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Hi Zanna, in you book in you book The 72 Sigils of Power. The word YAW I can get to pronounces it right. Is it pronounced like YAH or like YOUR. Or can you help explain in an other way. Thank you.
Think of the word RAW, as in ‘raw fish’, and change the R to Y. Another way to think of it is like ROAR, with the final R dropped, and the first R replaced with a Y.
I am using the majority of the books and have had mixed results the cashbook does work although I have a high level of anxiety after I use it for some reason. I am curious about the spirits that are called apoun what and who are they exactly? I have looked through the angel books and am looking for the angel to guide me and work with me on my boyfreind who lacks desire for sex and of course he is in his forties and we have tried everything else . I also wonder if there is a angel that works on anxiety issues,and addiction issues.
Thank you! Lora
In the Cashbook, we see Arzel as an aspect of Raziel, an archangel. Nitika is a genius spirit – neither angel or demon, but seen as a personification of a virtue. Fear or concern about the nature of the spirits can affect how you feel, and may affect your results – the secret is to know that the magick is safe and work it repeatedly with confidence. If you’re worried you’ll conjur a demon by accident, by assured that it actually takes quite a lot of deliberate effort to do that.
This article might help: http://galleryofmagick.com/2015/02/19/what-magick-are-you-afraid-of/
The sexual issue you mentioned is very common, and a few people have tried angelic magick. As with all health magick, there are no guarantees, but some have reported good results. If you haven’t seen it already, this article should help you to choose: http://galleryofmagick.com/2015/08/11/how-to-find-an-angel/ and that will also apply to anxiety and addiction.
The best book for working on the self and addiction is Zanna’s The 72 Sigils of Power. I can not say it will instantly sure anything, as that would be a lie, but people working with issues of anxiety and addiction do report good results. Some people have also found that the Sword banishing from Magickal Protection to be the ultimate relief for anxiety, even though that is not it’s aim. Having said all that, I should say that conventional approaches should be look at first, and used alongside magick.
Hello Damon, are you or any other from the Gallery planning on releasing another book or ritual related to wealth, money?
Also is the Master Money Ritual the ultimate ritual for attracting money and wealth or his there another one you are planning to release???
There’s never an ultimate ritual for anything, I’m afraid, but magick that we build according to need. In any situation, you may need a combination. Sometimes the cashbook is all you need. Other times you need a whole career workout. So there will be other books on this subject, for sure, but I think they background info and rituals in Magickal Riches should always be thought of as essential reading.
Hi Damon,
My set of questions pertains to “Become the Most Loveable Version of Yourself” and “Feel More Self-respect” from Words of Power. Based upon the description for each of these two spells it’d seem that in both the magick is working to express through us the same force, just aimed at resolving slightly different issues. Both seem intended to connect us to our “soul” with the “Loveable Version of Yourself” expressing this outwardly to the world while “Feel More Self-Respect” is aimed internally. Am I on the right track here?
Also, in “Feel More Self-Respect” it says the magick connects you to your true will; does this mean it also brings us more in touch with one’s Holy Guardian Angel?
I’m usually not as enthusiastic about magick aimed towards self-work/self-transformation, but I’m aware that much of our problems and perceived limitations often lay within our very self. The problem with self-work magick is fighting the allure of self-deceit; unlike magick aimed at tangible results we can’t (typically) be certain the working has had a genuine effect.
Regardless, now that I’ve worked through both the “Loveable Version” and “Self-Respect” magick I did seem to notice changes in the way other people react to me — most noctiably from strangers. If I happen by chance to make eye contact with a random person on the street it’s like there’s a twinkle in their eyes and a slight smile (not always, but it’s more frequent now), I get acknowledged more, but most noticeable is that people tend to yield more (e.g. move out of the way). So how much of this is due to the magick and how much is wishful thinking?
I think these self-work types of magick needs to be repeated for any worthwhile effect. I’ve used the “Self-Respect” one a handful of times as the emotional effect (inner calm, relief, etc.) seems to dissipate with time, and sometimes quickly. Not too sure about the “Loveable Version” magick and if I should repeat that however.
