Angels and Archangels: A Magician's Guide

by Damien Echols

Overview

Call on the power of angels to shape your life and accelerate your spiritual practice.

“Angels do not belong to any one single religion, system, or dogma,” teaches Damien Echols. “They are almost pure energy—the very substance the cosmos is made of. They’re also incredibly willing to work with us if asked.” With the unabridged audio of Angels and Archangels, this bestselling author presents an essential resource for understanding what angels are, how they make themselves available, and magickal practices to invoke their power to transform your life.

An Essential Resource for Every Magickal Library

For the magician—or anyone seeking to enlist helping forces on the path of awakening—invoking angels and archangels gives you access to incredible potential for manifestation, healing, and spiritual growth. In this lucid and information-packed guide, Damien shares his unique understanding and experience of magickal practices refined in the crucible of his wrongful death row imprisonment. Here you’ll discover:

• The importance of angels and archangels in the world’s mystical traditions
• The angels associated with each of the elements, the zodiac signs, the Tree of Life, and every card of the tarot
• How to call on angels for blessing, protection, invocation, and more
• Advanced angel magick rituals, including the Rose Cross, the Celestial Lotus, and the Shem Operation
• The Holy Guardian Angel—the key for moving beyond ego consciousness


As we work with the intelligences we call angels, we gradually align our will with the universal will, moving in greater harmony with the source of all creation and assisting in the spiritual evolution of all humanity.
The ultimate goal of working with angels is to become one ourselves.
That’s what people actually are—unconscious angels.
—Damien Echols

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683643029
Publisher:	Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 6.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Damien Echols is a teacher of magick, an artist, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Life After Death, Yours for Eternity (with his wife, Lorri Davis), and High Magick. The story of his wrongful murder conviction and imprisonment has been the subject of the documentaries Paradise Lost and West of Memphis. For more, visit damienechols.com.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Foreword John Michael Greer xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction What is Angel Magick? 1

How I Invoked Angels to Create My Previous Book, High Magick 1

How This Book Relates to High Magick 4

Why Angel Magick? Material Manifestation and Enlightenment 4

The Will 8

The Ego 9

Crossing the Abyss 11

The Difference Between Angels and Archangels 15

Looking Forward 16

Part 1 Angels and Archangels 19

1 Archangels of the Elements 23

Raphael 27

Gabriel 29

Michael 31

Uriel 33

Metatron 35

Sandalphon 37

2 Archangels of the Tree of Life 39

Sandalphon, Archangel of Malkuth 42

Gabriel, Archangel of Yesod 42

Michael, Archangel of Hod 43

Haniel, Archangel of Netzach 44

Raphael, Archangel of Tiphareth 45

Kamael, Archangel of Geburah 46

Tzadkiel, Archangel of Chesed 47

Tzaphkiel, Archangel of Binah 48

Raziel, Archangel of Chokmah 50

Metatron, Archangel of Kether 51

3 Angels and Archangels of the Zodiac 53

The Twelve Archangels of the Zodiac 59

The Seventy-Two Angels of the Zodiac 83

4 Angels of the Tarot 95

The Archangels of the Major Arcana: The Cards, Their Associated Archangels, and Reasons for Charging and Invocation 98

The Angels and Archangels of the Minor Arcana: The Cards, Their Associated Angels or Archangels, and Reasons for Charging and Invocation 120

Part 2 Practices and Rituals 149

Attitude and Manifestation 150

Quantum Physics and Magick 152

Experimentation 153

Magickal Tools and Implements 154

Your Altar 157

5 Mind Training, Mindfulness, and Meditation 159

Practice: Prison Cell Meditation 160

Practice: Zazen 163

Ceremonial Magick and the Present Moment 164

Practice: Noticing the Strategies of the Ego 165

Practice: Archangel Meditation 166

Anxiety, Faith, and Fear 167

Practice: Look Up 168

Vibration 170

Practice: Take Care of Your Environment 170

6 Essential Rituals and Intermediate Modifications 173

The Pentagram 173

The Qabalistic Cross 176

Practice: The Qabalistic Cross 177

The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram 180

Ritual: The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram 181

Intermediate Modifications to the LBRP 185

The Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram 185

Circumambulation 186

Adding Elemental Angels, Rulers, and Kings 187

Adding the Archangels of the Tree of Life 188

Ritual: The Analysis of the Keyword (or LVX) 189

7 Calling on An gels 193

Practice: Modern-Day Bibliomancy 194

Ritual: Simple Blessing Ritual 195

Practice: Bare-Bones Manifestation 196

Ptactice: Shielding 198

Practice: Short Planetary Invocation 200

Practice: Talismans and Sigils 202

Ritual: Basic Sigil Practice 204

Practice: The Gateway Talisman 206

Practice: Air Magick 208

Practice: File Magick 210

Practice: Water Magick 212

Practice: Earth Magick 215

8 Advanced Rituals 217

Ritual: The Rose Cross 217

An Introduction to Hexagrams and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram 223

Ritual: The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram 224

Ritual: The Celestial Lotus 227

Ritual: The Shem Operation 237

Next Steps 245

Notes 261

Resources 263

Index 265

About the Author 269

Editorial Reviews

04/20/2020

Echols (High Magick), a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, provides foundational practices and meditations for building one’s magical skills in this affable work. Echols explains how aspiring “magicians” can call upon archangels and angels to achieve and maintain “spiritual sustenance.” The author was on death row for 18 years before being exonerated and notes that “working with angelic energies in my time of need had returned my passions to me, and repaired something fundamental.” With nimble instruction, Echols covers basic practices, theories, and advanced rituals that include breath work, the “Simple Blessing Ritual,” talismans, instructions for air-drawing the pentagram, meditations, and energetic vibrations, among other rites and rituals. He also explores the influences of the Zodiac, the “Tree of Life” symbol of immortality, and Tarot on magical traditions, and champions the power of “The Holy Guardian Angel.” Readers unfamiliar with Western alternative magical practices might feel overwhelmed by the many complicated rituals and dense explanations of the history of angels within Western traditions. Echols’s vast knowledge of magic and Western spiritual history makes this perfect reading for experienced spiritualists interested in esoteric traditions. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"Echols (High Magick), a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, provides foundational practices and meditations for building one’s magical skills in this affable work...Echols’s vast knowledge of magic and Western spiritual history makes this perfect reading for experienced spiritualists interested in esoteric traditions."
—Publishers Weekly

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