Techniques for creating a magickal link
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What different techniques are typically used to forge a magickal link with an invoked principle to carry out some command?
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@he atlas itch said
"What different techniques are typically used to forge a magical link with an invoked principle to carry out some command?"
That depends on the purpose and type of the ritual. There are as many possible answers as there are types and purposes of ritual.
Probably the broadest category are those wherein the magician plans to be, himself or herself, the means of producing the intended result. In this case, the approach is easier - one merely has to anchor the energies in oneself. For example, if the result is to be in Assiah, concentrating the energies into a eucharist and consuming it will complete the link. If the result is to be in Yetzirah, one must make a psychological change in the magician, etc.
776 1/2 has ten sample rituals that give ten different approaches to this.
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I was moved to tears to finally have my copy of 776 1/2 arrive in the mail today. So much useful information! I will take a look at the section you mentioned and get back with more detailed questions later.
Thanks Jim for putting that information out there!
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Atlas, I'm so glad it arrived and that you are so moved. Thanks for the kind words (and, you're welcome!).
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Couldn't it/isn't it possibly as simple as the consistent meditation upon something specific. Like maybe the Eye with the Twelve Rays(that are One)? Or the described pentacle of Nuit in cap. I? It is the basic understanding that I have, anyhow. Of course one can go the route of ritual, but I've never really thought of this as absolutely necessary. Kind of like when I was locked up. In Texas State, you are not allowed to have so many things(although we finally got them to cut us some slack when we formed a couple of organizations and took them to court....), like tools, incense, etc. Alot of the way that I learned to do things was without this stuff. In a way I think this hindered me, in others allowed me to move past certain restraints held by others. So I am coming from experiential opinion, so to say.
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The basic idea is that there needs to be a step-to-step mechanistic link (or, alternately, something that looks like a mechanistic link) from what you are doing to the consequence you are intending. If you can trace this, almost like fingerprints, then you have forged a chain.