Cycle 1 - Unifications
Goal: unite body, emotions, mind, and spirit.
Books to acquire:
· Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts, Donald Michael Kraig.
· The Art of Shen Ku: The First Intergalactic Artform of the Entire Universe, Zeek.
· Korean Sword Mastery, Jerry Laurita.
· The Greatness of Saturn, Robert Svoboda.
· The Essential Law of Attraction Collection, Esther and Jerry Hicks.
· Angels of Alchemy and Magickal Protection, Damon Brand.
· Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path, Don Webb.
Other items:
· A journal with blank pages and a pen you like.
· Black tea lights and incense. Burn on your altar daily.
· Index cards.
· Tarot deck (Rider-Waite or one inspired - 78 cards).
· A bokken or a stick that resembles one.
· Analgesic (Tiger Balm is good. So is White Flower Balm Oil and Wong To Yick Woodlock Medicated Oil, but Ben Gay or Icy Hot will do).
· A small box for your items and books, which you can also use as an altar (get a black altar cloth for it or cut a black T-shirt for it).
· A small bowl or metal can for burning slips of paper.
· A small plate stand and a wooden or metal pentagram, which you will place on the plate stand point down (i.e. as an inverted star, representing you as a singularity in which all other elements and saltes find meaning).
· A piece of dedicative jewelry. Can be a pendant or a ring or something else. The point is that you will wear it every day. Suggestions are: an ankh, an inverted pentagram, or if you’re feeling a bit radical, a “Baphomet,” a Sulphur / “Leviathan Cross,” or the symbol of Saturn.
You cannot separate body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Each of these are ways of seeing the singularity that is you. For the purposes of the practice of gaining power, they are useful fictions. This map, however, is not the territory.
Read the tiny parables by Jorge Luis Borges, entitled, “Inferno, I, 32” and “On Exactitude in Science.”
Understanding this comes in waves or layers. You can grasp the idea at once (ideas are aligned with the element of air and, as such, move very quickly relative to other things—for example, the mind is often where a magical working first manifests). But you cannot know a thing just with the mind. And understanding with the body, emotions, and spirit often comes at different times.
Cycle 1 Length: 78 days.
Daily Practices (do as much of these as you can at any time convenient to you).
Body:
· Stretch (Shen Ku: “A Traveler’s Guide to Therapeutic Stretching”).
· Five Tibetan Rites (Modern Magick, many places on the internet).
· 3x10 knuckle push-ups.
· 3x50 sit-ups.
· 15 long jumps (land on the balls of your feet, do 3 jumps one way, turn around and do 3 jumps back).
· Bear Crawls about 30 feet out and 30 feet back five times (look on the internet for this).
· 100 basic sword cuts (Korean Sword Mastery, pages 71-114).
· Apply analgesic to sore muscles.
Emotions:
· Develop emotional discipline: no complaining for this entire cycle. Whenever you catch yourself doing it, go do 10 knuckle push-ups. If you can’t embrace this, renew your Netflix subscription and quit this praxis.
· Practice “pivoting”: when you experience something unpleasant or any kind of negative emotion, say, “I know what I don’t want. But what do I want instead?” (Essential Law of Attraction, “Part 1: Pivoting and the Book of Positive Aspects”)
Mind:
· Tarot Contemplation Ritual (Modern Magick).
· Read The Greatness of Saturn.
· Read Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide from “Initiatory Magic” on page 25 to the end of the chapter on page 31.
Spirit:
· Read Uncle Setnakt’s Essential Guide from “Metacommunication” on page 19 to the end of “Practical Sigil Construction” on page 23. Use the system to bring you more money. Record the operation in your journal (cf. Modern Magick, “The Ritual or Magickal Diary” and Uncle Setnakt, page 32, Method 1: “Keep a diary”). After you draw some money to yourself, do 4 more of these sigil workings for the following: sex, insight, spiritual communication, and domination of someone else. I leave it to you to interpret what the specific subject matter will be. My only requirement is that you have courage and accept all consequences without complaint.
· Begin recording your dreams (Modern Magick, “Tips for Remembering Dreams”).
· Learn Damon Brand’s “Sword Banishing Ritual” (Magickal Protection). Do it daily.
· Invoke the Shem Angel, Tzafuniel, with Damon Brand’s Angels of Alchemy method. Ask for endurance to complete this first cycle (only do this at the beginning of the cycle). Record this working like any other.
Anything someone does more than once begins to get hard. You will fail. You will slack off. You will feel very uncomfortable. You will question this. You will wonder whether you have to do this for 78 days. This is part of it. The first day of practice is relatively easy. The 50th day, less so. You can always quit and return to your confusion and self-loathing. This is a path of transcendence, which means you have to internalize that concept. You have to evolve, transcend, grow stronger. No one cares whether you do. But you must care deeply about this. You must be extremely serious and quiet about it.
Cycle 2 notes will follow shortly. Good luck.
Silenciumetaurum