Magical Evocation

Here we read the method Bardon proposes to perform a magical evocation. The most important factor is well developed astral senses. Without these senses developed the magician will never know whether or not he/she is merely creating an elementary (thought form), if the correct spirit has come or merely deluding oneself. Without the senses developed a person with a good imagination who raised the proper energy could simply excrete some of their astral-mental essence and form a being charged with the idea of the spirit one truly wishes to conjure. This could weaken the health of the magician or cause a disturbance in the summoner's consciousness. Imagine taking a part of your being and ripping it out, calling it something else and transforming it into another being. This would not be too healthy! (I'm looking at you Poke Runyon) On top of this some magicians threaten spirits to do their will and if the spirit is not successful even torture it (Savedow). This gives another meaning all together to self abuse! Another problem one could run into is that another spirit has come besides the one you have called. Without proper astral senses you would be unaware of this situation. Finally, one could just delude oneself having entered an altered state of consciousness and not evoke anything at all. All of this is remedied if proper astral senses have been developed from your previous training in IIH or similar instruction.

Let us now go over what it takes for a successful evocation as per Bardon:

1. Proper loading of the atmosphere of the room with the light substance or elemental substance from the beings home sphere. Imagine if aliens from another world came down and picked you up. Their environmental conditions and evolution have it so that they breathe a poisonous gas to us mere Earthlings. You would require some sort of protective atmosphere so you could survive and you would expect the aliens (if they were nice) to provide this. You would be much more likely to befriend these otherworldly visitors if they did this.

2. Transference of consciousness into the sphere of the being. Your friend wants you to come over to his place but he has no telephone in which to call you up! Whatever shall he do! This is the same dilemma one has when calling a spirit. You must be able to enter the sphere of the being in order to send out the call. One learned how to do this very early on in Bardon's IIH and continued further mastery in akashic training and mental projection.

3. The magician commands reverence from the being with his magical authority. This sounds like a douche move on the part of the magician however it is not like you appear in the sphere and start pushing around the beings. This is done either through the aid of your connection with your

spirit will immediately recognize your authority to evoke it by seeing you. There is no fooling it or putting on airs. Another method is to influence the spirit by its spheres divinity. This is the idea of chanting divine names related to the sphere. One influences ones aura with the vibrations of the divine names chanted and meditated on. This gives a temporary boost to the magician's aura which the spirit will recognize and see it's superior.

That is the tri fold process Bardon says is of the utmost importance to evoking a spirit. Everything which is in the rituals of evocation is accomplishing these points.

Then Bardon speaks on what the magician should do when the spirit has appeared. In the beginning he recommends asking a few simple questions to the spirit concerning its sphere and activities. Later through mastery the magician can ask them things beyond mere knowledge. However, he/she will not ask them to bring treasures or do physical labor because the spirits require physical condensed substance to accomplish this and this can only come from the magician (In other words you could accomplish this yourself through your own powers if you could ask the spirit to do this). Spirits at first will only be able to accomplish mental tasks, then later astral tasks and finally physical tasks. Just remember they are acquiring the substance and energy to accomplish this from the magician him/herself. They need the same substances you would require in order to perform these various tasks.

In chapter 20 Bardon describes step by step the method involved to evoking a spirit. He chooses a spirit of Venus Hagiel in order to acquire luck and success in friendship, love and maybe even courtship. In essence one is asking that the energies involved in success and luck in the realm of sympathy and love be more active in your life than they were previously. Hagiel is the conscious, intelligent aspect of these qualities which one can commune with and work with. If you are

interested in the exact method Bardon prescribes than feel free to read this chapter in detail, several times if you plan on actually performing it. I would recommend doing it several times in the

imagination alone just to get the astral blood flowing if you will. I will now go through the process I will use for these evocations that follow:

1. I will hide myself away in my room, wash my body while imagining all mental, astral and physical impurities are being washed away that may interfere with my evocation being a success.

2. I will put on clean clothes, I do not have magical clothing (I used to) but they will be fresh and have no associations on them that would be counter to the evocation (Like a band t-shirt or something similar).

3. I will then set up my oil lamp and get it to the right setting for the room to be slightly lit but enough to write or draw by.

4. I will set up my magic mirror loading it with the akasha principle in order to speak to the spirit easily. Most of the time I do not require this but if I want the spirit to show me something such as a picture or something more physical I use this. I then do my own special banishing to clear the room of any negative influence. I may even do this again if I feel it is needed. I usually light some incense at this point, more for my consciousness to know something magical is going down. I rarely use it as a medium to manifest a spirit-although I have done so in the past with great effect.

5. I then Place my mojo bag on, my meditation beads (they are not loaded with anything other than my continued use during my work through IIH as counting beads.) and take out my wand and sword. I usually have my sword near by but not in my hand. Unless of course the spirit may be an unruly one or negative in some way. The wand is usually in hand for most of the evocation but I will put it down to sketch out the energy signature of the spirit when I have it.

6. I then meditate on my three fold being as a mental being, an astral being and a physical being all in one. This is preceded by a meditation on the four divine attributes. I then reinforce my aura in my own way as it is the true circle of protection. I then perform a ritual that loads the room with vital energy for the spirits use.

7. I load the room with the appropriate energy of the sphere in which the spirit resides. I load it until I feel the energy substance is condensed enough for my astral senses to easily perceive it or if I want a physical evocation* even denser.

8. I then take out my prepared sigil which was meditatively drawn in the proper color. I meditate on the sigil imagining it is a direct transmitter to the spirit. I will typically do this in an akashic state and as I connect to the spirit and draw it closer go down to a mental-astral and possibly physical density. When I feel a connection to the spirit I then draw the sigil with my tripolar being (mental-astral and physical). I then directly focus my mind on this sigil in order to project my mind to the spirit. Once connected, I guide the spirit to the needed density.

9. I commune with the spirit and discuss what is needed. I then thank the spirit and guide it back once there I project the energy gathered back into the sphere behind it.

10. I sit for a minute or two to journalize the experience. I then return to normal consciousness and banish any residual energy in my own way. I make sure the room and atmosphere are as they should be and return everything back to where it belongs.

11. I then go outside to drink some hot tea and smoke a cigarette. This is my period of reflection on what just happened, which I then turn into a revere on nature. I usually commune with the stars, the wind, the night and the earth I especially love it when it rains or there is a thunderstorm. I find this is an excellent way to take any surplus magical energy and transfer it to nature. This also connects me to the universe in a wonderful way. Finally, it provides a natural way for me to disengage from thinking about the evocation and allow the spirit to get to work. By spiraling my attention outward into nature it allows the spirit to get to work without my attention and imagination calling it back. Also, since it starts within me and then slowly further out into nature it is a way for me to either bring the spirit into the physical world to work or let my consciousness be inspired and make associations for later revelations.

12. I will then usually go inside and maybe watch TV or read which completely disengages my mind from all things magical.