Psychic offense and Black Magick 101

[EmperorFaustus]

I wasn't sure exactly where to post this, so I hope this is the right forum.

Most of us, at some point in our magickal careers, have realised that like it or not, sometimes you have to get your hands dirty and practise purely offensive magick. Whether your enemies exist on the astral, like a dangerous parasite or vampire, or whether they have manifest existence, in the form of, say, a persecuting right wing religious group, or a hostile magician, you are extremely lucky if, at some point, you don't have to practise some darker stuff.

Now, your basic training includes most of the self defence you're likely to need: purifications, elemental balancing, power journeys, banishing, etc etc. This thread is about when that stuff isn't enough, and you need to go on the offensive. I thought it might be conducive to discussion, and a resource for intermediate level occultists, if some of the more experienced magickal practitioners shared some of the ways they use offensive magick with the board.

I'll start by describing a ritual which is not too difficult, but quite dangerous, very effective, and a bit gross by most peoples estimation.

The purpose of this spell is to create a servitor to act in a purely destructive manner.

The first step is to decide a specific purpose for the servitor and create a name and sigil. For argument's sake, let's say that the stated intent of the creature is 'Seek And Destroy Enemies'. From this, we can construct a mantra / name by taking the first letter of each word. In this case, the name would be SADE. Using a standard method, you can then construct a sigil. Next, i get some ingredients.

First, I obtain the corpse of a house spider. These things are everywhere, the big black evil looking ones that die in the corners of dusty rooms. The purpose of this is to provide an inert (lifeless) DNA template to build the servitor around.

Second, I gather some feces (preferably one's own brand). Only a small amount is required, but it is used to represent toxicity (as human waste is toxic).

Third, I produce either semen or blood. This fluid serves to provide the life force and animating power to the ritual, as well as establish a sympathetic bond between the magician and the servitor.

Once all these ingredients are gathered together, they should be placed in a small bag with the sigil on it.

I then wait until darkness, and build a small fire. Around the fire, I scan a triangle. I would also suggest that anyone who is not an advanced magician construct a magick circle or something similar.

I place the bag into the flames and perform the following ritual.

As the bag begins to burn I perform an invocation to infernal powers. A suitable invocation can be found in any of the old black magick grimoires, or the magician can compose their own. it doesn't need to be lengthy, just effective.

Then, I begin to visualise the form of the servitor, a gibbering, spider like, demonic monstrosity. As well as a visual identity, it's important to visualise the component parts of the creature, the purely destructive hunger; proto-insectoid intellect and persona; alien like consciousness; This is a creature that lives solely to feast and kill, a scuttling alien mess, evil by human moral standards, and it helps to embody negative, pre-human emotions, like lust and fury, at this stage. Whilst doing this, I chant the mantra / name of the creature, in this case SADE, and visualise the sigil at it's core. i begin to visualise it crawling along a web, an astral symbol of existence, looking to kill. This continues until the bag and it's contents are fully cremated.

When this is done, the creature is complete, and should be coaxed into reality. It can be put to any 'destructive' task, whether that simply be to exist in your aura temporarily, feasting on any astral parasites you may have accrued, or sent out to devour and destroy a particular enemy.

I have found these servitors to be EXTREMELY effective, probably too much so for a beginner. I have also found (originally to my distress) that if left for too long, these servitors can replicate into a hive or swarm, become very powerful very quick, and even develop a very simple and distasteful personality. This is fine as long as the magician is in full control of them, but it can make them hard to handle. For this reason, I tend to destroy them myself before they get too big. I would stress that I would never recommend this practise for a beginner, as they would likely be able to accomplish it, but probably not be able to deal with the servitor as it grew. I've had these creatures find me in my dreams and appear spontaneously in my waking life if left to get too powerful, hence my suggestion for an early destruction.

So what about the rest of you? I don't care what paradigm you work in, what are some of the specific techniques you use to wage magickal war when the need arises?

[reptilian]

I'm always surprised when people mention the need for offensive magic. I have never experienced a harmful magical force that I did not get involved with myself, out of foolishness. I know there are such occasions but I'm somewhat skeptical of the idea that many or most magicians have this experience.

As for what offensive magic I have developed, I remember during the LS project attaching many spells to the network that were meant to frighten and "shake awake" those who stumbled into that sphere of influence. I'm sure this caused fear, and maybe abject terror, in many complete strangers.
I'm also perfecting my technique of sending dreams, including nightmares.

I had developed a sigil that was used in conjunction with Ellis (hail, red queen) in order to generate minor hauntings in the places it was used. I didn't require any ritual really, just an understanding of the kind of fear that needed to be evoked.

My process for sending dreams is hard to explain, as it depends on my personal experience of "dream substance" and how to build things with it.

