Considerations and requirements for joining my temple.

After a great deal of thought and consideration I have reached the obvious conclusion that I need to open my temple to members who do not (or do not currently) live near my physical temple. My struggle was how to make this a meaningful experience. It is one thing to open my temple to distance based members, just as much as it for distance based members to join my temple… but what does that really mean and what does that look like for both myself and for a distance based member? How can I truly make a distance based member feel included in my temple, and not just included but embraced, and strengthened by the temple? The temple is blessed and strengthened by its members, and the only way to have mutual benefit between member and temple, is for both temple and member to engage in a very real relationship.

In the interest of disclosure here are some facts to know and consider before joining my temple.

At my temple’s forefront, and paradoxically its core, my temple is a Palo Mayombe house or Munanzo. This means my temple rests on the point of midnight and it’s foundations lay within the kingdom of the Cemetery, the kingdom of Souls and the kingdom of the Wilds or Forest. The temple is also adjunct strongly by the point of the Railroad, the Mountain, the Forest, and the River because of the temple’s prominent guardians (Zarabanda, Yaya Kengue, Watariamba, and Mama Chola Wengue) who come through Palo Mayombe. The point of Midnight is a dark place, and the Kingdom of the Cemetery grand central station for the dead.

This temple is a temple that always begins or starts from a dark place, and walks hand in hand with the dead, no matter what road we travel or path we walk. However, Midnight can lead from dark places to sunny days of unparalleled beauty, or it can lead to far more frightening and disturbing locations.  Because the dead are always with us, we either elevate the dead to greater heights or descend deeper into the infernal realms of the abyss.  Where the temple, as well as each of its members, begins and ends (or returns too) is a matter of situational need.

Within the kingdom of the Cemetery we explore the powers of life over death, or death over life, bodily healing, remedying seemingly impossible situations, necromancy and vampirism. In the kingdom of the Souls we find more necromancy, but also the development of high level spiritism and mediumship. We elevate souls (such as the Anima Sola), assist in healing spiritual illnesses, and hold spiritual congress to discover the cause of calamities, illnesses, poverty and ill fortunes in order to alleviate them. From inside the kingdom of the Wilds or Forest we practice speaking with nature spirits, the guardians of the land (human and non-human) and how to cultivate powers of animals, plants, rocks, and minerals for our own sorcerous and healing needs. Here too in the wilds we find the mysteries of herbal baths, washes, potions, philters, powders, elixirs, pills, balms and of course lycanthropy.

The point of the Railroad supplies the more earth bound powers of planetary Mars. The strength to secure victory in battles and defeat enemies. Ambition to do more and be more. Energy to progress in our daily endeavours. Vitality to conquer illness. Determination to overcome obstacles and outlast hardship.

The point of the Mountain supports the earthly force of planetary Uranus giving rise to oracle (prophetic) visions and divination practices. The high ground puts us in a place of strategic advantage over our adversaries. From the peak we see the bigger picture,  find clear sight and thinking, as well as the stillness of mind ( including vibrational proximity) required to converse with the elevated spirits.

The point of the River brings establishes a connection to the manifesting force of planetary Venus which brings the power of magnetism and illusion. The need for water brings creatures close to one another. It is here great influence, for ill or for will, can be exercised. The River point contains seen and unseen powers. What is on the surface and what lay in wait inches beneath the water. The river can look calm, and harmless, but its current startlingly strong and frighteningly swift. Many times battles are decided the moment someone underestimates another based solely on the information their eyes provide. There are also profound mysteries of both transformation and transference (as water and earth make mud) which the point of the River blesses my temple with.

We honor the name of Nzambi as the Highest of the High, the Prime Creator and Infinite Intelligence who is the creative principle of the entire universe/multiverse (including all alternate timelines, endless dimensions and parallel realities). However, due to the various traditions that are practiced at my temple we also use Papa Bon Dios, and Bondeye.  

We honor our Ancestors, for through their trials ,tribulations, fortunes and successes, made it possible for us to be alive today. We pray for the continued healing, protection and illumination of our Ancestor spirits. We ask our Ancestor spirits to intercede on our behalf, for our health, our safety and that our material needs be met.

