Practice_with_L_Chromatia.pdf

"For best results, give a nickname to each of your eight selves,

and throw regular parties where they can all get together and

compare notes." -Rob Brezsny

The work described within Liber Chromatria assumes a familiarity with the

work of Peter J. Carroll, and borrows heavily from chapter four of Carroll’s

work, The Psychonomicon, entitled “Eight Magics.” For those who have not

read this work, Eight Magics describes the division of our instinctual drives

into eight rays of consciousness. Each of the selves is associated with a

color, Carroll says, for “emotional significance.” This kind of association

greatly enhances quick recall and recognition of the eightfold division.

For reference, the Eight Magics are:

Octarine : An imaginary color of the magician’s personal preference, used

to symbolize the magical self, and works of magic done for magic’s sake,

such as experimental works. What color is octarine? For Carroll it is “a

particular shade of electric pinkish-purple.” For me, octarine varies

between black with silver specks, a glimmering orange-gold and what

looks like rainbow glitter suspended in a clear liquid. Carroll stresses that

octarine is “the magician’s personal perception of the color of magic.”

Black : Death, black magical consciousness.

Blue : Wealth; assets in terms of what experiences are available to the

magician.

Red : War, ending conflict.

Yellow : Solar Consciousness, the Ego and its divisions.

Green : Love, friendship, compassion.

Orange : Wit, intellect.

Purple : Lust, sex.

Suggested preparatory practices for Liber Chromatria:

1. Experience with banishing rituals. Of all the practices

recommended, banishing is perhaps most important to prevent obsession

with the Selves. The development of a personal banishing is suggested,

but the magician may opt to use the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the

Pentagram or Carroll’s Gnostic Pentagram Ritual, if desired. My own

banishing, the Chaos Rainbow is appendiced for inspiration, as it relates

heavily to work with the color rituals of the Eight Selves.

2. Liber MMM : It is strongly recommended for the magician to have

worked with Liber MMM for at least a month before working with Liber

Chromatria, as the skills built with MMM are integral to further success

with Chromatria.

3. Chaos Monasticism : Some experience with monasticism will be

helpful when observing the monasticisms of the Selves.

Other helpful practices include creation of servitors, the personal Alphabet

of Desire, experience with evocation and invocation, pathworking, creative

visualization, and personal systems of divination.

Tools : Liber Chromatria involves the production and/or procurement of

magical tools relating to the Eight Selves. These tools can be obtained in

tandem with the creation of the personified forms. The tool for each Self is

entirely up to the magician. However, here is a list of possible tools for

each of the Eight Selves:

Magic: Staff or sword.

Death: Noose, shroud, scythe.

Wealth: Disk, pentacle, coin.

War: Pistol, club, sword.

Love: Ring, precious or semi-precious gem.

Wit: Abacus, puzzle, tome.

Ego: Mirror, framed photograph of the body or idealized image of the

overall self.

Sex: Fetish item, sex toy, representation of genitals, chalice/dagger.

The magician will need to procure a set of blank index cards to be

transformed into a divinatory deck. The cards will be divided into color

sets, so coloring implements for each ray should be obtained as well.

The magician should create a staff to be used for the color monasticisms

and banishings.

A journal will be required in which to record results of work with Liber

Chromatria.

Personification of the Eight Selves

Each of the Eight will be worked into a knowable form so that the

magician can relate easily to the Selves, almost as if they were personal

gods. Fleshing out the Eight involves the use of the intuitive faculties. The

product of this personification should be reminiscent of the descriptions of

gods one might find in a NeoPagan catalogue of deities.

For each Self, describe the appearance: hair color, approximate age,

gender (if any) and costume. Other associations can be included, such as

planetary attributes or association with the chakras or Kabbalistic sephira.

Perhaps the Self has an animal companion or favorite flower or tree. If the

magician is artistically inclined, a drawing of each of the Selves should be

produced in the Color Journal.

Remember to include the magical tool associated with each Self in the

representations. These tools themselves, although having a physical basis,

should each have an astral counterpart built up for works of astral magic.

To achieve this, the magician may pack color energy into the objects and

visualize the energy becoming dense and more powerful as the energy

accrues with time. This practice will be appreciated later if and when the

magician works with Carroll’s Liber KKK.

Personification of the Selves results in the production of a set of shell

servitors. Their purpose is to symbolize each of the eight instinctual drives

so that the magician has a face and persona to relate to and work with. If

the magician be bold, the Selves may later be used for dissociation and

fronting in tasks relating to their individual spheres of influence.