[EmperorFaustus]

Hey Reptilian thanks for the reply, hopefully we'll see a few different approaches.

I should mention that I have rarely had recourse to use these methods.

Nonetheless, I do consider it prudent to know some kind of offensive magick in the same way that I consider it wise to train in martial arts. Of course, most dangers in this world or any other (for us in 1st world countries, at least) are avoidable with common sense and basic self development. To say that evil and confrontation are easy to avoid most of the time, though, and to say that they are not worth preparing for, are two different things.

Additionally, I am reminded of Vimalananda's explanation of black magick in tantra, which is that sometimes, the ends justifies the means. In the case of two nations at war, for example, to use black magick may be distasteful, but to not act at all may be worse. Hence Crowley's recruitment by Churchill to perform black magick against the Nazi's during WW2. The rites he performed may have been heinous, but their aim was to overthrow a government that was invading Europe and carrying out genocide. Similar apologies for Black magick exist in numerous grimoires from the western magickal tradition, perhaps most notable amongst them being the Key of Solomon and the Abramelin manuscript.

The dream work sounds really interesting. I assume this involves some amount of lucidity whilst dreaming? If so, perhaps sharing how that was attained would be a good example of how general magickal skills can be put to the specific purpose of Psychic offense?

Thanks

EF.

[reptilian]

I was actually not trying to imply that black magic is wrong or unjustified. As a chaote, I am quite accustomed to practicing magic in an aggressive way. I was stating my surprise that you found many examples in which it was necessary, because in spite of my experience, I have never had need for such techniques, and almost always employ them exclusively toward removing the veil, and never toward anyone/anything else unless I'm feeling nasty. I've never learned any protection magic until a couple of weeks ago because I never needed it (I don't need it now, but am learning mainly because it's a part of hoodoo).

As for my dream magic technique, it does rely on lucid dreaming, at least as a foundation. The technique that I used to train myself to dream lucidly was asking myself "Am I awake or dreaming?" ten or twenty times per day at random intervals for about three weeks until I began asking myself that question in almost every dream, and, as a result, was becoming lucid. I'm also in the process of creating a servitor whose purpose is to alert me that I am dreaming if I do not become lucid on my own.
After becoming proficient at lucid dreaming, I began studying the nature and substance of dreams while asleep. I eventually found that they seemed to be made of some essential psychic "paint" or building blocks. Before long, I was using those building blocks to create objects, dream characters, and eventually dream worlds. I am in the process of creating a semi-permanent dream world that I revisit every night in order to work on and flesh out.
I use the same process for creating dreams or nightmares to send to others. I build them block by block over a few nights while sleeping, and then preform a spell before going to sleep to send them. The spell consists of either firing a sigil (usually the same sigil that is tailored slightly for the target), or invoking Morpheus and speaking an incantation, depending on the power needed for the individual dream.

[EmperorFaustus]

Ah I see. I wouldn't say I found many examples, personally. In the last 20 years, I can only think of three instances where I've had to use aggressive black magic against other people or institutions. But from what I've heard from others, most people seem to find at least one or two similar situations over the course of a lifetime.

The dream stuff is really interesting. I've experienced lucid dreaming myself and trained my self to do it at will, but the addition of a servitor to ensure it is an excellent idea that I hadn't thought of. I may well follow your lead on that one. I've also found that dreams behave the way you've experienced, and constructed a 'personal dreamscape' of many locations myself. it hadn't occurred to me to send dreams / nightmares to others as an offensive act, although it's a novel use of the technology. I have travelled into other peoples dreams, and sometimes controlled them, which can be interesting. That whole area of magick, in fact, is fascinating. To stick on topic, though, I've found that influencing peoples dreams have waking world ramifications. I've only ever used this to help people or myself in the past, but it could presumably be used to harm as well, perhaps without having to go too 'over the top'.

I imagine dream work could be useful as a kind of covert form of offensive magick, where suggestions and ideas could be implanted during sleep to alter particularly unpleasant or dangerous behavior.

[reptilian]

With a project that I recently abandoned, it was exactly my intention to use nightmares to discourage a particular behavior. I hadn't really decided who to use it on, maybe neighbors or acquaintances, but I decided to give it up because I'm in a morally murky position right now and I want to be sure I'm not acting out of a sense of self-righteousness.

However, I recently advised someone to use dreams/nightmares to discourage creepy and inappropriate behavior where there was little question as to whether that kind of offensive action was warranted.

So, yes, I suppose it would be considered a kind of covert offensive, and it can have real world ramifications. Thankfully, since it is the kind of working that requires at least a little planning and effort, it requires some reflection on the possibility of unwanted consequences.