Against Witches and Ignosophy
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kimberlysteele
Consequences of the Craft
It serves me right to be the recipient of anyone's ill wishes because I used to wish ill upon others. Not only did I used to engage in the prideful sin of throwing curses, I was good at it. Of course I could be wrong, but I believe I was able to rain hell on people. My secret weapon was my perception of any given target's Achille's heel. In order to nail someone to the wall on the astral plane, you must be able exploit their primary weakness. In most cases, people wear their primary weakness upon their sleeve and do not even bother to try and hide it. If you can intuit someone's worst choices and tendencies when pressed, you can influence them to choose the worst of all options offered. If someone is a reckless idiot and an attention whore, you can push astral forces to make their stunts more dangerous. If someone is a bad driver with road rage, your ill-wishing will make them more likely to be stuck behind a slowpoke. They will be more likely to overreact and speed through a yellow-going-red light, potentially T-boning a car full of sixteen year olds. You can push a lazy hedonist towards more of the same, and lo and behold he will give himself cirrhosis of the liver from his hard drinking or his husband will leave him and he will be destitute. This is what may happen if you were as good at it as I am. If you're not good at it, and most people don't have the talent, you'll do the magical equivalent of pooping where you eat. All of the above results may happen to your enemy, but like a grenade, you'll detonate your own life, worsen your own weaknesses, and generally bring nearly immediate misfortune to you, your family, your pets, and your circle of friends. You will create an invisible miasma around yourself that others, despite the endemic condition of spiritual retardation, will sense and draw away from.
In the days before scientific rationalism when astrology and astronomy were one and Western doctors addressed the subtle and material bodies as one larger ecosystem, people were often labeled as witches and summarily tortured and/or executed. If you look in old books about superstitions, you will find a wealth of charms against the evil eye both in cultures around the world. Christianity has often been a religion of hysteria, and the persecution of so-called witches was often waged for faulty reasons such as grabbing the witch's resources. Nevertheless, sometimes it was a matter of punishing someone who was throwing his or her horrible energy around and making life hell for the locals. In spite of Christian ignorance, the masses used to have a higher overall sense of the spiritual ecosystem than they do now, hence their awareness of the evil eye and the use of magic to combat it.
Malefic Witchcraft: You're Soaking In It
Magic is the formation, process, and reverberation of intention. We all do it, and by "we", I don't just mean humans. Everything on this planet, including the forces we humans cannot perceive or see, possesses intention and in that way has its own life. The wind has intention to blow in a certain direction and it is countered by the intentions of objects standing in its way like trees and houses. The tree has intention to drink sunlight from above and water and nutrients below while exhaling oxygen. The human has intention to drive his car to work and the car has intention to be recognized for its labors as it hurls through space. Intentions cooperate, bump, and clash all the time. No intention exists in a vacuum and there is no being outside of a god who understands the multiple symphonies of intention going on at any given time in any given place. The world is no less magical than it ever was, it is that we humans, especially those of us in the industrialized West, have become utterly retarded when it comes to sensing, recognizing, and controlling intention.
Enter the people who think of themselves as clever: politicians. Politicians are clever because they force proxies to do harm on their behalf while walling themselves off in fortresses. They dwell in luxurious bubbles, which is the first clue they do not operate on behalf of the common man. The most powerful politicians are infamous for sending hitmen to literally kill their enemies. Most politicians would not be caught dead without a toothy grin on their faces. This is to hide the price of being a politician, which nowadays is to sell one's soul (not literally) and to claw one's way to the top of a pile of bloody and messy grifts. The politician wishes harm upon all while pretending to operate as a "public servant" LOL for personal gain and power. The average citizen has the urge to see the politician's head on a pike like the average Christian had the urge to see the local Karen put to death in 1600.
Magic has always been the weapon of otherwise powerless people. Hatred can be weaponized on the astral plane, otherwise known as the plane of images and imagination. Those who say the astral plane does not exist are morons who have yet to contemplate that an airplane does not just appear from nowhere: it was invented by men who put images in their mind of a flying machine and combined enough images on the astral plane to make a flying plane. Back in the day, women were far more powerless and were more often doing witchcraft. Intention is neither septic nor clean by default. It is what it is. The same sorts of images that make planes fly can load them with working bombs. The people who are good at malicious magic often feel disenfranchised and have a great deal of stored hatred.
I used to be amazing at weaponizing my hatred on the astral plane -- I was a prodigy and a natural. I had the aim, the power, and the temporary ability to dodge immediate consequences. Bad, bad things happened to people I did not like. I stopped and I am glad I did. There is an energetic state one has to occupy to be the equivalent of a torturer/assassin on the astral. It's not a happy place. It's also not a grateful place. There is little room for gratitude when you are constantly worried about your own Achille's heels and are constantly focused on the faults and vulnerabilities of others.
