Commanding Rulership of the Inner World

#sovereigntyofgod "A spirit is never joined to a body but by the interposition of a soul. For the soul is the medium between body and spirit, joining them together." (Arnold de Villa Nova – Flower of Flowers) The Octovium is the eightfold path of Magical Study. The Octovium is comprised of the following eight disciplines: Philosophy, Mythology, Alchemy, Mathematics, Kabbalah, Astrology, Geometry and Physics. Additionally the study and path of Magic entails the realization of the following four endeavors: #1 Illumination (to attain complete knowledge regarding the spiritual being thus becoming whole) #2 Initiation (to receive the mysteries of the universe and the power and authority to use them) #3 Ascension (to progress into a higher state of being abandoning physical evolution) #4 Transenation (to make the body spirit and the spirit a corporeal form; it is the highest form of mystic evolution.) The very first step in becoming a magician is belief. You must believe in magick. This is an important distinction. You don’t have to believe in angels, demons, faeries, or gods. All that is necessary is that you believe in magick. You will get the same results if you think angels are a psychological construct that allows the subconscious to manipulate reality at a quantum level as someone who believes that angels are powerful spirits created by God. Both of these concepts are about how magick works, or why magick works, but your main concern as a beginner is just believing that magick works. Belief is a very powerful weapon. What we believe very often becomes our reality. This is what people mean by the Law of Attraction. It isn’t really that like attracts like, it’s more about what we believe becoming real. Most people do this unconsciously. If you believe you are unlucky and not worthy of success, that will become your reality. Magicians are people who are able to weaponize their beliefs. Magick is much more than the power of positive thinking. That’s just the beginning. You aren’t just attracting the life you want as a magician. A magician believes that by performing a certain ritual they can divert an oncoming storm from hitting their home. Try that with positive thinking! The second step to make magick work is intent. You have to know what you want. You can power a ritual with belief, but the power won’t know where to go if you don’t tell it what to do. I think this basic step is why a lot of rituals fail. People don’t take the time to figure out exactly what it is that they want. You can’t be vague. So it’s best to break it down into a single short statement. In the above example about the storm, the intent wasn’t some vague idea about protecting my home. It was, “the storm does not hit my home.” Now it’s important that you don’t let a “how” slip into your intent. You do not want to tell the magick how it should perform the request only what the final outcome is supposed to be. I didn’t want the storm to hit my home. I didn’t concern myself with how the storm would act. I didn’t tell it to die off before it got there or to move in a different direction. These little things make the process more specific and that makes it more difficult for the magick to work. Magick typically takes the route of least resistance, but we never know what that route will actually be. There are just too many variables in most situations. It’s usually the least expected thing that will happen to make a ritual successful. So to put it simply, you have to believe you have the power to change reality and know exactly what you want to happen. The only other thing you need is a ritual. What is a ritual? It’s an action that is powered by belief and intent and substitutes for another action. With enough belief and clear intention you can make anything work. This is pretty much what Chaos Magick is all about. But rituals work better if they have worked in the past. So if you keep using the drawer ritual it will eventually work, and then it will eventually work more often. If you get other people to perform the drawer ritual it will work even better. Rituals are more effective when they are designed by magicians who understand magick and how power flows. This is what Ceremonial Magick is when it’s at its best.