Imagination -> Will -> Energy
Thought and Thought
Imagination -> Will -> Energy: Are three key aspects in Ritual working. Thought and Thought: Are two key aspects when working with other intelligences.
Imagination -> Will -> Energy
Take the banishing ritual of the pentagram for an example.
Imagination: You visualise the pentagram. This gives use a outline, a template, a point of focus. Our mental creation. Will: We give this creation purpose, direction, intent. Force. The purpose of “Banishing”. Energy: Whether directing energy, vibrating, etc. Energy gives it form. While penetrable on our physical plane, noticeable only by those sensitive enough, the energy gives it form on other planes. Two principles formed from these three actions are: Force and Form. Visualisation is our Imagination. The working with the intent of banishing is our Will. And the vibration or raising and releasing of energy into the visualised image is our Energy.
Thought and Thought
In a simplified sense we have two layers of thought, thus the title “Thought and Thought”. Questions: What language do people who speak Spanish think in? What language do people who speak English think in? What language to bi-lingual people think in? Bi-lingual people can think in either language for the exact same thought. This is the first Thought, the thought they can think in either language. The second thought isn’t actually a thought, but is rather what we consider the thought: The expression in language. Before we had language, how would we understand our thoughts? Did we just not think, because we did not have language? The point of this is based on understanding why spirit communication can be confusing or not make sense. The spirits know the first thought, the thought before we put it into words. When they communicate, it is on the layer of the first thought, and we then interrupt that into something we can understand: Language, images, etc. Though this is definitely not the only form of communication. Hearing a voice completely foreign to your own, or seeing an image or form before you are different. This “Thought and Thought” is a way of understanding the mind for both communicating with spirits and other mental workings, for nested within this concept are some ideas around “Telepathy”. I was planning on writing on these further down the track, and expanding on them dramatically. However, I have decided to share now (don’t know why I changed my mind, just felt the impulse to blog). They are not “secret” but seem to be little known, forgotten or misunderstood aspects of Magick. And in my opinion are very important principles to know.
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