Evocation of the Selves

Preparation for this phase will include a thorough investigation of each

Self, concluding what functions the particular Self resides over, and what

might be preventing the Self from fulfilling its desires.

Example ritual:

1. Banish.

2. Give statement of intent. “It is my will to evoke my Wealth Self for the

promotion of Wealth in my daily life.”

3. Briefly achieve no-mind.

4. Strongly visualize the form of the Self you’ve worked up.

5. Call the Self forth to attain knowledge & conversation.

6. Converse with the Self to learn its motivations and challenges.

7. Ask the Self to give a sigil with which to associate it.

8. Invite the Self to dwell within you in a semi-congealed form so that it

may be utilized in making decisions that regard to its sphere of concern

and influence.

9. Feel the Self integrate itself into your consciousness as a semi-

coagulated entity.

10. Affirm that the ritual is complete and banish.

A Color Monasticism for each Self is strongly recommended for at least a

week after the initial evocation. Such a practice might involve the

visualization of the Seal of the Self on each waking hour and on the

persona and ritual implement as well as the repetition of any affirmations,

mantras or ritual gestures suggested by the Self. The magician should

continue to converse with the evoked Self and take notes on what is

discussed.

Another suggested form of work is that of pathworking with the Selves in

conjunction with the chakras. In this kind of pathworking, the Selves are

to be viewed as the royalty of the eight major Spheres of the body. The

magician will enter each Sphere with the presiding Self to learn more

about the Self and the environment in which it exists in the

body/consciousness.

At the end of the approximately eight weeks it should take to complete

the evocation process, the Ritual of Self Symposium will be performed.

This ritual involves the evocation of all Eight Selves at once for a “business

meeting” addressing major life issues and concerns and how the Selves

can work together to achieve common goals.

The Self Symposium

Although the Eight are always present, the magician will not always be in

a mindset of addressing their individual concerns, especially in terms of

what all Eight can achieve in cooperation with one another. Thus we

submit the following ritual for the purpose creating a psychodrama in

which the magician acts as CEO of hir life, with the Selves as managers of

the various divisions.

1. Banish.

2. Visualize a large table within an impressive meeting room.

3. Evoke each Self with the appropriate Seal, visualizing each Self

emerging from the body in coagulated form and sitting at the table.

Welcome each Self appropriately.

4. Explain the purpose of the meeting to the Selves.

5. Give each Self a turn in bringing up issues, round table style. Discuss

each concern and decide on a course of action for each situation.

6. At the end of the meeting, restate all agreements made, affirming the

courses of action agreed upon.

7. Thank each Self for attending and reintegrate.

8. Affirm that the ritual is complete and banish.

9. Write down the meeting minutes in the Color Journal.

It is recommended that the magician schedule regular meeting of the

Selves perhaps monthly, biannually or annually as needed or desired.

Chromatria

In order to facilitate further understanding of the instinctual drives, a

personal divinatory system based on the Eight Selves and their

interactions is proposed.

Using the blank index cards, Eight trump cards are created, one for each

color ray. Each trump card may contain a complex image of the ruling Self

or may simply picture the Seal of the individual Self.

The minor arcana of the Chromatria cards are created by meditating on

the interactions between the Selves. Therefore, each trump card will have

seven minor cards associated with it.

For example, let’s take the Death Self:

The minor cards would then be:

Death of Wealth or Death in Wealth

Death of War or Death in War

Death of Love or Death in Love

Death of Ego or Death in Ego

Death of Wit or Death of Wit

Death of Sex or Death in Sex

Death of Magic or Death in Magic

The magician should proceed to make seven cards for each suit. Some of

the themes will overlap, but for each suit, the ruling concept should be

dominant. It is here that work with the Alphabet of Desire will most come

into play in regards to Liber Chromatria. A similar mode of gnosis may be

employed to represent motivating factors within each interaction between

the Selves or the magician may borrow directly from hir Alphabet of

Desire for what would perhaps amount to an even more exciting, relevant

and functional system.

The magical tool related to the ruling Self of the suit may also be pictured

in each card for further association with the Self and its attributes.

Naturally, this system can be as simple or elaborate as the magician

desires.

The magician should color code the cards so that each suit can be

separated out from the deck to be used in more precise works of

divination relating to specific color magic or mixed rites. Chromatria is

meant for personal magical divination as opposed to works of divination

for others.

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