How To Be An Advanced Occultist | 10 Tips — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello this is georgina rose part-time
2. 0:02esoteric content creator and part-time
3. 0:03center of pestilence and welcome back to
4. 0:05the dot darling youtube channel on this
5. 0:07channel we discuss magic mysticism
6. 0:09religion the occult and everything on
7. 0:10the fringes of esoterica and in this
8. 0:13video i want to do something a little
9. 0:14different
10. 0:24it was almost a year ago when i made a
11. 0:26video called how to begin your path and
12. 0:29through that time since then i've made a
13. 0:32lot of videos on different subjects
14. 0:33different practices etc but one thing
15. 0:36that i've never covered is
16. 0:38how do you take it to the next level so
17. 0:40let's say you've been practicing you've
18. 0:42been studying for quite some time
19. 0:44and you're getting into that point where
20. 0:46you're like okay i get the basics i sort
21. 0:48of know what i'm doing but you don't
22. 0:50know where to go next essentially you're
23. 0:52struggling at becoming advanced the term
24. 0:55advanced in the occult is a really
25. 0:57interesting one because it's a hard
26. 0:58thing to define i actually did a podcast
27. 1:00episode on what makes a person advanced
28. 1:04quite some time back i'll link that
29. 1:05below but this really got me thinking
30. 1:08what do we do next
31. 1:10what comes next and i actually recently
32. 1:12read a book on this topic called the
33. 1:13witches path by thorin mooney which very
34. 1:16very good very good book that sort of
35. 1:17addresses this subject but i wanted to
36. 1:19give my spin on it and my advice on it
37. 1:22because trust me i've made some mistakes
38. 1:24in my experience as a practitioner and i
39. 1:27have in many times hit these ruts and
40. 1:29these walls online we sort of like to
41. 1:31think of spirituality as a progress that
42. 1:33always goes up and never address the
43. 1:35fact that there are times where you will
44. 1:37have setbacks there are times where
45. 1:38you'll be stagnant and that stuff needs
46. 1:41to be talked about so that we can break
47. 1:44through that and so i'm here to admit it
48. 1:46i've made mistakes i'm not a perfect
49. 1:48practitioner but no one is it's a
50. 1:50spiritual journey for a reason not a
51. 1:52spiritual destination so my first big
52. 1:55thing is to make sure all three limbs of
53. 1:57a good occult practice are
54. 2:00there so i sort of have come up with a
55. 2:02model for how i think a successful
56. 2:04occult practice needs to operate and
57. 2:06that's with three branches this doesn't
58. 2:07matter if you're a mystic a witch an
59. 2:09occultist whatever label you like to
60. 2:11call yourself and that would be first
61. 2:12study and research this is going to
62. 2:15lectures going to discussion groups
63. 2:17reading books watching videos listening
64. 2:18to podcasts taking in that information
65. 2:21looking at the theology looking at the
66. 2:23metaphysics and learning through being
67. 2:25told from the people that have come
68. 2:26before us
69. 2:27the second limb is practice that is
70. 2:30doing the thing
71. 2:32if you want to sit around and just read
72. 2:34occult manuscripts and just learn that's
73. 2:35totally fine that's basically what being
74. 2:37a scholar is the idea of the armchair
75. 2:39magician is often used in a derogatory
76. 2:42way because of course if you want to be
77. 2:43in a cultist you want to be a magician
78. 2:45you need to apply the thing but if you
79. 2:47are someone who is someone who's just
80. 2:49interested in it from a curiosity
81. 2:51perspective that's valid i just would
82. 2:53call that scholarship more so than being
83. 2:57an occultist or being a practitioner but
84. 2:58that's my opinion you don't have to
85. 3:00agree with me on that but you do need to
86. 3:03study at some point but that study needs
87. 3:05to become practice that will be your
88. 3:07daily rituals that will be doing rituals
89. 3:09once a month on the full moon that will
90. 3:12be praying that'll be doing whatever it
91. 3:15is that your practice mandates doing
92. 3:17that regularly and consistently
93. 3:19not everyone is going to want to do
94. 3:21magic all the time that's completely
95. 3:23legitimate but you still need to
96. 3:24practice like don't allow it to go a
97. 3:26month or two without practicing if you
98. 3:28can obviously life gets in the way
99. 3:30sometimes but trying to maintain a
100. 3:32steady and consistent practice will
101. 3:34really really help the third limb is the
102. 3:36one that is not discussed as much and i
103. 3:38think we should talk about more and that
