When western grimoire spirits act as tricksters, it is a result of a combination of the expectations of the operator and the system being employed. Your unconscious expectations combine with the system’s structure to form tacit commands beneath the overt intentional command that will bind both you and the spirit and color the outcome. NEVER pass the buck to the spirit. You are the Operator. The spirit is a representative and facilitator of knowledge and power you already possess but have not integrated the awareness into your conceptualized personality.
Most initiatory paths are designed to help divert you from confronting the fact that the world is yours. The world you live in is not the world other people live in; it has been issued directly to you and you own it. You’re conditioned from an early age to think that you must answer to everyone else, that things happen out there and you react to them, but in reality everything out there answers to you. Those people and events out there are not “sharing a timeline” with you - these particular copies of them are being rendered in YOUR timeline. Your experience of perceiving things that “occur” “out there” is actually the boomerang reaction of an intention to perceive “what’s going on out there.” You look first, then you see. Everything “out there” is on YOUR turf, and the difference between accepting and integrating the awareness of that and using the surface “work” of magic to divert yourself away from it is the difference between magic and mysticism, a line that humans intentionally blur because the implications of the former are disconcerting to their conditioned notions of self and identity.
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