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

 

[555realmsgirl]

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.

Thank you Ziran I really appreciate this I will use this petition and mesh it with my personal request and update you with the results God bless you!

 

[Ziran]

God bless you!

Thank you. You and yours as well.

 

[sandros]

Yes, I'll be trying and experimenting.
If you try working with Tetragrammaton vibrations, please share your results (here or via direct messages, though I'm not sure if forum members can message each other here, since I'm new here on the forum). I'd be very interested, as with your experience working with psalms, the effect could be impressive.
Have a wonderful day!

interested in doing psalms magick

Post automatically merged: Oct 28, 2024

from what I read its praying and reading the psalms over and over until its granted.
correct me if Im
wrong . Im looking for magickal results not into the theology .

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this is alot

 

[555realmsgirl]

Do you usually do it in the morning I heard it’s not advised to do psalms reading in the night. It’s not bad but preferably should be read in the morning

 

[beardedeldridge]

Do you usually do it in the morning I heard it’s not advised to do psalms reading in the night. It’s not bad but preferably should be read in the morning

Traditionally first thing in the morning but I’ve read afternoon and quite often (and to good effect) late at night.

 

[Amadeus]

I have done them both morning, evening, a little bit during nights but that happens rarely. I like the method of reading half and half as well or 30% morning 70% evening. Then the %'s change 70%+30%, 40%60, 10%90%.

I'm wondering about that too, why online sources say that the reading should be done in the morning or day time. I often find the reading to be more intense in the evenings.

I found some info like these, many more, all about the same, suggested not to read during nights.

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[555realmsgirl]

Half and half works. Honestly I’ve done full readings the energy is insane and intense. Euphoric to the point where it scares me. Your body heats up you’re ecstatic. I’ve done full readings a few times and I have gotten success with request. However, working with the energy is not for the weak. It does take practice it’s fun but I have noticed although it loads you with divine energy it can also drain you. I’ve been spiritually attacked. You are connected to something. Some spiritual divine veil is lifted and you can tap in. I recent do one 1-72 psalm 1 day then next day 73-150. I still felt the energy less powerful that the full reading but still effective. Read the prayer that @sandros thankfully gave us I’m feeling something that’s for sure. However, this method the heat and energy builds over time. I have a lot to say about this specific use of psalms but honestly I am myself still fairly new to this method and I’m still experimenting will definitely use during Lent and post my findings/ results x

 

[Amadeus]

Yes half and half works, quarters work, 1/5th a day works too. There are so many possible ways to do it. You could read a quarter, twice, 3x, 4x. Same thing over and over again. By the time you reach 100X 200X total completions, the word insane will get a new meaning The energy becomes even more intense and insaner when you do it for a year, 2, 3, switching between the methods. It goes absolutely crazy, beyond the logic. Frying and cooking the channels like BBQ. The most interesting effects came the times when I spammed it all twice a day. Something heats like the coil in e cigarette. Very important is to find the right PS book that you like, then it becomes easier to read and the rounds go faster.

Then somehow later you become somewhat immune to it and feel like doing more is easy. Everything seems to change over time, back and forth. Maybe for a while it feels like A... then B... then C, back to A, back to C. Might remain on one level for a while, you never know.

 

[mangaman2]

Can you or anyone else elaborate what happen if you push through and other benefit and experience of psalm reading beside what's already mentioned on this thread?
I tried reading psalm 1-20 today and I do feel heat on my face

 

[Amadeus]

Can you or anyone else elaborate what happen if you push through and other benefit and experience of psalm reading beside what's already mentioned on this thread?
I tried reading psalm 1-20 today and I do feel heat on my face

First there is heat and or tingle. Then more of both. Then you get waves of energy passing through you. Everything gets multiplied.
At some point it's like total fire frying your mind. There are interesting states, amazing extreme wellbeing.
Over time your stamina increases and you can do more. Ability to take in and process more energy increases. Openness increases. A feeling of being clear, a total purification effect.
The most extreme effects come when it's done daily for months or years. If not daily then at least a few times a week.
There is a huge difference between 1-20 and full 1-150. I've used every method and nothing gave higher effects. Read them in random order, same ones and mixed them together.
You get all kinds of benefits with it. It unlocks intuition and senses to feel energies better. Support from the unseen. Help with your goals. Very quick results are possible, something that you want just happens. Hard to describe, you have to experience it yourself. You have to experiment.
There are also negative effects like too much energy, energy overloads. To do this safely you better pay attention to your senses and slow down whenever it becomes too much. The line between good and bad can be very thin, especially when you begin with this. I'm not sure what to add, I think the post already has everything in here. I'm probably just repeating the same things.

 

[AbammonTheGreat]

Psalms specifically is thought by a lot of magicians to be a book of spells. You can think of them like Orphic hymns, they're invocatory of aspects of YHVH. If you get even deeper and decide to engage in the kabbalah/gematria of psalms you can calculate spirit/angel names with the book. I knew one Enochian practitioner that would include psalms that had the correct sympathy to his operations when working with the enochian spirits. For me personally I see it as pathways of theurgy. Spending more time with Psalms, though your 100 day ritual is impressive on its own, will probably keep unlocking more magical applications relevant to your personal practice.

I'm glad you had the experience you did, there's a lot of untouched magic in Psalms that you can unlock by treating it as a part of your practice. I wonder what insights you will gain, and hopefully enlighten us with.

 

[Amadeus]

Psalms specifically is thought by a lot of magicians to be a book of spells. You can think of them like Orphic hymns, they're invocatory of aspects of YHVH. If you get even deeper and decide to engage in the kabbalah/gematria of psalms you can calculate spirit/angel names with the book. I knew one Enochian practitioner that would include psalms that had the correct sympathy to his operations when working with the enochian spirits. For me personally I see it as pathways of theurgy. Spending more time with Psalms, though your 100 day ritual is impressive on its own, will probably keep unlocking more magical applications relevant to your personal practice.

I'm glad you had the experience you did, there's a lot of untouched magic in Psalms that you can unlock by treating it as a part of your practice. I wonder what insights you will gain, and hopefully enlighten us with.

Hmm insight, what else to add.
Interesting, yes the gematria. I heard this before from some Arab practitioners and somebody showed me online calculators. The problem is that the calculators are usually for Hebrew, which I can't understand. Then there's something for Arabic calculations. Rituals where x verse is read x times. Somebody told me that language changes the effects, rituals. Still, worth trying. Sometimes I'm experimenting with this.

When I'm working with the psalms then what I'm doing is:

A hundred days isn't that hard to do. With a single reading being 2 hours, they go fast. The main issue is that it becomes very tedious to follow the same method.

I switch between 3 methods. Calling them the 3 strategies. Full rounds, mixed and the same psalms method, choosing some 1-5 or more. Sometimes I switch between different psalm books to make it more interesting. Like this you can go on for a much longer period than a hundred days.

When you read them a lot, more and more strange stuff starts happening. It feels like the pineal gland or something heats up fully. There's a sensation of power flowing through you. The connection gets better when there are readings done daily, no matter which strategy. The other strategies don't have such a massive effect though but they keep the energies flowing and some effects going. After hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of rounds, the effects multiply over and over again. It reaches a point where you are high on energy all the time. Some permanent effects unlock as well. When you actively read them there are benefits following you around.

It gives you a really strong sensitivity to all energy work, everything goes through. I remember almost passing out when I first went to receive eucharist in a church. The effect carries over to all energy work but texts such as the Torah and the rest, New and Old testament give the strongest effects.

They do feel like spells for sure, yes. Keys that open something, frequency, a chest, something.

 

[mangaman2]

Thanks for the explanation. Since you mentioned the New and Old testament, are there other benefit that you notice from finishing reading other books on them? For example Proverbs which was done by Solomon, since the content seems to be about wisdom, can it increase your wisdom beside increasing energy like on reading Psalm?
Another question, I am still a beginner on this concept of energy things, will the energy actually dissipate if you stop reading psalm for some days or weeks hence it will make your previous reading effort gone unless you maintain discipline?

 

[Amadeus]

Thanks for the explanation. Since you mentioned the New and Old testament, are there other benefit that you notice from finishing reading other books on them? For example Proverbs which was done by Solomon, since the content seems to be about wisdom, can it increase your wisdom beside increasing energy like on reading Psalm?
Another question, I am still a beginner on this concept of energy things, will the energy actually dissipate if you stop reading psalm for some days or weeks hence it will make your previous reading effort gone unless you maintain discipline?

The New and Old testament, I categorize the texts by energy hotness and effects. Gospels + letters and psalms, then Torah and then the rest of the Old testament. The psalms feel like spells.

The gospels have a really powerful mana potion like effect. A lot of energy comes into you and you feel charged to the maximum. This can be very useful when you get drained from some practices. Psalms can have both effects either charging or draining. The Torah feels as something with very dense and thick energy which is also good. I like to switch between them every now and then.

The other texts, books, they can be used for all kinds of rituals. Like the Song of Solomon for finding a husband or wife. I remember hearing about this from some Jewish sources, How people read the Song of Solomon over and over again with requests. I'm not exactly sure for what the Proverbs is good for. I don't work much with the Proverbs. I categorize it as a less hot book and rarely read it. Sometimes I tune in there though. I guess you could say that yes, to increase the wisdom.

The energy charges do dissipate yes. The charge starts fading away, disappearing.
If you want to increase the effects and get better results then yes the quantity makes a difference. The effects are stronger when the energy work is done daily or every other day. No it will not go in vain. The rituals like this one, the reading of all ps. This can be done once a week too. It's up to you how you experiment. This stuff needs a lot of experimentation. Charging, directing, stacking.

 

[beardedeldridge]

Thanks for the explanation. Since you mentioned the New and Old testament, are there other benefit that you notice from finishing reading other books on them? For example Proverbs which was done by Solomon, since the content seems to be about wisdom, can it increase your wisdom beside increasing energy like on reading Psalm?
Another question, I am still a beginner on this concept of energy things, will the energy actually dissipate if you stop reading psalm for some days or weeks hence it will make your previous reading effort gone unless you maintain discipline?

Amadeus is spot on.

Early into this part of my practice I started including Proverbs into it as well, interweaving Ps & Pr together. IME Pr brings about certain levels of understanding into the mix.

I’ve included parts of every book over the years but as far as other whole books, OT examples: Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel extensively (all with very interesting results), minor prophets some.

NT examples: the Gospels, John 1, 2, & 3, Jude, and Revelations.

And like Amadeus said and you alluded too, as with any practice the “energy” fades with non-use.

But magic is transformative and what is left after it fades, if worked in sufficient quantity, won’t be the same as what you started with. Which is the real “price” of magic. Of course that’s also the price of living so…. Magic just amplifies it many times over.

-Eld

 

[Lurker]

Your practice is EPIC, this is an amazing act of devotion.

Are you reading them out loud or silently? I felt inspired and started reading them out loud last night. After 50 minutes I was only about 1/5 of the way through, so it would have taken about 4 hours and 10 minutes to read them all out loud, which seems excessive since you mentioned taking about 2 1/2 hours.

 

[Amadeus]

Your practice is EPIC, this is an amazing act of devotion.

Are you reading them out loud or silently? I felt inspired and started reading them out loud last night. After 50 minutes I was only about 1/5 of the way through, so it would have taken about 4 hours and 10 minutes to read them all out loud, which seems excessive since you mentioned taking about 2 1/2 hours.

It's a bit uncommon and crazy but it's known in monasticism and some Jews do it. I keep forgetting the order names. I think the Benedictines once were doing this? I know both Catholics and Orthodox have some communities where the PS are read through daily. I'm not always doing this though, I switch back and forth between many different practices. For a long time it was the main and all the time.

2 hours is approximately 50 pages per hour, the whole thing is 100 medium sized pages. The pages of psalms aren't so filled with text compared to say, the Torah. This is not out loud, no. I do experiment a bit with out loud.
Google says, the book of psalms has 30K+ words. 30000/120mins 250 words per minute. Different versions. Hmm, some could be 35 40K.

At first you probably can't do 2 hours. After a while it's going to be 3 then 2.5. Now 2.5 and 3 are already good. Very fast isn't always a good idea. There's more instability involved with the speed. These quickies may fry your mind much faster. It turns into a BBQ that cooks the meat from above but doesn't reach the middle. Staying in very sped up states can bring chaos to your mind. You'll get mad, tilted, might be raging. Such effects show up after weeks or months. This practice heats the whole system a lot.

Your 4 hours is good. Take it easy, a round in 2 days is alright too. 4 means it's balanced and meditative.

There's another method which is even crazier. Speeding through a familiar text. This one draws in effects and heats a lot more. Like this it's doable in between 1 to 1.5. I've experimented with it and I have some mixed opinions on it. A bit too crazy.

 

[Lurker]

Thank you for the detailed reply, I really do appreciate it. I think I'll finish this first round out loud, and then try the silent method to start reducing the time. I'm not quite ready to be BBQ meat yet, I think I need to marinate some more.

I've been working with a Christian grimoire, so this seems like a good way to further be immersed in the current.

Thanks again!

 

[mangaman2]

I only managed to read 4x times but I can feel the experience of divine favor and smooth work operation on my workplace. Gained extra 1900$ of contract from work too (although the amount I got was less due to operating cost)
Other than that, my dream feels sharper and grounded, I could remember it better than when I didn't read psalm completely before. When I laid my head, I could feel a seeping coldness on my brain. I am looking forward to unlock other experiences from this practice.
@Amadeus
Around page 1 you mentioned you read psalter to other people and they benefit from it.
Does it mean there's possibility to experience some benefit too if I set up a recording or youtube of a guy who read psalter and I listen to it instead of reading it only? I am looking for possible alternative of this practice because my reading speed is too slow for now.

 

[Amadeus]

Yes, sounds like it. It can give the effect of smooth work operation. The dreams can feel sharper. The method can make you remember dreams better but I think this is another of those "individual" things. This can change every now and then. You might be able to remember them well for a while and then nothing.

Yes, there were times when I did the psalm readings for others. Lots of experiments over the years. Sometimes I experimented with friends and read the psalms, akathists or Jesus prayers (hesychast practice) with their names attached.

Audio can help. It can be very beneficial or not give the desired effect. It can feel like a booster, something that puts you in the "mode". I've felt very strong effects from listening to the audio clips, especially the ones of psalms, gospels and the hesychast practice.

The best would be to try both, do your own readings and add some audio. You should definitely give it a try. There are plenty of clips on YT in different languages and you can even increase the speed, add 25% 50% 100%.

My experience with the audio clips. When I began working with the psalms I cracked something open way too much. Suddenly I felt like testing the audio. I looked for random stuff on YT and the clips immediately hit. They all went through the mind. My mind started burning from everything. A feeling of a hot burning knife cutting through butter. The effects became too much and I felt pain all over. My chaotic approach to the practices led to some kind of an extraordinary openness which ended up destabilizing mind. It took a long time until I figured out how to do it better.