Choosing an Image

Whether a witch is married or single, she should discover the image that she most naturally and effortlessly represents as asort of "home base."Everyone has a stereotyped counterpart that turns up whether in a movie, TV show, novel, comic strip or other form of popular media. You owe it to yourself to ride on the coattails of the established visual image that most resembles you . Wesee this game played every time a popular female personality is emulated by multitudes of women, who can find similarity intheir own appearance, however slight. The knowing witch always capitalizes on the physical typing that has been set up for her or chooses one she feels she can throw herself into. There is an old saying, "If you have the Devil's name, you should playthe Devil's game," and if people constantly give you clues to your proper image by telling you who or what you resemble,take it form there.If you are thin, with raven hair and dark eyes and your face is rather long and angular, you should capitalize on the vampiretheme and do all you can to hint at that image. If you find people always wanting to help you and taking a protective attitudetowards you, utilize a naive and innocent appearance and bearing to your advantage. If you have a "mean" look and attractmeek men, then do all you can to look meaner! Be a veritable whip and leather type. If you're getting on in years and have anose like a potato with a body to match, don't kid yourself into thinking that a facial vacuum and losing forty pounds will turnyou into a seductress. Instead, get yourself a couple of cats, fill your house full of weird bric-a-brac, learn to make cookies,and let it be known you're a witch! Soon you'll have more worthwhile male friends than you ever would have in your personality-less attempt at rejuvenation. If you're truly grotesque, with a fact that would stop ten clocks and a voice like aklaxon, turn yourself into a real hag-monster and have fun scaring the Hell out of people!In many instances stereotypes are based on very real personality traits that are relevant to the appearance presented.Consequently, a witch who chooses an image most conducive to her ready-made appearance is likely to find herself revellingin a very comfortable role. This doesn't mean that a witch must go through life playing only one role simply because she has been stereotyped into it. It all depends on your acting ability, especially when it comes to make-up and facial mannerisms.Any successful witch must be a good actress.Unfortunately, too many would-be witches who consider themselves to be good actresses wind up playing all the wrong parts! The role that is the most appealing is often the one that is represented by the "inner" or "hidden" side of one's nature.We see this all the time in the large, dominant looking, glamorous "Amazon" type who tries to act the part of a demure andnaive little girl--especially when drunk! We also observe this in the frail looking, helpless appearing, wide-eyed little creaturewho always seems to be yelling the loudest and stirring up the most trouble. These are both common examples of unsuccessful witches whose lack of opportunity lies in their refusal to "feed back," even temporarily, what their appearanceimplies. They are living counterparts of the old cliché, "To look at her you'd think she was... but just wait 'til she opens her mouth!"True, there are times when it serves a witch well to disarm her quarry by acting completely different from what is expectedof her, but these are specialized cases that will be discussed later in this book.The general rule is to become a "package deal," thereby allowing the person you are bewitching to think that they have youall figured out. This may seem a bit dismal to you who have assumed that a "witchy" type must always appear enigmatic, butI have observed that the most frustrated, unsuccessful witches are those who work at ambiguity rather than "type-casting"themselves. The only type of witch that can get away with an enigmatic image is the "femme fatale" who has a naturallystrange or unusual appearance. Needless to say, the type usually attempting the most mysterious image is the most un-mysterious looking to start with!Choose an image that goes easiest with your outward appearance and take full advantage of all that has gone before tofurther establish that image. There is nothing wrong with being type-cast if you can make it work for you!

