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Words used to open the gateways between Buffyverse and this world

24 hours before the initiation proper to become a slayer in this BtVS mysticism, there is a ritual to open the gateways between the Buffyverse and this world. That gateway allows the energy of the Shadowmen to enter your realm so all can be ready for the initiation. There is an entire ritual attached to that with sigils, decoration, sage, offering and all the rest. Those are the words

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Requirement before proceeding to the Slayer Initiation

Before taking on the Slayer Initiation for this BtVS mysticism I'm constructing, certain demands are to be met. All of them are either essential for a slayer to master or are important to be able to interact with the spiritual aspect of the work. Depending on the practitioner, these can take a few months to over a year to finish. While it can seem long, traversing that difficult first step successfully despite the hurdles will be proof that this person was indeed called by the current to become a Slayer.

While Buffy and indeed the slayers had (mostly) no contact with forms of occultism or Witchery, it will indubitably be an important aspect of this work. A potential must have experience in the occult of roughly 'intermediate' level as this mysticism is uncharted territory and unpredictable. As such, it requires a good level of improvisation and demand a certain eclecticism. On top of that, having a good understanding will allow her to have a good idea of where this path is leading and why things are as they as. What is of course required to be a slayer is to be a woman, to be healthy both mentally & in term of weight, to subscribe to a form of martial art or combat style that is mainly unarmed & to possess a good knowledge of this mysticism.

The potential slayer must to have a certain basics in said martial art (example: a belt of an higher color than white). She does not require to be a very advanced fighter to launch the journey; merely some basics she internally believes will suffice are enough for the initiation. Higher skill level of combat will be required later however, always improve & never stop practicing. A form of divination has to be learned, it will be the vehicles through which the chosen communicates with her watcher. I suggest tarot, even better if you can purchase the Buffy tarot deck. In the end she can choose the divination technique she believes will fit best for this path & herself. And lastly she is demanded to work on her ability to manipulate, recall dreams & lucid dream. The reason is slayers such as Buffy are often communicated messages during their dreams and while they get that gift naturally in their world (the Buffyverse), the slayer in this world must work to obtain that skill. One the potential slayer has achieved all that is listed and feel ready, she can proceed to the 72 hours initiation.

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More "appropriate" Slayer magical path?

We're not here to debate the legality of magical paths of this BtVS mysticism. If BtVS has shown us anything, it is that your magic should focus on a pragmatic route rather than a principled one. There isn't really practices that are against this path as long as it's use do not transgress established Higher Principles. We are focusing here on a track that's outside BtVS or Buffy the myth of the Slayer as this world requires her slayer to very frequently practice magic. Buffy herself only very sporadically used magic and the other slayers we managed to have a look into never practiced any magic either. The Slayer is a warrior path that is known & self evident. This mysticism is a right hand path philosophy focused on transcendence, purpose, duty and merging with the supra-individual entity known in this mysticism as "Finished Slayer" or it's lower counterpart "Finished Buffy the slayer."

As such, magical traditions who focus heavily on the worship or high reverence of 'Mother Nature' that goes beyond a civilized respect for the environment, a heavy focus on Earthly elements that gets you dirty such as roots, herbs & plants or dabbling into animism are at odds with this spirituality. Those religions are religions of the Earth, worship of the body, nature and complaisance in the animal aspect of the self. An evident push back here will be the apparent hypocrisy that I do use herbs for this path, including in the Slayer initiation itself. What is stated here isn't a blanket condemnation of herbs, rather how you treat these elements of nature in your practice. It is a warning against an inappropriate philosophical outlook when engaging with these elements of nature. Against treating the Earth as a metaphysical endpoint. It is a caution against relying too much on gris-gris & superstitions to accomplish yourself. Against debasing yourself to the level of the primal, or viewing all of life "as a cycle" where a tree and yourself are equally a part of.

None of this is technically forbidden, but what can be stated is the watcher council curriculum & philosophy would not be teaching or encouraging it. If a slayer takes part of that worldview, that would be part of what we referred to as "the personality of the Slayer" through which a slayer can problematically deviate a little from conformity if she can responsibly marry the contradictions with the path.

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Helping others as the slayer

What differentiate this Mysticism of the Slayer I'm creating from others is among other things is it's multi faceted role not only on a spiritual level but also in it's very active participation in the mundane. Many spirituality are directly or indirectly only focused on the ego and are inherently self helping & self serving in nature.

