The Goetia
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I used to have a copy of the Goetia along with many other magickal books. I sold many of them because I went back to Christianity after bad experiences being a member of the Church of Satan. Many of them were very rude and nasty. The Christian church I used to attend made me feel guilty just for being a human being so I left that also. I do admit the Christians were very nice people though.
Anyway I did a Goetic Invocation from a Satanic viewpoint and greeted the demon as a friend and brother. I went out on my apartment deck and a flock of butterflies flew around my head. I was drinking beer in my apartment and the air conditioner was broke. It was 110 degrees in my apartment. I threw up several times. I called an OTO member I was friends with and he got really upset with me and reminded me to do a License to Depart.
I read Duquettes book LOW MAGICK and he says not to fear. I was fearless and did many rituals at the time. The local OTO body was always angry with me for doing rituals such as Liber Samekh when I was a minerval. If all of the OTO was as cool as Duquette and the people I met online I would probably still be a member. -
Funny, I know quite a few OTO members of OTO who use rituals such as Samekh, and many of them are of low degree. Apart from the fact that OTO has no syllabus as such for the degree's so surely you can do whatever you want as long as you are doing things in an ordered and systematic way?
I've only ever looked into Samekh a few times and only performed it once, didn't get anything out of it if I'm honest but then maybe it's not time for that sort of thing.
As for the Satanic stuff, I never did get it, they seem to have a 'devil be my god' attitude which is a bit dark and dismal and doesn't really attract me these days, however when I was a teen I was drawn to the Necronomicon and that was ...interesting.
On the whole, if you are going to play with the darker stuff you need to ask yourself why?
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Interesting, thank you for sharing.
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