NIGHT MAGICK BY Phillip D. Williams pdwillia@silver.ucs.indiana.edu All rights reserved Copyright 1990 by Phillip D. Williams No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system., without permission in writing from the author. NIGHT MAGICK NIGHT MAGICK INTRODUCTION 1. What is Night Magick? 2. Who is a Night Magician? 3. Why Practice Night Magick? 4. How to Study the Lore CHAPTER II THE NIGHT MAGICIAN 5. Her/His Life 6. The Apprentice's Unfoldment 7. Night Consciousness CHAPTER III BEGINNING NIGHT MAGICK 8. Standards and Principles of Practicing Night Magick 9. A Night Magician's Tools and Weapons 10. Your Magickal Night Name 11. Night Pillar 12. Invocation to Night Magick CHAPTER IV Earth Magick 13. The Earth Realm 14. Night Breathing 15. The Night Magician's Meditation 16. The Realm of Vibration 17. Night Centers and the Physical and Etheric Bodies 18. The Power of Sound 19. Earth Rite 20. The Physical Realm of Death CHAPTER V WATER MAGICK 21. The Water (Astral) Realm 22. The Astral Body and Exercises for Emotional Control 23. Astral Aura, Color, and Exercises 24. The Higher Night Centers and Exercises 25. The Dream Realm 26. Astral Guides, Oracleship, and Trance 27. The Moon and Its Rites 28. Water Rites 29. Night Projection CHAPTER VI AIR MAGICK 30. The Mental Realm 31. Air Rite 32. Power of Thought 33. Your Silent Magician 34. Hypnotism and Self 35. A Night Magician's Pendulum 36. A Night Magician's Crystal Globe 37. Psychometry 38. Telepathy 39. Mental Projection 40. Creative Visualization CHAPTER VII Night (Fire) Magick 41. The Night (Fire) Realm 42. The Solar, Planetary, and Lunar Powers 43. The Night Guild 44. Night Powers 45. Night Flames 46. Night Rites 47. Night Healing 48. Immortality: Transmigration and Transmutation 49. Night Magicians: Past, Present, and Future APPENDIXES APPENDIX A INVOCATIONS, HYMNS, POEMS, AND PRAYERS APPENDIX B CANDLE COLOR COMBINATION AND THE NIGHT TEACHERS NIGHT MAGICK There was the Clear Light, the Void, and It alone was. The One Mind, apart of nothing, yet containing everything, it alone the True Creator. Formless, Nameless, without Definition, yet flowing through all that has form, name, and definition. From the One Mind there came Two Matrixes, two sides of the same coin, Night and Day. Twin Soul Creators to each side, the Yin- Yang of Night and Yang-Yin of Day. And so the Night and Day of the Omniverse was born. I AM Night. I AM Darkness that flows through the Night. I AM THE ETERNAL DARKNESS. Yin-Yang created, Goddess-God of Night, Daughter-Son of Darkness, Eternal Creator of the Nightverse. By the Dark Power and Energy, by the Night Magick was all created in the Nightverse. The Ancient Dragons were first taught and they taught the others and so creation began throughout the Nightverse. And so by the Dark Power, by Night Magick was everything created flowing through the created instruments of the ETERNAL DARKNESS. Night's beginning was good and the Earth was created a jewel in the Crown of Night. The Dragons came with other races and created the beginning Night Races of the Earth. And time flowed and the races prospered and their depth in Night Consciousness deepened. But then as so often happens the Day came to war with the Night and the Earth changed. The Day gods were young and wanted the Earth for its wealth of minerals and beauty and destroyed the Night Races. They created human bodies as mindless, soulless slaves to gather this wealth. But the Great Night Dragon, Tiamat, Goddess-God of the World, saw what had happened and ensouled the human bodies placing a part of its Great Night Soul into each human body. But since then the Day gods have warred with Tiamat for control of the human souls. The Day gods have spread false teachings about the origin of the human souls and the Night Dragon. They have tried to destroy the Night religions of old that glorified the Yin Spirit of the Earth and the beauty of life. Long has the war continued and now is the time for a rebirth of Night Magick on Earth. And so I, the Eternal Night, have ensouled the Earth to supercharge it with NIGHT MAGICK. I have come to Earth, through a human instrument, to spread my magickal teachings. To teach the human soul the truth of its origins and re-awaken the Night within. To make humankind co-creators with the Eternal Night through the teachings of Night Magick. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1. What is Night Magick? I can only imagine at this point that you are about to put down this book and run scared due to words like Night, Darkness, Dark Power, and the title of the book itself, Night Magick. Before we begin learning about Night Magick I believe it will help to understand what I mean by these "night" terms. To begin, there is the Void. The Buddhist call it the Clear Light as opposed to "white" or "black". The Taoist refer to it as the Tao and Christians refer to it as God the Father. The Void is the indivisible eternal energy. The Void is beyond polarities of energy such as positive/negative or Yang/Yin. It is God Mind. It is everywhere and through every thing yet remains separate from every thing. That is, it does not become a part of any one thing such as the soul does with the body. The Void does not think like you and I yet it is "all thought". It is the most mystical of concepts and God the Father is perhaps the poorest term for the Void. The Void is not a Father, it isn't male or female, the void contains creation yet it does not assume a role within creation. The more I try to describe to you the Void the less I actually accomplish in doing so. The Void cannot truly be described but only experienced. The Void begins with its major principles who spring into being, the Ultimate Yin and Yang of the Omniverse. The original premise is that the Yang represents the Male Creative force in the Omniverse and Yin the Female Passive force in the Omniverse. A more accurate premise is that there is an Ultimate Yin and Ultimate Yang each complete in and of itself. That each Ultimate force has the Creative Force within it and that there are twin systems created by this. We have two separate creation matrixes separated by a neutral zone. There is an Ultimate Yang System and an Ultimate Yin System. The Earth is a part of the Ultimate Yin System. The Ultimate Yin System is made up of many races. The human race is not alone in the Omniverse. The most ancient race existing in form today is the Ancient Dragon. The Ancient Dragons are not the Dragons you read of in mythology. The Ancient Dragons are far beyond the other races in total development. Their science, philosophy, and religion is based on the One Mind and the Void. An Ancient Dragon came to Earth and guided the development of the planet and ultimately ensouled the World. Working with other races, the Dragon created a new race to populate the world. This was long before the human race. The creation of the human race is a sad tale. The races of the world go through a repeated pattern of creation, sustainment, and then destruction. Out of the old race a new race is born more highly evolved than the last. The human race though was created out of greed. There came to Earth a high technologically advanced race from the Yang system. They came to make the Earth their own world and to rape it of its resources. The advanced race, who we find described in greek, roman, norse, and other mythologies as the gods or as in the Bible, Jehovah or in the Koran, Allah, created the human race to be mindless slaves. This was so the gods could live like gods. The Ancient Dragon would not permit such an abomination and so it ensouled the human bodies and the human race had its beginning as an ensouled Yin race. The Yang gods were quite upset by this for the human race became a sentient Yin race and had to be treated as such. For some time the gods tried to continue to control man through their technology and set up religions based on worship of the Yang principle and the gods. These religions taught absolute obedience to the gods or God and the worship of the Yang principle. The Yang religion taught the domination of the Earth and its creatures by humankind. The Yang religion taught the hate and sin of the human body and procreation. This always included the subservience of the human woman to the human male for God was male and superior and woman was the seducer and corrupter of man. The leader of the gods was always a male god such as Zeus. They also taught that the Yin principle of the Omniverse was chaos and evil. That the Dark principle was a destructive force out to destroy mankind and the Earth. They personified the Yin principle as Satan, Lucifer, Loki, Pan, Iblis, or Kali and created places of damnation for those who did not worship the Yang principle. All this was done to maintain control over humankind and promote the Yang principles through fear. At some point the Yang gods were required to quit having direct contact with man perhaps when they used nuclear weapons on Sodom and Gomorrah as recorded in the Bible. Whatever the reason, only periodic contact was allowed and that through special religious messengers such as Krishna, Zoroaster, Jesus, and Mohammed. If you examine the major Yang religions you will see a reoccurring theme of an evil servant giving humankind the knowledge of good and evil and humankind turned away from Paradise. These religions always worship the "White Light of God" and place man not woman in so-called dominion of the Earth. Woman, the Yin-Yin Principle in the Omniverse, was placed in deep shame and subservience to man the Yang-Yang principle. Yet on Earth, man is Yin-Yang not Yang-Yang by virtue of the indwelling Night Spirit of the Planet. Every soul and spirit (terms we'll examine more fully later) of the human race is a fragment of the indwelling Soul and Spirit of the Planet Earth. In essence, the Soul and Spirit of the Planet Earth is God to humankind. That Soul and Spirit is the Ancient Dragon that originally came to Earth and saved the human body from a mindless existence enslaved to the Yang race. The Ancient Dragon is the Creator and Ensouler of this World and of each and every one of us. The Dragon of this World is the Night Force. The Dragon of this world is Yin. Yin is a primal force established in the Omniverse in parallel with Yang. This planet is a Yin world. The presence of Yang and the worship and practice of the Yang principle in religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism has led to many evils in the world. It has led to the subservience of women. It has led to humankind following a spiritual path of Yang in direct opposition to its Soul and Spirit's magickal orientation. This has led to much inner confusion by humankind and this world's instability and patterns of destruction and chaos are a direct response to this. The Earth is a very sick body. Until you achieve a very, very advance point in your evolution, you'll have a physical body of some kind. The Soul of this world has the Earth as its body and humankind is killing it. This so- called dominion by man has poisoned the streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans of the Earth, the Earth's circulatory system. The air, Earth's respiratory system, is poisoned. The soil itself is poisoned, stripped mined, littered, great holes filled with non- biodegradable products. The trees and forests destroyed wantonly, savagely, and soon the oxygen they generate will not be enough to sustain life. Acid rain instead of the clean rains. Underground nuclear testing disrupting the physical and etheric shell of the Earth Body not to speak of the Astral and Higher Body damage done by this intensely Yang energy. Ozone destroying the upper atmosphere and the protection from the harmful ultraviolet radiation. Wanton destruction of wildlife of which some is inhabited by races of greater advancement than humankind. Just how much longer will man act as a deadly cancer in the Earth's body. At the rate of destruction it will not be much longer before humankind as you know it will cease to exist and that is exactly what the Yang forces in the Omniverse want. Then they have the right to come and claim the Earth as they did before as recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible and in other ancient myths. Humankind will once more find itself enslaved and bowing before a technologically higher race as it was in the ancient days. This must not happen! This is what Night Magick is all about. Teaching you the truth about your existence. Placing back into your hands the truth concerning the Yin Primal Force of which you are a part. To give to you the tools to balance yourself and the Earth in Oneness with the Night Spirit. What is Night Magick? Night Magick is the arts, rites, practices, and teachings of a Night Magician. Night Magick is the lore of a Night Magician. The lore must be learned not only with the eyes and brain but also with the heart. It is a way of life and must be lived to be fully understood. Night Magick is founded on the ancient knowledge and wisdom that preceded the history of the Earth. Though Night Magick is based on ancient teachings it is no less applicable to the modern world. Night Magick is a magickal discipline. Through its rules, instruction, and exercises it provides for you a code of conduct and a way of living that brings to you the greatest possible Yin growth. It is a philosophy. The goal of a Night Magician is the Eternal Pursuit of Wisdom and Knowledge based on the Yin Primal Force. It is a science. For through the study and practice of the lore, you will gain greater knowledge and wisdom. Through Night Magick you will achieve perfection in your physical, emotional, mental, and magickal natures. You will become the sum of all that you can ever be. You will become the Night Oversoul in Consciousness and Action. Night Magick is a lore that will achieve for you your return to the Night. I know this has been fast and furious for you. For many of you, this is the first time you have been given such information or even thought about what has been so far discussed. I promise you that I will go into greater depths on the subjects I treated briefly and this will help you understand more thoroughly. But I wanted to make sure you understood from the onset the principles Night Magick is based on. Night Magick is magick based upon the Sacred Principle of Yin. It is based on the Dark Force that flows through your being. If you still have doubts read on and test the knowledge you find here. You are not asked to accept anything in this book on blind faith. You will not be asked to accept anything without first putting it to test and validating the truth. If you find some of the information hard to understand then reflect on it for awhile. Put away the information you find hard to accept for another time of reflection. Place into your mind and soul only those things that you have tried, tested, and found to be truth for yourself. But at all times, keep an open mind. That is all I ask. I think its time now to discuss who is a Night Magician. 