We honor and seek relationship with the dead. They are our connection to the world of the spirits, and we in turn, are their connection to the world of earthly existence. The hand of the dead and the hand of the living reaching out for the other, clasping in friendship, and assisting one another in the ways that only the other can. The dead comprise a vast and near innumerable collection of former (and soon to be again) humans. They are often categorized into “divisions” or “commissions” of spirits who though their work or trade or cultural associations create a body of spirits which are driven towards achieving specialized aims. Based on your own personal energetic make-up, or spiritual frame, members of certain spiritual divisions or commissions will be attracted to you. Through discovering what dead walk with you, a person can have further understanding into why they are attracted to particular activities or areas of interest. They can ask for the assistance of their dead to use their skills to help fix problems, reach goals and attain deeper personal insights.

We honor the M’pungo. The M’pungo are immensely powerful non-physical intelligences whose seats of power are in the Congo region of Africa. The M’pungo have dominion over essential earthly and spiritual functions. This dominion was given to them by Nzambi. They were also tasked with helping humanity grown and progress. The M’pungo progress and elevate as they serve the will of Nzambi, part of that is answering the needs of humans. By seeking to understand the mysteries of the M’pungo, we are helping the M’pungo and in turn the M’pungo help us. Together we elevate and progress in our understanding of the infinite mystery of Nzambi, which is the very reason for existence in the first place.

Beyond Palo Mayombe my temple has connection with the Loa of Voudu, both Haitian and Dominican traditions. Papa Legba, Papa Candelo Cedfie, Agwe, La Sirne, La Baleen, the Ogoun and Erzulie nations, as well as the Barons (Baron Samedi of course, but Baron La Croix and Baron Cimitiere too) and the Ghede, are regularly served and routinely venerated. We celebrate loa feast days, and host a Ghede-Fet around Halloween.

We are a spiritualist temple and primarily practice two forms of spiritism. First is a Creole/Kardec form of spiritualism. This a very clean, and watery practice with a focus on prayers, candles and glasses of water. The purpose is contacting your higher level spirit guides in order to receive messages from them. We also desire to cleanse and elevate both ourselves and our guides, as well as lift spiritual curses off others. We hold spiritual misa or congress. We help the dead who are specifically looking for light and progress. It is Hope, Faith and Charity who serve as guiding stars. Often the dead we help want to aid us in return, and we are grateful for this, but we do not expect it. The Creole/Kardec spiritualist sessions develop one’s spiritual mediumship to a fine degree which complements all other traditions honored at this temple.

The second form of spiritual practice my temple performs falls under a branch of Palo Cruzado, which is similar to Palo Mayombe, but with more Kardec spiritist influences. In these sessions the dead of any elevation are welcome, and we serve the earthbound dead alongside the very elevated. These sessions tend to be more lively than the aforementioned, with physical mediumship up to and including possession, not being uncommon. The lower elevated dead often desire to experience physical pleasures again, and miss the vices of eating, drinking and smoking. We serve the spirits food, cigars and alcohol, and offer prayers, candles and songs for elevation. However it is required the dead offer their services to the temple in return for offerings they receive. We are guided by Hope, Faith and Charity in previously mentioned spiritist practice, and we give freely of ourselves in those times, but this is a pragmatic temple which knows “give and take”, as well as “fair exchange” builds the most character.

Rounding out the Afro-Diaspora traditions of my temple are practices which are currently more  personal (as in for myself) than that of the temple proper, but this is subject to quickly change, those practices being venerating and learning from my Exu/Pombagira court of Kimbanda and Papa Bones and his family of bones of Obeah.

I will not say more about Obeah until I fully assimilate the transmissions I am receiving, nor will I say much concerning Kimbanda as it is my personal court, however this does lead me to Omolu.

Omolu is a staggeringly powerful spirit of death, disease, fortune and fate who is deserving of his exalted status. Because of who my Tata, or King, Exu is I am able to work directly with Omolu and seat him in my temple. Omolu is a grand cosmic skeleton who standing at the central cross of the cemetery. He is the candlelight in the darkness who draws the dead to him like moths to a flame. He is of extreme importance and plays a prominent role in my temple.

In my temple we venerate folk, or “problematic” saints. Some of these saints have been adopted as Narco saints, and associated with criminal activities. I find no problem in this, and while I do not share much interest in illicit activities, I do respect the grace and power of saints who tend to the needs and salvation of what could truly be lost causes. I enjoy that these saints operate without the consent of the “Holy Mother Church” or Catholic Church. This serves as smoking gun evidence that the Pope holds no divine authority, and Christianity (no what the denomination all Christianity is just a lesser versions of Catholicism) holds no spiritual or moral high ground.

