Contacting the Divine

This is basically a rehash of the information I supplied in my earlier post, summoning Baal quick and dirty like. The reason for this is to eliminate some confusion. This is not an evocation method. It doesn’t really evoke. It’s meant for communion. In fact, it’s generally used for divine communion, and that’s how I was originally taught it, although you could do it with anything. Anyways here’s the method, as taught to me, with some paraphrasing and minor tweaking.

1. Figure out which deity you would like to contact. Remember not everything that’s ever been listed as a god or deity or whatever really is one. When first starting, it’s better to pick a big name that is tried and true. It’s also best to pick a god or goddess you feel a personal connection to or compelled to contact. I’d recommend against using this method with the Judeo-Christian god (yes he exists, however there’s a reason why I recommend this and it deals with the nature of what he is, and I’m not opening that can of worms here). I’d also recommend against trying to contact a supposedly all encompassing deity (I’m talking about the Wiccan Goddess). Also remember that sometimes deities are incorrectly associated as the same deity, and other times they have multiple names. Figuring out exactly who you want to talk to may require some research. For instance, Venus is not Aphrodite and Jupiter is not Zues, Pluto is the same as Hades and Dionysus, Bacchus, and Iacchus are all the same deity.

2. Do some additional research on the deity to get an idea of who you’re trying to contact. Read the mythologies concerning them. Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Mythica are good places to start. The information may not be the best there, but at the same time remember that a lot of the myths out there are long bastardized and misunderstood, to the point that you usually can’t decide anything for certain about a deity until you’ve met them.

3. Next you need an altar. You can build a very nice permanent altar, but for now we’ll just use a makeshift altar. I have a whole FAQ on altars. Basically it’s just a space we set aside for an entity, in this case a deity. All we need for an altar is a representation. We can easily go online and find a picture and turn our computer monitor and surrounding area into a temporary altar. The altar is not essential, this can be done entirely mentally, but it’s easier with an altar early on.

4. Next we want to prepare ourselves for divine communion. What different gods will find acceptable and offensive varies. In emergencies, this step can be skipped, and most deities will understand. It’s best to take a shower or bath beforehand, especially if it’s needed, and a short cleansing ritual while you’re in there won’t hurt. Clothing will vary considerably based on personal taste and deity. At the very least you’ll want to have descent, clean clothes. Formal is more respectable, but black tie is usually going way too far. Naked is actually sacred and as formal as you can get (plus it will help with the later steps). When in doubt, wear nothing. Also make sure the area around the makeshift altar is clean and dusted and free of garbage or crap to show proper respect.

5. To begin the communion meditate in front of the altar, hopefully reaching a state of trance (although this isn’t mandatory). I’ve also written an FAQ on this. Once you’re relaxed, you need to direct energy towards the representation. This is simple energy manipulation. If you can’t do this, you can try directing thoughts or focusing on the representation, although this won’t be as successful. Direct the energy at the representation with the intent of it reaching the deity (this is important. Ultimately the representation doesn’t really matter, it’s the intent of where the energy is sent).  Also try to keep your shields, filters, wards, and barriers as low as possible and be open to receiving foreign energy.

6. After a time you should hopefully feel divine energy sent back at you. If you’ve never felt divine energy before, don’t worry, you’ll know it when you feel it. The first time it is thousands of times stronger than what you’re used to and literally rips right through you. Once you get used to dealing with divine energy this will ease up a bit. You shouldn’t do this around bedtime, at least at first, because you’ll be wired for a long time.

7. Once you feel the energy coming back at you, you’ve successfully achieved communion. You can now direct the energy coming into you back to the deity, creating a cycle. You can also bury thoughts into the energy to communicate, and stuff will come back in the energy sent to you. Sometimes this might be a direct worded answer. Other times it may be more detailed and beyond words, and it may be buried in the energy and not fully manifest for hours. Divine energy also tends to try to create a purity, although the definition of what constitutes a purity varies between gods. Jupiter, for instance, defines purity as being larger and stronger, and Jupiterian energy tends to make people stronger and helps them to build muscle.

8. After ending the communion it’s important to keep the divine energy and not cleanse or ground until it’s worked its way out of you, unless it’s a dire emergency. Divine energy is a divine gift, and intentionally expelling it is disrespectful. Also information may be buried in the energy to answer your questions and offer guidance.

