Structure of a Magical Operation Using Crystals

 

Template for Magical Operation

Every magical working begins with a desire, which becomes a decision to apply magic. From there a practicing magician must either locate an appropriate operation for fulfilling his or her desire or create one to get the job done.

Magical operations come in all shapes and sizes and can be very simple or extremely complicated. There are numerous formula and structures for building them, and they can involve all manner of tools, props, and ingredients.

Structuring a Working or Operation

All magical operations need a definite goal. This object of desire must be clearly understood by the operator and an imagined scene of success should accompany the understanding.

For purposes of this template we can say you need to know exactly what it is you desire to have, do, be, or have happen as the result of your magic. You should furthermore be able to imagine a moment when your success is realized, create a scene that captures or embodies that moment, and then put yourself in that scene.

Eight Step Template to Magical Work

Follow the formula in this section as a regular exercise to build magical muscle and develop your operational intuition. It is not intended as a play-by-play way to enact all your magical work. It is a concept-model to train your directional focus, coordinate your energy bodies and other subtle components (chakras, meridian, auric layers, etc.) and build magical muscle by sharpening your mind and toning your subtle anatomy.

At the end of the walkthrough are some notes on implementing these steps in magical work.

Here is an easy-to-follow template that walks you through structuring an operation. This is but one of many approaches but it’s a good starting point that combines speed and simplicity with focused power to bring results.

The eight steps involved are:

1. Enter an altered, magical state.
2. Clear your aura and the work area of unwanted and unhelpful energy.
3. Affirm your intention.
4. Connect to your power source.
5. Raise energy to peak level.
6. Objectify and form your desire in the Great Magical Agent.
7. Release your creation to the etheric currents.
8. Ground remaining or excess energy, then forget.

Here is the detailed unpacking of these steps.

Defining a Magical Operation

In the larger curriculum a magical operation is the main workhorse of a magical methodology, which in turn is part of a system. Discussed formally, the operation is made from individual magical acts, which are the result of magical techniques, themselves the result of combining fundamental movements and intentions.

However, in this imperfect hierarchy of methods or progression of working parts, it is also true that a single act, simple technique, or even a fundamental intention or movement can also be a complete operation if it fulfills the magician’s desire or achieves a full magical goal.

The magician’s desire is the end result magic is being enacted to attain. This is the reason for the magical work in the first place.

A magical goal is the endpoint of magic within a larger magical working; a finished step in a process. For example a thorough clearing of unwanted energy and banishing of any spirits in an area before a ritual could be a complete operation within the overall work being performed.

A magical operation is well-defined as a full method for producing a final result or a procedure enacted from start to finish aimed at getting the magician what he or she wants. Be solution-oriented as you build an operation and make certain all work moves towards that end, either directly or by setting up the next step in that direction.

Begin with the Ending in Mind

Use this list to orient your work from the start. Before  you pick up a crystal or say a single magic word, check off every item on this list.

1.     Decide exactly what you wish to accomplish.

2.     Refine this desire so it can be stated clearly and deliberately in a single sentence. English and other languages give you the tools to pack a lot into one sentence; use commas, “and”, plus the semicolon character as needed. If you still end up with more than one sentence, then what you want requires multiple operations; in this case construct one operation at a time to perform individually.

3.     When you have your single statement of desire convert it into a statement of affirmation or fact. Refine it until it can be read or spoken aloud with confidence.

4.     Imagine a moment when your statement is made true and you realize your goal has been achieved. See yourself in the world where your desire has manifested and immerse yourself in that moment; be there with the sights, sounds, and feelings of success and victory.

a.      If you can become a master at crafting believable, vivid victory scenes and then fully inhabiting those scenes whenever you like, you will produce epic magic with your operations. This is truly the foundation for your work.

Once you have your statement of desire and your victory scene you can begin constructing your magical operation. Use the statement as your guide and the scene as the target you aim for.

1: Enter an Altered, Magical State

Normal, everyday consciousness and physiology are suitable for your job, traffic, watching television, playing with your dog, eating out with friends, chatting with tech support, complaining about your congressperson who is likely a con-artist, and many other wonderful activities. It is not, however, appropriate for magical endeavors, which require a magical condition of the mind and body.

You should attain a magical state prior to any magical working. This may seem inconvenient at first, until you realize good results depend upon this convention. Over time entering this state becomes easier, and in fact can become an automatic response to prepping for magical work.

If you don’t already have a method or two for easily achieving the proper, altered state click here for a simple exercise to get this done in five or fewer minutes.

2: Clear Your Aura and the Work Area of Unwanted and Unhelpful Energy

Before engaging serious magical work it is important to clear the mind and aura of psychic debris, ill thought forms, lingering doubt, and other counterproductive energies. The same should be done for the immediate work area, to include the removal of uninvited or accidentally invited spirits or subtle entities.

Such undesirable currents and beings can befuddle you or disrupt your magic, perhaps even to a harmful extent. Their removal is critical to best results.

