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terça-feira, 24 de janeiro de 2017

The Numerology for 2017


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The Numerology for 2017

Note: this text will receive some revision in the next days.
(Last edited Feb,9,2017)


We started 2017 with many world events happening, but most was expected, like events in the politics areas, companies doing this or that, people arguing about so many different ideas.

In practice I won’t say thing are not changing. Be sure things will always will change. But the direction is not due global events, as they in practice started at each one acting into his/her personal world and that added to others until that result in big movements.

Everything Is A Cycle
Art by Teagan White - USA
There are cycles in life:
Natura non facit saltus! From Latin: “Nature does not makes jumps!”

This to remember all natural things and change gradually with time. Season's cycles, people you knew and become an adult and you was unaware of it. The tree you saw as a small herb in the middle of the grass grown and now have fruits.

Most of times people does not pay attention to all intermediate events happening, just remember a previous time until something happens and they discover to be far away from the source events.
Each year is just a continuation from the previous, with some remainder energies and new incoming events that will be affected and be observed in different points of view just because you are also changing.





Some background: 

I had commented for years about my vision on the numbers for each year, and glad almost everything I told have been right, including the income years like after that 2012 apocalypse time.See the 2012 Numerology.

That time I was pointed to talk about some future world events. I had commented more at the forums too. Even if I don't like to do any kind of prophecy, I had to do that time as a strong warning and most to people at spiritual areas, mainly the ones at higher levels, because the decades and even two centuries to come. The world is going into that and each year we see that more and more.

Just to remember, we are going each year more and more into the mixing of many practices and religions with other ideas and concepts. Each year information is easier to get anywhere and even the most remote places will be affected someway due this.
And this is not only in the spiritual areas, but also at politics, science, culture, etc. At all places people are collecting information and using it someway, creating some good mixes, but some others not so.
Even at some very fanatics areas we see they using new resources and methods that are against even their self-proclaimed principles, just with the excuse of something be needed. Just hypocrites and opportunists.  
For example, in my country we have a lot of evangelic churches and many of them have been using practices I recognize at once as proper from the African Traditional Religions. Modern practitioners of the traditional areas of Western Magic also have been using methods and techniques from very different sources.No need to cite the cruel terrorists who use anything to show they are just cowards.

In the next years, politics, technology, science, etc. are going to become to be confuse areas too. We’ll find many of them adopting practices from other areas and many, even if with a sincere desire to do the good for others, in practice results in more problems that people are not thinking about just because they does not observe what is the real source of such things.

Muse
Art by Mario Sánchez Nevado - Spain
As 2017 is a number 1 year, we'll see more of this at both sides: some people will be more on acting than thinking while others will be "doing" instead of just acting.  
There are many examples at many areas. At technology companies we'll see more and more a stagnation due some company leaders looking only for gain and lacking to care the minds behind the busines. It's just a matter of times of busines collapse due lack of knowledge. If you don't preserve the professionals who know how and what to do, be sure the newbies will not replace them just because they won't find people to teach them. Newbies can be cheap, but are the olders who keep business with a background and able to be moving.

The spiritual confusion also acts at the society level, I say not just the magicians and witches, but every common people is under such mixing of ideas and practices. Remember most people even without any kind of spiritual practice, are most of times ruled by them. Even if they are not part of some religions, the leaders, business people and governs, most of all times have guidance from people at the spiritual and magic areas. 
The result will be a confusion and that in no ways will be good. We are going fast into a kind of spiritual dark age and in my point of view, in just one more decade things can be really very worse.

This is why I pointed that time to the higher ones to become prepared to support people, to be able to be a light to others and be able to fight against the confusion and work to restore a better level of consciousness but this also will need some decades more.



So let's be moving to act with creativity and to develop our lives!

And now at 2017 we are entering again is a number 1 year, a time for action, changes and even new cycles.
Like the others, this is not a numerology study for each people, but it is about the global energies around for this year, so each one may have an idea how things at global levels will be acting so they can think better how to deal with that.

Even if the energy is global, still you have to work locally, as an individual. No matter what you do, even if you are the President of a big company, a farmer or a salesman, you have your own path and the way you care of your life is what matter.
Each one have a personal path. So in the same way the personal numerology is different even for people who born at the same day as commented at previous articles. You have your family and geographic/social influences acting. Who you was at previous lives, the kind of activities you will be attracted for, your personal evolution. All this matters.

This is one reason why I add comments about the personal numerology at the full readings I do, as the way I work, is not only the Tarot. In practice, I use often use both techniques as I’m talking about how the person is and how that numbers affect the way each event is perceived and how to deal with that. So for sure, the ideal is each one have a personal study for each year, to have a specific analysis of the energies and have better ideas about how to deal with that.

To repeat, no matter the main year number, each one have their own ways to deal with that and a personal path.
This 2017 year will be again a strong example to deal and observe.




The Numbers for 2017

In the numerology 2017 will be a number 1 but this time, not only a simple number 1.

In my vision this year is a pure number 10 (2+1+7=10 an then 1 + 0 = 1) and this add a lot to events and powers related to world events under the western calendar.

Note as in numerology, we sum all digits until get a result. For some years we'll get for example (19 so 1 + 9 = 10 and only then 1 + 0 = 1). But some at some years we have a direct 10 at the first sum result and this is the difference. In this example, I would study the 19, not the 10.

A pure 10 is a powerfull number for any enterprises, at any area. Be personal, companies, countries, etc.


This means I pay special attention to a pure number 10.
The previous one was 2008 (2+0+0+8=10). Just remember how many global changes happened and the results of that we see until today. Many companies and countries even recovered or was able to deal with the changes because that time. See the comments about the spiral of evolution later to get more about this.
We usually see comments about the numbers 1 to 9. But there are some specials. And the number 10 is one of that.



Let’s comment first the basic aspects of the number 1. This is what most people will get.

The 1 means action. To make. To do.
And the number 1 is the start of a new cycle.
What new cycle and action have in common? A new cycle is a movement, the initial step that need to be continued. So this means action.
In general, the 1 is a new cycle of events and related to the learnings of the previous year, always a number 9 when we had plans do make, choices to complete.

Things start at the number 1 and grown each year until the 9 and energy will change the way each personal aspect and life events receive different energies and also change perceptions about the multiple life’s aspects.
For sure new beginnings can be changes in life as the previous are complete or reached the point for a new goal.
Is always good to re-evaluate your goals and this is a good time for this and act.
Sometimes what is needed is to face your fears and change the way you see that.

The same way the number 1 is very positive, due the action power, it also have a negative aspect: to be unable to act, let fears take control even become rigid and this is something that can last for a long if not changed.

So the first idea is about a year about acting and for new beginnings. Finish with the old behind and continue for evolution.


Action At All And With All!

Plan A
Image by Essa Al Mazroee - United Arab Emirates
Now some about action in my point of view.
I repeat often, I'm not a scholar. I'm a practitioner.
For sure I read a lot, search a lot of antique material, even do a lot of research to decode ancient practices.
I just have not "that" patience to make all that compilations and write nice academic works.
I write the same way I speak in public. As needed, I go after some source to cite, but nothing more most of times.
I like to be in the front area, working, acting. I'm a kind of warrior.
I'm glad to see how many fantastic works our modern scholars have presented.
And the ones I respect more are working really hard in the practice too. 
It's just a matter of choice.
One and other time you will find a text of mine a bit more at that level. But it's rare.
I realy love to find the energy moving, to be at any time and at each day working.