2. Who is a Night Magician? Who is a Night Magician? A Night Magician is Absolute Love. They are the embodiment of Dark Love that has its origin in the Void. They are Dark Love that is free from any restrictions, limitations, or exceptions. They are Dark Love free from dependence upon external definitions for its existence. They are Dark Love born out of Absolute Innocence. A Night Magician is Absolute Love. A Night Magician is Strong Willed. They are the willpower necessary to move mountains. They are the willpower needed to overcome the impossible. They are the willpower it takes to overcome life's challenges and defeats. They are the willpower it requires to wield Night Magick against their enemies and win. They are the willpower of the Eternal Darkness. A Night Magician is Strong Willed. A Night Magician is Self-disciplined. They will undergo a thousand days and nights of deprivation to achieve their goals. They are hardest upon their selves in achieving self- mastery of Night Magick. They are the self-discipline it requires to overcome failure for a thousandth time and once more attempt the challenge. They live in a self-imposed world of self-discipline in order to achieve the ultimate state of being. A Night Magician is Self- disciplined. A Night Magician is Patience. They are the patience required while acquiring self-mastery. They are the patience needed when building dreams of success. They are the patience required when waiting for the destruction of their enemies. They are the patience the Night Spirit has in each of us and our magickal climb. A Night Magician is Patience. A Night Magician is a Pillar of Strength. They are the rock that will not be moved as the waves of strife come crashing over. They are the strength needed to overcome the Forces of Yang. They are the strength required to achieve success in life. A Night Magician is a Pillar of Strength. A Night Magician is Free of Self-limitations. They are not bound by the chains of limited thinking. They do not see themselves as just human beings made of flesh and bones but as Ones, pure in Night Spirit, that transcend time and space. Their emotions do not master their lives. They are the master of their emotions. They are the calm, silent, and steady Soul of the Night. They are the Night Soul. They are the Dark Masters of Life. A Night Magician is Freedom. A Night Magician is Deep Silence. They are the Deep Silence of the Night. They are like the silence that follows the storm. They are the silence that is found in the quiet of the home. They are the silence of the Void. They are the silence of the Night Soul. They are the silence of the Night Dragon's sacred flight. A Night Magician is Deep Silence. A Night Magician is Dark Knowledge. They are knowledge found through intellectual pursuit of the hidden mysteries. They are knowledge born out of intelligence and critical thinking. They are knowledge discovered through intuition, meditation, and reflection. A Night Magician is Dark Knowledge. A Night Magician is Nature. They are the flowers that bloom and the trees that bud in the Spring. They are the mighty winds that blow across the world and the gentle rains that give life to all things that grow. They are the melodic voice of the birds who sing. They are the heat and cool waters that are found in the months of Summer. They are the storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. They are the frog churumping and the Night Owl hooting. They are the short summer nights. They are the Artist's brush that paints the leaves of Fall. They are the harvest of the crops. They are the stacked corn stalks of the fields and the pumpkins in the window sills. They are the squirrels and chipmunks gathering up the nuts in readiness for the long cold Winter months. They are every snow flake dancing and icicle hanging. They are the white bunny and fox who does the chasing. They are the never ending cycle of Nature. A Night Magician is Nature. A Night Magician is Life. They are passionate for their love of Life in all its aspects. They are adventurous and courageous loving the challenge of Life. Yet they are practical, cautious and responsible with Life. For them, Life should be faced with daring, boldness, and energy. They loathe restriction and love the freedom found in Life. They are the Artisans of Life. A Night Magician is Life. A Night Magician is the Night Soul in Action on Earth. It abides in their conscience in all the things said or done. They are the Creative Force of the Night Soul in the way they create new life. They are the Preservative Force of the Night Soul holding the world in perfect balance. They are the Destructive Force of the Night Soul tearing away the illusions of the Yang. They are the Regenerative Force of the Night Soul rebuilding the true Night World. They are Night Soul by the way they remove us out of life's confusion. The eyes that see us, the ears that listen to us, the mouth that speaks words of strength, the heart that pours out absolute love to us, the strong arms and hands that hold us near, and the legs that take us far on our way, through all of these there is the Night Spirit. A Night Magician is the Night Soul in Action on Earth. Who is a Night Magician? A Night Magician can be likened to a multifaceted stone of Amethyst or Emerald of incomparable beauty. The Night Magician is as beautiful and rare as a Black Diamond. I have just discussed many of those facets that make-up a Night Magician but if I kept on writing for days I would never be able to cover all of them. Each facet of the Night Magician can best be known by living it; by becoming a Night Magician. The facets I have been covering are those found in the Night Magician who has been long on the path and has attained much. It is anyone who will dedicate her or his life to the Night Principles found in this work. You have to dedicate your lives to becoming all that I described a Night Magician to be in the beginning of this topic. The teachings must again be practiced actively in your life as they were practiced in the ancient civilizations that first came into being here on Earth. A Night Magician is one who will put these teachings found in this work into practice in her or his life and live them fully. A Night Magician is one who abides fully in the Consciousness of the Night. They are the total embodiment of strength, solitude, patience, intelligence, courage and adventure. They are beings free of self-limitations. They are ones who have dedicated their life to self-freedom and perfection. They are the Night Soul in Action. There is no greater purpose in life then to be a Night Magician. Now that you have some idea of who a Night Magician is and what Night Magick is about, I would like to discuss why you should practice Night Magick. 3. Why Practice Night Magick? Why practice Night Magick? To begin with, there is great joy and happiness in being a Night Magician and practicing the lore of Night Magick. In practicing Night Magick you are going to be able to see the results of your labor; and the results of that labor are going to bring you more happiness and joy then you can imagine. You are going to derive a great sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment through the practice of Night Magick. Practicing Night Magick is exciting and adventurous. Your life will be filled with adventure and excitement the likes of which you've never known. It is very sad that so many people's lives are filled with boredom needlessly. Through Night Magick avenues of travel, business adventure, intellectual pursuit, personal adventure, and magickal conquests will open up. Night Magick will bring you personal success. Personal success can be measured in many ways. How about success in marriage, finances, college, business? Or personal success in health, vitality, and longevity. Change is why you practice Night Magick. What changes will Night Magick make in your life? Everything! Through the practice of Night Magick not a thing in your life will go untouched. You practice Night Magick for these changes in your life. I can go a long way in this book to answer specifically what kind of changes are going to take place. But ultimately it is you, after study and practice of Night Magick, who will be able to give all the answers. Let's begin answering the question of what kind of changes you can expect to see in your life? The first changes you will see, by practicing the lore, is improvement in your physical life. You are going to have better health and a sense of renewed purpose in life. You are going to achieve this through the practice of Night Breathing and Meditation. As you go along here there will be new terms that you have never seen before, but be patient, for as you proceed through this book, you will learn them all. Your life is going to be deeply enriched and health improved by the use of colors and self-healing that you will learn. You will learn to develop and use the power centers of your body. Once you have accomplished this, you will unleash untold power of fire and life throughout your body. This will allow you to become the master of your life; "the Captain of your Soul". You will then learn to overcome your fear of death and to recognize it for what it is, a doorway into a new world. All this you can achieve through Night Magick, but there is much, much more. Through the practice of Night Magick you are going to become the master of your emotions. No longer will your emotions rule you, but you will rule them. You will learn, in dealing with your emotions and emotional body, the ability to be able to see the higher realms. You will be able to recognize those dreams in which a message of help and inspiration is contained and to interpret it. You will come to know your magickal teachers and guides and ultimately you will be able to travel in the Astral Realm. This you will achieve through the mastery of your emotions. There is even more to learn through the practice of Night Magick. Through Night Magick, you will master the powers of your mind. You will achieve thought control and be able to reach into your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is the repository for all that you have ever known. Think of what it will mean to have access to this great storage vault of information. You will learn to use the pendulum and crystal globe and never have questions unanswered. You will achieve psychometric and telepathic abilities. Above all, you will be able to create into your world "ANYTHING" that you desire to see in it through correct invocation and imagination. The mind is a fascinating creation boundless in power and energy. It is multidimensional creating life in all its forms. The mind is truly a wonderful thing when you have mastered its powers and employ it as the valuable tool it is. But over and beyond the powers of the mind and its realm, lies the power and realm of the Night Soul. There are no greater powers then those of the Night Soul. It is your objective, through Night Magick, to learn to use and manipulate these powers of the Night Soul for your benefit. Through Night Magick, you will learn to travel into the Night Realm while still here upon Earth. You will learn the highest form of healing. You will be able to do this healing for all whom you know. You will learn to do the Night Rites to achieve true magickal progress. Your progress will be highly accelerated through the Night Rites. The ultimate goal of Night Magick is the achievement of Night Consciousness. There is no higher goal then this. The true union with your Oversoul, the perfection of Self, this is the consummation of Night Magick. When you have achieved Night Consciousness, you are of greatest service to yourself and the perfect offering unto the Night Soul. I stated before that I would discuss the modern applications of Night Magick in today's world. I have already covered some of those applications. You will have good health, less tension and nervousness, and a stronger mind. You can use Night Magick at your everyday job. Through Night Magick, you will develop great insight that will go a long way in assisting you in problem solving. If you are out on the highway in your car you will be steered clear of trouble. You will avoid accidents and traffic problems. You will be able to stay in touch with friends and love ones and know when they are in trouble or need through Night Magick. If you have a need then you can fulfill that need by using the lore of Night Magick. If you have lost items and wish to have them back, then you can do so. If you need to look forward into the future and see the realm of possibilities, then you can do so. The things you see are only possibilities and you can decide whether they will happen or not. These are only a few of the many applications for Night Magick in the modern world. The applications are limited only as your imagination is limited. As you learn to see with the foresight and insight that you will develop through Night Magick, your life will indeed change. Night Magick will bring you a new way of living. It will seem to you that before, you were only existing. As I have said, your physical, emotional, and mental health will vastly improve. You will become the planner and controller of your life. Your physical surroundings will increase in wealth. You will also acquire magickal wealth from practicing Night Magick. You will gain a deep sense of magickal accomplishment and growth by making it a part of your life. You will become a positive and dynamic force in your life. Through Night Magick, you will leave nothing or no one untouched. Night Magick, if practiced and lived with dedication, vigor, and vitality will achieve all of this. You must not be mistaken that all of this will occur at once. It will take patience and effort on your part to make it all happen, but happen it will. One day you will look back on your old life and wonder how you ever made it from day to day. But with Night Magick, a new day dawns in your life. Before you begin to study Night Magick I want to introduce a special way to study this work that will help insure your understanding of the lore and success as a Night Magician. 