5 Candle Magic Spells: How My Past Can Help You Prosper!

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Agostino

I found these rituals while going through some old files. They’re the rites I gave students when teaching classes on Candle Magic almost 20 years ago. Use them and prosper!

The following is a list of candleburning processes towards specific ends, toward the purpose of giving the reader a basic grasp of what may be accomplished thereby. Note, however, that nothing in here is a hard-and-fast rule, but rather is highly flexible and open to innovations on the part of the individual practitioner.

I. Getting Someone to Think About You.
II. Love.
III. Healing.
IV. Luck.
V. Money. Continue reading →

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The Women’s Ordination Debate: Why Both Sides Have Handled It Wrong

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Agostino
Ludmila Javorova

Ludmila Javorová, the only woman who, to my knowledge, has undergone the Traditional Catholic rites of priestly ordination at the hands of a validly-consecrated Roman Catholic bishop. Her story is what led me to reconsider my own positions, and the inspiration behind this article.

NOTE: This blog post has been superceded, as my positions have changed slightly. I keep this article online for historical purposes, but please keep in mind that this is no longer my current position as of October 2, 2023. Click here for more information.

The following was written in 2009 on my old blog Agostinal Reflections. It’s been revised to account for dead links in the original, and to record changes in my own stance toward the issue at hand.

For the record, my purpose here is not to discuss the side-issues mentioned such as Anglican Orders or the 1968 Ordinal. I simply mention them for background on other points under consideration.

WARNING! THIS ARTICLE IS REALLY LONG AND POSSIBLY REALLY BORING! DON’T SAY I DIDN’T WARN YOU!!!!!!!! Continue reading →

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Ordinations, Consecrations, and Circumstances I’d Be Willing to Confer Them

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Agostino

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This post will likely be uninteresting to most people. Yet I write it for the sake of those to whom it is interesting. It seems convenient to place a public response detailing why I refuse to give what some have asked of me.

In short, a handful of bishops have asked me whether I’d confer conditional or sub conditione consecration, owing to the fact I possess Traditional Roman Catholic lines of apostolic succession (to my knowledge) not found in the Independent Sacramental Movement, among them the Sedevacantist lineage of José Ramon Lopez-Gaston and José Urbina Aznar.

Under the right circumstances, I would be willing to consider laying hands on a candidate for Orders. Continue reading →

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Seven Keys to Better Results with Prayer. Number 6 Is the One They Never Told You.

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Agostino

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Many people turn to prayer only to find themselves disappointed. Often they’re told it’s because they “lack faith,” but that’s nonsense. If they didn’t have faith, then why would they try praying in the first place? Continue reading →

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Can Non-Priests Perform Exorcism?

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Agostino

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207. Who May Perform an Exorcism

Before we go further, it may be useful to discuss who may perform an exorcism. There’s a debate on this with one side saying only a priest or bishop can cast out entities, while the other side says anyone, including a layperson, may perform exorcism.

First I’m going to give the short answer, and then I’m going to go into the reasoning leading to the long answer (and it’s long!)

  1. Short Answer:

1. Yes, laypeople are capable of successfully performing exorcism.

2. The restriction to priests is part of a well-intentioned power grab spanning centuries.

3. The power to perform exorcism does not come from ordination but from baptism.

As a sort of postscript, I should point out that I’m answering this question from a Catholic perspective because Protestants don’t seem to have this level of debate over hierarchical authority when it comes to exorcism. Catholics, on the other hand, tend to have hang-ups about authority mainly because “pay, pray, and obey” was pounded into their brains since childhood. Continue reading →

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Chakras, the Middle Pillar, and the Lord’s Prayer

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Agostino

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[WARNING: This is a VERY long post!]

Contents

Introduction
The Chakras
The Middle Pillar
The Rousing of the Citadels Variant
Eastern Orthodox Chakras
You Will Be Assimilated
Imprinting the Perfect Prayer

Introduction

For this post, I’ll find myself going outside the constraints of Christian theology.

Or maybe not so much. Christian theology, like all theologies, purports to give an accounting for all supernatural phenomena, that means Christian theology must also find ways to wrap its head around such phenomena when encountered outside its established paradigm.

This post, therefore, lies within the task of the theologian.

When such spiritual beliefs or practices are encountered, Christian theology (actually, all theologies) can respond in one of three ways.