Action!
Salute the new day, care of home and pets while doing a prayer, talk to neighbors and seeing how to help on their needs, observe how the clouds are moving and calling some deities about it, taking the needed time for university lessons, preparing material for a ritual, commenting to some people about how to deal with this or that, doing your job. All this is action!

Whatever you do daily to to improve your life is action!

See, just to repeat the same is just keep the same.
Work to do it better!
I do my bread for three decades and I'm not satisfied! I'm not a good cooker. Because this sometimes I have a needed rest and buy ready bread. Then after a time, I get the work again, study what I'm doing wrong and move again to do a better bread.
Most of of times I do a very good bread, but sometimes that's goes wrong. And some goes very wrong! LOL...   So I work to see what I changed to make it better.
I'm not after a bread of acceptable quality as most do. This is easy, just repeat the same recipe and never try something new.

Get this? Just to repeat is not action. That is only simple repetition.
I'm not after that!

Just to repeat is the same as never learn and never have a real action!

If you want a real result, your action must start at 100% as I learned in the 90s.
You need commitment as a main part of life and spirtual development.
You must action by yourself, never because someone.
The only real commitment is with your own development, your own spiritual evolution. 
That is all counts in life.

The difficult thing is to value this and who maintains their commitment.
Many large companies lose their best employees every day because of this.
Thanks for the comments I had received in years from people of value, yes, I really did all those things spoken in the lectures and a lot more one and other time I cite about the fantastic experiences I had.
I'm not after fashion social aspects nor Harry Potter fantasy tales.


What you have to get is the action energy to reach the real goals you pointed.

How Jupiter would appear at our horizon.
Art by Ron Miller - National Air and Space Museum’s Albert Einstein Planetarium.

What are your goals?

This works the same way in magic and for any area in life.

A common phrase we see a lot, is "all fingers point to the Moon".
But why the Moon as you can point your fingers to any planet and star?
You may be serious to point and do all the needed action to reach your goal!
MOVE ON!


The fingers are not important. What matter is the goal!

This is again the energy you got from this 2017 year, a number 1 presenting lots of opportunities to grow your life acting to reach higher levels.



And here about scholar work.
They do a great job, be sure.
I repeat, thanks to all the good scholar ones and more to all the good practitioners ones!

But to be in the working area, to be a practitioner after results is not the same as just being a scholar or a simple airmchair one. 

There's the needed theory and the more needed practice.
We are part of the whole magic world. 


Even the best scholars I know who also are practitioners can't assure results in magic.
I knew fantastic cookers who did even a bread very wrong, like mine! And be sure they are people I fully respect.
This is why as anything in life, nobody can assure results in magic!
It's impossible!
We deal with our own aspects plus all the others people events.

Citing Aleister Crowley "Every man and every woman is a star".
We are around a very small star, our Sun. 
Think we have billions plus billions of stars and galaxies just in the visible area. Each one is so diferent going to the most absurd level of our humble idea about the Universe.
Think the energy the people far away, around the giant stars may have!

Just think on this: we are part of a small solar system, in the remote border of this Galaxy.
Now think there are places in the Universe where the lowest energy they know is what we see as being the most sublime Love.
For sure there are placer even darker than here, but let that out as the most evil idea is far away from that.

Action is a power to increase, develop, to make.

Work to do!
Act using all your learnings each day to make it better.
Act to study and discover new horizons!
Act to be free and someday, you really become a true Star in this universe!




Now let's comment some aspects of the number 10.

As a kind of primary master number, the 10 means an entire cycle happening at once.
We have the power of the number 1 for "to do".
The number 10 is the big action, the enterprise level of events at any area.

To make it simple, a cooker with the number 1 will learn to do good food, even will have a restaurant. But a cooker with the number 10, will create a food company, or became a master chief even with a network of good restaurants.
A musician with a number 1, will learn to play well and be a good musician. The number 10 will become a great maestro or make new music style.

For sure there many other ways the combination of different numbers in the personal numerology will also result in big works. This is just one.


When the number 10 happens, it brings more power to drastic changes, big inventions, large steps ahead at any area.


This will be a year for big events, big works happenings. For good or bad.

And big works won't be invisible.
We'll see big companies growing due good products the same way we'll see other big companies going into big disasters. Both sides of the same energy.

The ones with big tasks todo will face a lot of such events. Not all good, not all bad and many in the middle area.


A negative aspect of the number 10 in a personal numerology is this can even lead lack of scruples. Which means that some will use this energy to achieve great results regardless of who they are going to harm and how they did it.


In a global scale, the same negative aspect will be working at some big shit happening. 

But again, none of this will be invisible. Big names will be exposed due the good or bad acts.


The Spiral of Evolution

The ideas of the numbers 1 and 10 are related with life cycles too.
There are many cycles in life. The wheel of the year, the seasons, the personal life, our planet moving around the Sun, etc.

The idea of doing something must be with the intent of complete the task.
And doing a task is a minor cycle as part of others major cycles. 

If you go to the school, each year is a cycle while the complete degree is a major cycle.
If you have bad results at the final exams each year, you may repeat all that again until you are able to level up to the next level until you finish the course.

For sure there are many types of cycles, some last seven years, others like the numerology is just 10 years, others are the centuries, etc.
The most visible is the annual cycle of life.


Another interesting example, is the seven years cycle of life:

People at the ages:
  • 0-7 are babies. 
  • 8-14 are children. 
  • 15-21 are teenagers. 
  • 22-28 become adults. 
  • 29-35 are mature. 
  • Then the cycle start again but in my point of view with a difference. The cycle start at children level: So at 36-42 they become children again and want explore everything as new. 
  • 43-49 they become again teenagers. Just remember the famous 40's crisis. Due the same reason, is very common to many women at this phase to be very closer to thir daughters about men, sharing clothes and even disputing atention from guys. 
  • 50-56 a new adult time when people create and are very productive. 
  • 57-63 the second mature phase. 

Here things change again, and the new cycle start at teenager's time!
  • So 64-70 is common at some places such people just wanting to be very social. Parties and all that stuff. 
  • 71-77 to become adult again.
And so on.
For sure, the previous idea add life experience at each level. And as noted, at each new level, that start one point following the sequence until at final, the only repeating is the mature level.


Do the work or you will have it again!

Not all people pay atention why some events in their lives appears to repeat.
A simple example is someone who jump from one love relationship to another and have the same kind of relation as before. Such people didn't learned and still keep after the same type of people.

When you complete a cycle, if you have not changed nor leraned, this means you will be at same level as before.




With no evolution, after some time events will just repeat, again and again.


But when people learn, grown, change their lives for better, they will level up, so after a time, when the cycle reach the same point they will be in an above level, and this makes the cycle become a evolutive spiral moving upwards.

Note, you still will be near the same places, but looking from a higher point of view. This is learning and developing conscioussness.




The previous two examples makes better to understand about the importante of doing and being responsible for your own acts.