La Santisma Muerte, Jesus Malverde, San Simon, and Cyprian perhaps the most recognizable of these folk saints in my temple, but lesser known saints like Mary “love at every door”, Saint Christopher “the dog headed”, Horned Peter, La Carambada and Juan Dinero find great popularity in my temple...and there are a few others.

Contained within my temple is a deep arcanum of European grimoire magical tradition, European necromancy and European daemonology.

I have been initiated into the following grimoire traditions:

The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon.

The Grimorium Verum.

The Black Raven.

The Grand Grimoire.

The Honorius.

The Black Hen.

The 6th and 7th Books of Moses.

Harrowing of Hell.

The Arbatel De Magia Veterum.

The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum.

I also have very firm understanding of purely planetary based Ritual High Magic.

Each grimoire constitutes an entire stand alone European magical tradition which comprises a much larger body of European magical lore. As such, for each different grimoire working, rite or ceremony I ask participating temple members to prepare themselves appropriately in the manner most correct for the particular grimoire being worked out of. I require temple members make serious study of the Kaballah. This helps temple members understand the inner workings of the European grimoire magical traditions and circumvent the idiocy of Neo-Hermeticism.

Lastly I continually encourage temple members to studiously practice the sorcerous arts of remote viewing, astral projecting, candle gazing, reflective surface scrying, trance induction, automatic writing, and lucid dreaming. These arts are beholden to one one magical tradition and yet greatly enhance the reach and influence of them all.

If the above sounds like what you are looking for, and wish to orientate yourself towards, the following is what (as a distance based member) membership will include.

• You will be seated at every temple rite, function, ceremony, and or otherwise. You will be energetically linked to this temple. I will introduce all the spirits of my temple to you. You will be included in all prayers, blessings, auspices, and supplications made on behalf of the temple.
• You will be cleansed and purified (I will require items from you that will be kept by my temple) every time I myself cleanse and purify in preparation of any ritual, rite or ceremony. This happens frequently.
• You will be given license to operate under the power of certain AUTHENTICALLY prepared seals and vessels (most specifically the secret seal of Solomon but there are others) of mine in order to perform your own magical working.
• I set correctly prepared lights and lamps on behalf of all the temple members for things such as money, luck, health, protection, etc, on a regular basis. You will become linked to those workings and benefit from them.
• I perform yearly road openings, and readings (multiple times a year) for temple members. You will have access to that also.
• Your items you send me will sit next to my numerous vessels, and fetishes related to Palo Mayombe. That is constitute spiritual protection like very few things can.
• Learning and initiation into legitimate traditions and practices.

What I would require in return:

• A few personal items I can construct a placeholder for your energy in order to anchor yourself to my temple.
• Dedication, and willingness to take part in, and set lights, and perform temple prayers (all will be provided).
• Temple dues of $200 a year. This goes towards sacrifices to feed the spirits, seals and vessels and other minor operations of the temple was include candles, cigars and alcohol.

I have within my temple a highly diverse group of people. Straight, gay, bisexual, men, women and children of various ethnicities, social status and backgrounds. This temple is a temple for everyone. We are a very close family-like unit and we seek to build a strong and healthy community which supports individuals in ways that is best for them, as this serves to support the temple in the best way possible. There is no ego, power trips or megalomania here. We believe in organic growth, and having deep roots. These things take time, but yield the sweetest fruits.

If after knowing all this you still wish to join my temple. Please let me know. My email is tataengando@gmail.com

-Papa Crocodile

Exonerations and Extolations: The Praise of God in the command of daemons. Why "Christian" prayers as part of Goetic magic.

I dislike breaking my own occult pet-peeves however in this rare instance it will be helpful to do so in the illustration of an important point. One of my major occultic pet-peeves is the near insufferable and irresponsible manner the daemons of the Goetia are so causally mentioned now alongside the Exus, and Pombagiras of Kimbanda, as if they are interchangeable....which they are not.  It is without question, that the Black Table spiritism practiced in Brazil utilizing the Grimorium Verum, did indeed summon forth the Exus and Pombagiras of Kimbanda as workers IN the temple, not just the guardians of the temple as in Umbanda.