104. 3:39is contemplation when you have a
105. 3:40spiritual experience typically it's
106. 3:43really hard to break down and process i
107. 3:46find that spiritual experiences tend to
108. 3:47be very symbolic very much esoteric on
109. 3:50the literal sense and processing them
110. 3:52takes a long time so you need to make
111. 3:54sure you cut out some time to process
112. 3:56what you've gone through to sit and
113. 3:58contemplate and think about it and when
114. 4:00you consume material like educational
115. 4:02material to think about does this make
116. 4:04sense to me am i just agreeing with this
117. 4:06because i think it's what an occultist
118. 4:08is supposed to do or do i believe this
119. 4:10because it aligns with my personal
120. 4:12experiences so making sure you can
121. 4:14contemplate and think about things is
122. 4:16really really important my second tip
123. 4:18has to do with keeping a magical record
124. 4:20there's a bunch of terms for this the
125. 4:22magical record the book of shadows the
126. 4:24grimoire the journal whatever you want
127. 4:25to call it every tradition has sort of a
128. 4:27term for a notebook where you write down
129. 4:30what you're doing and sometimes what
130. 4:32you're learning but if you want to make
131. 4:34this really work for you i suggest
132. 4:37leaving space for your results and your
133. 4:39observations so you write down the
134. 4:41ritual you're doing if you're someone
135. 4:42who writes down correspondences i
136. 4:44personally don't do stuff like that i
137. 4:46use my magical record very strictly as
138. 4:49like my personal practice and like what
139. 4:51i'm doing i always leave space for my
140. 4:54results for if i have dreams if i do
141. 4:56divination afterwards because i find
142. 4:57it's really helpful to do a tarot
143. 4:59reading after you do a ritual to like be
144. 5:01like what will this bring me what does
145. 5:03this mean stuff like that and write that
146. 5:05down and i will basically put on the
147. 5:07left side of my notebook what i'm doing
148. 5:09and on the right side all my results and
149. 5:11sometimes even weeks later i'll see like
150. 5:12a sign like let's say i did a hakate
151. 5:15ritual and then
152. 5:16two weeks later i see a hecate side i
153. 5:18would write that on that page i think
154. 5:20that that can really take it to the next
155. 5:21level my third tip is to read
156. 5:24older things so a lot of modern occult
157. 5:26material is very beginner oriented this
158. 5:29is because a lot of people are always
159. 5:31coming into the practice as well reading
160. 5:33beginner books when you're more
161. 5:34experienced there's no shame in that i
162. 5:35read beginner books still there's a lot
163. 5:37of subjects in the occult that i'm not
164. 5:39versed on and so i will turn to beginner
165. 5:42books because you know it gives me
166. 5:44context on an area that i'm not aware of
167. 5:46and i find even as a thalamite sometimes
168. 5:48i'll read a beginner thalima book just
169. 5:49to you know see new perspectives i feel
170. 5:51like there's always something you can
171. 5:52learn from a book unless the book's
172. 5:54absolutely terrible but most occult
173. 5:56books are not absolutely terrible but
174. 5:58eventually you're going to need to step
175. 6:00beyond that and read older books a lot
176. 6:03of these modern books are essentially
177. 6:05pulling from the same sources and the
178. 6:06same thinkers if you look far enough
179. 6:08back
180. 6:09right like when it comes to practical
181. 6:10occultism eventually you're gonna want
182. 6:13to read crowley it's just you're gonna
183. 6:15want to like the idea of will that's
184. 6:17something that's so
185. 6:18ingrained in modern western occultism
186. 6:21that eventually you're going to want to
187. 6:22read crowley eventually you're going to
188. 6:24want to read the three books of a cult
189. 6:25philosophy by agrippa because that's
190. 6:26been one of the most revolutionary
191. 6:28occulta books and a lot of occult ideas
192. 6:30are from that text eventually you're
193. 6:32going to have to suck it up and read the
194. 6:34source books i i like the term source
195. 6:36books for them there's one series
196. 6:38lewellen does they call like the source
197. 6:40books where they reprint older stuff i
198. 6:42like that term because this is where a
199. 6:44lot of the sourcing comes from and then
200. 6:45modern books are building upon the
201. 6:47source books because our traditions are
202. 6:49built upon what has come before it's
203. 6:52always expanding it's always growing
204. 6:54it's a living tradition that's you know
