I did the Loagaeth ritual yesterday, and things feel a bit off, not wrong but something’s different. The ritual experience itself and whatever this feeling is are making it clear that these tables are worth using, so I will clarify the method here for those who are curious.
Just to be clear, I am not squawking that this is the only valid method, and I mean no disrespect to others who have experimented with this magick before. If I am honest, though, when someone says the word “gematria” my eyes start to glaze over, and from the microscopic amount of research I’ve done online people get into weird logic chains that would impress the most nutcasey of conspiracy theorists (not to encourage them). Maybe that’s just how it goes sometimes, so fair and reasonable, but my bias with meditative and magickal things has always been to focus on practice and minimize any “theory study.” I’ll admit that I occasionally add numbers together, but I’m not trying to be a cookoo nutjob who goes around compulsively converting every letter they see into a number and then adding them up in various ways. That, to me, does not sound like suffering elimination. If it makes you feel good then have at it, but if you try to make an argument based on some gematria fumbling around I’ll probably ignore it.
For the gematria freaks out there though who are obsessed with the number 7, you may recall (as I imagine you’re a bit of a reader) that I said the vibe was to consider each Soyga table in the manuscripts (so 8 of them) as one work-through of the Keys (now I’d say one work-through of Success Magick, expanded edition). This means that each Soyga table will be activated (I imagine they stay active, you get what I mean) for around 2 years. The entire pathworking takes about 16 years, huzzah. Really though lucky 17 is more likely if not just how the numbers add up. Clearly I have not done the math.
Why would I do this pathworking? That’s a long-ass time. It seems that this is miniscule compared to what can be unlocked. Yeah I like practical magick too, but this is something else.
Take the recent Corruption ritual, for instance. There have been some rather persistent emotions that were bothering me. Now, they immediately dissolve into pleasure. Not something super intense like delight, but a calm, simmering pleasure. Who’da thought that a demon of corruption and disease could cause such healing and transformation? Oh yeah, I did. I doubt I’m the only one.
Purchase some large paper to use for the Loagaeth tables. I use “drawing paper” I got at an art supply store. It’s a brownish color, for what that’s worth. I make each square in the grid about 8 by 8 centimeters. That’s not really so much for symbolism, 9 by 9 just didn’t fit on the page. I just use a ruler and a normal pencil.
When you perform the ritual itself, you will be vocalizing the letters within your mind in the following pattern. Also, I suggest using my pronunciations as they are consistent and what I received, and have proven themselves to me to aid what occurs while performing the Loagaeth ritual. Also, random note, the squiggle that looks like an ‘e’ seems to be ‘x’, and the other one is ‘y’. I’ve seen it marked ‘s’ but it really, really feels like a ‘y’ for some reason. Maybe that’s me getting squawky though. If you want to do something else then you have fun with that.
For the front side, begin in the upper-right square, then go diagonally down-left (down-left left-down not important, it’s diagonal - I feel compelled to say that). So for table 6, front side, it begins with s-o, e-h, h-a, c-d, a-n, and onwards. When you reach the last combination it will wrap around to the start of the line, so first line ends with a-d, second line z-u, etc. Before doing each line, speak the words that accompany that side of the table. I don’t write these on the page with the table itself, but on a separate piece of paper. Perhaps that’s arbitrary. Just to be clear, for table 6, front side, the words are “sancgonfal aldex aue goh adatquan.” The ‘x’ and the ‘h’ really helped clear my mind between lines. I also speak the words after doing the final line. I stick around for a second to see if anything happens.
For the back side of the tables, the pattern is the same, but you internally vocalize in the reverse order. So you still begin with the upper-right square and it’s diagonal, but you go in the reverse order, lower square up-right to the diagonal. So for table 6, back side, it begins a-o, d-t, r-s, a-a, x-h, etc.
If you are curious, I received this pattern while considering if I should do anything with the Loagaeth tables, and after I got the pattern I understood it to symbolize the heavenly and earthly realm. On the front side, you go heaven down to earth, and on the back side (which is used during the second week, the “consolidation week,” when Universal Magick is used like “normal” practical magick) you go earth up to heaven. I’m getting the feeling that the tables represent manifest creation. For the curious and also persistent, you will not vocalize the Loagaeth letters in the 48th table, Silence, and will still follow the pattern in the 49th ritual, Light. Not to sound like I’m telling you what to do though. You can add numbers together if you’d rather do that. I’ll be performing ritual magick.
You may notice that 49 is an odd number, so there’s an extra row. I just go across. Maybe two-letter combinations, maybe individual letters. It doesn’t seem like a big deal. The Big Deal seems to be working with the tables in the performance of ritual magick.
While writing the tables, when doing the “earth” row of each line (so the lower one, row 2, 4, 6, etc), I start one letter over from the first square, so that way you go in the order you’ll vocalize the letters in. That means for the second row, table 6, front side, you start with ‘o’ and end with ‘d’. It seems useful to not write the diagonal combinations, but to go right-to-left across each row. Maybe that’ll change, but this way you get them fresh in the ritual.
Why does that matter? Maybe it’s just me, and maybe it’s just because my concentration isn’t quite up there yet, but I was pretty much dumbfounded the entire 2ish hours doing the ritual. It’s amazing what meanings your mind can devise for sequences of two-letter combinations. This wasn’t some esoteric energy plane rambling. It was a bunch of relatively mundane stuff that’s been going on in my mind, combined with various feelings. I won’t say too much here, as personal interpretation seems to be the point, but for example, I associate the Enochian letter for ‘a’ with Peace, and ‘o’ with Power. I could say more but I’ll leave it at that. I suppose I’ll also note that the words spoken between the lines seemed to have a growing energy behind them as the ritual progressed, an energy I was not familiar with.
The ritual should obviously be your focus while performing it, but it doesn’t seem like a big deal if you’d like to have something else going on sometimes while writing the lines. I can feel the try-hards sneering as I say that, and fair enough, but divination works in funny ways, and if you need to put some tunes on to help you become accustomed to this practice, I don’t see a problem with that. The TV or youtube or whatever should not be blaring while you do the ritual, but writing the lines is a different activity.
I’ve mentioned before that I suggest some sort of pointer object to help with the ritual. You can wave it around if that gets you going but it’s really just to keep you from sitting in an uncomfortable position. I suppose there is a nice symbolism with using a calligraphy brush though. I also use an art table desk thing, so I can raise up the surface at a bit of an angle.
I had some time today and wanted to put this out there for those to whom it applies, so here yah go. Soyga table rituals I feel like are as I mentioned before, but I’ll update if I sense any changes. You repeat the Vision ritual between Success Magick sections (rituals of the angels, first grouping of Aethyrs, second grouping of Aethyrs) and do the Soyga ritual instead of a Loagaeth ritual. Pattern is probably the same but we’ll see. I didn’t do empowerments with the Vision rituals.
On the note of Universal Magick, if you’d like to do the empowerments that go with the Keys but are busy with other stuff and so can’t do the full ritual, I’d suggest doing the Success Magick rituals as they are described in the book with the empowerment right before it, following along with the two steps forward, consolidation routine. I can’t claim to know entirely, but without the Watchtowers these specific effects seem like they will be greatly reduced. In the recent Corruption ritual, I was somewhat surprised to discover that darkness is what arose from the Watchtower after calling to the angels, not light. That’s right, I even share the darkness with all humanity. I’m just that fucking powerful.