I have another exercise for you to try, this can be applied for one week, but ideally it should be an integral part of your life or for an extended period.

The method is to ask yourself the following questions:

1. Who am I? (the subject)
2. What am I doing? (the object)
3. Where am I? (the place)

Do not simply visualise simple answers, but for instance when you answer “Who am I”?, try to visualise the role you are in. Are you the work-self? The internet-self? The lover? The magickian? For instance, if I am doing a mundane task, I say my name. If I do something esoteric, I use my magickal name. If I am doing something professional I use the appropriate role title, etc, try to identify yourself in conjunction to what you are doing, but more specifically WHO are you at this very moment? (You’ll observe how this changes from situation to situation).

What am I doing should be answered in my case that I am now typing in my blog, and then you can try to  bring to mind the context of doing, as to also give the purpose of your doing.

Where am I is to put yourself in a context. I am for instance in my room, where you can also take note of the environment, fragrances, light, and every detail that meet your senses at this very moment .

When we ask these questions the focus should be in the heart. That means that we should visualize the heart area and ask the questions.

Slowly, a coherent picture starts to form as the context is completed as to who you are in any moment, what you are doing and why you are doing it, and where you are and why you got yourself into that situation, and what purpose is your work.

You can begin by applying this method 3-5 times a day.

Also, another interesting and simple method for “increasing” awareness is to observe the details.

For example, you walk to your job every morning from a specific street. Start look around and observe various objects like shop fronts, promotion labels, etc.

In the next morning walk across the same street and apply this method. This time you will observe some details that you’ve missed the previous morning.

Finally, another method is before going to bed at night spend a few minutes and start to think about the events that took place during the whole day. Start from the most recent and get to the time when you woke up in the morning. Just observe the events and don’t judge if your action was good or bad. Just “watch” the sequence of events.

The core of the three methods is to increase your perception in general and afterwards to focus it at yourself.

I believe that if we draw our attention to the Self and not to irrelavent thoughts, we can built a strong foundation towards self realization.

I have an idea for an exercise.

In our language, the word “God” is often used metaphorically and anecdotally in different situations. Consider these statements:

“For the love of God, get a job”  (friendly suggestion)

“Oh, God” (expressing emotion of joy or sadness)

“As God is our witness”

etc etc ad nauseum.

My exercise is, try for one week to replace “God” with you, i.e form sentences like:

“For the love of Me, get a job”  (friendly suggestion)

“Oh, Myself” (expressing emotion of joy or sadness)

“As I am our witness”

The aim of this exercise is, of course, to see how important YOU are in all the decisions of YOUR LIFE; to really feel how language (thus re-enforcing old patterns, habits, sheep-herd-thinking) shape how we think and act. You might be positively encouraged to see some very cool results of this acceptance of responsibility.

Try to encourage your sex partner to use “you” instead of “God” instead of he/she shouts “Oh God” as you are having sex. The credit, should, of course, go to you as you are doing all the hard work anyway, you should hear it.

At work, people in your office might think what you’re doing is strange. Let them think so, but do not deviate from your exercise, just observe how you and your environment change. Avoid any discussions on why, how, what, etc for now, just do it.

Oh, and after a week, please post some comments if you want to share experience.

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Supposed to be the ‘ultimate goal’ of Magick, according to several systems of magick including Aleister Crowley, I am following up on Jeremy Crow’s video ‘The Holy Guardian Angel’s true identity revealed‘.

Jeremy explains with comparing to psychology, especially Jung, that the HGA can be explained as your ‘shadow’, what essentially protects you from what you (the ‘mind’) could not process at that time, for our own safety, and compares it to the archetype of the (commonly accepted role of) Satan, as keeper of Hell, and the damnes souls, demons, etc. who keeps everybody in. And explains further that our goal would be to make that Satan become Lucifer, bringer of light, to make those secrets come out of the dark and be available to us.

I will say it’s a pity if the goal of magick is just to discover a ‘NLP filter’, like someone in the comment of Jeremy’s article suggested. What about the idea of the ‘shadow self’ as your adverse persona? One of your true opposite, often depicted as something sinister or limited, part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts.

Surely the ‘Knowledge and Conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel’ must be grander.

In  the Golden Dawn tradition, the purpose of initiation is to achieve this, and ‘Perfect happiness, summum bonum’, i.e. happiness in the material world (Malkuth). I would say this is acheived by visiting your dark side and discovering all its hidden aspects, balance them, thus return with the stone of the wise, as in the rosicrucian/alchemical motto “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem”.

So if you are feeling down, remember your shadow is opposite. The real discovery is that the integration between yourself and your shadow is always in perfect balance and in perfect happiness. Sometimes you cancel eachother out. Then you realise what potential lies within your close partnership.

When you want to have a good red wine to accompany a fine meal you are preparing, you search for quality. Over the years, your experience will tell you what years, districts, and what method of harvesting that you prefer, and also which wine is good with what food.

Likewise, interaction with other LHP’ers is an aquired taste. Simply finding people who disguise themselves with being LHP’ers, or donning exotic names such as DarkLord666, or just calling themselves ‘Satanist’ are no better than the profane mass-produced cardboard wines that sell in the supermarked.

A wise man once said “Luciferianism is like a market”.

Following that line of thought, a Luciferian is likely to visit many markets, many of dubious nature, someone ill-equipped to serve a sophisticated taste for quality.

Because when it comes down to it, Luciferians enjoy quality. And quality is expensive, since time, effort, and careful consideration must go into any product that is to have any quality. In modern industry, mass-production made it possible to make products of reasonable quality at a lower price.

For mundane things, like bottles or cars, mass-production is fine. For finding spiritual people or those on their path to gnosis, or Luciferianism, the fast-food method doesn’t cut it.

I see when a community thrives, and it’s when quality comes into it. The LRS is a place where quality has potential. Not because people must pay to be on LRS – they shouldn’t – but that people pay because they want to. Such a community will attract people who actively work and support their community and help build it.

In every case, you will have a constellation of lurkers, that is, the 90% users who don’t contribute much, but who are silent consumers of information. Next, you will have active people of 10% who atleast try to post randomly. Within that group, 2%,  you will find the useful people who contribute with something worthwile. The last four-or-so are the admins who make the whole thing work.

Whenever I meet or work with people, I want to work with those 2% + 4 people.

I am happy there is an audience, but only as so far there is a hope in hell that atleast one of them will have the intelligence, energy and curiosity to evolve.

As in the gnostic creation myth, it all comes down to awakening from the slumber of blissful ignorance to take the steep and slippery hill down into the abyss, before one can realise that the way out, is the way in, and the way in is a journey to rediscover your true potential as a lover of divine quality, one that appreciate all that is good in the universe, to reclaim the throne as the rightful God in the heavens.

Thou art God.

Many a Satanist has trollfully (with the skill of a Troll) wielded this powerful phrase around like a big dick in a LHP forum somewhere as if when given to show off his or hers license to an inflated Ego and therefore a dick.

If I see people who work, think, are alive and awake, and who act and respond intelligently, there is hope in my heart.

I like to think of the saying as

You (are me) art (has the essence of) God (the singularity of the Divine all).

or put more simply

You are you.

With the added interpretation that you have infinite potential. Just like a good wine.

And having said that I wish to finish this inspirational post with something out of the great musical talent of Devin Townsend Project – from their album Deconstruction – with the song “The Mighty Masturbator”: [Spotify version] [Youtube version] [lyrics]