Over the decades, I periodically but very consistently encountered people who wanted to practice magic, and who divided it into “good” and “bad”, the kind they wanted to do of course being “good”. My answer was, and remains, that it is all bad, it should be avoided, and it never comes to a good end. Those people always seem to think that this is hypocritical of me, because according to their definitions of magic I am an extremely skilled mage. However, their definitions are wrong and they are ignorant of the most basic facts, which are as follows.

Magic, in a wide sense, is any application of consciousness in the spiritual sphere that produces quantifiable results. This encompasses everything from people stirring up astral substance with their emotions and thoughts over time, to God creating new reality-types and universes within them. Such a wide definition is useful to those people, in their desire to justify their endeavours, but wide definitions are seldom useful, which is why I will make a more narrow one, according to which magic is any conscious attempt by incarnate humans to influence spiritual realities to whatever end.

The difference in definitions is that I exclude non-corporeal practitioners of spiritual skills, and I exclude all actions that do not result from conscious effort. Basically, if an old woman creates astral prints in her home with depressing thoughts for twenty years, I don’t count this as magic, I count it as poor spiritual hygiene.

So, let’s see what happens when incarnate humans attempt to dabble in spiritual affairs. First of all, they have to contend with the limitations imposed by physical incarnation. They are slow, their resolution is poor, and they are prone to errors. As a result, I can always clearly distinguish between artefacts and efforts produced by incarnate human mages, and astral ones, because human efforts are dull, imprecise, simple, and basically worthless. Also, human attempts at astral communication are slow, dull, of low resolution, and inflexible. This is why the first idea every human wannabe mage has is to do things himself, and after that fails, the second idea is to contact some competent astral being and compel it to do their bidding. Having in mind the realities of the situation, the outcomes of such an attempt can be immediately reduced – they certainly won’t be able to compel a good being to do anything, and bad beings from a level that allows them not to sleep, not to rest, not to have lapses of concentration due to exhaustion or other physical causes, and have inherently greater speed by several orders of magnitude, and also inherently better resolution and precision of perception and action, also by orders of magnitude, will have such an advantage over humans that it’s not even funny, and it is perfectly obvious who will end up controlling whom in this game. Basically, a human mage is a being that has a will for mischief, but lacks knowledge, skill, precision, virtue, purity and clarity, and tries to produce effects in a sphere they barely understand, with rules they barely understand (if even that), and absolutely everyone native to that sphere has an advantage. One of the rules they don’t understand is that by attempting to assert control over some other being, they forfeit their innate spiritual protections granted to them by God, which are normally impenetrable. However, when a human wannabe mage attempts to assert control, this is a karmic equation that has two sides: if you commit acts to enslave, pressure or control others, you are open to their retributive actions. So, basically, by dabbling in things they don’t understand, they forfeit extremely effective protections they know nothing about, and enter a sphere where nothing sleeps, nothing has to rest, everything sees and moves better and faster than them, and they are merely the helpless victims. This is why attempts at magic always come to a bad end.

Those wannabe mages think they can classify what I do as magic, and they are not wrong. I am indeed very good at what I do. However, I would not classify their efforts as magic, because their skills are worthless. They can only harm themselves and others, and are perfectly incapable of anything good and useful. In order to do that, one needs to focus on God alone, and nothing else. From that, one will develop purity, virtue and skill, and when your mind is in God and of God, and you focus intent with purity, virtue and skill, this results in artefacts of holiness, that are basically presence of God manifested in some shape and form. Also, as you need to dismantle blockages within your soul, you develop skills necessary to dismantle evil, that are also useful when you encounter external malevolent entities, because the principle is the same – the light of God defeats darkness. As you work from God, you are not limited by your physical properties – basically, you don’t access the astral plane from below, but from above, from the position of a higher power which is dimensionally greater, and as such you are in a position of advantage over astral beings that is greater than the one they have over inept human mages. So, you can see that what I do and what wannabe mages do can superficially sound similar – influence spiritual realities by spiritual means – but this only shows how useless definitions are when you are talking about realities you don’t understand. In the language of human idiots, “spiritual realities” don’t really distinguish between inept efforts to stir up astral with focus from the physical plane, and a tulku switching self-identity to bodhisattva and using focus to manifest vajra-based structures along the line of dharma.