205. 6:56growing based off those sources so
206. 6:57you're gonna need to read them i know
207. 6:59that they can be hard certain sections
208. 7:02can be
209. 7:03problematic if you're someone who gets
210. 7:05into that you know like
211. 7:07you just kind of have to do it at some
212. 7:08point there's no real way around it if
213. 7:11you want to go super deep eventually
214. 7:12you're gonna have to read an old book
215. 7:14sorry i'm actually not sorry about that
216. 7:17just just just read the book it's it's
217. 7:19not that bad it's not going to hurt you
218. 7:21the book is not going to kill your
219. 7:22family that's what uh that's what the
220. 7:24tick-tockers claim moldavite does okay
221. 7:25so if we think about it isn't moldavite
222. 7:28more of a hazard to your life than old
223. 7:29books my next tip is to start making
224. 7:32your own supplies so to save money a lot
225. 7:35of people at the beginning make their
226. 7:36own supplies but i find that people
227. 7:38don't make everything they use because
228. 7:40sometimes making things can actually not
229. 7:42really save you much money typically
230. 7:44when you make things uh there's a bigger
231. 7:46upfront cost but you end up saving in
232. 7:49the long run but beyond the monetary
233. 7:51thing making your own materials can
234. 7:54really really help because when you make
235. 7:56your own materials you can make sure all
236. 7:58the correspondences are in there and you
237. 8:00can understand what you're working with
238. 8:02at a deeper level if you're buying
239. 8:04incense sticks you're probably not going
240. 8:06to be thinking about what resins are in
241. 8:08here what is everything building into it
242. 8:10or if you're buying oils you know when
243. 8:12you make your own oils you can pick the
244. 8:14base based on correspondences if you're
245. 8:15making a solar oil you could opt for
246. 8:17sunflower oil instead of olive oil as
247. 8:19your base and you can pick every single
248. 8:20herb that's in there and in terms of
249. 8:22making like ritual tools like floor mats
250. 8:25if you're supposed to do ceremonial
251. 8:26magic a lot of people make these uh
252. 8:28big floor mats with the symbols on them
253. 8:31so they don't have to draw on the floor
254. 8:32every time you know when you make that
255. 8:34yourself you have a lot more
256. 8:35customization options and you can really
257. 8:37think about every single factor that's
258. 8:39being put into it on a much deeper level
259. 8:42so when you are becoming more advanced
260. 8:43make more of your stuff because there's
261. 8:45a lot that you can learn about
262. 8:46correspondence by making things and when
263. 8:48you make your own things if you're
264. 8:49making oils you could make the oils
265. 8:51let's say it's a solar oil on a sunday
266. 8:54so that it is corresponding on an even
267. 8:56deeper level so it gives you a lot more
268. 8:58power to customize and make sure that
269. 9:00every single thing that's going into
270. 9:01your ritualistic microcosm is what you
271. 9:03want my next tip is about language so
272. 9:06when you're getting into ceremonial
273. 9:07magic specifically older traditions
274. 9:10eventually you're gonna run into some
275. 9:12rituals that have some sections that are
276. 9:14not in english if you're a felonite like
277. 9:17me you're gonna have to look at greek
278. 9:19and kabbalah which is in hebrew so with
279. 9:22kabbalah you really do need to learn a
280. 9:24little bit of hebrew to truly understand
281. 9:26kabbalah um especially like like you can
282. 9:29look at the tree of life and you can
283. 9:30just remember what those words translate
284. 9:31to but eventually you're really going to
285. 9:33want to learn the hebrew alphabet so
286. 9:35that would be something that you need to
287. 9:37do however you do not need to actually
288. 9:40attain fluency in any language that
289. 9:42you're studying and if you want to do
290. 9:44that that's great but it's not generally
291. 9:46necessary typically like with greek
292. 9:48because i don't actually speak greek i
293. 9:50will when i get presented a ritual like
294. 9:53say the star ruby that's a themic ritual
295. 9:54has some greek it i will make sure that
296. 9:56i translate and make sure the
297. 9:58translations are collect correct of
298. 10:00everything that's in there so i know
299. 10:01what i'm actually saying a lot of times
300. 10:04things that are in other languages are
301. 10:05in other languages as a point of
302. 10:07emphasis
303. 10:08and so they are in other languages for a
304. 10:10reason it's not like the stereotypical
305. 10:12horror movie that just like randomly
