There are many ways to make contact with angels, and music is a powerful way to open up communication. Our wonderful author, Zanna Blaise, has uncovered a method for working with angels that brings something completely new to magick.
When Damon Brand set about publishing books that shared our magick, I said that we had to stick to books. If we ever started selling crystals or magickal jewellery or fancy wands or anything like that, I would leave The Gallery of Magick, because our magick’s meant to feel more profound than a trinket or gimmick. I know, I know – there’s nothing wrong with crystals and jewellery if you like those things. But if we sell anything other than knowledge it runs the risk of making us look like a New Age shop, when we actually think of magick as something deeply spiritual and profound and effective. Nobody argued with me. (There’s news of a new book at the end of this post!)
When Zanna first mentioned that she was composing angel music I thought she might be talking about the twinkly, tinkly New Age music that drives me crazy. And I worried that it might make our whole magickal project look a bit crass. I was wrong.
Zanna told me not to hype this up, but I think what she’s done is mind-blowing. By working with angels, she’s created inspired music that sounds vast, universal, personal, deeply emotional and utterly beautiful. You can think of it as a way to connect with angels and use it to enhance your angelic magick. What’s she created is truly an echo of angels.
The most exciting track for Gallery of Magick workers is Raziel. The choir makes a direct call to the archangel, and even chants out one of the divine names used in the ritual you’re familiar with. Powerful stuff.
There are more audio previews on Zanna’s new website. Or you can treat yourself now and preview the whole album and download it instantly at CDBaby or iTunes.
– Adam Blackthorne
I purchased Zanna’s music, and love Raziel and Pathways!!! Raziel’s track definitely catches his attention and I will start incorporating it into my practice. I just need a bit more guidance on it.
I didn’t realize the new book is yours, Adam. That’s so good to hear! I know, we were all expecting Gordon’s book. Many practitioners are hoping for more books on a darker shade of magick. But, I am so happy that you said that next book (yours) is not that dark. It means that I might be able to use a lot of it. Do you, by any chance, have a chapter on health magick? I am hoping beyond hope. I know how Damon feels about health magick, he wrote a blog on it. I am just hoping not everyone shares his opinion on that.
Yes, Zanna’s going to write up more guidance, but it’s great to hear how well liked it is. She’s getting a lot of great comments and reviews. Keep them coming, please!
Yes, the new book is mine and has been in the works for a long, long time. Hard to explain, but it’s been underway even before we planned to go completely public.
It is not dark magick, but you’re dead right that llots of people do want the dark stuff. I get that, that it’s a desire for control for completion, for balance. Working with darkness can be a path to the light, and all that. I had a conversation with Gordon not that long ago and he said there’s not really any dark magick at all because if you’re using it to achieve a status that you believe is right, that’s in no way dark – there aren’t many people sitting there working evil for the sake of evil, like Voldemort – it’s mostly just ordinary people using magick to get the life they feel is right. Evil is more about obscene greed, neglect, cruelty and – well, I enjoyed the conversation. It’s not new, we’ve had it a hundred times in one way or another, but it did sort of underline to me that idea that magick is neutral. So-called dark magick has a different quality, feels different, but it’s not really ‘dark’ in the sense of being evil by nature. You know, one theory has it that demons are trying to make amends for their sins, and another is that they are a material manifestation of angels. God knows what’s true, but I don’t think of dark magick as evil. I do know that any magick can be used to do harm, and most magick can be used to do great good. But I’m waffling on and this is probably a subject for another time. The new book is not dark at all, the way I see it.
