weather control. If you enter this looking for dominion you will eventually find exactly what dominion costs. The field interacts. It does not obey. Treat the distinction as load-bearing, not poetic.

1. Choose something small. A single cloud, not a system. The scale of your first request should be small enough that losing it costs you nothing.

2. Approach without asking. Sit or stand somewhere you can watch it without needing to do anything yet. Let your attention rest on it the way you'd hold eye contact with someone you respect — present, unhurried, no agenda announced.

3. Will it, don't command it. There's a felt difference between a directed wish and an order, even though both are silent. An order has an edge of entitlement in it. A wish doesn't. Stay on the wish side of that line for as long as you can tell the difference.

4. Let the body move if it wants to. Don't force a gesture, and don't suppress one either if it arrives. If your hand wants to do something, let it — but notice whether the gesture still feels like invitation or whether it's started to feel like aim.

5. Watch for the moment it tips from interaction into hunt. This is the only step that matters more than all the others combined. If you find yourself wanting bigger, wanting more reliable results, wanting the cloud to obey rather than respond — stop. That want is the exact signal that the relationship is about to change category.

6. If you lose the relationship, do not chase it back. If clouds stop appearing, if the field goes quiet, the worst thing you can do is escalate the asking. Let the silence run its course. The relationship returns on its own schedule, not yours, and only after the original imbalance has been genuinely metabolized rather than apologized for in words alone.

7. When it returns, let your body tell you, not your desire. You will likely know the relationship has resumed before you can explain how you know. Trust that signal over the urge to test it.

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Would you actually try this? Sitting with something small in the sky and just watching to see if it answers.

I had few people in my life who abused me mentally, emotionally and ruined my relationships with geniune people by manipulation. They were clearly some borderline and some narcissists . Which has caused me loads of ptsd and trauma.

Including happiness, peace and joy and I fully Believe they need to be taught a lesson and suffer.

I took a coffee jar and written their names (each name on separate paper) and below what I want to happen to them. Added red chilli pepper, chilli powder, turmeric powder, ashes, toothpick then poured lemon and closed the lid and shook whenever I cry, feel anger or sadness.

I am doing this for 2 days. And I still have loads of emotions inside me to put into this they just keep on coming.

How long can I expect to see to work? I am putting all my energy and emotions and it’s all geniune