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.  

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.

Satanic Names

One of the first things a newly initiated Satanist should concern themselves with is a new name.
Nomenclature has been dictated to us by the Christian church since the Norman conquest of England in 1066, when people were forced to name their children from the bible, lest they be punished severely and shunned by society.
As Satanists we are free to choose our own names, but they must be chosen carefully. Names are powerful tools that have the ability to transform personality, the way others see us, and most importantly, how we see ourselves. A name will reflect the person who bears it and vise versa. In today’s world, this power has been stolen from our names, because most people are unaware of the meaning and origin of their names. And most people don’t realize that their names are biblical, they simply think of them as normal. And they are normal, in a sense, considering that the most common names given from 1750 until now were taken from a bank of less than two-hundred Christian names.
But no longer will we take meaningless names that were once forced upon us by our Christian oppressors. As Satanists, we change our names to reflect our personalities and our desires, so that they once again hold meaning and power.
A veteran Satanist is a person of many names, used for a variety of purposes. Every Satanist should have a true name, as well as secret name, kept to yourself to prevent others from using magic against you. For as you probably know to have control over someone or something it helps immensely to know their name.

Be careful in choosing a name that once belonged to someone close to you who has died in a tragic way. Their fate may end up being yours as well.
Sexual names can also be taken on to enhance the quality of one's sex life. Men who wish to get in touch with their feminine side should take on a feminine name in the bedroom, and vise versa. Switching your sexual orientation, or at least taking on the viewpoint of the opposite sex (transference), is healthy and natural. Naming your counter sexualities (i.e. anima or animus) and playing rolls with them is a potent form of sexual sorcery, and will lead to the balance of dualities vital to obtaining personal godhood. We are all both masculine and feminine, dark and light. The phobia of exploring our true desires is only a byproduct of the canned Christianity we've been forced to consume our whole lives, and nothing more. I recommend that any one who intends to interact with Lilith be balanced and secure with their sexuality.
We draw power from our names, and formulate our characters and self-image from them, and so you should choose a name that will strengthen your personality and counter any character flaws you may have. For example, for those who feel that they are meek and wish to become more dominant, you must take on a stronger name that demands more respect.