Goetia Triangle of Art And The Time To Do The Work

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!

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. 

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.
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.

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!

The paint was absorbed by the paper and that glued... what a mess!

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

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

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

Thou great God of all the Heavenly Host;




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:

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.

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:

• Triangle with the Greek names.
• Triangle with the Hebrew names.

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.

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See also:  

• My free books for download
• My Youtube Channel
• Making the Goetia Circle 
• Goetia Circle - Hebrew Names - A new Mathers and Crowley version 

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28/07/2016

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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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About This or That Kind of Magickal Method

Art: The Wizard and the Hare

By: Christopher Balaskas - United States

About This or That Kind of Magickal Method


Have been interesting days with many good debates around in the magick areas.
I suggest you to read all that as you want and follow the links and references to other's author's material. You will find a lot to study for years of good practice.

But uhm, sorry, I'm not on the mood to comment some things. 

I repeat often, I'm a practitioner, not a scholar. Glad and thanks they do such great work. It's their path. 

Some debates even appears just some old grump guys. I'm one too sometimes despite I'm being a lovely one Buddha with a sexy nose and full of Love for the Universe.

I follow my own path no matter how many books I read, study and practices. 
I can only speak from my own practice point of view, to keep walking and all the wonders that we can find on the way.
The great special effects happen in so many ways that most people will not believe it if we told how that really is.
Fantastic images? What about talk with a dragonfly or a mountain? Yes, one and other time, but sometimes just something that touches your soul so deeply that no visions can describe.

Grimoire mages, Chaos, Ceremonial Magicians, Sorcerers, Witches, K or not K... So many topics.
Whatever you do must be true and make sense for your true soul. It may touch your heart and so, with time you will be able to recognize the true on others as they have their own sense about what they do.
Where are your true soul? Is your Will really yours? 


There are many levels at magic/spiritual learning.
 
And that start having your human life in a reasonable level to suport it. Yes, this is not something to escape from life. Who pay the bills? 
Spiritual and magick learning will make you have a strong contact with your background first. 
See, this is not the same to give value to futile things, but to know all that things are there and how you feel and act accordingly. 

The spiritual/magick learning starts when you discover you just know nothing, then become curious and wanting to know more about, so moving to wanting to learn, starting to do the learning and keep moving despiste the high price until someday becoming to know something and only then going to know a bit and knowing there are more to know. 
This is the day when you deeply discover you know nothing. You have reached the starting point of your path.
Only then the learning and your own path start. From this point all others walkers will recognize you as being on the path.
That is priceless.

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27/05/2016

Ok, So You Think That Magick is So Simple?

You won't buy ready magick knowledge at store. Well, may be you was lucky that time when I was with friends blessing the doll to share love blessings.
(the perfume store's owner didn't know it). 

Ok, So You Think That Magick is So Simple? 


One and other time people really work hard to drive me nuts.
Compassion is not infinite, so one and other time is needed to be very clear and direct.


Most of people come to us due some personal reference, articles, foruns posts, etc.

I know there are many who will just use something like Google and try at blind and forget to look for references. Yes, they forget to use the same Google to search info about who is who. Ok.

So most often, they have some idea who I am and who others are.

Then people come to me asking for help or guidance, because some problem, pay for a reading and what happens?
Here the funny start. Well, some are not funny.


There are a lot of people who receive the needed information and we have a decent talk.
One or other time some additional magick work is done, here I'm including some hard cases, but if I accepted to do it, let's work.
Some like to come each year for a personal update for a new year or because new events in their lifes. They get what is needed, learn and follow on.

But sometimes.... people expect fantasies or are too deep on some pre-made ideas, like the ones they got at some cheap magazine. 

So, I got the inspiration to write about some sugestions I do, as some of that can appear simple.
Such solutions can have two different reasons:
1) I won't use an atomic bomb because a bug.
2) Need learning to know when to do it.

So be be sure I won't use a truck when a bike is the suffice or I can just walk.

So, in a reading I most often write a long text based on what I can talk in a one hour tarot (or any other oracle) reading (and I talk fast). Add many hours editing, adding comments, examples, etc.
That is sent to the client and... 

Well, remember, I'm commenting about the sttuborn, fantasy based ones,

Then I have some typical replies:

1) Oh no, my problem is not that! I'm sure I'm being attacked by the biggest dark forces!
Reply - Too often they are just under some kind of bug size problem, being anxious or fear and only need a herbs bath or stop with some bad habit.

