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1  Voudon Gnostic Workbook Michael Bertiaux Write for a Complete Copyright C 1988 Wholesale or Retail catalog to Published by Magickal Childe, Inc. Magickal Childe, Inc. ISBN # 0-939708-12-4 35 West 19th Street Graphics and design by Kathy Frank New York, N.Y. 10011 2 Dedication This Workbook is dedicated to the Hoodoo and Les Vudu, To the Kami and the Kammamori, To the Lares and the Penates, And to the Numen and the Numina of the Monastery of the Seven Rays, In thanksgiving for their inspiration and assistance Over the past twenty-five years. 3 Preface Let me tell you about the world of esoteric prayer from my own personal experience. I have worked with these energies for a number of years. I have even gone to where the teachings are given out and where the power of esoteric prayer is worked daily. When I was in Haiti, I entered deeply into the mysteries of the spirits as they are known there. They are called the "Loa" or "Les Vudu." These are spirits and they hear our prayers and work with the energies of prayer in quick and always helpful ways. After my development into initiation consciousness, I was able to write a number of lessons and other papers on these Holy Spirits and their work. I taught that when you use esoteric prayer, what you do is talk to the spirits as if they were sitting next to you. You talk to them inwardly, of course, but they never act or appear as if they know everything and that there is no need to talk to them. They are always ready to listen to us, especially when we speak to them about something that is very important to us. It is by this means that we learn the power-secrets of esoteric prayer, since it is the life of the spirit to teach us to know in this way. This way is the way of the Gnosis, a very ancient word from the Greek language, which means the knowing of the spiritually attuned. In the Gnostic church, which is based upon esoteric prayer and spiritualism, we teach all persons to become attuned to the ways and words, or powerful lessons, which come from the Holy Spirits. I was recently in Japan, where I made daily attunement to the Holy Spirits, which are over there and which have the name of the "Kami." Naturally, these spirits are universal beings, but I went to Japan in order to make contact on a daily basis with them by means of the way of esoteric prayer and as well to visit the many holy shrines and sanctuaries dedicated to the Holy Spirits in that beautiful country. Every day, I experienced an advancement in my way of communion as I grew more and more aware of the powers of esoteric prayer and the energies, which were everywhere, sent by the Holy Spirits. For a long time, I have been under the direction of the Japanese Master, Doctor Kammamori, and there he led me from one level of being to the next. It was he who enabled me to see how the laws of the Kami, or the Holy spirits of the Shinto Religion, could work in daily life. Each day, I worked with the energies of the spirits, as he, Doctor Kammamori, had instructed me. When we work in the experience of esoteric prayer, we really come to know about spiritual light and energy. I think that you have be inside of what is happening to you in order to understand it fully. You may wonder what we are doing in this book of spiritual work. Well, let me tell you that we are concerned with esoteric prayer and with teaching how it works and what it can do. I think that prayer in this sense is the application of the lessons of spiritualism and the gnosis to our seeking eternal communion and closeness to God-Energy, through the Holy Spirits. I think it is there that we solve the problems of daily life, which arise and seem to bother us so much. This kind of problem solving is important because in order to grow in the spirit, we have to move on to a higher or more perfect relationship with the Eternal At one level a problem exists, which is bothersome to us. Then we move in the spirit on to the next level, which is the higher point of view. There our relationship in the gnosis is one of greater closeness of God. Our relationship to God-Energy has improved because of the Holy spirits. They have led us to an 4 improvement. Now, at that higher level in our relationship with God, we are able to solve that problem with the spiritual powers, which come to us from that level of beingness, or because we are closer to God, we are better beings and have more God- Energy in us. This is the goal of gnostic teachings. When we work from that higher level, we look at the problem that was before us and are now able to bring it back to where it was supposed to be ail along. In other words, when we are in the spirit, we are able to see things from the viewpoint of God-Energy, and from that view we see all things the way the Holy spirits are able to see them. Whatever exists is really not supposed to cause harm or misfortune. It is supposed to be part of the energy of the lifestream of the spirit. So we take the God-Energy of the Holy Spirits and quite simply apply it to the world of problems. The problems are then sent back to where they were before our experience touched them and perhaps disturbed them. No longer are they problems for us, rather they are parts of experience and we know (gnosis) what the ways of their own life should be. They were not to be disturbed nor were they to disturb us in any way. By the use of this experience, we see everything as a kind of lesson in the real growth of the soul, from one world to another. The teacher of spiritualism, Kardec, always told us to look to the spirits for insights into the way we were to live each day. Those early French gnostics of the last century, under a strong influence from Kardec, stated that gnosis (or spiritual knowledge) was the way in which we were to make prayer work in an inward and absolute way. We were taught to by the Holy spirits how we are to use the powers of prayer and ritual magick. These same gnostics, and they were very familiar with Voudoo and Shintoism as forms of the universal religion of gnostic spiritualism, taught us to enter into communion with God and thereby become able to see things, perhaps all things, the way god sees them. Certainly, we have his energy to work with and in this matter, we can move beyond all limitations into the lifestream of divine light. The spiritual circumstances of light from the Holy spirits are always ours when we make use of the principles of esoteric prayer. We are living in a constant conversation or dialogue with divinity. The religious dimensions of life and thought comes to us and sits down beside us and enables us to see every day as a working with gods and Holy spirits. Let me help you to see each day as the beginning of a new conversation with God through the gnosis of the Holy Spirits. They certainly have led us that way in this workbook. They teach: The Reservoir of Power — Mysticism is the lifestream of the spirit. It is the lifestyle of those who commune daily with God-Energy. Mysticism is the basis of the prayers to the Loa or Les Vudu, in Esoteric Haiti, and to the Kami or Kammamorian spirits, in Esoteric Japan. Vedic or gnostic prayer is the basis of communion with the Mystic Fire of the ancient Hindus (Agni). Each day we come to learn how these holy powers operate in our lives and how we can be and become more attuned to these Holy Spirits than we are or have been. We want more of the operations of the mystic pathway in our life and existence. If you believe in the power of God-Energy, you will intuit that It (Agni) is now present everywhere in your experience. You are then a mystic. Focus the energy of God in your life by drawing on the way of the Holy Oracles. Learn to enter that religion which is an aspect of both Esoteric < Voudoo, mysticism, Devotion to the Kammamorian Spirits and the angelic communion of the Faith-Energies of the Christ and the Mystic Fire of Agni. This is the attunement of the Gnosis. In 5 a of this, you will seek more and more ways in which to bring the Holy Spirits and their sacramental mysteries closer to you. Let me tell you that the Holy Mother of God, the Primordial and Eternal Goddess is seeking to make the esoteric prayer-life and teachings of the spiritual world the experience of all Her children. The esoteric teachings and mysticism of the spirits from all of the mystical and God-Energy religions are truly powers and experiences to feed your soul. These energies are directed to your soul in very precise ways because even in the west, among the gnostics who will use this workbook, you can realize how close you are bo a science of prayer in liturgies, oracles, ceremonies, rituals, and meditations. Yes, you have the ways and the paths whereby the spiritual power can be directed into the problem area and then with the power of light that entity in that -area can be cleaned and made pure as the light of God, your radiant source. 6 Table of Contents PART I VOUDOO ENERGIES Chapter l:'The Power of the Spirits: Here we attempt to present the basis of a, voudooesque system 1. Lesson One: Who Can Be a Big Lucky Hoodoo? 1 2. Lesson Two: How the Hoodoo Spirits Help You to Get Exactly What You Want 4 3. Lesson Three: Hoodoo Methods for Mind-Power Development8 4. Lesson Four: How to Control the Minds of Other People 12 5. Lesson Five: Hoodoo "Contraite" Ways of Attracting Big Money 15 6. Lesson Six: Good Possession for Success Versus Bad Possession for Failure 19 7. Lesson Seven: Hoodoo Secrets for Getting Lucky Numbers That Win 23 8. Lesson Eight: How to Hoodoo Is a Success in Love and Sex 27 9. Lesson Nine: How the Hoodoo Man Keeps His Nature High 31 10. Lesson Ten: How the Hoodoo Have Lifelong Success as a Reader and Advisor 35 Chapter 2: Ghuedhe Grimoire: These papers explore the basis of the magickal system of exercises. 1. Course in Esoteric Voudoo, First Series: Lessons on the "Points- Chauds" Lesson la: Le Temple-Des-Houdeaux 38 2. La Couleuvre Noire, Lesson lb: Les Lingiesoux 43 3. La Couleuvre Noire, Lesson lc: Les Cadavres Piquants 48 4. La Couleuvre Noire, Lesson Id: Les Faiseurs-Des-Zombis 52 5. Grimoire Ghuedhe, Lesson la: Initiation of Grimoire Ghuedhe 54 6. Grimoire Ghuedhe, Lesson lb: Temple of Methodology 59 7. Grimoire Guedhe, Lesson lc: Saturn in Scorpio and Sun in Scorpio 62 8. Grimoire Ghuedhe, Lesson 2, Paper 1: Occult Centers of Power 66 9. Grimoire Ghuedhe, Lesson 2, Paper 2: Psychological Exercises of Zom-OVIZ 71 Chapter 3: The Magickal System: Six papers which explore the roots of our magickal technology. 1. The Magickal System, Part I: Lesson la — The Good-UGO and the Bad-UFO Experience 75 2. The Magickal System, Part 1: Lesson lb — Angelic Gematria 82 3. The Magickal System, Part I: Lesson lc — The Aiwaz-Physics 86 4. The Magickal System, Part I: Lesson Id — The Aiwaz-Physics 88 5. The Magickal System, Part II: Lesson la — The I-Ching Diary and Chinese-Gnostic Magickal Algebra 91 6. The Magickal System, Part II: Lesson lb — The Use of the I-Ching Within the Mandala of the Zothyrian Transcendental-Id 96 Chapter 4: Heavy Hoodoo Spells (HHS): Five papers which explore the action of spell-casting and the psychology implied in this work. vii 7  1. HHS Course, Lesson 1: The Projection of the Ojas-Rays and the Powers of Kabonists 99 2. HHS Course, Lesson 2: Cosmic Agreements and Magickal Acts 101 3. HHS Course, Lesson 3: Links With Ojas 103 4. HHS Course, Lesson 4: The Source of Cosmic Energy 106 5. HHS Course, Lesson 5: The Spell of Fa 109 Chapter 5: Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo: The authors' development of the work of Luc Guzotte, which give'us a radical psychology of the 'Vudu" with suggestions for magickal application. 