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Announcements / Re: And we're back!
Last post by oz - April 15, 2021, 08:07:17 PMmagnificent. please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you need any assistance with any tech or dev related stuff as that is my primary aptitude and skill. web development is my thing through and through yo. nice to be able to take part in the forum though in any case.
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Announcements / Re: And we're back!
Last post by IVLore-N - April 15, 2021, 05:11:49 PMI feel like I'm back in the best parts of 2011. Thanks again for reviving this!
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Announcements / Re: And we're back!
Last post by noneunafase - April 15, 2021, 03:52:56 PM #77
Announcements / And we're back!
Last post by Seisatsu - April 15, 2021, 12:51:47 PMDue to popular demand, the Forum has been unlocked for another go. I'm still dusting things off so there may be issues; in case there is a serious issue or you are unable to register or post, contact seisatsu@seisat.su.
Unfortunately the original theme was lost somehow when updating the software. I may be able to get it back, but for now I've installed another dark theme.
Have at it!
Unfortunately the original theme was lost somehow when updating the software. I may be able to get it back, but for now I've installed another dark theme.
Have at it!
#78
Announcements / This Forum is now Archived (Ed...
Last post by Moon1ight - May 06, 2020, 12:45:12 AMHi everyone,
just wanted to let you know that this Forum is now officially an Archive. The Signup is deactivated and only moderators can write posts.
Thanks to Seisatsu, our host, for keeping it up – there's good material here to read.
To get it touch with us, see the Discord and Facebook Groups.
The Forum is back to Life!
Please Remember:
"Just Do Magick"
- Arjil
Thanks to Seisatsu, our host, for keeping it up – there's good material here to read.
The Forum is back to Life!
Please Remember:
"Just Do Magick"
- Arjil
#79
General Occultism / Re: Magick – Fulfilled Wishes,...
Last post by Moon1ight - April 29, 2020, 02:07:35 PMThe finished version is here: https://dkmu.org/text/Fulfilled_Wishes_Fulfilled_Lives.pdf
Edit 03.12.2020 A second edition is in the works, so currently the forum posts hold more content than the pdf.
Edit 26.05.2021 The revised and extended second edition is finished and can be downloads via the above link (it's been updated, thanks to Seisatsu) and from here https://www.dropbox.com/s/ol5f6d3v27umtqd/Fulfilled_Wishes_Fulfilled_Lives.pdf?dl=0
Edit 03.12.2020 A second edition is in the works, so currently the forum posts hold more content than the pdf.
Edit 26.05.2021 The revised and extended second edition is finished and can be downloads via the above link (it's been updated, thanks to Seisatsu) and from here https://www.dropbox.com/s/ol5f6d3v27umtqd/Fulfilled_Wishes_Fulfilled_Lives.pdf?dl=0
#80
General Occultism / Re: Magick – Fulfilled Wishes,...
Last post by Moon1ight - April 25, 2020, 03:02:35 AMOn Ellis, the Red Queen
If you're not familiar with her, she's the Spirit behind the Linking Sigil (illustration by Omni):
And Upon This Mark We Unite The Worlds
Why is she relevant to this text? The Linking Sigil was designed by Arjil to "form a magick net, all working to increase the levels of magick in the world, like a giant spell that evolves and grows each time we add to it till eventually." . Ellis, the Spirit who awakened in this net, desires a world with More Magick. Everything described here requires Doing Magick. On this path, you are natural allies. Her sigil can support your workings with Energy, while your Magick makes the world more like she wants it to be. Here's Arjil with more:
"This symbol is what it says, a sigil to link things together- specifically works of magick, places of power, haunted sites, sacred sites, ley lines, nodes- anything in that vein you can think of really, and all to mutual empowerment.
It tends to not only make the tagged place, or object, or spell More, it's use also further empowers the web that has grown over the years, thus making it even more effective.
On it's own it functions as a sort of crack in reality, through which raw magick seeps- first devised to be used for glamourbombing muggles, to weaken the concrete nature of consensual reality by driving a splinter of doubt into their minds, thus making reality more mutable and magick easier.
Now after about a decade, it has been linked to so many places, so many works of magick, so many ideas- frankly all over the world, but mostly in the US- that it is a well of magickal energy that can really put the pepper on any use you care to put it to. It can be used, as I said, as a glamourbomb to nail muggles and make their lives more interesting for a bit. It can be used to empower spellcraft. It can be used to "wake up" places that feel as though they really Should be magickal but seem to be sleeping, it can exacerbate hauntings, spread a sense of wonder, open doors, increase the Other, spread raw magick, alter consciousness, and open up Between places. It is a Key, It is a Hammer, it is a Monkeywrench for reality.
You don't have to believe me, certainly- all of the above come from accounts of people who have worked with it- myself included, and most people, not all, but most who use it agree with the assessment.
Just try it and see.
It doesn't affect everyone or every place in the same way, but after a decade of people using it, it Does tend to have an effect. I take no responsibility for squished fingers, or spiders, or chaotic reality fluxes- all of which have been reported.
