Anabasis: Limited Low-Altitude Edition

The irony in this, is that not so many people are still around that know/remember the stories of horror, or they would definitely have a very good laugh with this journal.

What is it:

My first baby steps into “trying” (key word) to work with Angels. For anyone from the old gang still lurking:

I bet you didn’t saw this coming! :wink:

Why it’s funny:

Me+Demons = Best friends

Me+Ancient deities = Best friends

Me+Every other entity on and off this planet and beyond = Best friends

Me+Fallen Angels = Friends

Me+Angels = :skull_and_crossbones::skull_and_crossbones:

What it’s not:

It’s not my usual work.

It’s not a field I’m experienced at (I know maybe 3 angelic names on the top of my head and that’s all).

It’s not something that makes me feel comfortable or confident, even with my experience in evocation and the spirit world in general.

And most importantly:

It is not a guaranteed success. Yes, even with my experience.

Why it might be interesting for you:

Good question. Why are you reading this??

What should you expect:

Struggles, fights and maybe some vomit.

Why am I doing it:

Another good question. Challenge? Curiosity? A sense that I’m missing some key aspects that I can get from “them”? (Add rolling eyes right here)
Or maybe it’s a…let’s say promise. That was given years ago.

So stick around, dear reader. Not only it’s not every day you can see an advanced magician struggling (and having the guts to admit it) with supposedly easy tasks for us, but you may also find the motivation to solve your own doubts and fears and take that leap of faith.

P.S. I have acrophobia, get it?? Get it??

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The Beginning


Nov 18th

Card spread using the Shaman Oracle Deck. Cards I got were:

Is there an angel trying to contact me?
(Yes I’m not asking just out of curiosity)
The Witness (card n64)

Short Interpretation: Someone who observes without engaging

Who?
The Earthkeeper (card n18)

Short Interpretation: A steward of the earth and all life. Close connection to earth.

What does the Earthkeeper wants?
The Completion (card n8)

Short Interpretation: The old cycle has come to completion and won’t give any more progress. Need to transform the old ways of doing things into something new.

(P.s. this is part of the…promise I talked before)

Tell me more about the Earthkeeper.
The Circle (card n9)

Short Interpretation: The Earthkeeper’s presence is not separate from me, but part of an ongoing, natural cycle I belong to. This guidance comes through connection, timing, and wholeness rather than direct intervention. It affirms that the current ending (Completion) is a necessary return to balance before a new cycle can begin.

Some light Numerology for the lolz:

Earthkeeper (18) 1+8= 9
9 is the number of the Completion card.

Circle (8) + Witness (64) + Earthkeeper (18) = 90
9+0= 9.
Again. The number of Completion card.

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Nov 18th – present moment

I need to admit something plainly and honestly: I’m not eager to come into contact with them.
I’m aware this stops forward movement, but the hesitation isn’t indecision, it’s recognition through experience. After previous encounters, I know what follows once our paths cross. So there’s this deep-seated, almost instinctive resistance that comes from experience, not doubt.

My first approach was indirect. I thought I’d begin by slowly entangling our energies, allowing myself to acclimate to their presence before any direct contact. A gradual “alignment” rather than an evocation.

Open-eye meditation gave little in terms of presence, only refracted light, like a prism, closer to suncatchers than a kaleidoscope.
No form, no approach. And that was intentional. Still, it struck me as odd. Usually there’s something, a pressure, a shift, even when contact isn’t happening.

That’s when the more basic questions came to mind:
How am I meant to call them?
How do I know who, or how many will answer?
What determines the intensity?
These may sound silly to those who work for a long time with the Angelic, but context matters.

After years of evocation and spirit communication, I no longer have to rely on sigils, enns, or any kind of connections for demonic or chthonic forces. I don’t research first, I experience first. There’s no doubt, the presence is unmistakable. Any later reading is for confirmation, comparison, and understanding how human perception shapes gnosis, not to validate the encounter itself.

But Angels?

