rune logix

goetic evocation

RL: It sounds like you are or were in an unusal group of people that do things instead of just talking.

** And as such I refuse to be part of a group that does not do work. The revelation is in the pragmatism. There is nothing that cannot be gained by performance versus theorizing. That doesn't mean you don't do your prep work- but to do all that prep and then never DO is the stuff of amateurs. Magick is an art and a science, not a theory. Both art and science require actual work. Theory without practice- Fuck that.

RL: I appreciate your straight forward attitude as well. It is clear to me that you've had successful workings. With what kind of people and format did your group operate as?

*** The group was a bunch of us that decided to give Goetia a try for about three years. One was from a craft group I had trained with (a combination of Basque and Traditional English craft), one was a friend I had known for years whose father was very active in the SoCal OTO and one was a Palero friend of mine. We met every week for four hours for thre first three months reviewing our needs, and then every other week for the next three starting to build, and then started fasting and completeing the materials. We started after nine months of preparation, and evoked on the average about once a month, but not without purpose- they were always either to follow up a previous evocation, or to call a different demon. After the next year we were very used to eachother, our working style, and could see the results. We stayed working for about a year longer, and then we decided to not work with regularity any more. That was in 2004. We've worked twice since then, when need called for it, and have added an additional worker. We don't consider ourselves adepts, by any means, nor even a solid group- we work well together, and we work together. I hope that answers your question.

RL: In part to Duquett's and Crowleys suggestion of evoking the spirits with the Enochian Calls, I
have been studying them to do the same. It has been interesting already going over the Enochian  words over and over trying to memorize them puts me into a very meditative state very quickly.  Have you have experience or ideas about this?

** As much as I love the sound of Enochian- it was more important for me to be able to feel commanding- so I stuck to Latin when it was my turn to evoke. Xanthi, one of my co-conjurers, she is very proficient in languages (she speaks at least 12 fluently) had no problem adding the pseudo language of Enochian. She's good like that. Both produced tangible results. However, we found that using both together was FANTASTIC. I spoke in Latin, she spoke in Enochian, and one of us would be praying while the other was observing, or both of us would be praying while Tom would 'work.' Etc. She evoked in Enochian. I evoked in Latin. We got very good at using the sound contrasts/ harmonics of Enochian and Latin. It also worked VERY effectively to reprimand spirits in Latin AND Enochian. They knew WE were in charge. I would think that if you have the propensity towards Enochian, then use it. But for me I think the prayers should be memorized. You will change them in part in time, but you have to have the basis to start.

RL: I have also been thinking a great deal about enviornment. For some reason the isolated outdoors either on a beach, mountain, or forest, seems to be ideal for the working. My intuition is that outside human influence like cars or airplanes or yelling could bring about terrible consequences. I imagine your workings were indoors, is this correct?

*** They were in an old foundation of a silo in upstate New York. Half indoors, half outdoors, I guess. It helped because we could set up a "temple" and control the environment.

RL: I believe Christopher Hyatt suggested masking tape could be used for the magic circle and I have heard elsewhere that the more ornament the spirits sigil the better chance for a successful working. How much is that true?

*** I worked as a set designer and scenic painter. I followed the 'traditional' as much as I can. I painted (adding things to the paint) on quarter inch luan and plywood. We added our own names of deity, in their respective languages/ scripts, but we were sure to include the traditional- to have the solid base that has worked. How did we know it would work if we followed the instructions? We didn't. In all truth- we had known no one that had actually completed a goetic working, save Lon DuQuette, who I had met a few times back in LA at some classes. His insights were very helpful, and while I appreciate his views- I like the 'trappings' of the texts- because I come from a Santeria family- I'm not afraid of 'gross'ness in ritual and ritual consecration. Xanthi- she's fierce. Her preferred method of divination is exstipacy- reading entrails- in particular chicken. End point. The more effort put in, the more the tools and temple have in them- there is power/ache/indarra in the work. Something many "magicians" are afraid of nowadays. Our sigils were made in wax with shards of the appropriate metal- and as reward we gave the spirits a permanent sigil- each of us did- the primary querent had the biggest made, and the rest of us got small 3 inch disks made.

RL: The first time I ever went to an OTO meeting I saw your traditional green colored red eyed flying demon for a split second near the Body Master of the Oasis. So I think I will know when something else is the room. Within the limits to protect your magic, what can you describe that another person might come across?

