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Download File 0 THE SORCERER’S SECRETS Strategies to Practical Magick By JASON MILLER NEW PAGE BOOKS A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ Copyright © 2009 by Jason Miller All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. Artwork courtesy of Matthew Brownlee. TTTHEHEHE SORCERERORCERERORCERER’’’SSS SECRETSECRETSECRETS EDITED BY KATE HENCHES TYPESET BY EILEEN MUNSON Cover design by Ian Shimkoviak, the Book Designers Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201-848- 0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 www.careerpress.com www.newpagebooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Jason, 1972– The sorcerer’s secrets : strategies to practical magick / by Jason Miller. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Magic. 2. Incantations. I. Title. BF1621.M56 2009 133.4’3--dc22 2008054313 0 This work is dedicated to the memory of James W. Flemming, 1974–2008. This page intentionally left blank 0 Acknowledgments irst and foremost, I wish to thank my wife for her patience and Fencouragement during the writing of this book. Thanks also to my mother and father for raising me in an environment that was conductive to learning the magickal arts, and for always encouraging me in my esoteric pursuits, no matter how strange they seemed or how far away they took me. Special thanks to Mathew Brownlee for more than 20 years of friendship and for providing all the artwork for this book. Bang up job, my friend. Thanks also to: Frater Xanthias for linguistic assistance; Albus Eddie for information on NLP and Ericksonian Hypnosis; John Myrdhin Reynolds for Tibetan translations and other help; and Sister Persephone and Frater Rufus Opus for impromptu copy editing. Thanks to all my initiators, mentors, teachers, friends, and informants who have revealed to me the secrets of their craft. Special thanks for this go to: John Myrdhin Reynolds, Namkhai Norbu, Lopon Tenzin Namdak, Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche, Cliff and Misha Pollick, catherine yronwode, Tau Nemesius, Paul Hume, Simon, Lama Wangdor, Blanch Krubner, Dr. Jim, and Susan Carbury. My heartfelt gratitude to everyone that attended my monthly classes at Mystical Tymes in New Hope, Penn., The Cauldron in Pt. Pleasant, New Jersey, and The Full Moon in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Those classes and your feedback were instrumental in helping me evolve the ideas presented in this book. Thanks also to my fellow bloggers Frater R.O., Witchdoctor Joe, Frater B.H., “My Gal,” Jack Faust, Mike Rock, and Sister Persephone. Much appreciation to all the members of Thelesis Lodge, The Chthonic Auranian Temple, The Terra Sancta Sodality, the Wild Hunt Club, and The Ngakpa Zhonnu Khang Sangha for their continued fraternity and support. Lastly, I want to thank everyone at New Page Books who worked on this book. Specifically Laurie Kelly-Pye who read an article of mine and suggested I start writing books, and her husband Michael Pye, who was extremely generous with deadline extensions for the present work. This page intentionally left blank Contents " * Introduction - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9 About the Magick in This Book - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 13 Part One: Basic Training Chapter 1: The Gift - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 Chapter 2: The Three Levels - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 25 Chapter 3: Subtle Keys - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 31 Chapter 4: Regular Practice - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 45 Part Two: Strategic Sorcery Chapter 5: Divination and Intelligence Gathering - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 71 Chapter 6: Influence and Persuasion- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 95 Chapter 7: Financial Magick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 125 Chapter 8: Protection and Security - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 145 Chapter 9: Love and Lust - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 167 Chapter 10:Further Strategies - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 187 Parting Words - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 207 Appendix: Iao and the Greek Vowels - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 209 Sources for Further Study - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 211 Notes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 215 Index - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 217 About the Author - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 223 Introduction " * am a professional Sorcerer. I not only write and teach the methods of Imagick, but I perform practical magick for clients that are seeking to change their lives for the better. Some students and clients are beginners or just regular people in need of a little magickal assistance, but many are actually long-time practitioners who just haven’t been able to make the magick work for them. Often they have dozens of books on the subject and know many spells and rituals, but they just haven’t been able to get the results they hoped for. Perhaps they draw spiritual benefit from their path, but they haven’t been able to make magick manifest materially in ways that they had expected. They find themselves having invested a lot of time and effort into an art that they can’t seem to make work for them. They may have even built their social lives around Witchcraft and the Occult. Because they haven’t been able to do magick successfully they may have shifted their focus from the Sorcery that originally got them interested, to either Pagan religious obser- vance or psychological self-help. Both of these are good things. Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work. Real results are possible; you just need to know how to go about it. Real change in the real world. 9 " * The Sorcerer’s Secrets " * Of course there are a lot of books that say that. Oodles of magickal books fill the shelves of nearly every bookstore in the world making all kinds of promises of power and wisdom. How is this one different? Recently, I took stock of what was available out there and noticed that books on magick generally fell into two categories: training manuals, or spell books. The training manuals are mostly about learning the rituals and beliefs of a particular magickal order or type of Witchcraft. Much of the informa- tion relates only to the magic of spiritual development or worship, which are important, but are by no means the entirety of the art. Material that does relate to practical magick, when its there at all, is often treated as a side issue. On the other side of the spectrum, there are spell books. Spell books are great, I own lots of them, but they only go so far. You can pick one up and do a spell for something, but without the power and awareness to implement it skillfully your spell only has a slim chance of achieving the desired result. Even if your spell works, do you know how to manage the result and build upon it? There is more to success in sorcery than simply performing a ritual that you found in a book. This book is neither a training manual nor a spell book. It is field manual. Voodoo Priest Louis Martinie once shared with me the following magickal axiom: first comes the working, than comes the work. There is a lot more to making successful magick than just the magick itself: How do you attack a problem from multiple sides using magick? How do you blend magickal and mundane action to achieve success? How do you know whether what you are doing is working? How do you fix it if its not? What are the best ways to work on behalf of others? 10 " * Introduction " * To answer these questions, I will present the usual exercises and spells that you would find in a book of this sort, but, more than this, I will present complete strategies for generating successful results. In so doing I will be re- vealing many tips of the trade that even today are often only shared within closed cabals or from mentor to student. It is my hope that this book will aid in rescuing the art of magick from those who have ignored, downplayed, or outright denied the existence of practical sorcery in favor of arcane titles, intangible results, and fantasy attainments. To those who think that spells are only psychological exercises designed to build confidence or release stress; to those who think Witchcraft is only religion and not a craft; to those who have come to think that magick can only affect the mind of the magician and not the minds of others; to those who have tried and failed, and have given up on effecting the fabric of perception and probability;
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