2) Oh no, your proposal is too simple! I won't do that because my problem is too big and nobody knows what to do!
Reply - First they ignore a specific direct reply about what the problem is. Most of times they do nothing because they want something related with the size of their stupidy. They have not done the bigger options too and won't even try the simple direct solution I pointed.

3) Oh no, I didn't read your reply because I disagree it, but may be you can try this, that or whatever else?
Reply - A serious work can't be done by chance. There are two possible approachs: 1) The problem is something knew. 2) The problem have something that need to be explored, but again, knowing how to go after it.

When I point something, is my point of view and experience. For sure I don't know all, but I have some decades on many areas to recognize my limits when needed. 
So, if there are something to explore, I will point it by myself and explain what are the next steps to explore.
But a lot of times, most of all, I'm pointing some specific reason, what to do, why and how.

And some of that appears to be simple.


What is simple on magick?
It's something specific and clearly related with the results needed.

But in no way this is the same as a easy solution nor something cheap.

And see, simple is not the same as "basic".
For example, a basic candle magick is light a candle and do a prayer.
By other side, a simple candle magick is light a proper color candle, use a specific psalm at same hour for some days.


Most great inventions of mankind, including the art world, are simple.
Remember the Archimedean lever?
He risked his life for suggesting something so simple to his King.
And what is that? A rod and a point of support. That is simple.
And today we all know that the lever is a key part in all modern technology.

But finding a simple solution is not always easy.


To find a solution you first need to evaluate it.

And how you evaluate human life, social groups, companies and why and when magick is more or less related with the life needs?

This comes with learning and practice.


Information is useless without practice.
Practice without learning become only mechanic and lack the "art" to act in better ways.
Remember, good magick is not brute force.

To get magick power you must study, practice, review results, observe and learn from others works. And practice a lot for a long time.

So, many of that popular texts, including newage, witchcraft, mysticism, etc., are just a copy and paste, without the needed reasoning. You will find lots of examples, really generic on popular spells and ways to do this or that.
But where is the knowledge to say what you really needed?
It's like self-medication. It can be a big risk. The doctor is the one to tell you what is really needed. And some of them may goes wrong or need to work more on the case. 

Magick is not something you start today and tomorrow you are the Ooobaa-boobaaa Grand Magister. This is children fantasy tales. Or just charlatan easy talk (and I knew a lot).


One of the most important aspects of practice on magick is creating relationship with the spirits you work with.
Such relationship is not result of worship, or just repeating something like a parrot.
This comes from being respectfull with the spirits and receiving the same from them.
This is the first.
In no ways this means becoming slave of some spirit.
A spirit must respect you as friend or equals.
You never, but never are a pet for such forces.

Have you gone to some place where they does not respect the spirits or try to force you to be submissive? Some use sweety words, or even become your fake friends. Run from that like hell!

This is simple? Yes. But sometimes your life can become a hell despite you be sure to being respectfull at all areas and doing all the right things. Yes, spirits and people can be very persuasive.

Well, shit happens. I'm a kind of expert because I have been cheated a lot too. Hard times, learning under suffering. But I survived.


Many of the material I wrote about troubles and the risks when mixing magick practices at the "Ritual Offerings" book came as the result of learning under the worst conditions.
I had the most absurd strange events, learnings because under bloody and extreme suffering, being cheated, personal life destroyed, friends going crazy and companies going on severe trouble events, all due something used by fake priests and corrupted spirits trying to steal what we was doing.
And, this happened even with some decades of experience. Compassion can't be infinite. I was cheated and saw closer friends being harmed to learn that. And be sure that was not something simple to see what was happening and being unable to do more to avoid that.

Be sure, the nice moment photo at start does not show what was against us. We was on good times, near something better a lot. But things was going rotten under our feet and I had three years more living on hell to discover why things stopped working and why my friends got crazy too and we was even unable to talk. That was a severe storm that costed really a lot, a real fuck. And after that years, it still needed many years more after the hidden forces being revealed just to start a move to get rid of it. To be clear, more than a decade fighting against that. All because corrupted spirits and fake priests I trusted as friends and since the begining thinking I was learning something.

Note: I allow anyone who is a good decent person, a real priest/magician to do a reading about me to see if this is true. Be warned about that spirits will try to attack you trying to get a "feed" source.


Well, I really learned a lot of simple things that can prevent or even remove some really bad conditions. And 99,99% of that are not at any books nor most priests will talk to you.