Note: some people may fall in life. What they choose to do will lead for a decreasing spiral. This is not related to life concerns, but with the prsonal learnings and choices in life. Such ones at end of each cycle will fall more and more. Usually they are the ones who seek the evil in life and work only for destruction. I won't discuss such ones more.



New cycle, work to level up!

So the most important energy for a new cycle is to make, moving up!
So a number 1 year presents lots of opportunities do changes, start new activities, complete at once the previous and move forward.

This means power to strong transformations at all areas, personal, science, politics, economic, etc.

And due the power of the number 10 this add the idea on the upward spiral cited above.
The ones who level up, will have a wide vision, from a higher point of view. This is why many will comment this is a year for more spiritual awareness and development.

But remember I cited before about mixing of practices.
So at the same time many people will work more and better for spiritual development, at the same time, some will be mixing practices and instead of real growing, they will creating more confusion and the results won't be as the expected.

The more important is to know your own resources and develop yourself to make better decisions and act with a clear view about your life and the others.

Actions in this number 10 will be many times very strong.
So we can expect drastic events resulting from people and even governs works.

As we had many global changes in 2008, be sure many will be happening, but this will be different.

Many changes will happens like at once, but if you remember the cycles, and observe the previous events, you will find many of them was presenting to happens while others will be like decisions done under pressure.
The number 1 is not a "think so much" number. Is an "action" number. This is why many acts will appears to be choosen in an instant. And many will be so.
This is a reason for the importante of some spiritual development and to the people in the higher levels to pay more atention to others.
In no ways this means normal people may become a monk, each people have a personal path. Just will be very good for both sides pay atention to others.

With a bit of care, we'll see many progress, but at the same time, lower levels may be so closer due blind fast acts.

So is better to remember about the spiral of evolution and work the best at your own area to improve what you do, developing counsciousness and increasing life quality.

Use the energy and Go! 




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24/01/2017

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quarta-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2016

Do Thick Salt Bath or Herbal Bath Over Your Head? Banho de Sal Grosso ou Ervas sobre a cabeça

Photo: Gina Blank - Canada


Do Thick Salt Bath or Herbal Bath Over Your Head?
How to make a big mess just because a bath or an incomplete cleanup.

Portuguese resume: "Banho de Sal Grosso ou ervas pode e deve ser feito incluindo a cabeça. A estória sobre fazer só do pescoço para baixo é só repetição de algo que é para sacerdotes formalmente iniciados em religião africana. Se você não é de alguma religião destas (ou apenas frequenta mas não tem assentamentos de Orishas/Lwas), faça seu banho tranquilo. E depois faça um banho com ervas para fortalecimento das areas desejadas".


Versão em Português disponível neste link (clique): 

Fazer Banhos de Sal-grosso ou Ervas sobre a cabeça?

 

Spiritual baths are used in almost all traditions.

To start I took as an example the very popular Thick Salt Bath.
Most of this applies to other baths types too.

Such baths have in basic one or more of these purposes, I just made a simple resume, not complete but that gives an idea:

Cleaning baths:
  • Remove negative energy.
  • Banish some negative spirits and/or astral larvae.
  • Cleanup part of the negative influences due to curses/magical attacks.
  • Neutralize some aspects due to diseases.
Protective Baths:
  • To empower your body and soul. 
  • Keep away energies and spirits.  
  • To make strong your barriers.
Empowering baths:
  • Attract positive energy (love, health, wisdom, wealth, etc).
  • Add the needed energy aspects. For example, some baths are good for mediumship or dreams.
  • Add protection power to body and soul.
  • Add specific powers like planetary aspects due to proper correspondences.
  • Become in tune with some desired energies.
  • Healing.
  • Protection.


There are some similar results while washing your house/office with herbs or smoking with herbs for cleanup or attract desired energies.


For sure I won’t discuss doing cleanups at large buildings, offices, or land areas like farms. There are many other practices proper to such places, that need more power. But even so, the basics are related, so you will have an idea about what is to be done.


What is the Thick Salt Bath? 

What is the Thick Salt Bath? It’s just a cleanup, most for electronic type energy and low-level spiritual energies including astral larvae. Start with the idea of the purifying aspects of the salt, plus the simple electronic results it has over any energy.

A salt bath is just a cleanup, not selective, to remove any energy, bad or good.

Such a bath is very popular just because it’s used when people feel they are at bad times and need a cleanup of the bad aspects of life.

Many people use to do a sea bath at the New Year celebrations as cleaning too.


You must get this: a Thick Salt Bath is not a banishing against strong spirits. Such cases need more to be done.


Many of such baths may have a prayer part, most used by formal magicians and people who work in spiritual areas.

On another side, the common, “normal” person just is after a bath to clean up the bad and they just think about to attract the good energies into their lives.

But the salt only removes and clean, so you need to do a second bath later to attract the good energies.


A classic example used by many ceremonial magick practitioners is the Solomonic Bath, that uses consecrated water and salt, a lot of prayers, and sometimes some herbs:
“…Enter the bath once again, recite Psalms 104 and 81 and pour the water over your head several times....”
 from: The Solomonic Bath – Aaron Leith


If you do not have a bathtub, you can use a bucket. 
Yes, this is water with an ice bath, and is a good spiritual bath too!

The problem

Too often I see people cite about doing cleanup baths and add a “warning” to not pour that over your head.
I fully disagree. Who are they? Do your herb or salt bath without fear from head to toes.


Such baths are part of the many ways for a spiritual cleanup, to remove bad energy, banish spirits, protection, or just to attract good energies into your life.

To be clear: as cited above there are baths to remove energies and the same there are baths to get energies.

And to be very clear: having a bath in a clear fall in the mountains, or in a stream, or a rain bath, including your bathtub or shower, also have spiritual capabilities for cleanup!


Source: Spiritualjapan


Even clear water is a cleanup or empowering bath if properly used. To be clear, do a prayer and consecrate the water.
It’s just a bath to make it simple. But with additional effects.
And many of that work near in the same way as doing smoking with herbs.
To repeat, some will banish energies and some will attract energies.
And for sure there are rituals to do from the basic to even more complete cleanups.



Why some people say to not pour the bath over your head?

Most of them do not know why. They are just repeating like parrots. Someone told, or they read at any magazine, etc.

The most popular source for this idea in the western countries is because of a mixing of practices with some from ATR (African Traditional Religions).

The idea presented is because the head is a kind of “property” of some spirits of those religions, the Orishas, Lwas, or someone else. Some use a different word, but still, the idea is “property”. Some even forbid their members to have a simple bath at the sea! Yes, you can’t swim in the ocean!



If you are not a formally initiated member of such religions that in no way to forbid washing your head apply for you. Dot.
If anyone even cites some "study" about not washing head, be sure until today 100% of times I went after the original sources and confirmer it was some of such religions. Dot.


Some religions say you can’t eat pork. Others say cows are sacred. Others are vegans and etc.

Each area has its practices.

So keep yours, just respect others the same way they have to respect you.


If you are a client at some of those areas for sure be respectful, but they also must respect you too. That is their practice, their faith, not yours. You are not forced to enter into a religion if you are just a client.


You have to go after the information too. Look for more sources.
For sure I respect the good and serious priestess and priestesses. I'm a Babalorixa at Candomble ("father of saint", just a formal priest), so this is my opinion.
I just had too many bad experiences and knew so much bad corrupt ones to learn and think more about what may be or not to be right. And be sure this happened in other areas I work for decades.