306. 10:13puts things in latin for some reason
307. 10:15like there's typically a reason for it
308. 10:16and you're going to want to know what
309. 10:17you're saying but it's typically not
310. 10:19necessary to actually attain fluency you
311. 10:22just need to know the alphabet some
312. 10:23basic understandings like some very very
313. 10:25basic information and what you're
314. 10:27actually saying so that you can make
315. 10:28sure it's something you actually want to
316. 10:30say my next tip is something that's a
317. 10:33little personal to me and something that
318. 10:35i've wrestled with a lot and that would
319. 10:37be guilt when we talk about religious
320. 10:39guilt we typically think of catholicism
321. 10:41right like the catholic who sinned and
322. 10:44they feel this immense guilt and that
323. 10:46they failed as a person right but
324. 10:48religious guilt is something that we all
325. 10:50can feel personally i get it around um
326. 10:53sometimes daily practices so you guys
327. 10:55know i'm a big believer in daily
328. 10:56practices i have videos on it i think
329. 10:58that a daily practice is essential to
330. 11:01becoming a more successful more advanced
331. 11:05practitioner that regularity makes a
332. 11:08huge huge difference i do things like
333. 11:09rush and lbrps every single day
334. 11:12and occasionally
335. 11:14things get in the way especially with
336. 11:16resh i find this happens more with me
337. 11:18with resh than anything else i do
338. 11:19because you have to do multiple times a
339. 11:21day um i'll be like running errands and
340. 11:23i'll forget say the noon rush
341. 11:26um and i'll feel bad about it like i
342. 11:28will be like god damn it i'm a bad
343. 11:31thalamite
344. 11:33but that doesn't help anyone with these
345. 11:35rituals if you miss one it's not life or
346. 11:38death just either do it when you
347. 11:40remember or do the next one and just get
348. 11:43back on track the guilt i find prevents
349. 11:45me from even getting back on my feet
350. 11:47right like if i miss a rush i'll be like
351. 11:49well what's the point of doing the rest
352. 11:50of rush today i've already messed it up
353. 11:52and you just get into this really
354. 11:54negative spiral really fast and it's not
355. 11:56helpful even for bigger things like
356. 11:58let's say you
357. 12:00miss a full moon ritual because you're
358. 12:02sick don't beat yourself up over it it
359. 12:05doesn't even help you get back on track
360. 12:07focus on getting back on track and
361. 12:09release the guilt
362. 12:11guilt is holding you back guilt is not
363. 12:14helping you throw it away put it in the
364. 12:17trash my next tip is to not forget your
365. 12:19fundamentals there are some fundamental
366. 12:22things that people learn early on that
367. 12:24would be visualization breath work
368. 12:27meditation sigils these very simple
369. 12:29things that beginners you know
370. 12:31get told early on don't lose track of
371. 12:34them i find when people become more
372. 12:35advanced they get really into
373. 12:38i don't know if it's like chasing the
374. 12:40flashy rituals chasing the exciting
375. 12:41rituals there are multiple ways you
376. 12:43could phrase it but let's say they get
377. 12:44really really into a nokian or go away
378. 12:46shot and they want to do these huge
379. 12:48ceremonial rituals they want to do these
380. 12:50big initiations all this stuff but in
381. 12:53that process they forget
382. 12:55where all this begins the beginner stuff
383. 12:58the breath the sigil the meditation you
384. 13:01could even spend your entire spiritual
385. 13:03career studying breath and meditation
386. 13:06and you would still have more to learn
387. 13:09these fundamentals are fundamentals
388. 13:10because they're building blocks they're
389. 13:12the foundation in which the house is
390. 13:14built upon so you should not forget them
391. 13:17and you should still be reading about
392. 13:19them keep doing your meditation keep
393. 13:21reading about the complexity of what
394. 13:23breath can do because it's amazing how
395. 13:25much literally the different ways you
396. 13:26can breathe
397. 13:28can make a difference so don't forget
398. 13:31where the basics are don't lose sight of
399. 13:33them they are fundamentals not beginner
400. 13:36things my next is to read books that are
401. 13:39not a cult
402. 13:40when you're trying to take the occult to
403. 13:42the next level
404. 13:44reading exclusively occult genre books
405. 13:47can actually
406. 13:48hold you back a little bit i love occult
407. 13:50literature i read occult books all the
408. 13:52time i feel like i constantly have one
