Psychology: That Old Black Magick

[Uncle Al]

Psychology: That Old Black Magick
The apple never falls far from the tree and psychology has its root in the same soil as Magick. The Black and White Mirror is a tried and true device both of psychology and the initiatory path. The mirror can be as simple as a piece of paper with a vertical line down the middle. On the right-hand side are your strengths. On the left-hand side your weaknesses. Everybody should have more weaknesses than strengths or alternatively they need help of a kind I am not qualified to offer. I remember a young Magician who filled up his weaknesses side with about fifty different negatives but only one strength – which was `Honesty'.
The Black and White Mirror is a device to allow serious analysis and concentration whereby you can find strengths and weaknesses you have never really appreciated before. Once constructed the Black and White Mirror effectively allows the magician to use the fire of Will to burn away the weak and temper the strong. It allows you to decide what you wish to become from your fragmentary self, for a unified self can command more power in the multiverse than an individual who is constructed from whatever they have managed to pick up along life's journey.
It must never be forgotten that enlightenment is an expansion of consciousness, a change in the levels of functionality that leads to a new level of awareness. Your authority – Magickal or commonplace – must be earned, not conferred. In this, the Black and White Mirror is the tool to use repeatedly.
Decide how you can best re-integrate yourself. If you cannot get out of bed in the morning make that your first goal and invest in an alarm clock. If you lack friends and confidence take an oath before the Dark Lord to talk to three  strangers everyday, even if it just to say `Hello' or ask for directions you do not need. If you need a job pray to the Dark Forces and/or pray to yourself and start directing the multiverse by your own inquiries.
This task of creating a Black and White Mirror is easier than using it to gain the power, knowledge and pleasure it will give, but by meditating upon it regularly and recording progress in your Magickal Diary you will have begun the momentous task of re-entering the world as a stronger, braver and more focused individual – try to put a monetary value on that!
As you progress it is important to be inspired by other successful people for the might of Satan is manifest in the confidence, glamour and strength of others. By finding strength through joy you will discover what you love within yourself and exalt it and how to transform your weaknesses into dark strengths.
Many lesser magicians are seduced by sorcery. They develop some ability in the Magickal Arts and spend the rest of their lives using it to gain little things, like exciting sexual relationships, a sports car and the money required to wear designer clothing. In and of itself, this is not bad. The true magician uses magick for the hardest task in the multiverse: changing themselves, because when you are a successful, confident and glamorous individual everything you want will come to you – one way or another!
With pen and paper to hand undertake the following exercise: <ol>[*]Describe your Ideal Self. </li>[*]Describe your Present Self. </li>[*]The interferences you perceive in achieving your Ideal Self. </li>[*]The actions and inactions which need to be implemented to become your Ideal Self. </li>[*]Augment the Mirror with the Tarot.</li></ol>Al.