I have argued before that Buffy's personality and being had massively improved as a result of becoming the slayer. Although Buffy did not consciously choose to, she flipped her entire life around and rejected huge chunks of her past 'superficial' personality akin to Cordelia to adapt to that new identity while also keeping a part of herself intact. Just like demons or angels, the Slayer embodies a transcendent archetype that comes from beyond and has also a personality of her own. However this was a collateral effect of the sacred duty in it's integrality, not the main objective. This mysticism aims at a similar phenomenon. Through accepting the Mission and submitting to the tradition, the slayer incidentally become a being of a higher quality. The chosen is in a way be no longer human; rather the embodiment of the mythical Slayer in the flesh while still retaining vestige of her Earthly personality.

The Mission is in part on a spiritual level, focused on the inner world of the slayer. An extensive exploration, using eclectic magic, of the Self & the many facets of the Slayer through friends and mostly foes. The slayer is also encouraged, if she wishes to, to explore the demonic realm of the Qliphoth.

The Slayer busy herself just as much in the mundane world. Through martial art training, the "curriculum of the council" which touches both worlds and indeed her task to help others, she is just as much the slayer in the spiritual than the material realm. How exactly is a slayer supposed to be helping others? There are two main ways the slayer helps others as the slayer. I specify this because although being conventionally kind is nice and the proper way to behave as the slayer, it isn't obligatory nor is it what is meant from a Mission perspective. The help the slayer provides is in this world is the same as in the Buffyverse; she fights against the forces of darkness.

The first way is by 'lifting up' others spiritually and the second is to have the competence to provide spiritual defense for someone who may be in need of it. Through the watcher curriculum, the slayer learns all manners of protective spells, dispelling of hexes, exorcism, cleansing and all sorts of similarly themed actions. The 'lifting up' of the spirit is a much broader and impersonal aspect of that task. There is so far no clear delineation on how that's supposed to look like and maybe there shouldn't be one. As long as 'lifting up others spiritually' does not devolve into ridiculously loose interpretations there isn't a reason to be restrictive on how to perform that task nor does that task needs to be a chore. Me as an example, I plan to write articles on various occult & spiritual topics to nourish the spiritual side in a positive direction for whoever reads it. This is something that qualifies & that I enjoy doing. If need be, the chosen can ask herself "does this activity directly combats the forces of darkness, metaphysically speaking?" to figure out if your way of lifting up the spirit of others is valid.

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The Order or Taraka assassin card Drusilla drew in What's My Line? Part One

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The treatment of demonic elements during an invocation

In this BtVS mysticism I've been slowly creating from scratch, I've been wondering how to, as a slayer, treat demons in a magical setting during an invocation. The circle of protection although ethical and recommended for potential slayers, goes against the slayer archetype who fights and fully 'experience' the body, soul & spirit of demons in close combat, mostly without weapons. The slayer does not plan on evoking demons to do their bidding like the Goetia either. Rather, the Slayer invokes demons for their gnosis, to wrestle with her own inner demons and ultimately destroy them in combat on the astral realm. On the flip side, fully allowing a demon who will rightfully view you as a life threatening foe unrestricted in your body and spirit can prove to be problematic to say the least. The Slayer isn't hidden behind a circle nor is she completely vulnerable. She fights demons, she is prepared & ready to receive them.

The appropriate method as a slayer would be the 'shield and armor' type protection. The most classic method is the Slayer necklace. During the Slayer initiation ritual, there is a necklace you are tasked to bless with the Shadowmen demonic energy as it permeates your being. This necklace, briefly charged up by the Slayer current, is used here as a mobile shield that grounds you in your purpose & protects against negative energy. This necklace also works on non-BtVS entities such as Qliphotic spirits. There are other valid methods that serve a similar purpose who may or may not work in the BtVS universe. As I get more experience myself I may be able to be more specific here. Should you choose to use them for whatever reason, you will have to test them by invoking weaker demons (a generic vampire as an example) and see if that helped. Other methods, include but aren't restricted to, talisman herb satchels, drawing protective sigils on your skin & the less recommended spiritual or holy armor. For particularly powerful foes such as Glory or Qliphotic demon Belphegor Lord of the Dead, should you choose to, you can combine two protective component such as the Slayer necklace and protective sigils that are relevant to the universe in question. BtVS sigils (that I will be creating in the future) won't work in the Qliphoth.