Another reason I stopped is that I got tired of worrying about causing collateral damage. Let's say I believed my enemy deserved his accident or his diagnosis. No matter who I was targeting, the ultimate result impacted his or her loved ones and dependents. When I was still fully atheist, I had the urge to curse someone and then realized she had lots of pets who depended upon her. She was a good pet parent and probably still is to this day. For once in my ridiculous life, I stayed my hand and just let her be, not for her sake, but for the welfare of her pets.
You're a Witch! She's a Witch!
Unless you are genuinely sweet to your core, you have likely aimed some of your own bad intentions at others and gotten results. This is a mere fact of life. Perhaps the intentions of others got in your way, perhaps you suffered immediate consequences, and perhaps you got away with it. The hard truth is that you have people aiming their bad intentions at you right now and you are likely suffering the consequences of the bad energy that made it through. I have been a writer for a long time and a jerk for even longer, and I reliably field would-be witches attempting to assault me on the astral with their malefic energy.
When you have malefic energy being thrown at you, you have choices. In the case of normies, they do not know bad energy is being thrown at them at all because they deny it exists, they deny it has power, and they deny the astral plane of images it comes from because they are too deliberately ignorant to attempt to research occulted knowledge. Let's call these people the ignosophers -- they love ignorance and we will leave them to it. They are dismissed because the grown ups are speaking now.
When you are an Evangelical normie, you believe that all bad energy thrown at you comes from Satan and that those throwing the energy are agents of the Dark Lord. You are wrong. The friction produced may be coming from within you and your own uncontemplated dissonance and misunderstanding. Some of it comes from the fractured spiritual ecosystem in which you dwell and some of it comes from other would-be witches trying to hex you. Because you produce malefic energy yourself, you will attract it on the plane of images as like attracts like. Your invocations of a deity you make pretenses of serving while acting in the opposite manner of what that deity stands for will likely invoke other things that are not Divine.
When I was an atheist witch with no banishing rituals in place, I believed that I was immune to the bad energy being thrown my way and exempt from consequences. I was wrong. The more I threw hatred in response to hatred, the more lathered-up and vulnerable I became on the astral plane. The astral plane is the same one we encounter in dreams. My dreams were full of drama, hags, and shadow men, the last two being parasitic entities who are attracted to malefic energy and feed off of drama. By reacting like a clueless idiot to various stimuli, I painted a kick-me sign on my butt on the astral plane and dragged my energy lower than it needed to be.
Most people are somewhere between atheist and Evangelical. I would call them the casually religious. When bad energy gets thrown at a casually religious person, she often does not know it explicitly. She senses it. She knows something is not right. Perhaps she knows who it is coming from and will react in her mind with hatred, wishing the person would just go away. This sort of impotent energy has almost no effect on anyone or anything except for her as it makes her sad. If she is a bit more towards the feisty end of the spectrum, she will wish harm on the person in her mind, seeing them step on a rake in her astral replay or hoping they'll get a good and hefty dose of what they are owed. This more focused energy will disrupt the hated person's life if she is a natural witch. If she is actually into ritual magic and does ritual magic against the nuisance person, she can deal out a great deal of harm because of the added power a physical ritual lends to the force of images. Those on the more religious end of casual cause harm by praying for others without their permission. Prayer is really, really gross when aimed at people who do not want or ask for your prayers. A prayer aimed at the unwilling is the equivalent of camping out on someone's lawn and pooping on it and then throwing that poop in their open window. No sane person makes that kind of effort, and to add insult to injury, the prayerful moron tries to invoke great power in order to throw crap.
In my own case, I have been public about having done the Sphere of Protection every day without fail for the last seven years. The Sphere of Protection is a banishing ritual that takes about 5-10 minutes and acts as an astral shower or bath. I also tend to bathe every day, so it's no surprise that I fell into the habit of the same sort of thing on the plane of images. The Sphere of Protection is great on its own for cleaning up one's astral plane existence, but when combined with the mental plane practice of discursive meditation and serial attempts to get the advice of the gods through regular divination (Ogham in my case) it lends a powerful set of shields when someone tries to hex me. I also pray to several gods and I never, ever pray on someone's behalf without their express permission. This is also protective.
She Hexed Herself LOL
When a would-be witch tried to hex me recently, a few of her blows landed on me despite my walls of astral, mental, and spiritual defense. I was able to figure out what she was up to via divination. It is highly unlikely she consciously knew what she was doing. As a result of her malefic energy, I had a couple of klutzy moments and a day that had every opportunity to turn septic had I let it. A loved one who does not have a banishing ritual suffered a minor flesh wound that needed a Band-Aid. In other words, it was a nothingburger that I easily handled. By throwing her crap around, I'll bet she had a string of terrible days. I'll guess she made herself sick or did the same to her loved ones, and overall ended up worsening her personal relationships and causing herself far more worry and anxiety than she was able to project onto me.
