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Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999], at sacred-texts.com

Sigil Magic for the Professional Magician

by Areosol

I will assume that you are already initiated into the secrets of

Austin Spare`s sigil magic. Consulting with my clients as a profes-

sional magician, I am always confronted with the same question: Is the

client`s will identical with my own ? If it is, there should be no

problem involved in charging the sigil in the client`s stead by

myself. (The client, one must remember, will usually not be familiar

with the basic tenets of sigil magic or even magic in general and will

probably hesitate to try it out for himself.) However, I believe as a

matter of principle that everybody should vaccinate his will for

himself. I do not feel happy with charging myself i.e. my subconscious

with other people`s desires. For example: if Mrs. X wants to be

brought together with Mr. Y by a sigil (love spell), it could be

intersting to know what might happen if the pertinent sigil were

charged by myself.

Accordingly I had to find a means to implant sigils into my

individual clients in such a way that they are not aware of what they

are really doing. At first, talking with the client, I will try to

find the "smallest common denominator" out of a tangled mass of

multiple desires. This will continue until the client is able to word

his or her statement of will (henceforth to be termed "will sentence")

in plain and unambiguous language. Following this all contact between

the client and myself will be abandoned for two or tree weeks. In the

meantime I will construct the sigil, usually employing the word

method, and sketch it on a piece of parchment. Very often the clie-

nt`s name will be encoded applying the magical camea of the planet

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pertinent to the client`s desire. I may then supplement the sigil with

this personalised glyph. Then I will outline a short ritual for the

client in which will be hidden the charge proper of the sigil (employ-

ing either the mantric method or a variation of the so-called "death

posture").

After a while I will send the client this constructed sigil by

mail including instructions on how to charge it plus possible addit-

ional admonitions, if necessary. Most probably the client will have

forgotten the precise wording of his/her will sentence by now; neither

will he or she be able to draw any conclusions from these strange

glyphs. After having been charged the sigil can be sealed and con-

stantly worn in a locket, it can also be put permanently in view e.g.

as a wall decoration. Some of my clients have placed or hung their

sigils nicely framed in their office rooms.

To charge a sigil the following method is very effective. The

client arrives for consultation. In some cases has to bring along some

substance imbibed with his or her Od. During a small ritual client

must close his/her eyes and place the odic substance on the sigil

which will be lying open in front of him/her. Then I will take the

client`s finger and prick it quickly and sharply with a small chirur-

gical lancet. After the blooddrop has been smeared onto the sigil, the

latter will be folded and sealed immediately. I then admonish the

client to bear in mind that this talisman must never get into other

people`s hands. This charging method is especially effective in

working with protection or "antipersonnel mine" sigils.

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Here are some examples relating to client`s feedback:

30.04. Sigil as wall decoration

24.06. Business enterprises developed well.

12.07. Protection/defence sigil, charged employing chirurgical

lancet.

14.07. Client feels well and secure.

23.06. Sigil as a defense "antipersonnel mine" with codification of

client`s name by the magical camea of Mars, charged with

lancet.

09.10. "Mine" fully operative: sickness and accidents of 2-3

enemies.

11.10. Sigil employed as a wall decoration.

11. Business successful. Sale of real estate to a monastry (!)

has been agreed upon.

27.12. Sigil, mantric charge.

14.02. Client`s partner becomes more friendly and loving.

18.03. Partnership satisfactory.

17.06. Sigil charged spastically by myself in client`s stead.

18.06. Shortly before the potential buyer arrived for inspection in

the afternoon, the last seat in the coffeehouse (sales

object) had been taken, suggesting excellent business;

immediately after inspection number of customers decreased

again.

07.12. Fast charge of a "combat sigil".

21.12. The idea incorporated by the sigil incarnates as a conscious

wish in the target person`s love partner.

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