The usage of the Grimorium Verum during the Black Table allowed for a diabolical, but also redeeming, conjunction of human dead/deceased and astral daemon.  A ferocious tradition was rendered; the dark infernal magics of Europe was paired with the savage heat of nercomantic sorcery from Africa's Congo region. 

*The Grimorium Verum is not the Lesser Key of Solomon. Individuals claiming linage of "Quimbanda" with whom Exu Bael, Exu Stollas, or Exu Paimon are served, or make "Exu" heads, are liars and frauds who deserve no respect. 

The Exus and Pombagiras of Kimbanda are the spirits of the human dead who through the calling of Astral Daemons, acquired dominions/principalities near identical to the astral daemons of the Grimorium Verum. These are NOT "synchronizations" as lazy pseudo-intellectuals/occultists will ascribe, but rather a type of sponsorship relationship and no more can be said concerning that manner.  Exu Money Caller and the daemon Clauneck share a very real vibratory connection, but that does not mean that by calling one you are summoning the other.   

Nzambi is the great and Almighty within Kimbanda, and all the Exus and Pombagira seek to elevate their own spiritual natures within the light of Nzambi. The Exus and Pombagiras serve as our personal devils or daemons to help humanity come to realize their own vices, come to find ever progressing uses for their "daemons" and ultimately elevate each other...Exu/Pombagira and humans.

You can elevate your own Exus and Pombagiras by not thoughtlessly acting on their own and thereby your own "base" nature. Even the darkest "demonic" of Exu or Pombagira, can on a personal level, become a saintly ally.  One's own "personal" head or King or Queen, Eux or Pombagira, serves as your guardian and "balance point" when advancing and learning with the other Exus and Pombagiras. This "head" Exu serves to help you overcome the infernally charged necromantic forces of Kimbanda, and prevents your astral body from being torn to shreds from it.

It is essential that one work long and dedicately (maybe for their entire lives) with their personal "head" Exu and the Exus and Pombagiras whom come for the person at the time of their reading into Kimbanda before forging alliances with Exus and Pombagiras who are not compatible with one's spiritual frame. Through this one can develop the occultic powers and supernatural abilities associated with the kingdoms where their Exus and Pombagira reside... the mastery of but one kingdom's dominion is an exceedingly rare occurrence.

However, as fierce and wild as Kimbanda is, there are thankfully built in fail safes and balance points.

There is NO such "fail safe" inherent within the Goetic traditions. 

The daemons are NOT spirits of human deceased. None of them desire, require or will functionally accept elevation. You CANNOT elevate a goetic daemon. The goetic daemons care NOTHING about your own personal elevation. There is NO goetic daemon who will protect you from the casual influences of other goetic daemons and there is NO such thing as a goetic daemon "head master" or "met tet".

In terms of margin for error....Kimbanda is walking a tight rope but the Goetic tradition is walking a razor's edge... 

So where does one find elevation in the Goetic tradition? Does such a exist? 

Yes it does.

I have said this many times before but it bares repeating, goetic magic is astral magic, and astral magic is planetary magic with the moon as the planetary sphere... or yesod for the Hebraic. In order that magician does not imbalance his or herself either mentally, or spiritually; the magician must counter-balance the planetary work they are focused on with that planetary sphere's polar opposition.

Thereby when working with the Goetic tradtion (which is the Moon) the magician needs solid footing with the planetary sphere of the Sun, or Sol, also known in the Hebraic as Tipareth. It is in the Sun, we find the elevation, purification and inspiration which will uplift the spiritual goals, and brighten the mental faculties of a magician consorting with daemons in the darkly splendid gloom of the ever shifting astral world.

Daemons are amoral, they delight in participating in the "follies" of humanity. The dominion of a daemon is all consuming. The daemon cares not, nor occupies itself with any other concern, which does not relate to it's dominion. Due to the frequency and vibratory station daemons occupy (the lower astral) they tend towards the thoughts and desires of humanity which are appropriately deposited, gestated, and mutated upon the lower astral. These thoughts-desires are most frequently repressed, ashamed of, and concealed sexual fantasies, or phobias, s well as unfettered rage, alongside unrealized dreams.