Do not act blindly! If you do not receive a very clear and decent clear reply from spiritual mentors, or even become treated due asking, get out fast!

"No true spiritual ally, like a true friend in the land of the living, should treat you as a pet. Either they serve you or you're equals. - Gordon Finn” 
from the Ritual Offerings book.


This is something simple and is part of all I wrote about the risk of mixing practices for the Ritual Offerings book. The part I wrote is related to many other magical areas too. There are many ways to opportunists spirits (and the charlatans) get control and feed from your life. 99% of what I wrote most ATR priestess won’t tell you. That’s my practical experience, I went deep in the darkest corrupt areas, I learned under blood and tears. So please remember there are the good ones who are serious and do good work. I'm just pointing the many traps.

The other problem as told above is the people who just repeat things like parrots about magick and spirituality. They become victims too, just are working blind in the magic/spiritual because they don't know what's really behind that.

Holly Dip. A sadhu swings his head as he takes bath at Sangam in Allahabad.
Photo: Jagran.com - India


What may happens if you do not bath your head too?

To be simple, the bath will be incomplete and allow opportunists spirits to take you.

This is my opinion and experience for decades in many areas.

Just see how the Chakras, the points of energy in your body have a flow from the bottom up the head.
So, if you cut you head out of the bath, for sure the process is incomplete.

The energy flow. Someone sees why I can't accept to do not wash your head?


If you don’t bath your head, that important area becomes open to any intrusive spirits and energies.
One simple idea to compare is doing unsafe sex. Would you trust if someone you just found, want sex at the start without condoms, and even get furious if you question that?
Think about risks. Have safe sex and the same way, have safe religion and spiritual practices.


So if you are not a formally initiated member at such religions, and avoid doing a bath over your head because an idea that appears even a threat from an unknown source, guess what kind of spirit will find it very easy to find an opened door and take that space? Uhm? The bath will clean up the entire body, including any guardian for a time, and that space will be taken by any energies waiting safely in the head!

And more important: if you are not a formal initiated and do not wash your head with the baths because fearsome spirits, be sure that spirits won't be working to protect you. Forget the parrot's talk, all that is incomplete. In any area, the spirits only will start to do some if you start working with them and doing offerings and even worship. In some areas, this is the real purpose of telling you to not wash your head. A trap.



Higher spirits won’t destroy your life because of a bath.

The higher one's spirits mean to be powerful and able to keep some distance while you have needed care. If some of that causes harm to your life because this, be sure you are not in a good area, so is better to get out and move to a safe place.


And see later the comment bellow about a needed second bath after the cleaning with salt or herbs.

I fully keep my position about anyone who is not initiated at some religion. They have not to obey to some spirits that have nothing about their lives. The same if you eat pork, or like meat, is not a vegan, etc.


How baths work to make it simple:

If you do a cleanup (to remove energies), the only precaution is to remember if you have some kind of guardians. Just notify them so they will be apart for some time and return as you finished.

This is the same if you wash or smoke your house with herbs. Any spirit, angels, etc. will take distance. So if you have an altar, for example, be sure the spirits/angels of the altar will also take a safe distance. Just remember to notify your guardians or altar spirits about the cleaning you will do and after some hours, call them back as commented below.

In the drawing, I omitted any guardians just to make it more simple.

At the first, is an example of someone with all kind of bad energies, inside and outside.
The second is what happens if you do not pour the bath over your head. That is simple: any energies at head level, inside and outside can stay there and later, will feed on the fertile area resulting bellow. This is why I used a grass area as an example.
The third is an example of an optimum full bath. In practice, this is what is desired. To have a powerful cleanup and empowerment and get good energy around.

Also, to make it simple, the idea here is doing a clean up bath followed by an empowerment bath as cited next.





After the bath/cleaning remember to fill the place again

Once you had your bath or did a house clean up like smoke, etc., wait some few 3-4 hours so that have the needed effect and follow that with another bath or smoke with herbs to attract good energies.
Prayers are good too.

Get this? If it was a cleaning bath, just wait some 3-4 hours and do another bath, first just clean water to remove the salt and then bath with other herbs to attract the desired good energies.


As the cleaning salt/herbs bath can remove anything, so after you need to fill again the space with good energies.
And if you have guardians, altar spirits, etc., just light a candle, do a proper prayer, and offer incense or smoke the place with positive herbs calling them to come back to the place you pointed to them at your house and life.

Note: sometimes after the first bath, when the person is too heavy due to bad energies, the body will relax and need to sleep to rest. If this happens, is very Ok so have the needed sleep and then do the following bath.


This is the same basic idea for a general building cleaning. For sure these are other procedures and even stronger rituals to be done by a magician/priest. First, banish the undesired spirits, then make a powering rite and invite the protection spirits to care for the place.
About buildings and land areas, for sure there are some extreme cases, where exorcism is needed and some of that can be really hard to deal with.  To be sincere, some places are near impossible to clean up again because is needed to negotiate with the spirits and what they ask may cost a lot, not just money for sure. So only mother nature will do that working for a thousand years.


What herbs use later for an empowering bath?

That varies a lot.

Since the generic ones to specific areas, we have a lot of herbs to use and the choice sometimes is related to what area the person needs more.

Some very easy herbs to find:
  • Rose petals. For Spiritual and Love power.
  • Bay Laurel. For the protection and good to connect with higher levels of spirituality like spiritual mentors.Is good for money too.
  • Cinnamon. The body force, prosperity, money. 
  • Lavender. Peace and calm.
  • Rosemary. Mind focus. 
  • Hyssop. Cleanup physical and spiritual, remove negative energy, and is also good for protection. See Psalm 51. You can use Mint in the same way.

You will find many herbs references. The important for the second bath is to look for herbs to attract energies, not the cleansing ones. Remember, the idea is to add desired energies.

And repeating always is good to do a prayer according to your faith for your spiritual mentors bless the baths you are doing.


To resume

A spiritual cleanup bath can't be seen as a sin.
There are the cleanups, the protective, and the empowering baths.

If you get all this, I’m sure some of you may start to think about some cases when people had done such baths not pouring the water over your head and times later had the same or even worse effects as before. For example, some spirits asking for offerings to keep out.
It's easy to find people who started doing simple things and later they had to do more and more other works, too often to solve problems they had not before.
The same for buildings/houses cleanups when people do the banishing and don’t add the needed protection rite after the cleaning.

Remember, an empty body or building or land area is a place to be filled.
So have control over your life and do a decent complete cleanup and follow that with a rite/bath to invite the desired good energy/spirits to care for that.

So just do the complete bath and add an empowering one after for a complete result

Get this? Simple, uhm?

So do your bath from head to toes without fear and later just do another one to get good energy.


A big full thanks:

In memory of  "Uncle Neide Vilain", a famous witch from Florianópiolis, SC, Brazil who taught me a lot in so many areas, including about how using the bath salts. And she is responsible for makes me be a writer.


