Original Magic: The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi - Stephen E. Flowers Ph.D. 2017

Daily Work
Initiation into Magic

For magic to work, the practitioner must first be transformed or initiated. Without this transformation, the practice is empty hocus-pocus. In this chapter you will find the basics of how to transform yourself into a plausible magician, or practitioner of operative Zarathustran theology. As we have learned, original magic is a form of symbolic communication between the human and divine worlds, between getig and menog. One of the basic symbolic languages of Zarathustran teachings is that of the yazatas as understood within the calendrical or astrological system. The task of “learning” this metalanguage involves internalizing the meanings of the yazatas, the manthras associated with each of them and the general formulaic keys to ritual thoughts, words, and actions. Once this system has been interiorized, the other rituals of magical technology will become effective. This section teaches a Twelve-Month Curriculum for completing this vital process. The Ashem Vohu and the Ahunvar, which are the basic manthras used in every ritual, are presented with commentary in appendix C.

To become an effective magician, you must work and study every day. Here I will present a curriculum of daily work for realizing that intention. The basic work will require no more than about thirty minutes a day, although study and meditative thought on concepts and ethical practice require much more than this. In the end, if you are truly successful and become an actual magavan, or the original kind of magician, you will have become magical yourself, and all of your thoughts, words, and deeds will become purely conscious.