College of Thelema: Thelemic Education

"If it doesn't seem to work the first time, don't give up or assume the spirit did not show up."

This x100000, and as a matter of fact don't assume that whatever you're speaking with has left, even if you go through your protocol of choice.

If you jump the gun on that part you might find yourself in a very bad long-term kind of situation, and don't even assume you're talking to whatever you think you are, or take anything you learn as a fact, treat everything with the same credibility that you would overhearing a rumor around the workplace from someone you do not know and verify anything of significance or application independently.

I mean I don't want to sound jaded about it, but really.

93

wonderful to meet friend!

I think it depends on the user, and the setting the substance is used in. I believe when you take a substance in it does change your internal world and your magick will reflect that shift.

In some mystery schools substance use is a tool used to elicit an experience inside of the person in order to 'program' their mind, to instill the connections needed to use the model in question. some magick arrays and rituals are exclusive to the mystery schools that use them regardless of how popular they are because as a pre-req you need to go through the proper initiations in order to build the internal understanding and connection to the symbols to use them, certain emotional states and states of consciousness can be bound to certain symbols through ritual and substances are useful to aid in this, but it's largely a matter of personal and community discretion for the most part.

So yes, I do think substances do have a place in magick.

Oho, Nice to meet you Dar!

93

Nice to meet you all, I'm just a fellow traveler who hopes to give and learn in excess.

93/93