The point is, the God-level magic can never be learned if you want to learn magic. It can only be learned if you want to know God, surrender to His will, know His thoughts and do His deeds. In order to do God-level magic you need to be a God-level being. It’s doable, but quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.

I noticed something interesting, decades ago, when I was learning how spiritual power works. You see, the same technique I use to spiritually empower people is the one that kills demonic entities. The technique is simple: I remember the light of God while looking through a being. When I do this with a worthy and good soul, they seem to remember God and it has a healing effect – bits of darkness, likely caused by ignorance, vanish and are replaced by the light, essentially the inter-kalapa bonds are strengthened which creates the appearance of inner light replacing darkness. Sometimes demonic entities that have been feeding on them detach and leave in terror. The overall energy level of their spiritual body increases, and since they are in the physical body, the overall energy of the body-soul system increases, and this is known in yogic circles as Kundalini awakening. In essence, as I shine the reality of God through their combined body/soul being, the entire system is basically powered up, and elevated from the low baseline energy at which it has normally been functioning, because they couldn’t remember God while in their bodily prison. So, basically, when a good soul is exposed to God, it glows like a light bulb that’s connected to electricity.

When I do this to a demonic entity, it tries to flee in terror, or try to shower me with evil imagery, trying to counter my efforts. When its efforts fail, and I hold it firmly and remember God through it, the demon dies. Its entire structure evaporates in the light.

Why is there such a qualitative difference in outcome? Why doesn’t a demon, for instance, become a good entity in God’s light? If evil is merely an absence of God, filling it with God should make it not evil, right? Well, it’s half right – it makes it not exist. The theory behind the phenomenon might be interesting, because normally, a structure made of kalapas is held together by some kind of a cohesive force. You would expect this force to be love, admiration, desire for knowledge, truth or some similar aspect of God’s light, which is sat-cit-ananda. This is certainly the case with normal, good souls, and exposing them to greater light heals them and makes them “brighter”, casting aside bits of darkness here and there. However, the demonic entities don’t seem to be built the same way, or of the same stuff, so to say. I don’t completely dismiss the possibility that some demons started as normal souls, but became corrupted by sin and evil, but that seems to be a separate phenomenon, and such souls are quite prone to falling apart due to normal karmic effects. The demonic entities I was talking about seem to be a wholly separate phenomenon, as if they are constructs of dark magic, rather than normal souls. In essence, they are what the Tibetans call “tulpas”. A Tulpa is an entity created by focused will and intent by a practitioner of spiritual magic, and his efforts hold the kalapas together in a cohesive structure, bound by his will and intent. Those entities have finite energy invested in them, and degrade with time, but as they degrade they seem to learn how to function on low energy levels, such as fear, aggression and so on, and they seem to have an instinct for self-preservation that helps them learn how to prolong their existence by stimulating lower emotions in other beings, and feeding on those emotions as they are of the same energy level as the cohesive forces that bind them together. As I draw a higher order of magnitude of energy through them, it in effect dissolves their entire energy structure that is based on some kind of darkness; I would say that, rather than make their entire structure remember God and glow, I make each constituent kalapa remember God and glow, and this dissolves the darkness-based connection to other kalapas of the structure, and they part ways, so to speak. I intuitively understood how this works immediately as I first saw it, but it took me some time to develop theory around it, as it is quite involved.

