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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.

sábado, 3 de outubro de 2015

A rare opportunity for magicians: a Solomonic Store

Doc Solomon's Occult Curios


A rare opportunity for magicians: a Solomonic Store



I'm glad to share and to make a humble comment about the new Doc Solomon's Occult Curios.

For centuries ceremonial magicians (CM) have worked on the Grimoires, learning, improving, listening to the teachings received and mainly, working daily with the needed discipline and practice to gain the knowledge and wisdom from the Highest.

I like a comment from Rufus Opus: To do the Great Work means you need to work.
And there is a lot to do in the magical path.
From the basic practices needed to reach the highest ceremonies, the student found the many steps to develop, learn and practice.

And all of us found how much hard and long can be the work to make the needed tools. Learn why they are needed, what they do, how they are part of an greater practice, find the ingredients and to do all needed procedures for the best quality.
Each tool has specific procedures, meanings, resources to find, too often many steps to do.

But not all of us can do all of that. Some are really hard. Even what at start appears simple, can become difficult to do due many reasons like hard to find ingredients, job concerns, lack of working space, no time available to follow all the practice or just the need to give more priority to some areas.
All this cost time, work and money.
Thus, sometimes is better to work for the money and find a formal magician who can supply the needed material. The work is there anyways, and to find the right materials and tools save time and add a lot to the work being done.

So, when Aaron Leitch commented he was doing Solomic tools and ingredients for a new store, this made me think how glad is to live in a time we can share information with living magicians and have the opportunity to get such material as a result of their work.

Aaron Leitch
Aaron Leitch is a respected author, scholar and formal magician, some of the few I, in my how right, recognize as being successful in the Abramelin ritual. He have decades of deep work in many areas including the Solomonic tradition. Someone who have made his tools and know how and what to do each of that.


The new Doc Solomon's Occult Curios is a gift to anyone working on the Great Work as each material and tool available, plus all to come, are high quality rated, done under the strict procedures from the grimoires and will add the valuable needed power to the magician work.


Amd for sure, as we know well, many of that itens are perfect to use in many other magick areas.

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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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quarta-feira, 16 de maio de 2012

Pater Noster - Lord's Prayer - Pai Nosso - Latim, Inglês e Portugues

Convento do Pai Nosso no Monte das Oliveiras, Jerusalém.
Foto: St James Kenosha

A imagem acima mostra o Pai Nosso em Latim, como está no Convento do Pater Noster.
Este convento  está no Monte das Oliveiras, em Jerusalém e foi construído sobre a caverna onde Jesus ensinou a seus discípulos a oração do Senhor, o Pai Nosso.
As paredes estão decoradas com 140 paineis em cerâmica, cada um inscrito com a Oração do Senhor em um idioma diferente.

É sempre uma grande oração de proteção e abertura de caminhos. 

Para os estudantes e praticantes da Magia Cerimonial, a minha sugestão é usarem a oração em Latim como uma experiência pessoal de aprendizado e perceber a diferença que temos na energia da oração e mesmo durante seu uso num ritual. Seja na Magia Angélica, nos 6º & 7º Livros de Moisés ou mesmo na introdução de outras como a Goetia, o Grimorium Verum e tantas áreas em que a oração ao Altíssimo nos ajuda a estarmos preparados e sintonizados com a energia do Criador para termos melhores energias para a operação de magia ritual que está sendo feita. Até em áreas como na Umbanda é uma oração muito usada na abertura dos trabalhos e isso tem um bom motivo. Façam a experiência por si e estejam preparados para melhores resultados nas suas vidas. 


Em Português:

Pai nosso, que estais no céu
Santificado seja o Vosso nome,
Venha a nós o Vosso reino,
Seja feita a Vossa vontade,
Assim na terra como no céu.
O pão nosso de cada dia nos dai hoje.
Perdoai as nossas ofensas,
Assim como nós perdoamos a quem nos tem ofendido.
E não nos deixeis cair em tentação,
Mas livrai-nos do mal,
Amém.

Em Latim:

Pater noster qui es in caelis;
sanctificetur nomen tuum;
adveniat regnum tuum;
fiat voluntas tua,
sicut in caelo et in terra.
Panem nostrum quotidianum
da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris,
et ne nos inducas in tentationem,
sed libera nos a malo. 
Amen.

Em Inglês:

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.


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Convento do Pai Nosso no Monte das Oliveiras, Jerusalém.
Foto: By Custodiaterrasanta


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quarta-feira, 9 de maio de 2012

O Caminho das Iniciações

Para o iniciado os símbolos são parte da linguagem de Deus.
A Alquimia é a transmutação do Ser.
Foto: Patrick Joust


Este artigo foi feito em homenagem a um irmão da maçonaria e tem vários níveis de entendimento. Sugiro imprimir e ler de novo daqui 5-10-20 anos pois tem muitas chaves que dependem do seu aprendizado. 


Existem várias iniciações. O ingresso, as conquistas, as revelações, os grandes e pequenos graus.

Realmente, ser iniciado é uma consequência. Em hipótese alguma é algo que se recebe para passar a estar nalguma condição.

Pelo contrário. A Iniciação só vem depois de muito trabalho sobre si mesmo.

Muitos grupos famosos até, usam a palavra "iniciação" com o significado de "praticar um ritual", mas isto está incorreto.

Iniciação significa o início de empreender uma jornada.