So I returned to basics. I needed something to offer orientation, or at the very least help with acclimation.

I quickly dismissed the Hygromanteia. From what little I saw, it was clear it wouldn’t serve this purpose.

I settled instead on the Grimoire of Armadel. Not to read but to observe. To study the figures alone. At first casually, then with focus, leaning in to follow each line with my gaze.

On the second figure, the familiar response.. Sharp pain in the stomach and nausea. My usual signal! I didn’t realized it immediately, I was that focused on the figures. Until it hit again, stronger this time. At that point, I closed the book and walked away.
Or rather…I tried to.

Because something… Or someone… Had a different opinion.

There was no direct Angelic contact. Not exactly. But there was observation. Distant, contained, yet unmistakable. The presence didn’t approach, but it didn’t need to. The energetic pressure alone was enough to register a first impression. You don’t need full proximity to perceive something, distance doesn’t make the impact ineffective. Think about it like observing a wild animal through glass. It was brief, only a few minutes.
But those minutes were enough.

What became clear may be obvious to long term Angelic practitioners, but it wasn’t obvious to me.

Demonic and Angelic forces differ not in hierarchy or moral value. Non of them is superior from the other. They simply operate from fundamentally different planes of consciousness.

The Demonic is closer to the Earth, to embodiment. It speaks through sensation. Breath, heartbeat, hunger, pain, pleasure, instinct. It meets humanity exactly where humanity lives.

The Angelic operates from a different place. It doesn’t work through emotion or empathy, but through principle, honour and justice, not as morals, but as mechanics. There is no softness there. No comfort. It is judgement without sentiment, and it acts with absolute precision. Ruthless.

Neither force is stronger or weaker. Neither is good or evil. Neither is more “useful” than the other. They are simply different ways of existing, different states of awareness, and they require different approaches.


And if you’re wondering whether I had the same reaction when I returned to the figures days later, yes! Absolutely.

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This contact didn’t begin in ritual. I got up during the night, and while I was moving around I heard what sounded like a single wing flap. Not loud, not dramatic. Just distinct enough to notice. I ignored it.

As I was going back to bed, I heard a voice say a name. I was certain it said Ariel. I even repeated it out loud: “Ok… Ariel.”
It corrected me immediately, very clearly, stressing the vowel:“Auriel.” Ok. Not Ariel. Auriel. Noted. First thought: Who is that? Is that name even legit? I don’t know anything about that entity. Or any angelic actually. I decided to resist looking up at that moment so I won’t break contact.

I lit a candle, purely because I needed light, not as ritual setup. That’s when the secondary phenomena started. First came the knockings. Small, placed taps on objects around the room that normally don’t make sound like that. Not chaotic banging, more like intentional knocks to state presence.

When I got interrupted externally, the auditory contact dropped almost instantly. After that I couldn’t hear anything, but I still felt residual buzzing in my left ear, the same internal spot where clairaudience usually registers.

But the contact didn’t end there. Then the visual perception opened. I could see it both with my eyes open and closed, not in front of me physically, but in the mind’s eye. I was expecting the usual angelic imagery, humanoid form, wings, something culturally familiar.

It wasn’t that at all. It was just… an eye. Huge, disproportionate, more cosmic than anatomical. The colors were intense, neon blues and greens, with energy radiating outward like veins or currents rather than light rays. There was no gender polarity to it either. That stood out to me immediately because with demons and deities I always register masculine or feminine current. Here there was none. Just presence.

And the presence itself felt observational, not interactive. Like it was there to witness rather than engage. While I was speaking, the room around me started to brighten. Not flashes. More like someone slowly turning up and down a dimmer switch in the background.

At the same time the candle flame started moving in response to my speech. There was no airflow or breath interference. It looked like a dance more like just random flicker. When I finished talking, it stilled again moments later and the presence left in response to my words.