4. How to Study the Lore There is a specific way to study the lore of Night Magick. If you have been just reading this book through as any novel, then you have been doing it the wrong way. This book is not a novel which can be read through quickly and lightly and expect to gain anything from it. When you study the lore in this book it must be done one topic at a time. Also, each topic must be taken in order as it appears written in this book. Do not skip around in this book between the different topics. Each topic was designed to be a building block upon which to find success in the next topic. There is more to studying the lore then just sitting down and reading. Your studying will require self-discipline, patience, perseverance, and a prescribed technique for learning. Let's examine that technique for learning. To begin with, you must prepare the place that you are going to study in. If you study in the middle of a busy living room with the children shouting and the TV blaring you aren't going to retain or accomplish very much. So to begin with, you are going to find, what you will term, your "Magician's Study". This is a physical room that you can call your own. It must be a quiet place and somewhere where you can be alone and uninterrupted. In this room you will want a place where you can both sit and lay down as necessary. This room will not only be used for studying but also performing the many exercises, rites, and practices of Night Magick. This is your Magician's Study. Now, you must attend to your own self-preparation. You must prepare yourself so that you are in the right frame of mind to do some serious studying. To get into the proper mood, you should begin by taking a bath. This will help you to relax and wash away the cares and worries of the day. If you think of it, your entire thoughts and emotions when you come home are filled with the tensions and problems of work. The feeling around you is made up of a problem laden job and world. Literally, a bath or shower will do a lot to remove this tension and stress from out of your feelings. Then you should dress to be comfortable in clean, loose fitting clothes or your robes that you will learn to make later. Let's retire to your study. When you go to your study it should be at approximately the same time of day each day. Do this if at all possible. Then you should sit down in a very comfortable chair or couch and relax as much as possible. When you have learned to do relaxing exercises and "Night Breathing" then you should do these before you begin to read. For now just relax and let all the worry and tension of the day flow away. Once you are sufficiently relaxed it is time to pick-up the book. As stated earlier, you are going to read each topic in order. To begin reading a topic, read it through the first time quickly and lightly. The first time you are only trying to get the "spirit" of the topic. Once you have done this, you will then want to go back and reread the topic through carefully and thoroughly insuring that you understand all that you read. You should go slowly being sure that you understand all that you read. This is all that you will do in the first reading. If there is anything that you didn't understand the first time in sitting, don't worry about it, for it will come to you later. You are going to read the same topic on two separate days. This is the minimum that anyone should read a topic through. The second time in reading, you will want to go just as slow as you did in the first reading. If there is anything you still don't understand then just lightly think upon it and don't worry. The answer will eventually come to you. After the second reading, if there is anything to practice or do, this is the time to do it. Sounds easy doesn't it? I have just described the minimum anyone should take per topic. You should not go on to the next topic until you are very familiar with the information in the present topic you are studying. You should understand the current topic thoroughly and have practiced what is required of you until you are ready to go on. Let your inner guide be your judge about when you are ready to go on. You will find that you have to continue to practice many of the first topics you study each day in order to eventually master them. Getting all the way through the book having only read and practiced everything haphazardly will only insure that you are master of none. To insure your success as a Night Magician in Night Magick, you must study as has been outlined here. You must have a room in which you can be alone and uninterrupted. You must cleanse yourselves of the outer world. You must study slowly, carefully,and thoroughly each topic. You will have to continue to go back and study and practice daily the knowledge and exercises until you become master of all. There is no doubt about it and should he none in your mind that Night Magick requires study and work. The results are more then worth all the time and energy that you can give to it. To become a Master in Night Magick; to become a Night Magician; to reach and obtain Night Consciousness; this is your goal. Let me show you now the life of a Night Magician and all that it entails in becoming and being a Night Magician. CHAPTER II THE NIGHT MAGICIAN 5. Her/His Life The life of a Night Magician is a very special one. You will find that a Night Magician's life is filled with the most powerful magick. Your world will not be the same after Night Magick has filled it. Your life will have seemed very ordinary and plain before Night Magick. Your life will now be filled with adventure. When you have elected to live the life of a Night Magician you have chosen to accept a way of life that is different than you have so far experienced. It is a life filled with study and practice of Night Magick and the excitement and adventure that is a direct result. Night Magick will fulfill for you your lifelong aspirations. It will be my job to present the life of a Night Magician to you. I hope when I'm through that you will find it exciting and want to begin the adventure of becoming a Night Magician. Let's enter then into the life of a Night Magician. The Night Magician's life is filled with study and practice of the Night Magick lore. As you study and practice, the Oversoul will examine and test your accomplishments. No matter who you are, you came here to gain experience and grow from it. But upon accepting the Night Magician's way of life the trials will increase in both number and intensity. It is not that the lore found in this book is difficult, but that in accepting this life the Night Magician is tested by life so that s/he may put into practice Night Magick. The Night Magician's life is going to be filled with many trials. This is not out of cruelty but out of necessity. The trials are set upon the Magician to build magickal strength and depth in the use of Night Magick. Every test in the Magician's life is to build magickal stature and to increase it once passed. No matter whether the test is overcoming a difficult financial situation, or the working through of a difficult marriage, or the death of a loved one, the tests are there to help the Night Magician grow. If the Night Magician falls then there is nothing else for her/him to do but get up, dust off the knees, and keep going knowing that the next time when faced with a similar situation success will come. When you accept the life of a Night Magician there will be trials and hardships. But if you are willing to accept the difficulties and meet the challenge then you will not be overcome by them. You will find solutions to these trials through your knowledge of Night Magick. Through Night Magick, you will raise your magickal vibration and grow closer to the Oneness of your Oversoul. It is through this Oneness, and the power that flows from it and through you, that you will be able to handle these increased tests. You are learning to become the Oversoul in all that you say and do. No matter what the test, you must meet it in the Night Consciousness of your Oversoul. Through this continual testing, and the placing of yourself in the Conscience of your Oversoul, you will become One with IT. Thus you will have passed the final test on Earth and have achieved the One Goal. You will have achieved Night Consciousness. The Night Magician's life is thus marked by training and testing. But her/his life is not all training and testing. For out of this training and testing will come adventure. The Night Magician will travel new avenues of adventure that were never there before. The tests the Night Magician receives will take her/him to unusual places and there will be experiences that can only be described as exciting and wonderful. The Night Magician will experience new levels of physical well-being and sexual vitality. S/he will experience new job challenges and opportunities as part of using Night Magick. There will be emotional and mental experiences that break through the limited ways of feelings and thinking of old. The Night Magician will experience increases of personal wealth. The Night Magician's life will become aflame with purpose. That purpose may not always be easy to identify at first, but the Magician will feel it none the less, deep within. Ultimately, through the Night Magician's way of life, s/he will come to know that purpose and become it. The Night Magician is in command of her/his life. S/he sets the trail where others will follow. The Night Magician must grab hold onto life and in everything that s/he says and does must express the Night Soul. The Night Magician's life is filled with purpose and it is through that purpose that s/he will unfold her/his Night Powers. The Night Magician's purpose is her/his dream. It is what s/he must do while s/he is upon the Earth plane. But that purpose and dream will set her/him apart from those adrift on the sea. The Night Magician must overcome loneliness as a result of it. S/he must overcome the misunderstanding of others and press on. There will be many unbelievers in this world for there are many lost in the Yang matrix, but s/he must ignore them and all else that interferes with the dream. But if the Night Magician is truly dedicated and willing to sacrifice for the dream, if s/he believes in her/himself and the Night Soul within and expresses only that Soul, then the Night Magician's dream will manifest itself into the world. That dream is the Will of the Oversoul and it will appear into the world. The Night Magician's life is marked by purpose, dedication, sacrifice, determination, and darkest love. The Night Magician's life is darkest magic of the highest kind. It is magick that produces deepest joy and happiness in the Night Magician's life. It is the magick of the Oversoul on Earth. The Night Magician's life is aimed at becoming the Oversoul in all that is done. Imagine a life that is filled with nothing but the Nightsoul. In you, as a Night Magician, the Power and Absolute Love of the Oversoul comes to its fullest. When that Power and Absolute Love flows through you and into the lives of those around you and on out into the world itself nothing can remain as it was before. Everything that the Night Power touches shall be made anew. It shall shine with an Amethyst/Emerald Light Divine. This is the Night Magick of the Oversoul. This is Magick of the Highest Order and it is in the Night Magician's life. Here you have some of the beautiful facets of the life of a Night Magician. Her/his life is marked by trials and testing. This is not meant to discourage you but to show the true picture to all would-be Night Magicians. If you are to become a Night Magician then you must truly understand all that is involved and be willing to give all that it takes. It will take determination, courage, fortitude, and intuition in all the seemingly hardships. It will take this to be able to grasp from the lore the knowledge required and to put it into practice; to become a Night Magician. The Night Magician's life is study, training, practice, and being tested. But the Night Magician's life is much more. It is life filled with happiness and joy. It is filled with inner peace and absolute love. It is filled with adventure and excitement. It is a life filled with success. The Night Magician is truly in command of her/his life. S/he is the Oversoul in action. This way of life is all that the Night Magician ever cares to know. Her/his goals for this life are all that matters. These goals are the Night Magician's life and Night Magick will ensure the success of achieving these goals. The life of a Night Magician is a very special one. I would like you to travel with me now on the roadway the apprentice must follow to become a Night Magician. 