I have not yet any tips on how to deal with BtVS "The First" and for the moment I will simply not summon it.

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Lucid dreams

One of the formation that's demanded before you can take on the Slayer initiation is the ability to remember & lucid dream.

Why?

Buffy and indeed the slayer lineage as a whole get prophecies, warnings or signs through dreams. As an aspiring slayer you are therefore required to learn that technique in order to contact various entity and perform all sorts of occult work.

I will offer a few tricks that help you lucid dream or in other words to have control of your dreams.

1. you must set a journal to record all your dreams. Consistency is key, you must do it every night. You record what happened, how you felt and any important details. The goal of this is to make your brain understand that your dreams are important, make it an higher priority to remember them. I also have chosen a specific pen I only use to record dream. I gave that pen a sort of sacred purpose to, in my view, help toward remembering dreams

2. Set your alarm 4h30 after the time you sleep. These brief periods of wakefulness increase your level of brain activation, which can help you lucid dream when you return to sleep. You stay awake for 30-60 minutes and go back to bed. During that time, only relaxing activities such as reading or writing in your dream journal. Afterward go to bed telling yourself that you will know you are dreaming.

3. Often ask yourself whether you are dreaming.

While awake, frequently practice your brain to question it's current dream state by making it ask whether you are dreaming or not. You must take the question seriously for it to work. Ask yourself how you know you are awake, what proof do you have? Try reading a piece of paper, looking away, and looking at it again to see if the words are the same. Then look away again, wish for the paper to look different in whatever way you want, and look at it again to see if it changed. If it did not change, it's a great sign that you are not dreaming. It is recommended to do that exercise 5-10 times a day.

4. The last trick is a personal of mine. I'm a witch and I do believe in the Witching hour which happened at around 3am when power of witches and the supernatural are at their strongest. All the best lucid dreams I had happened during 3am and 5am. What I recommend is if possible, to plan your night so when you go back to sleep after having done the point 2 of this entry, is to go back to sleep around 3am and 5am to increase your chances of lucid dreaming.

There are many other tricks around! The most important element here is perseverance. It can take a few months to get any results and as such you can feel frustration or despair after weeks of failure. It is part of the exercise. Once you get used to it, you will succeed more and more often and you will be able to choose what you dream about, whatever you fancy

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BtVS Mysticism

After looking in various religion I did not really find what I'm looking for, I always had one problem with them or simply wasn't attached to the mythical characters.

So I've decided earlier this year to create my own mysticism based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The basics:

🔪 to become a slayer through a formation inspired by the show both on the physical and spiritual realm.

🔪 an initiation to officialize the chosen that involves reenacting what transpired between the First Slayer & the Shadowmen.

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Afterward it is to thrive as the slayer by

🔪 To thrive as a Slayer through a Qabalah-inspired journey across Buffy’s inner realms. Facing demons (real & inner), cultivate Slayer virtues among friends of the show and undergo a formation from the watcher council

🔪 Building a relationship with a mystical council & personal watcher through divination & the astral.

⁉️ A new concept I'm working on that I currently call an "interactive occult book" that would in summary give you a life within the Buffyverse; a life that would impact your real one and vice versa.

☀️ The end game is to reach "Finished Slayer" which means being accomplished as Buffy season 7 was & to exorcise the Shadowmen darkness you got inflicted by while retaining your slayerness!

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Womankind & the Witch trial

An interesting angle of women and Witchcraft is yes obviously misogyny was a giant factor as to why women were convicted for Witchcraft more, the writings of the inquisitors alone makes it undeniable, but it is plausible that women also were doing more act of witchery than men.

Factors that would easily explain this is the overall powerlessness in a patriarchal world, when you have no other recourse, one can think of resorting to magic. Their general inability to physically retaliate which was common back then when an offense was taken, the fears both justified and cultural around pregnancy. Their quick & dull existence might have attracted them to it.

It's possible some of them may have internalized what was said about women & the Devil and sort of played the part. This is common in religion, you even see this in Satanism. More broadly I think of Judith Butler who refers to gender as a performance, we all "play the part" in some ways

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Was Isobel Gowdie Blessed by our Devil?

