In the words of Spare, there should be 'a deliberate striving to forget it'.

Īfter charging the sigil, it is considered necessary to repress all memory of it. Using any of the gnostic techniques he reifies the sigil and then, by force of will, hurls it into his subconscious from where the sigil can begin to work unencumbered by desire. The magician acknowledges a desire, he lists the appropriate symbols and arranges them into an easily visualised glyph. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to 'launch' or 'charge' the sigil – essentially bypassing the conscious mind to implant the desire in the unconscious. In chaos magic, following Spare, sigils are commonly created by writing an intention, then condensing the letters of the statement down to form a sort of monogram. In a very real sense, everything he created was an act of sorcery. The same techniques and consciously driven functional intention also permeated his paintings. He would reduce a name or an idea to a 'glyph' and then write across the paper from right to left, turn the paper and do the same again, and so on, turning the paper around and around to create a multi-dimensional grid. It also influenced the artist Brion Gysin, who experimented with combining Spare's sigil method with the traditional form of magic squares:Ĭalligraphic magick squares were one of the techniques most commonly applied by Gysin. Spare's technique became a cornerstone of chaos magic (see next section). The big difference with Spare's method was that he dispensed with pre-existing esoterica and external beliefs, so the sigils were no longer for controlling traditional demons, angels and what-have-you, but instead for controlling forces in the unconscious psyche of the individual operator.

Essentially, Spare turned the Medieval practice of using sigils to evoke entities on its head, arguing that such supernatural beings were simply complexes in the unconscious, and could be actively created through the process of sigilization.

The artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) developed his own unique method of creating and using sigils, which has had a huge effect on modern occultism. The sigil was like a signature or sign of an occult entity. The Sigil shall then serve thee for the tracing of a Current which shall call into action a certain Elemental Force') and it was used in the making of talismans. The members of the Golden Dawn were perfectly familiar with it ('combining the letters, the colours, the attributions and their Synthesis, thou mayest build up a telesmatic Image of a Force. The word sigil has a long history in Western magic. The locations were then connected by lines, forming an abstract figure. we remain with SC Then we combine the remaining letters to form we feel “right or “nice”.An excerpt from Sefer Raziel HaMalakh featuring various magical sigils (or סגולות, segulot, in Hebrew).Ī common method of creating the sigils of certain spirits was to use kameas, a special use case of magic squares - the names of the spirits were converted to numbers, which were then located on the magic square. First step is to get rid of all double letters, that means, we will work with letters “SUCE.Then we remove all the vowels (AEIOU). Forgetting the sigil - You can delete the image or if you managed to print it, you can dispose it off.įor example, you want to succeed in some situation you may decide, that the keyword for your desire is the word “SUCCESS”. Work with sigil (charging sigil with energy)Ĥ.

Tap on the camera button to get the image and save it to your phone.ģ. Move the letters around, flip and rotate them to form an image that you feel is right. Creation of sigil - tap on GENERATE to see the letters generated from your text (We remove Vowels(AEIOU) and repeated letters). Definition of desire Enter your desire in the present tense as if it has already happenedĢ. In order to be successful, one has to pay proper attention to every step:ġ. This app helps you create sigils from words.

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