9. Not everything that can be contacted with this method, and not everything listed as a god, is a god. From my experiences no real god will get upset if they are asked to prove that they are in fact a god (at least by their own methods, in other words don’t try asking gods to prove themselves by winning you the lottery. That actually can get you in trouble if you ask the wrong one). Anything that says its a god and wants to treated as such will see nothing wrong with proving this unless it isn’t a god. I’ve also found that deities don’t mind being questioned about their advice or about their nature. There usually isn’t anything wrong with asking why.

10. Objects can also be blessed by a deity while doing this through various methods. If you have something you want blessed, have it ready and ask the deity if they’ll do it during the communion. Usually, if they’re willing, they’ll give instructions of what needs to be done.

11. One of the worst things you can do is utilize a deity’s energy for a purpose that you don’t have permission to utilize it for (especially if it’s something the deity wouldn’t give you permission to do). It’s always best to ask first and to respect their wishes.

12. The gods understand that we are only human. They also understand our nature and all our emotions. They do forgive honest mistakes and know that we’re all far from perfect. They also are there to guide us and help us with our lives and our spiritual paths.

The Sigils of Thomas Pendragon

This is a heads up that my friend Tom has been working on channeling and transcribing a series of 84 sigils (28 sigils of the Ether, 28 of the Abyss, and 28 of Earth), these are not only beautiful, but full of symbolic meaning (some of it which is hidden and has never been published) and they’re all very powerful. Right now Tom is printing them for everyone to see and hopes to eventually publish them with some sort of scheme that will allow others to use and expand upon the work in their own publications. He’s also working on commentary for all the sigils which will incorporate his own work and experiences with them.

The binding sigil was one that really struck me because it contained a symbol which I routinely use as part of a binding spell (now that it is given away, I’ll be posting it shortly). I’ve never actually told anyone the methodology of the spell, especially Tom since I use it against him when he tries to get in magical shenanigans when I’m driving him places.

The Short History of the Sigils

Part One: Alagon.

Sometime before I met Tom, while he was living in Florida, he managed to open a lot of stuff up at once and happened upon an entity which called itself Alagon that took an interest in him. Tom began channeling the gospel of Alagon and distributing it to others. He managed to find several other people who knew of Alagon and his work. Alagon meanwhile was causing Tom headaches and some bleeding from his head. Others who worked with Alagon had the same problems, and some apparently died of aneurysm. At the time the true nature of Alagon wasn’t known. Tom was still in contact with Alagon when he moved to Las Vegas, and a local magician, Bon Necron, managed to break Alagon from Tom and partially bind him. Later Tom would give me some of Alagon’s gospel to look over, and reading it I did come into contact with Alagon and suffered a severe headache from it. The true nature of Alagon wouldn’t be known for some time.

Part Two: Adiemus

Adiemus was the magical name of a practitioner, who is sometimes also referred to as the Baron, who was active up until his death somewhere around 1920. He was a very powerful practitioner who had access to quite a bit of information and claims to have known and disliked Allister Crowley. Since his death he’s been in contact with prospective students, although his brutal and violent teaching methods typically lead his students to a gory death if they advance too far into his studies. Some of his knowledge and teachings are openly traded within some circles of the community, and stories of his unfortunate past students are out there. Adiemus had a very strong connection to Persephone and had dealt largely with interdimensional travel, astral projection, and dream walking. Tom had come across some pieces of information on Adiemus throughout his travels.

Tom eventually gave me the information he had concerning Adiemus as a curiosity to work with. I don’t intend to speak for Adiemus, and to be honest I think he might be a little off-put by me, but he has taken an interest of sorts in me. Like him a have a very strong connection to Persephone, so that may have something to do with it. Over the years I’ve gained information from Adiemus, and that is where I first learned of the gates and what Alagon, like Adiemus, truly was.

From Adiemus I learned that there were 28 gates of this world. The gates had long ago been sealed, and each gate belonged to some god. However it was an impossibility to close the gates since things must be allowed to pass through for the survivability of the world, and so unto each gate was given a guardian. This guardian, when they ascended into the gate, would gain all of the knowledge and power of the gate, and all those who had been a part of it before them. But this was only a temporary, and detestable, job. Each guardian had the power to seek out there successor, so they could move on, although in doing so they give up the knowledge and power of the gate.

