Burning Angel
May 31st, 2009, 03:29 PM
It seems to work, given the fact that I just designed it and have used it to cast two of the three spells in my lifetime...lol! I'm keeping a journal of sorts - you could call it a BoS but I don't so much...just to keep a record of what I did with each spell, how it turned out, and how I can improve, as well as different branching-off paths I could take the idea along. Now I've got a fairly decent grounding in basic principles of Magic - visualization, like attracts like, I tend to be very careful about returns and so on, but I could use you guys' help ironing it out as yet, if you please :boing:
I call it the 21+1 system...that name sucks and I want something more Latinate and fantasy/mystical :P It's called that because the main elements are the Tree of Life, the Hebrew Alphabet (Yetzirah, right? Still a Qabalah rookie by most standards XD) and the Liber 777 from Crowley - 7+7+7=21, and 21+1=22, the amount of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. (+1 could be the Mage, in this case :thumbsup:) Also I'm 21 :P
Basically, it's a mixture of Wiccan techniques (majorly simplified - the circle is just an energy circle like outlined in...Living Wicca by Cunningham, I think.) A typical spell begins with casting the simplified circle, then an invocation - I believe in invoking fictional characters at times, when they have more meaning than an ancient god. I also include an invocation to the force some Wiccans call The One...I call it Ain Soph Aur ;) Then I draw a sigil on a...piece of paper...with a ballpoint pen. Rofl...simple all right :P
The sigil is the main point. I usually include an encircled Roman numeral corresponding to the Sephiroth at the center of the working in the center of the sigil...I've never worked with two sigils and suppose that how two or more were drawn would depend on the working itself, rather than any preset system. Below that I place a crude drawing of a Hebrew letter corresponding to another aspect of the working - for example I've been working on healing my girlfriend's arm, which hurts like heck 'cause she just had surgery on it. The Sephiroth here was Chesed - Mercy, for relief from pain, and also for 4 - the correspondence for Arm or Arms in the Liber 777. (Actually, there are two entries for the Arms of the human body - 4, or 5. But Geburah doesn't fit here, really XD) So an encircled IV...and how do I find what the Hebrew letter would be?
Good ol' 777 comes to the rescue again - looking through the list in a thoroughly freeform manner, I find that the Magical Power of Healing is in column 12, and that the letter corresponding to this is Beth. So I doodle a crappy-looking Beth underneath the encircled IV...that's the main body of the sigil.
Then I add BA in gematria - I'm called BA on an IRC channel I go to, due to my nickname's initials, and it basically passes for a craft name, so at 12 AM it'll do :P I draw a circle/oval around it, to indicate that I am the one casting the spell. That's on the left side of the main sigil - on the right side, I write my girlfriend's name, in gematria, of course, using one of the many possible methods. That has a square around it...I then draw an arrow across the paper from my name to hers. Now we're set.
I begin to charge the sigil with my intent and energy - this is my first try on the idea, and it's midnight, so it's a crappy job of it, and I could have visualized better. But still, she wakes up in the morning and her arm hurts less :)
However, it still hurts, and I had a bunch of ideas last night. So I add in the Hebrew Yod, for hand, on the left side of the sigil, and oddly enough, a Star Trek combadge (the arrowhead thing) with angel wings, on the right. That one stands for a roleplaying ship we're both on that's like a fantasy version of our lives in a lot of ways...the USS Ark Angel. Yes I'm a geek...but it gets better :weirdsmil
As I charge the sigil, I invoke fictional aspects of the Lord and Lady - modern myth, rather than ancient, and specifically designed to focus my personal intent. Our characters on this roleplaying ship...mine is me in Trek, and hers is very, very similar to her. They're doctors in the game :P The working proceeds, and I throw in another idea I had last night. I work laterally on the Liber 777 tables...a correspondence to Chesed is the color blue. So I visualize an ocean of bright, royal blue...visualize her hand, working right again and doing what it's supposed to do. I consciously focus my energies on charging the sigil, rather than just letting power run out of me into it. I grip the slip of paper in my hand, and envision her hand holding mine, then break off. I've charged enough...I pull back my circle and not five minutes later she wakes up from her nap. I ask her how her hand feels...it's a bit better.