1. The Course in Powerful Spells, Upadhi i 113 2. The Course in Powerful Spells, Upadhi 2 116 3. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 1: Based on "Les Vudu: La Creation Mystique Des Songes" par Luc Guzotte 119 4. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 2: How the Guzotte Outlines Came to Be Written 121 5. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 3: The Theogony of the Points-Chauds 123 6. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 4: Presentements and Pheonismes of the Present Time-Station 125 7. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 5: The Biquintility of Les Pheonismes 127 8. The Guzottte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 6: Pheonismes as Vehicles of Ojas 129 9. The Guzotte Outlines of Esoteric Voudoo, Paper 7: The Recognition of Ojas in Les Vudu 131 Chapter 6. The Genius of IFA: This section deals with the mystical deity behind. the oracles, and the advanced IFA oracle workings as a series of exercises in magickal psychology. 1. The Genius of IFA and the Oracle-Metaphysics, Lesson 1: Beginnings of the System 134 2. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 2: The Esoteric Tempple of IFA 137 3. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 3: The White City of the Central Sun 139 4. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 4: Initiation-Energies of Ojas-IFA 142 5. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 5: The Deep Origins of Ojas-IFA 144 6. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 6: The Inner Dimensions of IFA 146 7. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 7: Le Traitement d'IFA 149 8. The Genius of IFA, Lesson 8: The Application of Vudotronics Engineering to the Initiatic Rates of the House of Medji 152 9. Course in Advanced IFA Oracle Workings, Lesson 1: The Esoteric Oracles of the Mystical City 154 10. Course in Advanced IFA Oracle Workings, Lesson 2: The Way of Entering the Z-True Empire by Way of the Esoteric Oracle of the Mystical City 157 11. Course in Advanced IFA Oracle Workings, Lesson 3: The Ascension of the IFA System and the Initiation of the Mystical City 159 12. Course in Advanced IFA Oracle Workings, Lesson 4: Fundamental Theory: The Role of Axiomatics and Transformation-Systems 161 Chapter 7. Experimental Theology of Osiris-Legbha: These papers form a system viii 8  of gnostic initiation. * 1. The Experimental Theology of the Mysteries: The Course in the Gnosis and Mysteries of the Lord Osiris-Legbha, Lesson 1: The Treasury of Light and Its Initiations 163 2. The Course in the Osiris-Legbha Experimental Theology, Lesson 2: The Mysteries of the Body of Osiris-Legbha and the Black and Red Rays 167 3. The Course in the Osiris-Legbha Experimental Theology, Lesson 3: Eros and Logos in the Continuum of the Red and Black Temple Rays 171 4. The Course in the Osiris-Legbha Experimental Theology, Lesson 4: The Patriarchal Logic of the Continuum of the Red and Black Temple Rays 174 5. The Course in the Mysteries of Esoteric Voudoo, or the Heart of Legbha, Lesson 1: The Awakening of the Spirits of the Legbha Mystery 177 Chapter 8. Voudoo and Atlantean Research: This is a representation of the research energies" of the Vudu. 1. Voudoo Research Papers, Lesson 1: The Loa and Les Vudu 180 2. Voudoo Research Papers, Lesson 2: The Roots of Esoteric Voudoo 184 3. Vudu-Research Readings, Lesson 1: The Metaphysics of Meat 188 4. Vudu-Research Readings, Lesson 2: The Intensive Labyrinths 192 5. Atlantean Mystery School Readings, Lesson 1: The Temple of Esoteric Readings 196 6. Atlantean Mystery School Readings, Lesson 2: Empowerments From the Ontic Sphere 200 7. Atlantean Mystery School Readings, Lesson 3: The Generation of the Akashic and Ontic Readings from La Prise-Des-Yeaux 204 8. Atlantean Mystery School Readings, Lesson 4: The Collectio of Pacquets in the Empowerments of Ambaktu 208 9. Atlantean Research Readings, Lesson 1: The Beams and Rays of Esoteric Ambaktu 213 10. The Topological Names of the Genius of IF'A, Paper 1: The Structure of the Atlantean History as Based on Fields of Power 216 11. The Topological Names of the Genius of IFA, Paper 2: The House of the Spirits 218 12. The Esoteric Stages of Initiation, Paper 1: The Assembly of Physical Existence 221 PART II. GNOSTIC ENERGIES Chapter 1. Zothyrian Metapsychology: Ten papers which provide an esoteric system of nev-aedn magickal psychology, including the authors own interpretation of the Aiwaz energies. 1. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 1: The Lattice Systems 227 2. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 2: The Gospel of Truth from the Meon 230 3. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 3: The Gospel of Truth from His Own Being 233 4. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 4: The Magickal Inflation of the Gnostic Ego, Part 1 236 5. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 5: Logos I 240 6. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 6: La Recherche pour L'Ojas (Logos II) 243 7. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 7: La Recherche pour L'Ojas (Logos III) 246 9  8. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 8: La Recherche pour L'Ojas (Logos IV) 250 9. Zothyrian Metapsychology, Lesson 9: The Search for Ojas (Conclusion) 252 10. Zothyrian Metapsychology, lesson 10: Magickal Techniques of Computer Programming 257 Chapter 2. The Physics of the New Aeon of the Gnosis: This explores the new form of the physics of magick, including Ma'atian, Gnostic, Nemirion physics, and esoteric electrical engineering. 1. Course in Ma'atian Physics, Lesson 1: Ma'atian Inductions 260 2. Course in Ma'atian Physics, Lesson 2: The Maesurement of Ma'at 263 3. Gnostic Physics, Lesson 1: What Do We Mean By the Science of Gnostic Physics? 265 4. Gnostic Physics, Lesson 2: Patterns and Processes in Magickal Computers 269 5. Gnostic Physics, Lesson 3: The Meaning of Idealization and Realization in Gnostic Physics 273 6. Nemirion Physics, Lesson 1: Neptune in Capricorn 277 7. Nemirion Physics, Lesson 2: The Atlantean Explorations of the Ultra- Unconscious 280 8. Nemirion Physics, Lesson 3: Points of Entry to the Zothyrian Empire 283 9. Esoteric Electrical Engineering, Lesson 1: The Cosmic Computer 286 10. Esoteric Electrical Engineering, Lesson 2: Esoteric Logic as Both Esoteric Idealism and Esoteric Initiation 289 11. Esoteric Electrical Engineering, Lesson 3: Transcendental Objectivity and the Initiations of Esoteric Idealism 292 Chapter 3. Gnostic Energies in Esoteric Hinduism: Explores gnostic energies as they are found in esoteric Hinduism, as I construct it. 1. Sutratmic Researches, Lesson 1 295 2. Sutratmic Researches, Lesson 2298 3. Transyuggothian Power Secrets, Lesson 1: The Doorway 300 4. Transyuggothian Powers Course, Lesson 2: The Masters of Magick 303 5. The Ojas-Yuggoth Papers, Lesson 7: The Yuggoth Ray 305 6. Tantric Physics, Lesson 1: The Brahrninical Secret 308 1 Tantric Physics, Lesson 2: The Kamatattwas 310 8. The Aryasanga Physics, Paper 1: The 96 Layers of Vijnana 313 Chapter 4. A Magickal Technology: Here we explore the matter of the physical body and imagination as magickal energies and powers. 1. The Varuna Gnosis Papers, Lesson 1: Fundamental Theory, Section A — Vudotronics and Yemeth Engineering 316 2. The Varuna Gnosis Papers, Lesson 2: The Vudotronic Induction of EEE Energies 318 3. The Varuna Gnosis Papers, Lesson 3: The Vudotronic Instrumentation 320 4. The Varuna Gnosis Papers, Lesson 4: The Reduction of Vudotronic Energies and the EEE Energies to Magickal Numbers 322 5. Archaeometrical Biology (Mystical Genetics), Lesson 1: The Magickal Induction of Souls 325 6. Gnostic Zoology, Lesson 1: From Bio-Physics to the Ojas-Organisms 327 7. Bathos-Gnosis, Lesson 1: The Kama-Ojas Field 329 x. 10 Chapter 5. Magnetic Materials and Gnostic Genetics: The gnostic magick of esoteric healing and building of the occult bodies. 1. Magnetic Materialsm and Gnostic Genetics, Lesson 1: The Therapeutic Aspects of Ojas and Other Gnostic Energies 332 2. Magnetic Materialism and Gnostic Genetics, Lesson ?: The Field Theory of Healing in Gnostic and Initiatic Physics 334 3. Magnetic Materialism and Gnostic Genetics, Lesson 3: Body-Work and the Healing Emanations of Ojas 336 4. Magnetic Materialism and Gnostic Genetics, Lesson 4: The Deduction of Gnostic Genetics from Esoteric Logic 339 5. Magnetic Materialism and Gnostic Genetics, Lesson 5: Pheonismes and the Articulation of Esoteric Logic (with reference to the History of Zothyrian Philosophy as a Technique of Esoteric Healing) 341 Chapter 6. Zothyrian Physics and Radio-Psychology: Includes lessons on esoteric psychoanalysis of Dzyan, the radio-psychoanalysis of Dzyan, and synchronistic robotics. 1. Zothyrian Physics, Lesson 1: The Logical Basis of Both IFA and Initiation Physics 3 4 3 2. Zothyrian Physics, Lesson 2: The Null Spaces of To-Gai Initiation Physics 346 3. Zothyrian Physics, Lesson 3: The Application of Yuggothian Matrices to the To-Gai Null Spaces 349 4. Esoteric Psychoanalysis of the "Stanzas of Dzyan," Lesson I: The Dzyu-Gnosis 352 5. Radio-Psychoanalysis of "The Stanzas od Dzyan," Lesson 1: Esoteric Nature of Fohat 356 6. Synchronistic Robotics, Lesson I: Design of the Theory 358 7. Synchronistic Robotics, Lesson 2: The Genius of IFA as the Meta- Management of the Continuum of Lattices 3 6 1 Chapter 7. The Technology of Appplied Gnosis: Here the emphasis in on three areas of magickal applications of the powers, as map -makers of the transcendental id, gnostic engineering, the Tushita Heaven and the higher worlds of consciousness. 1. Map-Makers of the Transcendental Id and the Esoteric Engineering of the Future 364 2. Gnostic Engineering, Lesson 6: Transformation Processes in Time- Station Matrices 368 3. The Tushita Heaven and the Golden Shrine of Michael Aquarius 371 PART III. ELEMENTAL SORCERY Chapter 1. Zothyrian Topology: A presentation of the magickal system of space- organization in four papers on Z-topology. 1. Zothyrian Topologies, Lesson 1: The Z-True Action Matrices and Action at a Distance 375 2. Zothyrian Topologies, Lesson 2: Topology 1080 378 11  3. Zothyrian Topologies, Lesson 3: Roots of the Vudu-Topologies in the Red and Black Temple Workings 381 4 Zothyrian Topologies, Lesson 4: An Introduction to the Kammarnorian Gnosis and the Esoteric Logic of the Dzyuoi 385 Chapter 2. The Theory of the Magickal Heat: Esoteric thermodynamics explores the fact that the magician must be his own source of physical heat and power. " 1. Esoteric Thermodynamics, Lesson 1: The Magickal Heat 388 2. Esoteric Thermodynamics, Lesson 2: The Basic Units of Magickal Heat 391 3. Esoteric Thermodynamics, Lesson 3: The Energy-Alphas 394 Chapter 3. The Erotic Magick of the Future Aeon: The sex magick of the future is explored in four papers on the Oerg-8 gnosis. 1. The Oerg-8 Papers, Lesson 1: Some Preliminary Explanations 397 2. The Oerg-8 Papers, Lesson 2: The Homologies of Oerg and Their Applications 400 3. The Oerg-8 Papers, Lesson 3: Some Ideas That Carry Their Own Charge 403 4. The Oerg-8 Papers, Lesson 4: She Is the Continuum of the Future 406 Chapter 4. The Shintotronic System of Gnostic Magick: A gnostic introduction to the very basic and primitive sorcery of occult Japan. 