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Enchantment:

The Great Mystery is a Well that Never Runs Dry

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities.

It is hidden but always present. I don’t know who gave birth to it. It is older than the gods.

Tao Te Ching: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader, Lao Tzu.

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Consider all the forms you know; the traditions, the teachings, the practices and the stories. Beneath these ten thousand things is the Great Mystery. Dis-identify from the form and seek the every potential substance.

Enchantment:

Primal Bifurcation

Hear now the Word of Madness and Mystery.

I am movement and chaos, and I am the stillness inside of you. 

Self-born, untaught, motherless, unshakable. Giving place to no name, many-named, dwelling in fire. 

I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring and in my coiling there is joy. I have made a hollow skin, from the heart of the holy tree, I compassed the earth therein, and rise from the depths of the Sea. 

I who am the beauty of the green earth, and the white moon among stars, the soul of nature, that gives life to the universe. 

Chaos Craft; The Wheel of the Year in Eight Colours, Julian Vayne & Steve Dee

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Matter:

Heavy archive grade card and ink. A1

Commentary:

One original only. No prints. Signed.

Technology:

With arms outstretched, decipher this text and chant what you read as a barbarous invocation of the Primal Division & Fusion.

Enchantment:

Dissolution, Revolution, Evolution

Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.

The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.

Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people’s greatest help.

True words seem paradoxical.

Tao Te Ching translation, Stephen Mitchel

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A4.

Commentary:

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Technology:

Discern the value of letting go. Meditate on this image at dusk.

Enchantment:

Spell Tablet

Put down a clean vessel and place the tablet under [it]; add barley meal, mix and form bread: twelve rolls in the shape of female figures. Say [the formula three times], eat [the rolls] on an empty stomach, and you will know the power.

Enter, master, into my mind, and grant me memory. Do this monthly, facing the moon, on the first day [of the month]. Prostrate yourself before the goddess, and wear the tablet as an amulet.

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells: Texts (Volume 1), Unknown

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Matter:

Ink on card. A5

Commentary:

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Technology:

Trace the lines with the finger of the non-dominant hand while saying your spell.

Enchantment:

Descending Sigilization

The desire to be great can only become organic at a time of vacuity, and by giving it (Sigil) form. When conscious of the Sigil form (any time but the Magical) it should be repressed, a deliberate striving to forget it, by this it is active and dominates at the unconscious period, its form nourishes and allows it to become attached to the subconsciousness and become organic, that accomplished, is its reality and realization.

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy A.O.Spare

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Matter:

Ink on card. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Chant the words in a descending tone and release your sonic sigil into the deep mind.

Enchantment:

The Detonation of Language

DUST-DEVILS
In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I
It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
All life is choked.
This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Universe
The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
Yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss.
Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go.
As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower.
See! five footprints of a Camel! V’ V’ V’ V’ V’

The Book of Lies, Aleister Crowley

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Matter:

Ink on card. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

In silence is the seed of Wisdom gained.

Enchantment:

Shamanic Costume

A shaman wears regalia, some part of which usually imitates an animal—most often a deer, a bird, or a bear. It may include a headdress made of antlers or a band into which feathers of birds have been pierced. The footwear is also symbolic—iron deer hooves, birds’ claws, or bears’ paws. The clothing of the shamans among the Tofalar (Karagasy), Soyet, and Darhat are decorated with representations of human bones—ribs, arm, and finger bones. The shamans of the Goldi-Ude tribe perform the ceremony in a singular shirt and in a front and back apron on which there are representations of snakes, lizards, frogs, and other animals.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/shamanism/Dress-and-equipment

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Matter:

Ink on card. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Dance before this image while wearing ribbons, metallic charms, bones, old cables, feathers and so forth. Entrance yourself.

Enchantment:

Occult Sun

There was nothing more. Dyson let the little pocket-book fall, and turned and looked again at the opal with its flaming inmost light, and then with unutterable irresistible horror surging up in his heart, grasped the jewel, and flung it on the ground, and trampled it beneath his heel. His face was white with terror as he turned away, and for a moment stood sick and trembling, and then with a start he leapt across the room and steadied himself against the door. There was an angry hiss, as of steam escaping under great pressure, and as he gazed, motionless, a volume of heavy yellow smoke was slowly issuing from the very centre of the jewel, and wreathing itself in snake-like coils above it. And then a thin white flame burst forth from the smoke, and shot up into the air and vanished; and on the ground there lay a thing like a cinder, black and crumbling to the touch.

The Inmost Light, Arthur Machen

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Matter:

Ink on card. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Focus the gaze on the occult sun, the every receding Mystery.

Enchantment:

Agents of Chaos

Agents of chaos cast burning glances at anything or anyone capable of bearing witness to their condition, their fever of lux et voluptas.

Taz: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, Hakim Bey

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

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Technology:

Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
Fight the power
We’ve got to fight the powers that be.

Enchantment:

Shaman’s Dream

Because I can swim in the immense
Because I can swim in all forms
Because I am the launch woman
Because I am the sacred opossum
Because I am the Lord opossum

I am the woman Book that is beneath the water, says
I am the woman of the populous town, says
I am the shepherdess who is beneath the water, says
I am the woman who shepherds the immense, says
I am a shepherdess and I come with my shepherd, says

Because everything has its origin
And I come going from place to place, from the origin..

María Sabina

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A4

Commentary:

One original only produced during psilocybin journey. No copies. Signed.

Technology:

Approach 1: 15 mg psilocybin orally; move, be still, listen to the body.

Approach 2: Sit facing the image. Imagine your thoughts swirl above your head, like a cartoon thought bubble, or a drawing of mystical energy by Annie Besant, how do they look?

