Through alchemy, a target of magical practice is to become an “instrument of communication” ourselves; to directly speak with etheric energies, with efficiency, clarity and precision. We too can deliver messages to others, that will enrich, enliven and expand them. We want to properly receive these messages, not distort or project onto them, because we have too much heavy, dense “syrupy” build-up—like maple syrup clogging our perception. Our faculties of discernment are not inconsolably defunct, they simply become blurred. We remove this “maple syrup” through “fire” or ritual purification, and by harmonizing ourselves with, and listening to, our environment. I have been gradually collecting, experimenting with, and recording these purification methods over many years and will present this material, in a manner that is ideally both clear and stimulating!

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In Sanskrit, “pithastan” is a sacred location flowering with powerful frequencies, coagulating from centuries of devotional worship and ritual purification. These spaces are churning with divine energies, distilled of energetic pollutants common to urban atmospheres. Each sacred landscape carries a medley, of elemental, planetary and astral energies, which merge and produce a particular resonance, sonic in quality. Though this is subtle and vibratory, we can envision it to have a physical form, perhaps a shimmering “powder” floating atop. This energetic imprint or “powder” is purified and charged, and can activate direct communication with divine energies. Much of tantric ritual involves energetic purification, not only to “speak with” but to properly house, and become, the essence of the chosen Deity.

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We too can tap into the “powder” in our own chosen environments and commune with these energies. This is sometimes more precisely accomplished in solitude, to properly “hear” and “exchange” with whom you are speaking with. For example, if you are having a meaningful, intimate conversation with an old friend, perhaps you would prefer a quiet tavern to the middle of a Nasar track. Magic is a conversation!

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As many of you are familiar, the patron of magic is Mercury (communication and alchemy) or Hermes in the Western Esoteric Tradition, with Hermes Trismegistus being the central figure to whom Hermeticism is attributed. 

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Works Cited:

Bubriski, Kevin, and Keith Dowman. Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal. Thames and Hudson, 1995.

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