1. Shintotronics, Lesson 1: Basic Elements and Components of the Shintotronic System of Gnostic Magick 409 2. Shintotronics, Lesson 2: Can There Be a Shamanistic Management of the Fundamental Energies of Shintotronics 413 3. Shintotronics, Lesson 3: Mediumistic Processes and Kami-Energies 416 Chapter 5. Imagination and Physics in Shintotronics: Provides the basis for the exploration of applied magick in initiation and occult physics. 1. Shintotronics, Lesson 4: The 33 Keys of Shintotronic Imagination 419 2. Shintotronics, Lesson 5: Auric Eggs, Bhumis, Permanent Atoms and the Matrix of Space 422 3. Shintotronics, Lesson 6: How the Occult Atoms Can Be Observed Verbally 426 4. Shintotronics, Lesson 7: The Role of Atomic Energy and Primary Particles in Radio-Psychology 430 Chapter 6. The Magician Is Always a Medium: Five papers on the school of mediumship provide us with the occult roots of power in the psyche ' of the initiate as mage. * 1. The School of Mediumship, Lesson 1: The Roots of Mediumship in the Process of Initiation 434 2. The School of Mediumship, Lesson 2: The Gospels of the Martinists 437 9. The School of Mediumship, Lesson 3: The Archaic Oracles of Deep Meditation 439 4. The School of Mediumship, Lesson 4: The True Motion of the Gnosis and the Movement of Deep Meditation 442 5. The School of Mediumship, Lesson 5: The Explorations of Secrecy and the Experience of the Masters 445 12 Chapter 7. -Applied Sorcery and Erotic Magick: The new aeon work of the sorceror is explored in the areas of 1. Plutonian contact Work, Lesson 1: The Elemental Roots of the Plutonian Contact System 448 2. The Awakening of Doctor Kammamori 451 3. Esoteric Logic, lesson i: Transcendental Constructions of the Esoteric Imagination 454 4. The Esoteric Logicians, Part 1; Esoteric Logic Is a Process of the Transcendental Ego 457 5. The Esoteric Logicians, Part 2: Esoteric Logic and Japanese Metaphysics 461 6. The Artist as a Magician and the Artist as Deity: The Work of Hiroyuki Fukuda 464 7. Eros and Meon: Hiroyuuki Fukuda 469 Chapter 8. The Occult Powers and the Elemental Energies: The gnosis of sorcery is, based upon the application of the magickal powers and energies * which develop in the interior consciousness of the magician, as expressed in the following papers. 1. Esoteric and Gnostic Energies, Lesson 1: The Foundations of the Ray-Energies 473 2. Questions and Answers on the Gnosis of Spiritual Attunement and Angelic Energy 476 3. Questions and Answers on Initiation -Physics and Spiritual Energies 480 4. Questions and Answers on the Successions of Gnostic Bishops 483 b. The Nature of Empowerments, Lesson 1: Questions and Answers 487 6. The Nature of Empowerments, Supplementary la: The Secret Spaces 490 7. The Nature of Empowerments, Supplementary lb: The Secret Spaces Defined by the Esoteric Logic of the Empowering-Teacher 492 8. The Masters and Metaphysics, Lesson I: The Light of the Gnosis 505 9. The Masters and Metaphysics, Lesson 2: Treatment and Gnosis in Esoteric Metaphysics and Logic 507 PART IV. ELEMENTAL THEOGONY Chapter 1. Mystical Theogony and the Occult Imagination: The development of the magickal gnosis of the communication with the-gods and spirits is provided by an extension of the power to both intuit the unseen and project the magickal imagination as to be found in this section. 1. Speculative Theology, Part I: The Mystical Theogony of the Zothyrian Gnosis, Lesson 1: Esoteric Aspects of the Ontic Sphere 1 511 2. Speculative Theology, Part I: The Mystical Theogony of the Zothyrian Gnosis, Lesson 2: Esoteric Aspects of the Ontic Sphere 2 514 3. Speculative Theology, Part I: The Mystical Theogony of the Zothyrian Gnosis, Lesson 3: Esoteric Aspects of the Ontic Sphere 3 517 Chapter 2. The Occult Kingdom of the Holy Spirits: Here we explore the XIII 13  magickal gnosis behind the powers present in the systems of spirit- * magick and religion. 1. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 1: Metalogical Foundations and Emanations of the Guru-Idea 520 2. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 2: The Zothyrian Factor 523 3. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 3: The Excursions Into Theurotopology 526 4. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 4: Vudotronics, the Transcendental Intuition of the Cosmic and Auric Egg 529 5. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 5: Vudotronics, the Ontology of Vudotronics and the Construction of Being 532 6. Gnostic and Metamathematical Pneumatology, Lesson 6: Vudotronics, the Descent of the Grand-Legbha Powers Through the Lattices of Ifa 536 Chapter 3. The Kingdom of the Spirits and the Becoming of the Gods: The ways in which the magickal priests work with the invisibles is explored in terms of the powers which rise from the life led in the continuum of the occult spirits. 1. Course in Dynamic Theogony: The Divine Energies and Rays of Divinity, Lesson 1: The Genius of IFA, Fu Medji 540 2. Course in Gnostic Energies, Lesson 1: The 336 Logoi of Gnostic Metaphysics 542 3. Course in Gnostic Energies, Lesson 2: Angelic Energies and Devic Insights 544 4. Course in Gnostic Energies, Lesson 3: The Esoteric Logic of the Devas and the Priestly Consciousness 547 5. Course in Gnostic Energies, Lesson 4: The Transcendental Logic of the Devas and the Priestly Consciousness 550 Chapter 4. The Esoteric Roots of the Gnostic Powers: Explore the magickal and metaphysical roots of gnosis and gnostic being in the world of daily experience. 1. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 1: The Laws of Esoteric Logic 553 2. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 2: The Schematism of Esoteric Consciousness 556 3. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 3: Esoteric Aeonology 559 4. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 4: The Theogony of the Ontic Sphere 562 Chapter 5. The Actualization of the Gnostic Powers: These papers explore how the various gnostic powers can work for the magician. 1. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 5: The Dynamics of Esoteric Gnosis 565 2. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 6: Pneumatology On a Basis of Esoteric Logic 568 3. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 7: The Schematism of Pneumatology 571 4. Course in Esoteric Gnosis, Lesson 8: Initiation-Physics Based on Pneumatology 573 Chapter 6. Finality: Angelic Languages: Papers on the establishment of the 14  magickal languages of spirits and the Indo-Z simplex present a way of communication with spirits. ' 1. Magickal Languages 576 2. The Indo-Zothyrian Simplex Oracle 581 Chapter 7. The Gnosis of the Spiritual Life: Two papers present the traditional and Catholic way of consecrating the cycles of daily life. 1. Gnosis of the Spiritual Life, Lesson 1: The Beginning Effort 582 2. Gnosis of the Spiritual Life, Lesson 2: The Ritual Hours and the Time- Stations of the Gnostic Ecclesiastical Structure 584 Chapter 8. Finality: The Sanctuary of the Gnosis: The six papers of the sanctuary teachings of Michael Aquarius give a new aeon applicability of the magickal system and some basic exercises in occult development. 1. Sanctuary Teachings of Michael Aquarius, Lesson I: Atomic Light and Esoteric Energies 586 2. Sanctuary Teachings, Lesson 2: The Magickal Geography of Master Michael Aquarius 589 3. Sanctuary Teachings, Lesson 3: The Golden Temple of Initiation 592 4. Sanctuary Teachings, Lesson 4: The Power of the Kami 595 5. Sanctuary Teachings, Lesson 5: The Higher Energies of True Initiation- Consciousness 596 6. Sanctuary Teachings, Lesson 6: The Esoteric Logicians and the "Dainichi Revelations 601 Chapter 9. Finality: The Eternal Battleground of the Gnosis: These final papers present the battleground between the positive and the negative aspects of the universe. For the magician, every day is a battle to hold back the powers of evil. 1. Connective Paper No. 1: For the Course in Magickal Instruction 604 2. Choronzon Club Course of Magickal Instruction, Lesson 1 608 3. Choronzon Club Course of Magickal Instruction, Lesson 2 6 1 0 3. Choronzon Club Course of Magickal Instruction, Lesson 3 612 Glossary 614 15  PARTI Voudoo Energies 16 Lesson One: Who Can Be & Big Lucky Hoodoo? Anyone can become a big lucky Hoodoo once they make contact with the spirits behind Voudoo. I will teach you the very simple method of making contact with the spirits. The spirits are easy to meet, in Fact they are very eager to meet you, that is why they led you to take this course. They want you to learn their power secrets, so that they can have an influence over other people. This gives the spirits more and more power to help you. The spirits want to meet you and they want to get into your life. They have a lot of things to tell you and these things will help you become more and more lucky. You will be able to do what you want with their help, because you will be able to pay them off with things that they like, but which they can't get now. They can't get the gifts of food and candles that they wish to have until they do their work for you, and then you will pay them off and both of you — you, the lucky Hoodoo and they, the spirits — will be getting exactly what you want. That is what it is all about in Voudoo power secrets. We know who and what we are here in this world. We know all about ourselves as far as what we want and what we are going to get. This means that we know just what we want out of life. We know what is basic to life and what is extra to life. We want both and we are going to be able to get both through lucky Hoodoo, because lucky Hoodoo works where everything else doesn't work. In the long run, only lucky Hoodoo can do what you really want it to do for you. Then we have the spirits. The spirits are the powers that can't be seen except with second sight. They can't be heard except with second hearing. They can't be touched except with the second touch. These second senses are powers we all have and use without even knowing about it. Some people become very successful through the use of the second senses. They call themselves readers and advisors of spiritual truth. Lucky Hoodoo can make you into one of these if you want to do that also. But it is all done by the spirits working with you and for you. That is why Voudoo power secrets depend upon the spirits. Let me tell you more about these spirits. Long ago there was a big island between Africa and Haiti called "Atlantis" and because of many earthquakes, it sank under the ocean called the "Atlantic." One time there was a big school of magick on the island of this same Atlantis and the magicians were very powerful. What they didn't know when they were alive they soon learned after they died. The island, as we said, just sank under the ocean and the magicians went down with it. But they didn't die, they just became spirits with fish-like bodies and frog-like bodies, and snake-like bodies. They did this so they could continue their work under the ocean, in their big temple down at the bottom of the sea. They are still down there, but they are also spirits and as spirits they are able to do a lot of things. In fact they know how to do more things now than they knew a long time ago. The older they get the more powerful they get. Now, under the sea there is a great forest with all kinds of sea-trees and sea- bushes, and sea-plants growing in it. This is the great woods of the old island of Atlantis. There is an old king who is a very powerful spirit-magician and he is the "Master of the Words on the Island Under the Sea." We call him "Maitre" or "Ma-Tr n for short. He is the king of the spirits on his island and he is a very powerful god of Voudoo. He has given to me a group of His spirits to