There once was a coven of vampires. They were all very ancient, immortal, and drank blood. They took this very seriously, with jumping-ins and beatings and many threats of violence… like a gang.
Some of the gan… err… coven, moved to another city.
And there was a brutal, on-the-news, “gang-related” beatdown.
While they hoped the victim would survive, one of the more mature members finally showed up to the coven meeting…
“Y’all know this is bullshit, right?”
… and that was the last time the teenagers gathered together.
Edited to say: was hidden, is ridiculous, is true story. Only edited because hidden.
SorcerySupreme. I’m thinking of learning magic and I’m thinking of Franz Bardon’s Introduction to Hermeticism as my first book. Do you have any other books you’d recommend? I’ve read books related to the New Thought movement, such as Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy, and I’m interested in the methods of authors like Mitch Holowitz or this community, which are related to chaos magic.
I know of a few books, but I can’t recommend them as they all have errors, but IMHO you want to get started with Kabbalistic divine/angelic names and Reiki immediately.
The spelling and Kabbalistic alignment in Archangels of Magick by Damon Brand is atrocious, but the beings are amazing, and God gives more leeway if you get a name wrong than the bank. Reiki you practice. I don’t care about lineage or symbols or who said what. Just learn the absolute basics, open your light, let it out, and it’ll work better every time just like a muscle. Someone who has done “light healing” every day for a month will do better Reiki that a Reiki Master of 30 years who has not done Reiki since they were attuned.
The Kabbalistic names have their own vibration and you do not need to understand what you are doing to make the will of God manifest in the world. (Which, as the Creator and all that, this is good and life-affirming.)
Reiki will teach you energy manipulation. But you have to be DOING the energy manipulation, which you should practice constantly. I literally taught myself most of the techniques, including the ones I use for my primary Reiki work, so just find some energy exercises that work for you.
Practice chopping wood and carrying water in a way that is in alignment with your divine purpose, so when you are enlightened, you are already on the path.
Post-enlightenment, it is very much chop wood, carry water, and my cats tell me these bowls aren’t going to fill themselves. And the second job is just making sure you stay enlightened, and don’t fall too far too fast.
Actually, I had a prejudice against Reiki. I thought Reiki was a combination of qigong and assurance prayer. I don’t remember which community it was, but someone said that they received a Reiki attunement and saw Japanese shrines and samurais. I’m a Korean living in Korea, so I have reservations about these traditional Japanese gods and spirits. If I recite a mantra related to Hinduism or Buddhism and pray that I can receive a Reiki attunement with that energy, can I do it? And can I also do Reiki through Kabbalah?
Reiki literally means the path of the life force, right? Reiki is the opening of the inner light. Besides the fact that some Japanese masters, including Usui, contributed their life force early on and even stay around as ascended masters to help, there is nothing really cultural, and from what I can tell, nothing related to “Japanese Gods and Spirits” at all. Note that Reiki can be sourced from anywhere as it’s the concept of universal light, so you can make up “Unicorn Reiki” on the spot and visualize it being pooped out of a unicorn into your smoothie maker, and your smoothie will be charged with some kinda of Unicorn-ish real Reiki. Not joking.