The Myth of the White Witch

Aside from the tricks of the movie or TV witch, usually accomplished with special techniques, there is no reason why any girl who puts her mind to it and learns the proper methods cannot become a full-fledged witch in accord with the popular conception. Only those who either do not know the means to success or are too stubborn to use them, once having been told,will persist in defining themselves as witches by using the sanctimonious definitions of so-called "white witches" working for "the benefit of mankind." There will always be those who, furtively desiring personal power but unable to do anything about gaining it, will devise their own definitions of what a witch should be like, seeing to it, of course, that their definition fits themselves.The "white witch" is the by-product of an emergence in England of an above-ground witchcraft interest at a time when witchcraft was still technically illegal. In order to pursue the "craft" without harassment and prosecution, the spokesman for witchcraft attempted to legitimize and justify what they were doing by proclaiming the existence of "white" witchcraft.*"White" witchcraft, it was stated, was simply a belief in the religion of the old wise ones, or "Wicca." The use of herbs,charms and healing spells was only employed for beneficial purposes.It was to be believed that the kind of witches that were dangerous to have around were "black" witches. These were supposedly evil in their pursuits and worshiped Satan. The fact that the "good" or "white" witches employed a horned god in their ceremonies was justified because it "doesn't represent the Devil!"Of course, no one admitted to practicing witchcraft ceremonies of any kind. Anything that was associated with witchcraft was pursued in the name of "study" or "research." This was the climate in England between 1936 and 1951.With the repeal of English witchcraft laws in 1951, all of the underground witches started creeping to the surface, and as their eyes became accustomed to the light of sudden legality, they ventured forth. Unused to such freedom and heavy with the stigma of illegality, they went about shouting "white witchcraft" even louder than ever, as if expecting at any moment to be snared by a heretic hook.About this time, interest in the occult was becoming popular in the U.S., so naturally attention was focused on the British Isles with its rich heritage in all matters ghostly and fanciful. As might have been expected, newly emerged English witches saw the U.S. as a fertile stamping ground for safe recognition of their "witchiness." Concurrent with the first post-war writings out of England came the first diplomats of witchdom, and America was more than curious. Having no other literature but Margaret Murray, Montague Summers and Dennis Wheatley to read, it was assumed the new revelations by Gerald Gardiner and his followers were the straightest stuff available."White witch" became a definitive term, and thousands who wouldn't touch the practice of witchcraft with a ten-foot broomstick found a conscience-redeeming opportunity to follow the "art" by using the new rules of the game. Regardless of what these people would like to believe, the image of the witch had been stigmatized for centuries. All witches were considered to be agents of the Devil, antagonistic to scriptural teachings, and a direct part of the dark side of nature. As there is always a relative outlook as to what is good and what is evil, once witchcraft emerged from its "all evil" state into neutral territory, a differentiation was bound to occur. The righteous, of course, will always wear the mantle of "good," "white light","spiritual" and varying shades of holiness. An analogy might be made concerning "white" and "black" witches. Let us assume that warfare had, for centuries, beencalled "wholesale murder" and the men who fought called "murderers." One day it was decided that there was somethingquite noble and dignified about this old activity of wholesale murder. All the murderers, basking in the light of new-foundlegitimacy, began calling themselves "good murderers." The enemy's troops, of course, were the "bad murderers." The stigmaof the word, "murderer," still remained, but at least the good murderers felt a little more at ease. Now, maybe these murderersalways had a fairly legitimate reason for going into battle. Maybe they succeeded in saving their homeland from that whichthreatened it. They might have even had a scholar among them who had traced the origin of the word "murder" to an ancientword which meant "mother." But the fact remained, "murder" was still a negative term in the publics mind. So instead of simply revelling in their subsequent acceptance by the public, their guilts, brought about by long years of stigma, necessitatedtheir placing of the word "good" in front of "murderer" as a sort of self-reassurance that they were doing the right thing!Whenever a girl becomes a "white witch," you know she is either kidding herself or has much to learn.

Astral Projection and Shape Shifting

      Dream work is a key tool in astral projection and shape shifting.Dreams have been held to be omens and portents of the future by many cultures throughout history.When interpreting dreams, symbolism must be viewed within the context of the entire dream. You must consider the dreamer's personality and their circumstances.Meaningless dreams and nightmares can be caused by eating before you go to sleep especially if the food is spicy.Sounds such as running water, bells, or other noises can penetrate your dreams and influence them as they are registered in your mind. The position in which a person sleeps can also be influential, as can the amount of clothes and blankets they are sleeping under. Sexual dreams may be induced by sleeping naked.

Once you become proficient in dream work, you'll be able to selected any type of dream setting you wish to have. This can be achieved by doing a corresponding meditation before bed, and concentrating on the desired destination.

The first step in dream work is to start a dream journal. A plain notebook will do.If you are serious about achieving the ability to project and transform, you will probably go through quite a few notebooks before you get there. The dream journal is an important tool to have in your bag of tricks. It will bring insight into past events, help you solve the problems of the present, and even allow you to peer into the future.
It is vital that your dream journal be updated immediately upon awakening, before you do anything else. Keep it on your nightstand for easy access.Once you begin keeping a dream journal, you will notice that in a very short time you remember more of your dreams, with more clarity, and you will eventually begin to have lucid dreams.

A lucid dream is a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming, and so are able to control your movements within the dream. Lucid dreams are the precursor to astral projection. Lucid dreams are experienced more in the hours just before waking, when your in a half awake, half asleep condition.
This state is ideal to achieve astral projection. Astral projection is a term used to describe the shifting of consciousness from the physical plane to the astral plane.The experience is sometimes felt involuntarily by people who are pronounced clinically dead, and then have been revived. Such people have described themselves standing beside the operating table as doctors were working on their lifeless bodies. Some of these people have even described conversations that had taken place while they were clinically dead.