The old grimoires even instruct a bodily purification with holy water and three days without meat, alcohol, or sex. You are encouraged to take cleansing and removal of detrimental influences as far as you see fit.

A thorough clearing and banishing will ensure that you commence magical operation with a clean slate, no hindrances nor interference patterns riding along. This can be achieved in several different ways.

You can burn sage and/or juniper. Burn lots and stand in the smoke as it fills the space. Walk around the area clapping your hands three times sharply and saying “Go!”

Some folks use a dowsing pendulum to clear energy and remove spirits.

To do this hold the pendulum and ask your spirit guide, zodiac or other angel, ancestor, higher self, or any other spiritual helper you may have access to and relations with to clear bad thought forms and harmful spirits from your being. The pendulum should swing or spin in the direction of “no/negative”, whatever that looks like in your dowsing method.

As the pendulum begins to lose momentum, ask your helper to clear away the negative energy patterns that supported the cleared entities. When the pendulum is finished moving direct your attention to the work environment and repeat the process; first remove spirits and entities (which include ill wishes from others) and then take away the energetic fields or patterns the entities fed upon.

In this use of a pendulum, as mentioned your spiritual helpers are enacting the labor and using some part of your personal energy in the process. The moving pendulum provides some momentum for the work but mostly acts as your indicator that work is being performed.

Note that everyone has spirit helpers of some kind, whether guides, angels, ancestors, household spirits, or even familiars and created servitors. You could also ask the spirit of the crystal pendulum to enact this work if you like. It id obviously possible to have better or worse relationships with any spirits in your life and results of this task may be affected by such factors.

Take three full, “cleansing breaths” if you know this technique.

Pentagram banishing rituals are also highly effective.

3: Affirm Your Intentions

In a proper magical state and having cleared your person and surroundings of ill influence and energetic interferences you are now ready to re-focus on your desired outcome or magical goal. Bring to mind your victory scene just as previously described; see, feel, know, and experience the detail and vividness of your ideal, successful outcome.

It is important to spend time regularly practicing visualization, affirmation, immersion, selective emotional initiation, and other success-replication techniques. Become very proficient in touching the essence, energy, or spirit (whichever term you prefer) of success so that at this stage in an operation you can simply “flip the switch” and turn on the frequency of your desired outcome.

4: Connect to Your Power Source

The term power source here refers to the domain from which you will draw support and impetus for magical work. Example “domains” include planetary magic, elemental magic, ancestral magic, and of course mineral magic.

It follows that a power source for a spell or ritual could be the planet Venus, the element air, your great grandfather on the other side, or a nice amethyst point. Presumably nobody will protest if we go with a crystal as the example.

Whether holding or forming a mental link with the stone or crystal, step 4 is about making that solid connection and unleashing the charge or power within your mineral. More acutely, you will “open up” the mineral’s desired traits as you hold your affirmed intention from step 3.

The idea here, so far, is that you – the operating magician – are in a magical state with no interference present (since your mind, aura, body, and work area have just been cleansed of psychic debris and problematic entities) and with your affirmed intention or goal present as a precursor energy field.

This can be handled in one of two ways:

1.    1.  Bring into yourself the desired trait of the crystal so this “power” unites with the energy of your felt-success; it could be in your receptive hand for this.

Or…

2.     2. Activate the “power” or desired trait of the stone, held perhaps in your projective hand, and push the energy of your felt-success into and through the mineral.

In either case you have the fuel for your magic laid upon your desire in order to impregnate that intentional energy with power, or you have the charged field that will carry your magic infused with the current of your intention.

This is a classic, magical case of “tomayto” and “tomahto”. Either perspective is aimed at the right target so it’s just a matter of how you feel about the magical action you are taking.

Choose and move forward.

5: Raise Energy to Peak Level

With your felt-success and the energy of the crystal united, your next step is to raise your magical charge either to the greatest possible extent or to the level you intend to use for the operation. Both of these could be called the peak of your operational energy.

At this point we are breaking process down to the micro level to clarify the rhythmic shifting of the magician’s focused mind. The focus will move, in either a balanced or harmonious manner, between intense focus upon success and potent attention given to the charge or movement of the energy to enact or create that success.

6: Objectify and Form Your Desire in the Great Magical Agent.

The trait/influence/power of the mineral has been applied, energy – or ability to cause effect – has been elevated, and now that energy becomes a “force”, or an agent moving the ability to perform work into a position where work can be performed.

Shift your attention, by way of intention, onto the astral plane or the Great Arcanum, magical continuum, Astral Light, or Great Magical Agent. By many names we call the same; it is the energetic substance on a higher plane outside the physical where the blueprints of manifest reality are made.

Conceptualize a place of moving potential from whence everything is formed and then sent here to our world to be born or manifest. On the surface of that imagined place take hold of the light-energy or fluidic-essence and cause it to form into the idea or image of your success.

Have fun with this process. Act like a sculptor who works not clay but non-physical light that can only be seen by a psychic or touched by a magician. Engage your felt-success or felt-sense of belief as you re-form your desired outcome.

