Given the nature of this spirit, I always burn some wheat, and a fresh 20 dollar bill. Seems like a waste of money maybe, but per our agreement, for every bill I give him, he returns it to my coffers "ten by ten", or 100 fold. I have been saving up to make his seal in gold, as well, as he has suggested to me through our exchanges that this would secure his power more completely into my life.

I like to make sacrifices of materials that are in line with the nature of the spirits in question. For ziku, materials of abundance and wealth, as per your paradigm. Aside from the astral material of the sacrifice itself, you are sacrificing your conceptual energy as well, as I was instructed by the 39th name, Aranunna.

peace, and congrats.

Ia Marduk!
Ia Ziku!

Actually the Taoist Sorcerers would burn money when working with certain spirits. They believed that spirits also like humans could use money to buy there way into a higher hereafter. I suggest after writing the Arra, Agga, and Watcher sigils on the money, you also add the sign for Ziku and then burn the money from the inside out. Smasher_666 also shared his methods of writing sigils on money that we use as that money will return to us.

They don't burn real money, rather they burn a representation of money that these spirits can use. And maybe the same could be done in this case, but the value and intent wouldn't be the same then. Furthurmore, it might even be an insult to the spirit to do so.

From what sources are you getting this informations from. Remember, my comments were concerning Taoist Sorcery not the religion. Think about it,

When I was way younger my father consulted a few of these people that practiced what I would definately consider a form of magic utilizing taoist elements. I used to ask my father a lot of questions about them.

On second thought what you were refering to may be a branch of which I have not seen before, so my apologies.

Greetings warlock asylum

Could you post the name of that Taoist Sorcery book here ad maybe outline any correlations with the Nec?

Greetings Om,

I think ZIku is very compatible with Zulum and the two should be worked together.

Peace

I use the necronomicon as a magick battery. I contemplate the text specific to my needs and generate a state of mind that can use the energy generated by focusing my thoughts on the words in the book. Think of it as mental friction to generate heat. For me each entity in the book represents a magickal thought form. The book presents the blue prints to the magician to create and manifest these entities. In order for my contemplation method to work I must follow certain ritual guide lines (these are influenced by wiccan teachings) I contemplate the aspects of the entity or area of the book and in effect contruct an entity of the nec I need. I build my own entity that acts like a mechanical suit. The suit is then "worn" as in invoked and I ware it to complete the ritual of my craft.

Sense the book itself is rather incomplete, to me at least, I use my own craft to sort of fill the gaps in conjunction with the necronomicon. The primary use for the book is intellectual augmentation (like I need it). The book is based on the lovecraftian mythos. Which I believe HP Lovecraft tapped into his psychic mind when writting his books. That creative node is apparant in Simon's books. I use the book to channel abstract psychic energies to enhance my thought performance and over all performance in life. The mental boost I get from the nec is then applied to my craft and I can use the "charge" I got from the book.

Results? Illuminating!

After passing the Nanna gate and entering the silver city i bowed before nanna and offered him my sword in allegiance. Sin knighted me and gave me the weapons and armour of the moon and a shapeshifting Jinn to ride as a horse in astral endevours.
As of yet I have never heard of anyone traveling astrally through the gates outside of my coven with the exception of Ashnook.

Uggggg. Okay, here's the deal. I feel kind of lame having to explain all this silliness but I might as well. Any help or advice you guys could give would be EXTREMELY appreciated. By the way Moderators, I'm sorry in advance if you guys feel this should be a separate thread but it relates to the stuff above.

About a year ago I broke up with my then girlfriend due to numerous reasons that I need not delve into. After this happened I decided to try doing some chaote-style magick (mostly sigillizations) to find another partner. I had never really done much magick before (though I was pretty knowlegable about the theory. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush2.gif) Insert snarky remark here). None of the spells really worked, or if they did the results were very diluted and/or skewed. I finally gave up with the chaos style and did a few more official ritual works, also with minimal results at best. My friend even gave me a spell to use which also was ineffective. The majority of the spells used were very broad, and not directed at any one person, but just to help me find a lover. No avail. Now it sounds like I'm some kind of Jabberwocky right? No, pretty average lookin fella, just get frazzled when I try to communicate with most members of the opposite sex. And then there's the Hegal thing. This spell was directed at someone. But I BARELY know this person. Not to mention the fact they were in another state at the time I did the working. And I just found out today she's now in another country! Arrgh. Sorry, but I've just become frustrated to no end with this whole situation. I honestly don't know how to appraise it. Should I stop trying to do love oriented magick, should I look for what went wrong in the spells, should I wait until I become more proficient with more basic magickal excercises to approach it, should I look for another person, should I not look for anyone, Is all this magick bullsh!t anyway, am I unbelievably stupid or just losing my mind?!

Again sorry for being all over the place but this is how my mind's been at times lately and I figured it may help to see the flotsam and jetsam exposed. I don't know. So damned indecisive.

So anyone possibly up for helping me sort out this nasty bag of snakes?

The more I work with the fifty names, the better results I get. I appealed to Marutukku last night, I visualized his sigil with my third eye for quite a long time, then went to bed. I was provided with protection (represented as a gun and a sword) and given some advice, but somehow the words slipped away when I woke up.
For me, results don't come quickly with this system,l it's like they need time to plant the seed and let it grow. But then, I am still pretty new to this.

A thought was brought to my attention a few days ago and I wanted to present it here. As for myself I am not Walking the Gates but I have been learning. As with all Traditions of Magick, Circles are used with Ritual. I myself as a general rule do not use them and I know many feel as I do. So for those that do as well as those that don't here is my thought. If you are planning to do Ritual with a circle how do you take in account for the entities who are Time Aware. Meaning there are Entities out there who are aware of the past and future events. So if you are doing a Ritual that they have foreseen as threatening to them they have the capability to put them selves with in the space you are planning to draw your circle so that upon drawing your circle they are now inside of it.