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To: alt.magick From: tyagI@houseofkaos.Abyss.coM (tyagi mordred nagasiva) Subject: Banishings (9407.bnshngs.tn) Date: 49940731 Quoting: |oispeggy@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) |...Anyone else do preventative banishings? |I fear it is a reflection of my highly preventative quirkiness. No effective magical working of any value can be worked without a preventative banishing of some kind. The ceremonialists will tell you that you have to flail your arms about and pronounce arcane syllables. Chaotiks will tell you to have a good laugh before invocation. I say that all effective ritual proceeds after a banishing and by this I mean the same thing that a 'successful' party only proceeds after the space has been 'cleared' for the rite. It doesn't matter much how this is done. For me, showering, shaving, shitting and brushing my teeth is a banishing, preparing me for the rite of my guard post. Not only does it prepare my physical body but formats my mind for the attitude necessary for the Work. Those rites which are attempted without banishing are often less directed, less productive of results, and tend to be unable to sustain high volumes of energy. This can cause a 'blowout' or derailing of the rite proper, as when the demon escapes its bonds (see _Vision and Voice_ for good example!) or when the energy dissipates. The party is then said to have been 'a dud'. |Prior to any working, or long meditation session, I banish all |potential buggies, potential burglars, bad luck and any one or |thing else that bothers me. The problem with this kind of banishing is that you may well be wiping out some of your own power. The ambiguity of 'buggies', 'bad luck' and 'bothersome energies' is that, unless we are fully realized (and in this case no longer need banishings anyway), we tend to misconstrue the helpful for the harmful, sending away intense and important emotional states, for example, or quite valuable allies whom we've yet to recognize. One alternative is to build in some sort of caveat (such as '...unless I be in need of thy services') or just refrain from banishing generalities. Specific banishings and those which do not enter into the verbal ambiguity which permeates most ritual cleansings will be more effective in the long run in producing worthwhile results. As with psychoactives, ritual magick is a high-powered tool with which we may twiddle our deep mind. Most of us just aren't sufficiently cognizant of our own mechanism to go fiddling with its intricacies. For this reason it is best to make only minor adjustments at first until we can begin to understand what we are doing. I've seen countless mages fucking themselves over just because they were more or less randomly adjusting their inner knobs without really understanding what they were doing. It was sad. Eventually they may learn what is going on, but in the meantime they may damage the goods irreparably. When playing with complex technology, access user manuals (i.e. the varous divination systems and magical symbolic-schemas) and get the advice of those who may have used something similar (requiring that one find a mage of similar character but greater experience) prior to playing around too much. Then again, some of us are natural daredevils and our risk-taking pays off with the dividend of a meteoric transformation along the line of our true will. ;> tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com tyagi ___________________________ "The notion that mindfulness in action is created most fully and completely by mindfulness in sitting is, to paraphrase Alan Watts, a crypto-protestant fetish of the Soto school, as equally one sided as the attachment to koans of the Rinzai school. Mindfulness is not created by "doing" anything, either sitting, contemplating a koan, or anything else. Just being works. And you can do this in the midst of any activity. Zen is a lot easier than some people want to make it." Raffael Cavallaro (raffael@tiac.net) - Usenet:alt.zen
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