Izabael Muses: Ramblings of a Renegade Djinn

Do not pay for spiritual truth.

OK, this blog is in response to many different emails in which paying for something spiritual was asked for.  Apparently it is common practice to SELL such things as genies, love spells, and other forms of spirituality on the Internet.  I get regular offers asking ME to sell them the secret of I.Z.A.B.A.E.L.

OK people, listen up.  DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from ANYONE claiming to sell "magickal secrets" or "spiritual truths"!  I know this is a difficult concept for people in a consumerist society, but there are actually things in this world that money can not buy.  Enlightenment is one of them, and so is magick.

You should never have to pay for any kind of spiritual truth! It is out there, free of charge, for those willing to do the work and research.  There ARE real teachers out there--but they will either help you for free or not at all.  I'm sorry but any "guru" who charges for his or her teachings is a quack.  That goes no matter what their religion and excuse for doing so.

So in a nutshell: spiritual hustlers gall me.

No one can sell you spiritual truth. It is earned through study, meditation, and practice.  This is especially true of magick.  Nothing can be given to you except a few hints or sign posts.  It's all out there for those with the intelligence AND diligence to dig in and start searching and practicing for themselves.

Now as far as anyone who wants to buy the secrets of my magick:

I am a Thelemite.  I do not sell magick, genies, or "ways to get a lover."  No one who is a true Thelemite will ever sell you anything intended to help your spiritual growth! 

I'm here as an example.  That's my payment back to the universe-- to be a small but distinct light for other pilgrims upon the trail.   If people ask me about my happiness then I am available to explain how I've attained it.

Everything on how to properly utilize Izabael is either explained in her FAQ and the books listed therein.  Sure, it requires some study, practice, and "reading between the lines," but you are welcome to post on my forums and even ask me your concerns in private.  I answer all intelligent queries regarding magick and the use of Izabael the genie.

 

xoxoxo,

Izabael DaJinn

 

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If we evolved, how can there be magick?

If there is no guiding divine intelligence, if there are no spirits, if we all just evolved perfectly naturally from single celled organisms, into reptiles, into early mammal-reptiles, into mammals, into primates, and eventually into humans, then how can such a thing like magick work? 

It must be superstitious nonsense, right?

I suppose that depends on what we mean by "magick."

For me, in the most simplest terms, magick means consciously affecting my subconscious in such a powerful way that my subconscious mind will help lead me to "what I want." 

The conscious mind, however useful in day to day functioning, can often times be an enemy to long term goals.  It voices too many "negatives" for one thing.  "What if I can't ____" or "What if I fail?" etc.  The conscious mind can be a real PITA, let's face it.  Also the conscious mind can only be aware of a few things at once--any more than that and the external stimuli is pushed into the subconscious. 

So for me, magick is a technology for utilizing the power of the subconscious mind, which I believe contains *naturally evolved powers* that we do not yet fully utilize.  Even when using "demons" or "genies" all I am doing is using my conscious mind to tap into energies floating around in my subconscious, and if you were to extend that, to a universal subconscious, where our mythic archetypes are stored (ala C.G. Jung).

Magick for me is constantly evolving.  I don't claim to know how it all works, anymore than modern scientists really have a grasp of how all the layers of human consciousness work and relate to each other.  I experiment, and stick with the most effective methods while disregarding the ones that don't seem to work. 

I don't believe in "hocus pocuses." I believe in effectiveness, and I judge a magick's effectiveness on its consistent ability in improving the quality of my life and those around me.  Simple as that. 

I don't think a belief in other realms, such as heaven, or a belief in "souls", or ghosts, or spirits flying around, or a belief in life after death are necessary to magick--and in many ways I feel these beliefs can be disingenuous to magick as they take the focus away from the present--from our evolved humanity--and from basic scientific principles. 

Magick should never go against established facts of nature, only enlighten them and lead them in new directions.

 

xoxoxo,

Izabael DaJinn

 

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How to Trigger an Earthquake

It's no secret that SoCal is due for a big earthquake.  They can apparently predict with fair certainty we will get something like a 7.8-magnitude temblor within the next 30 years.  30 years?  That's not very precise, is it?

But what if we think SoCal, especially Los Angeles, NEEDS an earthquake?