It sounds a bit like a BLAK SPEER ov DUUM, I know. But a number of quite valid occultists were involved in it's inception, And I was the one who actually came up with the linking sigil concept and the sigil itself. It doesn't need firing. It works all by itself. Just as we intended.
Have fun."
How to use that for your own Magick? Liber LS explains: "Focus on the LS, and channel that power just like you would draw down the moon, or tap an element or any other energy source – mix this in with your own *Voo* and use this for everything from charging and firing a sigil, to charging talismans, to infusing it into ritual work, to direct manipulation." If you do that, be grateful to the Queen but also know that she wants Magick to be done, so the energy you use furthers her aims as well as yours.
[insert BeTheStrange picture here :) ]
Now that we have talked about a natural Ally, let's talk about an Enemy.
Arjil asks about a "Thing, current, presence, function of reality, antimagick agenda, *something* that doesn't like us, and fucks with us when we do what we do sometimes. I've noticed it for years. Others seem to as well. Thoughts?"
In the DKMU this thing is often referred to as The Veil – our answer to the question of why there's so little Magick visible in this world.
Ahavah Ain Soph says: "I see the veil as an external... let's call it a fortification. A wall between this world and the next. To rend the veil would be joining the otherworlds with this one. The Gods, Goddesses, Angels, Demons, Devils, Fae, etc. would be here because their world would BE our world if completely successful. Even partial success results in making it that much easier for such entities to walk between worlds at will."
However, it doesn't just affect uncorporeal Spirits, as Gracco points out: "As far as the veil goes I see this as a sort of mental wall. The veil is purely a mental thing and works on a individual and a collective level from what I have found. [...] And it also significantly lowers the direct power of the mind."
Another DKMU member, Alice, says that "The veil isn't a literal material. It isn't some invisible, spiritual barrier that separates the 'mundane' from the 'magical'. The veil is an enforced psychological paradigm, a mind virus, of disbelief and toxic skepticism that keeps us from trusting our own spiritual experiences. And goes out of it's way to regulate, limit, and dictate other people's experiences."
The reason why I bring this up is how the Veil actually operates. We don't know the full extend of it's actions, but one thing that comes up again and again in various sources is that it injects emotions, impulses and thoughts into our minds. I myself can confirm that when I do Magick, I enjoy it a lot but I get more distracting thoughts than when I do anything else. So when you feel that, don't decide that Magick isn't your thing or that there's somehing wrong with you, know that there's an attacker and that we are at War – the War of Ellis against the Veil.
This, I'd say, is the Essence of the DKMU – to Make More Magick. Magick is helpful to our Fulfilment – for some of us it even is Fulfilment – and the enemy wants to deny that to us. So we'll fight for it and we'll enjoy every moment.
On the topic of enemies, let's quickly consider two more things that might give us pause – Religion and Morality.
On religion, God might have commandments for us which are at odds with our Fulfilment. However, to imagine a benevolent creator of the universe who is worthy of worship, but wants us unfulfilled in this life simply makes no sense. Why should the rules be such, if the creator of the rules is benevolent? No, if there is a true commandment, it can only be to seek Fulfilment.
On morality, there are things we should or shouldn't do, regardless of our Fulfilment. However, there's no agreement on what these are and no convincing argument for the existence of such absolute moral duties. To put it in the words of Austin Spare:
"The great experience: Seduce thyself to pleasure. There is only one sin – suffering. There is only on virtue – the will to self-pleasure. [...] In this incessant glorification of work, I discover a great human secret: 'Do thou the work – I my pleasure.'"
(The Focus of Life)
With these obstacles cleared, we're at the end. I'd finish with the words of Ringtail: "May your words come true, may your magic shine!"
However, since we began with a poem, let's also end with one:
Untitled, by Frater Alysyrose
The veil is thinnest
The candles bright
Reality dimmest
Proclaim our might
The Oistars open
Reveal their pearls
And upon this mark
We unite the worlds
If you're not familiar with her, she's the Spirit behind the Linking Sigil (illustration by Omni):
And Upon This Mark We Unite The Worlds
Why is she relevant to this text? The Linking Sigil was designed by Arjil to "form a magick net, all working to increase the levels of magick in the world, like a giant spell that evolves and grows each time we add to it till eventually." . Ellis, the Spirit who awakened in this net, desires a world with More Magick. Everything described here requires Doing Magick. On this path, you are natural allies. Her sigil can support your workings with Energy, while your Magick makes the world more like she wants it to be. Here's Arjil with more:
"This symbol is what it says, a sigil to link things together- specifically works of magick, places of power, haunted sites, sacred sites, ley lines, nodes- anything in that vein you can think of really, and all to mutual empowerment.
It tends to not only make the tagged place, or object, or spell More, it's use also further empowers the web that has grown over the years, thus making it even more effective.
On it's own it functions as a sort of crack in reality, through which raw magick seeps- first devised to be used for glamourbombing muggles, to weaken the concrete nature of consensual reality by driving a splinter of doubt into their minds, thus making reality more mutable and magick easier.
