Some Magickal Systems
Magick is a type of ritualistic practice in which a person called a "magus" invokes energy from the universe or the spiritual world and uses his own psychoenergy to direct it toward a goal (by ritual, faith, intention, vibration: vocalization of prayers).
Magick is the art of manipulating reality under will, intensifying the probabilities. Other, more pompous definitions, such as those of the Hermetic or Thelemic Orders, may exist, but they will only be saying the same thing with more refined words.
Sometimes I write "magick" or "magickal" instead of "magic". The "K" serves to differentiate witchcraft (real magic) from illusionism. In occult grimoires and occult circles, they always refer to magic as magick. In Kemet (ancient Egypt), magick was Heka.
We commonly hear about black, white, gray, or red magic (love, sex), however these are just concepts, magic is one, if it is directed towards evil it is called "black" or left hand path (LHP). If it is directed towards good, it is white magick, they are just denominations.
There are hundreds of magick systems and dozens of new styles appear every year, from vampyric, draconian magick, astral magick, cybermagick, chaos magick and many more. Some mages mix concepts from different systems into one, fusing ritual practices and beliefs. We can practice magick on the physical plane (with ritual tools), the mental or astral plane (using visualizations, mantras, and intention) and so on.
Magick is a world with millions of followers and practitioners worldwide. It is normal for individuals to create new systems and methods. Magick evolves over the years. New information, energies, and egregores are added to the Noosphere.
The four arcana (secrets) of the Magus are: audere, velle, nescere, and tacere. That means to dare, to will, to know and to keep silent.
Audere (to dare); have a clear intention and goals.Water is associated with audacity and risk-taking.
Velle (to will); if you want to practice magick, make a firm decision.Have inner strength and the element of fire.
Nescere (to know); have knowledge of magick, ingredients, moon phases, and finally master the subject. Knowledge is associated with the air element.
Tacere (to keep silent); keep secret; do not reveal to others that you did magick, as they may wish for your failure; avoid external influences and dispersion of the energies associated with the earth element.
They are also called the "4 Fundamentals of Magick" or "The Pyramid of the Witch."
Vampyrism:
It is written with "y" instead of "i" to distinguish vampirism from films and folklore (supernatural beings who drink blood) from vampyric occultism. Some Vampyres are practitioners of the occult and are dedicated to psychic development, forming clans or covens like any other occult group. There are hundreds of associations and organizations worldwide, some of which I identify as practicing the ancient Italian witchcraft of Stregheria. There are several books on the subject (not all are serious; some are fiction). One of the most respected and knowledgeable authors is Michael W. Ford.
Draconian Magik, or Dragon Magick:
Do dragons really exist? Maybe not. However, they exist in mythology and in the collective unconscious, in Eastern legends, Aztecs, Maian, and others, over millennia. Most likely, there are dragons but in astral form, energetic beings on a different dimensional plane. This is what Dragon Magick believes in, and the practitioner seeks communion with these entities, to obtain power or wisdom. Others believe that the dragon is an archetype for our higher self.
Mythology is full of dragons, we have Ouroboros, the goddess Tiamat of the Sumerians, Poimandres, the dragon of wisdom that appeared to Hermes Trimegistus, the Japanese Tatsu dragon, and the Egyptians had the Sobek god with a crocodile head, among others. These legends were possibly inspired by dinosaurs. Recently, we have stories of reptilian extraterrestrials, made very popular after the David Icke books. One thing that this, and other authors, did not realize is that extraterrestrials may not even have this aspect physically, but they only project this holographic image in our minds. Spiritual entities can do the same, assuming the form of a dragon but as a simple distortion of our perceptions.
Draconian magick has similarities with Wiccan witchcraft, it has an altar, the four elements, candles, incense, a cauldron, a cup, and a pentacle. With the Babylonian Goddess (Tiamat) and her consort (Apsu), there is a ruling dragon for each direction and element.
Offer incense to the dragons daily, as they are associated with the element of fire, and sing and meditate with them. There are still few sources of information on this branch of magic; blogs and websites in English reflect the personal vision of their authors. This magick can be composed of personal adaptations by those who practice it.