There wasn’t any extended dialogue beyond the name introduction. Overall the impression was very different from demonic/cthonic contact.
Less embodied, less emotive, more precise. More… judicial, if I had to word it. Not approach. More like being observed.

Given Auriel’s (and not Ariel’s, apparently that’s a different entity) associations with illumination and perceptual revelation (which I only learned after looking the name up) the eye symbolism felt symbolically consistent rather than random.

Recording as is for now without forcing conclusions..

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Angels like to watch me from afar. Yeah I know how that sounds.
Do I feel uncomfortable? Not really. I used to have cats, so this is exactly what it reminds me.
The fun part is that I know so many people pray daily to have an angel looking out for them while I get the “premium Archangels subscription” for free, and I’m rolling my eyes at them. Some times I’ll even say out loud:

“…and then they say the others are the Watchers, yet here you are!”

A few months ago I did a non-angelic related work. I called some deities connected with Justice, I mentioned it at some point in another thread. What I didn’t mentioned, is that I had a watcher that day. I didn’t called for him, I didn’t even talked to him (or him to me), and he didn’t even tried to approach. He just watched from afar. And it was the first time one of the angelics appeared out of nowhere.

What many might not know (or remember), is that I naturally have a strong connection with Greek deities. So due to this connection and the work I mentioned above, I may get random visitations.

Since that day, whenever Nemesis comes, and she’s one of the deities I worked with, the same visitor/watcher appears with her. The same one who was watching that day. Who’s that? Archangel Michael. Why? No idea.

The truth is, i was wondering why the angelic appears randomly but always from afar. Why I seem to have such a trouble, other than the fact that my own physical body reacts violently and painfully at their energy, connecting with them.

After some thought I remembered years ago when I was “tortured” by angelic attacks, I made a very sacred ritual. The entities I chose for this sacred ritual, were Azazel (my first patron) and Belial. If I could say more, you would understand why these two were the perfect pick.

Without going into private details (I love to keep private matters, private) one thing I asked from them was to keep the angelic away.
And then suddenly silence… For nearly a decade now, the angels stopped.

So between that realization (which was after my work with justice deities) and the Auriel appearance, I know I need to have a talk with both Azazel and Belial about it. I did made a brief request, nothing official, and that’s when they started appearing more often but still somehow “contained”. Even Auriel was in fact…“contained”.

One day I need to make it official. But that day isn’t today. Until then…they watch silently. And I silently roll my eyes at them.

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So here’s the deal… Due to that ritual I made long ago, Azazel and Belial are like my protectors and…in a way my godfathers. You can say that we’re almost binded to each other but not exactly… What that means in simple words, in the case of the angelics (the reason why I made that old ritual to start with) is that we all need to agree, apparently. It makes sense.

So we have Azazel, who acts more cold, practical and procedural to be rather indifferent if he will keep the protection or not (he’s like “If you want to fck around and find out, be my guest”, typical Saturnian).

We have me, who’s 50-50 on the matter. (Lift your protection because I want to try out but I also worry to be left completely without protection).

And then we have Belial. And, surprisingly, Belial is acting more like my patron than my actual patron (see Azazel). So Belial is side eyeing me and votes no, for the time being.

But he gave a loophole: The deal is to keep the angelics away from me. But there’s no deal to keep me away from the angelics. He whispered that with his familiar raspy voice and his smirk when I learned about a book for pathworking.

I didn’t exactly understood what he meant. Some times even us experienced mages need our time. :laughing: But they never fail to surprise me when later pieces fall in place and everything makes sense.

Fast forward a few days when I used “Raziel’s Paths of Power” book from Jareth Tempest. It didn’t made sense the first time. It didn’t even made sense the second time. The third time tho..

The third time I was simply standing in my kitchen reading about the images. Bringing the images to mind. The first path to Raziel.
The first image…
The second image..
And on the last image, when you’re suppose to make contact with Raziel I felt it.

