Cleansing

Space Clearing

As I was looking through a 2009 Witches' Spell-A-Day Almanac, I happened to notice I had marked a procedure for clearing crystals and I thought it might be a good idea to mention that in my Facebook group. As I was booting up the computer, which we all know takes forever, I realized that space clearing is one of the most overlooked aspects for spell work.

You wouldn't write a letter on paper you had previously written a letter on and yet, too often we forget to clear the previous spell before beginning a new one or just plain cleaning up the energies after doing a spell. Without severing the energies by clearing the area, you never let go of the spell to completely finish working. This is not a great idea.

So, the first step is to clear the area you have used. Candle wax, incense ashes and other remains should be buried or thrown into running water. The best disposal is to have an actual well made that will nullify and drain the energies into earth for your “spell garbage”.

Then, magickal objects should be wiped or submerged in salt water. The best water is always ocean water but you can mix some up using sea salt and filtered water. Tap water tends to have too many chemicals in it for magickal clearing. After that, they should be rinsed in clear water if the salt is going to injure them. Metal and salt do not play well together. They should then be gently dried with a white towel, preferably cotton. Then they should be smudged with a clearing herb like sage, pine, juniper or basal. If they are not going back on your altar immediately, they should be wrapped in the appropriate cloth and stored. Even the altar itself should be wiped down and cleaned. Altar clothes should be washed if possible. This is why if you have that fancy altar cloth you love, it should not be the one you use for actual spell work. For one thing, some wax dyes do not come out when washed. I ruined a gorgeously embroidered altar cloth with a red candle.

Crystals are a little different and requite more clearing than regular objects. The crystal actually tunes itself to the spell you are doing and remains tuned until you neutralize it. This involves a good salt water bath for several hours, rinse and dry. Then the crystal needs to sit outside or on your windowsill for a full lunar cycle to break the false alignment you created and put it back to its natural state for the next spell. You can leave them under water for the full 28 days if you change the water regularly. If you have pets, they will be attracted to that water over all other water so you might want to put a glass lid on the container.

Mirrors must be thoroughly washed in salt water (personally I use a middle step of vinegar water) and plain water and then wrapped quickly.

Remember, the quality of the water is very important. So, don't hesitate to get distilled water if you can.

You also might want to consider that if any of your ritual objects contain a crystal, you are going to have clear the crystal in them. Remember that when choosing objects to work with and base part of your choice on how hard they will be to cleanse.

Before you even set up your altar, the area needs to be cleansed where you are putting it. So, spritz or wipe it down with salt water, smudge it and get the dust out. You will find your work is much more successful if you obey the simple rules of cleansing before and after. Respect your space and your sacred objects and they will become more powerful with each use.

Thoughtforms and God/desses

The Creations of God/desses or Thought Forms

Last year there was an ad nauseam discussion on the net as to whether there ever was a Goddess of the USA named Columbia. No one could find any ancient reference to this Goddess. The name Columbia first appears in 1738 in the Gentleman's Magazine in Great Britain. Columbia was the fictitious name applied to the 13 colonies in the New World, as it was not legal to publish the actual transcripts of the debates in the British parliament for the unwashed to read, so they were published as satire with the names as anagrams or references much as in the old Anglo Saxon tradition of never calling anything by its proper name, as names have power. An example is a whale road would be a river. She is again depicted in 1882 as the “spirit of the frontier”. She has an interesting statue in Washington D. C. in which she has Native American feathers on her helmet, wears what really looks like an Indian sari instead of a Roman toga and is carrying a broadsword which may have been invented by a Chinese emperor but was mostly found in England and Scotland.

After that really expensive statue was commissioned and placed, she was dressed in the American Flag for centuries with nary a single complaint about her wearing the sacred flag as being illegal or disrespectful.

However, after all the rending and tearing of shirts, ashes were brought out and the Goddess was declared non-existent and a figment of the founding fathers fertile imaginations. I assume toppling the statue was next.

Absolutely, my friends! The founding fathers, most of whom were Masons or members of various occult lodges having fled Britain and Europe to avoid being burned at the stake for their wealth, spent loads of money and effort to create a statue of a non-existent Goddess that was named after the figment of Edward Cave's mind when the number one priority of the day back then was finding enough to eat that didn't eat you by nightfall, avoiding accidents and trying to stay healthy and in their spare time trying to create an outline for a country that would be free and actually represent most of the people in it, providing the people were white men, no women need apply. Whoopsies, that's a Goddess there, boys.

You may conclude most of these men had a better education in the occult or spiritual arts than you do. They lived among the great writers and thinkers you read about to gleam a twinkling of information from a world were information would get you killed in a nasty manner. Heck, they were the great writers and thinkers. Did they have a several year lapse of sanity? No, they understood the simple principle of creating a God/dess thoughtform and drawing on its energy.