E ninguém vai para uma jornada sem uma prévia preparação. Mesmo os afoitos que entram em qualquer ônibus que apareça para alguma outra cidade logo precisam pedir para descer na primeira parada porque não tem sequer uma muda de roupa de baixo. Alguns presunçosos se acham no direito de ficar incomodando as demais pessoas do ônibus para pedir as coisas que não tem. Pede um cigarro para um, o lanche do outro, o cobertor de alguém mais e assim vão. Mas todos estes, quando chegam ao destino, chegam pior do que embarcaram, sem nada, sem crédito e nenhum mérito e pior, devendo favor para todos que o suportaram.

Quantos de vocês conhecem estes oportunistas parasitas? São cheios de discursos sobre compartilhar as coisas (dos outros), sobre mil e uma façanhas (dos outros), mas são apenas ratazanas a espera de alguma migalha cair, ou então, roubam o que podem.

Leia também: Aprendizado Ocultista, Magia, etc não deveriam ser grátis?

Para empreender uma jornada é necessário preparar-se. Estudar os assuntos ligados à área. Conhecer seu corpo, sua respiração, como alimentar-se. Preparar-se aprendendo técnicas de massagem, relaxamento, exercícios. Conhecer melhor suas emoções e sua mente.Estar preparado para aprender mais sobre si mesmo e as pessoas que vai encontrar.

Descobrir a meditação e gradualmente chegar num estado mais calmo e silencioso.

Adquirir uma disciplina, ter compromisso consigo e com os demais.

Até que um dia começa a descobrir a fé. Mas não nalguma coisa externa inatingível, mas aquela certeza interior de que somos parte de um todo e, que podemos senti-lo e sermos unificados algum dia.

Antes da iniciação, a pessoa vai ser um curioso, um interessado. Começa a buscar informações.

Alguns se tornam turistas espirituais, vão frequentar todas as palestras, todos os workshops e até, vão ter fotos abraçados com todos seus gurus favoritos, na estante do escritório, como se isto lhes conferisse algum nível mais elevado.

Outros vão tropeçar aqui e ali, talvez fiquem nas primeiras armadilhas internas: O curso é "muito" longe. Aquele lugar tem pessoas que não combinam comigo. Posso fazer isto a qualquer hora, mas não hoje, pois não posso perder aquela liquidação. Seria ótimo se não fosse neste horário. Não tenho roupa para ir...

E claro, os livros. Certamente o estudante vai precisar ler muitos livros. E se for numa área como a Magia Cerimonial, Angélica, Goetia, etc. certamente ler muito, fazer anotações, pesquisar tudo que não esteja claro. É um trabalho individual que não requer instrutor, mas apenas um sincero desejo e persistência para ter a necessária disciplina para galgar os muitos degraus que são parte de sua preparação.

E alguns poucos, vão seguir além da teoria e realmente começar a praticar algum trabalho, um método. Tomar parte de algum grupo mais fixo uma escola de Yoga ou até um centro de meditação. Ou efetivamente começar a realizar rituais sérios em magia com todas suas ferramentas e materiais necessários.

E enquanto fazem isto, também estão trabalhando no mundo. A sua vida pessoal também vai aos poucos sendo influenciada. Vida humana!

É muito fácil largar tudo e enfiar-se num mosteiro nalgum lugar remoto. Lá não tem perigo nenhum, a comida vai estar abençoada com certeza, tem quem cuide dos horários e, principalmente, aqueles perigos todos da civilização não estão lá dentro. Porém, bastam algumas horas depois do regresso para voltarem à mesma vida de antes. Apenas deixaram tudo esperando na porta como se fosse um intervalo e voltam ao que eram.

A preparação para a iniciação é um aprendizado constante. Algumas escolas esotéricas tem níveis, ou degraus, assim como no Karatê por exemplo.

De curioso a interessado. De interessado a neófito. De neófito a aprendiz e assim por diante. Até que um dia a pessoa chega num nível em que possui um pouco de energia pessoa, um pouco mais de clareza, sabe onde está seu centro.

A construção só começa quando as pedras estiverem entalhadas e prontas. O tijolo que sai do forno que lhe queimou as impurezas vai começar sua jornada para construir algo e ser parte de algo maior.

Foto: Amanda Mabel


O trabalho pessoal confere luz e clareza, mais força disciplina que fortalecem nosso centro.

Quando se aproxima a iniciação, a pessoa não tem mais pequenas dúvidas idiotas, nem se perde divagando com coisinhas fúteis. Pelo contrário, as dúvidas e questionamentos são imensos e as coisas fúteis, são maiores ainda (risos). O que importa é o compromisso, a fé, a força interior.
 
A evolução não acontece em saltos. Assim é a iniciação. Ela vai preparando aos poucos.

Até que chega um momento, em que a pessoa está pronta e aí um Mestre lhe entrega as chaves. É uma experiência íntima e que externamente, só pode ser percebida pela energia que libera.

Pessoas que estejam num caminho, podem perceber isto, e estas cerimônias são muito especiais. Os locais aonde são feitas as iniciações mantém uma parte da energia. Por isto os antigos templos e locais de iniciação dos diferentes povos, sempre atraem tantas pessoas, por causa da energia que ali ficou.


Iniciar-se NÃO é receber um diploma. É um início.

E também não é fazer um cursinho qualquer de final de semana e achar que se tornou um super-mestre.

Iniciar-se é encontrar o fruto de uma semeadura feita dia a dia, com força, perseverança, vontade, fé, muita coragem e Amor.

Este fruto será apreciado e suas sementes deverão ser cultivadas e cuidadas. A terra precisará ser lavrada. As ervas daninhas extirpadas. Irrigar, podar se necessário, esperar.

Um dia seus primeiros frutos chegarão. E com cuidado e perseverança, muitos outros frutos virão a cada estação.


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15/02/2006

Publicado originalmente no Orkut, na comunidade Sociedades Secretas

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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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