E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
ritualist has endeavored to separate himself from his ritual,
trying to objectify the experience rather than to experience it
himself. The hands are the tools by which man is able to take
an ephemeral thought or desire and built it into a solid form.
Those that have practiced the Arts of Magick in any depth will
notice a unique quality develop in the ritual and its success
when he includes himself in the ritual in the same way that
the chalice, dagger, and altar are. Throughout this ritual and
most others, your hands should be placed on the altar in this
manner.
3. Open your eyes and gaze at the candle. Visualize and feel a
dark power welling up inside of it, growing with every second
of the ritual, the vibrations pushing their way up the wax and
into the wick.
4. Light the candle. Visualize the energy stored in the candle
expanding through the burning flame and spilling into the
Temple. Feel it throbbing, waiting to be released from the
Temple walls at your command.
5. Gaze into the candle's flame. Watch it dance and flicker. Feel
its heat, its life beaming out into the room. Look through the
yellow and gold fire into the heart of the flame, at the blue and
green tongues rising from the wick. Feel yourself swaying with
the flame, your energy rising as the flame rises, shrinking
when it shrinks, dancing as it dances. Lose yourself in the
candle's flame, letting your mind be burned in it save for the
thought of the ritual and the goal. The spiritual dance that
you share with the flame is a mutual understanding of the
purpose of the ritual, an intimate conversation and agreement.
6. Still gazing into the burning wick, visualize a bright sphere
red light surrounding you. Know that the light is being fed by
the black candle, making it stronger and more vibrant as it
burns. See and feel tbe rays of the red aura moving through
the walls of the Temple, traveling endlessly and affecting all
that it touches. Sense that everything touched by the red light
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