Afro-Brazilian Magick:
Umbanda is a religion that African slaves reportedly took to Brazil, then mixing African rites of Candomblé and others with some religious syncretism, Umbanda was formed. The magical part of Umbanda (rituals, spells) can be defined as Afro-Brazilian magick. Whoever practices magic more focused on the left hand path and worships Eshús, will be practicing Quimbanda. There are several books, one of the first that I read and recommend is "Sarava! Afro-Brazilian Magick" by Carol L. Dow.
Chaos Magick:
The concept of Chaos Magick is relatively recent, originating in West Yorkshire, England, in the 70s of the 20th century. Influenced by the Thelemic practices of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare, it is one of the modern trends in the occult. Chaos Magick is characterized by the use of both traditional techniques, based on already existing eastern and western mystical systems, and new ones, developed by the magician himself. Among the latter, it should be noted that the Austin Spare secrecy method, creating magickal sigils, and other methods consist of creating egregores (thought forms, servitors) that are autonomous psychoenergetic entities.
The name Chaos, and consequently the star of chaos, was extracted from a Carroll novel: Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melniboné-The Sage From the end of Time".
Chaos Magick arises as a general resistance to any kind of hierarchy, dogma, or doctrine, so it is assumed as a philosophy instead of a magick system.
Chaoism is a paradigm or worldview that considers that it exists and has always existed, a plaque in the misshapen form that contains everything in its latent form, called Chaos. This would be the "real" and intangible universe from which one or more physical universes are formed. This reminds me of Quantum Physics and quantum realism, which states that our universe and reality emerge from an invisible quantum world (or quantum void).
The main motto of Chaos Magick is: Nothing is true, everything is permitted—attributed to Hassan i Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain, the Hashishins Order leader who imposed its power in the Middle Medieval East, influencing the Templars and, consequently, the contemporary orders of magic that inspired them.
A well-known name is that of Peter Carroll. Carroll's 1987 book, Liber Null & Psychonaut, is considered one of the works that define the magical movement of chaos. Carroll was a co-founder of the loosely organized group called Illuminates of Thanateros (I.O.T.). The name Thanateros derives from "Thanatos" (god of death) and "Eros" (god of sex).
Thanatos (from the Greek θάνατος, that is Thánatos, the personification of "death").
Shamanism
shamanism
Shamanism is a term generically used in reference to ethnomedical, magical, religious (animistic, primitive), and philosophical (metaphysical) practices, involving healing, trance, transmutation, and contact between the bodies and spirits of other shamans. There are different ways of calling Shamanism. Anthropologists themselves do not reach consensus.
It has been practiced for thousands of years by indigenous peoples, and even in primitive times, each person had a priest (shaman, pajé, healer) who performed shamanic rituals to attract luck and protection during hunting. There are cave paintings that show this. The shaman is considered to have a deep knowledge of human nature, both physically and spiritually. He can reach altered states of consciousness through dances, drumming, mantras (chanting), and smoking psychoactive herbs. He is a great connoisseur of herbs and medicinal cures.
The word "shaman" probably derives from the term "saman" in the Tungusic (from the Tungues) Evenki language of Siberia, meaning "One who knows".
The term "shamanism" was first applied by Western anthropologists as outside observers of the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols. In Brazil, there is shamanism inherited from the Brazilian indigenous peoples. In the Tupi language, the shaman was called Pajé, a venerated priest, and was considered an authority. Even after death, the bones of the Pajé's skeleton were venerated and believed to be carriers of luck and protection.
Pajelança is a set of rituals practiced by Pajés, for example, in the Amazon, the process involves cures, exorcisms, and other diverse acts. The secrets of these rituals are kept secret, but they say that there are rituals of Pajelança for good (physical and mental cures of people of the tribe) and Pajelança for evil (revenge, defense and attack against rival tribes, etc.).
The ritual is performed only by experienced shamans (Pajés), who master three factors: mental strength, synchrony of elements (invoking forces of the elements through mantra chants, ecstasy, and shaking the maracá), and auxiliary spiritual agents (it can involve beings from other dimensions, guides, and spirits of other discarnate shamans).
Santería
Cuban Santeria
Santeria (literally, paths of the saints-preferred terms among practitioners include Lukumi and Regla de Ocha). It is a group of related religious systems that combine Catholic beliefs (syncretism) with traditional Yoruba religion and are practiced by slaves and their descendants in Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, and in Latin American population centers in the United States such as Florida, New York, and California.