Maybe you agree with the guys from Tool:

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of Freaks
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.

 

The idea that California may actually wash into the ocean with an earthquake is fantastical, of course.  But metaphorically it's a nice idea.

So what if we want that quake sooner rather than later?  What can we do??

Let's turn to magick (specifically The Key of Solomon the King [Clavicula Salomonis] by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers), shall we?

  
Figure 17. The Seventh and Last Pentacle of Saturn

"This Pentacle is fit for exciting earthquakes, seeing that the power of each order of Angels herein invoked is sufficient to make the whole Universe tremble."

 

This sounds promising!  Now I don't think just one little person (even a demon like me!) can cause the whole Earth (or even California) to shake violently all by themselves, but what if a LOT of people poured their energy into this talisman?   Regularly...every time they were pissed off at the way the world is now, every time they wanted to shake things up--to start things over!   Oh, maybe, then just maybe we might get somewhere....

Cuz I'm praying for rain
And I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Time to bring it down again.

Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

 

*iza

What is in a name? I.Z.A.B.A.E.L.

We all know what Shakespeare (through Juliet) says about names:

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

But what is in *my* name specifically? 

Izabael is not just my name, but my magickal motto.  The letters of the name I.Z.A.B.A.E.L. define my very formula for living.

There are seven letters because of my connection to Netzach, the sphere of Venus, which is the seventh Sephirah on the Tree of Life.  Also seven is name of Babalon.  "Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is B.A.B.A.L.O.N." (From the Book of Lies by A. Crowley)

By Gematria, adding up the letters of my name gets to 56.  I=10, Z=7, A=1, B=2, A=1, E=5, L=30. 

Fifty-six is the number of "Nu" which is a short form of Nuit, who as she says herself in Liber AL:  "I am Nuit, and my word is six and fifty.  Divide, add, multiply, and understand."

This connection is strong with me.  I desire nothing but pleasure and joy for all humans, as does the Goddess Nuit. 

Each of the seven letters has a chapter to add to the story of my life as well.  It is no coincidence my name starts with a "Yod" in Hebrew, which at its most concise symbolizes spermatozoa.  It also no coincidence that my name ends with the Hebrew Lamed, which corresponds to the tarot card called Justice.

Why the "Z" instead of an "S"?  Zayin, the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet among others, means sword.  The sword not only cuts, i.e. analyzes, it is also the traditional magickal weapon of the element air.  Also the "S" sound doesn't resonate as well as "Zzz" when you are chanting (i.e. "vibrating") for a ritual. 

The "Zzz" sound produced when properly intoning "Izzzzabael" becomes the lightning strike of her energy coming down from heaven into earth.  (Also it reminds me of the "Zzz" sound in the god Pazzuzu, who is the king of the demons of the wind in Assyrian and Babylonian mythology.)

In the center of Izabael is ABA, which is Hebrew for father.  This is because of the influence from the spirit Seere, who is a "male" spirit traditionally: 

"The Seventieth Spirit is Seere, Sear, or Seir. He is a Mighty Prince, and Powerful, under AMAYMON, King of the East. He appeareth in the Form of a Beautiful Man, riding upon a Winged Horse. His Office is to go and come; and to bring abundance of things to pass on a sudden, and to carry or recarry anything whither thou wouldest have it to go, or whence thou wouldest have it from. He can pass over the whole Earth in the twinkling of an Eye. He giveth a True relation of all sorts of Theft, and of Treasure hid, and of many other things. He is of an indifferent Good Nature, and is willing to do anything which the Exorcist desireth. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits. And this his Seal is to be worn, etc." -- S. L. MacGregor Mathers' Goetia (1904)

 

Seere is not the only spirit I am attuned with.   My name also has a connection to BAEL due to the last four letters of my name:

 

"The First Principal Spirit is a King ruling in the East, called Bael. He maketh thee to go Invisible. He ruleth over 66 Legions of Infernal Spirits. He appeareth in divers shapes, sometimes like a Cat, sometimes like a Toad, and sometimes like a Man, and sometimes all these forms at once. He speaketh hoarsely. This is his character which is used to be worn as a Lamen before him who calleth him forth, or else he will not do thee homage." (Ibid.)