In order to take a gate, a person needs to have a strong connection to the god to which the gate belongs. They also need to seek out the current guardian and undergo their trials and prove themselves worthy of the gate. Finally they need to be fully informed about what the gate is, what guardianship entails, and that it is a trap, and then still choose of their own will to take the gate.

Adiemus is the last person to take his gate, the gate of Persephone. Alagon is the name of the an older entity which guarded its gate, although it has now gone through seven or eight guardians since, but it regards itself as being all that has come before it.

Part III: Phillip

Several weeks ago after a failed magical experiment me and Tom were screwing around with automatic writing when Tom happened upon a magician known has Phillip who had some cool sigils. After talking to him for some time, Phillip claimed to know about several more sigils (the 28 sigils of the ether) and agreed to show them to Tom. Very quickly Tom managed to figure out how to retrieve the sigils without Phillip’s aid. He also happened upon knowledge of other sigils. First the 28 sigils of the Abyss. And then the 28 sigils of Earth, which he reckoned to be the gates that Adiemus and Alagon are connected into.

For a couple of weeks now Tom has been feverishly working on completing the ether sigils and his commentary on them. He then hopes to do the Abyss and Earth sigils.

A Simple Binding

Now that Tom has taken to figuring out and publishing one of my defensive maneuvers, I may as well tell the world and let others work with it.

This is a simple binding spell. Binding in this term is a spell that is meant to limit the magical ability of another practitioner. There are three ways to go about binding someone. You can internalize their magick within themselves so they can’t effect the world outside (this is the most simplest form, and it has the added advantage that the practitioner may not notice it). You can largely restrict the amount of energy they are allowed to produce and tap into thus rendering them unable to utilize magick (this renders the magician even more powerless but they’ll notice the spell right away, and it is rather difficult to pull of). Or you can completely bind them so they have no higher connection, no access to magical ability, and no way to cast any kind of spell (this is a complete binding and by far the most powerful and effective, although it generally requires quite a bit of work).

This type of binding is the first kind. This is a very good and effective binding because, despite being very simple to undo, it’s very strong and very deceptive in its nature, often times tricking the victim into fruitlessly expelling time and energy.

To cast the binding we draw the crossed symbol and place it upon the victim. It’s enough to draw the sigil in the air with our finger and then move it on top of the victim. The entire sigil is blessed by Saturn, who is a god of boundaries and rules and order, but Saturn’s power is only put at the point where the two lines cross.

Where the two lines cross is the only point where the sigil can ever be broken. Once the sigil is broken the binding is broken. Since Saturn’s power is only where the lines cross, the rest of the sigil will seem weak to an experienced adept who can identify it for what it is. The first instinct of the adept will be to just throw energy at the sigil until the binding is overcome and broken. However this will do nothing as throwing energy at any point other than where the lines cross won’t break the sigil, and where the lines cross are empowered by Saturn, and cannot be broken except by divine power.

To break the sigil, all that needs to happen is someone needs to grab both ends and twist them so the line uncrosses and makes a horseshoe shape. At this point the sigil will disappear and the binding will be over with. This makes it very simple for the caster to undo the binding, and the simple nature of breaking the binding is usually hard to guess.

Magick of Perception: Part 3: Lures and Thought Suggestions

What Are Lures?

Okay, we’ve talked about glamours and projections, now the next step up is a lure. Lures are an invasive form of magick which attempts to twist the thoughts and desires of its victims, named such because lures are mostly used to convince a person to become somehow romantically involved with a practitioner. As a comparison, a glamour is like wearing nice clothes to make yourself appear more attractive to a girl. A projection is like putting a love song on the radio to put her into a favorable mood. A lure is like slipping pills into her drink so you can rape her. There’s also one more step in perception magick between projections and lures, and that’s thought suggestions, so we’ll have to talk about that before we get into lures.

What are thought suggestions?

A thought suggestion is when we pop into someone’s head and place a thought in there. Generally the person will believe they’re thinking it, and act upon it accordingly. Some thought suggestions are very blunt and to the point, and simply hope the person will act accordingly. Others are intricately woven and designed in such a way that they are more like a seed that will, given some time, grow and completely change the way a person thinks about something. Still others are given an intensity and urgency that seems to force action.