*** Personally, I favor group working for this reason - the other people there can save your life. They can be eyes when you are not. Each of us saw something in the triangle. Usually two of us saw the same thing- but the spirit manifested visually different to eveyrone there, and often "spoke" in our minds in different languages and voices. Other times we all saw the same thing and heard the same thing- and this usually happened when we were reprimanding. When we started cursing the demon, threatening its sigil, the demon became uniform in voice rather quickly- some more than others (higher ranks are definately more defiant and harder to control, and less likely to freak out). The newest co-conjurer was surprised when he SAW something- he had never 'seen' before- and it freaked him out a little. We had to protect him- the demon saw him as the weak link IMMEDIATELY.

RL:  I had a breakthrough understanding of the Enochian tablets this weekend. The golden dawn had a technique where you visualize a (single or multiple) square you were on for the beings involved and imagine the energy inside a pyramid without it's apex with the Enochian letters above you and the symbols of the square on each side of the pyarmid.

*** Yes. Lon DuQuette discussed this. I have two sets of the tablets which are truncated pyramids that I made. One with computer keys, which are slightly oblong truncated pyramids, and then one in wood. I enjoy making things. Again, power in the work. I don't do much Enochian work, but figured making the tablets would help my understanding of them.

RL: Are there similar astral visualizations useful for denziens on the xenoside?

*** We developed some visualizations, but I think the best way to learn of the other side is to DO it. Some of the 'meditations' we came up with would make much more sense once you evoke.

via jesse

the crooked course of thelema

some of my visitors may be familiar with the web site known as the oto phenomenon.  this is the most definitive site on the history and writings of radical occultism online.  it also appears to have a very negative slant about the subjects contained therein.  liber III is the most direct of crowleys writings on the thelemic path:

"2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into saying that thou art sworn   to avoid, cut thyself sharply upon the writs or forearm with a razor; even as   thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Unicorn the claws and   teeth of the Lion?

3. Thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. Thou shalt   write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant   at all times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue.

Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free."

the physical is also figurative: thelemic inspired texts have no problem with the sysmbolism of violence as it stands to acquire "True Will."

which brings us back to peter r. koenig.  his extremely detailed insider account of the OTO and related magical orders is at once enlightening and shocking.  if i didn't know better, i would think that peter koenig has an axe to grind.  i would think this gentleman has taken off the gloves about some matter or other.

i knew a thelemite that liked to say that thelema was sharp as a razor blade:  if you miss your head,  you'll cut off your arm. (hopefully, figuretivly speaking, you poor serious souls!)

on oaths

 What most fail to realize is that a Fraternal Oath is always a double-
edged sword.  It is two-sided, applies fifty-fifty and the karma goes to he
who violates it first, the Order or the individual.  No organization should
ever be so presumptuous or arrogant as to believe that it is karmically
exempt from its own actions.  Fraternities should heed the lesson of The
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn which fell into disgrace due to its
antics, as Crowley has so eloquently pointed out in numerous places.  First
of all, when a person takes an initiation he or she does not sign their life
away.  You might ask, "But isn't a Fraternal Oath taken for life?" I can only
answer, yes and no.  It all depends whether or not the individual remains a
member of the fraternity or if he or she quits or was expelled.  Obviously,
once outside the fraternity the individual is no longer bound by these
archaic Oaths.  This in itself should give you a hint as to the true power of a
Fraternal Oath.  Its only 'power' lies in the fact that members within the
structure give it validity and in return they get specific annuities as
promised by the Order's written tenets.  It's all fifty-fifty.
      If the OTO violates its written tenets or fails to enforce its own
Rules, Regulations & Bylaws then its membership automatically becomes
free of the Oaths and Obligations which they have sworn to that Order.

http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/rf/rf3.htm

egregor of baphomet

It is possible that the head idol was intended to represent the severed head of John the Baptist, based on allegations that he was revered by the Order. The Templars took part in the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in 1203-4. Robert de Clari described the opulence and numerous relics at the sacred chapel of the Boucoleon Palace, amongst them supposedly the head of John the Baptist. An egregore is a magical entity that is artificially created by the focused thoughts and desires of a medium (analogous in many ways to Tibetan tulpas.) Supposedly a medium or statue could then serve as a tenant for the egregore, nourished by the sexual life-powers of the members.