Yes, I can talk because while I was being cheated, they forgot to take from me a previous secrecy compromise. So I can talk.
For sure, in respect with the good ones, there are things I won't comment and that are not related to this article nor the material for the book I posted.
The magickal world is really wide and have lots of nice and wonderfull things.

So, I'm today more aware about how things can turn to dark times but also, how many suffering can be avoid.
The most the troubles was worse, I learned after years that many of that have simple ways to solve using magick ways.
But until that, terrible times, doing all I was able to do, I had gone many times to hospitals at extreme sufferings with doctors going crazy because they had no idea what to do, absurds happening at all areas.
And this happened even with more than two decades of previous learnings at other areas before.


Because this too, I learned a lot of simple solutions. And that was paid with blood and suffering from many people I loved. It is simple?

Yes. That are simple when related to the specific point. Just use well the resources when needed.



At previous comment at item (3), I repeat a solution is not something to try by chance. Sometimes the events need to be explored.
Get this? In no ways "try to see what happens" is a good solution. It's like Russian roulette.


How much deeper I had explored? For sure not all, but I've gone in life where really few in the world have gone. I say the good and bad sides.  I knew wonders but also, many levels at the hell.
Be sure I know some who have gone further too and they deserve my full respect.


Even with all previous experiences, one or other time we can see something is really wrong, but the sources are hidden.
There are many ways to spirits and magick works got hidden. And what people do too. Just repeating, charlatans and scammers can do a real mess using manipulation. Some are real psychopats.

Some spirits are very good to show hidden things. But some things only will be seen if you have been at that area or know some of that area spirits. Who do you know at some of the Asian sorcery traditons? This have nothing with the nice meditation schools, most are far away from western practices.
As I cited spirits, this means some troubles need a formal ritual on magic to evoke spirits to help to find what's happening and this means a lot of resources and time to explore that. This example is not a case for a normal Tarot reading but one and other time, someone will really need this. And be sure it's not cheap as demand a lot of work. 

Back to the most "near" hidden sources that are not so difficult to find, we see that really many people can be cursed an entire life and not being aware of that. Some think they are unlucky, others have already a craz life and found to have a lot of troubles to be "normal".

A simple brush is the tool to created a work of art.
Photo by Lauren RW - USA

So the first level is what the client can see.

But the next level is what I can see.

People come after me because I see something they can't, using my inner vision, oracles like the Tarot plus decades of personal experience under extreme rosly trainings at few known paths.
And most of times I've replied to people just based on what I see. I explain that like a kind of psychometry, but related to any source of information.

The magicians vision (including intuition) is something each one develop in many different ways. This vary according with their expertize level, but even some magicians with strong powers may have not developed the same as others.
Reading oracles is not just learning symbols and repeating that like parrots. Each oracle is a door to the spiritual realm and is needed personal development for the capability to enter at that levels. The symbols meanings, are part of the knowledge to be explored in practice.


So, it's Ok. Lets follow.
One and other time the problem needs to be explored just because something is really hidden or the magician may have not knowledge about that area or the source used something trying to be hidden. Well, some are ridiculous while others can be, say, creative.
Yes, I say each area have proper symbols, meanings and at the spiritual planes, that can be really different. 
For example, at a reading some symbols of the oracle maybe unseen or not part of the magician training. As an example, a flying bird say nothing to a Wall Street executive but can means a lot for a shaman or a sorcerer.
And even with all information I get, sometimes there are some hidden things to be revealed during a ritual. This means I have to deal with that and this can cost me a lot. But this is part of the task with one and other exception when I will need to negotiate with the client. 

Get this? I will do the best I can, but not commit a personal suicide because the client.
I can warn about the danger, but I will not jump together in the abyss if the person insists on moving on.


For sure I don't know everything, but I have worked very deep in many areas to be confident on what I can do. If not, I'm the first to say I may need to explore it more or even, suggest someone else I know who will work better at that area.


Because all this I need to know what, for what, when and how things work.

What today is simple to many people have not been for centuries.

And the simple methods, are not  always related to complexity, difficult degrees.They are related with developing wisdom, good sense and the right time to use.



To finish: here another aspect a magician need to develop: to be simple.

And you, wanna reach that highs?

At the most higher levels, we discover the power of simple solutions.
Photo by Bernhard Siegl - Austria

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Consultas e atividades com Gilberto Strapazon

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