If you want to defend yourself against the bad energy of conscious or unconscious would-be witches, I suggest at the very least a daily routine of prayer to gods and discursive meditation. Obviously the Sphere of Protection or another banishing ritual such as the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is advised as well. Once this routine is in place, it is fairly difficult for the average semi-skilled witch to get through. By being unlike the witch, I sent her energy glancing away from me and towards the Unmanifest that Dion Fortune talks about in the Cosmic Doctrine. I was unlike the witch because I refused to react to her with hatred. I don't hate the witch because I don't care about her. When I see her in my mind's eye on the astral plane, I see a sad, desperate, anxious person who doesn't deserve my contempt or my compassion either way. In her vain pride and self-importance, she sent blows that sailed past me. The banishing ritual I do ensured it along with my lack of interest in her and her life. Her problems arose when the energy blew towards the void and found their mark in entities that feed on human drama. We call these entities demons in our lack of understanding. By trying to hit me with her best shot, she painted an All You Can Eat sign on her house and opened the door to whatever nasty thing from the lower astral who wants to walk in. Demons cannot get in without an invitation.
The most repulsive and defensive part of my wall is my gratitude. Whenever I have anxiety or begin to covet a thing or situation someone else has, I play the Glad Game and imagine A. How my situation could be worse and B. Why I am lucky and grateful. Somewhere along the way in the last seven years of banishing rituals, discursive meditation, prayer, and divination for myself and others, I became a more grateful person. Gratitude is trust in the Divine. I trust the gods to provide for me and I am not worried or anxious like I was when I was actively hexing other people as a stupid atheist ignosopher. I am not at all afraid of death and I am certainly not afraid of some piddling little wannabe witch.
Yeah, how things work
Date: 2024-06-13 05:59 pm (UTC)Oh my goodness yes, that is seriously how it works. This should be required reading.
I know this partly because of an incident from many years ago where I pridefully, disrespectfully, hurtfully angered a witch to the point where she was so furious that she would cause herself any possible damage just to hurt me. Captain Ahab's speech in Moby Dick, "from hell's heart I stab at thee" gives some indication of her state of mind. At the same time, I realized my immaturity and prayed to God for enough adversity to raise my maturity level. However, I continued behaving recklessly and pridefully. I had no idea that my prayer had removed a certain level of protection and that bad things were in store.
That bad thing happened in such a way that there was absolutely zero doubt that it was in response to her casting but that God was still in charge and ultimately protecting me.
Sorry, I really don't want to get into details here.
Love binds people together emotionally of course, but in other ways. Hate binds people together in the same way. In either case, you tend to become the same as what you are emotionally bound to.
Davie
Re: Yeah, how things work
Date: 2024-06-14 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-22 06:26 am (UTC)There is a thing called 'Remote Influencing' (RI) that involves a clairvoyant (usually a government employee) psychically crawling inside the minds of their enemies to influence their decisions or harm them. The mechanics of cursing remind me a lot of this. I always had a sense that RI was a bad idea, and now I can see why!
Joe McMoneagle and the Remote Viewing (RV) crowd that used to work for the US Govt's Project Stargate have said that the Russians are deeply involved in RI, while the US doesn't do that. Of course, without being in the Govt program, you can't say for sure who is doing what, and to what extent.
OTOH, I've never thought to try divination on this question. :-)
I will think about your advice to practice indifference to one's enemies; Over the past 10 years, I have had two notable enemies -- One was a psychotic coworker who used slander to destroy my wife's ability to get a job. She tried to get me fired too.
The other one was a neighbour who harassed my wife's family for nearly 20 years, and tried to get me to open a sort of jar of curses that was rolled into my yard. (JMG fortunately gave clear instructions on how to get rid of the jar.)
My strategy for both of them was prayers of blessing and giving them over to higher powers;
The slanderer had her long time boyfriend propose to her on a cruise. She got married and moved 500 miles away. She is generally happy and far away, so that is a mostly good outcome although my wife continues to suffer from the results of the slander. This was arranged by a higher power, and IMHO a great solution to the problem!
I am, in some way, still linked to the slanderer--I have been able to 'look in on her' in a remote-viewing way, from time to time. The last time I did it, she seemed to know I was there, and was crying out in terror, so I think I will try not to look in on her again. Perhaps there is a way to sever the link completely.
The harassing neighbour was involved in a lot of illegal and harmful activities. He fled to a different part of the country when I won a court case against him (without paying damages!). I was concerned that he would inflict the same sort of harm on others in his new location-- So I pray for blessing on his every activity that is kind and helpful to people outside his family, and that everyone who contacts him will know the truth about what he is doing; ie., no hiding his activities, good or bad. In this way, I hope that he can begin to unwind the mountain of bad karma that he has accumulated in his life. For his ongoing bad deeds, I give them up to higher powers for management. When he fled, he seemed to be living in an echo chamber of his own lies. He was truly in a dark place.
Do you think that indifference would be a better approach in either of these cases? I have not asked #2's permission to pray for him, and now it is too late since he is far away and hiding from creditors and the law. Honestly, the idea of camping on his lawn and throwing poo into his open windows does not upset me, but it does upset me to think that he would do to another family the things he did to my wife's parents and grandparents.