409. 13:54coming in my house
410. 13:56but there are other things that can
411. 13:57actually really help your practice
412. 14:00things like if you're someone who's into
413. 14:02herbal magic or like plant stuff or the
414. 14:05mysteries of plant spirits or something
415. 14:08read books on botany on gardening those
416. 14:10will really really help you if you're
417. 14:13someone who's very tied to specific
418. 14:15tradition let's say you're a christian
419. 14:16mystic or a kabbalist or something read
420. 14:19theology learning to just straight
421. 14:21religious information can really really
422. 14:23help as well in general philosophy is
423. 14:26really valuable understanding the
424. 14:28philosophic meaning of what you're doing
425. 14:30can really help you find direction as a
426. 14:32thalamite i think the thalemic
427. 14:33philosophy is really really important to
428. 14:35my life and my practice don't avoid
429. 14:38something just because it's not strictly
430. 14:39a cult you'd be surprised how much
431. 14:41adjacent genres can really really help
432. 14:43you find new ideas new direction and new
433. 14:46inspiration my next bit of advice is
434. 14:48something that people will probably feel
435. 14:50pretty strongly about some people may
436. 14:52really disagree with me on this and that
437. 14:54would be
438. 14:55have a willingness to change directions
439. 14:58so when you start in spirituality you're
440. 15:00going to want to have a direction a path
441. 15:02a way forward and for a lot of people
442. 15:04that becomes traditions let's say you're
443. 15:06really into italian folk magic you're
444. 15:08really into philemon you're really into
445. 15:09our medicine and you're really into
446. 15:10gnosticism you can keep going on
447. 15:14but at some point you may change
448. 15:17directions
449. 15:18your spiritual practice could look
450. 15:20really different i know what i first
451. 15:22started practicing is not what i
452. 15:23practiced today and you need to be okay
453. 15:26with that i think sometimes we're so
454. 15:29married to specific labels and specific
455. 15:31tracks because there is a comfort in
456. 15:33practicing a tradition right like
457. 15:35especially if it's one that has like a
458. 15:36degree structure you know that's that's
459. 15:38a path it's it's a solution it gives you
460. 15:41you know your your future right
461. 15:43but sometimes spirituality is not that
462. 15:46clean
463. 15:47sometimes we need to remember that
464. 15:49spirituality is a journey that means
465. 15:51moving from one place to another
466. 15:53you may end up changing paradigms
467. 15:55traditions religions i know so many
468. 15:57people who got into witchcraft to just
469. 15:59be a secular witch and then ended up a
470. 16:01full-blown pagan sometimes even just a
471. 16:03devotional polytheists who wasn't doing
472. 16:04witchcraft like five years later your
473. 16:06path is going to change and you need to
474. 16:10be okay with that and not let this
475. 16:12fixation on having a spiritual identity
476. 16:14because i think that's really what it is
477. 16:16people want an identity a label a thing
478. 16:18that gives them that comfort
479. 16:21sometimes you need to release that and
480. 16:22sometimes
481. 16:23you may change traditions
482. 16:26and that's okay my final tip is probably
483. 16:29the most important thing that i say in
484. 16:31this entire video and that would be
485. 16:33remember why you're doing this
486. 16:36are you doing magic just to do rituals
487. 16:38or are you doing it for something higher
488. 16:40remember the great work remember your
489. 16:42true will remember what that driving
490. 16:44force is for why you're doing this don't
491. 16:46just do rituals because you want to do
492. 16:49rituals right do them because they are
493. 16:51leading to something think about your
494. 16:53goals think about your aims think about
495. 16:55what this all means for you and follow
496. 16:57that
497. 16:58that
498. 16:59direction that purpose is really
499. 17:01important and for me as a fellow mind
500. 17:03obviously that means true will i always
501. 17:06come back to the importance of my true
502. 17:08will and what that might be and
503. 17:09following that that comes first and that
504. 17:13core purpose
505. 17:15is how i know
506. 17:16what i'm going to even do that's what
507. 17:19drives me what guides me what gives me
508. 17:20the direction so always do your rituals
509. 17:23for that deeper thing not just because
510. 17:25you want to do rituals so that's pretty
511. 17:27much what i want to say on this topic uh
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