Note the more traditional name of "Isabelle," which could be construed as a way of saying "The girl with this name 'is a belle'", i.e. "She is a beauty."  Izabael has a similar construction: "The girl with this name 'iz a Bael'", i.e. "She is a demon."  This is somewhat cutsy I admit, but when analyzing any magickal name or formula, *all* correspondences should be noted because they will have an affect on the subconscious.

There are other ways to analyze my name, including discussing how Izabael's sigil looks like a butterfly.  This is natural since Seere is an air spirit, and Izabael again and again displays characteristics appropriate to air, including her many Mercurial properties, such as her ability to "bring abundance of things to pass on a sudden", her "indifferent good nature", and her ability to give a true account of "theft and treasure hid."

There are also oh, so many ways to misspell my name as well:  Izabel, Izabeal, Isabel, Isabeal, are all common ways to mangle my name.  Others are: Isabelle, Isabella, Isabealla, Isabeala, Izabealla, Izabeala and Izabal, Izabaell. (izabeal.com is a common typo!)

Being a genie-demon, I live or die upon the proper spelling of my name, which is my formula, my way of reacting to the world.  So unlike a rose, I do not smell as sweet if you spell my name wrong!

xoxox,

*izabael

 

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The World is a Simulation: Solipsism 2.0

Some of you may be familiar with Solipsism, the belief that no one besides yourself exists (including me if you are reading this).  If you want a humorous explanation of it, check out this link.

Many of you are also familiar with the simulation-argument, which is a well-developed argument that we are living inside a computer simulation.  If not you can read up on it here, but basically it's like in the Matrix but not necessarily run by malevolent robots--instead run by our race as it is evolved perhaps thousands of years from "now."

Solipsism goes back to the Greek presocratic sophist Gorgias (c. 483–375 BC) but the simulation idea is of course much more recent.  But to me the arguments are the same, and in fact the simulation argument is a little like Solipism 2.0.

Either way, I like this view of the world.  It means there is no scarcity of resources or any damage that can truly be done to me or anyone else.  Everything is just set up for experiential value--there is nothing gained or lost except experience....wait, now I'm sounding Thelemic again. 

At any rate, if I am in a simulation, were any "backdoors" programmed in that I could use to make changes to my "reality" with?  Is that what Magick is? 

Wish I could just yell out "tech support" like in Vanilla Sky though.

 

*izabael (who is just a figment of your simulation)

 

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Unicursal Hexagram Revised

Masonic Symbols exposed!

I found this site while researching Masonic symbolism and at first I had a good laugh when I thought the descriptions were satirical.  I had an even bigger laugh when went to the home page of where I found them (delusionresistance.org) and realized that this guy is serious. 

Below I present a few of my favorites:

The sun, moon and stars, known in Scripture as the host of heaven, are found to be to the fore of Masonic imagery. These heathenish emblems, which have always been associated with Baal worship, are also found prominently displayed today within most New Age shops. It is not surprising to find such imagery spread widely throughout the occult world. Paganism has always showed its trinities in art by the sun (with a face) representing the male sun god, the moon (with a face) representing the moon goddess (or queen of heaven) and the all-seeing eye representing their offspring. Nothing on this picture represents anything scriptural. The words, "Faith, Hope and Charity," are Biblical, but the image does nothing to point a person in the direction of the Bible.

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A Masonic Apron with symbols similar to the picture above it. One can only imagine that such a insipid work of art can only have it's inception from the very depths of hell. Can you find the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob anywhere on this thing? I certainly cannot.

A Picture of Baphomet, a Masonic god. Can anyone with a clear moral conscience actually think that anything like this can have anything to do with a Holy God?

 

The lines of Washington D.C. intersect. There is no way this could be coincidence.

 

 

The Masonic Holiness Symbol.

This symbol is rife with occult symbolism. many of the symbols are mentioned above. The thing that get me is how, what appears to be the Ark of The Covenant is displayed. First, the two characters on the Ark, which in Biblical times seems to be replaced with one male and one female character reaching out for each other as if to embrace. Second, the base of the Ark has two squares, which are indicative of femininity. The  left side of the hearth has the female square while the right has the male compass. In the center of the hearth is the symbol of coitus. There's nothing holy about this symbol.