The thing with tulpas is that they are produced by normal humans, and not only dark mages in Tibet. Basically, as one iterates along the same mental and emotional pathways during the course of their life, they are in essence doing the same thing a Tibetan mage does in a more focused and intentional manner, but other than the difference in time involved, and the lack of deliberate purpose, the result gets to be quite similar – astral substance gets to be “magnetised” by repeated low-energy effort, and persists due to inertia separately from its creator. Such structures can be separated into several groups, according to the degree of sophistication. The first group are the “prints” – they basically indicate that thought, emotion and will stirred up astral matter in some place, and left marks of some persistence. These are in the order of footprints left in mud or wet concrete, or greasy fingerprints left on a shiny surface, only an astral version. As people lack spiritual hygiene, they leave such prints behind them during the course of their existence.

A print is sometimes created by very powerful experiences – an accident, an act of violence and so on – and this is sometimes perceived as “ghosts”, but it’s not someone’s ghost that is “haunting” a place; they just left a very strong astral print, that can be “read” by a consciousness that passes through the place, the way a magnetic head of a cassette player can read a magnetic print left on the tape by a cassette recorder. By definition, those prints are not conscious or interactive, however if a print is complex enough, and has been iterated upon enough times, it can collect enough kalapas to manifest self-awareness, and thus enter the second group – “entities”. Entities can be created by many people praying to some theological concept, and this can give them more freedom and power than one would expect, and I guess such entities would feed on prayer instead of fear and anger. Also, many people fearing the same thing would be expected to create an entity that then stimulates fear in people in order to feed on it and thus prolong its existence. As you can see, there is a pattern to this – entities need energy of a specific frequency to continue existing, and since they soon exhaust the original supply invested in them, they either fall apart or learn how to stimulate people so produce the kind of energy they need, and feed on it. Those entities sometimes develop a parasitic pathological connection to a specific person, and sometimes they feed off of masses of people creating filth in the global astral field – bad news on the TV, primal emotions in a football match, wars, strong negativity in human groups and so on.

However, if an entity was designed by a competent mage, with the goal of persisting for a long time, and implementing his will, and is powered by an energy source, it makes the third group – “scripts”. A script is an equivalent of a small computer, powered by either a battery, a solar panel or the electric grid, running specific software, and is connected to a network, which it inspects for events that trigger actions. That’s why I call them “scripts” – because that’s what the software part of such a solution would be called. More specifically, it would be called a daemon or a service, and a typical example of this is a web server. It runs on a specific port, reacts to commands sent to that port, and returns results depending on the inquiry. I intentionally didn’t want to call the astral equivalents of such services “daemons”, because it would create wrong associations. Calling them “scripts” is much more useful, because it conveys the image of computer code connected to power and the sensory apparatus, and is designed to react to specific things by producing specific results. A “daemon” creates an impression of something that is a malevolent force serving Satan, and some scripts indeed fit the description perfectly, but still, one needs to understand that they are in essence glorified code, only running on a different kind of a computer. Since astral matter is inherently intelligent and aware to a degree, it is very easy to make it do specific things, if you possess the required skills; and even if you don’t, you likely do a very primitive form of this purely by accident. The main difference between a script and an entity is that a script is powered. If you visualize an “entity” as a garbage-powered cockroach that seeks to eat garbage of the kind it can absorb because it would otherwise die, a “script” is a web server connected to a power source and a network cable. This describes the difference between the two quite well, because most scripts I encountered are quite scary, because of the elegance of their design, and obvious skill and purpose it betrays. Also, they invariably seem to be shielded from outside tampering. The shielding is based on the will of God in some manner, so it is usually impenetrable, and the “spell” goes something like this: “By the permissions given to me, to create this world and arrange it, according to my contract with the person authorized by God to grant this, I create this script and will it to remain functional and not tampered with”. This makes such scripts inviolable and safe from any attempt to defuse them, even by God himself, until the expiration of the contract with Satan. Fortunately, there is another way of defusing them, and it is by detaching them from their energy source, and those are usually obtained from deceived souls by fraudulent means, and although they too are protected by various means, those are not impenetrable. Those jewels can be either deconstructed and absorbed (if one is skilled and powerful enough to do so), or detached from Satan’s network and returned to their original owner (if they are still alive; and if not, they can pass onto the new owner according to karmic equations that define legitimate ownership). Some scripts, however, are powered by the world-structure itself and this attack vector, by detaching them from the power source or sensory apparatus, is not feasible.