6. The Apprentice's Unfoldment. What I want to do now is draw for you a road map that will take you down the road of Night Magick. The road ahead of you is easy to get lost on just look at others around you. If you are going to effectively follow the Night Magick road you must have signs and landmarks to guide you and tell you how far you have come. In the next topic, I will discuss your final destination, Night Consciousness. So let's begin our journey on the Night Road. From the beginning of the first descent into material creation, from the first sojourn on Earth, it will take many sojourns before one is ready to enter the Night Road. There are many people who are not ready for it. Their minds are so preoccupied with doing things the Yang way, they are so lost in doing things the hard way, that they have no time for their own magickal growth. They are so lost in the illusion of the material world and its limitations that they can not see beyond it. You can see why it will take so many people hundreds of lives before they can see beyond the illusion of this world and learn to use Night Magick in overcoming its so-called limitations. I should state from the onset of this work that there are very few paths or roads which lead to truly achieving your goals and overcoming the world of illusion. There are many paths dedicated to the Yang Spirit which is a road of limitation, hardship, self-denial, and poverty. It is a path that runs counter to the Soul and Spirit within you. I have tried to present here a road to Night Consciousness which is simple in nature and language. It is a road that requires persistence, study, courage, boldness, and self-discipline to travel but the goals you will achieve on the way and your final attainment of the ultimate goal makes it all worth while. There is no way of telling how long it will take to reach the ultimate goal. You may be able to reach it in this lifetime or it may take many lifetimes. Much will depend upon your aptitude for Night Magick and your dedication and effort. It isn't necessary to reach the ultimate goal in one life. There will be many goals and great changes in your life to make traveling the road more than worthwhile. Once you have entered the Night Road, then life after life you will return to this world taking up where you last left off. This is because a simple decision to enter the Night Road does not mean that you will be accepted and are on your way. The Night Soul looks for those who are ready to travel the road. You must want to be on the road that leads to your Night Soul more than anything else in your life. There must be nothing more important in your life then being on the road and the desire to achieve your goals and the ultimate goal. This decision must be more then a mental thought. This decision must be backed by action on your part. Not only do you feel this intense desire to be on the Night Road but you are willing to begin the work necessary to achieve it. In Night Magick, you will have begun this work by beginning to read and put into practice the lore found in this book. There is no way of determining how long it will take to be accepted on the Night Road. But rest assured, if you are truly sincere about entering the road and are willing to do the work then you will be accepted. You are the beginner, the apprentice, on the roadway to the Night Soul. Acceptance on the Night Road is no small thing. Acceptance on the road is your first landmark and is clearly marked. In Night Magick, you are an "Earth Apprentice". You have reached the first landmark and gained entrance upon the Night Road. At this point your Oversoul will begin to take an active interest in you. Upon your acceptance, the Oversoul actively enters into your life. You will begin to feel the beginnings of Night Power. You will have the beginning of increased Oversoul Power flowing into your life. But how will you know when you have been accepted? As said before, this acceptance is clearly marked. You will undergo an experience that will definitely let you know you have become an Earth Apprentice. For example, you may in the quiet of your Magician's Study, or as you are falling asleep some night, suddenly see the image of the Oversoul in deep hues of Emerald, Amethyst, Midnight Blue and/or Silver before you. As you continue to watch the image of your Oversoul it will start to come towards you. As the Oversoul comes closer, you suddenly know that you are the Oversoul and Its Face is your face, and the Oversoul enters inside you, and you feel a deep, warm glow and power radiating from within. You know that the birth of the Oversoul has taken place within and that you are an Earth Apprentice. As an Earth Apprentice you have become the Night Child. I refer to the Earth Apprentice as a Night Child for at the time of acceptance you have been given birth into the Night World. You are now a Magickal Child of the Night Spirit. Your Oversoul will gain new radiance and added power by actively entering into cooperation with you. That new radiance will be seen by the Watchers and reported to the Night Guild. Your acceptance upon the Night Road heralds your entrance into the Night Guild. This Guild is composed of all beings who serve the Dark Light of the Night Spirit. The members of the Guild exist both in Higher Dimensions and upon all material planets. The highest members of the Guild serve as Teachers and Directors of the Omniverse everywhere. One group of members serve as Teachers and Directors over the Earth. In Night Magick, I will refer to them as the Night Teachers. I have done this because they have risen far in magickal evolution and are One with the Night Soul. As a new Earth Apprentice, you are watched over by a Night Teacher who chooses to do so based on compatible nature and vibration. The assistance of the Night Teacher is one of watchfulness and occasional guidance as you, the Earth Apprentice, begins to journey on the Night Road. But as you continue to demonstrate your willingness and dedication to the road you've chosen, and to the Will of your Oversoul, the relation between you and the Night Teacher deepens. When the Night Teacher is ready and has determined you are ready, then you will be accepted by the Night Teacher as Her/His Chela. The relationship between the Night Teacher and Her/His chela is a very special one. The Night Teacher gives Her/His continual guidance, support, and power to the new chela. The Night Teacher shares Her/His very nature with Her/His new chela. The chela may call upon the assistance of the Night Teacher at anytime and it will be answered. Yet the chela must remember that s/he is the beginner and that the Will of the Night Teacher should always be followed. The Night Teacher and the Oversoul of the chela work very closely together to achieve what must be done by the Oversoul. The Night Teacher and chela are as Mother/Father and Daughter/Son. They share and create in the Night Power and Guild. How will you know though who your Night Teacher is? There are many ways in which this may come about. You may meet Her/Him in your dreams, or more rarely, S/he may come to you in your waking hours. For many of you, you will just know through your sixth sense. You will come to know intuitively who your Night Teacher is. I will go into greater depth about the Night Teachers in the later part of this book. Do not be worried or concerned about who the Night Teacher is in your life. S/he will choose you and guide you and you should feel secure in this matter. S/he will reveal Her/Himself to you in Her/His own time. At this point you are now progressing upon the Night Road. Your first subject area to master in Night Magick will be Earth Magick. Not only will you learn a great deal about the Earth and its Magickal Energies and Power but you will also be altering physically and magickally. When you have achieved sufficient growth and mastery in this area of Earth Magick you will be ready for the second landmark. If you looked at the last landmark as the birth of the Oversoul in the your world, as your becoming the Magickal Child, then this is "you the Oversoul" as a teenager. Here you have been transformed from the Earth Apprentice to the Water Apprentice. You will begin your study of Water Magick. This is the area of Night Magick related to the emotions and astral world. As a Water Apprentice, you will experience an ever greater increase of the Power of the Night Soul. You will undergo increased emotional development. You will be given experiences that will strengthen that emotional development. As a Water Apprentice, you will gain the ability to know Truth in all Its forms and use that in your everyday world. You will also begin to learn control over your emotions. The Night Magician needs emotional control in order to wield Night Magick effectively. The power you will be able to wield without emotional control could do incredible damage which you may later regret. The Night Magician must be master of her/his emotions not the other way around. One point I should cover is that concerning the aura. Until I go into more detail about it later, accept for now, that there is an energy that completely surrounds your body and extends beyond it about one to three feet. This energy field is called an aura. The aura reflects emotions and thoughts in people. The aura is made up of swirling energy currents and through magickal sight the aura can be seen as colors. All of this you will cover in greater depth in later topics. In the average person, the colors that comprise the aura are various and many. In the Earth Apprentice, the color that is predominate in the aura is green. In the Water Apprentice, the aura will be of a light blue. This is another indicator of when you have been accepted on the road. The aura, as an indicator, will help you further in identification of the next landmark. You have seen the things that you must accomplish, or be in the process of accomplishing, in order to achieve the next landmark. You have studied Water Magick and developed and strengthened your emotional stature. When you have traveled far enough on the Night Road another landmark appears before you. You are about to undergo another transformation and become the Air Apprentice. Here you have entered the "Oversoul as a very young adult" stage. The emphasis as an Air Apprentice is upon mastering Air Magick or Magick of the Mind. You will be studying Air Magick and undergo mental training. You will be developing what in Air Magick is known as the Mental Body. Your studies in Night Magick will help develop the Mental Body. During this phase of life you may also attend some advance education or training in the world. The mind is a powerful instrument and its training is critical in Night Magick. You will be merging your mind with the Higher Mind of the Oversoul. This will lead you to the last part of your journey to becoming a Night Magician. The last landmark is ahead and you find yourself traveling through Fire. Here you are the young adult Oversoul. You are the Fire Apprentice. Your studies are of Fire Magick. Fire Magick is the Realm of the Oversoul. It is the studies of the Higher Mind and Causal Body. You now are learning and using the Night Powers of the Oversoul. The power that flows through your life will be like nothing you have so far experienced. This is the time when you will be reaching adulthood in the Oversoul. You will be achieving oneness with the Oversoul and there will no longer be a you and the Oversoul. You are about to become a true channel through which the Night Power will flow without impediment. To experience the Night Realm of Fire is to know life without time or space. It is being everywhere and every time. It is knowing and seeing all that has ever been, is, and will be: and as the Silent Watcher and Observer seeing it all unfold. It is like standing amongst the sea of stars and knowing that this is all that you are. It is feeling and being a part of unlimited darkness and absolute love. This is perhaps the longest part of the journey. There is much to study, experience, and develop into. But finally like all journeys, this one comes to an end. And at the end of the Night Road, you are no longer an Apprentice but a Night Magician. You and the Oversoul are One. You are the mature, adult Oversoul on Earth. Words only tend to limit the experience of this achievement. The Night Power that you now feel is so great that you have trouble controlling it as it surges through your material being. This experience can never be adequately described by words but must be lived to be known. This is the point which hails the complete union of the Higher and lower selves. The Oversoul and you are now One to the greatest possible extent. The Causal body is now shared as One by the Oversoul and you. A person with magickal sight of sufficient advancement will see a fully developed Causal Body with the full and active Presence of the Oversoul within it. The aura will glow with an intense deep amethyst/silver glow. You and the Oversoul share Its Powers and capabilities jointly. You are One and Inseparable in Consciousness and Action with the Oversoul. You have experienced everything that you must in life. You are now free of Karma. This is the last material vehicle you will have to express through on Earth. You are the master of the lower worlds. You know the cycles of birth and rebirth and know the happiness at having completed the need to ever undergo the cycle again. You are free from life that ends in death. You have become all knowledge, power, wisdom, and control of the Oversoul. Is your journey really over? No, not really. There will always be a perfecting process going on. There will always be new heights to climb and greater understanding to be achieved. What is included in this book as Night Magick is really only the "tip of the iceberg". But you will always enjoy your continued travels and adventures on the Night Road. There will always be new things to discover. There will always be new adventures and excitement on the Night Road. I have done my best to guide you this far on the Night Road. I want you to understand that this map is not set in concrete. The general course has been laid out for you but the time you take to travel on the road and the tests and experiences you will undergo are known only to the Oversoul. Sometimes you may detour slightly into another area of magick and that's ok as long as it is the Will of the Oversoul. I would like now to help you understand the Consciousness of the Oversoul. I call it Night Consciousness and it is what you will ultimately achieve. 7. Night Consciousness There are countless numbers of Souls in creation. The Soul, that is your Oversoul, is unique throughout the Omniverse. The consciousness of the Oversoul is separated from the consciousness of the human being. It is possible for the two consciousness to join. This union of consciousness I refer to as Night Consciousness. I am going to explore with you the inner depths of Night Consciousness. You will discover things that you will have to do in order to attain it. You will learn to live and practice it and the changes that will take place within you as you start to acquire it. First though, we are going to examine, in greater detail, exactly what Night Consciousness is. Night Consciousness, in humankind, is a state of causal, mental, emotional, and physical being. It is becoming the Oversoul in each of these states of being. It is reaching the greatest possible state of perfection while here on Earth. The Causal body is to the Overself what the physical/etheric body is to humankind. Its lowest vibrational body. The Causal Body is the storehouse for the experiences of countless lifetimes in incarnation. The Overself experiences life from its dimension through the Causal Body just as we experience physical life through the physical body. When you have achieved Night Consciousness you will be able to consciously use the Causal Body. You will be able to directly tap into awareness of the Oversoul. This will directly effect your mental being. Mentally, you must achieve all that the Oversoul is. It is your mental development and attitude which will carry you into this Magickal Consciousness. When you have mentally set your sights upon your goal and give it all that you possible have, then you will bring it into manifestation within you. Night Consciousness is mentally being aware of all knowledge and wisdom of the Oversoul. You will know, whatever it is that you must know by simply tapping into it. You will have supreme wisdom for all situations knowing just what and how to do it. You may have never studied the subject before but the knowledge will be there when you need it. You will have tremendous willpower and concentration. This is Night Consciousness in humankind. Night Consciousness is more then just a mental state. It is also your emotional state of