"The Egregora does exist in the so-called 'astral plane' and it is a demon, that is to say, an illusory entity. It is not a true Microcosm, but a gestalt of vitalized shells, a focus for everything that is negative, defeatist, maudlin, bigoted, introverted in human nature - a morass completely hostile to progress and to the spiritual evolution of mankind."

[ this is a direct quote of Marcelo Ramos Motta ]

The representation of the egregore as bust recalls the ancient literary tradition of animated statues or Salome, who wanted the head of John the Baptist, probably to master his visionary powers. The classic prototype of such an egregore is Baphomet, the alleged egregore of the Templars, who was (as the Roman Emperor of the Gods) likewise worshipped in the form of a bust. In the secret statutes of the Templars, Baphomet was besought with the introduction to the Qu'ran and dismissed with the 24th chapter of the Book of Sirach.

-- Noel Currer-Briggs, The Shroud and the Grail

thelemic calander program

this program is totally cool.  it gives the calandar format of the thelemic calander which is a more accurate calander for magical calculaations and astrological events than the normal calandar, and includes the era vulgaris date as well.

http://www.mysticalinternet.com/software/td.htm

current reading list

[partial list of highest priority works]

To Unsense the Subjectile, Jacques Deirrdia
Runelore, Edred
Nine Doors of Midgard 3rd edition, Edred
Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall
Uncle Setneckt's Guide to the Left Hand Path, Don Webb
The Egyptian Revival, Frater Achad
Duncans Rituals
Northern Magic, Edred
Generation Hex (reread), Jason Louv editor
Lecture on Religious Symbolism, Manly P. Hall
The General Principals of Astrology, Aleister Crowley
Tarot of Ceremonial Magic, Lon Milo Duquette
Enochian Magic Reference, Benjamin Rowe
The Enochian Calls, John Dee & Edward Kelley
Antonin Artaud: Selected Works, Susan Sontag
Set / Horus, Benjamin Rowe
At The Mountains of Madness, HP Lovecraft

quote of the day

"if it begins with the word fu i dont trust it."

--theda, commenting on haight street restaurants

Empyrean Hypostasis Genotype

rune logix turns 24 on sunday.  i will be out celebrating all day.  Reyn Til Runa!

quote for the day

"i think the data center move is going to be too easy sober."

--coworker

Uncle Chuckie, an Interview

Under the radar yet highly influential, Uncle Chuckie is a master of the meta Psionic technology that  is shaping the occult mindstream at present.


More focused on the human mind than Tesla, and more interested in the direct effects of technology on humans than Edison, Uncle Chuckie presents a unique synthesis of scientific and magical applications in the history of magical inventors.

Uncle Chuckie has created a range of devices that actually manipulate the aetheric and orgone levels of the human body. 

Beyond this, his courses on Psionics and magical techniques for realizing your desires are the first rate renditions by a person that actually uses magic in his day to day life. You don't get the impression you are being sold to another guru telling you to do things because he says so.  This makes Uncle Chuckie approachable and self effacing in the best ways one could hope to be.

Lets see what he has for us today:

RL: Let me start off by saying I'm greatly honored to have this interview with you.  Let's dive right in!

Sure.  I just hope your computer doesn't explode. :)

RL: Tell me about yourself and what psionics has done to your life?

It wrecked it.  Just kidding.  I've doing this stuff for nearly 30 years now and doing magick for 40 so it's really hard to say what my life would have been like without it.

It has made things much easier, sometimes spectacularly so and certainly kept it from getting boring.  I would not have been likely to have become a minor cult figure without it.

RL: The Psionics Manefesto is a bold document.  What can say has led you to the conclusion that "We are the Masters of the Universe?"

I've long been interested in the social consequences of this stuff and let us be honest--psionics stacks the deck.  A person who can use it effectively does not have to worry much about a lot of the things that beset the rest of humanity because it provides an element of control and power that otherwise would not be present.

In the final analysis, psionics gives the individual the ability to project power in ways that are usually confined to nation states and he can do it from the comfort of his living room.

RL: By far your must serious work I have encountered is Liber Chuckie.  Abraxas himself speaks directly to you with an extremely important message to mankind.  Can you describe the circumstances of this vision and what effects it has had on your life?