There are some very complicated spells out there that try to basically create thought suggestions, for the most part though these things are generally done psionically. And a lot of things out there are partial to thought suggestions too. It is a favored form of manipulation. Both Pixies and Vampires, for instance, are known for utilizing thought suggestions.

The best thought suggestions are done via energy transfers. All people shed energy all the time. It comes out of us, forms around us in an aura, and eventually leaves us completely. People also absorb energy around them barring some sort of defense, like a shield, to prevent this. With practitioners, this absorption is usually like a sponge, it goes in and stays there for a while with energy accumulating over time. With non-practitioners the energy tends to just pass through them, but at the same time taints them. This whole energy transfer is how projections work. But we can also manipulate this energy on a much finer scale. We can take a very small amount, charge it only with a specific energy, and throw it at a person. That’s not a huge step up from what we talked about in the section on projections. We can do this with emotion. We can utilize emotion to create an emotional energy and throw that at a person to manipulate them emotionally. We can also bury words and thoughts, and even ideas (but that’s more complicated and generally less successful assuming the target speaks the same language), into energy.

If you can manipulate energy, it isn’t hard to bury words into it, it just takes some practice (BTW, this is also the method through which telepathic communication between practitioner’s works). For the best success though, especially early on, use the KISS model (keep it simple stupid). Simple and to the point phrases like “Leave a big tip”, “Isn’t She Hot”, and “Get out” will garner a lot more success than overly complicated thoughts that seek the same basic end result.

If you can’t manipulate energy that well yet, you may want to try thinking the thought as loud and intensely as you can and at the same time concentrating on the person. The success rate will be a lot lower, but it’s good exercise.

It is also possible, albeit a bit harder, to create a thought suggestion field, or in other words to put out a thought suggestion that acts like a projection effecting people in the general area instead of a specific target. To do this we would simply take the thought and bury it in energy (like a normal thought suggestion) but instead of a fine small ball we throw at someone we would project the energy around us (like a projection).

Thought Suggestion Fields and Time

A thought suggestion is instantaneous. We do it, it’s done, it’s over with, we don’t have to upkeep it, it isn’t meant to last. A thought suggestion field, on the other hand, is like a projection, we want it to last. With a projection, it will fortunately work to upkeep itself, this being largely do to the fact that emotion manipulates and changes energy accordingly, and as such the energy will manipulate us and those around us creating a cycle of energy to feed the projection as it is shed. Unfortunately thoughts and ideas do not modify energy, so thought suggestion fields do not feed themselves. In order to sustain the field the practitioner needs to constantly bury the thought suggestion into energy being let out into the field, or a way needs to be developed to sustain the field from the outside. Because of this thought suggestion fields are almost never used among experienced practitioners. In most instances, some better method that requires less energy is available.

Lures

Now a lure is going to combine all the elements of all of the things we’ve talked about thus far. We’re also going to have a higher degree of invasiveness than what we’ve already seen, and we’re going to have a better degree of sustainability, which is vital, and which will be achieved via an outside source. A strong lure, properly cast, is nearly invincible and can only be combatted by practitioners and those possessing either a very acute self-awareness or a very strong self-discipline. We’ll talk about combatting all of these things in the next section, and there we’ll discover just how vital things like self-awareness and emotional discipline are to an adept.

Making a Lure, an Example

The most common type of lures out there are the ones designed to make other people want to have sex with the practitioner, followed by lures that make people fall in love with the practitioner. These are not the only uses of lures, but the most common, and some of the easiest to cast. As an example, we’re going to look at a lure to get people to sleep with you.

Also unlike glamours and projections which are more often than not done psionically, lures are more often than not done via spellwork, especially among beginning practitioner. This is because lures are far more complicated and have far more parts. However we’re going to look at casting a lure psionically and then look at how to build that into a spell (perhaps one day actually, but I’ve spent too much time on this article and am loathing the idea of writing the spell right now).

Starting the Lure – Making a Projection…And Then Some

To start our lure we’re going to start with a projection. We want a projection that says fuck me. Projections of desire, horniness, and passion are all good ideas and will work okay in a lure. There is however a better projection, but it’s not one that is usually naturally occurring. Unless you’re having sex with someone, you won’t see this projection outside of a practitioner.

