One of the reasons why magic does not work is because a person has not understood what they have to sacrifice for the rite to happen.In different systems of magic, there is the concept of sacrifice – of giving something up to achieve a desire or receive something from the gods. Usually this is symbolic; a person killed an animal, or poured wine into a trench to give something up to achieve a goal. Even in initiation, the concept of taking an oath can be considered a form of sacrifice where the “victim” is the person who is dying so that they can become something more. They are narrowing their life and promising not to do something so that
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Killing off the Past Heirophant
The top table of chiefs in the Golden Dawn ritual are composed of the Imperator, the Cancellarius and Praemonstrator. The Hierophant is also supposed to sit between them and behind him sits the Past-Heirophant.Throughout the history of the Golden Dawn little work has been done about the magical function of these officers. Instead the titles are seen as mostly administrative. The person who fancies themselves in charge of the group takes the role of Imperator because it means “the person who rules” and it gets to stick them on a throne above all the others dressed in bright red and holding a jolly big sword. However this
A creation of the universe using Egyptian symbolism
Someone asked for a magical worldview which did not incorporate re-incarnation, or Karma and yet did the same sorts of things. Here is a basic Egyptian one which can be used to find answers to many different questions and also slots in nicely to the Golden Dawn.There was never a beginning or an end, just darkness. Well, when I say darkness I mean everything and nothing. The Ancient Egyptians called it Nun. Then this being, which until then could only be described by what it was not, decided to be something. It created an idea of a universe. That idea was called by the Ancient Egyptians Thoth – the Mind of the One Thing and he created more ideas,