As I have discussed on my first two blogs where I talked about thinking positively always and in the power of belief. Now, we will talk about what basic things you need to know on how to proceed on our path to becoming a practical magician.
My next advice, of course, would be read books related to occult magic. There are a lot of good books out there which are available. The drawback however in reading these books are it's hard to understand them or they don't reveal really anything. The trick to reading these kind of books is that you have to read between the lines. Other people are lucky as they have a guru to explain things to them but for people like me who are self thought, would really have read and read over and over again just to know what they were talking about.
Often times these books are hardcore esoteric stuff and don't really say anything in layman's terms and would be hard to understand but now there is an internet to aid us now at least to get resources as to what terms and phrases like chakras, tree of life and major arcana are. However, when you read these kinds of books, of course there are would be some stuff there that are easy to understand too but also you have to know the purpose of the book why it was written. Usually, these accomplished authors are playing safe to weed out the people who are ready and people who are just curious. They don't usually reveal things and serve them to you on a silver platter. Sometimes they just really want to let you know the basic stuff like knowing about natural laws and warn you of repercussions on your person should you try to be ambitious. The thing really here is that you have to find out for yourself. Serious students would discern what they are talking about. They will not teach you spells but rather it is their intention to make your own thing and that they are just teaching you and warn you things you shouldn't do. It's really tricky stuff and their intention really is to disappoint people who have no business with magic. So if you happen to be reading a book and it is telling you right there and there on how to make someone fall in love with you or telling you a step by step process of a spell, then I'm telling you straight out that you are wasting your time. These are not the books you should be reading.
One book I could recommend is a book by Paul Foster Case entitled, "Tarot." Yes, you will not find any spells here but it will give any aspiring practical magicians very clear interpretations on the symbolism of every card which every magicians should really know about.
Another one I could recommend is not esoteric in nature but rather an inspirational book by Neal Stephen Walsh, the "Conversation With God" series. A very empowering and modern book. Just read it and you will know what I'm talking about.
The thing here is that occult books are not readily available but if you could get your hands on books of these nature, just read them for knowledge sake, don't follow what you read at first. When you have read like 10 different authors, then you decide which suits you best. "Initiation to Hermetics" by Franz Bardon is pretty instructional but me I couldn't even get to the part where I have to wake up every morning at 5 AM and scrub myself, and that was I think just the second exercise. So I said that was not for me but I did Exercise 1 there and was able to control my thoughts but that was it and so I went about looking for other books. And that was a pretty valuable skill I learned. So even though I wasn't able to do the required things Sir Bardon wanted me to do, I learned some basic stuff though. I don't like to mention other books as you may not lay your hands on them at all. If you will go looking for books, you could find books written by well-known occultists. I don't want to name names but just stay with the good guys. Let's say you found out a title or an author, you can always google and check out if the author were known to have a bad reputation in the realm of occult magic. Yoga-related books are also good later on you would also be doing a lot of meditation.
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