Additional reading suggestions:
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Leia também: 


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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

Consultas e Trabalhos em Magia - Portuguese text


Readings and Magic Works - English text


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sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2016

The Peace Prayer of St. Francis - Oração de São Francisco

"Paz e Bem".
Author: Dirceu Francisco Villa Verde Filho - Brazil



The Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Oração de São Francisco de Assis
20/09/2016


A Powerfull Prayer For Personal Life and Even Companies



Sometimes I comment about St. Francis.

I see him as a great Shaman.
More than learning to talk with plants and animals, he was a master of the Elementals of Nature.

He became my St. patron when I received from His hands the initiation over the four elements in the 90s.

One night I was awakened to go to the meditation room and there were all that spirits and he was the one who presented Himself to guide the ceremony.
He was not a beggar as churches present. He was a very rich guy and able to deal with all the natural powers.


Just remember, before choosing the simple life, like the Gautama Buddha, St. Francis came from one of the richest families of the town and had all pleasures in life before. I say, all the pleasures. And he was a warrior for some time too, fights in battles, fun, sex, all that. He had everything before find he already had all the needed. 


I was already deep in meditation and shamanic practices.

So all previous workings joined and I learned to work with the Peace Prayer.


In practice, this prayer is very recent and was just inspired by His work. 




 
Some Uses To This Prayer:

I found it to be used as a kind of personal Alchemy practice

A simple idea for Alchemy is to change your dark aspects into gold. Spiritual gold. Or just what is bad into something better.

My first suggestion is to study each phrase, and observe how it is related to the many life's areas. 
It's not to repeat it. I strongly suggest you get all the meanings each verse has. 


You can use it daily, or even as a mantra to change your mood and opens up to the natural powers around you. 

This will change your point of view about what's happening in your life and to understand better other's points of view. And you will learn to feed on Nature.


How to use it:

The best is to be alone, but if not possible, keep quiet as possible.
But do the prayer using your voice.
Forgot telepathy. You must use your voice at any prayer as possible.  (or learn to shout in your mind).
Even if you are in public, even so, you can use a clear as possible low voice.

This is something a lot of people and magicians didn't get: spirits (angels, demons, saints, etc) do not divine what's inside your head. Yes, forget any dreams experiences you had. Here you are the one putting energy into your intent. So, use your voice, even at low volume.

The best way for any prayer is when you do it with a sound. No scandals need for sure. Even if you have to talk with a low voice do it.




Working for a more formal ritual:

Like any other spirit, bring a candle and talk with your voice "I"m offering this to St. Francis".
Put a cup of clean water aside.
You can use standard size to seven days size candles with the cup of water aside.
Then do your prayer. Repeat it three to seven times as you feel.
As I told, this is like a personal Alchemy, so I wish maybe you get a different mood just while you are reciting the prayer. As most works, this is natural, so let's it happens and enjoy that time.
Prayer is a communion time, so have your time.
With time, such practices become a time to be silent. This is just meditation. Let it happens!
Then follow your daily activities.

After a time, at minimum, one day, throw the water in a natural place, better it is like the grass of wood area on the need for water. Just feed the nature! St. Francis fed the nature ones, remember this, so your ritual must help those ones too.


Doing offerings:

You can do offering to St Francis too. But never before an asking except for the cup of water you give and return to nature after.

Your need must be on His area of work, to improve life, feed the needed, change darkness into light.


A good offering to St. Francis, in my opinion, is always giving a sincere thanks and doing hidden charity!
When you feel you got your life changed the way you needed, no matter the size of the results (as this always have taught), you can do an offering to His work in this way:

Fist be sure He is not the one to receive it. He needs nothing. St. Francis works to the humble ones and nature. He works with others. So your offering is to the ones He cares. 
Do an anonymous offering to the humble ones or the natural ones.
Do it as you can, and be sure nobody knows you are the one behind that. Charity always must be done anonymously


There are two main ways for that. To do by yourself or pay for what you are unable to do. 
I don't know how to sew, so I buy ready for clothes. And as I'm getting older, plus all I don't know how to do, some works I'm really unable to do, so I pay someone to do it. Then I choose people and pay well as these ones deserve and feel happy as they got a job. 
Remember, some people, even skilled and humble, maybe under difficult times. So please, do the right thing. As an example, (sorry, I don't like to cite, but work here), someone asked a shameless cheap value for a work I was sure to cost three times more. So by myself, I paid three times more and refused the original price. One of many. 


Please read this: to all people and anyone at magic/spiritual areas: Spiritual results it's not what you get. It's HOW you get it. The spiritual area is never, but never for opportunists!

Stick this: To be respectful of the spirits and the same way to get respect from them is the main aspect to get.

 
To people at the leadership at companies, this is something that will even save your business. Valuate who works for you!
At any of such events, that has to be like a sincere thanks. 

If you want to know about offerings, learn to evaluate what you receive and how people and spirits work. 

This is the idea, Uhm? 


So for some offerings for St. Francis.:

First, working: have a real care of your garden, help to clean up your local park, a riverside, make your place a better and nice place to anyone's life. 

Second, pay for what you can't do. Some people can't do the work due to a lot of reasons. So they use their money, and this means they had a serious effort to gain that money. 
Starting with very simple examples, like make water supply with bows to street dogs, help feed poor families, water the nature plants at a public garden or even do a needed cleanup at such places, help someone who deserve to pay the college, give some wheelchairs (and be sure nobody knows who are you), etc. 
Just make nature and other's lives beautiful without expecting a return! 

This is why for companies, public works when they promote it, really add nothing at the spiritual levels, as that is just self-promotion while their owner's life keeps bad. 
Charity always has to be in an anonymous way. Dot.  
The moment you promote such acts, even with photos of your "charity", that became the opposite. For sure, not Karma, just you are showing to be an opportunist.



For Personal Work:

The prayer is good to have strength in difficult times. To get inspiration about how to use your current resources to improve your situation. For family harmony. To have more clarity about your own life and to understand yourself more. For support and spiritual strengthening in cases of illness. To improve your mood. For cases of anxiety.


For Personal Work in Nature: 

Use the prayer to get in touch with the forces of nature and become more aware of the beauties of life.


For protection at nature. Please, do not try to hug bears! LOL...

Well, I had a strong spiritual experience in the mountains with a Puma so closer of my head to feed on me. But that was the only one in life experience. Do not try this! Such events happen was a fantastic spiritual gift.



As you recite the prayer to prepare and while you are into it, this is ideal for those who love nature and practice outdoor activities, such as trails in the woods (trekking), mountaineering, climbing, canoeing, exploration of natural areas, caves, etc.  

This prayer will attract into you the Nature Powers. Be sure. 
Regardless of your faith, this prayer works to change your soul and become like an invitation for the spirits and forces of nature to present themselves in all their wonders. 
For sure I can't guarantee you will see fairies, but with time, you will be in the mood. I'm glad for dragonflies, butterflies, and birds coming so close. And some wonderful events even in shining mountains.

For photographers who want to learn how to capture an instant of time. That is, to learn to perceive life in all its aspects and get the beauty of it. This means, to be able to get the beauty in life. For any artistic activity that deals with life. Painting, sculpture, music, dance, etc.

Note for Dark artists and some famous photographers of the sadness: In my point of view, you are not collecting life, you after the dark, sad aspects. You do money with sickness. That is not life. This prayer is one of the many ways to change what you do and get Light the day you wish to change. Won't say names as they don't deserve it. 