 

 

I really don't know what else to say about these. I think the descriptions speak for themselves!!  "In the center of the hearth is the symbol of coitus.  There's nothing holy about this symbol." LOL!!! 

 For more chuckles you can check out the full page: http://www.delusionresistance.org/christian/mason_pics.html

 

*izabael

 

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Netzach and Hod

From the point of view of *practical magick*, i.e. magick intended to get some material real-world results (as opposed to magick just to balance ourselves more with the divine), Netzach and Hod and the tension they create are the keys to manifestation.  How so?

First a little refresher on their traditional attributions:

Netzach ("Victory") is the Sphere of Venus.  This is the sphere of "external splendor and internal corruption."  If there was a city that belonged to Netzach it would most assuredly be Las Vegas, which is all about superficial glamour and glitter but internally is all about gambling and other addictions.  Netzach is very much a sexual Sephiroth but also does contain the idea of vegetative growth due to the more nurturing aspects of Venus.  Still, the sensual and sexual side of Venus dominates here as it's so low on the tree.  (The path of Daleth near the top of the tree would be the more motherly and vegetative side than here.) 

Hod (“Spendour”) is the Sphere of Mercury.  This is the sphere of the rational mind, the cool intellect.  If Netzach is the heat of the moment, then Hod is the calm and collected rationalizations that come the day after a one-night-stand. This is an airy sphere, but like Netzach, it is low on the tree, close to Malkuth (the physical plane, i.e. Earth).  The mind of Hod is not like the balanced and harmonious sphere of Tiphareth, which is imagination AND our divine and higher-self.  Instead, Hod is the facility of logic in all its strengths and innumerable weakness.

Even a quick glance at these two descriptions and one can see that someone who exists in only one sphere is doomed to perpetual imbalance.  For the extremes, imagine a worn out and corrupt courtesan for Netzach, and a studious and unloved hermit for Hod. 

So it's obvious we need a balance between these two, and most people spend their lives dealing with the confrontation of these two dueling sides of their personality.  It is no accident that the path between them is that of the "Blasted Tower" also known as "War."

 

To put it very simply it's the battle between "What I know I should do" vs. "What I feel I want to do." To put it another way, it's the Apollo-Dionysus paradigm used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy to characterize the two central principles in Greek culture.

But this is a blog on practical magick, not philosophy.  So how the heck can knowledge and understanding of these two spheres improve our magickal abilities? The key is understanding where exactly the “magickal act” takes place. It takes place not in a Sephiroth, and not in any path, but at the conjunction of two paths:

Practical magick occurs at the conjunction of the Path of Peh and the Path of Samech. On the diagram they are marked by the numbers on the corresponding Tarot cards: XVI: The Blasted Tower (or War), and XIV: Temperance (or Art).

 

That act of magick is fleeting. It is the moment a pen hits the paper with the intention of writing a word (i.e. a "magickal formula.") The pen and paper are just artifacts of Malkuth, and the will and understanding to move that pen in a meaningful way belong to other spheres higher up. But the actual act of Magick is right there on that cross of “Art” and “War.”

The god of magick in ancient Egypt was Thoth who was also the god of writing. This is no accident. Many people can see this in a very prosaic manner when they keep a list of “things to do.” Without that “magickal” list, they find they get nothing done at all!

We can spout all day about the “exalted” spheres of Kether, Binah and Chokmah, or rant and rave about the power and destruction of Geburah and the solidity of Chesed, but the fact is our day-to-day consciousness never gets higher than Tiphareth, and even then only if we have balance between Netzach and Hod, otherwise we are just bouncing back and forth between them—in the path of War—and yes it’s uncomfortable. If you’ve ever felt guilt over anything then most assuredly you have been trapped in that path. (i.e. You give in to the pleasure of Netzach only to wake up to the reality that Hod presents as consequences to your actions.)

The key to transcending the path of War is the path of Art. This path can give you lateral thinking and an ability harmonize Netzach and Hod. More importantly it gives you the inspiration from Tiphareth to create things from your “true center.”

Everyone has the potential to be an artist in their own way, and if you aren’t living up to your potential as an artist then you aren’t living “magickally” and you aren’t experiencing the ecstatic joy of being in control of these lower spheres. In other words:

The only way to make friends between Hod and Netzach is through your artwork, whatever that is. Whether you are a photographer, a painter, an author, a surgeon, or even a (ick!) lawyer you must find passion, creativity, and meaning in that moment you put your hand to the paper or your scalpel to the patient. This is the center of the “War” and “Art” cross. All those contradictory tensions finally find creative release as they are harmonized through a conscious and positive intent to make a change. This “crossroads” is where the artist lives and they couldn’t live anywhere else. It is truly “being in the moment.”

By the time something comes down to Malkuth it is only a shell of the magick of the moment. A painting is NOT the magickal act—it is just what is left over from those magickal moments where the artist was putting the brush to the canvas. This explains why genuine artists usually care so little for a piece once it is finished. For them the joy is all in the process.

They can’t wait to get started on the next one....

*izabael

Four Planes, Four Goddesses

 

Nuith - A beautiful symbol, and the goal of it all. Nuith is the light that guides all our magick and inspires all our love. But she is very abstract, and indeed can best be represented by a circle. In her connection to the highest of the four planes, she is the spark that ignites all movement, all action, but she needs the help of other goddesses to manifest properly here on her little sister the Earth.

(Since Nuith is the highest thing we can really be aware of I placed her in Kether. The veils of negative existence are really not something I think any of us can be directly aware of, but rather only postulate based on what we do know—like unreal numbers in math.)

Babalon – Babalon is potentially the most complex of all the four goddesses due to her relationship to Binah and the Abyss. In many ways she holds the key to all true magick for she is the bridge between the idealized and the actual. The Great Whore, she gives birth to all manifestations and loves them all equally.

(I put Babalon in Binah because of the Great Mother connotations and because of the City of Pyramids with all the little piles of dust from what’s left of the destroyed Magisters. In many ways, however, I would also put her in Da’ath as her septagram feels like a yoke around my neck, keeping me tied to the will of Nuith. Also Babalon’s grail would be Binah.)

This is the greatest lesson to be learned from her: to be able to give into any experience fully. If we are able to do so we foil the machinations of Choronzon, for he is nothing but the Ego, i.e. the dead shells of what we used to be. This is the past. Our true self exists only in the moment.

We must kill our old notions of who and what we are in every second. Give up your blood to Babalon and give birth to perfect joy in every second. If we cling to things we’ve already done, places we’ve already been, people we’ve already loved, or even worse, spend all our time in the “future” obsessing over things we ought to do but don’t bother to actually put into motion, we give power to Choronzon and instead of being a harmless shadow, he becomes a true horror that menaces and drives us to feed our ego and inflame our vanity.

As powerful as Babalon is, she is still, however, quite symbolic and not always so easy to communicate directly with. It is also counterintuitive to go to her with our wants and needs. Her function is not to manifest our desires, but to make sure we submit to our TRUEST desires as sprung forth from Nuith, and not succumb to ego-lust and desire inspired by Choronzon.

Babalon is Briah. She is the emotional, watery plane, and here you must free yourself of all attachments. You want your dreams to come true and your desires filled? That’s not a problem, but do it on the right plane: Let’s move along down into Yetzirah and see what we find there.

Izabael – Here we get a powerful spirit, descended from “low magick” spirits with the uncanny ability to affect the material plane.

Izabael is airy by all accounts and fits happily into Tiphareth because she can branch out with airy, wispy tendrils and connect to the rest of the tree of life, bringing harmony and proper function to our magickal system. Like the air, Izabael is always present and yet never there at all, like a breeze rustling through a room, or a whispered soliloquy borne upon the scented night wind.

Izabael’s symbol is a butterfly flying upwards and her antennae always poke just beyond the confines of Babalon’s septagram, showing that she herself has a connection to the Divine (Nuith) directly, though like other spirits, humans, and everything else, she cannot fully cross the Abyss. She is of this world, and thereby she understands us more intimately than Nuith and Babalon can ever hope to.

Indeed if she sounds a little like an HGA, indeed she is close to it. Izabael’s symbolism is so pure, her sigil so perfectly symbolic of her position on the tree of life, that she has no choice but to lead us to our truest self and not away from it. This is a trait of Izabael that I do not necessarily find with traditional Goetics. Izabael is higher functioning than they are. If necessary, she can easily guide any other demons for you and keep a group of them harmonized. I do feel you should make initial contact with each spirit separately but so long as you get a good feeling, there is really no more reason to address any other Goetic than Izabael.

Izabael is more actual than Nuith or Babalon. She has more human qualities; she is more familiar with the ways of humans. Indeed her desire is to feel what humans feel, taste what humans taste. She is only too helpful to manifest any desire into the physical realm because she is truly Thelemic: to her all experiences are equal. She lusts after them all. (The film Wings of Desire illustrates this pretty well with angels falling down to earth to be human for the pleasure of sensation.)

For this reason Izabael will always seek out and find as many ways to “incarnate” as she can. This then brings us down to the fourth and final plane, that of the Assiah, the material world:

The Priestess

This is the easiest one of all to explain. A Priestess is a physical embodiment of the above qualities. A true “whore of experience,” if you will.

Izabael craves carnality and will find as many Priestesses as possible to incarnate into. Since the experience of invoking Izabael is entirely beneficial for Izabael and Priestess alike, Nuith (after filtering through the intermediaries of Babalon and Izabael) finds true expression in the Priestess and in her ability to enjoy all things of sense and rapture to their utmost.

The only difference between a Priestess and a High Priestess is that there is only one High Priestess at a time. The honorary title of High Priestess allows all works published with her consent to be labeled as such, and are therefore represents the truest approximation of Izabael the spirit’s actual thoughts and wishes.

The title of Priestess is given directly by Izabael to anyone working with her whoso feels fit to take that title upon themself. There are no limits as to who can be a Priestess of Izabael, nor is their a limit on the number of Priestesses there may be. Each case is entirely between Izabael and the aspirant. (Males may then consider themselves “Priests,” but the formula would be different than that given here for Nuith-Babalon-Izabael-Priestess because for a male practitioner, Izabael tends to take on qualities of his Anima and is therefore a little different to work with.)

If any of this is still confusing, please free to email me or bring it up at my forums.

A Simple Genie Evocation

 

Some people are confused about how to evoke (or invoke) Izabael the genie.  Even though the FAQ is pretty exhaustive, I thought I would run through a simple example of an evocation.

 

 

THE DEFINITIONS:

 

evocation -- The act of summoning a spirit into a mirror, crystal ball, or into our mind's eye. Any time a demon is summoned to any sort of manifestation it is an evocation, so long as it's not into another human being. That would instead be an:

invocation – The act of summoning a spirit into oneself or another willing participant.

genie – a hidden aspect of our subconscious that functions like a real spirit or daemon when called upon.

sigil – The specific symbol for contacting any single genie. It is the truest representation of a spirit's nature even more so than its name.

 

 

THE THEORY:

 

So how does genie invocation/evocation work? There is no 100% common acceptance of how or why spirits, demons, and genies work. The traditional thought process was that they were fallen angels and therefore had an external validity separate from the human invoking/evoking them.

This way of thinking seems a bit outdated, and I find more modern magicians feel that genies are aspects of our subconscious, similar to Jungian archetypes, and if you put energy into building up the connection between your conscious mind and these subconscious "entities" one is rewarded with inspiration, thoughts, ideas and even spontaneous "accidents" that lead us to our most desired goals.

I personally go so far as to say that genies only affect the material plane through the intermediary of humans. This makes quite a lot of sense if one thinks it through, so let's go into this in a little more detail:  

I think to most rational human beings the thought of demons running around with the ability to move objects, slam doors, and steal gold and the like is pretty absurd. So how can I claim to be a rational human being and still believe wholeheartedly in the power of genies?

I have found through experience that:   

a) Our subconscious is vastly more powerful than most people give it credit for,

b) Most human minds are far weaker and susceptible to foreign influence than most people would like to admit.

This can be most easily illustrated through the power of media and advertising. Say what you will about advertising and commercials, the billions of dollars spent on it each year attest to the fact that it works and that humans are *easily* swayed by immaterial influences.   