And yes, there is health magick in my new book. Damon was right to be negative about putting it in the books. He has personal reasons for that, and I agree that there needs to be caution, restraint, no big promises of instant cures. There are too many medical frauds in the world, from the corporations to fake healers, alongside the good stuff. Magick works a lot of the time – when it fails we get frustrated or even angry. But when health magic fails it can make you despair, lose interest in magick and faith in ever healing. It’s like when the doctor misdiagnoses you for the tenth time, or prescribes the 15th drug that does nothing – it’s more than upsetting. Really difficult subject to approach. We did put some health magick in The 72 Angels, but there is a chapter in the new book on health magick, but it took ages for us to agree on this. I share Damon’s opinion because I’d be sick to my gut if we were selling snake oil, and don’t even want to give hope with a placebo. Hope may heal, but selling false hope is just not on. The deal was, it has to work. Can’t guarantee it will work every time, but it has to be something we know works from experience. A few medical people wrote over the years saying that hope is as good as medicine, and that we should publish to give hope. I get that too, but I cannot bear to think of somebody with a terminal disease buying the book hoping it’s going to cure them. It won’t. Miracles happen, but miracles are different to magick. Magick can work near-miracles. It can have an astounding effect on health. It can also fail, and that can leave you really disillusioned. What’s in the book will be clearly an offer of a possibility. Whatever potential for recovery is there, magick can help get to that potential. Something that’s in the book (unless it gets edited out during the final rewrite) is that not long ago I had two friends with cancer, both quite similar kinds. Both went for conventional therapy – extensive chemo. One friend used magick to support her. It did support her, but she still died after a lot of suffering. The other friend lived, without any magick. It didn’t make me cynical, but put everything in perspective. I don’t want to say that health magick is useless – it can offer an amazing level of comfort, support and healing. Otherwise why put it in the book, right? So let it give you hope. But you can’t get away from the truth being that we live, we die and miracles are rare. But if we have magickal knowledge that can help with pain, discomfort and other illness I think it’s our absolute duty to put it out there. And that’s what I’m going to do. Holding it back would feel wrong.
Thank you, Adam. I am really looking forward to the book now even more 🙂
Counting days.
Adam… are some people more “magical” than others? If so, does this new book share any ways to become more magical?
Some people can run better than others. Some tell better jokes. So yeah, there’s ability. But nobody is unable to do magick. Whereas lots of people can’t tell jokes. The skills you need develop as you do the rituals. The new book sidesteps some areas that people find difficult and has new ways of working, so it might be good if other magick hasn’t worked so well. But overall the advice we plaster all over this site remains true for all magick.
Thanks, Adam. None of the 42 Angels of Alchemy state “improve magical power” as a, well, power. Can none of them cause that change to our physical and/or spiritual makeups?
In the 72 Angels there’s Hariel and Hayiel for power and control with magick, but if you’re sticking with The Angels of Alchemy there’s more than one way to skin a cat. The alchemy work may be indirect, but it’s going to help. Like, Tzadkiel for authority – that can be useful in any ritual where you command a spirit. Oziel, Tofiel and Kevashiel can make it easier for results to manifest, because you’re sweeping away the gunk that stops magick working. Lots in there that can help.
Thank you, Adam. Great food for thought!
Hi Adam,
How much do you attribute success or failure in Magick to the power of belief or the Law of Attraction.
Not much. Magick can work without any belief at all. It shocks people and THEN they believe. But I think it’s best if you believe in magick, the supernatural, if you expect it to work. But you don’t have to have faith and belief in the sense of absolute faith. In loads of our rituals you act as though you do by using emotions – that replaces the need for belief. Imagined emotion, esp when it changes during a ritual, is very powerful. It’s the shift that counts, and the last time I read a LOA book that shifting wasn’t covered.
Law of Attraction seemed to grow out of the occult rather than the other way around, so I see it as a form of lite magick that’s missing some of the essential bits. It works for some to some extent, but the main impression I get is people go, ‘Crikey, this stuff works. But now I got my parking space and found some money under the bed, but that’s it.’ Mind you, some people would say that about magick.
But you’ll see that the ‘letting go and allowing’ of LOA also runs through what we do. But there’s a big difference, in that LOA suggests you ATTRACT EVERYTHING through your thoughts and feelings. I’d say it’s the other way around. There is chaos and chance, with other more mystical elements, but mostly it’s chaos, life is chaos – and those who choose to use emotions, magick and other forms of control, exert control over that chaos. And, ironically, of course, only when you let go (more or less) do you actually have any control. So you choose, and then you trust that it will work. This is why working with spirits can be so effective – you can trust that the angel has it under control for you. Easier than LOA in my opinion. But I know many people use LOA alongside what we do, and feel each enhances the other, so I’ve no problem with it, but don’t use it as a world view.
This was actually a question that has always run through my mind since I started reading GOM books. I love your answer. Thanks Adam!
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