Magical Sacrifices

Like all things, in order for one to truly benefit from magic, they are going to have to let certain things go, and this comes in many different forms, and varieties. On the mental level, it involves letting go of distracting thoughts. This one is often tough for people who have clairvoyant tendencies, because they always seem to be receiving things mentally in the form of moving images, and thoughts, that might lead one to being distracted, veering off from their practice, and instead getting caught up in the fantastic world inside their head...



Within this busy place, it can also be quite chaotic without having a true focus on life, or having any
set motives, or objective. This is why relaxing, and having some form of letting go time is such a good idea, in the form of things like meditation and journaling, in order to help give these thoughts a place to live outside our head. In a way, by being expressive like this, it is evocative, in that it displays who we are openly, yet when it comes to working like this astrally, it leads us into understanding our own feelings along with someone else's reality like we would our own.

Inside the soul of someone, on the astral level, one works through their emotions, yet this work usually begins in the form of a simple acknowledgment that we actually feel a certain way. However, it is not just one way that we feel, but many different levels at once, and this varies depending on how we feel inside about ourselves to begin with, along with the different viewpoints that we have about life. This more or less makes up the person that we are in terms of character traits and personality. In the morning when we wake up, sometimes we feel refreshed, and for some this is a new concept that has never been experienced before, so it can only be related on the mental level as a thought or idea at this point, until it has actually been realized, leading to an understanding that comes from it.

This is why someone must go though something in order to experience or feel empathy. Feelings arise from different thoughts that we have within ourselves, but this is also on more of an "astra-mental" level, as an impression that we create, as opposed to what the world leaves us with. Like people signing a guest book, and their signatures like sigils, capturing their very essence and meaning so quickly, yet not usually consciously.

When it comes to the last level that people are most familiar with, that being on the densest, most material frequency, which is the physical, busy thoughts, and feelings get transferred into actions. For example, being a "busy-body" or a "real character". This is expressive through the combined effort of our thoughts, emotions, and how we act. When all three of these levels can be satisfied, and worked with conscientiously, this is a big key to understanding how magic works. Learning to function on all 3 levels simultaneously can lead us to making huge advancements in our development in regards to any magical work being done, but absolutely when it comes to doing spells, and working with spirits. The same changes within our own nature, expands into the outer world around us. Or we could have some fun and switch it around so that we look at it as if we exist within nature's inner plane.

Whatever the case may be, by satisfying the needs of your own inner world by creating harmony, we can help others do the same, so that they will embark on the path of letting go, and making their own sacrifices as well, in order to stay magically fit, and understanding their own true nature, so that they can have mastery over the natural forces that surrounds us all, and simultaneously within nature herself..

If you imagined right now that you have no body, but instead, only exist as all of the thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are going on inside of you, what would you look like? What would you look like if you stripped away everything physical except for those thoughts and feelings, and then emptied them out so you could start anew, and recreate yourself into the mage that you want to be.