help those who are making use 17 of this course to become powerful. I call His spirits the "Hoo-Spirits," because they make up one half of the team of spirits in lucky Hoodoo. On the other hand, in the world of the Dead, there is another great king who is called "Papa Nibbho." He is the king of the spirits of the Dead, and they have the name of Ghuedhe, or "the Gay-Days." They are the subjects of old Papa Nibbho, who is the king of time and eternity and who always was and who always will be. His spirits look like ghosts or like walking bones, and skeletons and often have the faces of those who have passed on. But they are all subjects of the king of the spirits of the dead, or Papa Nibbho. I call these spirits the "Doo-Spirits," for they make up the second group of spirits in lucky Hoodoo, or the second half of our team. They do not look like Turtles, Fish, Frogs, and Snakes — that is the way in which the Hoo- spirits look. The Doo-Spirits look like dead people. Now these two groups of spirits come together and make our system of lucky Hoodoo very powerful, because they represent the most powerful elemental forces in the universe for practical magick. The spirits of the dead come from the north angle of the spirit world and are from the element of earth, upon which everything must be built. The spirits of the sea-magicians come from the west angle of the spirit world and are from the element of water. Everything must depend upon water if it is to live and grow, so it is with the spirits and their projects. We want things to be practical and we want them to be successful. That is why we work with these two wonderful families of spirits. Now there are many other spirits who will be able to work with you and we will talk about them as we move along in our study. The important fact is that we work with the spirits and that the spirits are quite wonderful and helpful for us. Actually, if you treat them well you will find that they are more willing to help you than often you are ready to have them. That is because people are not ready for the help of the spirits and so they are not ready to show the spirits that thay want to make use of them. The spirits only wish for you to have something for them to do and also they expect that you will be able to pay them off for their service. This is only fair for they do everything and can do anything, and they ask only something very small in the way of payment. Now to become a lucky Hoodoo it is first of all necessary for you to do a little Voudoo ritual and say the following prayer to the spirits. This will show them that you are ready to work with them for what you want. This will show them you really mean business and that you are serious in seeking favors and objects of desire through their powers. This prayer will show them that you are ready to dedicate yourself to them so that they might gain influence over more and more human beings and thus bring back the old golden age of peace and plenty. This ritual will serve as your self-initiation into the system of lucky Hoodoo, which is a religious belief as ancient as the islands below the oceans. DEDICATION TO THE HOODOO SPIRITS Part 1. In a quiet place, you will sit at a table upon which you have placed two candles. A black candle has been placed in the north and a blue candle has been placed in the west. You will face east or in the eastern direction. You will have a glass of water placed in the south, directly opposite the black candle. Part 2. You will now say the following prayer to the Hoodoo spirits in order to make your dedication to their powers and existence. First, you will light the black candle and say, 18  "0 LIGHT THERE IS NO DARKNESS IN THE POWERS OF THE DEAD" Then you will light the blue candle and say, "0 LIGHT I AM A CHILD OF THE LIGHT OF THE GREAT MASTER UNDER THE SEA" Then you will touch the glass of water with your right hand, because it is nearest to your right hand and you will say, "MEDIUM OF HOLY SPIRITS, THE WATERS BELOW AND BENEATH ALL WORLDS THE HOLY SPIRITS OF THE DEAD AND THE SEAS I AM HERE TO SERVE YOU." Part 3. Then you will begin to say the following prayer of dedication to the spirits in a quiet voice or silently to show them that you mean real business. "I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE SERVICE OF THE SPIRITS, TO THE WONDERFUL SPIRITS OF THOSE DEAD ONES WHO SEEK TO HELP ME, AND TO THOSE WONDERFUL SPIRITS OF WISE MAGICIANS FROM UNDER THE SEA WHO COME IN STRANGE FORMS. "I ASK THE HELP AND PRESENCE OF THE HOODOO SPIRITS AND I CALL UPON ALL BEINGS OF HOODOO TO AID AND ASSIST ME. "I OFFER MYSELF TO THE SERVICE OF THE GREAT KING OF THE DEAD WHO RULES OVER THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. I OFFER MYSELF TO THE SERVICE OF THE GREAT MASTER OF THE MAGICIAN SPIRITS WHO ARE WORKING UNDER THE INVISIBLE SEAS. I HONOR ALL OF THE SPIRITS AND ESPECIALLY THOSE OF HOODOO SCIENCE. THESE I SEEK ESPECIALLY TO WORK WITH NOW AND FOREVER, Part 4. You will now close you eyes and begin to think about the spirits and how they will come to you and what you wish for them to do for you. You will then be silent for a few minutes afterwards, you will first take the glass of water and drink it, for it has the spirit-power in it. You will then silently put out the blue and then the black candle. You will feel relaxed and peaceful, in love with all spirits and ready to obey them. Be sure of good luck, for you are becoming a Hoodoo. 19 Lesson Two: How the Hoodoo Spirits Help You to Get Exactly What You Want Everyone who comes to Hoodoo wants to have something done for them. The reason why they come to Hoodoo is because they have tried everything else and they have not been successful. That is why they are willing to try the power of the spirits which we call Lucky Hoodoo. But you, dear student, are different, because you are now on the road to becoming a Hoodoo practitioner, someone who will be able to help others because he has been so successful and powerful in his Hoodoo work with the spirits. Generally speaking, the Hoodoo spirits are asked to do one of four major kinds of things for those who come to them for help. Sometimes we will find a person who has a lot of needs, but they are usually variations of the basic four These needs are usually: 1. The desire to have good health and be free of illness. 2. The wish to have more money or a better job or boss. 3. The wish to know more about the spirits for betterment. 4. The wish to have a new or better lover for romance and sex. All of these needs are valid and very good for the person to seek. There is no reason why anyone should feel ashamed to want to have these goals. They are the aims of everyone who is in a right frame of mind. Now, we have to see what the Hoodoo Spirits think about these goals for gain- All of these aims are based on the need to gain something more. So there must be something or somebody in the spirit world who is willing to help us to get what we want. The answer is that there are many spirits who have as their purpose the helping of mankind to gain what it needs. These spirits come in order to make up for the lack of something which is the basis of need. We are seeking the help of the spirits in order to gain what we do not now have. Fortunately, there are many spirits who are quite willing to help us out. In fact they are often more willing to help us than we are ready or able to let them help us. In other words, many persons are not yet ready to make contact with the spirits in order to have the spirits help them with their plans. But once a person has made contact with spirits, then it is quite simple to ask them to help you with a particular project, which will bring you exactly what you are seeking. Your own case would be an example of a person who is already on the road to successful communion with the spirits, for you have done the ritual of dedication to the Hoodoo spirits, which was given in the first lesson of this series of documents. Now, we will begin from where we left off in the last lesson, in order to see just how it is that the spirits are able to bring to a person who is seeking something what that person wants. In the world of the spirits there is a particular group of Spirits who are concerned with doing special projects. These are called the "Work Loa," and they are to be found among both the Hoo-Spirit.s and among the Doo-Spirits. These working god: are very helpful to mankind, for they are the powers that enable mankind to get exactly what he wants at any time. They are powerful helpers to mankind, because they are paid by mankind in turn in response to what they have done for him. The "Work Loa" are very wonderful gods in the sense that they have infinite powers, because they are pure spirit and not tied down to this world of earth. Therefore, they are able to be everywhere at all times and to do everything that needs to be done. However, it is necessary to approach these gods by means of special rituals, 20 for like all of the Hoodoo Spirits, these beings are very much in sympathy with ceremonies and rites. Many persons are of the opinion that the Voudoo gods can be contacted simply by directing the mind in the way of their being and thus attunement with the Spirits is achieved by pure and silent thought. This may be true for those Big Shots who can build Mental Temples with their minds and imaginations but it is not true for those who are just beginning. Such novices in Hoodoo must make use of ceremonial work and ritual to summon the Spirits, for if a person wishes to summon the spirits, it is done either with a Mental Temple that is built up in the mind or else it is done with a ceremony done in the very room where the person is. But in either case it is done making use of some kind of magick. That is the important factor. It is necessary to make use of powerful magick in order to summon the Hoodoo Spirits at any time. For they respond only to magick, whether or not it is mental or physical it does not matter except to the student or practitioner. They will come quicker through a good magician using physical methods than through a careless student making use of mental methods, only. And it is important to understand this point, for they are not too interested in how you call them to your aid. They are only interested in that you do call upon them to help you. On the other side and in the world of the spirits, the "Work Loa" can easily recognize a call for help because of the astral colors that it sends along with itself. The call carries with it the secret colors of true petition if it is a sincere call for help. If it isn't, then the colors will be absent and other colors which indicate deception will be present. Pity the poor fool who tries to trick the spirits, for they know everything and that is why they know you and what you want from thern. So be perfectly honest with them for they can tell intuitively when you are sincere and when you are not sincere. Even if a person sought to attract them by means of a Mental Temple, and still was insincere, he would not be successful. They can tell even when the person is working in the world of Mind. For the colors of the Mental Temple will apear to be those where insincerity is present and they will not come, except to punish the wrongoder. Therefore be perfectly honest with them and you will be helped. Another thing to understand is that with them the morals of the human world are without meaning. Moral codes were invented by certain political and religious groups to keep the majority of human beings in chains. There is only one law