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Thanks McArthur for the info!

I´ve never intended to seek help from Goetic spirits/demons or any other spirits, and this comment on the Susamma ritual used in the film "The Devil Rides Out" was just mentioned as a kind of "side-joke", not seriously intended as a remedy (hope I didn´t inspire someone to start experimenting).

The higher self is the sole source to contact for help I agree with that statement fully.

Also whilst we´re touching on Abramelin magick, there is a very interesting book by a William Bloom who succesfully did the complete Ceremony in the Seventies (unlike Crowley who never followed it through completely).
The book is Bloom´s magical diary from the operation, and he had a lot of severe psychic attacks from various demons, which he all resolved in co-operation with his higher self/holy guardian angel.
It is a fascinating read indeed, though as Gareth Knight states "only for grown-ups"

The Tessera is made by two interlaced squares (one square in ordinary position, the other on top of the other and turned 45 degrees), making it equal to an eight-sided star. I can´t describe it better than that without drawing it.

There were four or five, I think, but then the vision faded. What they were showing me, I think, was that making this emblatic sign "lighting up the Tessera" will put me in contact with these adepti, such as when under heavy attack.

No, they didn´t give their names.It may be Fraternitas Hermetica whose aid I´ve requested, also the vision was begun by this rotating scanning sphere (though that is unlikely, as the lamen displayed had a close resemblance to the Tessera) on the other hand I´ve asked the re-formed Aurum Solis for help also, but more of praying assistance.

It does indeed give oneself hope in the fight against those darn qlipphah

As  a commentary to what has been said on egregores, not using hebrew, etc. I´d like to add that some people have found the Ogdoadic egregores of ORDO ASTRUM SOPHIAE (the ex- AURUM SOLIS) to be less powerful than the Hebrew. Personally I disagree, the question is rather as ALCHIMISTE has pointed out that you tap into other power-bases, which can be quite different.
It is also recommended for those into studying the ogdoadic tradition to use the Greek words.

Also performing SETTING OF THE WARDS as a banishing ritual is in it´s effect more subtle in effect than the  one LBRP  (Of GOLDEN DAWN) and as such it also may be preferred if one is bothered by negs.

I´d like to slightly correct the last post. My rambling about the Egyptian word netjer, as being pronounced notjer, meant that (this conclusion I forgot to put in) for me vibrating this word (as notjer)has had a significant effect on my neg-psycho-magnetic link.

Hebrew seems to me less effetive in effecting the negs system than Enochian the magical system "discovered" by of John Dee/Edward Kelley).
When I vibrated IAD and EHNB one day, there followed a high atmosphere that was both soothing and pure, also I felt as if I was someone else, a man of the late 1800s (past life-connection coming through?).

Also I forgot to mention that the mantra NE-HA-EL is also effective.

I haven´t tried Norse galders, they may be effective as well.

I have worked with TOL as a supplement to SETTING OF THE WARDS and for me it has proved to be a very good defense addition, it definitely strengthens the aura.I highy recommend it!

Funnily enough even the occult fiction writer Dennis Wheatley mentions the same technique, though not under the same name, in his novel THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, which also was filmed in 1967 by Hammer Films and it´s a very enjoyable film for all of us interested in the occult,  Christopher Lee uses the Susamma Ritual from Clavicula Salomonis/Key of Solomon in it (a ritual to be used when the soul is in real danger).!

Hello!

To be frank- I don´t really think there are incantations as such that can dispell negs while projecting, of course that depends of what neg-relation you have. If you are possessed by them, an incantation may be used to weaken them, but hardly be the instrument per-se to drive them out, as this is more complex an operation.

I have´nt projected myself consciously, that is ordinary OBE, but I find this assumption of an astral  incantation as working wonders a bit farfetched. There are some techniques including making a sort of astral rotating cross in red (in your hand)and having it go off forth from you as a kind of defence.

I would advise you to learn a banishing ritual such as Golden Dawn´s LBRP, Aurum Solis´ Setting of the wards of power or some other, there are banishing rituals specific to Wicca, etc , etc. Do these before projecting instead.

Mantras may be used however, I do believe, to weaken the negs, and may be a part in the expelling of them.
Iin my own experimentation with mantras, the following have had a pronounced effect on my negs:
the Enochian words for GOD: IAD (pronounced EE-AHH-DEHH) and the element of Spirit/Akasha EHNB (pronounced EE- HEE-NEE-BEHH). Vibrating them made me feel dizzy almost, and I could feel the link behind my eyes stirring. Some Christmas carols or lullabyes have the sme effect according to Robert Bruce.