We’re going to start with a simple idea. We’re going to project the release of an orgasm. Men and women orgasm different. It’ll be easiest to project this as per your gender, at least to start. It doesn’t matter that you’re going to be targeting the opposite gender, it’ll still turn them on. Once you become more experienced and have actually experienced the orgasm of the opposite gender projecting that becomes easier.

Doing this is no different than projecting anything else. Simply imagine yourself having an orgasm and how it feels, and if you need to play with yourself and bring yourself to orgasm, then project that exact feeling outward into the energy. It’ll latch into it just like an emotion will, and if strong enough everyone around you will feel like they’re having orgasms.

Now projecting orgasms is great. It’s a wonderful tool and will serve you well in your sex life even outside this experiment. However we’re going to take this one step further. We’re going to back it up a bit. Imagine how you feel just a little bit before you have an orgasm. That wonderful joyful feeling of having sex, where you feel like you’re going to orgasm at any moment and any second now it’s going to start. That is the feeling we want to project out.

Now when people come around us they’ll feel like they’re about to orgasm, that they desperately want to, even need to, orgasm, but they won’t. Instead of orgasming they’ll just get that feeling again and again, but each time getting stronger and stronger. This type of projection will not just make people horny, but super horny and super desperate for sexual release.

Adding Thought Suggestions

The next step is to add thought suggestions to the projection, creating a thought suggestion field. As we talked about earlier, if we put a thought suggestion in, it’ll go away almost as quick. We need a way to sustain the suggestion. We’ll talk about that later. For now we just need to worry about the thought suggestions themselves.

Lures are very complicated with many parts. When you’re first starting out, it’s best to keep this part simple to make things easier, and we never want a lot of different thought suggestions in there. Too many suggestions just make the spell more complicated and open up more opportunities to failure. We want, at most, two to three suggestions. Following the KISS model, good, easy suggestions would be “isn’t he hot” and “I need to fuck him”. These will work pretty good.

We can do better though. Let’s start with “isn’t he hot”. That’s a question and just draws attention to you. Change it to “he’s so hot” and it’s better. Let’s change it to something more specific though and point out an attractive quality instead. “His blue eyes are so gorgeous”, “his chest is so toned”. Also, a very good one, which shouldn’t be underestimated, is “every one else thinks he’s so hot”. The psychology of people, both men and women, you’ll do better, more than half the time, convincing them that everyone else thinks you’re desirable rather than convincing them they think you’re desirable. Part of it is, too, that the person may be embarrassed to have sex with a fat person, or an old person, or a scrawny person and have people know about it. This helps with that problem. Finally, some really good ones, especially if you aren’t all that attractive, is “I can’t do better than this”, “this is the most attractive person I’m going to find to screw tonight”, or “Hey at least she’s easy”. A lot of lures and love spells utilize ideas like this because they are very powerful.

Now “I need to fuck him” is a bit blunt. Expect about a 50% or less success rate with that one. “I need to get laid tonight” is a little bit more general, but it doesn’t focus on you so it won’t help as much. Lowering their self-esteem with thoughts like “No one would want to have sex with someone as ugly/cheap/skanky/fat as me” is probably a better idea. It doesn’t focus on you, but when you offer sex, they’ll jump. You might want to try something more subtle though, like “he’d probably have sex with me”.

What we’re doing here is putting in seeds of ideas that will germinate and sprout forth with our thought suggestions. Thought suggestions like these are generally more effective than simple blunt suggestions. They’re far more manipulative and far more difficult to identify. They also allow the mind to branch off and create a whole series of thoughts naturally that lead the person in our desired direction. Ultimately we’re able to give the person a very complicated idea while still just implanting a single, simple thought.

Making the Glamour

Remember how we said the projection won’t work if the person thinks you’re an unattractive loser? Lures are quite a bit more powerful, but difficult to pull off if the person thinks you’re an unattractive loser. So we need to glam up. Make ourselves all attractive and hot. See section one. We don’t need to add anything special here.

Adding Invasiveness

Adding invasiveness to a lure isn’t difficult. Remember our energy is connected to us, like a limb, and will do what we want it to. For instance if we want our energy to target people, to try to bypass shields, to go after people who may have some protection it will. All we have to do is want it to do it.

