Compass Round or Ring of Art

Throughout the years of magic a circle inscribed upon the floor of the working area has always been central to the work and lore of the magician. What is this circle for? Is it necessary? How is it constructed? There are many answers to these questions and each of them from different practitioners. I am going to tell you my way and formula for creating the compass round or ring of art.

Speech as an Art Form

There is a certain art form when the magician is making invocations and calls into the Unseen and to the Powers. I have experimented with different ways of Speaking and have found the way that I do it, but I feel that there is a central working point that many magicians can work from.

As an actor I have learned how to place intention and emotion in my words as I portray them to the audience. As a method actor I take on the aspect of my character; I am not longer Angus but Claudius, King of the Danes and antagonist of the play Hamlet. This was my starting point: if I could call up such emotion in a mundane setting why should I not do the same in a spiritual setting? To do a working the magician must be emotionally invested in everything that is done for the magic or else nothing will happen. 

Drinking with the Devil in the Pale Starlight!

I drank with the Devil in the pale starlight

And His spirits danced around me.

Fear gripped me in their whirling dance
And ecstasy overtook me.
I am everywhere and I am no-where,
I am within and I am without,
I am deep within the Earth,
And in the Highest Heavens.
The stars seemed so much brighter,
The air seemed so much cleaner,
When I drank with the Devil in starlight.
My mind is sharpened,
My will is strong,
My wisdom is increased.
I wait for my Master
And toast His name
And share a Holy Feast.
O, Goat-Eyed Angel,
Twisted and Horned
Come forth from the Undying Lands!
Sit with me and drink with me
And speak with me in Dreams.
I drank with the Devil in the Pale Starlight,
And, O, what visions did I see.
I shall do it again,
And when I do
Perhaps you will dine with me.
Lammas 2010 Angus

Resurrection of the Meadow

This is the newest book by Mister Robin Artisson. I have just finished in one sitting (it was rather short, but chock full of information)and it was very inspirational! He has this ability to throw in a lot of information in a short amount of pages, I love it. The book affirmed many ideas that I have been meditating about and has made many of his other exercises much easier to understand.

It truly was a wonderful little book and I can't suggest it enough. If you read his book Witching Way of the Hollow Hill you will notice a subtle difference in the way of his writing style and in the depth of the Sorcery entailed. As is my way I will have to read it again to plunge deeper into the writing but on the surface this book was truly a work of the Art. The poetry was symbolic and esoteric; I loved it.

Invocation and Evocation

Determinded Ritual Action

Wassail!

The Rite of Arrival went well last night. My dreams were a mixture of many things and I received some wisdom, but I have forgotten most of it. I will try again in the next couple of days. But I would like to go through the ritual that I did with you all and talk about Determined Ritual Action.
 

Hymn to Pan

A Prayer for the Sacrificial King

Goat-eyed Master, Lord of Light and the Fields, Servant of Fate, Sacrificed One and Reverser I come before you with words of worship. I come before you as a Servant of the Cunning Flame, as a Servant of Fate, and as a Son of the Art Magical. The Land has been fruitful this many a moon and now the Land is dying. The food is plentiful, the powers strong, but the Summer months are coming to a close. Winter's frigid breath licks at my heels amongst cool breezes. As you return to the Land in your Sacrifice may I also take the journey with You, O King. May my sacrifice give power to the Land and may I give back to the Land as it did give to me. As Your body is ripped and torn and burned and drowned so too may I feel Your pain and sacrifice. I weep by rivers and streams, upon hills and in valleys for my Dying Prince, for my Sacrificed King, for You, my Master. I revere Your sacrifice for the Land and for Your People. I stand in awe of your Grandeur. You are my savior and I put no trust in other things for I know You shall guide me and protect me as You have always done. The Land is thick with the blood of Your beautiful body and from the Land shall come beautiful plants and animals and all Life. Death comes, Life shall return. I take of this grain and of this wine knowing of Your Sacrifice, knowing of your Return. I give this Sacrifice, this Offering back to the Land, knowing of my Sacrifice, and knowing of my Duty to Celebrate Your Return! The King is Dead, Long live the King! So Shall it be by Toad and Hare, by Crow and Serpent!

Lammas 2010 Angus