Taking a break from rituals, magic, and so forth?

[Malk]

Without getting into specifics, I'm currently preparing for a career that is going to have me away from home for large amounts of time and have me busy. I'm curious if anyone deals with this and how do they do so? No altar for months, no materials and so forth for months. I know things such as sigils can still be created. Any advice can help on this matter.

[Frater_NT]

The best advice I can give is, just get ready to have a big part of your life gone for awhile. When occultism isn't just something you do, but a part of who you are, it can be really hard to ignore for an extended period of time. Practicing and learning is just something you HAVE to do. I stopped a lot of the occult stuff when I was dealing with a family health issue (didn't stop entirely, couldn't bring myself to do that) and the wife stopped when she was in medical school. It's tough, but you just have to push through it.

[Malk]

Thanks for the answer.

I assumed I would be looking towards that type of change, even if I don't want to see it change in that manner. I guess I'll have to find a way to work it out.

[Ramscha]

But still there is a thing you can do about your temple and your altar. Ever thought about using your mind to create an energetic temple. The principle is similar to building an elemental/egregor. With that you can perform rituals and ceremonies and you need a deep trance and some discipline to stay in it as well as a skilled visualisation skill. everything else you will have in your temple projected in your temple. When I was introduced into this, this was called "witchcraft of the empty hand." It is a very great change if you are used to work with materials, drawing and working with things out of real matter and it takes time to get used to it.

Just an advice from me which options you have.
I wish you success in your new career and that this change will bring the most positive to you [thumbup]

Ramscha

[Frumens]

Furthering Ramscha's suggestion, here's a pdf that teaches you how to create an astral temple. Benjamin Rowe calls it creating a magickal space.

[Malk]

Thank you both for the answer. I have read about having a temple while I astral project, but I have little experience with astral projections where I would have to practice that significantly more to become proficient enough to visualize my own temple. This has been a plan of mine though, especially since I want to use astral projection more to get in communication with the divine.

[Ramscha]

What could maybe help would be if you bind this projection to a thing of yours you often have with you, a neclace or something, like you can do it with a elemental too. You could bind your templeconnection to that neclace of yours, if that helps you. [wink]

Ramscha

@ Frumens: Thank you for the additional interesting pdf

[Malk]

Would you by chance be willing to elaborate on that? How would I go by doing that?

[Ramscha]

Sure I can do that if you want.

Well, I guess the base on that is that you are able to make a projection of your will in form of a temple. You form it with your mind, you experience its shape, its presence, how it feels, smells and looks. That takes a little bit of practice, espacially in visualisation but comes time comes practice. Important is that you have something like a "energetic connection" to it. You will sense it when the building of your temple progresses. You can combine that creation with a ceremony if you like which leads me to the core topic, the connection with a object. I will take a neclace as example how I would do it (of course there are additional options):

Building your temple until you think it is finished, safe and stable und you can enter and use it without problem and have the connection. Then choose the object, your neclace and prepare it, charge it, consecrate it, what ever you like. If I were you, I would prepare now a sigil or anything else which is connected tor the will of you to get entrance to your temple. Create this, however you like it. Now charge your object with this sigil, ban it into it and finish the procedure.
It is kind of talisman or amulet you have know, simply to resonance easier with your temple.

I hope this helps. And don´t hesitate to aks!

If you need additional information to the core topics
- Sigils & Visualisation
- Talisman
- Egregore

If you need some additional information to those topics here is a small list of additional sources I would suggest:
http://forums.vsociety.net/index.php?topic=10859.0;wap2 (Servitors and Egregors)
http://lukriss.files.wordpress.com/2012 ... magick.pdf (Jan Fries - Visual Magick & Sigils)
http://de.scribd.com/doc/11935545/Regar ... -Talismans (Israel Regardie - How to make and use a Talisman)

Ramscha

[Malk]

Thanks for the info mate.

[Vashta]

I'll agree with Ramscha there - based on the principle that the brain doesn't know reality from imagination, they're both sets of electrical impules in the brain telling your mind what it's seeing, experiencing etc. Visualising your temple as intently as you can, and performing your magic within that space is to your subconscious (possibly the part of you that enacts magic), more or less the same as performing it physically.

A physical artefact as an anchor to your inner temple makes good sense too..

The thing about tools and all the physical components of magic is that they're not really necessary, the magic comes from within you, not from your tools, the tools however can be a powerful mnemonic device, triggering everything you've associated them with through empowerment, charging etc, so I'm not saying by any means that they serve no purpose, but you can do magic without them.