I see no similarity between Mark Alan Smith (Primal Craft) and Current 218.
If you’re look content within the old TOTBL website (offline) Dark Goddess Hekate occupy a significant place within the anti-cosmic tradition.
The different traditions never be mixed together within the same ritual setting. It can be very chaotic and destructive, That’s my opinion.
Waking up after the third night of the Gargophias ritual. Every night there was a slight variation of the ritual (especially the hymns as some of beings I’ve worked with so much that I feel comfortable ad libbing as the mood moves me toward a devotional, poetic state). The ritual I created more or less goes like this:
Facing East (the direction of my main altar)
I raise Hekate’s energy from the earth up and Lucifer’s from the sky down (an energy exercise I’ve tweaked over the course of several years).
Somehow, I’ve also evolved into the habit of evoking the ‘four corners’ counterclockwise starting from Northeast and ending with Southeast - it involves breathwork of rotating the elements through my body while visualizing drawing stars in the corner and connecting them from Earth, Water, Air, Fire… starting underneath my body and by the time I get to fire allowing it to explode out the top of my head, swirling around counterclockwise. I do this basic exercise almost daily for years but swap out what is standing at the four corners depending on the ritual. In this ritual, the rivers of Acheron, Styx, Cocytus and Phlegethon were at the corners.
I then call the four ‘sides’ or cardinal directions. Starting with the direction I face and going clockwise, a similar reverses exercise where I rotate the stars and circle from East-South-West-North… and from the top of my down until it finishes at Earth/North and swirls clockwise back up around me. For this ritual, I called Lilith the elder- Lilith the younger- Aggereth- Naamah… (again a variation of a daily exercise I’ve done for years… I could do these first steps in less than a minute while driving to work easily at this point, but for ritual, all of this is stretched into about ten minutes so far to give time to note each beings energy)
Then in front of my altar, I call Cerberus - and the part of my shadow that I fused with a half conscious astral shadow being I met years ago - toward a crystal.
Behind that, at the center of my altar, I call Typhon and Daath and light a candle.
Behind that, at the back of my altar, I call Gargophias using incense and a tarot card.
I closed out by politely dismissing any entities that were attracted to, but not directly related to the working and tell them to feel free assisting me in anything related to the work as it pertains to them, if they would like to be fed and acknowledged in the future.
I do this all for only an hour and then go to bed an hour before my bedtime, so I can meditate physically and astrally and transition to (this is usually how I do things just to be efficient with my daily life schedule)
Results
1st night - during ritual getting specific answers about how to handle current issues, starting to feel strange flickers in different parts of my body. After ritual, lying in bed with the flickers growing stronger and a dream of a strange woman in the distance.
Second night - atmosphere during and after the ritual felt similar to Hekate based rituals of the past. Dream involving the strange woman from the previous night coming into my altar space and speaking with me. (Followed by a kind of disturbing succubus dream that I will not detail here, but started to jump from dream to astral at this point)
Third night - from the middle of the ritual (last night) until now (this morning), I have felt pulsing waves from my feet up toward my head. When I lay down, I can sense them in the room come toward me before they get to my body and also after they pass my head, connecting me with the environment. The look like when you see very small ripple waves coming toward shore from the ocean - not just straight, but occasionally at a slight diagonal from bottom to top. I hear a voice telling me to focus in the center of my stomach/womb and can feel them pulsing around my uterus area. I am getting downloads regarding how to receive and attract magically in a feminine, effortless way. Last night, the only dream I can remember was being lightly caressed by threads of shimmering spider silk (and in the past I’ve been pretty afraid of spiders, but the dream was as relaxing as this wave experience)
Feel free to DM me with any questions or insights you may have. My general conclusion is that I am surprised to feel such pleasant, continuous sensations. The most spa-like qlippothic experience I’ve ever had by far!
VK gives a good synopsis of Gargophias here:
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I understand the point, but on this particular example
Isn’t the Typhonian OTO ‘Satanic’? Though they do identify as ‘cosmic’…
but Crowley did mention Lucifer and Satan in a Thelemic context, like with Aiwass, and the other Thelemic-Egyptian entities.
I highly respect Mr. Kenneth Grant but Thelemic magical Orders are different in many ways from Anti-Cosmic Tradition of Luciferianism/Satanism. Satanists never do rituals or work with YHWH and his Sephirothic Archons.
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