Also in my Egyptological studies I have my own theory that the Ancient Egyptian word for God  ntr (pronounced netjer) would in reality have been pronounced notjer, as the Coptic, the last phase of Ancient Egyptian (during the Christian period) which is the only phase that leaves the vowels in, gives the word nute for God.

To make a long story short, testing vibrating the word notjer, have had effect on my neg-connection.
Hebrew words may be helpful also, but I have´nt noticed any dramatic effect from them.
Vibrating the godnames with the archangel names, or the Greek godnames given by Denning & Philips in their book "Planetary Magick" may be helpful.
Experiment with various words!

God luck!

I have found that dissonant and atonal modern classical music is maybe not directly damaging, but at least slightly upsetting to the aura.
I, myself being very interested in that kind of music (Bartok, Prokofjev; Berg etc) I still like listening to it, but I doesn´t listen to it that  often.

While listening to Prokofjev´s THE FIERY ANGEL on CD (which is a VERY dramatic and scary opera about demonic possession and exorcism) I experienced a spontaneous re-enactment of a Banishing ritual (like LBRP), this was before I re-commenced my magical studies with the A:S stuff this summer.  I see this experience as the higher self taking control. Interesting that some music can carry so much a symbolic meaning.

The dweller on the threshold is the dark or shadow aspect of the higher self, and what it stands for, as I understand it, is the resistance to the spiritual progress, in opposition to the "light" higher self that guides and helps the individual to progress spiritually.

One can compare to the polarity of magnetism, the light higher self is +/positive, whereas the dark is -/negative, meaning that true progress cannot be made unless there are something that holds back, otherwise spiritual progress would be very easy to obtain.
This doesn´t mean that the dweller is evil in any way, although it can appear quite frightening at times.

Very aptly the dweller is connected with the 32nd path/THE UNIVERSE (that corresponds to Saturn/Shabbathai/Sophia) and is the dark aspect that the soul must face in order to make the progress from Malkuth(the world of Assiah)  to Yesod (the world of Yetzirah).

In Swedish it´s called "utesittning" - "sitting outdoors", and is a Scandivavian shamanic technique, used by some of the Swedish magical orders.
I´ve never tried it myself, but as I have a shamanic connection, it would certainly be worthwhile, but only during the warmer months !


To return my original subject of planetary hours, I´ve found some of them to be more pronounced in thieir nature than others; especially the hour of Saturn which slows every magical operation down, the feeling of heaviness is clearly felt.

The best magical hour in my opinion is Luna, Sol, Jupiter and Venus are also good, Mars can be good, but as there are a tendency to rush things, one might miss valid points here. Mercury is a bit indifferent, a bit erratic in nature, though as being a solar Gemini it should be a good hour to work on.

I´ve found that white light as used in various rituals is warm and energising, though blue light seems to be colder.
strange that your father reacted in such a way!

People who study magick, metaphysics, etc. and who do work on their auras, are brighter than others "non-esotericists", and thus these may react to esotericists both with high respect and awe or fear.

Hello Alcimiste!

Thank you for your very interesting reply to my topic!
I think that you may be right, as the blow I experienced was VERY INTENSE, it felt like a huge wave of force. The neg attacks are like being bitten my a swarm of bugs in comparison.
Though I´d like to emphasise that I´ve not been doing MPR,only TOL as a supplement warding rite to SETTING OF THE WARDS OF POWER (greek version).

What you´re suggesting is that i´ve encountered THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD that is the dark side of the Higher Self, that is connected to the 32:nd path/THEUNIVERSE, if I´m correct. One of the lessons to be learnt on that path.

I´d like to say also that I´ve lately been astrally assisted by my shamanic power animal The Tiger, which seems to be ever ready to appear from the Underworld to enpower me. I´ve also been hearing a sort of Tibetan orJapanese mantric chant that is suggested to me telepathically, as a sort of help.

Also when I was doing SETTING THE WARDS OF POWER yesterday the negs (or their alumni) was constantly taunting me, creating astral images to make me lose my concentration, trying to make a fool of my visualizing of the Gnostic wardens (used by the AURUM SOLIS) making other images in their alloted place (!?)  though I didn´t let them bother me. They don´t seem to fear the white light from the higher self at all, only the blue light of TOL holds them at a distance.
This also strengthens my belief that i have Hybrid attacks to deal with, that have a root cause in a previous incarnation of mine.

I can agree with you that working solo is perhaps to be preferred in many ways, when we look back and see that both GOLDEN DAWN and AURUM SOLIS have at certain times been split up by internal fights, adepti interpreting the two systems differently.

Benjamin Rowe (R.I.P) is to be mentioned as one of those adepts that walked alone and showed the value of doing so aswell as building magical bridges that those after him we´ll be bale to use in their personal development.