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Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: Thoughts and Theology

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Agostino

Circulus Pentagrammatum et Stella Radiorum Sex

For ritual magicians of practically any stripe, it’s common practice that the first rite they learn is the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, often abbreviated as LBRP. If not the first thing, then very close to it.

But what is the LBRP? Where does it come from?

It’s common knowledge that the LBRP is used for purifying, warding, and practice with ritual and visualization, so I won’t discuss what it does. What I will discuss is where it comes from and the issues I have with some of its components.

Where It Comes From

The LBRP as we know it originated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where it was the first ritual exercise given to new initiates in the Neophyte grade. It’s effectively a weird composite made from three parts with their own long histories: the Sign of the Cross, the Caim Prayer, and a Jewish Nighttime prayer.

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross needs little explanation, as it dates back to the earliest days of Christianity. Christians used the sign of the Cross to bless and to invoke blessing, and the Sign is still in use today. The version used in the LBRP follows the Eastern Orthodox practice, where the horizontal bar is made by touching the right shoulder first, and then the left.

The LBRP likewise has the operator make the Sign while saying a Hebrew formula reminiscent of the so-called “Protestant ending” to the Lord’s Prayer. Modern occultists call this the Kabbalistic Cross:

Forehead: אַתׇּה (Atah, “Thou art”)
Breast: מַלְכּוּת (Malkus, “Kingdom”)
Right Shoulder: וַגְּבוּרׇה (Va-Gevurah, “and Power”)
Left Shoulder: וַגְּדֻלׇה (Va-Gedulah, “and Glory”)
Clasp Hands: לְעוֺלׇם אׇמֵן (Le-Olam. Amen. “forever. Amen.”)

Praying the Caim
Next follows the Caim Prayer. Also called “praying a caim,” this is a protective prayer going back to ancient Celtic Christianity and still used in Celtic churches and Celtic-oriented ISM jurisdictions (i.e. denominations in the Independent Sacramental Movement).

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Reading the Stations of the Cross

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Agostino

Narrated by Fr. Agostino Taumaturgo.

.PDF booklet with complete text and all prayers available at http://bit.ly/1Uia8lQ

This holy devotion commemorates the various incidents that occurred during Jesus’ painful journey with his Cross from the tribunal of Pilate to the hill of Calvary.

It is tradition that the Blessed Virgin daily made a visit to the scenes of Christ’s Passion, and from the earliest times Christians flocked to Jerusalem to visit those holy places. For those who were unable to make such a pilgrimage, but who wished in spirit to accompany it, the custom arose throughout Europe of setting up representations of the different incidents of the Passion, which, since 1731, have definitely been restricted to our present fourteen stations.

All this devotion requires is to meditate, however briefly and according to one’s ability, on the Passion of our Lord, and to go from one station to another. No vocal prayers are necessary, but it is common for groups and congregations to use some or other set of prayers.

 

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Thoughts for Holy Thursday

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Agostino

Last Supper

Today is Holy Thursday, the day we remember the Last Supper.

It is the day we commemorate Jesus’ last meal with his Apostles. The day Jesus gave us the Eucharist – turning bread and wine into his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity – and the day he gave the Sacrament of Ordination, giving the Apostles power to do the same, to forgive sins, and pass that power along to their successors.

Today those successors are the bishops of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the process of handing down that power is called apostolic succession. While both Churches differ on precise details, the “big picture” teaching is the same.

The big picture is that the Last Supper is important for Christian magicians, because in giving us the Eucharist and his apostles the Ordinations to carry it out, Jesus planted the seeds of power that would come into bloom that first Feast of Pentecost.

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Prayers for the Days of the Week

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Agostino

Praying Woman

These prayers, said every day, can help you attune spiritually to improving your health, protection, love life, social and professional relationships, and overall prosperity.

They can be said first thing in the morning, or as part of the Rosary or your other daily devotions. The prayers themselves are fully orthodox Christian, incorporating Kabbalistic Divine Names, Archangels, and correspondences with days of the week in a way the average exoteric person would never suspect or perceive.

Make sure to understand that these prayers are sometimes answered by randomly finding a “how to” book, a person who can mentor you, or other venues that help create channels for these things to manifest into your life. Like water wearing away a rock, results often start small and regular perseverance turns those results into something bigger. Continue reading →

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