Hey everyone,

I'm kinda bored and through recent workings with a couple spirits I've had a few interesting things happen to me lately, some I should keep secret until they play out (that I didn't ask for, or even think of, but fall into the area of expertise of a certain spirit and was a dead topic in my life since before I was born so for it to come up so suddenly seems too coincidental) but minor things have come up that don't seem to be a huge secret. So I thought I'd bring up one thing and I hope others will add some of their "discoveries" of working with spirits (demonic or angelic, anything at all really) that will not infringe on any pacts or sworn-to-secrecy clause. I hope you all forgive my lengthy post (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bigwink.gif)

I started to think about celibacy and it's relation to magic and religion. I was raised Catholic and although I don't have respect for the church, I respect the belief system and practices and I incorporate that into some of my workings. Since I'm working with certain spirits that are more sexual in nature than others (although it's not mentioned in any grimoire) sex has become a very active thing for me lately. I'm engaged and my fiance and I enjoy our time together but it just hit me a few days ago that I've been enjoying it more than other times, and that is a problem. At least with demons. I realized that I was allowing myself to be controlled by my animal instinct, my nephesh, and it's exactly why in the past I have failed to bind demons the way I should in order to have them do my will. If I can't control my nephesh, what makes me think that I can control a nephesh-like spirit? I don't subscribe to the theory/belief that demons are aspects of our mind, but I do tend to believe they are similar. One thing that I have never done in past work is abstain from sex and that could very well account for my failures.

So, whenever it's mentioned in a grimoire "you must be free of all sins and not know a woman" for 30 days or whatever, yadda yadda yadda, it's not a snooty christianity based way of trying to get you to be a slave to the church by controlling your sex habits, it's really more of a precaution. The magician/priest that abstains from sex controls his inner demons and therefore is prepared and able to control the external demons of his/her life. A demon (in theory) is completely unable to fight off the will of the magician/priest because of his celibacy and it simply gives up. That would also account for the constant assertions that I've heard my whole life about a priest being "infused with the power of God to control all demons". I don't believe it's actually because a priest has more authority than the average joe, I believe it's because a priest is (supposed to be) practicing celibacy. That gives him an edge over average joe.

I don't think I've read this in any occult book so if it's something that is "public knowledge" already then I'm sorry to waste everyones time.

On the other hand, whether it is public knowledge or not, I'd still like for others to discuss similar insights into the occult and grimoire work, so thanks to everyone that had the patience to read everything I just wrote, and please post you ideas (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)