Daemons know humanity near better than any other non-physical entity. Daemons are bathed in the most base and primal drivers behind our evolution. The dominions of a demon eternally steep in those same primordial juices of consciousness and for a magician that is both the blessing and the curse. The magician be absolutely honest about who they are and what they desire when in front of a goetic daemon. The goetic daemon couldn't care enough to pass judgement. However, in the face of elevated spirits (say spirits of the Solar sphere) many times the magician tries to dilute the reality of his or her soul out of guilt.

Elevated spirits already well know the uncensored truth of the magician, but because of their elevated station they are supremely compassionate, and let us lie to them.. as they know we cannot lie ourselves and never could we lie to God. It is just a matter of time before we speak the truth aloud, by either word, deed or both, and the lesson can finally be implemented.

The daemons can help us to both reveal and revel in our vices. There is a lot to life that best happens in the dark. It is absolutely essential to the sanity of the collective human mind to have a shadowy playground to explore and experiment in. The devastating danger is when the human becomes mired in astral illusions, made an agent of a goetic daemon, and lead deeper into the ensuing depravity of its dominion.

The daemons have no boundaries. It is up to the magician and the magician alone to set his or her boundaries as well as vigilantly discern the amount of influence the daemon has over them.

The magician is the master of magic circle, this mastery is not shared with anything or anyone else. The goetic daemon, while a great ally and consultant, is never to be considered a friend. The magician must always have dominance over the daemon, but best to temper that dominance with due and proper respect to the goetic daemon; rather than the hard but brittle fist of a tyrant who will forever fear retribution from mistreated daemons. Goetic work is a path for only the strongest and most mature of occultists, or at the very least a magician who desires to forge great personal strength and power of will.

Within the spirituality of the Solar temple, or planetary sphere of the Sun, resides ultimate compassion and mercy. The earliest nods to Christianity flows from Tipareth. A divine figure willing to be a sacrifice, and willing to teach others the value of self-sacrifice. To pay the debts of others and lessen their burdens in the hopes that kindness would spread outward to encircle the world with unconditional mercy. The current state of Christianity aside, connection with the solar sphere is the only real lifeline the magician has in the goetic tradition, and it is only made available through the labors of the magician.

In defense of the esoteric brotherhoods and lodges of the 1300s to 1800s, Christianity was the only acceptable expression of solar planetary magic available in Europe. Near anything else meant imprisonment, torture, and or execution...and always after total financial confiscation by church and state.

"Immortal, Eternal, Ineffable, and Sacred Father of all things, who is carried on the chariot rolling without cease, of the worlds which rotate always. Ruler of the Etheric Plain where Your throne of power is exalted and from whose heights Thy formidable eyes discover everything and Your beautiful and saintly ears hear everything. Harken to Your children whom You have loved from their birth through all time. Since Your lasting, great, and eternal majesty shines brightly over the world and the starry heavens, Thou art raised above them. Oh, sparkling fire! There You light and maintain Yourself in the appropriate splendor. There comes forth from Your being never-failing streams of light which nourish Your infinite spirit. This infinite spirit generates all things and makes this inexhaustible treasure of matter which cannot fail to procreate that which always surrounds it because of the forms without number with which it is filled and with which You have filled it since the beginning of time. From this spirit the very saintly kings who are standing around Your throne and who compose Your court also draw their origin. Oh, Universal Father! Oh, Unique One! Oh, Father of blissful mortals and immortals! You have particularly created the powers which are marvelously like Your eternal thought and Your adorable essence. You have established them superior to the messengers who announce your wishes to the world. Finally, You have created us sovereigns over the elements. Our continued exertion is to praise You and to adore Your desires. We burn with the desire to be possessed of You. Oh, Father! Oh, Mother, the most tender of Mothers! Oh, admirable example of tender sentiments of Mothers! Oh, Son, the flower of all Sons! Oh, mold of all our shapes! Well beloved spirit, soul, harmony, and number of all things, we adore you."

This oration, adoration or exoneration is beautiful, uplifting and downright inspiring. Certainly not a groveling placation to the stiffing dictates of a misogynistic, hateful "god" Yahweh/Jehovah; but a brighter far more awesome creator God-force who nourishes life, loves his creations and seeks union rather than dominion over them. The passage even acknowledges a tender mother and son who is flower of all sons. We glimpse in this the kind of salvation and redemption which help elevate us up out of the lower astral.

These solar extolations are also types of personal and environmental purification, exorcisms and banishings.

