BLUE MAGIC

Wealth is not to be measured in terms of assets, but rather in terms
of how much control over people and material, and thus ultimately
one's own experiences, one achieves by economic activities. Money is
an abstract concept used to quantify economic activity, thus wealth
is a measure of how well you control your experiences with money.
Assuming that varied, exciting, unusual and stimulating experiences
are preferable to dull ones, and that they tend to be expensive for
this reason, then the main problem for most people is to find a
highly efficient form of money input which has the above agreeable
qualities. The aim of wealth magic is to establish a large turnover
of money which allows agreeable experiences at both the input and
output stages. This demands what is called Money Consciousness.

Money has acquired all the characteristics of a "spiritual" being.
It is invisible and intangible, coinage, notes and electronic
numbers are not money. They are merely representations or talismans
of something which economists cannot coherently define. Yet although
it is itself intangible and invisible it can create powerful effects
on reality. Money has its own personality and idiosyncratic tastes,
it avoids those who blaspheme it, and flows towards those who treat
it in the way it likes. In a suitable environment it will even
reproduce itself. The nature of the money spirit is movement, money
likes to move. If it is hoarded and not used, it slowly dies. Money
thus prefers to manifest as turnover rather than as unexploited
assets. Monies surplus to immediate pleasure should be re-invested
as a further evocation, but the truly money conscious find that even
their pleasures make money for them. Money consciousness gets paid
to enjoy itself. Those in money consciousness are by nature
generous. Offer them an interesting investment and they will offer
you a fortune. Just don't ask for small cash handouts.

The attainment of money consciousness and the invokation of the
Wealth-self consists of the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of
the predilections of the spirit of money and a thorough exploration
of personal desires. When both of these have been understood, real
wealth manifests effortlessly.

Such invocations must be handled with care. The blue gnosis of
wealth and desire creates demons as easily as gods. Many
contemporary success and sales seminars concentrate on creating an
hysterical desire for money coupled with an equally hypertrophied
desire for the mere symbols of wealth rather than the experiences
the punters actually want. To work like a possessed maniac all day
for the questionable pleasure of drinking oneself into near oblivion
on vintage champagne every night, is to have missed the point
entirely and to have a entered a condition of anti-wealth.

However, the majority of those who are poor in relatively free
societies where others are rich, owe their poverty either to a lack
of understanding of how money behaves, or to negative feelings which
tend to repel it. Neither intelligence nor investment capital are
required in any great degree to become wealthy. The popularity of
tales about the misery and misfortunes of the rich is testimony to
the ridiculous myth prevalent amongst the poor, that the rich are
unhappy. Before beginning works of blue magic it is essential to
seriously examine all negative thoughts and feelings about money and
to exorcise them. Most of the poor people who win in lotteries, and
only the poor regularly enter them, manage to have nothing to show
for it a couple years later. It is as if some subconscious force
somehow got rid of something they felt they did not really deserve
or want. People tend to have the degree of wealth that they deeply
believe they should have. Blue magic is the modification of that
belief through ritual enactment of alternative beliefs.

Blue magic rituals may thus involve exorcisms of negative attitudes
to wealth, divinatory explorations of one's deepest desires, and
invocations of the Wealth-self and the spirit of money during which
the subconscious wealth level is adjusted by ritual expression of a
new value, and affirmations of new projects for the investment of
resources and efford are made. Hymns and incantations to money can
be delivered. Cheques for startling sums can be written to oneself
and desires can be proclaimed and visualised. Various traditional
god forms with a prosperity aspect can be used to express the
Wealth-self such as Jupiter, Zeus and the mythical Midas and
Croesus.

Simple money spells are rarely used in modern blue magic. The
tendency nowadays is to cast spells designed to enhance schemes
designed to make money. If one fails to provide a mechanism through
which money can manifest then either nothing will happen or the
spell will flesh by strange means, such as a legacy from the
untimely death of a much beloved relative for example. Serious blue
magic is never attempted by conventional forms of gambling.
Conventional gambling is an expensive way of buying experiences
which have nothing to do with increasing one's wealth. Blue magic is
a matter of carefully calculated investment. Anyone but a fool
should be able to devise an investment that offers better odds than
conventional forms of gambling.