That is a hard one to talk about.  You have to take such communications with some salt and skepticism but it was a fascinating experience to encounter something like that.

It came about as a result of me just sort of playing around with one of my instruments, a console unit somewhat bigger than the tools I put in my books and on the website and a helmet.  I was just sort of snorfing around the astral and surprise, I find myself in this weird environment.

I try not to let it have too much effect on my life. I know that sounds strange, but if one is to function in the real world, one must keep a tight lid on oneself.  Too many people have such experiences and do foolish things because of them.

RL: Lets talk about magic.  How do you employ magic in your daily life, and what place does technology have to play?

I view magick as a tool for making life interesting and more convenient, so when I use it is to get some worldly result, which means that the practice is not a daily thing, I don't get up at 4 AM to salute the Sun God, for example, but I do spend a lot of time finding new and often old, very old, techniques that might be of value.

Magick is intimately related to human technology, only folks just don't see it that way very often. There was a time when drums were cutting edge and there were great disputes no doubt in the caves as to which animal skins were proper for getting the spirits to do their work.  And when steel was invented, the bronze knife became a tool of the past.

So the use of various technologies in magick is simply a part of the natural progression of things.  I can relate better to a box with dials on it than I can to a circle drawn on the floor and candles.  And younger magicians relate better to purely digital technology because they did not have a childhood when the mysterious little people appeared in the box in the living room after you turned three or four dials.

RL: I love late 1930s Flash Gorden films and other cultural icons of that era.  Can you describe your
early influences, and what made them a part of who you are?

Flash Gordon was a biggie, no doubt about that.  But the comic books of my childhood were an even greater influence.  As I look back on them, there were certain characters, villains, that really had an effect on me, particularly a one-time character, the Martian in the Iron Mask, who had mind control powers related to mass hypnosis, the Invisible Destroyer, who had a cool helmet, wonderful control panel, and fed off of nuclear energy, and, of course, Dr. Doom!

You add them together and you get a lot of Uncle Chuckie, no doubt about that.

RL: Your Wardbusting page made me bust out laughing with your comments on Wiccans.  For the record, can you describe your feelings about Wicca for our readership?

I have little patience with it and its pretensions.  I find the public utterances of its principal authors and speakers to be self-righteous gibberish designed to control people and make them follow their party line.  After all, that is all their silly Law of Three really is, a means of saying, "If you do things we don't approve of bad things will happen to you."

Well, bad things happen to everyone and when the sun goes nova the just and the unjust will fry alike.

RL: What kind of projects are you up to, or have planned for the future?

I'm starting work on a psionic grimoire.  I wrote a psionic magick course some years ago but it is far too broad and the material in my Psionic Power that utilizes the spirits of the Goetia does not cover
things as fully as I would like, so that is my next project.  And instructional videos, teaching people
how to make gadgets, sort of a psionic Wally's Workshop, as soon as I can get the equipment and good workplace to do that in.


RL: What is the best way for people to find out more information about your work and teachings?

From me, of course.  Just look at my website,
www.geocities.com/c_cosimano

RL: Do you have any opinions of the Temple Of Set or the work of Anton LaVey?

I seem to be unique in that I actually like LaVey.  He
was a showman and he had an innate capacity to create magick as theater, which most ritual really is. People read his stuff and shake their heads, but it is
not meant to be read, it is meant to be performed, and that can be done quite effectively.

As far as the Temple of Set is concerned, some of their stuff is very similar to mine, in fact a number of years ago I performed a public ritual and afterwords someone was heard to say that I had stolen some of the material I used from the TOS, only to have a member of the TOS respond that they had stolen it from me!

I seem to be unique in that I actually like LaVey.  He was a showman and he had an innate capacity to create magick as theater, which most ritual really is. People read his stuff and shake their heads, but it is not meant to be read, it is meant to be performed, and that can be done quite effectively.

As far as the Temple of Set is concerned, some of their stuff is very similar to mine, in fact a number of years ago I performed a public ritual and afterwords someone was heard to say that I had stolen some of the material I used from the TOS, only to have a member of the TOS respond that they had stolen it from me!

RL:  That's great!  Thank you for joining me on rune logix today! 

Be sure to check out Uncle Chuckies videos and downloadable PDF files on his web site, available at:

www.geocities.com/c_cosimano