As you can see, some things that appear mystical or paradoxical aren’t really so, but the explanation can be quite involved.

There are often speculations about spiritual power – is God omnipotent, and if so, why is there evil and why God doesn’t just evaporate Satan and his demons and instead allows them to do all kinds of evil, and so on. There are also speculations on whether angels are more powerful than Satan, and so on.

This looks like a very complicated issue, and for a change, it is not. You see, the root of any spiritual power is God, or, more precisely, an edict from God on a certain issue. Those edicts are reality-manifesting truths, and seem to be irrevocable.

In practice, this causes a situation where workable solutions are limited by insurmountable walls of God’s edicts, sometimes forming a labyrinth. How this works is most eloquently elaborated in Hinduism, where God’s edicts cause problems that can only be solved by complex workarounds – and even God can’t just revoke them and make things simple. No, God often has to take a form of man/lion and kill a villain with his claws, on his chest, on house threshold at dusk, in order to satisfy complex terms of a blessing, whereby a villain has previously been granted a boon whereby he can’t be killed by either a man or an animal, indoors or outside, during either day or night, and on neither land or in the air.

This creates an interesting dilemma: God is omnipotent, yet His edicts limit practical applications of His power. He also granted power to other beings, so there is a tree of power of divine/angelic beings, and there are inviolable rules that make even the least powerful of beings impervious to any kind of outside force, even by a much more powerful being, unless their protection is forfeited due to sin. Basically, if you are a holy person, you are inviolable. Not even God could hurt you, regardless of the power differential. Also, if you were given a legitimate boon through a legitimate tree of Divine authority, this can make you invulnerable (or at least very hard to kill), even if you are an evil person and God himself is trying to deal with the problem.

This explains literally everything. You see, the Christian explanation that invokes free will doesn’t really do it – the only beings whose will is truly free and unconditioned are the perfect saints in heaven. If you’re incarnated on Earth, your freedom is very limited, and the reality is that for the most part you are an observer, who is tricked into believing that his choices are actually his own, in order to claim sin and retribution, and for the most part it is all Satan’s trickery. Truly, you made a choice to sign a contract with Satan according to which you were born here, and after that, your rights and freedoms are for the most part forfeited. However, you still have just enough spiritual sovereignty to be a danger to yourself and others, because you feel you’re powerless, and your choices don’t matter, and sometimes you’re not and they do, and you can make things incredibly worse, for instance by selling your soul to Satan for material things, or opening yourself up towards spiritual influences you don’t really believe in, “for fun”. Also, your spiritual sovereignty is reducible to an edict by God, who willed it to be so. Also, there is a superior edict that defines righteousness as both a source of power and a shield therefrom, so you can both gain more power and authority, and you can also lose everything, depending on your spiritual choices.

As for Satan, he was a continuos source of annoyance for me, because he seemed to be untouchable and inviolable – as if the very power of God protected him from my wrath. However, when he would commit an offence against me, I could “scrape” bits off him, but only to a degree that repaid for the offence, and not a bit more. Obviously, he was protected by an edict from God, which defined and limited his rights and jurisdiction. As soon as he committed an overreach, his protections were reduced to allow for punishment, but not a bit more. However, when his sin was conclusively proven, his protections vanished and he was instantly evaporated by the force of karmic retribution. This is an interesting warning – you see, when you hear that sin is deadly for the soul, you probably imagine something less literal and immediate, but it is my experience that souls can indeed die, if they committed sin, this is proved to them by authorities, and karmic retribution is enforced. This basically destroys bonds between kalapas of a spiritual aggregate, and doesn’t necessarily cause destruction of the whole being, only the sinful part, because, yes, the beings are not necessarily of homogenous build and they can have a pure, uncorrupted core, that doesn’t participate in sin in any way, and this core will survive, but the being will be greatly reduced in stature. Also, beings can be stripped of powers if they are deemed unworthy – for instance, if an apostate disciple of a saint was given some blessing in life, of which he was deemed unworthy by the judges after death, this blessing can be stripped off, the apostate can be degraded and blessing returned to the saint.