being. It fills your world of feeling and changes it to perfection. It is having perfect understanding of all situations. It is the giving of perfect, absolute love. This is love beyond the human state that enters you into the absolute state of being. More on this in a later topic. The emotional state in Night Consciousness is one of silence and profound solitude. It is a high state of reflection and receptivity. It is also a state of aggression, boldness, and daring. Night Consciousness is an emotional state of passion, courage and love of pleasure and ease. This Consciousness even descends into the physical state of being. Your bodies become pure, Night Energy through Night Consciousness. The body becomes the perfect channel through which the Oversoul may flow out into the world. Night Consciousness is perfect control and mastery of the physical being. This is Night Consciousness in the four aspects of humankind. Night Consciousness is many things to humankind. It is a state of bliss and peace that humankind has yet to know. It is a state of perfect knowledge, wisdom, absolute love, understanding, innocence, happiness, joy, and freedom. It is a state of awareness that words can not do justice to. Words only tend to diminish the real understanding of the nature of Night Consciousness. Yet I have made the attempt to do so in hopes that you would have a better understanding of what it is. Night Consciousness is the goal of life on Earth. It is a goal worth giving your all in dedication, devotion, and determination to in reaching it. Therefore, let's see exactly what you will have to do in reaching the Bliss of Night Consciousness. The things necessary to do, to reach Night Consciousness, may at first seem to overwhelm you. There is a great deal to accomplish if you want to reach it. But you should not be scared by the number of things you must accomplish, nor by the feeling that some of them seem impossible for you to do. Nothing that is described here will be impossible for you to do if you will be determined and persistent in your efforts. To begin you must master the physical body. Its alright to indulge the physical body with food, pampering and passion. At the same time, you must also balance this with physical training to maintain physical well-being. The body is essential to every Night Magician for it is the channel through which Night Magick flows and alters the world. Take care of it. Much of the knowledge you will gain will slowly alter the human body changing its frequency into harmony with the Night Force. As the body changes you will be able to increase the flow of the Night Force through you. Do everything in balance. You must become masters of your emotional life. From the onset of studying Night Magick you will experience emotions. It is alright to experience and even use the emotions in Night Magick. But at all times, you must be in control them. You must not be ruled by jealousy, lust, pride, or selfishness. You must control anger and hatred. These things will still try to enter into your feelings but you will gain instant control over them. You must remain in control under all conditions. No matter how disturbing the current challenges in your life you must remain centered. You must also maintain a balanced mind. Your mind must always be centered in the silence of the Night. There is great power in the silence of the Mind. Your mind should be fixed in self-discipline and strong-willed. Your mind must be fixed in intellectual pursuit and critical thinking. You must maintain original and independent thinking at all times. You will be inventive and versatile in your thinking. Your mind set must be one of persistence, patience and persevering. Your mind will at times be required to act in a reserved and cautious manner and at other times courageous, bold, and gallant. Flexibility to meet the ever changing challenges is the key of Night Consciousness. You must be temperate, wise, and poised in all things. These are just a few of the things necessary for you to reach Night Consciousness. They are not easy to master. Yet they must be mastered and put actively into your life. You must live and practice Night Consciousness from the very beginning. This topic is placed early in the book because it is the first thing which you will have to learn and begin practicing in Night Magick. If you are to have any success at all in Night Magick, you will have to practice and master this topic. In all other subjects you will study and master in this book, Night Consciousness is of the most importance. It will bring you success in all other things you attempt in Night Magick. How then do you practice and live Night Consciousness? To begin, you must live the life of the Oversoul. You must be consciously aware of the Night Power that flows through you from your Oversoul. Everywhere you go, you must constantly remain in the Consciousness of the Oversoul. You must know that you are the Oversoul and radiate Night Power. You must speak and act as the Oversoul. You must gain a very special attitude towards life. You must learn to be in the world but not of it. You must not become lost in the illusions of limitations. With the aid of Night Magick you will want for nothing but at the same time you must never allow material possessions to possess you. Your magickal life must be balanced by your practical life. You must give each part of your life equal time. Your practical life should be filled with your magickal nature. You must learn to take each day, one at a time. It is wrong to worry about tomorrow for in Night Consciousness your destiny of success is assured. You must learn to obey your Oversoul as you would yourself for in reality you and the Oversoul are One. All of your needs will be taken care of through Night Consciousness. That doesn't mean you can just sit back and do nothing. You must give your full effort to life but without worry or concern about your future. If you are following the Night Road to Night Consciousness, then the outcome is clear. There is also one other thing that you can do to enhance your attaining Night Consciousness until you become more adept in Night Magick. In your pursuit of Night Consciousness you will be greatly benefitted if you will get out into the outdoors as much as possible. The beauty, peace, and power of nature will do much in restoring and helping to maintain your Oversoul Nature. The Earth is a storehouse of Night Energy and by your visits to those places where the Earth has been relatively untouched you will be able to absorb the Night Energy. If you begin to practice what I just covered and continue to study and practice Night Magick then you will eventually reach Night Consciousness. But only your Oversoul knows all the things necessary for you to do to reach Night Consciousness and the time required to do so. So you must be untiring in your efforts to reach it and know that it will come. You must come to know that there is no separation in Consciousness between you and your Oversoul. There are signs which will indicate to you that you are starting to approach Night Consciousness. There are changes that will take place within you all along the road to your final destination. These changes will help reassure you that you are making progress. One of the first significant changes in your life will be a new powerful inner vibration. You will become charged with a new zest for life. The Oversoul Power will flow through you and raise every cell in your body in a glorious fire. You will find you will need less sleep and yet your energy will remain very high. You will find that your health will be greatly improved and that your breathing will come much easier. Your body will become the Body of your Oversoul. You will find yourselves growing more in the ways of the Silver Rule. You may do anything that you want if you always maintain the Eternal Night Balance. You will begin to hear an Inner Voice who will be your instructor and guardian. This Inner Voice will be that of your Oversoul and/or Night Teacher who will guide you and care for you. This will cause you to develop flashes of intuition. These brief moments of insight should be carefully listened to and followed. If you do, then the help will continue to come to you. You will find that your knowledge seems to increase within you. You will gain an understanding of things that you never seemed to understand before. You will instinctively seem to know what to do about a particular problem. For example, if your car breaks down you will know almost immediately what is wrong with it and if possible, how to repair it. You will also come to know Truth from untruth. It doesn't matter whether that source originates from a person, reading material, or whatever, you will know whether what is said is True or not. Nothing will be able to hide from your inner knowing and vision. This is also about the time when your lower psychic abilities and faculties start to open up. You will learn a great deal about them later in the book. They will give you abilities and powers beyond that of other people. Therefore you must be careful in using them such that the Eternal Night Balance is always maintained. Do not worry about these centers for now in a later topic you will be given what you need to maintain control. You will feel a greater need for solitude and a time away from people. There are more indications of approaching Night Consciousness and you will learn more about them as you continue your studies of Night Magick. Remember, Night Consciousness is a physical, emotional, mental, and causal development. You know some of the things to concentrate on to help develop this consciousness. As I just said you will learn more of the essentials to help develop this consciousness as you learn Night Magick. You have also learned some of the indicators of your developing Night Consciousness and when you finally reach it you will know it. What is required is effort, dedication, persistence, self-discipline and study. With all this, you will achieve Night Consciousness. Combined with Night Magick there won't be a thing you can't achieve. Your imagination and dreams are the only limits in Night Magick. From this point in your study of Night Magick, I would like to go over the principles upon which a Night Magician's life is based. CHAPTER III BEGINNING NIGHT MAGICK 8. Standards and Principles of Practicing Night Magick You are about to embark on the Night Road of learning Night Magick and achieving Night Consciousness. There are certain standards and practices which you must include in your life while on the Road. I have covered a few of them already but I will go into greater depth over some of them and cover some additional standards and principles to insure your success. The Silver Rule (silver being a precious metal to the Night Force) is "you may do anything that you want if you always maintain the Eternal Night Balance". The Eternal Night Balance is a fundamental law of the Night Force. Balance in the Omniverse is a vital factor to order within the Eternal Night. For everything you take from the Eternal Night you must give back to the Eternal Night in equal measure. This does not mean of course that if through Night Magick, using the energy of the Night Force, you acquire wealth that you must give money back to the Night Force. It means that the amount of energy used to accomplish something must be returned in full. This keeping of the Eternal Night Balance is an intuitive matter that is easy to maintain when working within Night Consciousness. Therefore, before using Night Magick to accomplish any event, always work within the consciousness of the Oversoul to be able to maintain the Balance. There also follows another major principle within which you must practice Night Magick. This is the "Law of Night Magick". The Law of Night Magick is "there is nothing impossible when you are One with the Night Force". I mean absolutely nothing. Always remember this fundamental law and believe it with all your might. Remember that everything you do in life is Night Magick. It should be done in Night Consciousness. Your whole life is now an expression of Night Magick and Consciousness. There is nothing you cannot do. I'd like to turn for the moment to the principles governing the Night Magician and the world as a whole. You will find the world to be rather hostile to you concerning Night Magick. The religions of the world are predominantly Yang. The majority of people have been conditioned to respond in a Yang manner. Yang and Yin are opposite forces which do not mix well. From Night Consciousness's view, each soul is responsible for its own world. Each soul determines much of its life and the quality of that life before coming here. There is some predestination in all lives yet there is much which is not. If individuals are poor and/or homeless then this gives the Oversoul that experience. If souls are wealthy then that is another experience. This world offers a myriad of different experiences for the Oversoul to live and experience. The Oversoul lives many lives on Earth in order to get a well-rounded education. The Earth can be a very rough school and souls here are experiencing in essence the first grade of life. When the Oversoul has experienced all the lessons it deems necessary then It moves on to a new world with more advanced lessons to be learned. This system is called reincarnation and is very difficult for much of the world to except. They would rather explain much of the world's problems and their own as the fault of someone else. The Christians blame Satan for the ills of the world. There are many people who blame their government. Others blame other people and their not caring about their fellow human. The Night Magician blames no one. The Night Magician knows that her/his beginnings on this planet are chosen from the other side of life. S/he chooses her/his parents, race, sex, country, and many of the future events before arriving to insure that the necessary lessons for this life are achieved. It may sound terrible but a woman may actually chose to be raped in order to gain that experience and learn from it. There are children born bad. They are souls who previously raped, murdered, robbed, etc. and are returning little changed from their previous lives. Human souls are not born innocent regardless of how innocent that baby looks in her/his cradle. They have lived before on Earth and are returning little changed from when they last lived on Earth. They are a bundle of possibilities and potentials and already have the beginnings of personality for this life. You arrive the same way but as a Night Magician you must take charge of your life. If you don't like it