So let's go back to the beginning of the god creation business. Human sees lightning. Lightning creates fire which proved to be darned useful. Human decides some supernatural being delivered fire. Nope, that's a little after the beginning. At first human decides fire is a supernatural thing and can be propagated. This is good because until it rained, no one ran out of fire. Then someone had to run to the next lightning strike and hope for fire. That is when someone decided a very capricious supernatural being was sending not only fire but rain to torment them. So, they decided to make sacrifices to the fire god by, no not killing things, burning trees because they burned well, and thus they got a never ending supply of fire as long as they kept it dry.

It is not a frivolous thing that every successful ritual or spell begins with the lighting of a candle and incense. It is also not a strange thing that in today's world people are discovering that battery powered candles may actually work faster and better than wax candles if you aren't trying to invoke something ancient. We live in a world powered by electricity not fire and have created a god named electricity.

You see by repeating and getting more and more people to believe in a specific thing you create what computer programmers would call the cloud, but we call a thoughtform. Physicists call it glob of energy because like energy tends to stick together. Once you have created this glob of energy or ether, you can begin to call upon the energy to create the reality you need to manifest. However, if you are smart, you have placed certain requirements on accessing the energy that are in the form of chants, sigils (representative symbol or letters), attractant or sacrifices to prevent everyone and their cousin from draining the glob faster than you can replenish it. In other words, you, too, can create a god but it is much easier if you can grab onto one of the existing ones that are already powered up and ready for use with instructions for access. It's sort of like buying a computer with an existing operating system rather than building a kit and writing your own operating system. Each one has its advantages. One is simple but the other is more secure and often more effective.

So, you may ask what went wrong. Today's religions are ineffective at manifesting anything though they have millions of followers, way more than any past religion, and nothing has ever been seen of most of their gods since burning bush incident. The “priests” are in their multibillion dollar fortresses flying their luxury jets to their yachts and their followers are barely making the rent. It might be that the access to their “godhead” or thought form is restricted to the priest cast but the refilling of it is open to all and that is why the all is poor. They are giving but convinced the receiving can only occur if they are dead.

Allow me to explain. Remember the part about any good ritual begins with the lighting of candles and incense. It is really the incense that gets things moving and it is the one thing totally removed from all the Abrahamic religions for their common members but it is present in the churches reserved for the priests or rulers. However, the lighting of incense that is vilified by the religions as pagan because it is present in Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. that is an integral part of the access key to the thoughtform. Why else do you think the formula for “church incense” was such a closely guarded secret? Remember it was a burning bush not a burning cow. Yet, immediately the father of their religions, Abraham, switched to let's burn a bull and have the sweet smelling herbs in my house burning. He wasn't dumb. He restricted access to the god energy while getting all the cooks out there to feed the cloud.

And so it began. It is doubtful anyone but those who have managed to get access to the original Abrahamic texts, of which only a few scrolls locked up in a Rockefeller museum in Israel exist and a few in the Vatican, can truly access any of the energy of this magickal tradition and all religions qualify as magickal traditions.

However, Abraham had a good idea. He decided to take all the little energy globs, called gods and goddesses, and lump them into a single god to which only he and his family would have total access and quickly kill anyone who dared to invoke the little gods and goddess because they would drain energy off the big god he was creating. You don't have back doors in a computer program unless you are ready to spend a lot of time defending them. Someone, somewhere is going to access them and play havoc with your neatly ordered program just for the fun of it. He didn't have the time or energy to play defense so he went on the offense.

The next step in this “occult plan” is playing out in the Middle East right now where a bunch of idiot fanatics are being used to destroy all ancient sites once again making certain no one can access their energy or for that matter, even more sinister, put energy into them. This will prevent the big three religions from drawing energy from even the pagan inputs and allow only the fanatics to access that energy giving them an energetic boost they could never achieve just by followers alone.

Yes, all these ancient sites make up an energetic network. You may have read that they all form a geometric pattern and most are located on specific latitudes in a pretty straight line. They all align with the solstices and equinoxes, which are the best time to access and add to their energies. The entire city is laid out in astronomical energetic patterns just like Washington, D. C.

Keep in mind, in the process of creating a thoughtform, this energetic glob can be anchored to an object like a stature, bag, combination of herbs or special mineral in addition to a chant or sigil. Hence you have religious objects, pictures and even the slightly gruesome practice of dividing up and keeping the parts of revered ones of your religion (saints) and placing a piece of them in each church. I tend to think that rather than a real philosophical difference with the Vatican, the Protestants began because the Vatican controlled the Saintly Pieces and without them you can't access the Catholic network. Keep in mind that most of the old Saints had a supernatural ability in addition to the weird fact that their bodies tended to not rot after death. This can be traced back to the meditative technique where a person is said to go into an extreme state of meditation that renders them immortal but yet they seem to be dead to medical science as we know it. Their bodies do not rot either.

So, keep in mind my friends, there is a lot more to things than you see on the surface. By creating this one energy glob, the effectiveness of the little energy globs it was absorbing was neutralized until someone resurrects the little blobs. It takes a lot of energy to keep the little blobs from breaking away from a big one and hence you shall have no gods before me and worship no graven images. All someone would have to do is decide this big god looked like some little god and whoops, there goes your energy through a back door. You can't let the peasants get uppity and start stealing that spiritual energy to do things like get rain for their crops or in this world, money.