So, basically, your protections are great, but the law of justice takes precedence. Also, goodness and virtue are power, and sin is deadly. As a result, the good beings are very powerful, and evil ones barely cling on to life. This might be a surprise to fans of heavy metal bands who tend to think that black vicious things are powerful and gently fluffy things are food, but in spiritual terms, vicious things are manure, too weak for spiritual survival, and usually compost away in some dark recess of lower astral worlds, and the light and beautiful things are powerful, sometimes so much that you’d count yourself lucky if you survived taking even a short look at them. The root cause of the difference in power, of course, is the difference in their respective relationship with God. The evil ones, who hate and resent God in their sin, have very weak cohesive forces between spiritual particles that constitute their souls, and the good ones, who love and worship God in their purity, have very strong cohesive forces between constitutive particles, because it’s the love and light of God that binds them together, and promotes growth. The light of God is the source of spiritual life, and its absence is the source of spiritual death.

I noticed something that left me in a state of bewilderment. You see, I observe what religious people are doing and how they are dealing with issues, because I have a soft spot for everyone who is supposedly devoted to God.

This time I watched Catholic Youtube channels, and I noticed several main trends – the first is that their Church is basically the only good thing in the world, in order to be saved you better be a Catholic, obedience to the Church authorities is necessary for salvation, and any lapse in that might open you to temptation or even possession by Satan and demons.

On the other hand, they complain how Satan is enthroned in the Vatican, how Satan controls even the top of the Church, and how the current Pope is a heretic, apostate and an antipope. They are curiously silent about the nasty sexual scandals in the Church, but I can guess why they wouldn’t want to talk about that.

So, which is it? Is the Church the bastion of Christ in the very realm of Satan, or is it a corrupt bastion of Satan in the realm of Satan? When you hear the Christians talk about how good they are having it and that you should have some, too, you better be ignorant of what they are saying among themselves behind the curtain.

Hubris of that kind seems to invite trouble, I’d say. Also, they have that belief that they themselves are weak, but Christ is strong and they will call upon him to defend them. Basically, they will call Christ, and Satan and his demons will panic and leave. It doesn’t matter what your limitations are if you have a big daddy who will fight your battles. If Satan gets you to play chess with him, it doesn’t matter that you are a poor player if God is guiding your hand. Sounds good in theory. In practice, I have noticed that all religions that use this very argument – “not me, but God in me” – consistently and reliably fail, because things simply don’t work that way. The entire theory behind this looks flawed, in the same sense in which geocentric model of the solar system is flawed – it’s wrong in its basic assumptions, and although a flawed system can sometimes provide very good predictions, it is inherently unfixable, and in order to get past its flaws you need to throw the entire model away and change the way you understand reality. The problem with a wrong model is that you try to fit everything you see and hear into this wrong model, and thus you never truly see or hear anything. Jesus had the same problem with people (“Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear?”), because that’s what happens when you say things and people interpret them in the context of their wrong paradigm – they don’t really hear you. Their minds are shackled by their wrong assumption that they have a good idea about how things work. Everybody else is either confirming their understanding, or is wrong. The concept that they might be the ones who are wrong, and that they are talking to someone who has a fundamentally better understanding, never even crosses their minds. They have Jesus and the Church behind them. In times of Jesus, they had God and Moses behind them. In any case, they are with God, the big daddy who makes sure they always win and are never wrong, because how can I be wrong if I’m with God?

Let me offer a different viewpoint – something from Mahayana Buddhism, although there is a similar story in Hinduism. I’ll improvise on the general theme, so it won’t be a direct quotation of anything.