Each person, mage or not, who has experienced OBE, recognizes immediately when it begins. What I didn’t knew until rather recently was that this “beginning” isn’t the same for everyone.
For me it’s pretty much text book begging of OBE:
Strong inner vibration on my chest area and a noise like an earthquake approaches. That’s the first step. That’s where everything begins.

But I was standing! I was awake! It was the middle of the day! I snapped back immediately and looked at Raziel’s powers from the book. Nowhere it says she can pull you into OBE. It says she guides you to other spirits but I thought with imagination you evoke them in a way, but to pull you into OBE is pretty different, isn’t it!?

Belial smirked, almost from the shadows of my house behind me.
“No it’s not. Pathworking and OBE share the same mechanisms.”
I almost froze from the surprise. I asked what does he mean and he simply replied with a low cackle:
“Why do you think she’s the first always to contact?”
And then he had the audacity to disappear! And nope he didn’t cared I got pissed with him. It’s been days and the only thing he said without even appearing to me, was the reminder that no one keeps me away from the angelics, but the angelics stay away from me.

As for my experiences with these entities… that’s for a different post.

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Last night, I worked again with Raziel’s pathworking to reach the Shem HaMephorash angel I’m currently engaging with. As anyone familiar with Tempest’s work knows, the first pathworking is through Raziel. I’ve gone through this process a few times now, and up until this point, Raziel’s presence was more feminine. This time, it shifted.

Raziel appeared as an old man, with a long white beard and a purple hooded cloak.
My intention wasn’t to interact with Raziel beyond asking to be guided to the Shem angel, as usual. Usually I ask, and then move to the angel’s first image. But this time, I was transfered first to a dark place charged with certain energy, neither positive or negative but heavy nonetheless. And before I could proceed, Raziel spoke.

I hadn’t asked for anything, no knowledge, no revelation. Still, the message came through clearly, and it hit me straight to the solar plexus and I was left there trying to process it.
What I got was this: the angels (possibly all of them?) are not connected to any JCI concept of god. They are not extensions of that system. They exist independently, as separate beings, operating on their own. Raziel included.

I should mention once again that I don’t study angelic material at all. I avoid reading other people’s interpretations or diving into theory. I prefer direct experience, so whatever I come across is something I’ve encountered myself, not something I’ve picked up from elsewhere. Because of that, I honestly don’t know if this is something widely known for everyone else, or if it falls under my own UPG.

But it raises questions because if this is true, then what exactly are the angelics? If they’re not inherently tied to the JCI framework, then what are they outside of it? What were they before being placed into that system? And (maybe more importantly) why was I told this at all, when I didn’t ask?

I don’t go looking for answers, and still I’m given something that opens more doors than it closes. Just enough to pull me into a rabbit hole I didn’t asked.

I’ll probably have to explore this further..

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I’ll divide this into two parts, thoughts and actual work, so this doesn’t turn into an even bigger wall of text.

It’s been 24 days since my last update here. I honestly didn’t realize time passed that fast. Between real-life situations and… let’s call them spiritual half-revelations, I lost track completely. So before more things pile up and overwhelm me further, I’ll just note a few things that happened during this period.

First of all: Belial.
I haven’t seen him since. I do feel his presence occasionally, here and there, but he’s not appearing. Not that I’ve tried to call him either. If he had anything to say, he’s proven more than once that he doesn’t need my permission or invitation to make himself heard.

Also, I’ve had a strong instinct that while I’m trying to establish a connection or at least a more stable energetic exchange with the angelic current, it’s better not to deliberately entangle with the demonic.

Not because one has any issue with the other, but because of…let’s say physics and chemistry within my own physical and astral body.
…But maybe I do miss his familiar sarcastic smirk.

Now, Angels.
Just because I found a way to somehow communicate with the angelic doesn’t mean the work is done. That was never the actual goal. If anything, it was more of a side quest (or a side problem if you like) that showed up along the way. The real goal was always that “promise” I was given.

I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting. Maybe something like an “Open Sesame” moment, where everything just unfolds at once, like a red carpet of universal knowledge, and I get to pick what I want and what I don’t?