Adding sustainability

There are many different ways to go about this. We can use runes, talismans, jewelry, and a million more ways on top of that. For this experiment though we’re going to use a very simple method and sustain the spell through a stone we’ll carry in our pocket.

First we need to pick out a stone. We’re going to want a stone that seems compatible with us. We also want one that is naturally attuned to desire and lust. Emerald is a good stone for this. However it can be very hard to get a specific stone, and most times we have to go with whatever selection is available, and unless you’ve memorized a lot of facts about stones and their correspondences it can be hard to get just the right one in the store. A good solution to any problem like this is to go with a compatible quartz crystal. It’s a clean stone that we can manipulate however we want, and it’ll be superior to just about anything else in the amount of energy we can push out of it.

Now there are other rituals to be done like cleansing and empowering the stone, but once that is taken care of we can begin the ritual for making the stone sustain our lure. Specifically, at least to start, we want to sustain the thought field that is projected out.

The way to do this is to project the thought buried in energy into the stone the same as we would a person. However when we do that we want the energy to go through the stone and then come out around it. Visualize the stone almost as a prism and the thought suggestion as light. It comes into the stone as a single beam, and immediately leaves as a cone. We can put the projection into the stone too at the same time, and in this way we can sustain both the thought field and the projection indefinitely with the stone.

Now a stone, especially one like crystal, will amplify the energy alot. It’ll also more than likely have a lot of latent energy in it. And then theres the energy you pumped into it putting the thought suggestion there. All in all it’ll last for a little bit before it runs out of juice. But what if you need something that’ll last all night?

What we need is a source of power for the stone. There are a few good ways to go about this. An obvious method is to just put the thought field into the stone and then have it feed off of the projection. It’ll work, but unfortunately it requires the practitioner to sustain the projection themselves instead of having the stone do the work. We could also have the stone feed off of the free energy in the surrounding area, like a projection would. This works great so long as there is enough energy around, but as soon as there isn’t the spell will break. Ideally we’d want to tie the stone to an infinite or near-infinite source of power that it could draw from. Many practitioners will use the earth for this. You could also draw off the power of one of the four elements. You could draw off of a deity, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that for a spell like this. And finally you can draw off of yourself and have the stone feed off of you.

And that’s pretty much it. From here it’s just a matter of carrying the stone, which will house both the thought field and the projection. You can also have the stone house the glamour too, which will put all aspects of the spell into the stone. Do remember to give the stone the intent to be invasive. The energy coming out of the stone is no longer yours, and it won’t naturally follow your wants and intents. The stone itself may go to sleep, especially if it hasn’t been used in a while, so prior to use it’s a good idea to push a lot of energy into it in order to wake it up. How long the stone will last and be able to cast the spell is dependent upon your psionic ability, but it’s a good idea, especially when starting out, not to expect it to last more than half a day or so.

Part 1: Glamours
Part 2: Projections
Part 3: Lures and Thought Suggestions
Part 4: Ethics and Defense

Magick of Perception – Pt 1. Glamours

Intro

Often times it’s most difficult for us to teach what comes to us most easily. A natural talent is not something that’s worked for and earned, but something that just is, and it can take a lot of introspection to discover exactly how it is we do it, and a lot of time to figure out how we can teach it to someone else who has to actually learn it. I’ve had that difficulty with a lot of things that I know how to do, and this thing in particular I’ve shied away from until now, even though it’s one of the first things I learned and something I’ve always been very good at, without even trying.

What’s a Glamour?

A glamour, also glamor and glam, is a magickal act, spell or more likely psionic ability, which changes the way in which the practitioner or another is perceived, most often, but not exclusively, done to make the subject of the magick appear more attractive, thus the name.

Tools for casting glamours

You don’t need any tools to cast a glamour. If need be, you can do it entirely with the power of your mind, and it’s not even overly difficult to do it that way. But as far as casting glamours on yourself, there is one tool, and only one tool, that you’ll want, not because you need it, but because it will make casting your glamours a hundred times easier and will make them far more effective. If you don’t have one, buy a mirror. The best mirror to get is a large one that will allow you to stand next to it and see your whole body at once. Barring that, one that will let you see yourself from at least the waist up. Even a mirror that will let you see your whole face, like a compact, is helpful if it’s all that’s available (plus you can carry it around). If you can’t see your whole face in it, it’s going to be useless though.