"And when, after all the phantoms have vanished, thou shalt see that holy and formless fire, that fire which darts and flashes through the hidden depths of the Universe, hear thou the Voice of Fire".

This opening passage from the Opening By Watchtower ritual reflects the pale understanding modern Hermetic magic has in terms to planetary Exonerations.

The breakdown is this.

The light of the sun makes the astral night time phantoms/daemon vanish. Then once all the distortion is gone, one can more clearly see God or that hidden fire and hear better its messages to him or her.

The LBRP and BRP are decidedly modern banishment rituals, and while I utilize a variant of the LBRP I would never forgo the implementation of orations and incantations of Sol.

I will begin to share the orations, and incantations of Tipareth of the goetic tradition I inherited. I feel that what I have learned is a more pure transmission of both celestial and infernal energies in accordance to helping a magician finish their Great Work, removing the interfering emissaries of Yahweh/Jehovah, and the utter brainless idiocy behind the Devil/Satanic current tethered to modern Christianity.

I will also lay important foundation structure in how to preform goetic magic, one that provides both material and spiritual results, which are common in my temple.

In front of a lighted white candle used only for this purpose, speak aloud the above oration, and begin to bring the grandeur of the Sun into your life...if only in order to explore the depth of the sub-lunar astral and command with more force the daemons who reside there.

-Papa Crocodile.

Afro-Caribbean based initiation into the mysteries of El Christo Rey and license to work the Honorius Grimoire

Mystery signature of the Honorius

I make frequent mention that I have been initiated into and "given" license to work various European Grimoires. 

Not just that, but the Grimoiric traditions I have inherited thankfully bypassed both the Hermetic (Golden Dawn) and Crowley (O.T.O) influences. 

My linage passed through the Caribbean islands, including Hispaniola (Haiti-Dominican Republic) via the European slave trade, and during the resulting slave revolts fell into African (largely Bantu speaking or Congo) hands of former slaves circa late 1700.

I am told, and I believe it to be fairly obvious, that European Grimoires (The Black Raven, The Black Hen or Pullet, The Black Goat, The Grimoirum Verum, The Grand or Red Dragon Grimoire, etc) contain an often large, often cryptic and regularly incomplete body of preparatory steps to be completed before the conjurations or "wonders", or "splendors" preformed. 

It is in these "preparatory" steps, which the formulary of each Grimoire's own unique initiatory protocols are contained. 

Coupled with the fact that these magical practices, systems and ideologies where NOT meant to be common knowledge; the initiatory methods giving one "license" or "right" to apply the occult sciences of each Grimoire are purposely muddled and confused. 

But what does the initiation process of a European Grimoire look like and what would it entail?

I can answer that question, but only in part. 

Because of my linage, and how it can down to me, I am able only to give answers which are born from the linage I inherited.

So what does that mean?

That means because of the detour out of Europe my linage took, having been practiced by Obeah workers in Jamaica , Bokors in Haiti and secret societies all over the Caribbean; that I cannot give an answer which is not, both heavily, and recently steeped in Afro-Caribbean currents. 

While I can imagine what the initiation into the Honorius Grimorie from the pure European practice probably looked like, it would only be a highly educated guess.

However I can say I know for absolute certain what an initiation into the Honorius Grimoire which was assimilated into a powerful Afro-Caribbean (Criollo) linage looks and feels like.

If the reader of this post compares the beginning of the Honorius Grimoire to the accounting  below, it will be clear an exceedingly similar initiatory sequence is set into motion. 

Another caveat must also be considered. 

All throughout the beginning of Honorius Grimoire, the potential operator is seeking to forge a deep personal relationship with "Jesus Chris"t... or well... at least it says that. 

I now introduce a concept which tends to anger Christian and non-Christian alike. 

As there is a bewildering number of Lucifers, there is a similar number of Jesuses or Christs. 

El Christo Rey sitting in Kaballic posture.He  IS NOT the Christian Jesus. 

Jesus, like Lucifer, or Lucero (Palo), like Exu (Kimbanda), like Eshu (Ifa), like Ellegua (Santeria), and like Legba (Voudou) is an intercessional spirit who acts on a person's behalf on an individual level, communal level, country level and global level.

And just like the aforementioned other spirits, Jesus or Christ is a legion of spirits under a "World" or "Collective" Christ.

For example Lucero Mundo is "World's" Lucero.

However to really understand Lucero Mundo, you must discover your own personal Lucero.