Perhaps tangential, but related to the subject, the other time I had such an effect on random strangers was when I happened to get into an intense blissful altered state during a meditation. Hours later as I was out walking about I’d get all these curious stares from strangers that it felt like I suddenly became a celebrity. It was somewhat like my recent experiences with random people but magnified ten times. Also, through accident I found I could remotely influence people in my surrounding area whereas before I had no such ability — it didn’t stay with me however. I get the sense that those two spells from your book as well as my past experience are related in some form, that perhaps this boost in influence stem from the same source. Your thoughts on this?
Sorry, I’m travelling at the moment so don’t have time to talk about this in detail, but you’re on the right track – although when it comes to theory it’s always open to interpretation. The effects you’re talking about are reported quite widely. Some people never feel such things, and for others (such as myself) it seems to happen sometimes but not always. Others are always magically on fire.
I understand, and I appreciate the reply nonetheless. Remote influence as well as ‘magickal’ influence on my immediate surroundings is a subject I’m very interested in and wish to move from theories to clearly set principles on what’s essential for making this happen reliably. I notice it seems to happen in cycles: some days I’m On and other days I’m Off.
You say that some people never experience these effects but isn’t this somewhat the aim — or at least the side effect — of the magick pertaining to “Become the Most Loveable Version of Yourself”?
It’d be nice to see this subject explored in detail in perhaps a future book if it’s too lengthy to cover in a comment. Either way, thanks for taking the time.
The danger of fast replies – what I meant was that when people use magic generally, some get these effects as side effects. And in truth, some people do the sort of soul magick you’re talking about and don’t see much in terms of the way people respond to them. Things are different when it counts, but daily interactions remains normal. So it’s always different.
You mentioned that you are concerned about magick aimed at self-transformation being self-deceptive. Here’s another way you can look at it… Even if it’s the placebo effect, it still works.
If you see a result, you have a result and the mechanism isn’t that important.
I’m a hypnotherapist and one of my most common techniques is simply to have people visualize the changes in themselves as if they’ve already happened. The brain and body do not differentiate between real and imaginary. An experience is an experience. If you imagine running the same areas of the brain light up as if you were physically running.
To imagine yourself feeling confident in a situation is to create a real, genuine feeling. The emotion is no less real or powerful because the stimulus is imaginary. It has the same neurochemical effects on the body. And, from the moment you first practice, you begin to train the brain to create confidence more easily in that situation. It may take a fair bit of repetition for that new feeling to overwrite the old pattern of thought and behavior; but, over time it will happen.
So, whether the magick actually connects you to angels to create the changes or whether you view it as a form of self-hypnosis you can still see real results and real transformation.
If it works it’s not self-deceptive.
Basically, I agree with your stance that if you get a result the mechanisms involved don’t matter for the most part. However, this form of thinking can be dangerous because it doesn’t necessarily fit neat and tidy into other forms of magick, but for self-therapy types of magick, sure, placebo and self-hypnosis can often play a role in the results. Which I suppose is really at the heart of why I’m often less than enthusiastic about self-work types of magick: sometimes I just want to do magick, not psychological self-treatment, and it can be hard to determine what is what in regards to magick aimed at the self (unless the results are dramatic).
Also, putting too much credit into the placebo effect and self-hypnosis as the cause behind a result can have an insidious effect in which a person can slip into viewing all magick as simply a psychological sleight of hand, or in other words, “all-magick-is-a-form-of-psychology.” This is dangerous because it’s just not true. You don’t heal someone on another continent, who doesn’t even know you nor that you’re trying to heal them through just psychological sleight of hand, and you don’t obtain a desired rare object through a series of coincidence through clever psychological tricks — so in these instances the mechanisms do matter depending on what you’re aiming for. Maybe for self-therapy purposes it doesn’t matter much if the magick actually connected you to angels or whether it was self-hynosis, but if, for instance, you’re working to bring down an enemy or heal someone in another country, then you might actually want to connect with the appropriate spirit.
But, yes, if it works, it works, however not all ends can be achieved through psychological means. (And with that, we’ve veered off-topic from my original comment.)