How to cast a glamour

We’ll start by talking about making ourselves more attractive, because it’s both the easiest type of glamour to do and the one most people want. And if you want to be good at this, you’re going to have to become a bit of a narcissist. Remember, the mirror is your friend, and learn to enjoy looking at how beautiful you are in the mirror.

A glamour is an outward projection of ourselves. What we’re going to be doing is taking the energy around ourselves and reforming it to create a false perception of ourselves. We’re not working on changing ourselves, but rather what’s directly above us. It’s sort of like people will be looking through a fog to see us, and so their perception will be skewed.

One mistake people make is they try to change specific things about themselves. They’ll try to make their tits bigger or their stomachs smaller or their faces less wrinkled, because this is what they perceive to be beautiful, and this is how they would like to look. This never works. A glamour is not about changing the specifics of an appearance. Rather, a glamour gives off the perception of an ideal. You shouldn’t try to make yourself beautiful, instead you should find the essence of beauty, and surround yourself with it. Okay, that’s a new agey cop-out thought, so let’s explore it.

Basically what we want to put out is the idea that we’re beautiful, not the image of a clear complexion or a nice rack. Beauty is subjective anyways, and every person sees beauty differently, so if we put out an imprint of beauty, when a person looks at us they’ll assume we’re beautiful, and then they’ll fill out the blanks in what they see to make it so. This is how an effective glamour works.

Meanwhile if you try to change something specifically you’ll probably just draw attention to that body part. When I tried to make my chest look better for instance all I did was get a lot of compliments on my eight dollar walmart t-shirt.

So how do we find this essence of beauty and imbue it onto ourselves? Looking at ourselves in the mirror helps a lot. Here’s one of the big secrets though. When we look in the mirror, we have to see ourselves as attractive. We can know we’re not super-models and that our bodies are flawed, but we have to be able to see ourselves as attractive, as something someone else would find appealing and want to see naked. If you can’t look in the mirror without thinking your hideous and horrid you’ll never be able to cast an attractive glamour on yourself. If you can’t perceive yourself as beautiful, no one else ever will. More feel-good new agey zen crap, but it’s true, and this time easy enough to understand.

Now as you’re looking in the mirror at yourself and thinking about how fucking hot you are, find the energy that surrounds you, your aura and shield and whatever, and take those thoughts and images you have in your head about yourself and layer it on top of that energy. Once you’re able to do that, the next step is to try to not just plop it on top of the energy, but to mold and shape the energy into the form, to intertwine the two. This isn’t an exact method. It requires some very basic energy manipulation. If you’re not at a level where you knew exactly how to do what I was talking about the second you read it, there’s not much I can do to explain it to you better. But still attempt to do what I talked about and practice. If you can’t find the energy around you that’s okay. Instead put the mental image in your head and concentrate on projecting it over yourself on top of your skin.

The second big mistake people make when they’re making glamours is they try to hide the negative aspects of themselves that work against the glamour. They try to draw people away from their large nose or the pimple in the middle of their forehead. Never, ever, ever try to hide something negative in a glamour. When we make glamours, we need to be positive about ourselves and our self image. The moment you try to hide something that is less than desirable you’re looking at yourself as something less than absolutely fucking gorgeous, and your entire glamour will fail.

But we will hide the negatives with what we’re going to do as the next part of our glamour. Instead of going after the negatives we’re going to accentuate the positives. Sure, maybe we have a hideously deformed nose, but we might also have beautiful blue eyes. When we accentuate a positive part of ourselves, like our eyes, people will naturally be drawn towards them and will grant them more merit in judging our bodies than other parts, like say our hideously deformed nose.

How do we accentuate the positive? Well first we have to look at ourselves and determine what the positive is. Then we’re going to look at it some more in the mirror and be even more narcissistic than we’ve been thus far. We want to spend some time looking at what we have, thinking about it, appreciating it, being entranced by the beauty of it, even lusting after it. This will create a positive beacon of energy that will draw other people to it, and also make these qualities seem even more attractive than they may be.

And in the end, it has a lot more to do with our view of it being a desirable quality than anything else. If we look a little thinner or a bit more toned than we did last week, that can translate into a huge gain in our glamour once it’s filtered through our self-perception.

