Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic by Peter J. Carroll

Author:Peter J. Carroll [Carroll, Peter J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 1987-01-15T03:00:00+00:00

MAGICAL COMBAT

THE COMBAT OF witch doctors and sorcerers occurs either as a result of unresolvable conflicts of professional interest, or else as training exercises or tests of supremacy. If both protagonists are equally skilled, the results are unlikely to be fatal. Combat between magicians and ordinary men, each with his own techniques and weapons, is likely to be as dangerous to either party as combat between ordinary men.

Magical combat is to be undertaken with the same seriousness given to considerations of assault, the infliction of distress and disease, grievous bodily harm, and murder. The protagonist who is psychologically unprepared to do these things physically will not accomplish them psychically. Of all possible motives, revenge is the most pointless except as a demonstration and warning to others. Violence is a very blunt instrument and a little reflection may indicate more effective forms of psychic intervention, such as spells of ligature and binding, or operations to change one's adversaries' opinions.

Magical attack takes two forms. At long range, telepathic information is sent which makes the target destroy itself. To make a man fall under a vehicle is not impossible; to make a vehicle fall on top of a man is something else entirely. At short range, it is possible to injure or drain an adversary's energy field using one's own. This demands close proximity, usually contact. Magical close combat of this type is not effected by mere will or visualization, but by projecting a force that can actually be felt, usually through the hands. More rarely the force can be projected through the voice or the eyes or carried on the breath. The force originates in the navel area and is aroused by the disciplines of breath, concentration, visualization and by sexual disciplines. A part of this force is put into the enemy's body to cause a disruption of the vital energies leading to disease and death. The only defenses consist in evading contact or in having sufficient control over one's internal energies to be able to neutralize the effects of the incoming disruptive energy.

Psychic vampirism may be an entirely passive and nondeliberate phenomena, as when young persons live intimately with much older people. Vital energies cannot easily be drawn from a weaker person into a stronger sorcerer unless the sorcerer first kills or severely weakens his victim at close range.

Long range magical combat depends on projecting selfdestructive impulses telepathically. A number of methods exist for avoiding the dangers inherent in this technique. Foremost among them is getting one's apprentices to do the dirty work. The image of the target wounded in the required manner is used to send the attack. Wax images, photographs, hair, or nail pairings help to form a connection between the visualized image and the target. To focus the sorcerer's psychic energy, the attack is launched from a state of deepest concentration or from a pinnacle of ecstatic excitement. Hate and anger aroused during a full ritual destruction of the image may serve. The magician may inflict pain on himself, imagining it originates from his adversary in order to arouse his fury.

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