then change it. Use Night Magick to alter your world. Some parts of life are predestined but many are not. The free times feel like your adrift on a sea without much direction. This is the time to chose a new direction. You shouldn't get involved in changing all the world's ills. I believe someone said before that there will always be the poor and hungry. This is true because this world requires those experiences for a certain group of souls. There will always be crime because there will always be others who want what someone else has. There are experiences of hardship, suffering, crime, poverty, hunger, divorce, physical and sexual abuse, and a thousand more like it. There are experiences of wealth, fame, comfort, peace, happy marriage, beautiful children, successful career, and a thousand more like it, too. The Oversoul needs all these experience possibilities. The Night Magician chooses her/his experiences and controls them through Night Magick. The Night Magician knows that the rest of the world chooses their experiences too and lives them the best they can so that the Oversoul may gain experience. Help the other soul when led by your Oversoul to do so. But have no guilt, nor interfere in another soul's existence, when in Night Consciousness you know that what they are experiencing is necessary. The practice of Night Magick requires that the affairs of your world move with a steady, even pace. There is no set limit as to how fast this pace may be. Setting limits upon pace is a relative matter. But the pace must be even and steady. Do not become so embroiled in the everyday routines of the hustling, bustling world that your world is conducted without Night Magick. You must have a magickal attitude while in the world. You must keep your consciousness raised above the mire and limitations of the world. You must approach life with passion and zest. In Night Consciousness, life is an adventure. Life is usually made up of one adventure after another. Everything that has happened to you is a type of adventure that requires your use of Night Magick to see it through. There are adventures which you may feel have had an unhappy ending. Perhaps that ending did not have to occur with the use of Night Magick. If you are in the Night Flow and something bad seems to have happened perhaps there was a reason. Use Night Magick to find out. Use Night Magick to correct the situation. Do all this in Night Consciousness. There will be times when you must approach life with courage, boldness, and energy. There will be other times when you must use caution, prudence, and reflection. Approach life from Night Consciousness and you will always know what to do. In Night Consciousness, life is art. You are the Night Magician. You are the artist. Create! Create any kind of life you want. Your imagination is the limit. Fill your life with passion and love. Fill your life with honor, dignity, and pride in the works you create. As the artist be inventive and imaginative in what you create as your life. If you want wealth that is fine. If you want pleasure and ease that is fine. Remember, Night Balance in what you create. The Night Magician operates from a point of solitude. The Night Magician is a solitary worker. This doesn't mean you won't have friends. You may be a very active person socially with many friends. You can even practice Night Magick collectively in groups. But ultimately, the Night Magician is a solitary worker. The Night Magician must achieve mastery in Night Magick and Night Consciousness on her/his own. No one else can do this for you. I can show you how to practice Night Magick and give you the keys to obtaining Night Consciousness but I can't bestow upon you, mastery in Night Magick or Night Consciousness. This you must do on your own with study, self- discipline, effort and energy. Night Magick is for those willing to pursue knowledge. It takes knowledge not faith to become a Night Magician. It takes a lover of independent thinking. One who is free of convention and is not a sheep in the world. It takes mental precision and intelligence to master Night Magick. It will require will power and perseverance to overcome obstacles when they show up. You must learn control of thoughts. You will hear this over and over, "thoughts are things". I don't know who first said this but remember it. If you think thoughts of poverty then guess what, you are poor. If you wish some one dead, even idly, then they may die. Through Night Magick, thoughts become things with purpose. Learn control of your thoughts from the onset. Emotions are also part of this. Emotions add energy to thoughts. So you must also learn to control emotions. Emotions, like thoughts, are energy and energy changes the world around you. I am not limiting any thoughts or emotions from your world. You are free to think and feel anything you want. But remember, thoughts and emotions will change the world around you and you are responsible for those changes. Keep the Eternal Night Balance. Remember the Silver Rule and you will have no problems. You need to take care of your physical body. Night Magicians come in all shapes and sizes. There are no requirements in this area. What is important is the physical body is the ultimate channel through which the Night Force flows out into the world. You need to keep that channel as in tuned with the Night Force as possible. You will learn techniques to do this shortly. Try to maintain oneness with your Oversoul and the Night Force by keeping them in your thoughts and emotions at all time. This will help maintain the balance. It is alright to smoke, eat, and provide the body with physical pleasure. But balance is again important to your practicing Night Magick. You can't practice Night Magick if you die of overeating, heart attack, or cancer. You will learn to control your thoughts and emotions to help prevent these things. But if you go too far one way then all your knowledge won't help if the body can't act as a channel for the Night Force. Balance pleasure with physical exercise, breathing exercises with smoking, and right thoughts and emotions that will control the stress and pressures in your life. I want to talk to you about drugs. Their use is a very popular thing. In the right hands drugs can be very beneficial to human health. Magickally, drugs have been used to induce certain mental and emotional states. In the case of Night Magick, DON'T USE THEM! Drugs have more then a physical effect. They alter the etheric, astral, and mental bodies. Drugs can do severe damage to these bodies that may take many "lifetimes" to repair. I assure you that there is nothing drugs can do for you that Night Magick can't do for you. There is no high or altered state that Night Magick can't achieve for you. Drugs can so alter your many bodies that by using Night Magick you will place yourself in danger of losing your physical life. Moreover, you may lose your emotional and mental stability that will require hospitalization. So far, I have not limited you in thought or action in this book. But in this case, be warned. Do not use drugs. If you are using prescription drugs under a physician's care and they severely alter your state of being then for that time don't practice Night Magick. Wait till you no longer need the drugs. Under drugs I am also including alcohol. On occasion you may feel like getting drunk. As you progress in Night Consciousness you will eventually be able to drink and not get drunk. For most, that is a long time from now. Drinking, to a lesser degree, alters the physical, etheric, astral, and mental bodies. The effects are usually not as damaging unless you overdose on alcohol. Drinking in moderation is fine. There is nothing wrong with an occasional drink. For some though, an occasional drink becomes overuse of alcohol which ultimately will have the same effect as non-alcohol drugs. Again, do not practice Night Magick while under the influence of alcohol regardless of the amount of alcohol. It has the same possible effect as non-alcohol drugs. Let's go on to sex. In today's world one usually talks about sex after talking about drugs. Sex is great. With Night Magick, sex is going to become fantastic. The energy that is going to flow through you during orgasm will give you the ultimate orgasms of your life. There are though some rules that apply to this area. It should be obvious that you must practice "safe sex". The male should use a condom and the woman should be sure he uses it. No matter how close you are to your spouse or circle of friends unless you're sure of their monogamy, men use condoms. Women should also use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. Men should learn how to put on condoms to insure they don't break and never use petroleum products that will cause the latex to break. Women should also know how to put a condom on a man to insure the man does it right. You may find that as you increase in Night Consciousness and the flow of the Night Force increases that the only time you will achieve those ultimate orgasms is when the partner is also practicing Night Magick. In Night Magick, concerning sex, it doesn't matter whether the couple is heterosexual, male- male, female-female. It doesn't matter if the couple act alone. It doesn't matter if there is a man and more then one woman or a woman and more then one man to the couple. It doesn't matter if there is a group of couples of all polarities. It doesn't matter if the group is exclusively men or women. What really makes the difference is if everyone is practicing Night Magick. When all are practicing Night Magick then all are in the Night Flow. Everyone present will have some increase of energy flowing through them. All will feel the bond of Night Consciousness. In Night Magick there is no jealousy or possessiveness. In Night Magick there is no Judeo-Christian, or Moslem, or Mormon, or any oppressive religious hang-ups about sex. Each Night Magician is independent and free. Marriage under Night Magick is not one of possession but of mutual cooperation and love. Group marriage is a very real possibility under Night Magick because a Night Magician honors independence, freedom, and equality in action among Night Magicians. There is no jealousy or possessiveness among Night Magicians. Women and Men have equal rights in Night Magick and Consciousness and in the world itself. But marriage between a Night Magician and non- practicing human being rarely works out. Ultimately, the Night Magician changes so much that the spouse no longer understands the Night Magician. It is very rare to find a spouse who will understand the Night Magician and their way of life. The marriage often ends in divorce. But it is better to divorce and remain friends then to stay in a marriage which creates hostility and resentment. There is no balance in such a marriage. Many are made to feel guilty if there are children involved and stay married although there is hostility and resentment between them. I believe it is better for everyone involved if the couple divorce, and even if they can't remain friends, to at least remain cooperative and fair with each other concerning settlement and visitation. Balance and harmony are important in a Night Magician's life. It is important to her/his success on the Night Road. Also important to this success and of a more concrete nature are Magickal Tools. Down through the ages the Ancient Night Magicians have used many different types of tools and implements in the practice of the Ancient Art. You too are going to need Magickal Tools and in the next topic I will help you attain these tools. 9. A Night Magician's Tools and Weapons These are the Night Tools a Night Magician will need to set the proper atmosphere and conduct the basic rites. You will conduct these rites in the room you have designated as your Magician's Study within the Magick Circle which you will define its area with the Night Cord. This cord should be made of silk, cotton, or wool. The cord needs to be long enough so that when it is laid down on the floor it will form a circle that contains the altar and yourself. If there are more people then yourself conducting Night Magick or even possibly just observing then you will need a long enough length to make a large enough circle to contain them. Within the Night Circle you will build the Night Altar. The Night Altar is symbolic for your physical being in which is focused the Night Spirit. You will build an altar upon which you will focus your Powers of Eternal Darkness here on the Earth plane. It is best to keep it simple. The basic structure can be a small table, box, or anything which is sturdy. The altar should be about three feet wide by six feet long. The height of the Night Altar is your decision. You can have one which is at waist height when you are standing and one for when you are sitting. It is best to have both in your magickal inventory. Place the Night Altar so that when you are standing or sitting behind it you are facing North. Use a compass if necessary so that you can place it facing North. Then cover the Night Altar with a cloth of your choice. If at all possible choose a black, red, or silver colored cloth. It is best if the cloth has no distinctive pattern on the surface portion of the altar. This is your Night Altar. You then must place upon it some very special articles. Upon the altar and towards the back left side place a red candle and on the right side place a black candle. On the left side and in front of the red candle place an incense holder and on the right place your copy of Night Magick. You may also place any other small trinkets that help build your feeling of Night Magick. Dragons, wizards, owls, and so on are fine. The Night Altar is a sacred symbol before which you come to release Night Power. It is the physical symbol of your body and heart and serves the same purpose: an anchor of the Night Force. You will need a good supply of incense to fill the incense holder on your Night Altar. Through trial and error you will find the right incense that fits your personal vibration. Each incense creates a vibration in the air and as you grow more magickal, you will be ever more sensitive to its vibration. Incense, which is of the stick variety and is thick in nature is good or you may have a small charcoal brazier and powdered incense. On the Night Altar you will also need the following things: a silver or crystal dish of sea salt; a vial of patchouli oil; a crystal bowl of water; a silver or crystal chalice; and a silver or crystal bell. Now all these articles sit on a Pentacle which is in the center of the Night Altar. The Pentacle is a symbol of the Earth. It is a round plate made of wood and inscribed with