But I know better than that. I’m fully aware that the human mind, and the body that carries it, can’t handle that kind of information inflow without breaking. And usually it doesn’t work like that anyway.

They give you one piece now, something that feels irrelevant later, and then something else entirely. And then, months or even years later, everything suddenly connects and makes sense. (I’m looking at you, Saturn.)

And that’s exactly where I am right now. Not the sudden connection. What comes before that. At least it’s new territory for me, so I can’t really complain.

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Part 2
Actual work (and some thoughts, apparently)

I already described the most notable interaction with Raziel up until 24 days ago. I didn’t go into anything else at the time because I wanted to wait and see results first, but a few interactions are worth mentioning.

For example, Hahaiah. Hahaiah was the first Shem HaMephorash angel I approached using Tempest’s pathworking. I’ve visited her twice so far, the second time mainly because I had promised I would return.

What stood out the most was the way she communicated. After I stated my request, she immediately began asking questions. Not through words, but through clairvoyance and claircognizance. It was like a visual inside the visual. The image itself didn’t directly relate to my request, but at the same time it made perfect sense. It carried meaning without needing explanation. I’ve never had an entity communicate with me like that before. Then again, I’ve never really worked through pathworking before either.

The second thing that caught me off guard was the second visit.
The moment I saw her, I somehow ended up on her lap and started crying. Actual, physical tears. Not out of pity seeking or emotional overwhelm, but because it felt like I had finally reached a place of rest. A shelter. Like I’d been walking for a long time, or fighting something nonstop, and suddenly there was a space where I could just stop and take off the armor.

And no, this is not something I normally do. I don’t cry on entities, and definitely not on their lap. No judgment to those who do, but that’s just not how I operate.

Now, about pathworking in general. I’m an evocation girl. Even though I very clearly got a “no, not yet” from Belial, I still tried to go behind their back and evoke Raziel. What can I say, I wanted to try, It felt important enough. The goal was simple: to ask for a new pathworking directed toward whatever intelligence is relevant to my current work.

So:
TGS → took a while → then the shift hit hard →
Sharp stomach pain (well..hello, it’s been a while) → Distant humming → and then…Azazel. And not in a good mood. Very much not in a good mood.

So what do we do in that situation? Do we drop it? No. We pivot.
I switched immediately into pathworking while still in TGS.

Contact stabilized, the pathworking was given, and, because I clearly don’t learn, I pushed further. I tried to move beyond that into the unknown entity I was aiming for. On the final image, I was transferred into that same place I had encountered before:

I couldn’t see anything. The only thing I heard was a growl. That was enough for me to understand I wasn’t supposed to push further at that point. So I closed properly, thanked the spirits, and ended it there. And as I expected within moments I was deeply asleep.

To this day, I don’t know what that presence was.
I had other…let’s call them spiritual half revelations happening at the same time, so I didn’t dig into it further.

After that (very questionable!) attempt to evoke Raziel, I noticed something interesting. The “watching angels” were gone. Well, mostly. There’s still one that shows up every time I’m gardening (don’t ask who, don’t ask why gardening specifically, I haven’t asked either), but inside the house, that constant sense of being watched is no longer there.

But I did receive a…something though, a form of understanding through claircognizance. Probably half of it. I’m not sure when there’s going to be a continuation.

And I want to stress this clearly: This is my own UPG so treat it as such. I haven’t researched it, I don’t know if it aligns with any established system or if it’s something meant specifically for me. So be warned.

It had to do with the division between LHP and RHP. It’s not really about what kind of magic you practice or what entities you work with. That’s just the surface.

The usual way things are divided:
Light vs dark
Good vs evil
Order vs chaos
…doesn’t actually hold up the way people think it does. These are mostly modern human interpretations. They’re not opposites fighting each other. They’re different expressions of the same underlying structure.
What we call order is what stabilizes things. It holds form, keeps things coherent, predictable.
What we call chaos is what disrupts that. It shifts, breaks, transforms, pushes things into something new.