Clothing and Glamours

If we’re going to the beach we’ll be showing a lot more skin than if we’re going skiing. When we put a glamour on ourselves, we want to do it dressed as we expect to be when we want to use it. If you’re going to the beach you want to put your glamour on while wearing your swimsuit, not while covered in clothes. If it’s the middle of winter, you’re not going to do to well with a glamour you put on while naked.

One thing that does help though is a double glamour. Put the first glamour on naked, and then put a second glamour on while wearing your clothes. This is easy to do while changing or after a shower, and can become part of your morning routine before going out. The naked glamour will help us to accentuate and glam our individual body parts and muscles and other things that may not be overly noticeable while clothed, and then the second glamour, once clothed, will help complete the process. Doing this right after taking a shower, when the mirror’s still steamed, can help with blurring out the negative for us when we put on the first glamour.

Other types of glamours

So far we’ve talked about making ourselves pretty. But there are other things we can make ourselves. We can make ourselves look smart or learned or even like an elder in the community (these glamours are common among practitioners), we can make ourselves look like a warrior or thug to intimidate others, and we can make ourselves look dignified or formal, to name a few ideas. What we have to do in these instances is, instead of looking at ourselves as being pretty, we have to see ourselves as being smart or violent or whatever. It’s the same process, just what we see ourselves as changes, and we accentuate different parts. Where as we wouldn’t want to even think about some grey hairs with an attractive glamour, with an elder glamour we would want to make people focus on them.

Costumes and glamours

When doing a glamour, it helps to dress like what you want to be seen as. Sexy clothes will make attractive glamours work better, and if you want to look smart a pair of glasses probably won’t hurt.

Glamour length and maintenance

Depending on how good you are, all things being equal, glamours will usually last anywhere from a couple of hours to an entire day (until you go to sleep) with no maintenance and will require a very small amount of energy. It’s always best to cast a glamour as close to when you’re going to need it as possible. This lessens the chance that it will run out before you need it.

If you want to pump a little more juice into the glamour, you may want to stop somewhere and spend some time looking at yourself in the mirror. You don’t need to do this though. All you need to do is just think about how sexy/smart/intimidating/whatever you’re going for you look like right now.

However, the moment you think something contrary to the glamour, it dies. As soon as you think about how ugly you are, or even just doubt that you’re really fucking hot, the glamour dies. The energy around you will shift with your thoughts and emotions, and the glamour will be gone.

Photographing glamours

Unfortunately glamours don’t photograph well. In fact they don’t photograph at all, or work on film. The same goes for projections and lures, which I’ll get to later. Glamours are good for face to face situations. They’re not good for getting a good photo for your online dating profile, and it’s best not to develop any illusions about becoming a professional model through the power of glam magick. With photos you have to get by on just your good looks and photoshop skills.

Reverse glamour

The reverse glamour is a curse, and where we usually cast glamours on ourselves, we usually cast reverse glamours on other people. The most common type of reverse glamour makes someone look ugly or repellent. It can be done to make someone look stupid or weak or anything else though. The same method can also be used to cast a positive glamour on another.

Basically with a reverse glamour we’re going to find the energy that surrounds the subject, and then we’re going to twist and mold it into the image of the glamour in the exact same way we do it to ourselves, only we don’t need a mirror for this.

You might be thinking that the moment they don’t believe the reverse glamour themselves, it’ll disappear. That’s true, unless it has some tie to sustain it (no I’m not teaching how to do that, figure it out if you want to know). However that moment of doubt isn’t so easy. You’ll notice that when you successfully put on a strong attractive glamour, you actually start to feel really attractive, and it isn’t that difficult to not see yourself as unattractive. Two things are at work here. First of all, you’re surrounding yourself with energy that actively thinks you’re sexy, and on certain levels you’re being constantly bombarded with energy and thoughts that you’re attractive. Secondly everyone around you sees you as attractive, and they’re psychically pushing that idea on to you, even weakly. The moment of doubt isn’t all that easy to manifest, and the same thing is going to happen with a reverse glamour. They might manage to break it in a few minutes, but it could very well last all day.

Final words

This article was supposed to cover a lot more, but I didn’t realize the amount of detail I’d be going into. What I’m going to do is split this into four parts. Next up, projections.

Part 1: Glamours
Part 2: Projections
Part 3: Lures
Part 4: Ethics and Defense