of morality in the spirit world and that is to tell the truth to the spirits. So if a person desires to make love to another person and the world of human morality would say this is wrong, or even the Bible would say this is wrong, we must understand that to seek the spirits this is not wrong, as long as the seeker is truly seeking that person as his lover. For that reason you must not feel any shyness about speaking to the wonderful spirits, for if you are honest with yourself, you are honest with them. If you are to be honest with them, then they can come to your aid and help you out. There is a very simple ritual which you can do in order to get the Hoodoo Spirits to come to your aid. This is a simple request ritual, and it can he done at any time, once you have done the dedication ritual and therefore should be done at least one day later in order to give your own astral body a rest. However, it is the basic ritual for getting in touch with the spirits and letting them know just what it is that you want them to do. THE BASIC RITUAL FOR GAINING FROM THE HOODOO SPIRITS 21 Part 1. In a quiet place, you will sit at your table upon which you have now placed four candles at the corners and a black candle in the center. You will place a yellow candle in the north, a blue candle in the west (same as before), a green candle in the south, and a red candle in the east. Place your black candle from the previous ritual in the center and between the black candle and the blue candle you will place a glass of water. You will write out on a small piece of paper or index card what you wish to gain and place this request between the red candle and the black candle. Now, your altar is set up for your work, and it should look just like this: Part 2. Now, you will say the following prayer to the Hoodoo Spirits in order to make known to them by ritual your request for their help and presence. You will begin the prayer to the Hoodoo Spirits by lighting the candles in the following order: First, you will light the yellow candle and say: "Holy Spirit of the Northern Cross of Light come forth." Second, you will light the blue candle and say: "Holy Spirit of the Western Cross of Light come forth." Third, you will light the green candle and say: "Holy Spirit of the Southern Cross of Light come forth." Fourth, you will light the red candle and say: "Holy Spirit of the Eastern Cross of Light come forth." Lastly, you will light the black candle and say: "Holy Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo come to my help and hear me." Next, you will touch the glass of water and say: "MEDIUM OF HOLY SPIRITS OF THE WATERS BELOW AND BENEATH ALL WORLDS THE HOLY SPIRITS OF THE DEAD AND THE SEAS J AM HERE TO SERVE YOU." Then, you will look intensely upon your request card and say: "0 LIGHT THERE IS NO DARKNESS. O LIGHT WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF ENDLESS LIGHT." Part 3. Then you will begin to say the following very short prayer of request for gain to the Spirits either in a soft voice or silently to show that you mean real business. "Dear Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo. You are my friends. What I wish to receive from you is written on the card (paper) which I have written out as a special request. Please help me to gain this that I wish so much. I know that you can help me. Here is my gift to you, dear Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo." Part 4. Then you will offer power to the Spirits by rubbing your hands together for a couple of minutes and then holding your hands towards the altar with the palms open and extending the fingers upwards, so that the altar will receive the power as it flows out of the palms of your hands and to the Spirit world. This is your gift to the Spirits, the power of life or vitality which will be used by them in healing or in some other work. Part 5. You will now close your eyes and begin to think about the Hoodoo Spirits and how they will come to you and what you wish them to do for your request. They are present everywhere and perhaps they will indicate that they are there by the 22 flickering of a candle or some other sign. You will then be silent for a few minutes afterwards. You will take the glass of water and drink it, for it has spirit-power in it. You will then silently put out the candles in the following order: first the black, then the red, green, blue, and lastly the yellow candle. You will feel relaxed and peaceful in love with all of the spirits and ready to serve them and obey all the Holy Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo. You will then clap your hands together quickly so that a sound is made and you will say, either softly or silently: "AND IT IS DONE HOLY SPIRITS OF LUCKY HOODOO." Put your candles away if you store them and keep the request written out on card or paper to think about each day. You may do this ritual as often as you like. Be sure of good luck, for you are a Hoodoo. 23 Lesson Three: Hoodoo Methods for Mind-Power Development It has been proven many times before and will be proven for centuries to come that if you serve the Hoodoo Spirits faithfully, they will develop your mind. Now please understand it is the spirits who do this work for you, for if you did not need them or could do this development of mind -power on your own, or if the secrets and methods of this development were known to mankind already they would be taught in the schools, or your power would be there already or else you would have no need of Lucky Hoodoo. But because this is not so and because only the spirits can give what is spiritual — and mind-power development is spiritual -- then we must come to terms with the wonderful spirits of Hoodoo in order to build ourselves up as mental magicians. There are a number of methods for mind-power development which are favored by the Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo. These are methods which are based on the ways in which the spirits have directed the development of human mind power in the past. All of the powerful minds in the past have been able to get their mind- -development from the spirits, because they made a contract with the spirits and lived up to the terms of that contract. In Lucky Hoodoo the spirits expect you to live up to the terms of your contract and this is the basis of their serving you with good luck and favors. In mind-development what happens is that the mind is given some more power from the Hoodoo Spirits. In other words, they come in and give to the students an additional gift of power of mind-substance. This mind-power or mental energy or substance comes from the world of the spirits where everything is mind. The whole world there is one of mind. This is a powerful world and this is where our minds and souls and spirits go to after death. Nothing in that world is physical because everything is completely mind and mind-energy. That is where the mind-power comes from that helps our minds to become more developed and more powerful. Mind is to that world what sunlight and fresh air and water are to our world. Here we have many things to help the physical body develop and be strong, but in that world of mind all that is needed is mind-energy because mind is the only being in that world. So the spirits bring to us this power or mind-energy and this helps us to develop and become more able to work with them, communicate with them and to understand them. This is what mind-power development is actually. Now there are four methods which we accept here in Lucky Hoodoo for the development of mind-power. These are all successful methods and can be used by each student of Lucky Hoodoo. The methods are very simple and have been made very clear for your use. The methods are called: 1. The drearn-power method of mind development 2. The method of Hoodoo spiritual prayer for mind development 3. The method of the Holy House for mind development 4. The shadow-stuff method of mind-power development For effectiveness it is important to combine methods and to use all four of these wonderful methods on a regular basis. For example, in Voudoo and Hoodoo temple- schools, such as my own, we teach the young, students to make use of all four methods of development each day. There are certain times for doing each method, we say, and they should take advantage of these times. The dream-power method is used at night while the student is sleeping, but before he goes to bed, he will make use of the shadow-stuff method, in a dark room, with only a black or blue light bulb giving some 24 kind of shadow and dark mixture. This is when he will use deep meditation, which is really the type of meditation which leads to sleep and which is done when the body is freed of all care and ready for spiritual development. The prayer method can be used during the day for it possible to receive mind energy by prayer at any time and in any place. The method of the Holy House is a mind-projection where you will send your mind to the place of the spirits at any time and while you are anywhere, ft is a method for developing the sense of the spirits' presence in telepathy and mental mediumship. For this reason it is a very practical method. All of these methods are used by me each day. They are so simple and so clear that anyone can make use of them to the fullest sense of results. In Lucky Hoodoo it is important for us to understand that the spirits have made it as easy as possible for you to develop your mind-power. They have gone out of their way in order to make mind-power development as wonderful and as convenient as possible. Because in Lucky Hoodoo the emphasis is upon results and upon success. That is why we try to do everything as completely and as simply as we can, so that the spirits can come to you and help you and you can benefit quickly and easily. We will now discuss the ways in which to make use of these four methods which are designed by the spirits to help you develop mind-power so that you can know more and do more with the spirits. First I will want to say something about the method of prayer and the method of the Holy House. This is the method which is suited to the active person who might want to take a five-minute break here or there during the working day in order to build up his mind-power contacts. These two methods are very simple and they are concerned with ways in which we can keep in touch easily with the spirits all day long. Actually the spirits are just near as our fingertips and we can make contact quickly and easily. PRAYER AND THE HOLY HOUSE OF HOODOO SPITRITS Up to now we have been going over what I will call a form of ritual prayer in the exercises at the end of Lessons One and Two. Now I want to say that the Prayer Method of Mind-Power Development is very simple and it is just this; You will take time off from what you are doing or you will do something that is automatic and does not require mental attention. Then you will focus your mind through attention upon the spirits and you will talk to them in silent thought and attune your mind to how they will respond. To attune your mind means simply to listen to what comes from them after you have made contact through silent thought. This is the basts of all prayers in every one of the world religions. However, because it is so simple, many persons do not want to do it. On the other hand, many persons are always making contact with the spirits through silent thought and live in a positive state of attunement all of the time or at least most of the time. This is so simple, for it only means that you keep your attention mostly directed towards the spirits and the gods, which are the major spirits, of Lucky Hoodoo. In this sense, then, the student is always able to get back from the spirits mind-energy, because he is attuned to them always. This wonderful method is really practical for the everyday working person or even someone who does a lot of mental work. On the other hand, the big strong blacks who did heavy physical labor on the plantations of the French in Old Louisiana used to occupy their minds entirely with this method and thus developed telepathy and mental mediumship, because they were obliged to do purely physical work and their minds were free for the easy development of these powers through the use of silent thought. 