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Q: Is this the same as Magickal Attack? Which should I buy?
A: Magickal Attack uses a demonic master curse and methods from various traditions. This book works with angelic powers. You should use the Look Inside feature on Amazon to see which methods and ideas appeal to you most. The books cover some similar ground, but each contains a different approaches to this type of work.
Q: How can it be right to use angels this way?
A: If you don’t like the idea of this type of magick, please don’t read it. There are many other books that work with ‘lighter’ magick. If you want a greater understanding of the principles behind this work, please do read the book. Gordon explains the philosophy behind it clearly. It is not intended to be cruel or harmful, but is there as a shield and weapon for those who are in need of such magick.
Q: I can read Hebrew and your pronunciations and letter choices aren’t always consistent. Why?
A: There are a couple of places in the book where a TS sound seems more appropriate than a Z sound, for example. Gordon has sourced the names from several texts, as described in the book, but what ends up being used is sometimes one visual spelling combined with a slightly different pronunciation. The lettering is also sourced from several volumes, and in some sigils you may see variations on a single spelling. None of this matters, of course. If you follow the instructions, it will work!
Q: What do all the words in the sigils mean?
A: They are divine names, angelic names and arrangements and encodings of such names, and thus cannot be translated.
Q: Gordon mentions not using a ritual against a parent. Is there a reason why?
A: That was a single example for a specific person. You can use the magick on anybody.
Q: Can I do several rituals at once?
You can, but it’s not the best way to go about this, because the absolute core of this book is sincerity, and several rituals performed one after another may lack the weight, depth and sincerity required by this magick. Note that the apparent simplicity can lead to doing the work without full conviction. Ensure you’ve fully understood the nature of the emotional states required at each point in the ritual. It makes sense to put some space between rituals (maybe a day or more), to acknowledge to yourself the sincerity of each request. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth being patient for a day or two.
Q: Do I have to keep the sigil within view at all times, even while speaking?
A: Gordon says, ‘The sigil should remain within view as you speak your command,’ so at that point, yes. When you speak the angelic names, the sigil should remain within your field of vision, but does not need to be looked at directly. Your main focus should be on the emotional changes, as described in the chapter Working The Words. If you’re using a device and can’t see the words at the same time as the sigil, you have two options. One is to reduce the text size (easy on most devices) so it’s all visible beneath the sigil. The other option is to write out the names you say out loud by hand. In most cases, it’s very easy to see everything on one page, because there aren’t many names to be read out.
Q: Which is more powerful, attack or protection? How can I protect myself against magick like this?
Imagine if somebody tried to sell you an impenetrable shield and a sword that could break through anything. It’s clear that neither could actually work as described, unless operated by the warrior in a specific way. We’ve often said that with attack, it’s a war of attrition, and that holds true; if excellent defences are in place, attacks will have to persist until the defences are down. For most of the population, there are never any defences, which is why attack magick works so well. With this book, the extent of effect is also down to the level of your sincere desire – that can break through many defences. But the debate about which is stronger, protection or attack, ignores that so much is not about which side you’re on and what magick you’re using, but about how well you read the book, performed the magick, choose the right magick for the situation, learned to allow results and worked with all those subtle aspects of magick that are revealed in the books . You can see that some people get saved from car crashes with magickal protection, and others call it useless, and this is not because of any objective power in the magick, but how it has been employed. Magick isn’t so simple that there can ever be an ultimate weapon or perfect defence. We shift and move with the circumstances. If you want to use this magick, you can see how it would work. If you genuinely believe somebody might use it against you, the defence is persistent use of Magickal Protection. It’s never a case of an immovable object and an unstoppable force, because personality and human expression affects the interpretation and expression of your personal magick.
Q: Can I mix this with other magick?
A: Please read the Practical Magick FAQ to get a general overview of how this works.
Q: Can I do this magick for somebody else?
A: I answered this in a question below, so will save myself some time by quoting what I wrote there: Let’s say your Uncle Tim has been made miserable by a man named Barry. OK, you are really annoyed at Barry and sincerely want him to suffer. So, yes, you can aim the ritual at Barry. But it’s your own feelings about this that count. You might be doing it to help Uncle Tim and make his life rosy, but the ritual has to be worked for your own sincere sense of justice. This could never be magick-for-hire; but if you sincerely want somebody to meet justice, and if it affects you on an emotional level even if indirectly, then yes. The ritual is performed the same way, and just aimed at that person, with your personal feelings about the situation and the change you require being at the forefront of the process.
Q: I felt a bit weird while doing the ritual, and even when it was finished. Is that normal?
A: Sometimes, people find that working with this sort of energy can feel quite intense, but this lessens with time and is harmless. There is an overview here: A Touch of The Supernatural.
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The rituals are short and easy to do. Is there a limit to how many can be done in a day?
The limit is sincerity. Notice how much Gordon talks about this. It is with very good reason. Work done too casually will do absolutely nothing.
Other than that, there’s no theoretical limit, but most people find they only have good enough focus to do the emotional work and concentrate sufficiently to do one or two.
But as I say, only if that sincere desire is there. And piling up too much magick, well, some people find it clouds results. Better to do one ritual that you really care about, give it some room, then move on, than to just rush out six rituals and hope they’ll work. Spacing them out gives them more weight.
I think one danger with this book is that it seems so simple that it can feel too easy, and it isn’t really. Attaining The Stillness and getting the full sequence of thoughts and emotions – it’s not rocket science, but it’s not just a quick glance-and-chant like Words of Power. As Gordon says, the simplicity can make it, ‘all too easy to dismiss these rituals as simple little spells, when they are anything but.’
In short, I’d space it out a bit!
Hi Adam, this maybe an odd question. I did a couple workings from the book several hours apart and soon after the second one I started experiencing random itching all over. I remember this happening to me the first couple times that I did the evocation of angels from Angels of Alchemy. But this time the itching was more intense and lasted longer. For some reason I decided to banish and that helped subside the itching. Have you ever heard of this occurring after working with angels or demons? Could it be I got overwhelmed by the energy of the angel I was working with? Or that too much of their energy stayed on me after the working? It’s interesting the banishing helped.
Thanks!
Hi. There’s a general overview of this here: https://galleryofmagick.com/2015/07/21/a-touch-of-the-supernatural/ but actually, that probably needs an update. But, yeah, sometimes people find that just levelling up the energy can create this sort of effect. Not often, but it happens. Usually goes away all by itself. If it happens with the other angels, which are a completely different class, that suggests it has something to do with the way you experience evocation – it’s not the specific angels involved. If banishing worked it also suggests the same. Nothing was being done to you by anything, but the connection caused the effect. If it’s bearable I’d continue, and so long as you don’t let it bother you, it will probably fade or become less noticeable. Some people always get physical effects during evocation 0 tingling in the scalp, that sort of thing. Most don’t. Cheers, AB.
How long does these rituals take effect? For example to invalidate magick, if I performed this ritual, how long will my target be able to do magick again?
This is covered in the chapter called Performing a Ritual, three paragraphs from the end. In general, only repeat when something changes to make it required again. But please make sure you’ve read and absorbed everything first! Cheers, Adam B.