Sacred Magick Astral Temple, Your experiences Options

This topic exists for members to list their experiences after visiting the Sacred Magick Astral Temple. This topic is currently locked and will be unlocked on Sunday 3rd July after the temple creation ritual has been performed.

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This post has been edited by mediocracy: Jul 2 2005, 04:23 PM

Well, this is my experience as follows. I warn you guys I didn't read anything describing the astrial temple before I went there so I had a clear head-space to start with, and I'm not much of a writer so bear with me.

I focused on the Sigil and remembered it, thinking on it when I got ready for bed (this is generally the time when I go out). Laying down I collected some of my friendly spirits to bridge the journey with me.

I opened the portal, punched in the Sigil and waited, the doorway showed up but wouldn't let me through. It took a little bit of time for me to open the door, there was a bit of decoding and recognizing, from both me and the door. The door finally opened and I stepped through, revealing a vast green hilly landscape with a Large pseudo Aztec temple under a starry sky. The pathway leading up to the steps had square like stepping stones that fit together like a puzzle, some were large squares while others were small, there was a mossy sheen over the entire pathway with patches of grass growing in the cracks. Rectangular shrubs grew parallel to the pathway about a meter and a half long, a half a meter wide, and about a meter tall; they were roughly a meter and a half in distance from one to the next. The stairs to the temple were covered in moss, and the temple itself had the same square-puzzle stonework look to it as the pathway did. Several large steps leading to the very top with a huge staircase down the middle.

For whatever reason I had the feeling the Temple was facing east. Walking up the steps to the little square top (I didn't care to count the steps) I noticed the door was open. Inside there were torches, two to each wall that didn't let off any smoke. A stairway from the middle of the room led below and winded along the outer wall (if the temple was facing east, the stairway would at first go south and wind around the wall in a clockwise motion, south, west, north ,east etc.) The stairs led to a large temple hallway where the walls were slightly slanted and there was an obsidian-looking square on the lower-middle of each wall about two meters across. In the middle of the room there was a large fire that was in the an indented cube in the ground, a golden quad-pod stood on the top of the middle square and stood about a half a meter above the fire. The quad-pod carried a large clear orb. I left the orb alone and extended my senses looking for another stairway. There was indeed another stairway hidden on the opposite side of the stairway I came down in the first place, and there was a small stone I had to push near the hidden stairway to reveal it.

Down the second flight of stairs there were no more torches, it was pitch black (long story short I figured out a way to light my path). In the bottom corridor the steps were made out of the similar stone as the temple, when the stairs finally stopped the stone continued for a little bit and then like a gradient turned into that smooth obsidian on wall, ceiling, and floor. Eventually the corridor led to a pitfall, I extended my senses again and found that this pitfall was the continuation of the corridor. I threw down my lighting source and found the fall to be about three stories, I jumped down. The pathway continued down and forked at perpendicular angles. I first went left and that brought me to a closed door with a Jackal or large cat on the door, I found the lock on the right side of the wall and toyed with it until it opened. Inside there was a man sitting on the ground with short mop-brown hair that was rather surprised to see me, he asked me a series of questions wondering how I got to this chamber, there was a red carpet with a blue pillow on top he seemed to use for meditating but not much else in the room. I noticed the room had the stonework, instead of the obsidian looking stuff in the corridor. I left the guy a-wonderin and shut the door behind me. I went back and tried the other way exactly like the other corridor, there was a door with a big toothed something on it, this door was a little easier to open. Inside there was a man meditating on a large throne-like chair, they didn't seem to notice me. Behind them there was an alter and a picture hanging above it, I couldn't quite make out. To my right looking in the room there was a chest. A few torches dotted the room. I shut the door heading back the way I came.

About midway to the pitfall I had this striking feeling I was near another doorway, I extended my senses and found one a little closer to the pitfall than the forking pathways. There wasn't a lock on this door but the door was well hidden. The stairs were very steep leading down and down, the corridor turned back into stone after awhile, and the path kept getting brighter. Eventually this led me to a gigantic door with a large Aztec snake-thing on it. I looked it up and down but couldn't find the switch anywhere, so I asked my entity "You know how to open this thing?" he replied with a simple "yes" and the door clicked open. Inside there was a huge servitor, when he spoke the words echoed on the walls, "What are you doing here?" he boomed. I asked if he minded if I smoked and he didn't seem to mind, so I lit myself up a cigarette. Looking around the room I realized that this chamber was the biggest one I've come across in the temple thus far. After a long conversation with the entity we both realized fist-to-cuffs weren't necessary. I thought about leaving but I decided to ask him one more question, "Oh and by the way, are there any more chambers that might be of interest to me?" he furrowed his brow and thumbed the area behind him, revealing another passageway. "Thanks" I said, waving at him.

This pathway like the other one was stone, and had even steeper stairs than the last, the path kept getting darker and darker when finally even my light wouldn't even hold up at all. I took one more step forward and my foot landed in a big gooey marsh-like puddle. The surrounding area immediately smelled of mud and stagnant water, I ventured on. After about forty or so paces I heard a "Halt who goes there!" coming from somewhere ahead of me in the dark. "That's a rather silly thing to ask someone when you're standing in the dark yourself" I said. I heard him shuffle in place "Good point" he added. I stood still and looked in his general direction "The big guy upstairs said I could come down here," I started shuffling towards his general direction. "Ah, alright come on over. No funny stuff ye hear me?" There was a muddy hill protruding out of the swamp that felt like it had grass on it. Again the light started growing to a very dull candle glow, there was a tent like thing and I could now see the swamp all around me but the light didn't go far enough for me to see the walls. A guy standing in knights armor with a kind of egg-head helmet beckoned me over. He gave me a firm look as I peered in the tent. Inside I saw it was brighter but it was still a very dim light. There was a small bald man sitting in the middle of the tent cross legged, the floor was grassy and not much else was inside. I thanked the guard and left.

Eventually I made it back to the top, and shut the main door: I figured someone may have left it open.

And that's it, let me know what you guys think.