Magick with Alex

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1. The Starting Point: Defining the Impossible

Let’s get the silly questions out of the way so we can move on to the actual work.

What is magick? There isn’t a man, woman, or child on this planet who doesn’t already know the answer. If you’re asking, you’re just pretending to be confused.

Does it work? No.

Are you still here? Good. If that “no” sent you packing, you weren’t ready to stop being a meat robot anyway. The only way to answer that question with any degree of satisfaction is to actually do some magick. I can describe the mechanics of sex to a virgin until I’m blue in the face, but no amount of talk conveys the experience or the way it fundamentally rewrites the self. Magick is the same. It is, quite simply, the art, science, and culture of experiencing truth.

I assume you know absolutely nothing, but I expect you to be willing to explore. If you fail at first, it doesn’t mean magick is a “fake”; it means you’re bad at it and need more practice. You wouldn’t hear a wrong note at your first piano lesson and declare that Beethoven was a fraud who didn’t exist, would you? Don’t be a ham magician.

2. Manifestation: Getting What You Want (With a Catch)

Being a magician means making wishes that come true. Your imagination is the only real ceiling. However, the way those wishes land in your lap is governed by the “available means of manifestation.” Magick isn’t a cartoon; it follows the lines of real-world synchronicity and the mechanics of the dream state. If you do magick for money, it manifests through a winning horse or a surprise check, not by coins materializing out of the drywall.

Desire vs. Manifestation

The Wish	The Manifestation
Winning money	A winning horse at the betting shop or a specific, profitable synchronicity.
Flying like Superman	Most likely experienced in a dream state (unless you accidentally fall out of a 53rd-floor window).
Curing an illness	Real-world recovery or a radical change in physical condition; not something to be sniffed at.

Magick can deliver money, sex, and power, but it won’t help you grow five extra inches in height or turn your annoying neighbor into a frog. It operates through the “real” world and the “dream” world—both of which are just different flavors of experience.

3. The Transformation of Reality: Revelation

A successful act of magick does more than pay the rent; it reveals something exceptionally odd about the nature of reality. This is “Revelation.” Every time you successfully bend reality, your previous, boring worldview has to break and reform to accommodate the experience.

Intellectual comprehension, or explanation, reveals or changes nothing; if you want to know the truth, you must experience it.

4. The Practitioner’s Toolkit: Beyond Symbols and Laws

Most occultists are obsessed with “Magical Laws.” This is the “Fog of Simplicity”—the tendency to make things complicated because the truth is too simple to sell. Whether you use sigils, chanting, or “magical links” like a lock of hair, these are just arbitrary aesthetics. There are no absolute laws, only “game rules” you choose to follow.

To perform any act of magick, you only need to follow these 6 active steps:

1. Decide what you want to occur.
2. Ensure there is a means of manifestation.
3. Choose an experience.
4. Decide that the experience means the same thing as the desired result.
5. Perform the act or undergo the experience.
6. Result.

The easiest starting point for a novice is Sigil Magick. You take a desire, turn it into an abstract glyph to bypass your conscious “hope,” and “charge” it. This usually involves achieving “gnosis”—an altered state of consciousness. While you can use exhaustion or dancing, the most popular method for obvious reasons is “wanking for the cosmos” (orgasm). You visualize the sigil at the peak of the experience, then intentionally forget it.

5. The Professional Standard: The Magical Diary

A magical diary is not an optional accessory for people who like stationery; it is a scientific necessity. Without it, you are just a hobbyist drifting toward barking madness. It serves three vital functions:

• A Goad: The sight of blank pages is a brutal, daily reminder of your laziness. It keeps you practicing when you’d rather be a lazy chela.
• A Record: It allows you to evaluate which aesthetics actually work for you. Today’s insignificant coincidence is tomorrow’s mind-bending synchronicity.
• Integration: It helps you process revelatory experiences rationally so you don’t end up in a psych ward.

Take the classic “LSD revelation.” A tripper feels they’ve discovered the secret of the universe and scribbles it down. They wake up to find they wrote “I AM EXTERNAL!”—and it’s misspelled as “YL A M EXTERNAL!” The sentence is gibberish and the spelling is a failure of the brain, but the experience was profound. The diary records the state so it can be integrated into your life rather than gathering dust as an obscure, useless memory.

6. The Crossroads: Dabbling vs. The Great Work

Eventually, you will hit a T-junction. You can continue “dabbling” for minor material results—the occult equivalent of a parlor trick—or you can go “balls to the wall” and dedicate your life to the path of the Great Work.

Magick isn’t for everyone. It requires hard work and taking total, terrifying responsibility for your entire existence. Think of it like brain surgery: everyone can have a go at it, but if you aren’t willing to put in the effort and the seriousness required, things are going to get very messy, very fast.

7. Navigating the Metaphysical Process: The Three Stages

If you pursue the Great Work, you will encounter a predictable cycle of insight. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The Plateau (Naive Enlightenment)

This is the honeymoon phase. Practice is sexy and insights come easy. You feel a sense of “oneness” and bliss, and you’ll probably annoy your friends by telling them you’ve “attained” the end goal. You haven’t.

The Trough (The Dark Night of the Soul)

The bliss evaporates. Practice becomes a slog. You will likely experience fear, profound disgust, and even bouts of mild psychosis. This is a natural part of the process, though many stay stuck here because they don’t understand it’s just a stage. It’s the “rubbing a sponge” phase of cleaning the soul, and the dirt has to go somewhere.

The Peak (Equanimity)

You reach a state of peace with your perception. Magick is no longer a struggle against reality but a dance with it. This culminates in the realization of the “Absolute,” which eventually becomes a permanent adaptation—complete illumination.

8. The Core Practice: The Holy Guardian Angel

In the Western tradition, the “Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel” (HGA) is the Core Practice. Sigils, spirits, and divination are just “Support Practices”—preparatory games.

The HGA is not your “higher self,” and it certainly isn’t a part of your subconscious. Think of it as your future magical self. It is an independent entity and the embodiment of revelation. Once you connect with this entity, it becomes the guru par excellence, providing your future instruction via synchronicity. It brings you exactly what you need for your next transformation.

9. The Prophetic Narrative: Living in Meaning

As you progress, you move from a “causal” world—where you are a meat robot reacting to “A” causing “B”—to a “prophetic” world. In the prophetic narrative, the idea of “cause and effect” is outgrown.

Instead, you see a world saturated with meaning. You eventually interpret every phenomenon as a “particular dealing of God with my soul.” You aren’t escaping reality into a fantasy; you are finally moving into what is actually happening. Every event shares the same nature, and the world becomes a feedback loop of truth.

10. Conclusion: The Ecstatic Embrace

Magick is the art, science, and culture of experiencing truth. It is the ecstatic embrace of life in all its messy, profound glory. It allows you to take the steering wheel of your environment, your history, and your future.

The simplicity of magick—the fact that you can simply decide and perform—is what stops most people from using it. They would rather believe they are accidents on a floating rock. But remember: if you didn’t make the decisions that make up who you are, someone else did.

Ask yourself: did they have any taste?