Sirius Chaos Tribe

I’m awaiting the post. I forget exactly what’s coming to me, but knowing me (as I do) it’s probably computer hardware, books and / or a handmade incense burner I’ve ordered.

I’m shopping for net curtains. I need curtain rails as well, sometime. I kinda need plates and bowls too, after I sacrificed mine to Khorne.

I’m walking the dog; zhe likes to go out and zhe likes to come home. Zhe likes everything, it’s awesome.

I’m watching the weather through a variety of personal gauges and national reports.

I’m exercising my abs and my biceps, hard.

I’m reading some borrowed books.

But what I’m really doing is writing an Oath. It’s the Oath to swear that I shall work on my Abramelin Operation every day and that I shall successfully complete it.

I think I’m ready to commit; I think I can dedicate a considerable amount of time each and every day to seek K&C with my HGA / HDS / FMS / A / A / G. This is a real commitment, for the Operation could last anything from six months to two years, depending on how I perceive and recognise the completion, the outcome. I have to approach it as a lifestyle choice, rather than as a mere exercise. I’m chosing to embody magick, rather than only ‘perform’ it in the sacred theatre.

Writing the Oath is challenging; although I can’t predict what my result will feel like, I need to specifiy the parametres of success (or else how will I know I’ve completed my Operation?). I think I shall go with 'extended and expansive Peak Experience’ as a basic base baseline . I am sorry if you have never had a Peak Experience; they are rare.

Soon I shall have a good draft of my Oath, and I’m thinking of writing (or at least signing) it in blood ink. I migh share the Oath, but I wouldn’t want anyone to use it for themselves or criticise my use of it - that would be profane.

No symbols, a little imagination and a few seconds. Imagine a vertical line behind your eyes (perhaps in front of your spine or perhaps within your spine) from the top of your head to the soles of your feet (I extend the line a little above my head and a little below my soles or backside if I’m sat). Imagine a point of light two feet in front of your eyes; use this punkt to describe a horizontal circle around your head, centred on the vertical line. When the point is back at its starting place, use it to trace an ellipse over your head and down to the base of the vertical line and all the way back to the top of the line / your head. Trace an ellipse tangential to the first, going down one side of your body, to the end of the vertical line under your feet and back up the other side of your body to the top of the line / your head. You are now centred within a cage of three ellipses (a circle is an ellipse but an ellipse is not a circle). To clean and clear your imagination, have the vertical line burst into a pillar of flame and expand to and beyond the three rings. As it does, visualise any persistent thoughts or inner-voices burning until you are left with only the three ellipses. Performing such a banishing four or five times every day of one’s life hardens the aura and allows one to drop many of the defensive habits that may have attached to one’s personality.

“Aside from serving to flush out your mind before and after magical operations, banishing is your first defense against obsessive thoughts from within and any kind of psychic attack from outside. Banishing rituals also have the side benefit of hardening the wizard’s aura, forming a psychic shell that will keep his consciousness together and deflect the piercing intrusions of the external world.”

Stephen Mace

Told to Stephen Mace by Frater O.T.L. as reported to have been invented by Austin Spare. Refer to page fifteen (section six) of ‘Stealing the Fire from Heaven’ by Stephen Mace.