"Santeria" means the "ways of the saints." The practitioners are called Santeros. It has similarities with Candomblé.
Santería has the basic characteristics and traditions of an ancient religion practiced among the Yoruba in Nigeria. When the Yoruba were taken to the Caribbean islands as slaves between the 1770s and 1840s, they took this religion with them.
Ancestors are held in high esteem in Santeria. The god is referred to as Olorun, or the "owner of heaven" and Olodumaré. This cult generally, like Candomblé and Quimbanda, involves animal sacrifice and black magic.
Palo Mayombe:
Palo or Las Reglas de Congo (the rules of Congo) are groups of closely related denominations of Bantu origin, developed in Cuba by slaves from Central Africa. Other names associated with the different branches of this religion include: Palo Monte, Palo Mayombe, Brillumba, and Kimbisa.
"Palo" simply means "trees." Palo's religion descends from ancient African belief, in which the world is inhabited by spirits, and the name refers to the sacred trees that the spirits inhabit. Another theory indicates that it was due to the use of carved wooden statues.
There was syncretism and a mixture of cults, then Kimbiza emerged, which means crossed. Kimbiza is a mixed way of practicing this religion.
In the Bantu universe, God is known as Nsambi or Nsambia. The spirits worshiped in the Palo are the Mpungos (equivalent to the Orishas). Each Mpungo controls a certain aspect or domain of life and nature.
Palero practitioner:
Palero is also called "Tata" (Papa) or "Yaya" (Mama) if he is a woman.
The temple of worship is called a Munanso, or house.
Witchcraft System:
Witchcraft is a mixture of classical magic methods (Wiccan Celtic magic, shamanism, stregheria, and others) with natural magic practices (use of candles, incense, herbs, baths, potions, etc.) and worshiping pagan entities in general.
High Magick:
It demands an intellectual development together with the psychic development whose usefulness is necessary; the techniques used are ritual, mental, sexual, and aimed at spiritual development and contact with the worlds or higher planes, with external manifestation or not, on the physical plane, of this Enlightenment. The procedure is more ceremonial.
Astral Magick:
All operations at this level are identical to all those practiced at the three levels previously described, except that they are performed only in the mental sphere, that is, in the magician's mind. Therefore, everything happens on the magician's inner planes, from the construction of his temple to the most practical operations.
Planetary magick:
The Planetary Magick System was created by the group “Aurum Solis”; it is based on rituals designed to evoke or invoke “Olympic spirits”, planetary entities (Intelligences), or archetypes (of the arcana of the tarot, mythological beings or gods, among others). It is a practical, complete, and efficient system.
Related: The Solomonic system consists of the use of sigils and spiers of planetary intelligences, which will be evoked, or invoked on talismans and spiers.
Some forms of magick, such as "The clavicles of Solomon" (or the Key of Solomon, depending on the country and titles), "The lesser Key of Solomon" or "The sacred magic of Abramelin the Mage" contain magick squares with gematria and pantacles with symbols of planetary spirits, as well as making talismans.
Hermetic System:
Much is publicized in the works of Franz Bardon, a system based on the teachings of Hermetism.
The Hermetic System preaches a gradual development of energies in the human being, starting from simple breathing exercises and mental concentration, until the mastery of the elements (elemental magic), from there to magical evocation, astral magic, and even Kabbalah, one learns the mysticism of letters and the magical use of words and sentences.
Enochian Magick:
Based on the language of the Enochian "angels", it is not proven whether these entities would be fallen angels or some other type of entities, or even extraterrestrials like the Anunnaki.
This system was discovered by John Dee and Edward Kelley; later, it was perfected by the Golden Dawn, by Aleister Crowley and his followers, who say that it is a functional, yet complex system of learning the correct writing or intonation of the Enochian.
Contact with elementals, angels, or demons is sought, as well as with the guardian angel himself. Some experts say that the famous “Ark of the Union” is the “Tablet of the Union”, a fundamental part of this system. This "Union tablet" is available to any magician who crosses the "Great outer abyss", after passing through the sub-plane of ZAX, in the Akashic, etheric, or "spirit" plane, where the sub-planes are located.
Enochian magic
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