[Help] How Can Create My Own Spell?

[AlexFearless]

feel drawn to create my own spell, but I'm unsure of the path. Can anyone share the principles and deeper workings of spell creation?

 

[Morell]

You know, I'll give you answer for multiple of your questions, probably even some you didn't asnwer yet.

Knock yourself with knowledge. You seem to have very little, possibly no theoretical knowledge of magic at all. Start there. My personal favourtie for being the first book to read is Liber Null. (without the following Psychonaut text) But there is ton and half of the books in the library. You can start for example by looking into the list here: [Official] - SkullTraill's Recommended Occult Reading and Reference

 

[AlexFearless]

You know, I'll give you answer for multiple of your questions, probably even some you didn't asnwer yet.

Knock yourself with knowledge. You seem to have very little, possibly no theoretical knowledge of magic at all. Start there. My personal favourtie for being the first book to read is Liber Null. (without the following Psychonaut text) But there is ton and half of the books in the library. You can start for example by looking into the list here: [Official] - SkullTraill's Recommended Occult Reading and Reference

Thank you so much. I really have very little knowledge about these subjects and I’m trying to learn. Usually, only you and one other person help me, and I’m grateful to you for that

 

[Ziran]

feel drawn to create my own spell, but I'm unsure of the path. Can anyone share the principles and deeper workings of spell creation?

Sure, the analogy I use is " making a cake... a layer cake " The layers are made of corresponding layers of increasing significance. The order of each layer is going from particular to general. Because the key ingredient for this cake is "significance", there is a pre-requisite, the aspirant necessarily must know themselves to the extent that they are aware of what is meaningful to them. After that a ritual practice can be developed. In this case, a "spell". Prior to that, it's trial and error looking for what causes the heart to go pitter-pat, and the mind to swoon with intellectual-awe, aka "wonder".

 

[AlexFearless]

Sure, the analogy I use is " making a cake... a layer cake " The layers are made of corresponding layers of increasing significance. The order of each layer is going from particular to general. Because the key ingredient for this cake is "significance", there is a pre-requisite, the aspirant necessarily must know themselves to the extent that they are aware of what is meaningful to them. After that a ritual practice can be developed. In this case, a "spell". Prior to that, it's trial and error looking for what causes the heart to go pitter-pat, and the mind to swoon with intellectual-awe, aka "wonder".

So, understanding the purpose of the main ingredients is enough, I can strengthen it by understanding the additional ingredients, right?

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So, understanding the purpose of the main ingredients is enough, I can strengthen it by understanding the additional ingredients, right?

peki siralamayi neye göre yapacagim?

 

[Ziran]

So, understanding the purpose of the main ingredients is enough, I can strengthen it by understanding the additional ingredients, right?

If the understanding cultivates increasing layers of "heart-beating" and "mind-swooning", both, simultaneously, I vote: yes. Lacking that, based on what you've written, I recommend experimenting with different components, adding, removing, tweaking, etc... It sounds like you're on the right track, though.

 

[AlexFearless]

If the understanding cultivates increasing layers of "heart-beating" and "mind-swooning", both, simultaneously, I vote: yes. Lacking that, based on what you've written, I recommend experimenting with different components, adding, removing, tweaking, etc... It sounds like you're on the right track, though.

So how can I understand and learn what the materials are for and how they should be arranged?

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If the understanding cultivates increasing layers of "heart-beating" and "mind-swooning", both, simultaneously, I vote: yes. Lacking that, based on what you've written, I recommend experimenting with different components, adding, removing, tweaking, etc... It sounds like you're on the right track, though.

So I'm trying to create a spell by adding the wrong ingredient, will it harm me or will the spell backfire or will nothing happen?

 

[pigtools]

You know, I'll give you answer for multiple of your questions, probably even some you didn't asnwer yet.

Knock yourself with knowledge. You seem to have very little, possibly no theoretical knowledge of magic at all. Start there. My personal favourtie for being the first book to read is Liber Null. (without the following Psychonaut text) But there is ton and half of the books in the library. You can start for example by looking into the list here: [Official] - SkullTraill's Recommended Occult Reading and Reference

thanks for the pointer

 

[gay_crow]

I think that as beginner you shuld start with recreating already existing spells for a very parctical reason. If you're a novice and have little to no knowledge, when the spell that you created does not work, you propably would't be able to tell where exactly you have made a mistake. Therefore, you can easily waste resources and time. When you have some theoretical and practical knowledge and feel comfortable with your practice, then you can start experimenting with creating new spells with a fairly high chance of success.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

As usual, I recommend Alan Chapman's "Advanced Magick for Beginners"

Book – PDF - Advanced Magick for Beginners - Alan Chapman

A new paradigm that delivers a genuine transformation of the magical arts. The novice magician will indeed find themselves fully equipped to commence all sorts of magickal operations: trance work, enchantment, divination, and even some of the higher forms of spiritual development...

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[PinealisGlandia]

Self-doubt is majiqal poison. Self-confidence is the majiqal panacea. This is the most important element of a spell, do you believe it has a chance of working? If you think you did something wrong, you did (that is, the wrong thing you did was thinking you did something wrong).

I recall a story someone posted on here about themselves. If I'm remembering the details correctly: A neighbor poisoned their cat. The poster flew into a rage and cast a spell that consisted of throwing some salt on the ground in a sigil they made up on the spot. Soon after, the neighbor was hit by a car and did a complete personality change, becoming civil after that. The reason it worked is because there was no doubt in her mind while she performed the working, not because she chanced upon the perfect combination of swooshes for her sigil.

Building associations between symbols will help with creating spells, because it's the unconscious that does the majority of the spellwork. For example, I've studied tarot for a long time, so the numbers 1-22 (the number of cards in the major arcana) carry special correspondence for me. If I wanted to help someone overcome an illness, I might light three candles to invoke the Empress (third card in the major arcana). When I wanted to manifest a new car, I made a bindrune out of the runes for travel and wealth. You probably could get by without doing any of the study to build these associations, because you could just identify your own associations that would serve just as good. Maybe for me, healing is the Empress, but for you, healing is a dragonfly. If you can answer the question of "What symbolizes [purpose of working] to me?", you don't need to do any study to make your spell. If you can see the ritual as a symbolic representation of the problem/solution you are identifying and forcing, it's a good spell.

Hope that helps.

 

[Fr. Maximagus]

In my opinion every successful spell requires
1. A clear intention
2. Getting into a clear meditative state of focused intent
3. Generate the desired emotions associated with the intent achieved (Joy, Gratitude, peace, etc)
4. And finally a symbolic gesture or action representing the completion or fulfillment of the goal.

Its a formula.
This is how ALL things come into being.

You start with fire (Will)
then air (Mind/Thought)
then water (emotion)
then earth (action)