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Jun 30, 2010 21:58:00 GMT -5
Post by ehktva on Jun 30, 2010 21:58:00 GMT -5
What are som past systems of magic any of us have used, and how do you think they are influencing your decisions and actions in your path of hermeticism?
For me I started with psionics, and moved on to chaos, elementalism, hermeticism, chaos, then satanism and then hermeticism.
I think my past with psionics is what spurs the idea of just know and it will happen. Chaos i think makes me believe that there is no truth aside from what we make. elementalism i think allows me to see there is a balance to all things. And satanism shows me there is neither good nor evil only action. All of these and Hermeticism have made things clearer to some degree in my eyes.
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Jul 1, 2010 22:46:06 GMT -5
Post by korethis on Jul 1, 2010 22:46:06 GMT -5
The first thing i did, just dicking around with magic, was a vampiric aura. got to see my breath and the light on the desk flickered once. then i went into satanism thinking that it would help me further myself, which despite JoS's bullshit, i met trismegistus through a forum that many of you know about and that led me to Hermeticism, which has had the most effective magical experiences i've ever seen.
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Jul 2, 2010 2:04:03 GMT -5
Post by ehktva on Jul 2, 2010 2:04:03 GMT -5
that reminds me i think i might have broken my last laptop. it was working fine one day and the next it was all screwed up.
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Jul 3, 2010 0:50:24 GMT -5
Post by korethis on Jul 3, 2010 0:50:24 GMT -5
lol
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Jul 11, 2010 6:14:06 GMT -5
Post by thadarksandman on Jul 11, 2010 6:14:06 GMT -5
i dabbled in wicca......not so much dabbled as read about. If you consider "Chi" magic then as a life long martial artists i've used that quite a lot. magic is not something i ever actively sought out. altho i find that i am a very powerful psycic in my own way. I have the innate ability to read people. I can sense people near me, without any senses being alerted. I can will people to physical illness if i am angry enough(sometimes unintentionally). I suppose without my Chi and meditations i would have no control whatsoever.
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Jul 11, 2010 6:16:14 GMT -5
Post by thadarksandman on Jul 11, 2010 6:16:14 GMT -5
wait does Professional magic count? i can totally pick your card.......lol j/k
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Jul 11, 2010 18:30:15 GMT -5
Post by korethis on Jul 11, 2010 18:30:15 GMT -5
*pulls a rabbit out of a hat and bows*
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Jul 12, 2010 16:54:55 GMT -5
Post by ehktva on Jul 12, 2010 16:54:55 GMT -5
have you ever just wanted to do something but didn't know what it is, just that it needs to be big or great. not in a material sort of way, but like a significant change or something to yourself.
Anyway how about those yanks? (never liked baseball.)
vsociety.net a good compilation of knowledge from thousands of poeple. And yeah chi is magic, at least i think it is.
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Jul 16, 2010 14:51:34 GMT -5
Post by ghostjghost on Jul 16, 2010 14:51:34 GMT -5
I started with chi as practicing the various martial arts is a family tradition. I took it a step further then the rest of my family when I saw Star Wars the first time "The Force" gave me idea's to use chi in new ways. I later began studying "magic" and found a psionically oriented site, psipog.net, which showed simple how-to's for specific abilities, however they never exceeded basic abilities and they had little philosophical depth, though I believe the later to have been intentional. I then found a site, www.angelfire.com/mi3/tomekeeper/ which taught an interesting system of chaos magic, but with little definition of the intermediate knowledge, which is where I considered myself at. It was soon after that when I discovered hermeticism through texts ChildofEnki presented on another board, many of which are also posted on this board. It was then when I realized just how much I still had to learn. I still mostly refer to the energy I manipulate as either "chi" or "the force" depending on whether is in internal or external respectively, mostly because the names are simple and a understandable point of reference to people who are not "in to magic".
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Jul 22, 2010 18:01:57 GMT -5
Post by trismegistus on Jul 22, 2010 18:01:57 GMT -5
Eliphas Levi actually refers to Kundalini as "The Force", just a random FYI lol
As far as my own story goes my first experience with magic was from a book "Teenage Witch" by Silver Ravenwolf. 2 friends and I did a spell to make the sun come up on a rainy day, as we needed to walk rather far, and within 45 minutes it went from a black sky to the sun shining through the clouds.
I then was an atheist for the longest time and I came to spiritual satanism, and I never messed with magic, only meditations, but again, I did sex magic, and within 23 hours i was fucking this girl, and she told me that before that day she had no interest in me whatsoever and she had no idea what had changed. To give you an idea, she wanted me to keep it secret that we were having sex, because well, shes one of the hottest girls in my town, and i'm kinda just average, I guess she wasn't proud to be fucking me lol, though I do lay the dick down something sick.
Then I found hermeticism by pure fate, and I still do not work in magic, I only work on myself. I know that the All will provide all that I need, so I do not do magic to acquire things in this world, I only wish to advance myself and help others, nothing more.
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Jan 27, 2011 16:47:25 GMT -5
Post by ant on Jan 27, 2011 16:47:25 GMT -5
I started with satanism, which i found randomly on a video on youtube, from people arguing about whether the so-called magician 'Chris Angel' was a satanist or not, so i decided to check out satanism to see what it consisted of, and it appeared to be in tune with my beliefs at the time. Then i found out about psi/chi, and changed to that for about a week until i went back into the satanism belief.
But recently while on another furom i found out about hermetics and decided to have a look to see what the views were, and i've incorporated it into my beliefs from their.
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