25  In the prayer method you have only to address yourself to the spirits in thought, on the other hand the method of the Holy House is different in a sense because it is more complicated. It makes use of the power of the mind and imagination to travel to the home of the spirits in the world of mind. There the mind is fed and clothed and housed and taught by the spirits. In order for the mind to get there the imagination is used to help the mind by means of visualizing or seeing with the mind's eye the inner worlds and what they are like. In Lucky Hoodoo it is important to make use of the mind and imagination together. In all types of Voudoo you have to visualize the scene on the inner planes where things are happening. This means that you have to do a lot of daydreaming and use the mind in creative imagination. When you go to the Holy House of the Spirits what happens is that they inject into your soul and spirit the mind-energy of their world. This means that they will be able to give you more and more and as often as you come to visit them. Sometimes this method is used exclusively and is known as the method of making spiritual visits. It can be used just like the prayer method if the person is developed enough. I myself make use of this method during the day with the prayer method. If I have a lot of free time, I use the Holy House Visit method; if my time is limited I use the prayer method instead. The next method is a combination of two methods. One method prepares for the other method just as the prayer method can be used to prepare for the method of visiting the Holy House of Spirits. These two methods now to be discussed are very powerful and very esoteric and should be used only by a person who feels he is strong enough in Lucky Hoodoo to handle the powers which come to him, from beyond. DREAM POWER AND SHADOW STUFF The method of mind development known as dream power is very simple, also. It means that when you are asleep the Hoodoo spirits come to you and take you in your dreams to their schools and temples and then they teach you to be able to recall what happened to you and what you learned. You may take a while to do this, so that the Hoodoo student usually does a deep meditation or a light mentation, or silent thought, exercise to recall what happened and what was learned. Then the student will make up notes of what he learned and use this as the basis for future studies. The Hoodoo student tries to go to his dream power class every night, if he can. For this reason sleep is a very important matter for the student of Lucky Hoodoo. This is the simple method of dream power. The next method can be understood as a preparation for it. Shadow stuff is an old Hoodoo idea which goes all the way back to the man in the caves. At that time man became fascinated with his shadow and its magickal power. Shadow stuff is the substance of shadows and it is highly magickal and can be used to develop mind-power. This is the way in which it works. You will place yourself inn a room where you are burning either one candle or a blue light or a black light. This is to create a lot of shadow stuff. Now, the student will remove all of his clothing and having taken a bath in water he will give himself a shadow bath. This means that with your fingers you will pass your hands all over your body as close to the surface of the skin as you can without touching the skin. You will "wash" the body with the power of the shadow-stuff and while you are doing this you will be having the spirits give you more and more power. For they will be standing by and feeding mind energy into the shadow-stuff that you make use of. It is sort of like when you want to take a bath and someone will stand by in 26 order to hold the bar or cake of soap. The spirits are holding the mind-energy for you and because of this you are becoming more and more powerful. With every stroke of the hands, they feed into the shadow-stuff between your fingers more and more mind-energy power. This is important and it is good for us to understand that this process is useful also in healing because we are working with vital energies from the spiritual world of mind and the vital energy is becoming more and more a part of our own growing health. In the Creole countries and parts of the world, everyone takes a bath before going to bed and one in the morning while getting up. This is to protect the health of the body from bad influences and impurities. The Creole Hoodooists who are really serious about their magickal and mental development do this. They give themselves a good bath with shadow-stuff each evening before going to bed where they will make use of the dream power method of development. Thus, the bath with shadow-stuff is really the preparation for the dream power method of learning more and more about the spirits and their wonderful world of wisdom and esoteric knowledge. It is important to make use of these methods so that the student can increase his mental development and mind-energy. The spirits have given us these wonderful methods of improvement and we are asked by them simply to give them a try and then we will become more and more convinced that this is a terrific way to advance in the world of spiritual knowledge, power, and wisdom because this is the spirit's own way of development. You will learn to do more and more things with these simple methods. The spirits want you to build onto these methods and to increase your skills in Lucky Hoodoo. These four methods are, therefore, the basis for a lot of other techniques which we will teach to you. But these are the basics as taught to us directly by the Voudoo gods and Hoodoo spirits. This is the method which we call the way of the spirits and it is their way from start to finish. Why don't you try it, so that you can become a big Lucky Hoodoo. 27 Lesson Four: How to Control the Minds of Other People It is a proven fact, that the Hoodoo spirits can help you control the minds of others. The method is Yery simple really, but it makes use of a great deal of power. The spirits of Hoodoo supply both the power and the methods of using it. Now, in Hoodoo we do not say that something is right or wrong, we simply let the spirits tell us what they will do for us. If we serve them faithfully enough, they will do everything for us. They will do anything that we ask them to do including the control of other minds. In Hoodoo we mean that we can attract and hold the attention of another for as long as we wish and then release this power of attraction and be free of such a person. Actually we do not want to control them entirely, for to do so we would have to be spirits ourselves, which we are not. However, we can hold a person to us, make them do what we wish, and have them constantly present for us to have wherever and whenever we wish. This is what we mean by controlling others through the spirits. Many persons wish to control others for purposes of love and sex. I wish to say that these are the easiest ways in which to get the cooperation of the Hoodoo spirits, for they favor the release of much sexual energy on the surface of our planet, because when this happens mankind is happier and more peaceful. In Hoodoo the spirits teach that mankind's problems are due to a lack of love, especially sexual love. If there was more sexual love, they say, there would be no more wars, crimes, or other hostile actions. It is because man stores up in himself so much sexual energy that he wishes to commit crimes and cause wars, but actually he only needs to make love and then he is very much at peace with everything and everyone. If you wish to control the mind of another person in order to get a better job or money, then you must be prepared to have sex with that person, for the spirits of the control-work family are also the spirits of sexual love. If any person wishes to control another anywhere, they must be prepared to have sex with that person is some form. That is, they must visualize the act of sex in order to make their wish to control come true. For this reason, in Hoodoo we teach that your power to visualize and to daydream must be strong enough to help you get what you wish. You must be prepared to make the mind strong with desire. Now when you visualize and imagine what you're going to do, you do not have to go beyond this action. I say that you must be prepared to have sex, but I do not say that you have to have sex. That is unimportant. Many men do not want to have sex with another man, certainly, we know this. This is true of many women. But the power must be built up in your mind to have sex with the person that you wish to control in order that the spirits come to assist you. For this reason you must give much of your time to building up a strong sexual imagination, if you are to be truly successful. After you have done this work with your imagination and used this strong power to see your desire in action, as sex activity, you must then come to do a very simple type of magick, but which is very powerful. This is to make a magick square out of the first name of the person with whom you are imagining that you are having sexual action. Since desire for power and control is really desire to have control over the body of another and hence over the mind, which we feel is an epiphenomenon of the body, strong sexual imagination and desire are really very important. You have built up this deep desire or magickal lust. The more details you add to the visualization the better it is for it becomes very strong through this method. Then when you come 28 to make the magick square you will put in the power of your magickal lust, for this is not a natural lust but an unnatural power generated by desire in a magickal sense; then, your magickal lust will, J say, be fitted into the compartments made by the magick square and from there it will be fed into the magickal computer or system of the Hoodoo spirits. In order to understand how a magickal square works, you have to understand that spiritual power and energy, such as magickal lust, has to have some definite shape or form so that it can be used by the spirits. If it lacks this form, it is like an unbottled liquid or gas, which is difficult to handle in any effective way. Thus we are making it possible for the Hoodoo spirits to help us by placing the magickal lust power in the magickal square. Now let us see how easy it is to fit the power into the shape of the magickal square. I think that as an example of a person you want to control we can select someone named "John." You have now done your visualization work with his image and have built up all of that energy. Now hold the energy in your mind by saying: I HOLD THE MAGICKAL LUST POWER IN MY MIND. Now you will begin to make a magic square of the name JOHN. It is very easy. All you have to do is write the name in