Ethics of the Magician

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Ethics of the Magician Vincent Ongkowidjojo © 2013 PART ONE Everyone on the magic path will sooner or later be faced with the question of ethics. This will rather be sooner than later, and happen more often than not. An instinctual response of self-reflection to the nature of your art is healthy and reveals several aspects of your personality. Dealing with this question is in fact an integral part of the path towards selfrealization and therefore makes it very personal. Nonetheless, some things can be said about a magician’s proper behaviour. There is nothing improper about the practice of magic and a person should feel completely free to do what he thinks is right or wrong. In the strict sense, there can be no black magic. Everyone who performs ritual does so according to his own ideas and ideals. Doubts he will have in both acts of good and evil, but it makes him who he is and he cannot be another. To a certain extent, as long as a performing magician still has doubts about what he does and who he is, he must continue and deliberately make the mistakes he is bound to make, inexperienced as he is, for it means that he has not yet attained that somewhat higher level of which the incarnated human being is capable and which frees him of any doubt, uncertainty and matters of conscience. From a certain point onwards on the Universal Path of Human Evolution of Consciousness there does no longer exist the very question of conscience. One can only act. The basic seed of self-doubt centres on the concept of manipulation. But can this not be said of everything in life? For how can a person assert himself, if he is not allowed to influence himself and his surroundings? How can a person grow and learn unless by trial and error? Not only the magician suffers from this fundamental flaw in the human psychological outfit, but every man and woman hits their heads against that wall. It makes the human being what he is: a spiritual being with the power of decision. Free Will is the weapon of the true occultist. Learn to use it lest you cut yourself. Everything a person says, thinks, feels or does or does not influences his environment and the people related to him. People act in accordance to their desires or creed and wish to manipulate others so that they will achieve their goals. People say things in order to influence the opinion of the others. They use a certain tone or word with which they believe they can sort a certain effect upon the mood of the other, so that this other will alter their mind to their advantage. How many are aware of this? People hide themselves behind all kinds of masks in different situations according to the things they want to get. They seduce people in a subtle way and manipulate. They do it consciously or unconsciously, but manipulate they do. A salesman tries to manipulate his customers all kinds of subtle ways. A teacher moulds his students to the ideal he adheres to at that moment in his life. A physician has a certain view of how a patient should be treated. Friends among themselves convince each other of the importance of their personal opinion; an opinion which is most likely formed by the media and the powers behind those. Manipulation of mind and emotion underlies the whole dynamics of modern society. Some people, who have strong feelings for another person who might not be in a position to return this, think about this person

strongly and in their ignorance translate their desire into an actual act of sexual activity not realizing that this creates one of the strongest bonds between people. Merely thinking about another person creates a link. How much stronger will such a link be when it is combined with intent, visualization, strong emotions and sexual energy? A sensitive person will easily pick up something like this and may feel uncomfortable unknowing of its origin. Also, I remember the times when Reiki became popular and the question frequently arose whether it is permissible to send someone energy without the person knowing. In the latter case the actor’s conscience is appealed to because the act is rationally decided, in the former it is not, but the principle behind the energy link is entirely the same. Therefore, the magician who casts a spell to get the position of his boss or to have sex with the beauty of his best friend or to resolve a family issue without the members knowing is no better or worse than the rest of humanity. He is just a little different. They say every thought changes he fabric of the universe. How then can a person not influence the world and those around him? And if he does it unconsciously, would it then not be better for him to do it consciously and be aware of what he causes, as the magician endeavours to do? PART TWO Yet, a magician’s honour might dictate him to deal with these energies in a responsible way. Although seemingly acted out on the physical plane, most manipulating takes place on astral and on mental levels. That means that whatever someone wants another person to do or not do to him hangs in the ether like a tiny, or sometimes bigger, thought-form. That means that a person’s influence upon his environment is basically a form of energy. And with energy, the magician knows his way. Practically speaking, it seems to me a matter of common sense that the magician does not involve more people in his operations than necessary. I explicitly mean accidentally, but even friends or family having close ties either on the physical plane or the astral who may even be occultly trained and oriented should not thoughtlessly be exposed to your personal energy work. This is a matter of energy hygiene. In everything you do, be very aware of how it affects people, register the response. Whether you speak of it openly or not is your own choice. The very least you aim for is to be conscious of what you do. Part of the magician’s responsibility is to register his own responses to the influence of others, and this includes face to face situations, emotional links on a distance, energy flowing from parts of the Self, or from discarnate entities. All this relates to the awareness aspect of consciousness. Another part constitutes the magician’s awareness of his influence on other people. This relates to the intention aspect of the mind. After many years of practice, the magician may feel the necessity to cleanse himself and clear the record so to speak. When a person grows in experience, he naturally adopts a new vision on his actions. This may make his past of magical performances awkward in some way or other, because it no longer matches his personality. Moreover, it is quite possible that the early workings of the magician were vague and inert and are still lingering about his mind and aura. He wants to finish these loose ends, because they steal energy or hinder him in

lighter work, and so he very formally invokes those powers he called upon in times past and thinks back on all the spells and thoughts and weird stuff that he did in those days and contacts those extensions of himself and formally states that he detaches himself from all of those connections, that those thought-forms, loose ends and unfinished spells are either given a last impetus to work through and manifest as was once their destiny or dissolved and recycled as a free gift of energy to all those entities you worked with then. For this purpose, the ritual of the Norns which is given in the book Secrets of Asgard can be easily rewritten and perfectly adopted. The ritual is specifically designed to contact all the energy connections that are present in the mind and aura of the practitioner. I believe it is a good thing for the practicing magician to tie all the loose ends of his operations that either fail or take too long, work diffusedly, work through another target than intended, or are no longer required. A Jubilee working like that is often more effective than your regular rite of purification. Inactive energy can be recycled and sent back to its source. Or it can graciously be offered to the spirits, telling them that they can use it for their own ends. And so the magician can start afresh. I strongly recommend that whenever a person moves house he cleanses his old house, so that those who move in will not be faced with lingering energies and thought-forms that carelessly lead their own lives. Clean up after you go. When you move house, you clean the house in the physical. It makes sense to cleanse it in the astral, and even in the mental. There are many methods to do this; do what suits you best. In the same vein, it is recommended to cleanse the new place you move into, for the very reasons stated above. END

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