sacred symbols of Night Magick. The plate is thirteen inches in diameter. For an example of such a plate and the layout of the articles see Figure 1. Then you will need a loose leaf notebook which will become your Night Magician's Grimoire. From the very beginning of Night Magick you will have practices, exercises, and rites to perform and grow from. After each practice, exercise, or rite you should develop a grimoire which records the date, time, and experiences felt in that session. Record in as much detail as possible the successes and difficulties experienced. Keep a separate section for each type of practice, exercise, and rite. This will allow you to see your progress in each and to help you see where your difficulties are and how to possibly solve them. Be faithful and accurate in all entries made and this record will help speed your progress. These are your Night Tools. Next you will need your Night Weapons the first of which is a Night Amulet. You need to make for yourself an amulet of black quartz crystal. This is a grounding and power stone of Night Force. If you want, the necklace the stone hangs from can also be made from quartz. I recommend though that the necklace be made of silver or amethyst. This will help balance the power of the black quartz stone. The Night Amulet will help keep your physical body in tune with the Night Force. You can tune into the Night Amulet and by holding it increase your vibration in the Night Force. You will also need to make a Night Ring. This should be a ring made of silver. You can set the Night Ring with any combination of amethyst, black quartz, emerald, ruby, or diamond. A plain band of silver is fine. You may later want to add Night Runes and Night Magick Symbols to the Night Ring as you learn them. The Night Ring is a symbol of union with the Night Force. Next you need to make your Night Wand. The wand should be about thirteen inches long. It should be made of wood or silver. You may encrust the wand with a combination of semi-precious and precious jewels. You may inscribe the Night Wand with Night Runes and Symbols. You will find these in Appendix C. You may place a crystal at either or both ends of the wand. The Night Wand is a focus of the Night Energy that leaves your body to be transmitted to an object or place. You now need to make a Night Staff. The Night Staff is a symbol of Night Guidance, Power, and Authority. The Night Staff is to be made of wood. The kind of wood is left up to you but it should be one which you are in harmony with. The Night Staff should be approximately six feet high. You should leave the staff in its natural state or paint it black, red or silver if you feel its necessary. As said earlier, the Night Staff is a symbol of true Night Power and the Night Spirit's support to you. You will need a Night Athame. This is a small dagger whose blade and handle is about twelve inches in length. This is used for ceremonial purposes only. Do not use this knife for cutting. You may want to place special symbols on the handle and/or blade to add magickal importance to your athame. Make for your Night Athame a scabbard which you can place on a belt on your person. You will also need a Night Sword. You can use any style of sword. Japanese samurai, scimitar, cavalry sword, or excalibur style sword. You should also have a scabbard which you keep the sword in and attach it to your side under your Night Cape. Of course, the next item you need is a Night Cape. There is an easy way to make the Night Cape. Take enough cloth so that you have a square which is twice your height long on each side. Now go to the center of the cloth, and using a string that is half the length of one side of the cloth and on one end has a chalk stick attached, draw a circle on the cloth that has the radius of half the length of one side of the cloth. Also draw from the center a circle that has a radius of three inches. Now cut out the small circle and the large circle. Then place a slit from one edge of the small circle you just cut down the center of the cloth and through the edge. Sew ties into the material on the edge you just cut and near the top of the cape. You will also need to make a hood that will cover your entire head and will go over the head far enough to cover the face. You may attach the hood to the cape. See figure ___. The Night Cape serves a valuable purpose. The Night Cape acts as an insulator to the outside forces that surround you. It will help block them out of your inner world and keep them from interfering in your magickal operations. Keep the cape secured in a cloth bag and put it where no one else may touch or bother it. Use it only in the practice of Night Magick. Next you will need to make the Night Plate. Actually this is a breast plate. The basic shape and size of this plate is given in Figure __. You may change the size and shape as fits you best. You may place upon the plate Night Symbols and Runes. You may also want to place stones of black quartz, amethyst, emerald, ruby, or diamond on it. The color of the plate should be black with runes and symbols in red and silver. Finally you will need to make a Night Shield. The Night Shield is patterned after the shields used by knights of chivalry. Some basic shapes and sizes are given in Figure ___. Again the background should be black and symbols and runes should be in red and silver. The runes and symbols you place on the shield as with the Night Plate should help you increase your feeling of strength and courage in Night Magick. These runes and symbols should help place you in Night Consciousness. The Night Magician's Tools and Weapons are very valuable to you. They provide for you a means to advance in Night Magick. They provide the proper atmosphere in which to practice the lore of Night Magick. There are other devices that will be needed as you progress in your studies. As a rule, each will be relatively simple to acquire. They will be brought to your attention as you proceed. The Night Magician's Tools and Weapons given here are those which you will need before you proceed further in Night Magick. Once you have your tools and weapons made it is time to select your Night Name. 10. Your Magickal Night Name The true name given to anything is very important. A true name contains the essence of that entity. It describes the differences and qualities of that entity. To know the true name of a thing is to imply acquisition and knowledge of that essence. To know the true name gives you dominion over it. The name that you as a Night Magician will choose is of great importance. You will select a Night Name which to you contains the very essence of your Inner Nature. This name may be the same as a famous personage you wish to emulate or a famous saying or motto. For example, you may choose a name such as Merlin, Saint Germain, Abra-Melin, Mithratar, or any other name that strikes your imagination and heart. You may choose a name from a saying or motto. A Night Name will help to build-up your Night Essence, your feeling of Night Consciousness and will quicken your magickal vibration. This name should be given to no one else to know. It is your own Magickal Name that when used will bring you to Night Consciousness. Now, you must choose a second name. This is the name that you will be known outwardly by to fellow Night Magicians. You should pattern this name after something unlike your Night Name. This name will be used on all correspondence with other Night Magicians and any published writings. The second name is your public name and is used in such rites and exercises. Remember, to know the name of a thing is to know its Eternal Essence and to have dominion over it. In selecting a magickal name you are defining that Inner Essence. To tell another is to give him access to your Inner Nature. He may reach you and make demands of you whenever he chooses by knowing your inner name. Do not reveal it for any reason. You should always use your second or outer name as Night Magicians. To do so will insure that you will never be bothered here or hereafter. Both names are important and should be selected to help bring you into your Night Consciousness. Your Night Name will bring you closer into the aura of Night Magick. Having selected your Night Name you now must learn Magickal Protection in order to conduct Night Magick safe from outside influences. 11. Night Pillar What you are about to learn is perhaps the most valuable Night Tool you will ever acquire. There are many forces in the world which will attempt to do you harm if you practice Night Magick. By harm, I don't necessarily mean physical violence although that is possible. I am talking about the threat of harm to your subtle bodies: Astral, Mental, and Causal bodies. Harm to these bodies could cause serious emotional and mental sickness. There is also the threat of attack to your Etheric which usually translates to physical harm. For Night Magicians there is a serious threat of attack from Yang followers. This could be from so- called White Magicians and their use of magick against you. It could come from Christians, Jews, Muslims and so on. Attacks can come from collective emotional or mental energy meant to harm a Night Magician. A group of Yang worshipers gathered together in prayer praying for the demise of all Night Magicians everywhere could build up enough energy to harm the unprotected Night Magician. As you grow more magickal you will become very sensitive to subtle energies around you. Attacks could come from anyone who wishes you harm. You will need protection. You will need to build the Night Pillar. The Night Pillar is not just for protection. The Night Pillar also acts as an invisible wall which will contain the energy you will be creating through Night Magick. This will allow you to build-up the energy to a great intensity before you release it to accomplish your will. This will increase the effectiveness of the magickal rites you create. So how do you build the Night Pillar. You begin by calming and clearing your mind of extraneous thoughts. Close your eyes and visualize the Night Energy collecting around your form. See the Night Energy forming a pillar of protective force that extends around you about six feet. See that energy flowing below your feet and above your head. See yourself in a pillar of deep violet and emerald energies. See yourself in a pillar of darkest night. Know that you cannot be harmed while contained in the Night Pillar. Now say the following invocation: "I am a Night Magician surrounded in a Pillar of Night Energy that cannot be penetrated. It repels all energy that would harm me. It repels all thoughts and emotional energy of my enemies. Through the Power of my Oversoul, I am protected in a Pillar of Night Energy and cannot be harmed. May this Night Pillar remain around me at all times keeping me out of harms way. So be it." Say this invocation and visualize the Night Pillar around you until you can feel its protection. This energy comes from the Oversoul within. As you begin the invocation the Oversoul extends the Night Energy into your world through the silver cord. The silver cord is your life line to your Oversoul and through it all energy passes to you which sustains your life on Earth. You can invoke more of this energy and power into your life when you work in conscious union with your Oversoul. There are many different kinds of energy which can be invoked into your world through the Oversoul. The Night Energy of Protection is only one of them. You will learn about many more types of energy you can invoke and use towards the end of the book. What you want to remember about the Night Pillar is to use it often. Always place the Night Pillar around you before you work Night Magick. Always place yourself in the Night Pillar at the beginning of each day. The more you use it the stronger it will become. The Pillar will protect you from all physical and psychic harm. You must learn to consciously keep the Night Pillar around you all the time. You should always remain in the Night Pillar. Everything that you practice in the lore of Night Magick should begin with the Night Pillar. You must always do this whether it's stated so or not. Through the Night Pillar you will safely live and learn in Night Magick. You now have built a strong foundation upon which to live and practice Night Magick. You have learned what it is to be a Night Magician and to practice the lore of Night Magick. If you are ready to begin using Night Magick then let's consecrate your Night Study and Tools. 