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CHAPTER FIVE<br />
BURNT OFFERINGS<br />
1. Open the ritual with meditation. Softly shut your eyes and<br />
take a deep breath in. Release the breath and release your<br />
tension. Continue breathing, clearing yourself of all<br />
unproductive energy. Place your hands on the altar and view<br />
the Temple through your inner vision and gradually bring the<br />
image into clarity. Your main visual focus should be the altar.<br />
2. Open your eyes and let your gaze rest on the altar as a whole.<br />
Visualize energy rising from the material of the altar like<br />
steam. Try to see it with all three eyes, and feel the humidity<br />
it creates. Feel the air thickening with the energy, ready to<br />
catalyze your will.<br />
3. Light the candles, first the black and then the red. In the Works<br />
of Darkness, candles are always lit from left to right. When two<br />
candles are used of different colors, there is always one passiVe<br />
or receptive color and one active color of candle; in this ritual,<br />
black is passive and red is aggressive. One brings in energy<br />
and one projects it back into the universe in a form that has<br />
been transformed by the ritual. Just as the left hand takes and<br />
the right hand gives, the passive candle is placed to your left<br />
and the aggressive candle is placed to your right.<br />
4. Sense your focus and will tightening, narrowing in on the one<br />
you desire as the candles begin to burn. Gaze into the flame of<br />
the red candle. See her in your mind as clearly as you can<br />
conjure. Feel the link being established between her and the<br />
candle's flame, the emotions brought by the image of her<br />
traveling through your eyes and burning on the wick of the<br />
red candle.<br />
5. Gather in yourself any feelings you have for the victim. Eyes<br />
still locked with the flame, your will still pouring into the candle,<br />
dwell on the thoughts and feelings for her. Rather than<br />
becoming lost in these thoughts and emotions and allowing<br />
them to take precedence over the time that has been set aside<br />
for the Working, direct them like beams from your eyes into<br />
the burning candle. Sense the existence of these thoughts being<br />
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