For the Work in Companies - Business:


The prayer is also for all who are in a position of command and leadership. Owners, directors, managers, etc. This will harmonize your relationship with people and especially
the environment as you work on it. You will even become a better boss as you bring light into yourself. With constant repetition, this will strengthen your spirit. 

Forget about to suggest this to someone at your business! 
This prayer is ideal to be recited alone, before going to business meetings. And if you drink 3 cups of clean water together, this also adds the aspects of the water elements, about intuition and Light needed to improve meetings and get the needed insights and better results. 

I already cited somewhere about the changes at a business meeting just by drinking 3 cups of water before a business meeting.  Don't be worried about the need to piss. Everyone knows the good part of a business meeting needs only 15 minutes.

For employees, it helps to have a better understanding of their role, to have better relationships with colleagues, and to neutralize negative perception in difficult environments. 

ATTENTION FOR COMPANIES: This is not like those methods some companies use a pay someone to talk about what you want. I'm not here to talk about what you want! This practice has to be totally voluntary, it can never be imposed by the company. That is, do it for yourself and only in positive cases, it can happen that someone became curious to know more, so in this case, only you can comment that you are using this prayer (or spiritual practice). But no miracles! OK? 
This is teaching through examples. Be yourself a good example and over time, the very good energies of nature will work.



For Magicians, Sorcerers, Witches and Shamans Work

St. Francis as a Shaman, became one of those spirits with a powerful Egregore to work with. 
Forget the church aspects of the poor. 
Call Him and you will find a lot more. 
Nature and people have needs. To be poor is not the same as having nothing, BUT that means to live with what one has.

St Francis works great as the previous examples, but He is also a great source to learning, guidance and helps when you have to deal to get Harmony and Healing in the previously cited areas. 

It is very interesting the way he will work to bring such results too. 
So you can evoke Him for help in the needed areas. Not like St. Expedite, but for human evolution as the main aspect.




Some information found on the internet: 


The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis from: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis by Dr. Christian Renoux, Associate Professor of the University of Orleans, France.


Original Text of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis: (French)

Seigneur, faites de moi un instrument de votre paix.
Là où il y a de la haine, que je mette l'amour.
Là où il y a l'offense, que je mette le pardon.
Là où il y a la discorde, que je mette l'union.
Là où il y a l'erreur, que je mette la vérité.
Là où il y a le doute, que je mette la foi.
Là où il y a le désespoir, que je mette l'espérance.
Là où il y a les ténèbres, que je mette votre lumière.
Là où il y a la tristesse, que je mette la joie.
Ô Maître, que je ne cherche pas tant à être consolé qu'à consoler,
à être compris qu'à comprendre,
à être aimé qu'à aimer,
car c'est en donnant qu'on reçoit,
c'est en s'oubliant qu'on trouve,
c'est en pardonnant qu'on est pardonné,
c'est en mourant qu'on ressuscite à l'éternelle vie.

Source: La Clochette, n° 12, déc. 1912, p. 285.
 


The popular English version: 

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.




And this "Oratio Sancti Francisci" from www.preces-latinae.org


Latin: 

Domine, fac me servum pacis tuae,
ubi odium, amorem seram;
ubi iniuria, veniam;
ubi dubium, fidem;
ubi desperatio, spem;
ubi caligo, lucem;
ubi tristitia, laetitiam.
O Domine coelestis, concede mihi ut ne tam petam
consolari quam consolare,
intellegi quam intelligere,
amari quam amare.
Nam in dando recipimus,
in ignoscendo ignoscimur,
et in moriendo ad vitam aeternam nascimur. Amen.




Peace Prayer of St. Francis
Art by Veronica Berglind - USA


Portuguese version:


In portuguese it's named as "Oração de São Francisco de Assis".

Senhor, fazei-me instrumento de vossa paz.
Onde houver ódio, que eu leve o amor;
Onde houver ofensa, que eu leve o perdão;
Onde houver discórdia, que eu leve a união;
Onde houver dúvida, que eu leve a fé;
Onde houver erro, que eu leve a verdade;
Onde houver desespero, que eu leve a esperança;
Onde houver tristeza, que eu leve a alegria;
Onde houver trevas, que eu leve a luz.

Ó Mestre, Fazei que eu procure mais
Consolar, que ser consolado;
compreender, que ser compreendido;
amar, que ser amado.
Pois é dando que se recebe,
é perdoando que se é perdoado,
e é morrendo que se vive para a vida eterna.

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sexta-feira, 29 de julho de 2016

Goetia Triangle of Art And The Time To Do The Work

Goetia Triangle of Art - Finished



Goetia Triangle of Art And The Time To Do The Work



For a long time I wanted to do a new Triangle of Art for my work and I decided to make the new triangle using the names in Hebrew.

So to start I had to deal with something that happens sometimes during magickal practice: to get the needed material.


Getting materials for magickal practice

To work on magick, witchcraft, whatever, you may need some material one and another time. This includes candles, incense, herbs, and tools.
And for ceremonial magick this often means the need to work a lot more.
It's not something easy or cheap because of the work and training needed.
Need long years of studying, practicing, learning how to make many things and dealing with a lot of special materials and tools.
And most of the time, no shortcuts, sorry. Except for some materials, like gold and some other materials, we can use the correspondence tables and sometimes, the needed tool can be done even on virgin paper. But please, never take this so easy.
You have to be sincere in your intent. If you really need to use something simple to make your tools, be sure to do the best you can. And be sure to explain to the spirits you will be working about why you needed to work that way. Decent true spirits will understand your reasons and when asked, will point you in the direction of improving your working tools.

And here is a gold tip: Master Asterion presented a very nice way to make Gold Lamens, and it is very suitable for many tools


But if you got some spirit who even tries to make you fuck your life because "they want" something that will cost even your health, my suggestion is to dismiss and even banish the spirit. Such ones are like vampires and most probably just want to be fed without any valid return.

Glad we have with time, centuries of work, some new methods, and new materials, as magicians around the world have practiced, made experiments, researched to discover it, and gotten solid results. For example, we know there is no need for sacrifices of blood most of the time. I learned this in the 90s using fruits as sacrifice and later extended it. And still, due to the ATR line I was, I had thousands of animal sacrifices in my hands I'm sure 99,99% were not needed. And many ATR lines today do not use blood, except for special cases.
About using magickal herbs to this use Aaron Leitch writes very well at "Blood Substitute – ‘Solomonic Herbal Holy Water’".

Another aspect of the tools of the Art is some of that is very desirable you have to do it by your own hands.
Studying the grimoires, and most other magick areas, you will find all-time instructions about doing yourself the knives, swords, sticks, and woodwork, seeding and growing your herbs, making your ritual clothes, painting your seals, and even how to prepare special inks, making oils, etc.

Ok, if you have the resources, for sure is very important when you have a reliable source of magick jewelry tools for example. I would love to have some of that. We have some talented magicians working to make fantastic tools and jewelry and they are observing all the planetary and material aspects and even consecrate it for you.  For sure not cheap. But if you can, this saves a lot of time and you will have a piece of art. It's OK.

So do what you can the best way you can.