A personal Lucero is your own intercessional Lucero spirit who ensures your messages clearly and loudly reach Lucero Mundo.

Lucero Mundo then carries your messages to the other M'pungo all the way to Nzambi and relays messages back down to your personal Lucero who then gives message to you.

In some Palo houses (Monte and Kimbisa mostly) Lucero Mundo is synchronized with Jesus Christ.

Similarly to Lucero, Legba, Exu or Lucifer, a person's own personal Jesus (insert Depeche Mode here) or El Christo Rey, is a little different than everyone else's.

It is this developing a deep relationship with one's own (personal) "redeemer" (Christo Rey) that, at least where the Kabbalic mysteries are concerned, which makes strong and clear the communication between you, your higher self and the Most High.

Redemption is the return to own's Great work, the ability to step off from a bad path, and reconnect to the aspirations of your higher self.

The mysteries of El Christo Rey are, like all other aforementioned comparative spirits, firmly established in the stars, roads, the sun, sacrifice, life and death, light and dark.

It must also be said that the mysteries of El Christo Rey, are indeed Kabbalic, and are far OLDER than the Hebraic Abraham faiths (Jewish, Christian and Muslim) which are perverted, war-for-profit, slavish, spiritual ideologies which ought to be ridiculed into oblivion.

For those new to the idea of an infinite numbering of Christo spirits each acting as a personal "light, truth and the way" for each and every individual on the planet, one could rightly ask how is this metaphysically supported.

The mystery is Kabbalic and has everything to do with the Crucifixion mystery contained with the Tree of Life, and far OLDER and complete than Christianity's sorry knock-off crucifixion story.

Where both Lucifer and Lucero Mundo both "fell" to earth as falling stars, sending trillions upon trillions of fragments flying out from their impact radius (the fragments becoming everyone's individual Lucifer or Lucero), El Christo Rey had his side pieced by a spear (Mars or RED Geburah)) and shed his life force, blood, which was caught in a cup (Jupiter, or BLUE Chessed).

It was Jupiter's power of multiplication, addition and mediation which made "one" now "many" or "infinite".

These Kabbalic mysteries are deep and vast. The little I said above, while the foundation of the mystery itself is in no way fully revealed.

The following is the main body of the initiation into the mysteries of El Christo Rey, and gaining license to make use of the Honorius Grimoire, of which I personally underwent; carried out and transmitted through my Godfather.

The benefits of this initiation are as following:

1. Greatly expanded, strengthened, and healed aura or sphere of influence.
2. An opening and speeding up development of one's psychic faculties.
3. Direct communion with highly elevated entities.
4. Power spiritual protection.
5. A move developed "light body" for Astral projection and increased awareness of the Solar realm also known as Tipareth.
6. Dominion over daemonic entities.
7. Increased aptitude for spiritual, energetic healing.
8. Removal and or reversal of bad magic.
9. Monstrance.
10. Lambskin.
11. Full license to work the Honorius Grimoire.

There is a minor initiation where the person receives a partial transmission, but does walk away with a full consecrated Monstrance also with the following:

The Monstrance

1.  Greatly expanded, strengthened, and healed aura or sphere of influence.
2. An opening and speeding up development of one's psychic faculties.
3. A move developed "light body" for Astral projection and increased awareness of the Solar realm also known as Tipareth.

The Monstrance is a permanent portable solar force, a gateway to the sephiroth Tipareth instantly banishing all phantoms, cleansing one's spiritual space and exorcising evil entities

Lastly, one may receive just the fully concentrated Monstrance.

There is more to this initiation, and i have NOT included all the necessary steps.

Like the Grimoires, I have choose to omit key parts and muddle things just a little to prevent copycats and hucksters from "re-interpreting" or trying to apply this to other Grimoires.

I might also

write up part of my initiation into the Red Dragon, and Grimoirum Verum in the future.

Afro-Caribbean based initiation into the mysteries of El Christo Rey and Honorius Grimoire

The person who desires to evoke and have dominion over the perverse spirits of darkness, develop telepathy and healing powers, as well as establish relationship with the elevated spirits must begin by observing a three (3) day fast consisting of only solar blessed water, and citrus fruit.

During these three (3) days, four (4) times a day at 6am, 12 noon, 6 pm and 12 midnight, he or she must make the sign of the Kabbalistic cross in the (4) four cardinal directions starting in the east, and turning to the south, then west and finally north.