I'm currently doing an in-depth dive into Isobel Gowdie right now. Scholars have done a terrific job analyzing that encounter with the inquisitor. Their work is beyond useful, however they aren't witches or Satanists. They aren't analyzing Gowdie from a religious perspective. Christians have done it but it is worth nothing to us. They do not know what to look for, they do not know our Devil.

I will try to figure out if she has been touched/blessed by the Devil.

1) What I will look for first is if some of what she confessed about the Devil transcends Christianity and her time, if she touches some of our more advanced understanding of our Devil. It is no secret that our understanding of our Devil is much more advanced now than it was centuries ago. We are much more educated, more access to information and of course, we aren't getting murdered on sight anymore.

2) if some ingredients or words for the spells she offers have strong correspondences that would be impossible for her or the inquisitor of that time to know.

3) if there are seemingly messages that would be directed to future devil witches. That one is a little more vague and by far the most susceptible to bias. It will be approached with great caution. That includes expansions of established understanding that were irrelevant back then but useful now, an expansion of one of my more solid personal upg, warnings, prophecies, orders, laws. Those would often need to transcend Christianity and her time.

Through all of this, it is imperative that I get convinced through my studies of scholar writings that she was not innocent and not coerced into giving her answers. If she is, the two first point will be void and the third point extremely undermined. Of course there is the possibility that she wasn't innocent but not "touched", basically just a regular witch.

In all cases, I truly do hope she rests in peace~~! 💕

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Is the Devil pro-nature or anti-nature?

I find that both views; pro-nature and anti-nature works well for a philosophy a Witch's Devil could hold.

Pro-nature as in viewing us as nature's equal. We are just like another animal not above anything else, part of the world as an equal citizen of the Earth. There are many myths who attach demons & our Devil to nature, the wilderness. It is where mysteries lie, it is the unknown, the other, freedom. Biblical order places us above beast & nature and many have written that people who get far from God revert to a state of beast. It is also unquestionable that traditionally & even today, witches have always had an important, even vital connection to nature. It is possible this proximity to nature witches hold is related to my previous argument.

On the other hand anti-nature, as in viewing nature as being at our service, above it, can fit well with a Satanist too. The promise at Eden the Snake gave to us, the single most important piece ever written about our Devil; that we would become Gods if we follow him strongly implies an above nature status or at the very least that we would one day be free from our bondage to the Earth. It plays well with the philosophy of ever evolving as a society toward divinity. Sort of surrendering to our condition and accepting the current state of things comes off as weak both in mind & spirit

We do have to keep in mind our own bias and the current society we live in which is, in no small part due to the 3 big religions, highly anti-nature. It might be easier, more comfortable and more "natural" for a lack of a better term to adopt the anti-nature position. I have also my own bias to keep in mind. I live in a city and to me, being close to nature does not come off naturally. Many plants I know the propriety & name of I have never seen or touched. I hate insects, the heat, the cold, being dirty. Perhaps one could argue that we have already evolved a bit beyond nature and that I'm simply a witness of that phenomenon. Making an effort to go back would be counter productive. Far from it the idea that we are free or independent from Earth right now, but it's definitely more distant than ever.

As I wrote this, I daydreamed of the day we would have our first completely self sustainable extra terrestrial colony and thought "What now nature's simps?"

There is also a 3rd position in this. It's highly unpolished in my mind right now. It would come down to working with nature but dishing out any of the reverence or the quasi-worship of it modern witches mostly hold.

I do not have a conclusion to this or the solution, I thought I would share what has been bugging my mind lately. If you have any thoughts feel free to share them!

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Hekate

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The Devil's legacy

People close to me know I've complained many times about how too much of Satanism is being tied to Christianity, how so many Satanists are merely living in Christianity's shadow. They're doing what has been done for centuries which is using Satan as a symbol of power to combat the institution or values they hate.

I sought to fix that issue at least within my practice and the future covenant I long to write however today I began to wonder if that was possible at all without divorcing key part of the Devil from his totality.

The history of the Devil a few centuries before the Church of Satan is an history of people; socialists, non-conformists, the oppressed, the desperate, revolutionaries, feminists, suffragettes & left wing thinkers using our Devil unique abilities to undermine the Christian hegemony & the status quo. That struggle never really stopped either, the biggest — I guess we'll call them Satanic — organization, The Satanic Temple, is still doing that today.