Remember, the Great Work is the result of your work. You are the one who needs to work.
If you worked to be able to pay someone for something special, OK.
But never, I repeat, never do that with a mind of "doing it for cheap".
If you do not value the effort, be sure the results will be related.

What you do is part of the Work. So it must have a meaning to you.


So to get the materials to make tools


To me, this means sometimes researching walking a lot, and working a lot to find what I need.
I will comment later, on some reasons why this may happen sometimes.

In this specific case for a new triangle, it took some years.

I want to also comment on some materials I had difficulty getting.
In some ways such things came together with "additional results" (or curious or funny or as teachings) in some areas of my life, like knowing interesting people or having results far from what I was expecting or "by coincidence", that time was happening a topic to learn a lot from others magicians dealing at some work in the same area that time.  Remember the old tale: "When you are ready the teaching comes".


Even living in a big city area, some materials can be very hard to find. Many people have the same problems because some ingredients do not exist in your region or country.
I just remember how many times people asked where to find black candles, something very common in my country. But at the same time, all those oils people in the USA find easy, we have not. Same for herbs, roots, and many other materials.


Also just for some reason, you won’t find anybody who wants to sell that. I say people and companies who have what you need and they just refuse to sell due to the most stupid reasons. What? That happens!


I went to many places and it was interesting how just nobody wanted to sell a piece of wood cut in the way I wanted. To say better, nobody wanted to sell even a complete board no matter the price and I stated I was not worried about the price!

Strange?
Yes, very strange.

Some weeks ago, I found this piece of wood, and this is one part of my life story for sure.
I just went again into a hardware store near my house, they also sell wood, but not the kind I needed. For some reason, that day the store owner commented about a neighbor, just in front of their store. An old man who makes furniture. Hey! He has no signs in front of the house, nothing. But I already had heard about him some two years before, people from my city talk very much about his work, but I never found out where he was!
And that was an interesting meeting. The guy had an entire board unused for a long time as he made a wrong buy a long time before, and someways he had nothing to use.
So he was very gentle, despite all the work, and took nearly one entire hour preparing and cutting the wood. He didn't know the maths for the triangle, and I was shown a practical method. He loved it. So he made his work and the price he asked after all was so ridiculous to make me shy. And we had a nice time talking about travel and nature places and some other topics. A blessing to me.
And about some events having more results, the hardware store had a garden bench like I was after too for many time! Now I have a garden bench too! Yeeeeaaaaahhh!

Goetia Triangle of Art - Wood cut
So I get it!

Going after materials, when I needed brute bee wax to make seals it took months too. And I live in a region with a lot of honey farms, producer groups, etc. Nobody had wax at that time! Walking, searching, calling by phone. Ok, all that added energy to the seals I did, and the additional result was a very interesting topic in a forum sharing common experiences.


For my circle to the Goetia work, I had to walk for some three months just to get the cotton fabric I needed. I worked developing specific software to manage the production area of clothes companies for almost two decades, so I guess I had a good idea of where to buy fabric and knew all major stores and no place had white/brute cotton to sell.
And to add another "extra" result, this time I worked differently. The saleswoman was gentle, nice, sweet, and intelligent and I had some minutes of sweet talk. 


Goetia Triangle of Art and the Circle - Checking room space
Checking the new triangle size to fit space in my room.
This is a 7-foot size circle so I can use the triangle in all directions.



All this lets me comment about four points about the effort to get the material and ingredients you need.
For sure do not think getting proper material is always easy. Some have specific characteristics, not the kind you will find easily at any store.

  • First, many times this is just part of your work. Since the starting point, often the spirits are already near and may do your work just to add power to your intent. In some religious areas like the ATR lines I knew, this was even a kind of test to you.
  • Second, there are materials really hard to find. So keep calm. There are ingredients, like herbs and oils you won’t find in your region or country. So the alternative is to study the correspondences, find alternatives, or even make your own recipe.
  • Third, may be possible is just not time to work on that. For some reason, nothing works. This happens even at working practices. For example, I had prepared seals, oils, etc. for entire rituals, and due to some reason, I had some other activity to pay attention and all that material went forgotten in a cabinet for years.
  • Fourth, and this is important to think, maybe just is not the right time and despite what you do, it won’t succeed that way. About this think about your guardians.


So is always good to remember: do a reading to get information about what is happening and why.


For sure you must have a very decent degree at least one oracle. For example, the Tarot. This is one of the very basic steps you need before trying such works.

Another you must know and be strong on it is cleaning and banishing.
Guess how many times I tried to contact someone to get material and the result was a really bad eye or just contacting some very bad place full of that bad energies...
And for sure, never attempt such operations on magick without all the previous needed experience. This is not a matter of gift of birth. This helps a bit, but you need the practice.



I often comment as being a practitioner I used to work with what I could, the best way I could.
And there are things I can’t have, even being desirable, but I put my efforts into getting better materials and tools.
This is my life and what I do, so I put all my daily effort into that. Each one may know what level to do.


I have working with the Goetia for some years, and started the most humble way with big paper-made triangles, in a house where I had just a really small place to work. Just open your arms and you have an idea.

When I moved to a bigger house, I was able to use a bigger circle and started to draw the triangle in a two-foot-sized black stone with consecrated chalk. And it has worked too.


As with almost anything I have done in these years, each time I add a new tool, make corrections and improvements in the ritual texts and invocations or just improve the place, I observe in many ways, that the rituals become stronger and more impressive. So keep walking!


Yes, the spirits are there watching what you do, and they are working too somehow.
This is part of something very important: to be always respectful of the spirits.
In the same way, the true spirits will see you are doing your part, and this adds to the respect they have for you.

You can not buy respect. Remember this if you buy ready tools or try to get shortcuts, as I commented before.
Do it with the most sincere desire and true effort.
You can only get respect as a result of sincere work.

You may see this work even as part of an offering you are doing to work with them.


Just to compare, think for a moment, if you have a date, a romantic dinner with your loved one, what do you do? Have a bath, wear nice clothes and prepare the food and place for a good time! Well, if you are not doing this, may be interesting to think how is your love life… You have to do your part! LOL…



The Triangle and Names


About the position of the names in the triangle.

The most know schema is like the following from the Lemegeton edited by Joseph H. Peterson, a great reference source:



Magical circle and triangle, from Sloane 3648.

Magical circle and triangle, from Sloane 3648.
Source: Lemegeton - Clavicula Salomonis - J.Peterson - Esotericarchives


Just to point out something you will find in most ancient texts: the names are outside the triangle, as comments.
I can only think the original authors put the names there to remember the magician what position means. OR NOT.
But this become standard and almost everyone has used triangles with the names inscribed/painted on the borders.
I chose to keep that too just because is one more thing I like to see inscribed as a remember of the reasons why the names are there and what they mean.

But this affects the triangle size and the inside circle.



About the sizes:

The size of the grimoires is 3 feet (near 90cm).

I observed many modern magicians do a triangle this size, with a larger border with the names inside. I kept this idea but observed this reduced the circle size. Some are lesser others are bigger.

At the grimoires, you will see the circle usually uses all space available inside the triangle.

Look again at the previous example and you will observe the circle use almost the entire available area inside the triangle.


But when I finally got the wood piece I wanted for years, I was so happy I forgot this. And also because for years I have seen all triangle types, at all sizes.


