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HOWLINGS FROM THE PIT
A JOURNAL OF OLD SYSTEM MAGIC,
THEURGY, AND GOETIA
VOLUME I NUMBER 2
AUGUST 2007
A PUBLICATION OF 8
TH
MATRIX PRESS
AND
JOSEPH C. LISIEWSKI, PH.D.
©Copyright 2007 by Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D.
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Journal Issue – Volume I, Number 2
August 2007
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Table of Contents for Volume I Number 2
Preparation for Old System Magic
Part 2 of 2………………………………………………………..4
Ritual Techniques of Old System Magic
The Magical Watcher………………………………………….10
Studies in the Grimoires – The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy –
Part II of II ………………………………………………………19
Answers to Readers’ Questions …………………………………….26
Experimental Old System Magic
The Blasting Rod – Its Purpose and Use
Part I of III……………………………………………………….32
Concerning the Suffumigations and Fire of the Magical Art –
Special Announcements ……………………………………………..41
Cover Illustration — Doctor John Dee and Edward Kelly in the act of
Infernal Necromancy— recalling the spirit of a deceased person back
into its decaying physical form
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Part II of III………………………………………………………36
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PREPARATION FOR OLD SYSTEM MAGIC
PART 2 OF 2
THE STEPS OF PREPARATION PROPER
In the last issue of this Journal, I recommended that the sincere aspirant to
Old System Magic ‘religiously’ perform the following acts, a brief
recapitulation of which are listed below. That is, before even thinking about
beginning any basic ritual work,
e.g.
, the material presented in the column,
Ritual Techniques of Old System Magic
as given in this Journal, the
aspirant should follow through with what is given here. As counseled in Part
1 of this column last time, some of these actions are physical: most however,
are mental. I also cautioned that all given below has a powerful effect on
one’s newly forming (or reforming) Subjective Synthesis. And since Magic
works from the inside out and not the outside in, I stressed that your efforts
here will start you moving forward in discovering—and becoming—who
you already are.
Further, it was strongly recommended that the would-be Magician of Old
System Magic set him or herself to a
six
month period during which the
following steps should be executed. The aspirant was also cautioned that six
months is the very least period of time in which the following actions could
be accomplished. Indeed—and what it is so important to remember here—is
that while some of these actions can be completed within the six month
timeframe, others will continue to be worked on for the remainder of your
life:
1. Discard – literally get rid of – all those New Age books, and break
completely with all of those ‘magical’ associations and memberships
that have availed you nothing, but which have consumed your life and
time.
2.
Begin to acquire those books I recommended in my own (thus far)
three books,
Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation
,
Kabbalistic Cycles and the Mastery of Life
, and
Kabbalistic
Handbook for the Practicing Magician
.
3. Discard all of the confusing (and even contradictory) Qabalah you
learned from your New Age books.
4. Prepare or acquire your Magical Chamber.
5. Set aside two, 30-minute periods of prayer a day. Prayers and Orations
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attributed to Dr. John Dee were given as examples and
recommendations.
6. In addition to the above, set aside one, 30-minute period every other
day for introspection.
7. To keep absolute silence about your Work, to trust and rely solely
upon God and your own Self in this Work, such that you truly keep to
the ancient admonition, “
To Know, to Will, to Dare, to Keep
Silent.
”
8. And of course, you
must
absolutely and completely obey the strict
requirements set down in any of the grimoires from which you intend
to work. Substitutions, additions, subtractions, etc., are not allowed
whatsoever. If you require ‘a Blasting Rod made from the branch of a
hazel tree that never bore fruit before, cut with a new knife exactly as
the Sun is halfway on the horizon during its morning ascent,’ then that
is what you do: you do
not
replace it with some mindless New Age
contrivance,
e.g
., a dowel rod from your local hardware store!
But my dear Reader, there is more. Much, much more. And in truth, what I
am about to write will be for some the most difficult of all to accomplish—
that is, at least it will be for those who are as yet so wrapped up in New Age
nonsense that they cannot extricate themselves from it by doing what must
be done next.
For to move into the realm of Old System Magic—where the
power lies; where wonders and signs such as you would not believe at this
moment become a matter of course; where the fulfillment of your most
earnest desires and deepest yearnings change from a fantastic dream to a
hard and fast reality—
YOU MUST DEFACE, DESTROY, AND CONSIGN TO
FIRE, ALL OF YOUR FORMER MAGICAL IMPEDIMENTA
. That is correct.
Whether they be the ‘weapons’ of the Golden Dawn or any of its
multitudinous variations; whether they be of some amalgam between the
Golden Dawn and Old System Magic or any of the latter’s variants; whether
they be of Wicca or one of its offshoots; whether they be of some Germanic
Folk Magic school or of Druid, Celtic, or belonging to some other way;
ALL
MUST BE UTTERLY DESTROYED IN ORDER TO FREE YOU TO MOVE
INTO THAT DARKLY SPLENDID REALM OF OLD SYSTEM MAGIC
PROPER.
“What!” You scream. “Give up what I have labored so hard and long to
create? Something that looks so beautiful and pristine, and which contains so
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