a square form following my example: JOHN 0 H H 0 NHOJ... You see that what you have done is to write the name in four different directions in order to form a square. Now, you will fill in the center by making the letters of the name form diagonally across the magick square, in one direction only, which is from the bottom left to the top right, or from N in NHOJ to N in JOHN and thus parallel to this diagonal direction, as follows: JOHN (top right) OHNH HNHO (bottom left) NHOJ Now you will infuse this magick square with the magickal lust power with this sentence of power: I INFUSE THIS MAGICK SQUARE WITH THE MAGICKAL LUST POWER IN MY MIND. Now that you have infused the magick square with power, it is time to offer the magick square to the spirits for their consideration and feeding. It is important to understand that magickal powers serve to feed the spirits and make them strong, strong enough to help you. I think that you know this for you have fed power to them before and they have been pleased with it, for you were taught this in the second lesson. But now you will feed power to the spirits bu taking the magick square apart and then using each of the words in it as a part of a powerful charm. First, you will take the top word and feed it to the spirits. This is the name of the person, whose mind you really wish to control, so you will say the word JOHN. Then you will say the next word, moving from the top of the magick square to the bottom, the next being: OHNH. Try to pronounce each and every word as best you can. The spirits are pleased by your effort, they do not care if you make a mistake, just as long as you try to do your very best. The next word is HNHO. Finally you will say the last word, which forms the bottom of the magick square, and that is NHOJ. Then you will say the following prayer: MIGHTY SPIRITS OF LUCKY HOODOO 29  I AM YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT AND PRIEST YET IN MY SEEKING TO SERVE THEE I FIND THAT 1 MUST CONTROL THE MIND OF (name the person) IN ORDER TO SERVE THEE BETTER AND MORE POWERFULLY. PLEASE ACCEPT THE OFFERING OF THE MAGICK SQUARE WHICH I AM MAKING TO THEE, SO THAT I WILL BE BETTER ABLE TO SERVE THEE AND MUCH HAPPIER IN MY LIFE. FOR THIS IS WHAT I ASK FROM YOU AND PLEASE DO NOT LET ME GO EMPTY. Then you will say to the spirits the following closing prayer of devotion: YOU WHO ARE THE MOST POWERFUL SPIRITS IN THE WORLD, I LOVE YOU. ALL OF MY BEING IS YOURS AND ALL OF BODY, WEALTH, LIFE, AND EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER DONE IF GOOD IS ALSO YOURS. I AM YOUR PRIEST AND YOUR SERVANT, SO PLEASE HELP ME WHEN I CALL UPON YOU IN MY NEED. I AM YOUR PRIEST AND YOUR SERVANT. TRULY, I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. You may say this prayer at anytime, but it is best to use this whole magickal ritual in connection with your yellow, blue, green, red, and black candles, on your altar- tables at home. Between the black candle in the center and the red candle in the east, you may place the paper with the magick square written upon it. Be sure to have a glass placed between the black candle and the blue candle, but this time it will be filled with a proper fruit-flavored brandy, which is favored by the spirits of Lucky Hoodoo, as to their taste and why you wish to control the mind of another person for purposes of power over that person for business or general gain at your job or getting another and better job, you will use orange-flavored brandy, or triple- sec, or cointreau, as they are sometimes called. If you wish to have more money and you wish to control the mind of another person so that you will have more money from them in some way, you will use blackberry-flavored brandy. On the other hand, if you wish to control the mind of another person for purposes of lovemaking and sexual excitement, you will use peach-flavored brandy. For controlling a mind so that circumstances under that person's control be favorable to you, like a judge, boss, or some superior, you will use cherry-flavored brandy. At the end of the ceremony you will then take the glass of brandy or liqueur into your hand and you will say I DRINK INTO MY BEING THE POWERS OF THE MIGHTY AND INVISIBLE SPIRITS OF LUCKY HOODOO WHO ARE EVERYWHERE PRESENT. Then you will drink down the glass of brandy and meditate for a few moments about the spirits. Then you will put down the glass and you will put out the candles as you have been taught to do in Lesson Two. Then you will take your hands and clap them together and say MAGICK SQUARES OF SEXUAL ENERGY TAKE FLIGHT TO THE SPIRITS, TAKE FLIGHT TO THE GODS, TAKE FLIGHT, TAKE FLIGHT, AWAY, AWAY Then you will close the entire ritual by saying: AND IT IS DONE HOLY SPIRITS OF LUCKY HOODOO. 30  Lesson Five: Hoodoo "Contraite" Ways of Attracting Big Money The secret of attracting money to your pocket is one of the basic laws of Lucky Hoodoo. For this law of money-attraction is based upon the magickal working of the very low elemental of earth and water, from which our whole system is built up. We seek to work with the earth and water spirits or elementals, because they hold in their power the keys to all the wealth in the world. Money is kept in stone banks, behind iron and steel doors, and recorded in account ledgers locked behind stone walls. Buried treasure is deep in the earth, hidden under rock, stone, and soil. Gold is an extremely heavy metal, for it wants to cling to the core of the earth, it feels the pull of elemental power very strongly. When it comes time for gold to appear on the surface, we find it in a pool of water, or it has materialized in some mountain stream or been brought up from the ocean floor. Water and earth cooperate in all money magick. The Most Powerful Signs Those who come to control gold and money draw their power from the earth-signs of the zodiac, especially the Sun in Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, which are the places of wealth. The Moon, when it is in these signs, is powerful if its energies are used well, especially in combination with the Sun in another earth sign. Water is good for the manifestation of wealth, so that Scorpio will manifest hidden wealth, Cancer will manifest wealth locked up in systems of power or institutions and commerce. Pisces will manifest the power of silver which stands behind paper money. The Moon in the water signs serves as the medium for the materialization of wealth, so that a person with the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Cancer will direct his powers for the realization of money from the established sources of social wealth, such as banks, governments, and large corporations and trusts. Not everyone, however, is so fortunate in their corporations and trusts. In fact, many persons wish to have wealth, but are without the powerful circumstances for its manifestation. That is why Lucky Hoodoo can help to provide you with the wealth of earth and water, if this is your goal, even though you do not have these centers of power within you to work for you. For by reason of the methods of Lucky Hoodoo, it is possible for you to come into contact with these same spirits of elemental power of wealth and hence overcome all lack and limitation which might be facing you. The secret is by means of the contract, or "contraite" as we say in French, which is an agreement between yourself and the spirits for the obtainment of wealth in exchange for services to these spirits. The "contraite" is the key to true wealth and it is the method whereby gold and paper money will be yours, and that your present supply of money be increased many times. The "Contraite" As we have said, every contract is an agreement with specific terms or parts, which link the parties to the agreement and specify what is sought and the terms for getting this objective. Everything that we have been teaching you so far has been in the form of a contract, whereby we have agreed to serve the Hoodoo spirits in exchange for the favor we are seeking. Thus the law of making a contract with the spirits is something we have been using all along. However, here we are coming to a | new understanding of the contract, for now we will make use of the contract as the 15 31 magickal instrument for getting what we want. Before, we would serve the spirits and thus Fulfill the terms of the contract; now we will have the terms of the contract generate powerful energies so that it is possible for us to make definite plans and realize what we are gaining in the line of wealth. The contract becomes for us the method whereby we tune in on the world of spirit and partake of the infinite law of supply so that we are able to get what we are seeking. Thus, the contract is something like a radio or a television set, which we have decided to turn to the station marked for attracting big money. A contract is therefore a magickal agreement between yourself and the spirits. In this case what you do is go over in your mind what you understand by your agreement with the spirits. It has sixteen terms or articles, which are the parts or meanings which both reflect upon and govern your work with the spirits and how you i will be able to get by attraction the big money you seek. Setting Up The "Contraite" First of all, you are going to make two small diagrams. One will be for the magickal powers that you are using, we will call it "A." The next will be for what it is to do, or "B" for results. Each of these diagrams will have eight parts, for a total of 16 in all. Each one will be numbered, so that you will know exactly what and where to place each within the diagrams. The basic structure of the diagrams is as follows, and they represent the elemental powers of earth and water as they are used to to attract attract big big money: money: A B 1. Sun in Capricorn 5. Son-Pa 9. Attract gold 13. Sun in Cancer 2. Sun in Virgo 6. Huna & Voudoo 10. Lucky Silver 14. Sun in Pisces 3. Sun in Taurus 7. Witchcraft 11. Attract liquid 15. Moon in Taurus, 4. Moon in Scorpio, 8. Shamanism or fluid money Virgo, Capricorn Pisces, and Cancer 12. Attract in- 16. Sun in Scorpio vested Funds Now, Now. inin order order totobetter betterexplain explainthis thissystem systemofofenergies energies,, let let me me say say that numbers five through eight refer to the ancient Hoodoo spirit energies as they are present in the world today and as they were in the past. So that if a meeting of witches is being held while you are doing this contract, part of the energies generated by their weird and strange rites will be attracted by your own efforts and hence add on to the power that you are building up. Also, these types of power (from five to eight) are rich sources of pure elemental contact and are perhaps the best expressions in the human world of the powers generated by the zodiac signs from one through four. Lastly, nine through 12 refer to what we want done, or what is to be done as a result of the elemental magicks being used. Thirteen through 16 refer to the magnetic levels of attraction which pull into manifestation or materialize what we want to receive or have manifest. Thus, nine through 16 receive the efforts of one through eight, whose main effect in this work is to attract big money. Now, I cannot emphasize too much the importance of the different parts of this contract. They all work together like a magickal machine or computer. Their purpose is to make our wishes to come true, once wo have done something really powerful about them. Now what we have to do is a ritual called the "glossary" of terms of the contract, which