There are several methods for reaching this state intentionally. One of the more basic methods is to visualize a vivid simulation of your physical body floating above you. Once this is achieved, you will then focus on transferring your consciousness into the simulation.

Another version of this exercise is to get a full length mirror, and use your reflection as the simulation of yourself. Sit in front of the mirror, relax you physical body, and will your consciousness to enter the mirror image.

A more in depth method is to walk around the room that you'll be using with a tape recorder and describe what you see in detail. After you are satisfied with the recording, lay back and relax while visualizing your simulated self taking the tour of the room along with the recording, simultaneously willing your conscious self to transfer to the simulation.

These are just a few of many techniques available. No matter which method you chose, when you find one that works, you'll know it.You will suddenly find yourself looking around, free from your physical; body, and your visual and auditory awareness will be sharpened greatly.

You will feel a weightlessness, or a floating sensation. Most people panic at this point, causing them to snap back into their bodies immediately. But once this state has been achieved, it is easy to return, so all that remains is to overcome the surges of fear that come with your initial experience.
       You must be aware that the astral plane is subject to be inhabited by entities of other worlds, and potent black magicians from this one. You may find some to be quite helpful, while others strictly predator. The astral plane is prime feeding grounds for vampires, for with your astral body you carry the life force on which they feed.

Your astral body can pass through physical object, because it does not normally effect the physical plane. However, advanced magicians can effect the physical plane through great charges of telekinetic energy, usually as the result of channeling extreme emotion.

Also, just as you can observe the physical world from your astral body, at times your astral body can be seen by others on the physical plane. I believe that many cases of ghost sightings and poltergeist phenomenon can be explained by this. It usually takes an experienced or highly sensitive person to make these observations.

This experience can be very scary to a person who does not know what they are looking at, because the astral body is extremely malleable, and can take the shape of virtually anything. This is where the term shape shifting comes from, and many have mastered it. Using it in combination with the ability to visually manifest themselves on the physical plane, they can show themselves as anything.

The world of dreams and the astral plane are fascinating mediums through which to explore yourself and expand your psychic abilities. You can use them to understand your past, and see into your future. With practice, astral projection can be practical and efficient means by which you can travel quickly to destinations and apply your magic, spy, or launch a psychic attack.

Of the Black Mass

Incense

Incense has been used by virtually every culture practicing ritual magic throughout history. It is a versatile tool with a wide variety of applications.
Incense is used in spell craft to absorb intent and cast it into the atmosphere when burnt, and its aromatic properties can alter mood and perception to be conducive to the task at hand. Stick incense can be used as a wand to direct energy in ritual, or as a punk stick to ignite flash powder when casting sigils.
Incense can be purchased in an endless array of shapes, colors, and aromas, but for a more potent blend manufacturing your own is recommended.
When formulating your own incense recipes you will need four basic components. The first component will be an aromatic substance such as an herb or an essential oil of an herb. The second component will be a base substance that will burn easily, and give off either no scent, or a scent that will blend with you’ve chosen for your incense. The third component will a be a quick dissolving water soluble bonding agent. The bonding agent should be odorless and in powder form. Guar gum, ghatti gum, agar agar, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, tragacanth, karaya, and sodium alginate are good bonding agents.
The above three components should be combined before the fourth component is mixed in. If you are using an essential oil instead of an herb as your aromatic substance, do not add it into this step of the recipe, but instead make up for the portion with added base.
When using an herb as your aromatic substance, this mix will consist of 20 parts aromatic substance, 4 parts base, and 1 part bonding agent. If you are using an essential oil for your aromatic substance instead of an actual herb, the formula will be 24 parts base, 1 part bonding agent. The essential oil will be added to the fourth component, which is a liquid mix.
The fourth component is potassium nitrate, also called salt peter. This comes in powder form which is water soluble. The ratio of potassium nitrate to water is ¼ tablespoons to 4 tablespoons. Dissolve the salt peter completely, and add any other liquid ingredients.
Once this is done, add 1 tablespoon of liquid to 2 ½ tablespoons of the dry mixture. If needed, add ¼ tablespoon increments until the mixture is malleable.
Once this is achieved, the incense can be formed into cones, or you can pack it into straws and push a stick through the center to make stick incense.
When drying incense, use a room with good ventilation and access to the sun or a sun lamp. Always dry incense on a wood surface. Cardboard absorbs the moisture to quickly, causing the salt peter to be sucked out of the incense.
When the incense is dry, store it in brown mason jars, and keep them in a dark dry place.  