It is reformation because you have already constructed the scene and then recalled it to mind before this step. Again, these last four steps are simply guiding the concept of keeping two intentions at nearly the same time or doing two things almost at once.

When you can feel the form you are causing like it’s almost solid, dump or drive your energized intention into it with a finality. Think of that indescribable movement, internal and external, when you connect a bat to a baseball or softball.

Or when you shoot for the trash can with a paper wad.

When you zap a friend with a water gun; think about pulling the plastic trigger and willing the beam of water to nail him or her right in the nose.

You can even find the tiny moment of actualization in a video game as you hit that important sequence on the controller while simultaneously giving that silent grunt or “get in there” from between your eyes.

Very difficult to articulate yet extremely important and too often omitted from magical instruction, this point of actualization at the end of your final push of magical force into the deed is an art unto itself.  I can point to the way, but only you can seal this little powerhouse of magical action as a coherent effort or deed.

7: Release your Creation to the Etheric Currents

Another shift, this one a little bigger than previous micro-phases. At the end of the final connection, trigger pull, or shot for the goal, step 7 is where you actively let go. This is the second after the ball leaves your hand towards the hoop or the paper wad sails out of your fingers over to the trash can.

Push what you formed in the astral substance down into the ether and release it on its way. The great lore tells us from here the elemental energies usher your desire through the ether into the manifest world along the path of least resistance and in the proper time.

Because the next step is grounding and since you now know about what I call the “elemental ladder” or the Creative Cycle as the Pagans call it, you can use a quick elemental sequence to end this step.

Into the Ether

Release your astral form into the ether, trusting the magical process to finish what you intentionally began.

Air

For a moment let yourself feel and think about the infinite possibility inherent within magical work. Know there are many potential outcomes for your efforts, some of which are even better than what you visualized. The outcome could be a little different than what you have in mind, which is an interesting thought. Things could also turn out radically different, creating totally new opportunities to consider.

Be open. Expand your willingness. Experience this in your heart chakra.

Fire

Bring the expanded energy in from all directions to become a ball of fiery excitement and confidence surrounding you. Focus on your excitement and creativity. See your magical outcome and have the courage to see it a little better than your initial desire. People often hold back and don’t dare to really want what they want; they try to be “realistic” about expectations.

Focus intensely on the ultimate best version of your success. If you visualized finding a nice apartment this month as your magical goal, take this moment to see a luxury condo or a house in a great neighborhood. See it like it’s real and pour energy into it.

What’s the harm? It’s only a moment of indulgence. Focus this through your solar plexus.

Water

The roaring energy around you and the giddiness within become slow and soothing motion that moves you downward in a spiral pattern. The spiral becomes a massive, calming wave.

Let everything specific melt away and focus on the rhythm and order of the process. Feel in your body things shifting and organizing to form the right end result at the right time.

Feel in your sacral chakra a sense of joyful anticipation. Whatever comes next is what you need and you will flow with it and use it in the best way to benefit yourself and others.

Earth

The wave densifies and stops shifting. You move straight downward in slow, dense motion.

Become heavy like a mountain touching ground as it floats down from heaven. Tense your muscles and feel slopes and cliffs above and around you quake to solidify your work.

See the flowing and spiraling magical currents become solid and squared. Perfect and immovable has your work become.

Feel the heavy, grinding focus in your base chakra.

This extends into the next step.

8: Ground Remaining or Excess Energy, then Forget

Pull all the energy left in and around you into your body and hold it for a moment. Feel strong, inevitable, undeniable, invincible. Then push this heavy, solid presence down your legs and through your feet into the ground below. What you put in the ground becomes a massive, heavy form with roots that grab hold of the deep earth far below and anchor in place.

This represents the completion of your magic and the coming of your end result. Let any remaining energy settle into the form and know anything you miss will settle there in the near future.

Leave it all, including your memory of the work, behind in the earth. Call it finished and instantly feel lighter; still part of the earth but unrestricted in your movements and able to shift to whatever mode you like.

Forget about the magic. From here your unconscious mind and energy bodies, along with magical currents and any spirits involved in the work will finish what you began.

Putting the Template to Work

The first three steps can easily be prefaced to any magic you perform as they are simply preliminary best practices. Enter your magical state, clear and banish, then generate your victory scene at the onset of any operation.

Build out the next steps with techniques that fit into raising energy and focusing your will on the desired outcome. Directing energy with a wand and burning candles to represent energy and motion can be integrated easily, and so can handling crystals as you’ve learned from this book.

Any incantation or spoken words should be used to focus on your felt-success or victory scene and to gather power and send it to that scene through your words.

When performing an operation you find online or in a book, look for points where you would naturally raise energy levels or focus on your desired outcome. You can usually fit these steps in the right place even if you need to adjust a little for shorter operations.

Look at the pre-written operations in the chapter “A Few Magical Operations” to think of how this template might apply. They weren’t all designed with the eight-step template but you will still see a resemblance of functions. Do the same with any spellbooks you have now or buy in the future.

Remember, the goal is creating your own operations in your own style so if you need to alter my template do it.