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The Occult: News for armchair and practicing metaphysical skeptics.
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Is it possible to cast an evil spell on someone by just using ones identification card?? Can someone bind someone by just putting a hex or a curse on their identity card?? I am spiritually getting attacked these days
Hi everyone! I apologize in advance for any naivety. I’ve been lurking on this subreddit for a little bit and my knowledge is quite limited. As the title suggests I have been having trouble sleeping lately with hellish lifelike nightmares and it seems that when I wake up from one in the middle of the night, if I am able to go back to sleep the same nightmare continues as if someone paused and pressed play on a fucked up movie. These nightmares have all dealt with the deaths of the little and immediate family I have so I’m losing sleep and don’t know where to go. Any thoughts or suggestions would be most welcomed.
What methods can potentially work the best for accessing hidden information, or information you couldn't get by ordinary means? And how could someone target the specific information they are looking for?
Hi everyone,
I’m in a bit of a pickle and could really use your guidance. I need to access exactly $1600 by the end of January to give the love of my life the birthday trip of his dreams. This is extremely important to me because he’s been such an amazing partner, always supporting and providing for me even when I’ve been at my lowest. I want to show him how much he means to me by making this his best birthday ever!
Here’s the challenge: I resigned from a toxic job last year to protect my mental health. While it was the right decision, I don’t have any active source of income right now, and my savings are completely depleted.
I am willing to do whatever it takes to make this happen. I’ve heard of people petitioning deities for help, and I’d love to know:
1. Which deity would be perfect for this type of request? Someone who can help me manifest money and opportunities quickly, without testing my faith, because I don’t think I can handle additional challenges right now.
2. What kind of offerings do they prefer? I want to make sure I’m honoring them properly.
3. How do I know my petition has been accepted? I’m curious to know what their presence feels like and how I’ll recognize their signs.
4. How do I ensure my request is expedited? I’m ready to commit to performing a ritual every single day until this dream comes true.
If anyone has experience with this or can guide me, I would be eternally grateful. This birthday trip means everything to me, and I want to give my partner a gift he’ll never forget. Thank you so much in advance for your help!
Sending you all love and light
While growing up, my father would insist that I never sit or lay on the bed for anything else apart from sleeping. He said that he had been raised by my grandfather with the belief that there is a deeper spiritual or occult reason for using the bed for only sleeping. Do you have any insights on why that might be the case?
So, essentially my father insisted that no sitting on the bed for reading, no meditations in bed, no computer surfing on bed. Only sleeping.
My father was extremely strict about this rule in his life. Now that neither my parents or grandparents are alive, I have no one to ask but you people.
Seere is a good helper.
I believe in the God of Isarel, God of Abraham, and God of Issac. I followed the steps of the goetia ritual and summoned Seere.
It took me a long time to stay in the circle before Seere presented himself.
Seere did not present physcially nor appeared in humanoid form, but an form of energy, which has thought, sensations, intellect and understanding.
I felt Seere presence and asked him questions.
He peacefully answered my questions telepathically. The answers are clearly not within the understanding of modern humanity. He said he tried politely.
I also asked him to perform some tasks for me peacefully. The tasks are beneficial for me and people around me, with nothing and no one being harmed nor disturbed. Harmed none.
After the ritual, the light of the ceiling worked no more. And a few months after, I had chances seeing handsome men riding handsome horses, by attending professional horse racing events and competitions at work. I learnt the rules and joy of professional horse riding and horse training.
People who love this sport like my presence.
I also influence other people practicing horse riding, or journaling about horse races.
I see he is performing his tasks. I made him a sigil made of silver, which will last as long as it can on this physical universe and I now write about it to celebrate the connection between I and Seere.
Hey everyone! I'm a psychologist and I'm working on a course/book all about self-knowledge for spiritual folks.
I've noticed that a lot of magick practices can be really affected by not knowing yourself well. I'm in the middle of creating this thing and I'd love to hear from you: what are the biggest mental roadblocks you face when you're doing your rituals?
I'm thinking of keeping things pretty broad, without focusing on any specific type of ritual. My goal is to create something that's helpful for everyone, from the conservative Christian who just prays, to the Satanist who does full-on rituals with pentagrams and candles.
Thanks for your help!
There's an old lady who keeps offering small titbits/snacks to people around her. Even though I've refused, she insists and forces them into my hand. She does this to everyone in the neighborhood. I wonder, does this result in an exchange of energy or something?
Edit: old aunty is not those kind of lonely single old woman. She is often seen with her grandson etc.
Hi i wanted to know how to work with the Archangel Haniel,
I first heard about her through Kabbalah/Qabalah videos, specifically the Chicken Qabalah & hearing about Rabbis talking about her
My background is Christian, but i wanted to work with her for a relationship & hopefully fix one with someone specific
So far i know that she likes friday’s & venus hour, but i’m unsure on what kind of candle to use or anything else that would help
Another question is she linked to the 4th Pentacle of Venus
Any advice is greatly appreciated
Can anyone give out any real justice spells that work? With fast results? For someone who has been financially taken advantage of and to the point of abused and even blackmailed to get money,which I'm pretty sure is a felony
So as the thread says I've always struggled to visualize things in my mind. I can grasp the concepts but forming a clear picture feels almost impossible.
