So call me a beginner. But, I’d like to ask what exactly is Ceremonial Magick. As far as I’ve been able to know, Ceremonial magick seems to be an umbrella for schools of magick that are either of Judio-Christian or Greek Influence. So some examples would be planetary magick, astrology, or kabbalah. All in all, Ceremonial magick mostly seems to deal with divine or celestial powers, powers of light. I’m asking, what is Ceremonial Magick and what schools of magick make it up?
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Ceremonial magick is simply any structured system of magick that uses tools such as circles, triangles, wands, and daggers in the performance of ritual. Examples are Hermetics, Enochian, Wicca, Golden Dawn, and the grimoire tradition of the Lesser Key of Solomon.
Ceremonial is contrasted with more free form systems such as shamanism, Chaos Magick. Hoodoo, and Voodun, which have less structure and adherence to method.
Think of it like this. Ceremonial magick systems are all about controlling the experience. Free form systems are all about letting the experience unfold as it will.
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@Johnny_Samhain Cermonial magic is not just used in light magic. Its also highly used in dark magic. It depends on wich enteties used, how they are used, how the ritual is structured and the worldwiew of the magican.
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I’ve noticed a theme in ceremonial magick that focuses on the belief of some omni-potent divine “source” in all creation, and the magician attempting to become closer with it. Under this belief, the entities we call gods or angels are either faces of this source being or entities that serve it as go-betweens for mortals. The source entity is often invoked through divine names like Yahweh, Adonai, or Elohim. AkA, names given to the Judio-Christian god.
This belief system is essentially right hand path. Does someone need to subscribe to it to practice it?
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To me is golden dawn. Enochian. Etc not strictly goetia
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@Johnny_Samhain Im working with cermonial magic that is satanic. No calling in YHVH to protect in those cases.
But it dont have to be satanic. Even draconian orders like Dragon rouge are using cermonial magic and in those ritual YHVH is not called upon.
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This is a good account of the sequence involved in Western ceremonial magick (which is the active part of Kabbalism); The Kabbalists ultimately see God the Highest as splitting into lesser forces who are His employees. They run the world (first on the inner planes of course) and we call them Gods but they too have employees e.g. The Angels.
The Kabbalist sees both of these as forces employed by God to do His work. In ceremonial magick the Kabbalist will go through stages of protection before he induces possession by a God so he/she can “charge/power” a talisman with the God’s force or evoke and control a lesser (but nevertheless still powerful) Spirit to do his/her bidding. Similar to Voodoo in principle.
A Ceremony for the Evocation of Bartzabel, the Spirit of Mars (rahoorkhuit.net)
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Ceremonial Magick is relying o a supposed God to help make things occur, or being self reliant by having things occur as expected; through heightened altered states of mind, through ritual props, costumes, imagination and meditation on a goal.
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Yes the Kabbalist will usually employ traditional European Pagan Pantheons as a means of inducing God-possession (invocation) but any Pantheon from any culture can be used so long as it works
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Are Sabbatic and Enochian magic types of ceremonial magic? I want to understand how magic and tantra ritual works in order to use it in Satanism and black magic ritual.
Or mask black man sabbat
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Yes. Scroll to the top to see what our members have explained about what ceremonial, also called “high magick” is.
Tantra has nothing to do with Western Ceremonial magick. This is an Indian energy working tradition more related to Buddhism and the Vedic texts and Kundalini yoga. Some would argue that energy working is not magick. That is a whole other topic.
I think you are all over the place and need to learn one system and then another before you can figure out how to fuse systems from such different times, cultures and worldviews.
You are trying to sprint before you can walk.
Read the book first. Then you will know, having tried it.
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One could argue however, that Theistic Satanism is a system of Ceremonial Magick.
Based on knowledge, understanding and use of the rituals from “The Satanic Bible”, and “The Satanic Rituals” books from Anton LaVey.
Even “The Necronomicon” from Avon Press can influence weather by attempted use of the material. First hand experience. I was at the time invoking Marduk and Ishtar.
E.A. Koetting used it in High School, and used the gateways, names and sigils and had success with doing so. This laid the path for his work with his books and led to his O.A.A. as a more advanced guide to use of Ceremonial Magick.
Staying on topic, Ceremonial Magick is use of Crowley’s famous definition of Magick, while using voice, movement, altered states of consciousness, incense, candles and the ritual diary to create and manifest your intent.
As for White Magick schools, or systems, there are a few. Quareia, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Crowley A.A. and O.T.O. schools.
Black Magick schools include Order of the Dragon Rouge, O.A.A., and some Crowley schools focusing on the Black Brothers system.