Questions about the psalm book reading ritual

[Amadeus]

Hey WF community! First post here.

I've been wondering about the following ritual which I have used throughout my spiritual journey.

Short story:
Back in the day when I got involved with monastic practices I felt a very strong pull towards psalms. I started experimenting with the monastic rule where the entire psalm book is read daily. At that time I didn't know it was a prayer rule at all, I just made it a daily thing.
At first I felt a tickle on my forehead. Then at some point, maybe after 100 days, it caused a strange explosion like effect up in the third eye region and energies started flooding in even more. Then even more, and more. Increased the sensitivity to a level of x100 times of what I had before.

The ritual started giving me a very powerful sense of well being, through the whole mind, states of ecstasy, and all kinds of results started rolling in from everywhere as well, answers to requests. I thought that perhaps I had opened the third eye somewhat? Unlocked increased awareness or something?

What exactly goes on here? Does anybody know?

What happens on the spiritual plane when this long ritual is being done? I've seen the list of Shem HaMephorash and thought about it as something that connects you with the 72 angels?

Why is it so effective and powerful? I've worked with single psalms and read them hundreds of times at once and the effects are not even close to it.

What goes on in the head, the supreme states of wellbeing and ecstasy? The psalm reading seems to heat and cook the whole mind in a crazy way. Very intense and powerful effects.

From where does this ritual come from? Does anybody else use it here? Tell me about your experiences.

The only information that I have found is that people consider it to be very effective and that Jews do it at the Western Wall for 40 days. Also that some monastic orders use it as a prayer rule

 

[Sunnylil]

You need a certain number of posts in order to use the PM function, I forget how many, 20 maybe - it's meant as an anti-spam measure so that no one can register and pester everyone right away. It's more a question for the Help Forum, perhaps the info is there. No time, gotta run, sorry.

Oh, thank you! Sorry for bothering you, your answer already helped a lot

 

[Morell]

Hey Sunnylil.
I might read the whole thing in the morning or about half of them, and the rest in the evening, without any 100% fixed hours. The evening session takes place between 5 to 12 pm, sometimes starting at 6, other times from 8 or 9. The place is same, usually sitting on the bed.

Now I haven't always read just the psalms but also worked a lot with the Torah, Old and New testament. The psalm reading streaks were sometimes 40, 50, 60, 100+ days, even years, but sometimes without reading all of them daily, maybe focused on a single psalm or a set of psalms.

The book that you have mentioned, somebody told me about it, that there are some special phrases in it. All I know is that he did not have any significant success with it.

I don't read all of them in one hour, I've done the "speedrun" technique in the past but it was not effective. However when I do the full reading in let's say hour and 45 minutes or 2 hours, then it feels very effective.

Yes I do have some kind of a channel open, however I don't know how to use it properly. I've read psalms for others and it has given them results, I haven't done this much though. For me it was not hard to open the channel, it took more years to learn to handle the readings, this was much harder. Most of the time I have used the psalms for my own goals and it definitely gives all kinds of blessings, results, outcomes.

I actually feel the same here. In the past when I sometimes quit reading them, it felt like the power would not let me go. Still, I have switched a lot between the practices, prioritized one practice over another. I went from psalms to hesychasm and sticked to it for a while, then switched again, sometimes both at once.

Yes I know those two, I have read the LBRP and Middle Pillar. The other meditations that I have experimented with, everything from sufism, then the main known verses from the Quran, and of course the whole Quran itself. I don't connect so well with sufism though, feels like the effects are slightly incompatible. Never heard about Kavvanah meditation, I have to look it up.

The goal, to develop the abilities further, unlock something, perhaps do the same thing as the person you know.

Hebrew names of God in each psalm? No, I've just read them out from psalm books and bibles without thinking of that. One bible I have uses the name Jehowah all over, but it's not the JW version though.

Truth be told, I never heard of such fascinating use of the Bible. I rather thought it to be collection of history and mythology, with rarely any value for occult or actually for life in our times.
Must say you proved me wrong. Your passion for your spiritual work and practice is very admirable.

 

[Amadeus]

Hey Morell.
I'm definitely not the only one doing this. Places like say, mt Athos are filled with monks who work a lot with the psalms and hesychasm. They're reading all psalms every day or work with the Jesus prayer (hesychasm). I've also heard about Orthodox Jews who work a lot with the psalms, reading the whole thing every day. Some rabbi told me that there are people who do this all the time. Some even read the whole thing 2 or 3 times, which is absolutely crazy, the effects like that are "ultra intense".

Although I've spoken to many people, you know, most of them are kind of narrow minded. The average priest or monk would say that all "visions or dreams" are demonic, and there is no useful advice, nothing. Very boring conversations, that is why I decided to come here and see if anybody has more information.

The book of psalms, when it is read a lot, either by reading the whole thing or by working with some selected ones, can produce all kinds of results. I've seen many over the years. The text definitely has a lot of power in there. It opens the reader relatively fast, clears the "channel". Raises a substantial amount of energy and blasts through you, something opens. After this point you can easily work even with the other practices, whether it's the Quran, Buddhist or Hindu mantras, or something else, you can connect more easily with everything.

The same thing can be said about the Quran and dhikr, they too can be used to open this sensitivity fast, the keyword is spam, a lot has to be read daily, long sessions.

I don't know why but the whole psalm reading method does this very fast. I remember teaching some people both the whole psalm reading and hesychasm and something happened within weeks, months. Something cracks open very fast, there's however a bigger problem, to be able to handle the effects after that, it's extremely hot, like burning sun, blazing fire. This takes quite a while, lots of spam is required.

When I first made the post, I didn't know that you cannot edit the post after 5 minutes? so I could not include everything. I'm new to this forum. Oh well, all forums and communities have their own rules.

 

[Sunnylil]

Hey Morell.
I'm definitely not the only one doing this. Places like say, mt Athos are filled with monks who work a lot with the psalms and hesychasm. They're reading all psalms every day or work with the Jesus prayer (hesychasm). I've also heard about Orthodox Jews who work a lot with the psalms, reading the whole thing every day. Some rabbi told me that there are people who do this all the time. Some even read the whole thing 2 or 3 times, which is absolutely crazy, the effects like that are "ultra intense".

Although I've spoken to many people, you know, most of them are kind of narrow minded. The average priest or monk would say that all "visions or dreams" are demonic, and there is no useful advice, nothing. Very boring conversations, that is why I decided to come here and see if anybody has more information.

The book of psalms, when it is read a lot, either by reading the whole thing or by working with some selected ones, can produce all kinds of results. I've seen many over the years. The text definitely has a lot of power in there. It opens the reader relatively fast, clears the "channel". Raises a substantial amount of energy and blasts through you, something opens. After this point you can easily work even with the other practices, whether it's the Quran, Buddhist or Hindu mantras, or something else, you can connect more easily with everything.

The same thing can be said about the Quran and dhikr, they too can be used to open this sensitivity fast, the keyword is spam, a lot has to be read daily, long sessions.

I don't know why but the whole psalm reading method does this very fast. I remember teaching some people both the whole psalm reading and hesychasm and something happened within weeks, months. Something cracks open very fast, there's however a bigger problem, to be able to handle the effects after that, it's extremely hot, like burning sun, blazing fire. This takes quite a while, lots of spam is required.

When I first made the post, I didn't know that you cannot edit the post after 5 minutes? so I could not include everything. I'm new to this forum. Oh well, all forums and communities have their own rules.

Sorry for bombarding you with questions, but could I ask one more? You mentioned that you read while sitting in bed. Does that mean you don't follow any ritual part? Now I wonder if it is necessary or not. For example, I have an altar with candles and a ritual robe. Plus, I write my request in Hebrew on the candle and read specific psalms for the problem at hand. It got me thinking, could reading the entire Book of Psalms make things work faster?
I'm really looking forward to the moment when DMs open up, so I can ask you something privately, if you don't mind, of course.

 

[Amadeus]

You can ask as much as you want, no problem about that.
Very often what I do is, I sit somewhere, bed, couch, sometimes in front of the PC or reading it from the phone apps, this is when I want to experiment with some different psalm books. There are so many different versions. I do like using an actual book more than some app or screen, feels much better.

What happens with it is that with every consecutive day the effects get stronger, it loads like some kind of a program into you, I have no idea what the proper wording here is. Then it reloads the same thing, and again, and everything gets stronger. The ritual part which I have followed a lot, is reading the praises and requests after the full reading, a common method, reading + praises and requests. The reading itself gives me a strange energized trance like state where the energy flows through me, coming from above (burning sun like effect) then fries everything in it's way.

I have of course experimented with more ritualized methods that use candles, especially the beeswax ones and added the LBRP/LIRP, Middle pillar and so on to it. I'm not really doing that very heavily ritualized method so often as it seems to be unnecessary. The effects build up over time, the more you do it, the stronger it all gets, regardless of where you do it or how.

If you want to try the whole reading, try something like 10 or 12 days straight and see what happens, should give interesting effects after a few readings, days.

 

[Morell]

Although I've spoken to many people, you know, most of them are kind of narrow minded. The average priest or monk would say that all "visions or dreams" are demonic, and there is no useful advice, nothing. Very boring conversations, that is why I decided to come here and see if anybody has more information.

Indeed. When crawling through YouTube, the influencers of Christianity, clergy or not, are very rarely not narrowminded. It sometimes makes me sad, not to mention that they (both intentionally and not) mock other religions, as well as atheists.
And to even start with modern obsession of some Churches with demons... a dangerous thing, not only are they taking money for it, but they teach people that it is way from their problem which can get them into addiction circle of exorcisms and finding out that they are again (actually still) in that trouble. This modern fashion is not really helping them, I think it's rather self-delusion of some kind.

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It's sad how little actual spiritual knowledge or even true interest is in the religion.

 

[HoldAll]

Indeed. When crawling through YouTube, the influencers of Christianity, clergy or not, are very rarely not narrowminded. It sometimes makes me sad, not to mention that they (both intentionally and not) mock other religions, as well as atheists.
And to even start with modern obsession of some Churches with demons... a dangerous thing, not only are they taking money for it, but they teach people that it is way from their problem which can get them into addiction circle of exorcisms and finding out that they are again (actually still) in that trouble. This modern fashion is not really helping them, I think it's rather self-delusion of some kind.

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It's sad how little actual spiritual knowledge or even true interest is in the religion.

Let's not get off topic here, this thread is solely about psalms, not the excesses of christian zelots. Besides, it's framed as a question about actual experiences, not about points of view.

 

[Vandheer]

Some even read the whole thing 2 or 3 times, which is absolutely crazy, the effects like that are "ultra intense".

I have heard some interesting things about this on Mouni Sadhu's book named Concentration. Apparently some priests would lock themselves up and repeat these psalms all day, everyday. Said people got very interesting skills overtime, from miracle cures to one guy commanding demons to make him levitate (when he asks the demons to lower him down they just make him fall to his death, well played).

I am curious on what anecdotes you have.

 

[Sunnylil]

You can ask as much as you want, no problem about that.
Very often what I do is, I sit somewhere, bed, couch, sometimes in front of the PC or reading it from the phone apps, this is when I want to experiment with some different psalm books. There are so many different versions. I do like using an actual book more than some app or screen, feels much better.

What happens with it is that with every consecutive day the effects get stronger, it loads like some kind of a program into you, I have no idea what the proper wording here is. Then it reloads the same thing, and again, and everything gets stronger. The ritual part which I have followed a lot, is reading the praises and requests after the full reading, a common method, reading + praises and requests. The reading itself gives me a strange energized trance like state where the energy flows through me, coming from above (burning sun like effect) then fries everything in it's way.

I have of course experimented with more ritualized methods that use candles, especially the beeswax ones and added the LBRP/LIRP, Middle pillar and so on to it. I'm not really doing that very heavily ritualized method so often as it seems to be unnecessary. The effects build up over time, the more you do it, the stronger it all gets, regardless of where you do it or how.

If you want to try the whole reading, try something like 10 or 12 days straight and see what happens, should give interesting effects after a few readings, days.

Your advice is so helpful!
I’m glad you don’t mind me asking more questions. It looks like I can already send DMs, so I’ll reach out to you there!

 

[Ziran]

I just haven't ever figured out what goes on with these rituals, can't understand

It's yichidim, unifications. You'll find it referenced explicitly and repeatedly in Sephardic siddurim, it's also mentioned in siddurim nusach ari.

What exactly goes on here? Does anybody know?

In the material realm it's רגז

רגזו ואל־תחטאו אמרו בלבבכם על־משכבכם ודמו סלה׃

Beyond the material it's רחפ

והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על־פני תהום ורוח אלהים מרחפת על־פני המים׃

Why is it so effective and powerful? I've worked with single psalms and read them hundreds of times at once and the effects are not even close to it.

Because an individual Psalm often doesn't produce רצוא ושוב

והחיות רצוא ושוב כמראה הבזק׃

The ritual includes the aspirant in the angelic processional. The one which is described as "Jacob's ladder" rushing and returning.

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The psalm book, I've gone through it a couple thousand times.

Are you using a translation? If so which one?

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Can't communicate with anything

State your inquiry / petition at the beginning then repeat it at the end. There is a formalized evocation at both sides of the ritual. I can post it here if there is interest.

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Some rabbi told me that there are people who do this all the time. Some even read the whole thing 2 or 3 times, which is absolutely crazy, the effects like that are "ultra intense".

Yes. We do it traditionally several times a year. It's not uncommon to do the entire book when requesting divine intervention especially for healing. The great sages and kabalists spend a great deal of time on Psalms, Rabbi Yisrael Abu-Hatzeira for example. Always praying and saying Psalms.

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to be able to handle the effects after that, it's extremely hot, like burning sun, blazing fire.

The heat? It's best understood metaphorically as "steam".

In Hebrew in the material realm: אד

ואד יעלה מן־הארץ והשקה את־כל־פני האדמה׃

( There's a great secret here.​

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וירא אלהים את־כל־אשר עשה והנה־טוב מאד ויהי־ערב ויהי־בקר יום הששי׃​

​

What is טוב מאד? )​

In Hebrew beyond the material realm: רקיע

ויקרא אלהים לרקיע שמים ויהי־ערב ויהי־בקר יום שני׃

The heat is described metaphorically in 2 places, the best example is the flaming blade of the כרבים

ויגרש את־האדם וישכן מקדם לגן־עדן את־הכרבים ואת להט החרב המתהפכת לשמר את־דרך עץ החיים׃

It's also important to note the כרבים are מרכבת. Those particular angels are chariots.

 

[Amadeus]

I have heard some interesting things about this on Mouni Sadhu's book named Concentration. Apparently some priests would lock themselves up and repeat these psalms all day, everyday. Said people got very interesting skills overtime, from miracle cures to one guy commanding demons to make him levitate (when he asks the demons to lower him down they just make him fall to his death, well played).

I am curious on what anecdotes you have.

I have done something like this too, read them all days, for long periods. One full round in the morning and then I repeated a psalm like 23, 91 or some other the whole day. When you do this all the time, it's very hard to go back. When you stop doing it, this feels as if reaching the ultimate height of some extreme mental high and then crashing down. A feeling of going down from a state of power to being something totally worthless, there are weird psychological side effects. Some of the earliest years I had serious issues with this. I was in some irritated angry state, then in a perfect bliss, then mad again. Sometimes I read the psalms twice or thrice.

Here is a good anecdote for you! The weirdest cases, when I first became too open, I managed to become possessed a couple of times, one time after experimenting with some mantras which immediately connected to something, the other time it happened after I went to a local cemetery. At first I couldn't understand what was happening, the necromantic essence started flowing through me. Later noticed how the thoughts were not mine and the state felt slightly weird. I had to force that energy out. It felt like an anecdote, walk 15 minutes in a cemetery, then have something attach to you. These issues came from not just being open but the quantity of everything, mixed up practices from many religions, overkilled the spiritual engine. With a single system in place it did not happen anymore. I keep one system firmly in place and a certain % goes on experimentation with others.

This is another anecdote like event. There were some times when I looked into the traditional grimoires, those were still the early days and I had hard time controlling all the energy. I remember how I looked at some image of a "friend" (and his family) and kept demanding one person from there to get possessed by something from a grimoire. I was kind of angry because the guy did not pay his debt back fast enough, I needed it right away, he promised to give it fast, then a week passed still no cash... Anyway that person actually ended up getting possessed after some days, we spoke about it after some days. I was kind of shocked that it happened so easily. Now I'm not really a nasty person to just for fun experiment like that, however the massive energy, my unstable mind, the cocktail from mixing practices, all at once... There were some more strange events.

What I am aware of is that some people unlock the "servants" behind the psalms or other texts, after devoting a lot of time on them. For example sufis who work a lot with some dhikr, verse or chapter, until they show themselves by appearing in the room, there are formulas (or freestyle spam). Then they will grant you something. Now I haven't had anybody appear like that no, there have been some flashes, orbs, and some events where I could hear something speak, a very low voice, distant voice. Now at first I was questioning the whole situation but I made some requests, which were granted very fast, on the same day. It does unlock some higher intuition and you get information out of nowhere, doesn't happen all the time though. I read somewhere that the Athos hesychasts, some, achieve that level and are able to see people through, get answers to questions, turning psychic.
Usually for me somebody appears in my dreams, there have been monks, others, then again, maybe some were impostors, Sometimes after I asked for something, a guy showed up and I felt an energy charge through the dream.

There are benefits, the saint work goes well. I often visit Orthodox churches, cathedrals and light some candles, works very well. I also read saint prayers, akathists and such.

In that state, of being supercharged, connected, it is possible to work more easily with grimoires, so I'm not surprised if somebody commanded them to do something, but to levitate? A guy I met online told me about using the hesychasm to get charged, so he can work with grimoires. I don't really touch grimoires though, just experimented a bit with them in the past, only a bit.

The spam like this, psalms, hesychasm, they can kind of lead one to going mad, especially when that connection is not open enough and you stack all the energy inside you, so that it cannot get out. The connection has to be open enough for it to pass right through, heat the spiritual engine, stack some.

I have to think.. what else to add in this post later.

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State your inquiry / petition at the beginning then repeat it at the end. There is a formalized evocation at both sides of the ritual. I can post it here if there is interest.

Yes please, sounds interesting.

Your response is very interesting, thanks for taking the time to write this.

I've read the psalms mostly in a non English language (not Hebrew, I can't understand any Hebrew at all). I'll explain and message you once I get the private messages feature. I think I'm a few posts short.

I've read a certain % of the psalms in English, NKJV, NIV, some TLV, and a few rounds of KJV, honestly I can't stand the old English. A very small % in OCS, old church Slavonic, I can't really understand OCS, just spell out words. Some other English ones, can't remember.


Yisrael Abu-Hatzeira? I have to check the search engine.

 

[555realmsgirl]

Hey I wanted @Amadeus I found this psalm ritual on Reddit (read book of psalms in full every single one 150 in one sitting) one said do it for 40 days while others said how many times works best 7+ days well up to 30-40. They said it is spiritually over whelming for some and boy they weren’t lying ! I have managed to do it 12 times. Only 2 times consecutively as it is very powerful. To the point where it drains my energy and I am knocked out. I would really love complete it consecutively for a week or two at least but I’m really struggling as I’m worried I won’t get my outcome if I’m not consistent. I’m happy to complete it one session (takes me 4-6 hours) but everyday the energy is insane and I’m low key scared of the power it holds haha

 

[Amadeus]

Hey I wanted @Amadeus I found this psalm ritual on Reddit (read book of psalms in full every single one 150 in one sitting) one said do it for 40 days while others said how many times works best 7+ days well up to 30-40. They said it is spiritually over whelming for some and boy they weren’t lying ! I have managed to do it 12 times. Only 2 times consecutively as it is very powerful. To the point where it drains my energy and I am knocked out. I would really love complete it consecutively for a week or two at least but I’m really struggling as I’m worried I won’t get my outcome if I’m not consistent. I’m happy to complete it one session (takes me 4-6 hours) but everyday the energy is insane and I’m low key scared of the power it holds haha

I know the Reddit posts, I have googled this topic in the past, there's not much of information available about it. They are all referring to the Jewish method of 40 at the Western Wall, or the monastic rule where all psalms are also read daily. I keep forgetting the order name, I believe it is one of the Orthodox one, not Catholic.

It can make you either very drained or supremely charged. This has always been a mystery to me. What makes it even weirder is that sometimes I feel drained at first and then supercharged. I remember some streaks when I got into a mode where I could keep on going indefinitely. As soon as I stopped I felt like a zombie for days. I compared the effects between the 3 methods. Single psalms, random psalms and the full book reading. The whole reading gives the best effects. Spiritual effects, bliss, ecstasy, state of wellbeing, and strange results, weird coincidences start happening.

It is very powerful indeed, especially when you do it all the time, and more than once a day. Things get even weirder when your streak includes some 2-3x days. Comes with the most mysterious outcomes. For this your readings have to be about 2 hours each. That way you can do 3 sessions. Faster than 2 hours, 4x-5x is possible. Visually too much text though. You should not do this until you have completed hundreds of readings, it will overload you and bad side effects.

You should not be worried about not being able to complete 7x+. It works even if you do it every other day or random 2-3x a week. I've heard that some read it once a week. 7x-14x-40x+ can be very difficult, especially 40+.

There is a combined approach to fight the bad drained effect. You have to mix it with hesychasm. Bring in a lot of energy with the hesychast practice and then read all psalms. The main problem here is that you have only done 12x in total, meaning your overall experience is not high enough. There is nothing bad about that, we all start from somewhere. The psalm method is more doable when the spiritual engine gets stronger. The spiritual muscles cannot handle it so well yet and sometimes it is better to use a bookmark and split the reading between 2-3 days. It will probably make you very open soon, energy will pass through you more easily.

 

[555realmsgirl]

State your inquiry / petition at the beginning then repeat it at the end. There is a formalized evocation at both sides of the ritual. I can post it here if there is interest.

Please can you post it here x That’s one thing I’m a bit anxious about as there is so little about this ritual. Although it is very effective, the energy is a lot to harness. Scary how good this works

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There is a combined approach to fight the bad drained effect. You have to mix it with hesychasm. Bring in a lot of energy with the hesychast practice and then read all psalms. The main problem here is that you have only done 12x in total,

thank you for the response x I have played around with hesychasm separate from the psalm ritual I just feel bummed that I haven’t been able to do it conservatively day after day. The zombie like feeling you explained I can 110% relate to. I guess because I am just getting used to the energy I’m harnessing it’s not that bad if I space it out at first then the more I do full book readings then I can try doing full readings consecutively. I have done KJV version 10x but recently changed as although challenging and brain stimulating I was struggling to connect with the language so using a Bible from my church. I was able to read the whloe book of psalms much quicker and actually understand what I was reading. I have heard KJV is great for Psalm rituals so I do intend to go back to reading that version but I will do a couple of reads to fully grasp the essence of Psalms ! So far I am fascinated but I already struggle with fatigue so the extra draining feeling is not inspiring. How long would you say to practice hesychasm before beginning the Psalm ritual ? Thank you for this thread the information regarding this ritual is very slim

 

[Amadeus]

While hesychasm is indeed good for bringing in energy, it can become way too overwhelming for you right now. I didn't touch hesychasm until I actually felt ready for it. Without the prior experience with the psalms and other texts, it probably would have destroyed my mind.
It's the rocket fuel and blazing like fire.

This is individual, it has to do with your spiritual capacity, stamina, openness. At first I had some difficulties even with 500, but I had the ground to build on, years of psalm work. I kept adding more and more. Then it felt like humming all over in my head. Exploding feeling.

Just in case try just 10 minutes, start very low. One can read about 1000 plus minus 200 per hour. Shorter version goes faster, better to do longer ones and not rush it, meditative. Try and see what happens You can always add more later on.

KJV, NIV, NKJV, there are many. I don't like old KJV, while it works well, the language is a bit annoying. Some people I know read the NKJV. I do my readings mostly in a non English language and different translations. They all work but there are differences with the effects. Some examples, psalm books that use the name Lord vs Jehovah have different overall effects. The best would be to try out multiple. Also the version that you choose will soon become much easier to read, you get so used to it after a while.

 

[ThirdEyeWizard]

This is fascinating to hear about. I'm going to start reading the psalms myself and see what results I get. I've always love the poetry in there.

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Update: I read the psalms for the first time tonight. Just 1 and 119. I felt a great sense of calm I read through them, as though bathed in God's love. Will keep reading routinely.

 

[David Wilson-Steer]

I would have thought that the idea of the forum is to share ideas and information. Using a private conversation deprives the rest of us of the conversation which is how we learn from each other and is especially useful for newbies.

One other point I'd like to make is that when I first started doing the Bornless Ritual I did it once a day for two months, twice a day for the next two and three times a day for the last two months. But I continue to do it often but not necessarily regularly. I also do it when I'm performing other rituals. The thing is that our brains are designed to notice differences and the more we repeat something the less we tend to notice the effects. It's obvious in things like olfactory fatigue where you stop noticing the smell of the incense after a while or people with dogs don't notice the doggy smell in their house. However, even if you stop noticing the effects, they are still there. The magic continues to work but it often seems to be more subtle.

 

[555realmsgirl]

I would have thought that the idea of the forum is to share ideas and information. Using a private conversation deprives the rest of us of the conversation which is how we learn from each other and is especially useful for newbies.

One other point I'd like to make is that when I first started doing the Bornless Ritual I did it once a day for two months, twice a day for the next two and three times a day for the last two months. But I continue to do it often but not necessarily regularly. I also do it when I'm performing other rituals. The thing is that our brains are designed to notice differences and the more we repeat something the less we tend to notice the effects. It's obvious in things like olfactory fatigue where you stop noticing the smell of the incense after a while or people with dogs don't notice the doggy smell in their house. However, even if you stop noticing the effects, they are still there. The magic continues to work but it often seems to be more subtle.

Thank you for your input I’ve never heard of the Bornleas Ritual. What is the purpose/ end goal with that ritual. Psalms are used for so many this specific one is spiritual closeness, purification favour from God and so much more

 

[HoldAll]

Thank you for your input I’ve never heard of the Bornleas Ritual. What is the purpose/ end goal with that ritual. Psalms are used for so many this specific one is spiritual closeness, purification favour from God and so much more

Thelemites will strongly disagree but I really wouldn’t recommend Crowley’s version of the Headless Rite (what he termed ‚the Bornless Rite‘). His translation of this ancient Graeco-Egyptian ritual that is at least 1,500 years old is fine and even more evocative than purely scholarly ones (see

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) but then he made the unforgivable mistake of substituting the words of power / barbarous names / voces magicae with his own which is simply not done, and that’s why I’d recommend the version given by Jason Miller in his „Real Sorcery“ (p. 44):

Book – PDF - Real Sorcery: Strategies for Powerful Magick - Jason Miller (new edition of sorcerer’s secrets)

In my opinion, the Bornless/Headless Rite doesn’t jibe with the psalms because in this ritual, you basically turn yourself into a powerful creator god while in the psalms you supplicate God, praise Him, etc. Moreover, the Greek Magical Papyri draw from Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, Gnostic and even Christian sources which doesn’t sit well with the strict exclusivity of monotheism. I myself have performed the Headless Rite many times and have found that it doesn’t conflict with the LBRP which is exclusively Jewish (as seen through a Hermitic-cum-Qabalistic Victorian lens), after all, even nicely complements it, so my cross-cultural incompatibility theory may not apply in practice. I’m kinda allergic to Christian stuff though, so I’ve never tried in in combination with psalms.

The Headless Rite is often used as a sort of ‚booster‘ (after all, becoming a god is the ultimate empowerment), so a psalm inspiring confidence and courage should be apposite but definitely not one according to which you debase yourself before God. Then again, it might be a fine dramatic twist, from the lowest lows to the highest highs… anyway, if you want to perform the Bornless/Headless Rite well, be sure to learn speaking the words by heart so you’ll have your hands free for any gestures you might be inspired to make.

 

[Ziran]

Please can you post it here

Here it is in a spoiler to save screen space. The formal evocation is long. It's intended to be all inclusive. Many shorten it or omit it.

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... from Kol Menachem Tehillim. I marked the places where it is appropriate to insert additional petitions or inquiries. Traditionally, the aspirant prays at the beginning for atonement of their own sins and their own health, then, at the end, they request healing for any others and for the welfare of the whole community. However, making a particular request at this time is also perfectly good and welcome.

On completion of the reading of the Psalms, the concluding prayer is written for one who has completed an entire book ( section) of the Psalms. Please don't worry if a book/section was not completed. The prayer is uttered including the books/sections which were included in the reading. The book names can be given in language which you are most comfortable. For me, this is B'reishis, Shemos, Vayikra, Bamidbar, D'varim. In English it's Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy.

Prayer before Tehillim (Psalms) on a Weekday​

May it be Your Will, YHVH, my God, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, who chooses His servant David and his seed after him, and who chooses songs and praises- that You turn in compassion to my reading of the songs of Tehillim, as if they had been said by King David of blessed memory, may his merit protect me. May the merit the Tehillim verses and the merit of their words, letters, vowels, and notes, as well as the Divine Names spelled by their first and last letters, stand me in good stead to atone for our transgressions, iniquities, and sins; to cut down insolent forces and cut off all the thorns and prickles that surround the Celestial Rose; to unite the Bride of Youth with her Beloved, with love, kinship, and friendship. From that union may bounty be drawn to our nefesh, ruach and neshamah, ( 3 aspects of the house man soul ) to purify us of our iniquities, forgive our sins, and atone for our transgressions, just as You forgave David who said these Psalms before You, as the verse states, "YHVH has also removed your sin; you will not die" (II Shmuel 12:13). May You not take us from this world before our time, before we complete, "the span of our life is seventy years" (Psalms 90:10), so that we can fix what we have corrupted. May the merit of King David, of blessed memory, be a shield over us and for us, that You will be patient with us until we return towards You in complete repentance before You. And may You grant favor to us from Your treasury of undeserved grace, { insert additional petition or inquiry here } , as the verse states, "I shall grant grace to whom I grant grace, and I shall have compassion for whom I have compassion" (Exodus 33:19). Just as we sing praise before You in this world, so may we merit to sing songs and praises before You, YHVH my God, in the World to Come. May the recitation of psalms arouse the "Tulip of Sharon" (Song of Songs 2:1), to sing with a sweet voice, with happiness and with joy and may she be given the glory of the Levanon. May majesty and splendor be found in the House of our God, speedily in our days. Amen, Selah.

{ BEFORE SAYING PSALMS IT IS CUSTOMARY TO SAY THESE THREE VERSES SO THERE IS NO INTERRUPTION BETWEEN THE INVOCATION AND THE DEED }

Come let us sing to God, let us acclaim the Rock, our savior. Let us welcome Him with thanksgiving, let us acclaim Him with songs of praise. For God is the great God, the great King over all powers.

(Psalm 95:1-3)

{ BEGINNING READING OF SELECTED PSALMS }

Prayer after Saying Tehillim on a Weekday​

May it be Your Will, YHVH, my God, and the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, that in the merit of the:

First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth

book of Psalms that I have read before You, which corresponds to the book of:

Bereishis ( Genesis ) | Shemos ( Exodus ) | Vayikra ( Leviticus ) | Bamidbar ( Numbers ) | Devarim ( Deuteronomy )

that in the merit of its psalms, and in the merit of its verses, and in the merit of its words, and in the merit of the holy and pure Divine Names that are implied from them-You should grant us atonement for all our sins, pardon us for all our transgressions, and forgive us for all our iniquities, which we have sinned and transgressed and been iniquitous before You. Help us return in complete repentance before You, guide us in Your worship, and open our hearts to the study of Your Torah. Send a full recovery to the sick of Your nation and to { " (Legal Given Name of Sick Person) who is sick" or insert petition or inquiry here }. Proclaim liberty for captives, and freedom for prisoners. For all those from your people Israel traveling by land, and crossing oceans or rivers-save them from any distress and damage, and let them reach their destination alive and in peace. May all the childless become pregnant with viable offspring who will serve and fear You. Protect the pregnant women of Your nation, Israel, that they do not miscarry. With Your abundant mercy, protect all birthing women from mishap. Cause nursing women not to lack milk. May neither diphtheria, demons, evil spirits, night spirits, afflictions nor misfortunes affect the children of Your nation, the House of Israel. Raise them to Your Torah, to study the Torah for its own sake. Save them from the "Evil Eye," from illness and diseases, and from the Satan and the Evil Inclination. Erase for us and for all your nation the House of Israel, wherever they live, any harsh and negative decrees. Incline the heart of the government to act favorably with them to enact good laws for them. Send blessing and success to all the work of our hands, and prepare our livelihood with Your wide and full Hand, so that the people of Your nation, the House of Israel, will not rely on each other, nor on another nation. Grant every single person ample livelihood, and give every person whatever he lacks. Speedily hasten our redemption, and build our Temple in holiness and splendor. And in the merit of Your Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, written in Your Torah-YHVH! YHVH! A compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in kindness and good faith, keeping kindness for the thousandth generation bearing crime, trespass and offense" (Shemos 34:6-7)-which are never returned by You dismissively, help us, YHVH of our salvation, for the sake of Your Name's honor. Rescue us, and grant us atonement for our sins for the sake of Your Name. Blessed is YHVH forever, Amen and Amen.

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I’m happy to complete it one session (takes me 4-6 hours) but everyday the energy is insane

The intensity can be moderated with Ecclesiastes.