we fit into the squares of the two diagrams, which we now make into 32 one diagram as follows: 1 5 9 13 2 6 10 14 3 7 11 15 4 8 12 16 Our contract is now one magickal diagram, the powers that we are going to put together with our minds have been fused by our imagination into one system. We are now ready to build up in our minds the terms of the contract we have made with the spirits, so that we will be able to attract big money. The Glossary of Points of Contact With the Spirits With your imagination, you will establish contact with the world of the spirits in terms of the 16 conditions or points in your agreement with them. Each word will then be seen placed in the proper box having the same number. Thus word number Two will be placed in box number Two and so on. By making contact with your mind and imagination between the word and the proper box, you make contact with the spirits in the 16 ways which are important for their knowing what you want to help and serve them. This method of making contact helps you to realize why primitive man was able to have so much power. It also serves to explain the power of certain witch doctors and mighty shamans in the world today. For these men know the ways in which to make contact and keep contact with the points of spirit-power. It is very important to understand the magick in making contact with the spirits. These elemental powers are brought into touch with us when we make this type of mental contact with them. It is like touching them and waking them up. They wake up and then understand what we want from them. They further know that we are more than willing to help them in the most ancient of ways, which is the way of the early magicians who made the first elemental points of contact with the spirits. We will now discuss the terms of the point of contact, which is the way in which the "contraite" works. 1. EARTH: This is the substance of the treasure sought by man, for it is the most basic and fundamental of elements, out of which all is made, including human life and its needs and objects of desire. 2. TRANCE: This is the secret state of mind wherein the spirits give direct messages to the seekers after wealth. Listen to what they are to tell you, for they speak in the very quiet moments of everyday experience. 3. FEED SPIRITS: This is the purpose of ail magickal work, to feed the spirits with energies. Now, make an offering to the spirits of your own energy by rubbing your hands together and then extending them to the gods. 4. ABORIGINAL MAN: Such a man carrying a magickal staff, or wand, is the most primitive image of the magician, the earliest image of the true shaman. Imagine yourself to be such a person serving the spirits ** 5. ARCHAIC: This means that what we are doing is based on the most ancient memories of the human race. Truly what we are doing derives from the dawn of time; 6. NUDIST: The magickal practitioners remove their clothing and thus the shamans work without clothing in order to release the powers. 7. BISEXUAL: True shamanism is neither exclusively heterosexual or homo- sexual. The shaman is prepared to make sexo-magickal contact with any spirit- 33 possessed magician, for thus he makes contact with the spirits. 8. PRIMITIVE: Simple and exact methods are used which are based on very ancient workings. 9. POSSESSED: The shaman may be possessed by both anthropomorphic and therio- morphic spirits, appearing as men, animals, insects, or other fantastic beings. 10. LYCANTHROPIC The were-animal mediumship of the shaman is the source of all teaching and truth. 11. UNCONSCIOUS: This is the place of the deepest contact with the gods in their own realm of the world of pure elemental power. 12. SUBCONSCIOUS: This is the world fed by the gods and in turn it is to feed the conscious mind with gold and all success in wealth. 13. ANIMAL SKINS: These are the drawing powers to success from our past life- times. This is the remembering of past animal lives. 14. DIVINATORY ORACLE: Here the teaching is given by the gods by means of indirect message or the symbolic form of speech. **NOTE: We are to communicate with the spirits by means of these images, for this is their language, a language of pictures in the imagination. 15. ELEMENTAL: This is the source of what we seek or the keeper of magickal powers. 16. WATER: This is the place in experience where the treasure is found, or where wealth manifests. It is the vehicle or the medium for the materialization of the big money we are attracting. You will be sure to place these wonderful terms in the proper boxes in the magickal diagram, while thinking about each one in your mind. You have been able by this method to create a primitive setting, where you as the shaman are actively seeking the spirits to assist you in your work. This is what the attraction of big money is all about. Soon the money will begin to happen to you, once the spirits get the message through the points of contact, which will bring their minds into contact with your own desires. Remember the importance of using mind and imagination to build up the image of what you are doing so that they will be attracted and take notice. NOTE IN CLOSING: As in the previous lesson, you can use your magickal altar or table for basic work. Place the magickal diagram simply between the black and the red candle. This time use a really shamanistic strong drink in place of fruit brandy, so use "Green Chartreuse," which is 110 proof, since it is a powerful spirit, much like the powerful spirits of primitive magickal systems. If you can't use Chartreuse, then make use of Akavit, which is likewise very strong. Use a small amount and then drink it at the end, after you have offered it to the spirits. Do this ritual near to the new Moon, the time of which you can get from the newspaper. This is a powerful method of attracting wealth and should be used often to build up your power. Work in this area constantly, so that the spirits will come to know that you are firm in your contract. 34 Lesson Six: Good Possession for Success Versus Bad Possession for Failure The True Lucky Hoodoo Is Possessed Everyone in the world has either good or bad luck. This means that they are either possessed by good spirits or they are under the spell of negative influences. There are not any bad spirits, because all in the spirit world are very good. However, many negative influences have been created over the years by many kinds of wrong thinking and as a result of this build up over the years, many people are simply lacking in good spirits, they are under the spell of negative influences. When we say in ordinary life, "He/she is not in good spirits," what we really mean is that he/she does not have enough or any good spirits in him/her to make him act happy and full of power. This problem faces so many people, that in Lucky Hoodoo we have discovered ways of correcting this problem of lack of spirits. Now we say that a person is possessed if there are spirits in him to help him. The spirits can be either in body or mind. Thus a very smart or wise person has a lot of spirit in their mind and brain, so that they can think quickly and easily. A great lover, who has much success with women, would have a lot of spirit in his nature, and in his body which does the work of his nature. A successful salesperson would have a lot of spirit in her voice and head, so that there is always the power there to persuade and convince people to buy from her. In other words, wherever you go, you would find that successful people somehow have attracted the spirits into their being. This is why they are possessed with good luck. Now, those who are not successful are under the spell of what 1 will call a bad possession or influence of the negative, which means to be a failure. In Lucky Hoodoo we do not believe in possession by the devil, but we do believe that a person can be under the negative spells cast by his own lack of good spirits. For when you lack you either do something to get more than what you have and hence overcome lack, or you simply don't do anything good and you come more and more under the negative influences of bad luck and negative influence. This means that you have to decide which way you want to go. Now, only you can make this decision. I have told you that the spirits of Lucky Hoodoo want to help you, and they really want to come into your being and help you through possession. However, there are many people who are so foolish that they want to keep the spirits out, so they are constantly under the spells of the negative influences of being poor, being sick, being ignorant, and being foolish and lacking will-power. Those people are really, as I would say, in very serious need of help, but they close the door in the face of the help that the spirits can give them. We might ask why they do that. Well, the answer is very simple and that is why we are writing this course. The reason they shut off the powers of Lucky Hoodoo and prefer the negative is because they do not know how to get rid of bad possession for failure and replace it with good possession for success. Now this is what I am going to tell you to do, since it is so easy to get rid of negative influences. Our Secret African Prayer for Powerful Success Many years ago, in fact hundreds of years ago, in Africa, a priest of the Hoodoo religion discovered the key to all success in good possession. One day he was praying for good luck and he looked down on the ground and he saw a stick writing a message in the dirt. The message was a wonderful and really powerful prayer, which 35 we have cherished for many years. It is a very simple prayer but what it does is clear your body and mind of negative and bad possessions and open you up to the good by inviting the powers of Lucky Hoodoo to come into your body. This is a prayer you can use to treat others who have a lack of good spirits and you can also use it any time you feel a letdown in your power. For you may have done something to keep the flow of good spirits out of your life and now you need them to come in and get you going in the right direction. Well you can use this prayer whenever you think it will do some good, because it is a free prayer, and need not be used only under special occasions and times. This prayer sums up the best of the old teaching and draws in with its use the truest and best powers of Lucky Hoodoo in the world. A Free Prayer for Lucky Hoodoo This prayer is as follows: First you will say to yourself, and you can be saying this for yourself or for another, "I don't want bad possession for failure, I want good possession for success." Then you will begin the simple, free prayer as it follows, thinking or speaking with firmness and strong conviction of willpower, as strong as can be: NEGATIVE FORCES OUT! BAD LUCK BE GONE Now by saying that you have given an exorcism or treatment to cleanse the body and mind of bad influences by driving them out. This is the healing by purifying the body and mind or any evil presence. Now we have to bring in the good powers to fill up every part, so that you will have a good possession for success. This means that you will now say or think: POSITIVE POWERS IN! LUCKY HOODOO SPIRITS BE EVERYWHERE IN MY BODY LUCKY HOODOO SPIRITS FILL MY MIND WITH POWERFUL SUCCESS! That is your wonderful Voudoo Treatment based on the calling forth of the Holy Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo, so that you are filled "up to the brim" with good influences and powerful energy for making success yours. How It Has Helped Many This method is so simple, yet