Tarot

Tarot cards work on bio-electrical principals interacting with a particular field of energy. The cards don’t actually provide answers themselves, but instead communicate answers from the sub-conscious minds of the reader and the client. The sub-conscious is aware of the subtle energies that interact with your nervous system, energies that can not be detected by the five physical senses. These interactions are assimilated to the conscious mind via the tarot cards.
There is an endless line of tarot decks, and volumes upon volumes have been written describing the various methods of spreading and interpreting them. So if you wish to become a proficient card reader, plan on making it an entire coarse of study.

Poppets

Poppets, and Voodoo or Hoodoo dolls are essentially the same thing, as they serve the same purpose. The only difference is that Voodoo dolls are made by Voodoo priests and priestesses. They are small figures made in the image of a person used in sympathetic magic.
Poppets can be made from fabric, wax plastic, paper, clay, or virtually any other malleable substance you can come up with. You can buy prefabricated dolls from any occult supply store, but making your own is recommended.
The features of the poppet should be matched as closely as possible to the features of your subject, and the sex of the poppet should be made obvious and visible. If tag locks of your subject can be obtained and added to the poppet, it will create a psychologically dramatic influence in your sub-conscious mind, and a strong metaphysical link between the poppet and the subject.

The Black Mirror

The black mirror is a tool used in the art scrying. In order to scry, you must relax the muscles in your eyes, and enter a trance state. Start by letting random images well up in the medium, and build up to using ritual readings for answers to specific questions. The trick is to let the images appear in the medium by gazing steadily onto it without concentrating to intently. This type of divinatory technique will help you to develop your intuitive faculties, and is a key element in such talents such as aura reading and psychometry.
Black mirrors can be purchased from most occult supply stores, or you can make your own. To construct a Black mirror, you will need a piece of glass with a concave surface. A clock glass (the glass disk that protects the face of a clock) works best and can be easily obtained. Clean the glass thoroughly, and paint the convex side of the glass black with a flat black spray paint. Give it several coats, letting it dry completely between coats. Once it’s dry, the concave side of the glass will be a shiny black mirror.

Black Wings

The concept of the universe is a paradox far to complex for the prosaic mind to fathom. Despite the fact that human beings have achieved a great technical prowess, there is still very little insight into the inner workings of time and space, and how they interact with our reality.
Astral projection is the universal skeleton key to the locked doors of time and space. With it we can elude the laws of this dimension and penetrate the worlds where angels and demons roam. The astral can pass through physical objects, because it does not normally effect the physical plane. However, the physical plane can be effected by the astral through great surges of telekinetic energy. Also, just as the physical plane can be seen from the astral, the astral may visually bleed into the physical. This can be a frightening experience to someone who doesn’t know what they’re looking at, especially because the astral body is extremely malleable, and may take the shape of virtually anything. (The term shape shifting means to visually manifest your astral body on the physical plane while manipulating your appearance.)
Beasts from the Abyss and beings from other worlds bleed into our reality, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. For above the sky is the darkness of space, and beyond that darkness, our galaxy, and beyond our galaxy another, and so on.
The tiny pewter figurine on the altar, while seemingly solid, is in fact composed of trillions of atoms, held together only by gravity, revolving in orbit like tiny demon planets. Each of these micro orbs can be broken down into nuclei, protons and electrons, and each of these smaller components still.
There are universes beyond and around ours, as well as below and within. From a perspective beyond ours, we are only a single demon planet whirling and revolving in the atoms of that tiny pewter figurine, and, consequently, our reality has only existed for a single season in that alien time flow.
Yet these worlds within worlds, no matter how large or small, sometimes overlap in a nexus that allows realities to collide. I believe the following story exhibits traits of such a collision. It is a paradigm of an astral reality bleeding into our own.