So my personal note for future work: my idea is to get a triangle a bit larger, to do an entire working area of three feet, plus a margin to the names.


So I went into the painting work and the margins really disliked me.

This is something I took some time to think about after my first painting. I really disliked it. I really felt first uncomfortable for some reason so I put the triangle in my room and looked for it for some days. I watched it over my desk for an entire week.

Then I realized for obvious reasons the circle was too small for the triangle size and the border too large.

So I painted it all again and reduced the border to 8cm (nearly 3,15 inches), but still a size to use large characters for the names, and I painted the circle again for a bigger size.

Just to explain, or repeat something I comment often: I'm not good at arts and crafts, and I do have no steady hands in such works, so I have to respect my personal limits.
So I kept a large border because I won’t be able to paint decent characters in a lesser space.


Now some steps I had

After initially painting and doing it again, I made paper stencils with the Hebrew names.
I had to redraw the names using Inkscape software and print them at the needed size.

Goetia Triangle of Art - Painting



The stencils helped a lot, as my hands are not so good at painting.

Because of the black background, I have to paint first white and then use red paint.

But the paper I used as mold got wet with the paint and it glued that over the board!
So, here is another note: remove the stencil just after paint, do not wait to dry!

Goetia Triangle of Art - Painting
The paint was absorbed by the paper and that glued... what a mess!

Goetia Triangle of Art - Painting problem
Trying to clean up all the glued paper.

So, the obvious result was: that I had to paint it all again!

OK, keep working!


If I have a spirit as a guest to my ritual, is easy to think I want to offer a better space. When you are making your tools, this is something important, maybe you can’t be perfect, but work to do the best you can.


About the names


Thanks to the work of many scholars and other practitioners, I searched and revised the material from many sources. There is a list of sources at the end of this article for more information and complete research texts from other authors.

I repeat: I'm not a scholar, just a practitioner, but be sure I have to read the books, take notes, research the material and external sources, etc. In my case often I go further as I can even to some originals just to see how it was centuries ago before chose the way to do it as there are many different ideas sometimes.
Only then I will have an idea about what and how to work.



This is the Greek names, the Hebrew ones, and their text:

Tetragrammaton - IHVH

Tetragrammaton - IHVH

Thou God of Almighty power, be ever present with us to guard and protect us, and let Thy Holy Spirit and presence be now and always with us;



Primeumaton - Elohim
Primeumaton - Elohim
Thou Who art the First and Last, let all spirits be subject unto us, and let the Spirit be bound in this Triangle that disturbs this place;



Anephezaton (or Anaphaxeton) - Tzabaoth
Anephezaton (or Anaphaxeton) - Tzabaoth
Thou great God of all the Heavenly Host;



Michael
Michael
By Thy Holy Angel Michael, until I shall discharge him.






These are also the words to talk about when you consecrate the triangle. It's something with really little material.
For more information about consecrating Solomonic ritual tools, I strongly suggest Aaron Leitch's book Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires for reference. If you have not this book yet, be sure it has become a real classic and a "must-have" for grimoires practice and will save you a lot of time.


Now observe the name’s position in the triangle:

The Greek names, like Latin, are read left to right, so the words are clockwise direction. Same for Michael.

So, with Greek names, we have: 
  • Tetragrammaton at right side;
  • Anephezaton (or Anaphaxeton) on the left side;
  • Primeumaton at base;
  • Michael is written starting at the left side.

But Hebrew is read right to left. So the names are counter-clockwise. Same for Michael.
So for Hebrew names, we have:
  • Tetragrammaton IHVH at right side;
  • Primeumaton Elohim at left side;
  • Anephezaton (or Anaphaxeton) Tzabaoth at base;
  • Michael is written starting at the right side.


This is the way I changed the position of the names in the triangle.

Many authors have similar opinions, but for sure, some may vary a bit about what name use.


Nick Farrel had chosen Adonai instead of IHVH due to pronunciation too, but here is something I had my own opinion on as I have used IHVH in Hebrew since the 80s at many works, so became a habit.


And so, all efforts had a result:
Goetia Triangle of Art - Ready to use
The ready triangle over the garden bench I got.

And this is the result after some years.

With some trembling lines in my hands, I painted the entire triangle four to five times again, had to remake all the characters, and did some experiments too.
Total time: 49 days from getting the wood and starting on the same day working until I found it was ready to consecrate and use it. Plus all previous time researching it and collecting information. Just to compare, the circle needed some six to eight months of total time.
I found funny newbies who start from zero level and try something for a few days and weeks and do not understand why they have no results!



But I still had some funny parts during the first ritual using the new triangle.
Yes, I commented before each work sometimes has additional results. This time was a funny part.

For the first ritual with this new triangle, I chose to do a formal invocation for a spirit I have worked with, King Paimon, explaining at the start I was doing a complete rite to consecrate the new triangle.
And he knows a lot about everything. So my intent was to make this event also a kind of offering to his knowledge and asking to learn more too etc.
Well, as he has been called before, he is already exorcized, just to remember, once you get more contact (to say so) you can call the spirit near direct. But as a King, he likes that formal part too, so I continued. I observed Presidents also like that formal procedures.
So I consecrated again my tools, the triangle, and did prayers thanksgiving for the material I got and the work being ready, and did the invocation.
Well, he was near since my first prayer presenting himself as usual with sounds and a strong presence feeling.
But all the time I was feeling something behind me, but I just didn't look behind.
And guess what?
I pointed to the triangle and asked to him appear and stay "inside the triangle".
And he told in my mind something like:
-Uhm, OK, but which of the two triangles do you want me to choose?
Only then did I look behind me and realize the old triangle I had used drawn in the black stone still was there on the other side of the room leaning on the wall. And it was consecrated and ready to use!
And the nearest candle had burned near to the base, ready to burn the circle!

Know that moment you get the spirit told you: "Hey stupid, you forgot to release the old triangle!".... LOL...
Well, the Kings have humor too!

So. now let's continue the work.

Goetia Triangle of Art and the Circle



Humble Version of the Triangle for Sale: 

I made a more simple available in printed format at Scarf (fabric) and Wall Art versions, but fully working ones, just consecrate it.
There are two versions:
Goetia Triangle of Art - Version for sale


Some sources and references:

Joseph Peterson: Lemegeton.htm
Joseph Peterson: Goetia.htm#triangle
Gilbert The Occultist: Triangle-of-art-translated and understood
Nick Farrel: Triangle-of-the-art
The Digital Ambler: https://digitalambler.wordpress.com/materia/img_0060/
Enoch Bowen: Reconstructing-solomons-triangle
Studio Arcanis forum: http://www.studioarcanis.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=706
Aaron Leitch:  Secrets of Magickal Grimoires. 
Golden Dawn Glossary: http://wolf.mind.net/library/ancient/qabala/kabgloss.htm


Aditional bibliography:
Ms Sloane 2731 – Clavicula Solomonis – British Library Manuscript collection
Ms Sloane 3648 – Clavicle of Solomon – British Library Manuscript collection
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton) – Joseph Peterson at Esotericarchives.com
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia) – S.L. “MacGregor” Mathers and Aleister Crowley.
Three Books Of Occult Philosophy - Henry Cornelius Agrippa.