The broadest definition of magick is “the art and science of causing change in conformity with Will.” For most activities, this is simple enough: We decide what we want and we go out and make it happen. If it is your Will to have ice cream, you go to the store and get some. However, some kinds of change are more difficult and require a much greater level of subtlety. Most of these fall into the category of personal change — adjusting your beliefs and experience to achieve your goals. If you want to be more confident, compassionate, wise, magical, or sexy — these are the kinds of life changes that we often struggle with throughout our lives. We know that if we can make those changes, great things can happen. With more confidence, for instance, we might get a better job, increase our personal freedom, or have more friends. For most people, however, simply deciding to change is not enough; we need tools that help us make change on a deep, unconscious level.
The principle tool of the magician is ritual. Think of ritual as a repeatable pattern of behavior, a routine that changes our state of consciousness and helps us to achieve goals. On the mundane level, for example, if you desire to have a romantic evening, there are rituals that help: You might lower the lighting, put on appropriate music, serve sensual and delicious food, and dress in a certain way. This control of the environment helps us to enter into a particular state — and that state helps us to achieve our goal. Some magical rituals are just that simple — and some are much more complex. It all depends on what you want to achieve. In magick as in everyday life, we can use ritual as a key to our unconscious mind, to the processes that run behind the scenes and create our beliefs and tendencies.
Some people tend to think of magick as a paranormal phenomenon, as something that changes the world through unseen and mystical means. Most people who practice magick experience some very amazing things — synchronicity, access to unique information, experience of spirits and entities, and even experiences of what seems to be extra-sensory perception. Science is slowly catching up to magick and we are beginning to understand that these seemingly amazing experiences come as the result of natural processes in the brain, the body and the world. Ritual magick is ultimately a set of techniques to access those processes and re-create the world so that we can be healthier, happier and wiser.
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Invocation and Evocation
What is it that makes magick effective? If you are hoping to begin a magical practice — or if you are an experienced magician of many years and want to dramatically tune up your techniques — I can offer consultation and exercises that will help you gain insight into your methods and abilities. You can develop a system of practice that is uniquely tailored to your own thoughts, feelings and tendencies. Find and communicate with your own entities. Chart your own pantheon. And experience how magick can support every aspect of your life.
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What are Invocation and Evocation?
From Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation, by Philip H. Farber (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2011):
Principal among the operations of magick are invocation and evocation. Invocation is the act of drawing qualities or entities into you; evocation is the act of perceiving entities or qualities as external forms. Invocation rituals are often devotional. You go into the temple of the Goddess of Good Fortune and gaze upon her image and perform acts of worship in her honor so that something of Good Fortune may enter into your life. Some religions tell stories about their gods, sing songs, paint pictures, create stained glass windows, and build cathedrals to imbue worshippers with godly feelings.
Evocation rituals are typified by the “summoning of spirits,” calling entities forth, external to the magician, so that the magician can communicate with the entity or induce it to go out into the world and perform various tasks. Better known systems of evocation include the Goetia, based on the Keys of Solomon, and the practices associated with The Book of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage.
It’s pretty simple to remember: INvocation is the drawing IN of qualities or entities; Evocation is about relating to qualities or entities External to oneself.
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