Reddit reviews Practical Sigil Magic: Creating Personal Symbols for Success

Not OP, but:

They're sigils--not in the old school medieval ceremonial sense, but in the contemporary chaos magician sense. Grant Morrison did a nice talk on them once. Basically, sigils are visual representations of a specific intent.

tl;dr--witchcraft.

Here's a nice link: http://www.mookychick.co.uk/health/spirituality/magical_sigils.php

Here's an often cited book on sigil making: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Sigil-Magic-Creating-Personal/dp/0738731536

My favorite books are the following:
About the Goddess:

When God Was a Woman

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (FSG Classics)

On occult knowledge:

The Kybalion by The Three Initiates

On sigils:

Practical Sigil Magic: Creating Personal Symbols for Success

For a biography I suggest This one

you can find works here
and some more here.

If you like Liber Null I suggest picking up Frater U.'.D.'.'s book on sigils. Which can also be found here

Read http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0738731536/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464459207&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=practical+sigil+magic&dpPl=1&dpID=41PJ07r82dL&ref=plSrch it's a great primer for Modern occult approach to magickal workings.

Also this book is an outstanding primer. Don't get the kindle version, go with the real deal http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0738715786/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1464459573&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=modern+magick&dpPl=1&dpID=51203F9fNtL&ref=plSrch

Favored among chaos magicians mostly.

Use goes way back to cave man times..the whole draw a animal on a wall, draw spears through it, then go out and manifest it in real life and hunt your food, in theory you made or had a idea, to see a deer... then to kill it. then you did it, kind of basic magick. basic sigil idea in a way.

Symbols and sigils..that's a huge topic so much to cover im not a expert so I won't try to explain it much.

Sigils are basically just taking a idea or concept, making it into a sigil/symbol of some sort that represents your desire...then charging it some how with a energy. You then after it is charged find a way to launch it into the universe to manifest...this can be done a lot of ways... through pain, have sigil on papper, burn it, when you get burned slightly use that pain to imagine the sigil going into the ether of the universe and being launched off, using pain as a gate way in theory. You can also use dance, dance to exhaustion and then when you're so tired and collapse you fall and mentally visualize the sigil being launched...

or sigil sex magick. you can draw the sigil on your girlfriend/partner or what ever, reach orgasm..at point of orgasm you launch the sigil mentally into the universe to manifest. or you can use masterbation..same theory.


It's basically a "cool" way of spell casting in my eyes..or a lower downed version if you do it that way.. for any sigils to really work i'd think to launch them you'd need a actual circle to entrap that energy so it can be launched..and perhaps the methods of charging and launching it should be well thought out and done.

Basically just a desire, made into a sigil/symbol, fired off into the universe....

they have a hit and miss way of working out so i've heard. it's really tricky random shot magick. they supposivly take the least resistance way of manifesting and apparently this can really fuck you over if your wish isn't that well put out. you basically write out what you want then turn that into a sigil, should of been more clear, but that's the drift of it basically from my perspective.

I saw this book and it looks quite promising - http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Sigil-Magic-Creating-Personal/dp/0738731536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458016502&sr=8-1&keywords=sigil+magic+frater

Looks like a good place to start.That or grant morrisons lectures on chaos magick and sigils, that's how I found out about it.

Answers to all of your questions, and more!

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Sigil-Magic-Creating-Personal/dp/0738731536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459321261&sr=8-1&keywords=practical+sigil+magick

I think the book Practical Sigil Magic is a good beinner resource that shows pretty well how to go about it.

I personally found this book very helpful when I was first learning about sigil work: Link

Despite the name this book is good and easy introduction: Practical Sigil Magic - Creating Personal Symbols for Success

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Sigil-Magic-Creating-Personal/dp/0738731536

Easy to find as pdf also

After you learn to use sigils, I'd recommend to check memes and stories as sigils. An naturally learn the theory behind magic so you have better understanding what consequences of your actions might be.