12. Invocation to Night Magick This is a most sacred time in your life for it marks the beginning of your entry into Night Magick. You are going to perform a very sacred rite to mark your entry. You will, in this solemn rite, dedicate your physical, emotional, mental, and magickal energies to the practice of Night Magick. This rite is meant to convey to you the seriousness and importance with which you should view Night Magick. In this rite, you will learn the basics which will begin every ritual you will learn. In this rite, you will invoke the Night Energy into your Night Tools and Weapons and make them yours and yours alone. The Night Tools and Weapons will then be sacred and contain the Power of the Night. To begin, you must have your Magician's Study and Night Altar prepared. To do this, have all your Night Tools and Weapons laid out on the Night Altar. Have the cord laid on the floor in a circle around the Night Altar. On the Night Altar you should now light the candles and the incense. Your bowl should be full of water and your chalice should contain wine or grape juice. Be sure and turn off the phones and lock the doors so you won't be disturbed. Once you have accomplished this be sure and have your Night Name selected. It is this name you will use in the performance of this rite. Now for the actual ritual. You will begin by invoking the Night Pillar. Standing before your Night Altar and with your eyes closed see the Protective Night Energy pouring down from the Oversoul above you, through your head, on into your heart, and out into the study completely surrounding and interpenetrating the room. See the Light continuing through you and on into the Earth. At this point you should repeat the Night Pillar Invocation given earlier. Feel the Night Energy concentrate deeply within the circle boundary outlined by the cord. Now pick up the bell and ring it six times in each major direction, that is North, South, East and West. Then repeat the following invocation, "I who am (give your Night Name) summon the Presence of all Deities in the Night Force to attend my ritual of Eternal Night. To witness my consecration of my Night Tools in the service of the Eternal Darkness. We now stand in the Eternal Night beyond time and space. Come and witness my Ritual of the Night". After this, pick up the salt container, and repeat the following: "By my sacred name, (give your Night Name), through the Presence of my Oversoul and the Eternal Earth Deities, I invoke the Earth Night Power into this container of salt and now place the salt upon the earth to mark the boundary of my sacred circle." Visualize the Earth Deities filling the vessel with their power. Pinch a little salt lightly between your fingers dropping it on the floor over the cord going completely around the circle. BE CAREFUL NOT TO STEP OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE RITUAL. Place the salt container back on the Night Altar and pick up the crystal bowl of water. Repeat the following: "May the Presence of my Oversoul and the Eternal Water Deities fill this water and container and endow it with the Water Night Power." Visualize the Water Deities of the Earth filling the vessel with the power. With your left hand dip it into the water and sprinkle lightly the boundary you have already marked with the salt. Place the water bowl back on the altar and pick up the incense burner. Repeat the following: "Let the Presence of the Four Winds of the Earth enter into the incense burner filling it with Air Night Power". Now face each direction, rotating counterclockwise, and see the Presence of each Wind Deity enter into the incense burner. Then circle four times in a counterclockwise manner around and within the Magick Circle. Place the incense burner back on the Night Altar and pick up the candle. Repeat the following: "May the Presence of my Oversoul and the Fire Deities of the Earth place their sacred flame here within my candles and upon my Night Altar." See the Fire Deities come and dance around the flames and upon your altar. Place the candle back where it came from and pick up the chalice of wine or juice. Repeat the following: "Let the Presence of my Oversoul and the Eternal Darkness enter into the liquid and fill it with the Power of the Eternal Night. May this elixir give me strength, healing, and courage each day of my life." Feel the Power flow through you and into the chalice. See the energy collect and concentrate till the chalice glows with Night Energy. Then drink the liquid and your ready to consecrate the other Night Tools. You will begin with the oil so pick it up and repeat the following: "Let this oil be made sacred and filled with the Power of the Night. Let the Presence of the Oversoul and Night Spirit touch it with their might, courage, solitude, and darkness. For the oil is now sacred and made for anointing the Weapons of a Night Magician." Take a small amount of oil and touch the Pentacle and state, "May the Night Force flow into this Pentacle and bless all things laid on it". Now it is time to anoint each weapon in your sacred arsenal. You will pick up each Night Weapon, one at a time, and while placing a small amount of oil on each tool, repeat the following: "Through the Presence of my Oversoul and the Eternal Darkness, I (Night Name), consecrate this Night Weapon in the service of Night Magick and the Eternal Night." Do this with the Night Amulet, Ring, Wand, Staff, Grimoire, Athame, Sword, Plate, Shield, and Cape. Now put the Night Amulet, Ring, Plate, Athame and Sword on your body. Place the Grimoire in the front center edge of your Night Altar. Put on the Night Cape. Place the Night Shield over your left forearm and in the left hand hold the Night Wand and in the right hold the Night Staff and state the following: "I,(give your Night Name), commit my all to the Oversoul and the Night Spirit within, and to the dedication of my Magickal Energies to the practice of Night Magick. I dedicate myself to the Oversoul within and to my union with it in Night Consciousness. May these Night Tools and Weapons serve me ever in this cause. So be it." Now face each direction and repeat the following: "Thank you Night Deities for your attendance at this sacred Night Rite. May we ever serve the Eternal Powers of Darkness here on Earth and the Omniverse forever. So be it." And that's it, you have finished your first night rite and all your Night Tools and Weapons are consecrated in Night Magick. At this point stop and re-enforce your Night Pillar and then take off all your Night Weapons and place them back upon the Night Altar. Leave the cord in place on the floor. Each ritual will begin by your stepping into the Night Circle and putting on your Night Weapons and Cape. It is alright if you wear your Night Amulet and Ring outside the Circle. After this place the Night Pillar around you. Do not leave the Circle until the end of the ritual and be sure and re-enforce the Night Pillar around and through you before leaving the Night Circle. Go through the actions of consecrating the Night Circle with earth, water, air, and fire each time. Fill the chalice, say the invocation, and drink the wine each time. Then always ring the bell and summon the Night Deities. These are the basic procedures you will begin each ritual which takes place within the Night Circle. I hope you have had fun and are ready to begin learning about the first realm you will pass through on the Night Road. Let's go then to the Earth Realm. CHAPTER IV Earth Magick 13. The Earth Realm Since time began there has been traditionally four elements which make up the world of the Night Magician. These are the elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. They are symbolic for the basic four worlds of being: that of the physical(Earth), emotional(Water), mental(Air), and causal(Fire). The Oversoul must express through each of these realms using the appropriate vehicle or body and ultimately gain mastery over each of them. So, I have divided Night Magick into four basic realms with knowledge, exercises, and rituals appropriate to each realm. Ultimately, the Oversoul, through you, working in and mastering each realm will have learned all that must be learned here upon Earth and return no more. The Earth Realm is your beginning point in becoming a Night Magician. I want to take you back to the beginning of time and the origin of the soul. From an understanding of general cosmology, that is the origin of the Void, Monad/Godsoul/Oversoul and the soul of humankind, then this will help you to see the whys of a magickal evolution and the reasons for being on the Night Road that follows this magickal evolution. There is no beginning to the origin of the Void. The Void has always been, is now, and ever will be. The Void is principle, unmanifest, and exists entirely in itself, from itself, and by itself. The Void is the potential and unmanifest Source of all that exists. The Void is the Life present in all things. It is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. From out of the Void, the potential and unmanifest Source, comes the Ultimate Yin and Yang Creators. The Spirit of the Spirits. The Ultimate Spirits are the first and only creations by the Void. The totality of all that the Void can be is brought into being in the Ultimate Spirits. The Ultimate Spirits derive all potential and essence from the Void, the potential and unmanifest. The Ultimate Yin and Yang then created twin parallel matrixes and so it began. What is now referred to here is also applicable for the Ultimate Yang. The Ultimate Yin created beings like unto itself. Each of these Beings I will refer to as a Monad. Each Monad was created in order to share in the joy of creation with the Ultimate Yin. The Eternal Night gave to each Monad the potential of becoming all that It is. The Dark Goddess-God gave to each Monad the essence and potential for expressing the Eternal Darkness. Each Monad evolves into the Oneness of the Eternal Night by actualizing its Eternal Night's potential. Each Monad grows by bringing into manifestation the latent abilities and powers placed within It by the Eternal Night. Like the Eternal Night, each Monad is given the right of free will to determine how it will do this. The free will of each Monad permits it to choose how it will create and what path of evolvement to follow. When the Monad chooses to manifest its Abilities and Powers and to Create, the way of interest to you as a Night Magician, is by its descent into matter. The material universe is made up of an infinite number of vibrational energies. The very highest of these energies is the substance upon which the Monad first creates. Through the Creative Power of the Monad, acting on the highest vibrational matter, the Monad first takes on form. This is not form as you understand form but something that is beyond your understanding. When the Monad first takes on form, it becomes two Godsouls. The two Godsouls are true twin souls. They are the magickal twins who shall evolve and create together by the Will and Power of the Monad. They each have free will and free choice of their own. Yet all creation that proceeds from them is related. All fragments of their divine spirit which are sent forth to be ensouled in the world of spirit and matter are thus related and united in purpose. In all they do the twin souls are united through the Will of the Monad. One Godsoul is predominately Yin with Yang and the other is totally Yin. This is a simplification of the energy systems but basically these twin Godsouls now have the creative energies ready to continue downward into material creation. Each Godsoul has the full potential and essence of the Monad and also the free will to use them. Because of the power and high vibrational energies of the Godsoul it cannot continue its direct descent into matter, thus it created an extension of itself into the lower worlds. This level of presence I have called the Oversoul. The Oversoul is a being of lower vibrational levels. It is very active on its levels in learning and creating and using the potential given to it by the Godsoul. Ultimately, the Oversoul must learn to create on the lowest of levels and thus it sends a part of itself into the lowest worlds of form and so is born the soul. The soul is the instrument through which the Oversoul learns about the lowest worlds of creation. The human soul will return to the Earth many times for the human body does not last long. The human soul will return to experience many different lives in order that it might gain all the experience the Earth has to teach it. Once the human soul has gained all the experience the Oversoul needs then the human soul will move on to different worlds and dimensions in order to gain new experience. The soul gets its life force and direction from the Oversoul. This Power and Will flows through what is called the Silver Cord. This Cord is made up of high energy particles through which flows energy of varying frequencies. The soul operates through a mental, emotional or astral, etheric, and physical body. On Earth this is the human body. The Soul (Oversoul and soul) is very delicate and composed of very high vibrational energies. If the Soul is to grow, develop, and evolve in material creation then it has to have a material vehicle through which to work. You could compare this to a person who wants to go into outer space. Because outer space is very cold, lacks oxygen, and is a vacuum the human body could never withstand going out into space without being protected from it. So a special suit is designed which is heated, pressurized, and contains oxygen with which to breathe. It also contains many devices and sensors to work in space and monitor the surroundings. In order to protect the delicate Soul from the dense material surroundings, and for it to be able to work in and monitor its surroundings a special suit was devised. This is called the physical body. The physical body is composed of the lowest and densest matter. It is designed to respond and interact with its material surroundings. There are the five senses: sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing; and their respective organs: eyes, skin, nose, mouth, and ears. These allow the soul to react to the world around it. The hands, arms, legs, feet, and joints allow the soul to work with its surroundings with great dexterity and ability. The physical body is an excellent tool through which the soul to operate when it is properly attuned and under the control of the Oversoul. Unfortunately, for the majority of humankind this is not the case. Too many human beings are the human body instead of the soul and Oversoul. The Oversoul/soul is not in charge but it is the human body which is in charge. The human body is basically undisciplined and unruly. Whatever the human body wants it gets and half the time it doesn't really want what it thinks it wants. Without the control of the Oversoul/soul, the body is helpless before the elements of life. The human body has no control over the world around it. Because of this current state, the Oversoul/soul does not pay attention to the human body. It is much like a car out of control. If you were the driver of a car that refused to go where you wanted it to go and was always headed for destinations unwanted and going past places uncared about, you would get out and just let it go till it crashed and burned. This is pretty much what the Oversoul/soul does concerning the human body. But there is a way to change this. You must identify, tune into, and become the Oversoul/soul. You must gain mastery over the physical body. You are the Oversoul/soul and not the physical body. You must remember that you are eternal and only working through the physical body. It is your tool through which to work and experience the material world around you. You cannot allow the passions and desires of the body to rule you. You must develop control over the body. Properly channeled and controlled these forces can be used to your advantage instead of your detriment. You will learn through Night Magick how to develop this control and mastery. The Night Magician must attain through discipline, diet, exercise, and ritual mastery over her/his body and the world around her/him. But in all trials that occur in your life be easy on yourself. You will fail many times, but get up, dust off your knees, and go on vowing to try and do better. Never give up for all things are possible to those who follow the Night Magician's life. "The world is but a stage and we are the actors upon it,'' thus it was said by Shakespeare. This world is but an illusion and your attitude should be that of "in it but not of it". You must never become lost in the illusion of the game played by the majority of humankind. You must become the Master of Illusion, the Night Magician. Let me discuss with you for a moment the Stage upon which we experience life.