Tactical Magick

by Seth (Spirit)

Magick is cheap and power is all around you. The most vibrant magick in the world is that of survival. If you know how it works you can use it anywhere, with anything, to do whatever you need or desire. Tactics is defined as the choice and application of technique in a specific situation. The purpose of tactical magick is to take the magick of survival and incorporate it into our daily lives. So called High Magick is chiefly concerned with expanding consciousness, contacting higher planes, and achieving gnosis. Tactical magick is about learning from the plight of those less fortunate and building upon their techniques to create an eclectic grimoire of daily survival. This is a patchwork system of pop-culture sorcery, techno-alchemy, and hermetic street magick.

Genres: Occult

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 29, 2004

About the author

From Wikipedia:

In late 1963, psychic Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert F. Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts' research for a book on extra-sensory perception. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to receive coherent messages from a male personality who eventually identified himself as Seth. Soon after, Roberts reported that she was hearing the messages in her head. She began to dictate the messages instead of using the Ouija board, and she eventually abandoned the board.

Roberts described the process of writing the Seth books as entering a trance state. She said Seth would assume control of her body and speak through her, while her husband wrote down the words she spoke. They referred to such episodes as "readings" or "sessions".

For 21 years until Roberts' death in 1984 (with a one-year hiatus due to her final illness), Roberts held regular trance sessions in which she spoke on behalf of Seth. Butts served as stenographer, taking the messages down in home-made shorthand, and recording some sessions. The messages from Seth channeled through Roberts consisted mostly of monologues on a wide variety of topics. They were published under the collective title Seth Material.

The material through 1969 was published in summary form in The Seth Material, written by Roberts from the material of the channeling sessions. Beginning in January 1970, Roberts wrote books which she described as dictated by Seth. Roberts claimed no authorship of these books beyond her role as medium. This series of "Seth books" totaled ten volumes. The last two books appear to be incomplete due to Roberts' illness. Robert Butts contributed notes and comments to all the Seth books, and thus was a co-author on all of them.

According to Roberts, Seth described himself as an "energy personality essence no longer focused in physical reality", who was independent of Roberts' subconscious.

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The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that mind creates matter, and that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that the "point of power" through which the individual can effect change is in the present moment.

The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to in the Material as "All That Is" and sometimes "The Multidimensional God" (who takes its form in many parallel or probable universes); the nature of physical reality; the origins of the universe; the limitless nature of the self and the "higher self"; the story of Christ; the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation and karma, past lives, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and ascension to planes of "higher consciousness"; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.

Reviews

[Auralite Ravenna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book in the style of chaos magic, which I believe is best classed as intermediary. There isn't a lot of hand-holding on the basics of how to do magic in this book, but rather, it builds on concepts and principles that you are likely familiar with from reading other works such as Condensed Chaos by by Phil Hine and the Psychonaut Field Manual by Archtraitor Bluefluke. It suggests a number of ideas to add to your toolkit and runs you through the basic principles, but the more concrete details of how to execute them are left up to you, the presumably semi-experienced practitioner. I liked this book quite a bit because it was a short read, and therefore very accessible to me as someone with ADHD. If you have an interest in chaos magic, I definitely recommend this short, quaint but rather obscure book!

[Abigail · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Survival is evolution, and necessity is the catalyst of innovation.”