Granted, I'm not gonna solve everything with my third spell, but I mark it in my journal as a success, and submit the method to you guys. I hope the story and individual details of this working didn't detract from your understanding of the basic method (Qabalistic symbols arranged on a slip of paper and charged with pseudo-Wiccan ritual! Wooohoooo! lol XD), and I hope you can tell me where it might be able to improve, or even use the method yourself :) I think the method works for me, and that's what counts...but could it work better? :)
Also, this probably could have gone better in Magic and Ritual, but I wanted to get the Qabalah forum rocking again :P Feel free to move it if you think it's a better fit there :)
ETA: Changed the name of the system to Ave Arcana after some nifty Gematria work by Shawn - realized it's much more Chaos Magic than I had previously thought :)
~Jon :thumbsup:
I call it the 21+1 system...that name sucks and I want something more Latinate and fantasy/mystical :P It's called that because the main elements are the Tree of Life, the Hebrew Alphabet (Yetzirah, right? Still a Qabalah rookie by most standards XD) and the Liber 777 from Crowley - 7+7+7=21, and 21+1=22, the amount of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. (+1 could be the Mage, in this case :thumbsup:) Also I'm 21 :P
Basically, it's a mixture of Wiccan techniques (majorly simplified - the circle is just an energy circle like outlined in...Living Wicca by Cunningham, I think.) A typical spell begins with casting the simplified circle, then an invocation - I believe in invoking fictional characters at times, when they have more meaning than an ancient god. I also include an invocation to the force some Wiccans call The One...I call it Ain Soph Aur ;) Then I draw a sigil on a...piece of paper...with a ballpoint pen. Rofl...simple all right :P
The sigil is the main point. I usually include an encircled Roman numeral corresponding to the Sephiroth at the center of the working in the center of the sigil...I've never worked with two sigils and suppose that how two or more were drawn would depend on the working itself, rather than any preset system. Below that I place a crude drawing of a Hebrew letter corresponding to another aspect of the working - for example I've been working on healing my girlfriend's arm, which hurts like heck 'cause she just had surgery on it. The Sephiroth here was Chesed - Mercy, for relief from pain, and also for 4 - the correspondence for Arm or Arms in the Liber 777. (Actually, there are two entries for the Arms of the human body - 4, or 5. But Geburah doesn't fit here, really XD) So an encircled IV...and how do I find what the Hebrew letter would be?
Good ol' 777 comes to the rescue again - looking through the list in a thoroughly freeform manner, I find that the Magical Power of Healing is in column 12, and that the letter corresponding to this is Beth. So I doodle a crappy-looking Beth underneath the encircled IV...that's the main body of the sigil.
Then I add BA in gematria - I'm called BA on an IRC channel I go to, due to my nickname's initials, and it basically passes for a craft name, so at 12 AM it'll do :P I draw a circle/oval around it, to indicate that I am the one casting the spell. That's on the left side of the main sigil - on the right side, I write my girlfriend's name, in gematria, of course, using one of the many possible methods. That has a square around it...I then draw an arrow across the paper from my name to hers. Now we're set.
I begin to charge the sigil with my intent and energy - this is my first try on the idea, and it's midnight, so it's a crappy job of it, and I could have visualized better. But still, she wakes up in the morning and her arm hurts less :)
However, it still hurts, and I had a bunch of ideas last night. So I add in the Hebrew Yod, for hand, on the left side of the sigil, and oddly enough, a Star Trek combadge (the arrowhead thing) with angel wings, on the right. That one stands for a roleplaying ship we're both on that's like a fantasy version of our lives in a lot of ways...the USS Ark Angel. Yes I'm a geek...but it gets better :weirdsmil
As I charge the sigil, I invoke fictional aspects of the Lord and Lady - modern myth, rather than ancient, and specifically designed to focus my personal intent. Our characters on this roleplaying ship...mine is me in Trek, and hers is very, very similar to her. They're doctors in the game :P The working proceeds, and I throw in another idea I had last night. I work laterally on the Liber 777 tables...a correspondence to Chesed is the color blue. So I visualize an ocean of bright, royal blue...visualize her hand, working right again and doing what it's supposed to do. I consciously focus my energies on charging the sigil, rather than just letting power run out of me into it. I grip the slip of paper in my hand, and envision her hand holding mine, then break off. I've charged enough...I pull back my circle and not five minutes later she wakes up from her nap. I ask her how her hand feels...it's a bit better.
Granted, I'm not gonna solve everything with my third spell, but I mark it in my journal as a success, and submit the method to you guys. I hope the story and individual details of this working didn't detract from your understanding of the basic method (Qabalistic symbols arranged on a slip of paper and charged with pseudo-Wiccan ritual! Wooohoooo! lol XD), and I hope you can tell me where it might be able to improve, or even use the method yourself :) I think the method works for me, and that's what counts...but could it work better? :)
Also, this probably could have gone better in Magic and Ritual, but I wanted to get the Qabalah forum rocking again :P Feel free to move it if you think it's a better fit there :)
ETA: Changed the name of the system to Ave Arcana after some nifty Gematria work by Shawn - realized it's much more Chaos Magic than I had previously thought :)
~Jon :thumbsup: