Baphomet

[StSimon]

Came home from work agitated, buzzing with annoyance, and tired.  Slept approx 2 hours.  Ate a light snack.  Started preparations for the night with only a vague idea of needing to work magick...

Circled the room with incense, random music playing, chemognostic intoxication.  Ministry’s Thieves came on, and I felt the very devil in me -- Baphomet it is then.  I started a quick strobe and placed the Giger Baphomet poster on the wall above my alter.  Read the Invocations from Liber Null & Psychonaut (130-132).

The dark, frightening currents of the ritual became strangely sensual and liberating, a serpentine power underlying life itself that reminded me of Kundalini.  I pranced about the room, feeling mildly disgusted, bemused, haughty -- I soaked it up, reveling this sensation, the visceral flow of emotion, wanting to run fight fuck explode!  (music cycled thru Easy E, Sky Cries Mary, Sisters of Mercy, all strangely appropriate)

I grabbed up a sigil off my altar and stared at it, with the strobe behind burning the mark into my mind’s eye.  I dredged up all the anger and frustration I feel toward my job and sent it into the symbolic form.  (I have sigilized to find a more appropriate job for myself, but I don't think this one is it)  I ripped it up into little pieces.  I took a lighter and stepped outside, burning the bits as I recited the mantra: ZAZAS ZAZAS NASATANATA ZAZAS

Back inside, I absorbed more of the Baphometic energies.  Drew a tarot card for additional inspiration: how do I recognize my path? XVII - the Star.  ("To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant.  Sing the rapturous love-song unto me!  Burn to me perfumes!  Wear to me jewels!  Drink to me for I love you!  I love you!  I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.  To me!  To me!")

Closed with the Gnostic Pentagram Ritual (had to change the music to Muslimgauze, random no longer suited the mood).  Demons banished, I feel relaxed and myself once again.  Happy about the present and excited about future possibilities.

[Defenestrator]

Hadn't thought of using a strobe during ritual -- excellent! Do you use it routinely, or just for certain moods/energies?

[anosognosia]

I apologize, you had already started a rituals thread and I started a new one. Do you mind if I merge them?

[StSimon]

Hadn't thought of using a strobe during ritual -- excellent! Do you use it routinely, or just for certain moods/energies?

I used to meditate with one frequently.  Now I just use it when the mood strikes.

[StSimon]

I apologize, you had already started a rituals thread and I started a new one. Do you mind if I merge them?

Sure, go for it.  I kinda figured on having a different thread for different entities, but if you want to keep the number of threads to a minumum combine away.

[Isis]

confusion ..... what threads get combined?

[Defenestrator]

That's right, that's why they call it chaos! Deal with it! 

[anosognosia]

Sure, go for it. I kinda figured on having a different thread for different entities, but if you want to keep the number of threads to a minumum combine away.

I like your idea better. We can leave the generic one for whoever and have separate threads for the often invoked.

confusion ..... what threads get combined?

It happened in an another universe. In this one StSimon had a better idea.

[scarecrow]

Do you find the strobe light to effect you, work better for certain work, at different speeds?  Please describe...

[StSimon]

Do you find the strobe light to effect you, work better for certain work, at different speeds?  Please describe...

sorry for the late reply, i enrolled in a chemistry class this summer which absorbed much of my free time.  Only now getting back into the habit of checking this forum.

Depending on mood, I use different speeds for the strobe, whatever feels appropriate.  Often when I first turn it on, I spend a minute or two "tuning" the frequency of the strobe to the mental state I want to create.  Most of the time it gets set fairly slow.  Too fast and the strobe becomes a distraction; but for excitatory ritual, the faster the better.  Sometimes partway into the ritual, I have to re-attune the speed, because it doesn't seem quite right.

[Isis]

Chaos .. deal with it....?

Sorry, just back from Munic and the temples of beer and knoedels
and the belly of bavaria.


Stroboscopes? What people do to shift their assemblage points.
Sooooo  80ties


 

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In a Bathroom I once invoked Baphomet and Roman Showered all over the floor, how's that for opening the infernalised gates of Heck. I was pissed at the time and I decided that the Bathroom was the ideal occult place to invoke from there on in I kid thee not I have divined all sorts of stuff from toilet visits. Shades of Cacodemus the Turd Monster from the film "Dogma" against a graffitied backwash of the Psychick Cross! I once had a dream about Baphomet graffitied against a lift in Nottingham when I lived in Somerest, I was at work, went out for a wee cigarette as you do (or as I do since I gave up all other vices well chemognosis ones) and I sensed Baphomet on the Wall, good old chap, have known him since the days of Heavy Metal, pissses all over dem pink piggies them Pink Floydies like to use! I have elevated the bathroom as an occult place to pracise "No Form" (a la Anterro Ali), meditating under water is better than listeningt to the outcries of the simian hordes outside talikn about their latest consumner durable from their latest thrift shoppe. Next time I restart my 4th attempt at Liber MMM I will endorse headphones with Frequencies or good earphones to drown the little rats out of their sewers, the Bubonic little bastards - erm, this is sarcasm, ever done Liber MMM and got sick of hearing others and their foibles and their babble, it conjures a Lovecraftian Xenoglossolia me thinks! It seems like Engram Programming to me, ooops this has became a shaggy doggy story indeed. Yeh toilets it's like HR Giger's "Wheeel of Fortune" Tarot Card - excreta, from shit to gold, now that's the brown turd solar logos for all.