Enchantment:

Esoteric Text

This power is neither heavenly nor spiritual; neither is it an influence from disembodied spirits. It is the human spirit-magnetism within the self of the one doing the writing. When the thoughts have taken possession of the mind and are not consciously directed, one becomes subject to their promptings and, unconsciously, or automatically, takes a pencil and writes them down. The oftener this is done the stronger becomes the magnetic prompting. For instance, one may learn a lesson or poem by heart, and he repeats and repeats it so often that the thoughts take possession of him and he will repeat it unconsciously even in his sleep.

Daily Lessons Received at Akka:
January 1908, Helen S. Goodall and Ella Goodall Cooper

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

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Technology:

Decode this text as an act of divination during the waxing phase of the moon.

Enchantment:

Secret Words

It is therefore not quite certain in what the efficacy of [barbarous] conjurations really lies. The peculiar mental excitement required may be aroused by the perception of the absurdity of the process, and the persistence in it, as when once Frater Perdurabo [Crowley] (at the end of his magical resources) recited “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains” and obtained his result.

“It may be conceded in any case the long strings of formidable words which roar and moan through so many conjurations have a real effect in exalting the consciousness of the magician to the proper pitch — that they should do so is no more extraordinary than music of any kind should do so.

Magick In Theory And Practice, Aleister Crowley.

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3.

Commentary:

One original only. No copies. Signed.

Technology:

Read this text aloud, during the waxing of the moon, as a barbarous enchantment..

Enchantment:

City Servitor

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not..

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life, Roxana Robinson

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Matter:

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Commentary:

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Technology:

Find the animals and plants in your urban landscape;, let this servitor spirit help guide you. Breath in its power and go exploring. On your return speak to it of what you have found..

Enchantment:

Animal Intelligence

‘When I look at you…whether the retch out all kinship or close my eyes and so accept a more abstract value, a reverse side – I know not? Only from negations can I wholesomely conceive you..for I know no courage sufficient to stomach your aspirations and ultimates. If you are superman – let me be forever animal….’

Austin Osman Spare in reply to Adolf Hitler

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A6

Commentary:

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Technology:

Move your animal body. Slide, crawl, jump around, sleep.

Enchantment:

Creative Spirit

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Tao Te Ching: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader, Lao Tzu.

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A4

Commentary:

One original only. No copies. Signed.

Technology:

Stand in a tai chi stance and build up a ball of energy between the hands. Send the ball of energy, through this image and into your creative potential to empower your work.

Enchantment:

Shamanic Mask

Masks help the shaman embody one of the spirits that surround the living world and use it to heal the sick, drive away evil influences, and guide villagers through changes in their lives (birth, adulthood, changes in social status, death) that might be affected by the spirit world. When hung in a house, the mask serves a protective function.  

MaskMuseum.org

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A5

Commentary:

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Technology:

Place this image in the home or workplace as a protective spirit visage.

Enchantment:

Scrying Shape

Make your own nature, not the advice of others, your guide in life.

The Oracle of Delphi

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A4

Commentary:

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Technology:

Using candle light enter trance by slow breathing. Scry the image to discern omens of that which is yet to come

Enchantment:

Invocation

Invocations to modify the ego are ritual enchantments and personifications of the new desired qualities. Attention should be given to planned changes of dress, tone of speech, gesture, mannerisms and body posture which will best suit the new ego. One manoeuvre frequently used in yellow magic is to practice the
manifestation of an alternative personality with a specific mnemonic trigger, such as the transference of a ring from one finger to another.

Liber Kaos, Peter J. Carroll

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Hold palms outstretched towards this image while performing your chosen invocation.

Enchantment:

Esoteric Emissions

In 1882 an anonymous book named OAHSPE, A Kosman Bible was published in New York. It was subsequently revealed in a letter to the Editor of The Banner of Light, a Boston periodical, that its author was a dentist named Dr. John Ballou Newbrough and that the book had been written, mostly in the dark, through the agency of automatic writing. Newbrough claimed indeed that the book was written not by himself but through ‘some other intelligence’ using him as a vehicle.

The Search for Abraxas, Stephen Skinner & Nevill Drury

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

Commentary:

One original only. No copies. Signed.

Technology:

Create your own sacred text or cult.

Enchantment:

Hand Illuminated

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

Annie Besant

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

Commentary:

One original only. No copies. Signed.

Technology:

Hold your arm up to this image until you can see the radiant lettering behind your limb. Soften the gaze and observe the astral shapes around your hand, arm and whole body. 20mg of smoked N,N-DMT may be useful to support this practice

Enchantment:

Dream Runes

Now I appear iridescent; my form is shining now. Once, because of the law, I was a spectral terror to all slaves; but now the whole earth joyfully worships and adorns me. Whoever enjoys my fruit will immediately be well, for I was given the power to bring health to the unhealthy. Thus a wise man chooses to keep me on his forehead.

The Dream of the Rood: An Old English Poem Attributed to Cynewulf.

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A4

Commentary:

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Technology:

Study this image before sleeping to receive dream runes.

Enchantment:

Alchemical Vessel

The fourth bottle is of the deepest blackness and is called “The Head of the Raven.” Nothing rises from the neck of the vessel, for the earth (its contents) is described as “submerged in Chaos.”

The Hermetic and Alchemical Figures of Claudis de Dominico Celentano Vallis Novi, 1606

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Matter:

Ink on paper. A3

Commentary:

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Technology:

Place this image before you as you eat and meditate on the alchemical wonder of your body, through which base matter arises as awareness of itself.