- Thanks for explaining why you’re using a circle of stones instead of your UC. So, a circle of stone and burnt ashes are part of Persian occult tradition? Thanks for that. Are you working from any Persian text(s)?
E.A.: A circle of stones is pretty universal, and the addition of the burnt ashes was a recommendation from a fellow who is devoted to Ahriman, and it intuitively made sense, and seemed to work rather well! It has been difficult to research, as this system has been so obscured (intentionally, of course) by the RHP religions that are afraid of Ahriman. Most of the persian texts that I’ve been able to devour are written from the antithetical vantage, by followers of Zoroaster or Islam or the like. I have, of course, studied these texts, as well as whatever I could find of the Yzedi people, which is difficult to find anything accurate about them as well. Like most of my work, I’ve had to enter into communion with the spirits themselves in order to piece together this ritual.
- Ok, so it’s safe to assume that your intention was not to get a prophecy or a revelation, rather it was to gain knowledge of witchcraft and demonic power? All right. The description of the email says you were going for a prophecy and revelation, but you already stated that you understand my confusion, so very well.
E.A.: I indeed was trying to obtain a prophecy and revelation. I wanted to gain prophecy concerning my own Ascent, and revelation to the next steps to take. I most definitely did receive more than I considered that I might! Whether what was spoken is applicable to anyone other than me is another story. As I unravel my own understandings of this, I do think that what was channeled is applicable to everyone, though!
- Well, I’ll have to disagree with the felt-presence aspect, at least without other methods of discerning the spirit’s presence but results are the hallmark and if you saw results then who am I to argue. All right, so what I understand you’re saying is that it started out to be an evocation but turned into a possession as you went further into it? Am I right here?
E.A.: Yes, being able to materialize a visible form is important to the western magician, and indeed I’ve also seen that the more concrete the vision and the voice are to the individual, the more potent the results of the ritual usually are. However, my statement wasn’t whether it was better or worse, but only what the approach would likely have been in an authentic Yatuki ritual… again, to the best of my knowledge. Again, it has been difficult to research, as this system has been so obscured (intentionally, of course) by the RHP religions that are afraid of Ahriman, but the very nature of Azi Dahaka is one of transformation of the self, of the full unleashing of the Kundalini serpent within. This cannot happen save for within the self and the Self. So, yes, it did become a possession… not the first, nor the last that I’ll undergo!