By origin, “chara” is a deverbal noun from kēra (to do, to practise sorcery), and the vessel came to be called thus later, probably precisely as a result of its corresponding use.
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For a practitioner who doubts his theoretical grounding, it is more effective to choose Sound-based incantations; for a practitioner who struggles to reproduce complex phonemes — Meaning-based incantations.
For Magi it is obvious that, although any illness can be regarded as an alien intrusion, this does not mean that one should fight it only by directly contacting the spirits that caused it.
Gods do not tolerate frivolous dealings; their power is so great that, even without hostile intent, it can wound the psyche and even a person’s physical conduits simply by virtue of its disproportion.
In his ‘Book of Spirits’ the Magus records the names, seals, and other particulars of the spirits he has succeeded in contacting.
The art of translating objects and situations from potential existence into actuality through the application of the operator’s will was regarded as key to attaining Power and Wisdom.
Using a sephirothic spread of the Arcana in accordance with the current situation, and skillfully swapping cards within that spread, the operator is capable of quite effectively changing situations in the desired direction.
Forming the House of realization—whether at the level of a single operation or the whole life of a Magus (Line)—is the crucial part of the entire process, creating a kind of “double being” composed of the symbiosis of the creator (the Magus) and his creation (the realization).
Not every manipulation of the energies of the dead can be classified as necromancy. Unlike coercive, violent summonings, the tradition also knew of a voluntary renunciation of ordinary disembodiment.
In ordinary mind the words “sexual ritual” conjure an image of naked people cavorting around a fire, waiting for the moment when they can stop hopping and begin coupling.
Traditionally, a chance is called a concurrence of circumstances that opens a new opportunity for a short time, the use of which alters the direction of the flow of events.
While it draws a hard line between “angels” and “qliphothic” forces, Kabbalah still states plainly the — put mildly — unfriendly attitude of certain angels toward man.
People have always intuitively felt the dualism of Power: it is a vortex, and yet it is a Flow. It is cyclical, and at the same time always directed.