      Far across a desolate dessert terrain, I see a flash of light, like the reflection of a mirror in the sun, and a dark, shapeless figure appears in my field of vision.
As the figure approaches, I see that it’s cloaked in a black hooded robe, and that the strange silver talisman around its neck was the source of the flash that I saw.
Through the hood of the robe I see a pair of large red eyes peering at me from a brilliantly green complexioned face. The creature looks at me as if it has something crucially important to say, but oddly enough it isn’t equipped with a mouth.
The beast begins making a series of hand gestures, and I feel myself fading and shrinking like Alice in the rabbit hole after drinking the potion from the table. My face hits the dry dessert ground, and I see an earthworm begin to slither down into the soil. As I watch it going into the ground, my consciousness travels with it. As I sink further and further down the worm hole, I’m surrounded by blinding blackness, until I suddenly break through into open space, and I have eyes once again.
I see a voluptuous Goddess spread seductively on a black stone altar elaborately carved and gilded with silver sigils. Angels are arranged around her chanting in some ancient tongue. Their words of power culminate and the veil of darkness is torn open by a radiant light.
Lucifer steps through the astral portal and approaches an awaiting Lilith. The suggestive posture of the Goddess is aimed invitingly towards Lucifer, and he accepts her invitation by mounting her with the enthusiasm of a feral cat ripping into its prey. The two twist and contort in a vivid display of artistic pornography, and finally contract in potent orgasm.
Lilith swells and comes to term before my eyes, (an instant in this world, an eternity in the next) and her magical children are born on the royal alter of the Abyss. Legion after legion of the demon hatchlings slither off of the altar and fly off into the darkness. One of the new born beasts flies by and plucks me from my perch with its scaled talons, and we glide through the Abyss towards what appears to be a shiny black liquid surface. The demon flies into the slick black liquid, and as we burst through, I wake up.
The scent of sulfur invades my nostrils as I snap back into consciousness. I sit up in cold sweat like a dope sick junky, and I feel as if I’m being watched.
When I turn my attention toward my altar, I see a pair glowing red eyes peering out of my black mirror. The eyes dissipate and a black mist swirls out of the mirror. The mist begins forming the silhouette of a beast, man shaped, but taller than any ape known to this world.
Fully formed, the creature raises a clawed hand and procures a black orb emanating an ominous glow. The demon whips the orb downward, smashing the black mass into the floor while simultaneously evaporating into thin air.
Shards of glowing embers lye burning in the aftermath. Upon closer inspection, I discover a runic formula that makes a profound impression in my mind.
I awaken again, this time to the fluttering of what sounded like giant wings. I jump up expecting to find myself in the company of the beast once again. When I scanned the room, I found that I was alone, but my black mirror lay in shards on my altar.

Vision from the Dark Goddess

For those who have chosen to walk the Left Hand Path, it is imperative that you gain the vision of the Dark Goddess (Lilith), and become aware of your True Will.
The ancient ritual prescribed in these pages will open your psychic awareness, and a door to another world, that, once open, can never be shut.
There is quite a bit of preparation involved, but this working will prove to be one of the most rewarding experiences of your magical career.
But before you even consider taking this journey into the belly of the Abyss, you must be mentally, spiritually, and physically in tune. This is not a task for the feeble minded, or weak of stomach, for some of the things you see may shock and disturb you. Some Visions will be very vivid, and clear in meaning, while others may be murky and purely symbolic. Your visions should be recorded as as accurately as possible for later analization.
The over all effect of thus working will last a life time, but there may be an after shock of visions at unexpected moments for weeks after the spell is cast.
The spell should be cast on the Dark/New moon, after the sun goes down. Your Altar should be equipped with the standard items (see the Satanists Tool Box), as well as nine willow wands bound together with black cord, a dark mug of Datura tea, and ritual offerings of owl feathers, snake skin, Datura leaves and or a semi-precious black stone such as serpentine or black onyx. You may also wish to have a dark bean bag chair or cushion in front of your altar on which to sit comfortably, as you will be sitting for several hours.



















                           
                     ~The Spell~
On the night of the Dark moon, in a dimly lit environment, perform the opening ritual (see Satanic Rituals and Sabbats). Once this is done, seat yourself comfortably in front of the altar, pick up the willow wands with your left hand, set them ablaze in the Black Flame, hold them over the mug of tea, and watch the reflection in the dark liquid. Dowsing the burning branches in the tea, say: Hail to the Dark Goddess Lilith, Queen of the night and psychic sight! Visions in the dark are your gifts to us! Through them we see what has been, what is, and what will be. Take me through the inner realms of the Abyss to see what I must see. Cast your Infernal wisdom upon me Serpent Goddess, so that I may understand the visions that you show me. Bless me with your sacred sight, so that I may see through the mask of this worlds glamour, and guide me down the Left Hand Path as your priest(ess).
Drink the tea, and peer into the black mirror with an open mind and open heart. Once you receive your vision(s), (this may take several hours) kneel before the altar and say: Thank you for the visions you have shown stay me. May your blessings go with me on this night, and with me for nights to come.
Perform your banishings, and leave your offerings in a place were they will not be disturbed.