A bodhisattva in his exalted spiritual state perceives this world and the suffering of all the beings that are deluded and bound here, and feels compassion. This feeling of compassion, while his spirit is touching this world in order to sense its reality, starts to whirl up the substance of the world-illusion, mixing it somewhat with the reality of nirvana, and where those two realities are mixed together, tulkus appear – something that is an actual human being that is conceived, born, lives and dies in the world as a very real being, not an astral artefact (tulpa). Unlike a common soul that inhabits a human body, that is bound to this world by desires and misapprehensions, a tulku is here because a bodhisattva wanted to solve the problem, and tulku appeared as a reality on the line of solution, a light that appeared in the darkness of this world because a higher source of light touched the darkness, and this light in the world feels strong, all-encompassing desire to return to its origin, because its true reality is the reality of the bodhisattva; it doesn’t remember what is it that it desires, but its desire to return home is so powerful, it tears a rift in the world-illusion, and creates artefacts of higher reality as it tries to remember, and thus allows other beings that see this to get some taste of the higher reality and choose it as their own. As the tulku returns to its “caster”, it realizes that it, truly, is the bodhisattva, and recognizes that as its true nature and being, and this blissful understanding of one’s true nature does not feel like you’re losing your individuality by melting into a higher being. No, it feels as if you’re free from darkness of ignorance and you are your true self again. Vedanta would formulate it similarly – one attains liberation by realizing that he is truly that, that he is brahman, not a limited being. As it was phrased in the Babylon 5 TV series from the 1990s, when trying to explain the Minbari philosophy, it is said that soul is a non-localized phenomenon, which looks like something the authors took from Vedanta, which usually uses a metaphor with one Moon, and many reflections in many bodies of water, where you can separate one body of water in many vessels and each will hold a reflection of the Moon, and the realization happens when you understand that you are that Moon; not a reflection, and definitely not a vessel.

Why do I seem to digress so much? Because I need this in order to explain why relying on someone or something else to save you from your own inadequacies might be a fundamentally misguided approach, and if you have fallen under such a misapprehension, you might nor be able to “hear” the truth, because you hear it from the context of your misapprehension. You might think that you are a small spiritual being that needs help from its heavenly father, and that every other understanding is blasphemous, or a sign of hubris, or “prelest” or whatever you may call it. In contact with a higher being, you might feel your own reality, bliss and consciousness increased, and you interpret this as a blessing of a higher being. You might even be right thinking this. However, things might be more along the line of that being pulling you into its own reality, and away from your illusions, by effectively making the illusion in your consciousness thinner and more transparent. The reality may be that Christ is a tulku of a bodhisattva, and the true meaning of accepting Christ as the Lord is to allow yourself to be pulled by the wake he created in the world, by mixing illusion with reality like a trail of bread crumbs through a dark forest, allowing you to recognize that you, indeed, are that; by making a choice of will that recognizes the light as something you belong to, by saying “not me, but light within me”, you are making the first steps that eventually lead to the realization that there is no “me”, that this was an illusion of the world, a darkness that obscures and misleads. In the light of God, there is no darkness, and darkness is what separates the identity of “you” from the self-realization that God is, and the blissful shock of realization that I Am, I Am that.

I see lots of preparations for death in the global astral.

No stupid “horror” stuff with zombies and the grim reaper, and also no high spiritual stuff with prayer to God and meditation; rather, mournful memories of moments of beauty in the world, things from childhood and youth now gone.

The energy resonates with this:

“Written by Nashville songwriter Curly Putman, “Green, Green Grass Of Home” tells the tale of a condemned prisoner who is longing to escape to the green, green grass of home. At the end of the song, it was revealed that the man is facing execution, and he will be coming home only to be buried.”

“This is an adaptation of an older song, this version we written after the Jacobite rebellion about 2 soldiers, one who was sentenced to death the other got to return to Scotland. The meaning of “ye’ll take the high road and ill take the low-road” is based in an old belief that if someone dies out of their home country ones soul returns home after death to pass on this was called taking the low road while the one who survived took the high road (the road on earth to Scotland).”