Unveiling the Mysteries of Sigil Magick: Origins, Methods, and Occurrences in Abrahamic Religion.
A mystical art has opened its gateways into the occult lands, replacing the complex and deemed unnecessary methods documented in medieval sources full of bodily sacrifices and inaccessible materials, from performing goat sacrifices and writing on animal skin to a piece of paper and lines of ink.
Offering a chance to everyone to experience this art in hopes of achieving material and spiritual advancements, gaining discipline, and healing one’s own mind through simple means, opening the road to more opportunities and transforming your life into a thriving field.
Giving supposably great results and raising claims of how it miraculously changed lives. Sigil magick.
What’s sigil magick?
In the modern sense, a sigil is a symbolic inscribed or painted representation of a person’s desire, which can be created in a variety of ways, then charged and released to fulfill the symbolic desire without the use of external forces
Whereas in the medieval sense, the term (derived from the Latin word sigillum,” meaning “seal”) was used to describe a symbol believed to contain the energetic signature of specific demons, angels, and other esoteric entities, acting as a link that the magician can use to summon the entity to do his bidding and/or make a pact with it, those were usually made as numerological squares, spreading through all eastern and western lands.
we commonly see them in Islamized occult practices:
Description: an Islamic talisman made of a combination of:
numerological square.
Evocations of multiple angels
Petitioning the Islamic God using multiple of his names (al Rahman, translation: the most merciful) (al Rahim, translation: Merciful).
The modern-day methods and understanding of sigils:
The practice has made a great breakthrough in modern occultism, earning it a huge reputation in numerous mystical organizations. While the interpretation may differ from one tradition to the next, they all agree on one thing: it works.
In the sect of chaos magick, a branch of occultism based on experimentation and results, under the statement “nothing is real, everything is permitted”, thanks to the age of religious skepticism, chaos magick developed into a center of attraction in modern occultism.
The method used in CM goes as follows:
The desired statement is written in the present tense to declare as if the results are already manifesting.
then removing vowels and repeating letters.
Following it by shaping the letters we’re left with creatively to embody our sought results
While chaos practitioners and sigil makers are not limited to this method, it appears to be the most commonly used. Some even believe any drawing or doodle can be used as a sigil if you intend it to, claiming the mind doesn’t care about ritualistic steps as long as you put your thought into it.
This method can be traced back to the occultist and artist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956), whose teachings had a huge impact on shaping modern western occult philosophy. Spare disagreed with ancient methods of sigil philosophy, claiming that such entities and forces are nothing more than a part of the human psyche’s subconscious mind and such, and that the process of creative sigilization is a way to access that part of the human psyche, which leads us to the most commonly used method of sigil activation today: the subconscious mind.
It’s all in the subconscious mind:
The subconscious mind is a matter of existence that is yet to be fully understood; it is believed to be a part of every human being; it generates our conscious thoughts and holds on to our memories; every belief, every interaction, and every thought you make consciously, even if it doesn’t hold value to you, will be documented in the subconscious mind; think of it as an infinite computer memory.
As spare and modern occultists believe, for your piece of art to take place in reality, you must meditate with it till you reach a gnosis state, carving it in the unconscious part of you, then letting it do the job. They state that the easy way to reach the state of nothingness,” which refers to one having no thoughts or sense of the world present, is through meditation, even though some argue it can be achievable through sexual orgasm or the period following it.
A good number of people who claim the method’s efficacy state that in order for the method to actually work, the performer must forget the intent behind his symbol, while others disagree, affirming that the more energy and thought you put into the sigil, the more it is destined to work. The previous assertion leads us to another commonly used method, much easier approach using our own emotions while consciously experiencing them.
High-intensity energy gives life to your art.
Many people believe that by directing certain energies to the sigil while experiencing powerful emotions or thoughts like rage, physical pain, or even your screams when riding a roller coaster, Leads to bringing your intention to life and releasing it into the world; arguing that our emotions are capable of creating forces and influences outside of our space and time that can still effect our physical realm, just like the divine, the sigil in this case will act as a battery for our human emotions and sensations, customizing them in a way that will bring us our desired results; it is a more active way for those who enjoy having fun and are not interested in silent meditation.
Is it really a new-age practice?
Even though the modern-day practice traces back to Osman Spare and other roots have been recognized in earlier periods, debates are still occurring on this matter with each sides having their considerably subjective arguments.
The Golden Down Order
The hermetic order of the Golden Down was a secret society focused on studying the hidden sciences. Founded in the late nineteenth century (1887), the order has had a significant impact on modern western occultism, influencing both Wicca and Thelma religions.
The members used a method similar to Spare’s, combining letters and colors in order to create a telematic embodiment of a force, which was usually created and used to call elemental forces into action.
People refer to this origin as a traditional one, since it was used to evoke spiritual intelligences and not a direct desire, which differentiate from spare’s method, arguing that it takes the original meaning of what’s supposed to be a sigil, making rather a seal, but it’s a similar creative creation process, would the philosophy behind them really change the manifestation of your desires? Would anything go wrong? But most importantly, which one is on the right?.
NOTE: The author, SOH, is responsible for all translations and descriptions provided.