But neither exists on its own. Chaos isn’t truly chaotic, there’s always some structure underneath it, even if we can’t see it immediately.
And order isn’t inherently “right”, it can become rigid, stagnant and lifeless.

So it’s not about choosing one over the other.
It’s about knowing when to hold things together, and when to let them break. When to stay grounded, and when to step outside of that. And more importantly:
Being able to move between both without losing yourself in either.
Because if you stay only in order, you stop evolving. If you stay only in chaos, you stop holding together. And neither of those leads anywhere on its own.

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I’ll simply say the facts as they happen and we’ll see what’s going on…

Some time ago I made a request to Raziel:

And trying to move to that unknown entity in the same session, ended up in this:

So I gave it another proper try.

Raziel’s pathwork (this time he came as a young man, with short blond curls, wearing a purple cape) then the unknown entity’s pathwork… only to find an odd creature that seemed like a mix between a dragon and an H.R. Giger’s xenomorph, only in black and gold.

I stared at it in disbelief. Ok, I had asked for literally any entity, and probably I was expecting an angel because Raziel was involved… But what is this?

Upon asking the entity’s name, it kept saying “Aniel” or “Anniel” and a few times the word “Ubuntu” came up. I found it odd that Raziel would give me a pathworking to an entity that I’m certain I saw in Tempest’s same book (and therefore already has a pathwork), so I kept insisting it tell me its true name. The entity kept insisting on “Aniel.”

I created a protective shield between me and the entity and called Raziel to be present. I hoped that the presence of Raziel (since he gave me the pathworking) would make the entity reveal its name and intentions. So I gave it one last chance, certain that I was being tricked somehow. This entity says Aniel, but then who is that Ubuntu it mentioned a few times? How can it have two names that don’t sound anything alike?

The entity again repeated the same name in front of Raziel: Aniel. I looked at Raziel and he didn’t react.

I thought for a moment to accept that this entity is a form of Aniel and proceed with my request. But then I suppose I got frustrated and started doubting everything.

I don’t want to make a request to an impostor or a parasite. This work was very important to me to be tricked by the spirits. And oddly enough, demons never tricked me all these years.

Yes, now thinking clearly, it would be easy for me to confirm if that entity is truly who he said he is. But at that moment I was already upset with everything.

I looked at Raziel and asked “why?” and simply went back to the first image of Raziel to exit the pathwork… for just in case! No thanking the entities, no nothing.

Very disrespectful of me, huh?

After I took a moment to myself, it’s google time! I looked up on the names.

Ubuntu came up as an operating system on Linux (I never even used Linux in my life) and as a philosophy is some Bantu languages.
Neither seem to have any direct connection with the reason I asked Raziel for a pathwork to an entity. Although Ubuntu Spirit, maybe has a very vague connection, the entire philosophy seems pretty vague to me to be honest.

Search on BALG found 3 threads on Ubuntu as an entity from two (inactive nowadays) members. Two of these threads were connected with luck, gambling and money. Neither of these have anything to do with my request.

The third was coming from the same person who first introduced Ubuntu as an entity in the forum. Sadly he’s not around anymore so I cannot ask any further questions.

Oddly enough today is Friday, the day of Venus. And to make it even more odd, the day I received this pathwork was also a Friday (not planned, just happened).

As for Aniel, in Tempest’s book it doesn’t list any planetary connections but in power description there’s art and creativity included which is a Venusian trait.

And there’s something else too.. The first image from Tempest for Aniel includes the same animal I received, but a different element. His been water mine been earth.

Neither of Aniel’s powers seem to be related with what I asked from Raziel as well. Although I did found people using Aniel for similar requests as mine but I’m not sure if that’s because of a confusion with a different angel.

I suppose I’ll try a third time to approach this mysterious entity. Maybe next time it won’t be a Friday. And maybe I’ll make sure to be more prepared.

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