Hello!

No,sorry I can´t tell you about which Dead Sea Scroll translation to recommend. Maybe someone else here can?

Regards

Mathias

Hello Donna!

I agree with you on the importance of the gnostics and the Nag Hammadi library, Jung as you know were very influenced by the gnostics and therefore parts of Nag hammadi were once entitled the Jung codex.

I have the Nag hammadi library book edited by James Robinson (I think), also as I´m studying Egyptology at Uppsala University with the goal of a Ph.D. in the not too distant future , I want to learn Coptic so that I can study these texts in their original language.

Regards

Mathias

Certainly he has a point there!
Astral sex is probably similar in polarity, though those experienced say it´s more intense and more of an enery exchange between individuals and individuals and other astral beings.

Some claim to have had astral sex with dragons, and there are probably such ties in some of the shamanic practices, i think Frater U:D: in his excellent book SECRETS OF SEXUAL MAGIC mentions this.

Hello!

What I meant was any Enochian words of power as an addition to other warding incantations, not Enochian conjurations per se, even there are certainly ones to use, but I leave such suggestions for those advanced in Enochian magick.

For me Enochian has proven to be THE most powerful magical languagesoit´s inclusion in warding would add to it´s protective power.
I´d like to add that I´m not an Enochian magick adept, though I hope to be some day , and some people are afraid of using it out-of-it´s context, as well as in the hands of the inexperienced.

Thank you Manuel for the info!

Have you tried any Enochian conjuration in connection with warding of this type? Such as vibrating the Enochian angels of the quarters?
Also the controversial Gerald Schueler in his book ENOCHIAN YOGA give a psychic defense technique when you´re visualizing a kind of rotating red or orange cross in your right hand.

One exercise that has proven effective for me before going to bed is visualizing an Archangel with spread wings, especially the inclusion of the wings has proven to be of a strong symbolical value in warding off negs. Also THE TOWER OF LIGHT is effective.

Personally I use AURUM SOLIS´Setting of the Wards of Power  as a warding/banishing  rite, it features Greek/gnostic egregores: Soter/Alastor/Asphaleios/amyntor instead of the standard (GD) one with Rafael/Michael/Gabriel/Uriel, some say that the greek ones are less potent than the Hebrew ones, in my opinion there is´nt much difference, but I suppose their potency can be enhanced using meditation on their individualities and or invocation as some has suggested.

Yes, I think that esotericism largely strives for a androgyny, the alchemical pairing of Sulphur/The King and Quicksilver/The Queen results in the hermaphrodite, which essentially is the reborn adept.

Tantricism is quite unique in it´s emphasis on the female importance, also in Ancient Egypt the female role was a very important one in the funerary cult, in the role of priestesses of Hathor.

Egypt has interesting pairings of Passive god/Active goddess, in the pairs Osiris/Isis, Ptah/Sekhmet.
The Uraeus of the king was also a personified  goddess, that defended him symbolically, and the temples were seen as goddesses, where the cosmos was re-created( in the inner sanctuary).

Also the merging of Re and Osiris is expressed in a sexual symbolism, as Osiris takes the role of an  Underworld room which Re has to enter to partake of Osiris´re-birth energies, so that Re can be reborn at the sunrise.

Thank you.
On my account of my psychic attacks see the PSD forum, but briefly I can say it is neg-related, of the hybrid-type, that is someone using negs to attack me psychically.

Thanks for your interest.

Skrying in the spirit is when you enter the astral via the mind, e.g. you don´t leave you physical body.
You use a symbol as an entrance point, such as a visualized tarot card or a I Ching symbol or a rune, then you imagine yourself entering this symbol, like passing in-between curtains with the symbol on it, then with some experience, you will be able to enter the astral realm, sometimes you may find yourself in a room or a landscape, you may encounter beings, both lower and higher. Sometimes you may be hindered from exploring this astral realm, at least I have sometimes, which may point to there being astral wardens.

At the beginning you may experience just blurry black and white images, that are seen like on a small tv-screen (the one of your mind´s eye).

I have been quite succesful at this technique , and it seems a good way to train your imagination as well as a good primary step into the astral realm.

Also I have to say that LBRP is NOT THE ONLY or THE BEST  banishing ritual - I much prefer THE SETTING OF THE WARDS OF POWER of the AURUM SOLIS system , which is quite different, most notably:
*the circle is drawn counterclockwise, which is better than clockwise, when clearing an area astrally.
* instead of drawing banishing earth-pentagrams in each quarter, pentatgrams of brilliant light is visualized on the forehead, framed by the hands in a triangular mode, and flung with a swift motion on to the each quarter(not breaking the circle of course) whilst vibrating words of power, either in Greek (standard for Aurum Solis practioners) or Hebrew ones.