But a strange thing has happened in the new world that was unanticipated. Money was created as a universal representation of energy. Your work energy, creative energy, family energy and personal worth is measured in how many pieces of gold you have. Gold isn't even the rarest mineral nor the most durable. To further that end, in the time of creation of Jesus, taxes to the empire were collected in pure gold coin but everyday money was cheap gold plated coins. So the gold plated coins transferred the energy to the empire but did not allow tapping into the empire's energy. Only the empire have the pure gold coin gold being the transfer mechanism. And guess who the intermediaries were? Yes, the priests set up money changing tables in the temples. So they took your store of energy and bought all their wonderful luxuries with it, and sold you the pure tokens to give to the emperor so he could put the rest of that energy into expanding and controlling his empire and YOU! The majority of energy was stored in the gold coating with a tiny bit in the base metal. So the first story of the Jesus involves overthrowing the money changers who were getting rich off the poor (let's call the money changers energy transformers) and telling you “render unto Caesar that which is Caesars” or directly return his energy to him and be free of it. It's too bad they used it to build a more insidious system of enslaving you with that you'll get all your 'good works' back as soon as you die and please overlook the fact that you will be dead.

But who has that many dollar bills in their pocket. Mostly you have cards that access all of your worth in an electronic banking system. Even worse, with the advent of personal computers and cell phones, people are starting to understand how this whole energy money system works and they have PERSONAL PASSWORDS. This is very bad for the Big Three Boys because now people are accessing their personal energy instead giving it up for safe keeping to their representatives in the banking industry. They are creating their own little globs of worth. It is no coincidence that a loss of membership is tied to the computer or electronic age. Nor is it a coincidence that people are progressing spiritually or magickally faster than at any other time. And it is not a coincidence that suddenly all the little money grabbers are making it so easy for you to donate with a monthly or weekly withdrawal from your energy account called a checking account or credit card and you don't need to do a single thing, just give them the back door into your energy storehouse called an automatic payment.

People are beginning to access the old storage system in which each particular need had a specific pathway and they are beginning to see that the pathway is through plants, not animal sacrifices. So rather than standing in a super long line at the Superstore of Energy, they are going over to the Boutique of Promotions to get to the next level in their work where they personal attention.

So what is the first step in opening your Boutique of Energy? You need to study what is compatible with your need in the plant kingdom and cultivate a relationship with that plant. It is not a coincidence that most excellent Magickians have a green thumb. They are connected to the plant kingdom and hence the planetary energetic network. Then you have to write a chant or key to connect to that plant and need and so forth. The big part is putting the energy into the need without taking any out at first. You need to build a storehouse of energy. Thankfully, the energy of the entire family of that plant will help you do it. Then at the proper time, which is a study in itself, you withdraw some of the energy to manifest your desire. That is doing it from the ground up and guaranteeing you will have an unadulterated source of energy or you could pick up an ancient text and follow the instructions in it but that will be iffy. This is not their world. On that, I will end on a little story.

A friend and excellent witch was stranded in a Latin American country. He had his wallet stolen and back then there were no universal credit cards. He needed money to get out of there so he fell back to what he did best, witchcraft. No matter how hard he worked or successful his spells were, he only managed to make enough money to keep himself afloat. He kept doing money spell after money spell to no avail. Finally he was getting to choosing between candles and food when his landlord became interested along with his friends. He spent two weeks planning and writing this ritual for launch on the new moon. No one really had much money so the spell became a community effort. He sent them out for green candles because green is money. They weren't that successful because in most Latin American countries, green candles are used for healing and they all had a bit of dysentery and had used the green candles, so they showed up with other colors. He was reduced to less than the needed 5 green candles and a bunch of brightly colored candles to fill in. The two precious green candles became his altar candles. Then his ritual began to fall about even further when no one could come up with the needed denominations of American money and his landlord stepped in with the larger bills in the native currency. He was pretty close to tears as he sat in front of his carefully planned out altar and ritual when he realized the money in this country was anything but green. A quick change with all the colored candles matching the local currency and all the money changed to local currency, with the appropriate change in the chants and soon he had everyone drifting in and out of his bedroom joining in the chant and translating it to Spanish so now the whole ritual was in Spanish with local currency. And then NOTHING happened. But seven days later he had all the money for his ticket through buying a gambling ticket (sort of like our LOTTO but local) and everyone in town had made some money and was happy. What he couldn't figure out was why it took a week. He normally saw results within a day of his spells. I explained that practically every working in Latin America was based on a 3, 7 or 14 day candle period. Since he used 5 candles plus 2 altar candles he set it up to translate to a 7 day spell.

Yes, friends, there is a lot to learn and short cuts usually put you somewhere you don't want to go. So we will explore the pieces you need to put together in future chapters.