The Ontological Reality of Deities, Spirits, and otherworld beings

  Thanks to the polytheism vs pop culture magic debate that has been going on I’ve been thinking a lot about my own interactions with deities, demons, spirits, etc. Galina Krassakova posts her own views about her experiences and why she doesn’t need theories to define her relationships with her deities on Pagan Square and though [...]

A Wealth Magic Entity Experiment

In February I decided to create a wealth magic entity, specifically a sales magic entity. I was feeling frustrated with my lack of sales for my day business and I felt that what I needed was some help getting those sales. I realized I was too close to the situation so I created the sales [...]

Why Evocation isn’t the One True Way to do magic

I love it when people make arguments that a particular technique is the one true way that magic works. Or make the argument that the only way something works is through the intercession of spirits. Let me be clear, I do evocations, invocations, and work with spirits, but not all the magic I do involves [...]

Can Jesus be for Pagans too?

Sam Webster recently posted an article that has caused some controversy: Why you can’t be worship Jesus Christ and be a Pagan. My own response to the article is admittedly based on my own history with Christianity, which has been a fairly adversarial relationship. I had my occult books burned by my mother, a fundamentalist [...]

What’s under the Mask?

The other day, in a teleconference call for the Process of Magic class I was asked if I thought a deity represented access to something beyond what it was in and of itself. It was an intriguing question and it prompted me to consider my own perspective/experiences of deities as well as what I’ve read [...]

Is Evocation disrespectful to spirits?

I’m reading The Complete Book of Demonolatry by S. Connolly. One of the points the author makes is that demonolatry finds the practice of evocation to be disrespectful to demons and as a result doesn’t use it. Their perspective is that evocation involves summoning a demon against its will to perform a task, while threatening [...]

Conceptualization and Entities

Recently I got involved in a conversation where I was asked if I’d ever encountered a spirit that hadn’t been written about or encountered in mythology. It was an interesting question to ask, and I responded that I hadn’t encountered such an entity and I didn’t think it possible, without having some humancentric frame of [...]

Respect and magical entities

In a recent post, Mike asked what people’s experiences with the Goetia were like. I found the responses interesting, because most people described having problematic encounters with them. I’ve never had any of the problems the people mentioned in my own encounters with the goetia, but it likely helps that I’ve never done traditional evocation [...]

Why I like to work with the Goetia (and other spirits)

In a recent blog post, Jason Miller argued that one of the things we need to the gravity of is the goetia. His point is that working with goetia has defined how people work with spirits and that it can become an obstacle to discovering your magical path. I agree with him, but in thinking [...]

Spirits spawning spirits

A little while back Mike asked a question about one of my posts, specifically whether or not I thought spirits could spawn new spirits and whether those new spirits would evolve. It was an interesting question, but I didn’t really have an answer for him. It wasn’t something I’d really thought of. Recently Justin emailed [...]

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