Anousen Leonte - Evocation through Sigil Magick: A Guide to Contacting Other Realities

A Guide to Contacting Other Realities

by Anousen Leonte

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other works:

Gnostic Magick

Sigil Magick: the Basics

Scrying Without Tears

The Art of Magickal Fasting

Introduction

It was the Summer of 2006.

By then, I had been through myriad evocations, invocations and summonings, and though I was not bored with them by any means there was, nevertheless, something within me which craved a deeper contact with new and different spirits. Before I had even embarked upon the path of magick I was widely read in the lore of various cultures, and I knew that the Gods and Goddesses of oldgood as well as evilwere spirits not at all unlike those encountered in the grimoires. Baal and Ashtaroth come to mind, for though they are Goetic spirits they were also widely worshiped in ancient Palestine and other portions of the Middle East. Yet, one could evoke them to the present day, if one only knew how.

I wanted more.

I wanted to evoke spirits not mentioned in the grimoires, such as Thor, Pan, Hathor, Baldr, Ahura Mazda, Jubmel, Bast, Set, Wendigo, etc. And I did not desire this for the mere sake of attaining results aloneat least, not material results. I wanted, rather, to imbibe of their presence, and know them intimately. I wanted to feel them and see their radiance within me, as did their worshipers of long ago. Antiquity presents us with a panorama of different spirits, while the modern age languishes under Allah and Jehovah. I wanted to touch the world of these old spirits in the same way as those in the grimoires I was familiar with. I was determined to do it, but I needed to find out how. I wanted to find if there was indeed an aspect of magick which did not originate as a manifestation of my own unconscious mindas many theorize magick is.

It was then that I fell back upon some of my earliest magickal learningsin Chaos Magick and in the Tantric systems of India. I was intrigued by Chaos Magick for the simplicity and effectiveness of its central methodsigilizationand my interest in Tantra was born long ago in studying its mystic and meditative disciplines. In regards to Chaos Magick the effects were often palpable and interesting, yet it seemed they had no purpose beyond achieving a desired change in the psycho-physical continuum. They could cause changes, but could they do more? Tantra, in contrast, was always presented as a way of liberationthat is, achieving effects far beyond the scope Chaos Magick normally presented itself with. And I had by this time appropriated Chaos Magick as being my primary way of interpreting magickal data and theory, even though I found a resonance with Tantra.

As yet, though, I did not see the connection between the two, nor did it cross my mind that all of these systems be used as unified wholemuch less that this "unified whole" might take me to that world of spirits I wanted to go to. I had understood, however, that all magick utilizes one of two methods, or both in combination: the applying of a "blind" upon the conscious mind, or the principle of sympathy. In the former, one must blind portions of the conscious mind that interfere with magick. This is most often done by using forms of media that do not correspond to anything living or deadthat is, the use of images or sounds which are nonsense to the conscious mind. Sigils, yantras, magick squares and veves are examples of this in terms of the visual spectrum. Barbarous words and mantras, similarly, pertain to the audible spectrum. Both are used to ensure one's receptivity to energies or intelligences which are non-ordinary, to say the least. As the world is primarily a visual and auditory hallucination, these are the primary forms of blinding.

The latter principle is based on the doctrine of correspondence: that is, that all things correspond, in some way, to other similar or disimilar things. This is found most commonly in the astrological or elemental sense. Therefore, one may harness the power of the planet by engaging or using a corresponding object, taste, or scent. There are instances of applied or artificially made sympathies as well, as in the use of wax figures representing someone, a person's name, hair, bits of their clothing, etc. Ritual is a composite of these two principles. One uses both a blind & corresponding, sympathetic implements in order to establish a link with the desired energy, as well as receptivity to contact.

I could sense that all of this was true and I had seen it in practice, but I had not yet made certain necessary connections. Thus far, I had achieved some success in using sigils for spell-casting purposes, as well as a possibly successful creation of a servitor (a highly charged sigil which takes upon a mind of its own and is able to carry out the spell with a higher degree of intelligence than a sigil accomplishesuntil, that is, it is destroyed.) But there was still a veil between what I wanted to do and what I knew how to do.

One evening, I was reading a book of Tantric magick and I noticed that the Tantrikas used visual representations of their spirits, called a yantra. Here are some traditional examples:

Each yantra was built upon a series of esoteric numbers, representing the spirit in question. However, as you can see, the yantra itself conveys nothing in particular, other than its own geometry. This reminded me of how a sigil, in Chaos magick, should convey nothing of the source material, and be merely an abstract design allowed to sink into one's deeper mind, to be expressed and expelled as a magickal effect at a later time. The yantras seemed to follow the same principles: they, too, conveyed no direct information, but were used as a mode of contact with a spirit.

These other examples, while non-traditional, are built upon much the same principles:

Then it occured to me that the seals found in the various grimoires, also, were built upon the same principles: conveying no information, but evocative enough to be sank or submerged into the mind. Yet while sigil magick was a spell, the yantras and seals as found in the grimoires were a form of making contact with the desired spirit. Afterwards, one could request certain things to happen, and get a response, but the act of using a seal or