If you look into a more non denominational Devil in traditional Witchcraft which draws a lot of it's tradition & folklore from the witches persecution, the inquisitor writings on witches and of course the witches account of the Sabbat & their craft, we immediately run into the same issue where our Devil is intermingled just as strongly with Christianity.

Other issues is the nature of our Devil which inherently run contrary to Christianity. Of course many ideas and philosophies run contrary to the religion, that does not make them an adversary sensu stricto. However we are not merely philosophically opposed, we are spiritual foes in the clearest sense. Everything down to Witchcraft in itself is in direct opposition. Combine that with the fact that Christianity is the largest religion in the world and that a huge amount of Satanist are here in the first place due to religious trauma, perhaps completely divorcing Christianity from our Devil is a foolish quest. For now anyway.

There is this delusion shared by many that the struggle against Abrahamic religions is over, that it's now "cringe" or beating a dead horse to oppose them. I don't know how you can possibly be alive in this world, or see the news and believe this. Of course we'll never beat them in numbers. We will always be the minority. Our Devil in his great wisdom favors quality over quantity.

I'm not claiming the Craft should be about Christianity, it absolutely should not at all be. It was simply maybe an error on my part to want to erase that part of our Devil that ties him to it. It is a part of him and a shining part of our legacy. After all, without that side of him we would not be free.

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A troll cat, also known as a milk rabbit or troll ball, is the familiar of a witch in Scandinavian folklore.

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The Devil's whore

We played a game the Devil and I, both party are thoroughly entertained. Well I wasn't amused initially, I learned to be. One thing that can be said is he really enjoys toying with us.

Before getting into Satanism, 3 years ago, I was at my lowest. Financially broke, completely lost, aimless, depressed. I've been plagued by depression and dark thoughts most of my life. One month before I initially contacted the Devil, I made a suicide attempt. Thankfully it failed.

During that first ritual, I told the Devil I was down bad, obliterated. The mountain is too high to climb, there is too much work to do, too much to come back from, too much to repair. I do not want to live my life defeated, as a shadow, until I one day die wondering what the hell was the point it all. I want to be empowered, confident, successful, to see the world. I want to resurrect from my ashes & crush my inner demons.

Despite having no experience in magick at that point, this ritual has been the most effective of them all. It had a profound impact on my psyche & my life.

Over time I became financially stable, happier, developed a larger range of interest, lost 80 pounds. I was given a structure, a philosophy and vibe that perfectly fit with my personality & higher spiritual purpose. I'm so much better now that it's really difficult to list everything, and it just kept improving. It's not perfect I still have horrible days and problems but it's infinitely better.

I had that spiritual internal struggle last autumn where I was infatuated with Judaism. I decided to drop Satanism for the time being and become religiously homeless. I've talked about it before, one thing I did not mention however is how miserable I was during that period. My mood soured, I stopped working out, lost money, gained 10 pounds. It's like I was not able to function anymore.

It did not take me long to link my decline with my change of religious status given it's very obvious synchronicity. I was resolved to pursue that path however as I figured that down was temporary.

This whole time I knew that all I had to do to stop the misery was refreshing my allegiance of the Devil so to speak, to reignite the black flame.

However If I did that, that would be a direct admittance that I fully depend on the Devil to live and that in some way, he owns me. I've made edgy posts in the past about the Devil owning me, however it's an entirely different thing to realize and understand that you really, actually are the Devil's whore. It initially made me very uncomfortable and frankly a bit scared.

Upon understanding this a thought came to mind, I began to wonder if that whole Judaism phase of mine was not the Devil fucking with me to teach me a lesson. He messed with me many times before, but that one takes the cake

I'm not at all convinced of heaven and hell, and I'm not keen on blindly following rules in exchange of empty promises. As such I'm a big believer that you need to take advantage of that life to the maximum and hope for the best afterward. It slowly fed sympathies for my new, or I should say, more honest relation with the Devil. I slowly saw empowerment in it, the potential of that type of relation, the usefulness of the concept of fear of the divine, how it would positively impact my practice & open so many new doors. This was where the first spark of my religion I'm working on was born

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