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Shaitan Lore
Today we talk about the shaitan. The adversaries from the jinn nations. Their leader was said to be a being by the name of Iblis. Iblis is pronounced roughly i-blee, and unlike the contemporary concept of Satan, Iblis was only granted permission to communicate with humans, whisper to them. Originally, Iblis was the most devoted…
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Pacts With The Devil
Now onto “pacts with the devil”. A pact is an agreement or consensus, and you have a consensus with at least one jinn. Sort of a blood pact even to the point of your health being involved. This is why seeing a mysterious black dog was considered an omen of death, black dogs being one…
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Hiding From The Devil
There have been uses of stealth magick in every culture from prayers to meditations, to ritual dances to carrying fetish objects, but they all work in the same way. Your own perceptual filters are elastic, but so are other peoples. So the purpose of these spells (to give them all a name) was to reconfigure…
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Major Arcana: Devil
The devil card. This is the card of confusion and conflict. It is not the card of evil necessarily, as any of the major arcana can reflect some facet of darkness in your life. What are your impressions of this card? Prison. Enslavement. The devil card does represent those things. In fact, there is a…
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Advocate for the Devil
Is being enlightened having everything you contact hold your interest? Ah, excellent question. It is. Compassion is having everything hold your interest. Artists feel compassion for their art. They describe their creative works as their children, even begin to imagine their art has a desired destiny, place and state of being. Artists typically experience some…