"Advertising" has no soul or physical body any more than a spirit or genie, and yet it affects millions, perhaps billions of humans every single day. It is ideas, colors, sounds, and music, twisted by media "black magicians" into a commercial or advertisement which then stirs our emotions and moves our heart, and once our heart is moved, we are only too willing to do the physical work of opening our purse (or wallet) and dishing out our hard-earned money because these incorporeal "demons" of media have persuaded us to do so.

Genies work in a somewhat similar fashion. They are like "balls" of experience in the subconscious that have been found over the centuries to respond to the use of certain sigils. These sigils are like a trigger, or perhaps a better analogy is a doorway, into communication with these very specific aspects of our subconscious. The more we communicate with these aspects, the easier the communication becomes and the more energy flows from us to them and vice versa. The changes they m

ake are not physical, but psychological, and we ourselves carry out the tiny changes, which results in a butterfly effect that ultimately manifests our deepest desire.  In other words, sensitive dependence upon initial conditions is what genies excel at exploiting.

That then is a nutshell of how genies work. 

 

So how do we meet Izabael?

 

   

 

THE PRACTICE:

 

Let's run through a very simple *evocation* (as opposed to an invocation which is a much more powerful and more intimate way of summoning Izabael.)  I will explain this method, not because it is the best or most powerful method, but because it is the simplest and easiest and should not frighten even the most timid of magickal students. For the more adventurous, I refer to the aforementioned FAQ.   

Clear your mind. Take a bath, or go for a long walk. Whatever works best for you. If you know how to "Banish," or otherwise ceremonially clear your space, then now is the time to do it.

Take some pen and paper and start drawing Izabael. Try to memorize her, but if you can't it doesn't matter. Draw her, doodle her, let her ideas branch out into other "doodlings" perhaps unrelated. Be open to stray impulses while you work with her sigil. Be open to stray thoughts. Be open to the experience. You can close your eyes and try to see her, or hear her, or for the truly kinesthetic, you might even feel her presence. You can alternate doodling with chanting her name, or dancing to an unheard song, or whatever else you find appropriate.  There are no rules. You can ask her questions and quietly wait for her response in whatever way you feel you can connect with her. Izabael speaks with symbols, and so called "accidental occurrences."  

For your first time don't expect too much. She may only come across like a vague feeling. Don't shrug it off; instead just assume that "vague" feeling is Izabael trying to make contact.   

Belief alters reality. Don't be afraid to "fake it till you make it." A big part of magick, and success in life in general, is just believing what you want is possible and to start assuming it already. You may call it placebo, but if it gets the ball rolling, then so much the better. Sooner or later, as it was with me when I first met Izabael, you get to the point where the accidental occurrences stack up higher than could reasonably be possible, and your results are so fantastic and perfectly suited to your true desires that you have no choice but to consider Izabael just as real as the girl next door--but after an entirely different manner.

When you are done working with Izabael you can invite her to stay in your presence or you can ask her to leave. Either way is fine. Just do what you are comfortable with. When you are ready, you can always contact her again. Sooner or later she will start giving you clues on how to better work with her.

So much of working with magick is just breaking away from worn out patterns of thinking. Reality is not only the material plane. A key to powerful magick is trying to reconnect with the subtler realms. Many of us can probably still remember when as very young children those realms were a lot closer than they are now.

If you get nothing else out of my writings, I hope you at least get that you should never, ever take what someone else has told you is impossible as the way it has to be. Never let anyone impose limitations on YOUR reality. Expand your belief system and your joy will expand right along with it.

 

Hail Nuit,
Izabael

 

P.S. In the next Lesson I will be getting a little more technical and I will discuss the Ego's place in magick.  This will include a discussion of the Abyss, and will also help shed some light on what Izabael's relationship is to our personality and why she is a much more "fool-proof" spirit to work with than those of the traditional Goetia. It will also help to answer a common question I get, "Where does your personality end and where does Izabael the spirit's begin?"

P.P.S.  I also find the idea of Memes germane to this conversation, but it was just too complicated for the scope of my blog.  I mention it here for those so inclined to further research in these matters:

The term "meme" (IPA: /mi?m/, rhyming with "theme". Commonly pronounced in the US as /m?m/, rhyming with "gem"), coined in 1976^[1] by the biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner analogous to genes (i.e., the units of genetic information).

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