Conjuration 22: High Divination

Sentiws and I decide to watch a movie but can’t find the remote control. We scour the apartment for several minutes with no luck, after which I sit down and try to recall where I saw it last. At this moment, the idea of creating a sigil to find it crosses my mind, but rather than getting a pen and paper, I simply close my eyes and begin tracing an automatic squiggle in the palm of my left hand with my right index finger. As I do this, I simultaneously visualize the squiggle forming in my mind’s eye, neon green in color. Once I stop tracing the squiggle, my eyes open and I feel a strange certainty that the remote is near the shoe bench by the front door. I quickly get up and walk over to the bench and am immediately drawn to one of Sentiws’ boots. I reach down inside of it, and to my shock, I feel the remote. I pull it out, bemused, and excitedly share the details of the experiment with Sentiws. We stand there laughing for a moment before starting the movie.

Reflection:

The impromptu procedure that I used to generate the sigil closely resembles my very first attempt at sigilization nearly 20 years ago. In that particular instance, I instructed an acquaintance to go into another room and place a small object of his choosing into his pocket. I then sat on the floor with a pen and piece of paper and internally asked “What is the object?”, after which I proceeded to make an automatic squiggle on the paper. Upon completing the mark, I immediately knew that he had selected a playing card and was also certain that the suit was spades and its color was black. I advised him that I was done, at which time he re-entered the room and pulled out a black spade. I remember that I felt faint and that he turned pale and nearly had a panic attack. I also recall that this was the experience that sealed my love for chaos magick, a natural initiation that left a minor but permanent fracture in the fabric of my reality.

To this day, I struggle to understand the relation of this automatistic sigilization process to the more standard technique introduced by Austin Osman Spare (later promulgated by Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin). In both cases shared, I did not draft and distill the statement of desire down to a monogram, nor did I achieve vacuity of mind (gnosis), assumed to be necessary for transferring the sigil to the womb of the subconscious. It is therefore possible that automatistic sigilization—when perfomed to induce anomalous cognition—should be compared more to the gestalt generation stage of a remote viewing session.

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