Now after about a decade, it has been linked to so many places, so many works of magick, so many ideas- frankly all over the world, but mostly in the US- that it is a well of magickal energy that can really put the pepper on any use you care to put it to. It can be used, as I said, as a glamourbomb to nail muggles and make their lives more interesting for a bit. It can be used to empower spellcraft. It can be used to "wake up" places that feel as though they really Should be magickal but seem to be sleeping, it can exacerbate hauntings, spread a sense of wonder, open doors, increase the Other, spread raw magick, alter consciousness, and open up Between places. It is a Key, It is a Hammer, it is a Monkeywrench for reality.
You don't have to believe me, certainly- all of the above come from accounts of people who have worked with it- myself included, and most people, not all, but most who use it agree with the assessment.
Just try it and see.
It doesn't affect everyone or every place in the same way, but after a decade of people using it, it Does tend to have an effect. I take no responsibility for squished fingers, or spiders, or chaotic reality fluxes- all of which have been reported.
It sounds a bit like a BLAK SPEER ov DUUM, I know. But a number of quite valid occultists were involved in it's inception, And I was the one who actually came up with the linking sigil concept and the sigil itself. It doesn't need firing. It works all by itself. Just as we intended.
Have fun."
How to use that for your own Magick? Liber LS explains: "Focus on the LS, and channel that power just like you would draw down the moon, or tap an element or any other energy source – mix this in with your own *Voo* and use this for everything from charging and firing a sigil, to charging talismans, to infusing it into ritual work, to direct manipulation." If you do that, be grateful to the Queen but also know that she wants Magick to be done, so the energy you use furthers her aims as well as yours.
[insert BeTheStrange picture here :) ]
Now that we have talked about a natural Ally, let's talk about an Enemy.
Arjil asks about a "Thing, current, presence, function of reality, antimagick agenda, *something* that doesn't like us, and fucks with us when we do what we do sometimes. I've noticed it for years. Others seem to as well. Thoughts?"
In the DKMU this thing is often referred to as The Veil – our answer to the question of why there's so little Magick visible in this world.
Ahavah Ain Soph says: "I see the veil as an external... let's call it a fortification. A wall between this world and the next. To rend the veil would be joining the otherworlds with this one. The Gods, Goddesses, Angels, Demons, Devils, Fae, etc. would be here because their world would BE our world if completely successful. Even partial success results in making it that much easier for such entities to walk between worlds at will."
However, it doesn't just affect uncorporeal Spirits, as Gracco points out: "As far as the veil goes I see this as a sort of mental wall. The veil is purely a mental thing and works on a individual and a collective level from what I have found. [...] And it also significantly lowers the direct power of the mind."
Another DKMU member, Alice, says that "The veil isn't a literal material. It isn't some invisible, spiritual barrier that separates the 'mundane' from the 'magical'. The veil is an enforced psychological paradigm, a mind virus, of disbelief and toxic skepticism that keeps us from trusting our own spiritual experiences. And goes out of it's way to regulate, limit, and dictate other people's experiences."
The reason why I bring this up is how the Veil actually operates. We don't know the full extend of it's actions, but one thing that comes up again and again in various sources is that it injects emotions, impulses and thoughts into our minds. I myself can confirm that when I do Magick, I enjoy it a lot but I get more distracting thoughts than when I do anything else. So when you feel that, don't decide that Magick isn't your thing or that there's somehing wrong with you, know that there's an attacker and that we are at War – the War of Ellis against the Veil.
This, I'd say, is the Essence of the DKMU – to Make More Magick. Magick is helpful to our Fulfilment – for some of us it even is Fulfilment – and the enemy wants to deny that to us. So we'll fight for it and we'll enjoy every moment.
On the topic of enemies, let's quickly consider two more things that might give us pause – Religion and Morality.
On religion, God might have commandments for us which are at odds with our Fulfilment. However, to imagine a benevolent creator of the universe who is worthy of worship, but wants us unfulfilled in this life simply makes no sense. Why should the rules be such, if the creator of the rules is benevolent? No, if there is a true commandment, it can only be to seek Fulfilment.
On morality, there are things we should or shouldn't do, regardless of our Fulfilment. However, there's no agreement on what these are and no convincing argument for the existence of such absolute moral duties. To put it in the words of Austin Spare:
"The great experience: Seduce thyself to pleasure. There is only one sin – suffering. There is only on virtue – the will to self-pleasure. [...] In this incessant glorification of work, I discover a great human secret: 'Do thou the work – I my pleasure.'"
(The Focus of Life)
With these obstacles cleared, we're at the end. I'd finish with the words of Ringtail: "May your words come true, may your magic shine!"
However, since we began with a poem, let's also end with one:
Untitled, by Frater Alysyrose
The veil is thinnest
The candles bright
Reality dimmest
Proclaim our might
The Oistars open
Reveal their pearls
And upon this mark
We unite the worlds