High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row - Damien Echols 2018

Meal Blessings
Additional Practices

One way of viewing magick is to see it as the art of shaping divine energy. The more you learn about magick, the more you devote yourself to it, and the more you work with divine energy, the more you will be changed by it. It will begin to saturate you and attune your vibrational rate. And the more you are changed in this process, the more powerful your magick becomes. At a certain point, directing divine energy into the world around you becomes second nature. When that happens, you can offer potent blessings at will, for matters both large and small. If you’ve committed yourself to the practices as prescribed in this book, maybe you’ve arrived at this point already.

I want to end this section of the book with a simple practice you can do for almost anything, but for our purposes here I’m presenting it as a meal blessing. You’re already familiar with the techniques involved in this type of blessing — drawing in energy from the universe and tracing invoking pentagrams — so I’ll keep it short and sweet.

PRACTICE ” A MEAL BLESSING

1.As you sit with your meal in front of you, take a moment of quiet to relax and focus.

2.Inhale. As you breathe in, bring in energy from the universe in the form of white light. Visualize it entering your body, passing down through your torso, moving into your legs, and out the soles of your feet. From there, the light moves into the earth, filling up the entire planet with white light.

3.The light shoots back into your body from the earth. It travels back up through your legs, into your pelvis and chest, down your arms, and into your right hand, which now forms the sword mudra.

4.With your index and middle fingers, trace an invoking pentagram over your meal. See the symbol as if it were made of blue flame.

5.Inhale again and watch as the earth below you fills with light as before. Once again, the light rushes up into your body and out to your right hand. Now place the two extended fingers into the middle of the pentagram and see it flare even brighter than before.

6.Now your meal is blessed. Enjoy it, knowing that you are not only consuming food on the material plane, but as divine energy itself.

The applications for this type of blessing are truly endless. Try it the next time you send an important text message. Type the words you want to send, trace the invoking pentagram over your phone, and then press “send.” You can even bless yourself by drawing a pentagram in this way over your reflection in a mirror. Compared to some of the practices you’ve done earlier on, this one will feel deceptively simple, but it only works because you’re so familiar with the fundamentals. At this stage in your journey, your blessings will have a lot more weight and power than they would have had before you began. In that sense, congratulations are in order (and possibly more cakes and ale).