Spirit works through mind, and mind works through the “Ether”. The “Ether” which is the framework of matter and the vehicle of the life-forces, can be manipulated within the limits of its nature, which are by no means inconsiderable. Magic at the level of Earth revolve around manipulating this substance using desire, imagination and will. The ability to manipulate the Astral Light is acquired by meditative discipline. There are some exceedingly unpleasant people walking the earth today who may lay claim to understanding the workings of the universe. Magic works for both good and evil.

It is not true that every thought is an intention. So to some, to say that intent is just thinking, is wrong. It’s really just thinking loudly and sending it out. Intent is thinking with strength of thought, with larger amplitude, with firmness, with emphasis, and with a directed purpose. Magicians employ techniques to strengthen their will, awaken their higher faculties and imbue themselves with extra life force. All of this increases the strength of their thought force.

Energy, it’s all about energy. All matter is made up of condensed energy. When you do magic, you are tapping into the energy field. The trick is in thinking as a consciousness, not as a physical being. To let ones thoughts become energy themselves, and then to expel that energy out into the astral. Once your “spell” is cast into the energy field, the idea is for it to affect probabilities and chance, in your favor. It does this by the quickest and most direct manner. The key part is to produce and cast out enough energy to get the results you want.
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The energy must be compacted to a certain intensity and infused with intent, and then released through an action that is visualized and energetically felt with or without an accompanying physical gesture. This forms and releases your intent into the universe as a separate entity from you through a strong thought form, will-ball, psi-ball, psi-beam or psi-blast. When you focus your intent and release it as a thought/energy form that is a separate entity from you, you also find it easier to let go of it. It remains connected to you but it is free to be put out of your conscious mind as an activated vibration to do what it is intended to do.

You create primarily by thought and not by action. Actions are merely to facilitate the manifestation of thought. When you put more thought-energy into something, more things happen without any physical action taken on your part, or your actions will lead to greater results, or you will be caused to take better actions in accomplishing your objectives. Focus your power on creating by thought and your goals will be reached much more effectively. The greater the thought-energy, the stronger the spell.

Another thing to take note of is breath. Breath is chi. It is much easier and natural to feel yourself pulling energy while at the same time breathing in. It is much easier and natural to feel yourself channeling energy outwards while at the same time breathing out. When you breathe out while willing energy outwards, you can do it in a way such as “ssshhhhh”, “hhhhnnn”, “kiaahhhh”, “haaahhhhh”, or any way that you can imagine and prefer to use.

We may always find the underlying principle of the existence of some mighty force connected with the human mind—or more particularly, the will—that was at the bottom of the mysteries, and magic, and miracles. Magick is using your will to set a desirable chain of events in motion, or to change an undesirable chain that is in motion. Will is the key, and the more of it you have at your disposal the better. Will concerns itself with action. Action is the “inner meaning” and reason of the will. Mind-Power is that phase of mind which is aroused by desire-will—and which ACTS. Energy is not a thing! It is a movement, a motion. The action of the Will is mental and can be reinforced by a corresponding physical action/motion such as a flicking of the finger, a moving of the hands forward which serves to impress upon the subconscious mind that an action is being made by the will.

When doing a magic spell, it is very important that you feel you have caused something to happen; because if you don’t, you can’t be sure that “something happened, I made something happen” and what happens then is that people look constantly over their shoulder and keep “worrying” about the spell, much like a dog would be worrying over their own sore tail, and making worse in the process. It’s when people who are unsure if anything happened keep on messing with the ideas and energies after the fact by worrying, repeating the spell unnecessarily, wondering if it will work, and so on and so forth that they destroy the spell, undermine it, essentially worry it to death and nothing good can come of it. This is natural to people to do IF THEY DID NOT FEEL THE SPELL WORKING at the time; so make sure you always pay extra close attention to the movements of energy as you are doing any kind of magic so you can know for sure when you did something that rocked the world.

When you have put in enough energy and focus into an act of intention or magic, you would FEEL that you have DONE something.

Desire Amplifies Your Signal: Desire for something increases the strength of your signal regarding it, somewhat like turning the volume up on your stereo. Strong intention just means strong focus on the goal. A person with strong desire is easily recognizable, for he or she seems to exude an energy of purposeful intent. Desire is easy to see. Desire is life force. Persons with lots of desire usually feel very strongly, and sometimes their lives can be very dramatic. Those with little desire experience lives without much change or excitement.

When you put in a lot of energy and power into what you do, it is not struggle if it is what you want to do. It is only struggle when you are doing something that is not what you really want to do, or you are putting in more resistance than necessary.

How much focus, and how much idea that you put into the moment, to cause the moment and make it happen, is the combination. The amount of thought equals amount of energy. An approach is that you are on a project and the focus is on that project. The more energy you have, the more chance of manifesting or finishing it. If distracted, the project sometimes never gets done, because of sidetracking. The more will one has to bring the project to completion, the more power one puts into it. Eventually, the project is finished. Think of this as power equals amount of will, and focus of energy that gets transferred. Your beliefs will flavor the project and how it is achieved.

The power of persuasion is a sheer focus to convince people of your belief. The more will one has, to make the other person believe, in what he or she has said, the more chance of it causing an action from it. All magick is communication. It is about the frequency, phase and amplitude of the communication. It is about influence. Communication is how you can move the universe and control all forces to act as you please. You can command with your will.
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