Newbie seeking advice

New Magician Help & Introductions
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#1

Hello there,

I am pretty new to the entirety of magik and need some advice. I want to make contact with an entity, preferably Lillith or Lucifer and tried to do so, but I have not been able to hear them. I felt their presence in my tries but nothing else, which made me wonder what I do wrong or whether I need to do/learn something to hear them. I also have no Idea of banishing and would need some advice for doing it quick without the need of getting stuff like incensese (don’t know how to spell that, I mean the smoking sticks) as I have no chance to get hold of those. And is it bad to have a bible bearing a cross lying around in my room/the room I practice in?

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#2

You didn’t do anything wrong. You just haven’t developed the senses required to hear them. Very few people hear spirits right out of the gate. That’s why most magical training programs have the student start with developing the necessary skills first, before learning evocation.

No. That won’t affect anything. It’s just a book.

There is plenty of information available on banishing rituals. Please avail yourself of the search function. You don’t need incense, only your will, and the ability to manipulate energy.

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#3

https://www.becomealivinggod.com/connerkendall/handbook

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#4

Okay, thanks for the quick answer. I will just continue to dump all my questions.

Possession. I know it to be bad thing but I somehow feel the urge to try it for myself. Is there anything bad about it? What will happen and will I ever regain my body somehow. In the incantation summary I have found an invocation and its description sparked my interest even more. How much is the entity able to control my body and can I interact with it? Is it possible to be possessed and only sometimes lose control and regain it?

Familiar. How do I get one and how do they work. I have heard that they are helping spirits but how do they help? Can you talk to them at anytime, are they always around you? Or do I always have to meditate and call them to get them to interact with me?

Banishing is said to be neccesary, how important is it, like how much would you screw up if you don’t do it and what could happen? I have once had a friend who tried a ritual I showed him and it backfired. He stopped the summoning as there was something heavy falling down and interupting him. He got badly hurt by the entity and till this day has a scar from this “accident”, could that happen to me if I dont banish correctly?

It is sometimes mentioned to wear a robe or something during a ritual. Is it very necessary or does only the color of the outfit matter? Because I do not know where to get hold of one.

How would you find something similar to a coven or a school in your area to be able to interact with other magicians? Is there a good way or is just happening randomly to find one?

In one article I once read that if you summon Satan/Lucifer, you would get marked. Is this true and how strong would it be? Because my family is a very strict christian family and my father is very perceptive to things like that and told me once, that if I would go this route (he knows that i choose to leave the christian faith and look for the left hand path), that he would forbid me to ever return to him or rather his Home. I personaly would like to avoid this, due to my mother, who I care about and who would get very very dragged down emotionaly if my father chooses to cast me out and taking my chance to see them in person. (Also, due to me being a student I am relying on their financial support, which would probably be canceled).

Is there a quick and easy way to get perceptive to the beings around one if you summon them, like really quick? I know that it is like the german saying say “Good things take a while (literaly translated)” but I want to be able to make contact with Lucifer and/or Lilith that they can guid me and stop me of falling dormant again, since I sadly get distracted very easily and have already made a break of about half a year in which is rather unfortunate.

I hope you wont get mad for all those questions, but I thank you in advance :stuck_out_tongue:

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#5

As a beginner with no senses or magical skill, you are not likely to get much out of a possession. It’s not as easy as the movies make it look.

There are many ways to get a familiar. They can be given to you by a greater spirit, for example, or you can create one, or you can find a spirit on the higher planes willing to act as one for you.

It depends on the spirit, really, but generally, they will remain around you. though if the familiar was gifted to you, they can be recalled by the greater spirit that sent them.

As for interacting with them, you would interact the same way you would with any spirit, assuming you have the necessary skills to do so.

Banishing is like vacuuming your carpet. It keeps muck from accumulating and causing a mess, and should be done regularly, especially if you live with other people who may be affected by the rituals you do. It should be part of every magician’s toolkit. And sometimes, you just have to kick an unruly or malicious spirit out.

None of that matters. You can wear whatever you want. However, if you choose certain clothes that you only wear for magick, then every time you put them on it will become easier and easier to slip into the magical mindset. They will become a signal to your subconscious mind that you are about to perform a ritual, making it easier to put on the persona of a magician.

Community bulletin boards and local internet sites. Also, New Age or witchcraft shops.

No, it’s not true, and even if it was, it would be an astral mark, not a physical one, so no one would see it unless they had astral sight.

Sorry, but no, there is not. Magick is like anything else in life, it takes time and effort to develop the necessary skills. You can’t pick up a weight for the first time, and suddenly become a bodybuilder. You have to practice consistently, and your own natural abilities, talents, and limitations, will come into play. Some skills will come easier to you than others, but even the most naturally talented people still have to train. Discipline beats talent every day of the week. You can’t expect to run before you can even crawl.

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#6

What is a good way to start as a beginner with decent results? I know I got recomended the book but I am not YET sure whether to buy it. I mean like basic stuff, and is it okay to perform several ritual in the same night? Like yesterday I tried to invoke Lilith as well as Lucifer back to back (And Lilith even once more earlier that day, which was the only time that gave me a “proper result”).
And whats a good way to get a teacher, even if it is online like here?

(I dont know how to citate properly)
No, it’s not true, and even if it was, it would be an astral mark, not a physical one, so no one would see it unless they had astral sight.

Problem is, he is perceptive to things you don’t see, like he can sense “spirits” through the atmosphere of a room he is in. I once had this too until i descended down the path of leaving christianity

#7

As I said, it is unlikely you will be marked. Most people aren’t. Some spirits will mark you, however, such as a succubus, but that is generally about marking their territory and keeping other spirits away.

You’re still trying to run before you can even walk. You have no development so you are unlikely to get “decent results” immediately. My advice is to find a book that teaches the magical basics, and follow it. Build your foundation before anything else.

Yes. If you’re doing a full ritual properly, though, it can be very exhausting.

Are you trying to invoke or evoke? They are not the same thing.

Go looking. @C.Kendall is a BALG author and affiliate, and offers a mentorship program. You could ask him to contact you about it.

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#8

Are you trying to invoke or evoke? They are not the same thing.

Ehm, I dont know, I found this one thread about how to cmunicate with Lilith and there were those two videos for “guided meditation” and I followed along the first one, screwed up halfway through and started it again. And later in this thread there was someone who said that “Invoco te Lilith” is enough to call her, and I did that but with lucifer instead of her. And it worked, I could feel his presence but that was all.
(I did not banish before…)
Have I done something wrong? I did actually not know how to send them off and just thanked them for their time and opened my eyes…

You’re still trying to run before you can even walk. You have no development so you are unlikely to get “decent results” immediately. My advice is to find a book that teaches the magical basics, and follow it. Build your foundation before anything else

Well, then it is the book. I hoped I could somehow brute force my way in as I try to do it with all the things that I try, Try the hard stuff and later on go to the easy stuff

And thanks for your answers!