Magick workings of Energy

One of the disappointments many people have — especially after watching shows like Buffy and Charmed or seeing numerous horror films — is that simply saying some words out of a book doesn’t work magick. I remember one movie where some kids inaccurately mumbled words from a book and the ground opened and demons came forth! If magick really did work that way every book on magick would be locked away and there would still be magick going on everywhere. Any books on magick you could find would sell for tens of thousands of dollars. And yet some books seem to imply that just saying a few arcane words is all it takes to do magick. Obviously, something must be missing.

Actually, there are two things missing. The first is a change of consciousness. Pagans will frequently focus on the Goddess when doing even simple rituals, or they may concentrate on the unique properties of an herb or mineral. Ceremonial magicians usually do some sort of ritual such as a banishing before doing any practical or spiritual magick. For many people, just thinking about the ritual or spell they are doing puts them into a magickal mindset that will allow the non-physical aspects of magick to be established.

In most cases, however, just an altered state of consciousness isn’t enough for magick to work. You need something else — energy.

***The Magick of Energy***

Many books on magick discuss the need to generate and direct energy. The meaning of “energy” is often left undefined, and one of the things non-magickal people often ask me is, “what do you mean by energy?” I mean the same thing that any physicist means: energy is the ability to do work. There are two broad categories of energy, potential (stored) energy and kinetic (active) energy. For magick to work, every ritual or spell needs an influx of magickal energy. Without the change in consciousness and influx of energy, magick is unsuccessful and is nothing more than recitation of words and waving of wands.

As well as discussing the need to generate and direct energy, numerous books on magick talk about ways to raise the energy. You can spin in a circle until you get dizzy, dance, do deep breathing or perform visualizations. Some even mention that you can raise energy with sex. Few authors get into the technicalities of raising and directing energy using any of these means.

When I use the term “sex,” I am including far more than physically intimate acts. When you first look into the eyes of another person and feel “like your heart has skipped a beat,” that’s sex. The flirting that goes on between people is sex, even if it doesn’t lead to physical passion. Sex is not just about physical activity. It is the exchange of energy between two entities. Sex magick uses this energy to obtain desires.

Sex energy can be raised by just thinking about another person or entity. It can be raised by watching or thinking about others or yourself having sex. In other words, the energy of sexuality isn’t just from the body, it’s created and directed by the mind. Sex energy is powerful, too. Right now, like an enormous battery, the sex energy is stored within you just waiting to be used. Sex magick allows you to increase the power of your inner battery and safely direct the energy, like the massive charge of a Tesla coil, in order to achieve your magickal goals.

Charging Your Magick

Obviously, I can’t describe a full ritual that uses sex here. But remember, sex magick is not just about the physical act of sex. Here is a simple experiment you can try that will show you what using sex magick is like.

Our Eastern compatriots have shown that by using breathwork and visualization of energy, we can increase and direct the energy in ways that are very similar to physical sexual activity. The energy is the same; the way it is generated is simply different.

The next time you are going

to do some magick, try adding this technique:

1. Sit in a comfortable position. If you’re in a chair, your feet should be flat on the floor and your legs should not be crossed. Your spine should be straight. If you prefer, you may stand with your back straight, your hands by your side, your knees not locked, and your feet about shoulder width apart.

2. Spend a few minutes doing deep breathing. With each inhalation, visualize energy coming in through your nose and going down your body to your stomach. Use any visualization you like. For example, you might see the energy as a vibrant gold, blue, silver or white. It might be seen as streams, fibers or as a sphere.

3. On exhalation, visualize the energy rising up your spine, going over the top of your head, and out your nose and mouth.

4. With each breath, feel the energy cycle through you. It should get stronger and stronger with each inhalation and exhalation.

5. Finally, when you think it can’t get any stronger, hold your arms straight out in the direction of the magick (either where you want it to go or toward an object such as a talisman) and with the next exhalation feel all of that sex

magick energy flowing down

your arms and out your palms

in a torrent.

6. To prevent the energy from

flowing back into you, clap

your hands and do your favorite banishing.

I think that if you add this small technique to your rituals and spells, you’ll find that your magick will work faster and with greater power and success than ever before.

Blessings
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