The rest of the ritual is quite similar to LBRP with an Invocation of the Higher self and a form of the Qabalisitic Cross (here called CALYX, also with Greek or Hebrew words).

SWP is a banishing ritual that I have experienced to be less dramatic in it´s ritualistic effect than LBRP but more astrally cleansing in a more soothing way.You feel more grounded after it than after having done LBRP.
I know, as I did LBRP for almost six years daily.
SWPt hasn´t got rid of the negs for me though, but during the period of waxing moon to full moon its effectiveness is definitely felt. The main reason for doing a banishing ritual whichever you choose, is the contact with the higher self and the cleansing/strengthening of the aura. You may also combine LBRP or SWP with THE TOWER OF LIGHT ritual where you visualize a blue ovoid like an egg around your aura and than you visualize the flame above your head showering brilliant sparkles on you. THE TOWER also has a soothing protective effect, some people have used it shield their homes with it even.

My future idea is to combine SWP with CORE IMAGE REMOVAL, but I would also  like to have some sort of Invocation of some Archangelic power, to have strength and help in locating and severing  these images and their branches effectively, the trouble with psychic self-defense is for me at least, is my inability to see the cracks in the armour, so to say, and to astrally "scan" where the negs and their connections are located, more than where they are physically felt.

Until you are able to "astrally see" your enemies than you can get them, until then, even garlic or protective herbs, is not to be put down in my opinion. If it´s effective, then  use it!

There seems to be different opinions on whether it´s recommended to do THE MIDDLE PILLAR ritual when being under attack, or suffering from psychic attacks, some such as Melita Denning & Osborne Philips and Dion Fortune, say that it´s unwise to do it as you shouldn´t open up the psychic centres whilst being under attack , as this opening up probably makes you more vulnerable to further attack, but on the other hand Dion Fortune in her book PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENSE recommends doing a modified version of LBRP, which is also psychic centre activating(?!).

Personally I´ve found this all a bit confusing, but my guess is that it all depends on what type of psychic attack you´re suffering from, the more advanced ones from stronger entities, the attacks can increase (for me they did).

Personally a good banishing ritual is the first step, and rituals such as THE MIDDLE PILLAR and THE CIRCULATION OF LIGHT is probably better left alone until the amount of attacks have decreased. If on other hand the neg problem is minor, than there shouldn´t been any ttrouble doing these type of rituals.

Well, just a brief comment on this topic

Mathias

Hello Robert!

Thanks for your comments on this matter. You stated in your article on CIR that you were able to find these images quite easily.
What is the best way to approach them, is it to make the images just to surface in the mind´s eye, or should you combine it with meditation?

Also why is´nt it good to combine this procedure with a banishing ritual. such as SETTING OF THE WARDS OF POWER , e.g. starting with SETTING, I mean, it must be good to at least invoke the higher self. Does such a ritual make it more difficult to find these imagesand their branches/roots??

I have found that doing SETTING OF THE WARDS shields from the Core-Images without removing them, also I have recently felt what I believe is the psycho-magnetic link, it feels like a band of force interconnecting my right eye and the left temple of my  head.

Thankful for your comments on this matter

Regards

Mathias J

Hello Jim!

I agree with you that what works best for yourself is the way to go. Personally I´ve just recently begun doing SETTING OF THE WARDS after a four year long ritual hiatus, and I like it much more than LBRP, there are probably many reasons for this; one being that II have felt for a long time that the A:S: system is the best one for me.
Before I worked in a free-traditional way and it never felt right.
The A:S: way of working is much more artistic and academic (in a good sense) whereas many other magical groups use egregores that seem to be patterned on a hodge-podge out of Larousse´s Encyclopedia of Mythology.
Also I´m very interested in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism which is greatly emphasised in the A:S: system.

I also have felt that SETTING OF THE WARDS feels more astrally cleansing than the LBRP.

Mathias

Hello Jim!

There is also an Enochian version of SETTING OF THE WARDS.. but it is´nt included in the MYSTERIA MAGICA, the question is do the A:S: use a simliar ritual or just the Greek version?

What type of bansihing ritual have been most effective for you LBRP or Setting of the wards?

I have participated in the A:S: discussion group on yahoo, but I enjoy this forum much more, the atmosphere is much more generous and open, you don´t have to be an Adept to take part of its discussions.

I have Osborne Philips latest book and it´s a little gem, a very good supplement to THE MAGICAL PHILOSOPHY books, though in my opinion this book might have been even better if it had beenat least partially illustrated.

Best regards

Mathias J