I don't know if I actually have aphantasia or if I'm just bad at visualization from lack of practice. Someone once told me that things like TV and videos make visualization a lot harder because we're less reliant on it then in the past. I don't know how true that is.
Are practices involving visualization completely cut off to me because that seems like it will severely limit my practice?
It's incredibly frustrating because I've had nothing but success with the sigil work I've done but I want to move beyond that.
Not visualzation practice books more rituals or invocation books that have rituals for this purpose (no demons lol)
Hi, I bought an obsidian mirror and I am learning to scry. But I can't find any source online to tell me the meanings behind the symbols you see while scrying. Can someone help me with this? Thanks a lot!
I know about the books. I have one, but most of it is just the author trying to convince me masons are good. No actually useful information. I guess the others are also like that, but even if they aren't, I will still restrain myself from reading them.
I want to learn more about the dark secrets of Freemasonry. I already read an article proving they worship the Devil, which makes me wonder how many other secrets there are?
I can't go to a lounge, and I mainly want to learn about some sites or forums that have info about the topic.
Title basically, I’m most interested in Saturn at the Top and who is the person at the very bottom?
Hello,
is it possible to be a Setian (or to follow the Left-Hand Path in general) while also identifying as an atheist or nihilist (with some agnostic doubts)? My worldview is essentially a blend of the philosophies of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Stirner.
I’m inquiring about this because of the non-dogmatic nature of the Temple of Set, which suggests a certain openness to individual perspectives.
While the Church of Satan may appear to align more closely with my worldview on the surface, I still have my reservations.
Thank you already in advance!
David Lynch's death at 78 has been announced by the BBC and other news sources. His work showed the hidden forces behind everyday life. His work with Transcendental Meditation and Mark Frost's with Dion Fortune's Psychic Self Defense and other occult text helped create Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks and other works by Lynch made the world less lonely by capturing how mysterious, dangerous and beautiful life really is for so many of us. This mystical aspect made his work unique and satisfying like all great art which arises from occultism.
Hi there,
I just wanna ask some questions is it true that you can bargain to the demon or to join in some occult to get rich? If so how this works or how to start in it?
Thank you 😊
So I'm trying to learn about servitor basically more like how how create one since i already know what they are. But I'm looking for a book which gets to the point and not have alot of words, that's when i found one made by Damon brand and another one by john kreiter. My question is, is the one by john kreiter good enough? Someone told me it doesn't have much text as damon brand. If anyone read it and tried it lemme know how it went and if it worked. :)
So as the title says ive been an atheist for around 12 years, but with lsd experiences I was able to understand and connect more with my spiritual side. I’ve been doing the middle pillar and LBRP for a few weeks now and it feels amazing. Please Suggest me your routine practice similar to the ones I do and if you have any advice in general I would be very grateful. ty.
hi there just look for recommendations on sea magic/witch craft or any occult practices that might relate to the topic
Based initially as a response to a thread here on Reddit, I have expanded my post into a blog with some additional details. You can read it here:
https://mishkan-ha-echad.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-holy-guardian-angel-in-golden-dawn.html
So I'm asking for those who are religious like myself and also believing in the Occult.
Edit: To clarify to help with discussion, I am a Buddhist myself but am happy to hear from anyone's personal account of how they do this from any religion. I think hearing from others would also help a lot.
I've always had some awareness of the occult but never really practiced or followed it closely, I held some believe in Magick but never really concentrated on it much. It was relatively recently when I started trying a few things that I realized it's real. Like so far everything I've tested out of curiosity has worked to some degree, and at this stage I hold a few things as undeniable. As well as this my prior experiences before reading have all just been reinforced as I've been discovering books and writings describing my experiences and findings to a T.
One thing I've been struggling with though is my religious beleives, not in a moral sense, but like in an understanding of religion. In my own there's a model of how the world works given to us exactly, yet the thing's that seem quite true in the Occult at times seem to contradict it. How can my religion be true as a guide if it's revelations and teachings somehow missed all of this?
Does anyone have any advice? Do people just hold the theories of the Occult may be wrong but the results are real? That maybe the religious founder couldn't grasp it all like they can't grasp all of science in their time? That the occult can actually fit into their religion's model of the universe somehow?
Any insight at all is appreciated.
Hey, just a quick question, so it came to mind - as I'm sure there's a lot of do's and don't's at crossroads - Is there anything about walking circles in crossroads? I tried a quick Google search and only got some result - a saying for going nowhere.
Apologies if this is trivial but I have been reading over, in the Nag Hamadi compilation, the ‘Discourse of the Eighth and Ninth’, a Hermetic text. I am curious as to whether there is a way to see/read, online, a copy or scan, etc., of the manuscript. Is there anywhere I can read it in its original form? Thank you.
A beautiful book and lovely author. We are thoroughly enjoying this. Miss Billington is one of a kind; exceptional writer.
Seems very old.