They must for three (3) days at midnight approach their godfather’s or godmother’s Holy Altar, and confess their their sins, asking El Christo Rey for redemption.

For these three (3) days he or she is to do little else other than meditate on the mysteries of El Christo Rey and the Kabbalic mysteries of Tipareth (Solar secrets) while receiving teachings from his or her godfather or godmother.

For these three (3) days he or she may neither change clothing nor bathe.

At sunrise a blessed, cleansed and appropriately decorated white rooster will be passed over him or her and then sacrificed. The first feather of it’s left wing being plucked and preserved for use at the required time.

The rooster’s eyes, heart and tongue must be torn out, then dried in the sun. Afterwards reduced to a powder.

This powder needs to be kept for a later time.

The rooster’s corpse must now be placed in a hole, honey poured over the body in the hole, the godfather or godmother washes their hands and sacrificial knife with blessed water directly over the hole, and finally red wine is next poured into the whole.  

The hole is covered, and the dirt sprayed with rum and tobacco smoke blown over it.

A cross of palm must be placed on the burial mound, while at each of the four corners of the mound the following signs must be drawn with the right thumb.

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

A white candle placed on the mound in front of the palm cross, and left to burn down.

Now the throat of a blessed, cleansed and appropriately decorated young male lamb (ram) shall be cut and the blood drained into a bucket for later use.

He or she will skin the lamb, and shall cast the lamb’s tongue and heart into a newly kindled fire. The ashes shall be preserved for use at the proper time.

The flesh of the lamb shall be placed in a hole, honey poured over the body in the hole, the godfather or godmother washes their hands and sacrificial knife with blessed water directly over the hole, and finally red wine is next poured into the whole.

The hole is covered, and the dirt sprayed with rum and tobacco smoke blown over it.

His or her godfather or godmother will with their right thumb inscribe on the grave the characters here indicated:

***Signs Omitted for initiatory reasons***

A white candle is placed on top of the burial mound and let to burn down.

For the space of the next three days he or she shall sprinkle the four corners with holy water with hyssop, and then while standing on top of the burial mound saying:

Sprinkle me, Oh Lord, with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed! Wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow!

While cleansing themselves over the burial mound with holy water and hyssop.

He or she then recites the Agnus Dei.

After the aspersion he or she recite the following prayer while kneeling facing the east

“Christ, Redeemer of men, who, being the Lamb without spot, was immolated for the salvation of the human race, who alone wast found worthy to open the Book of Life, impart such virtue to this lambskin that it may receive the signs which we shall trace thereon, written with Thy blood, so that the figures, signs, and words may become efficacious; and grant that this skin may preserve us against the wiles of the demons; that they may be terrified at the sight of these figures, and may only approach them trembling. Through Christ, who livest and reignest through all ages. So be it”.

He or she will have rompimiento (a ritual cutting off of all clothing) performed outside facing the sun.

Naked, he or she shall be have the blood of the lamb poured over them.

Next they shall be bathed in sun blessed holy water which had been steeped with herbs, and finally re-dressed in fresh new white clothes.

They are given a white taper candle to hold while his or her godfather or godmother speaking prayers of resurrection spoken over him or her.

Their old clothes burned and ashes buried with nine (9) cents.

For the rest of the initiation, he or she, may drink no wine and eat no meat.

He or she shall now approach their godfather’s or godmother’s Holy Altar. Kneeling recite the gradual psalms (119-133), sometimes called the Songs of Ascent while being perfumed with frankincense and myrrh.  

Next, he or she will rise at midnight, return and kneel before to his or her godfather’s or godmother’s Holy Altar. His or her godfather or godmother will pass a cleansed and blessed dove over him or her, and sacrifice the bird over his or her head, while speaking prayers which call down the holy spirit over them (his or her head will be wrapped with a white head wrap which must not be removed until dawn).

He or she will hold a wafer of bread in both their right and left hands.

The godfather or godmother will now give him or her holy communion, dripping the blood of the dove over the wafer of bread in his or her right hand, and drip some blood of the dove in a chalice of consecrated red wine.

He or she will then recite the following prayer:

“My redeemer, and radiance of the light of the Most High. Thou who for the salvation of mankind suffered death on the cross. Thou who, before being abandoned to thine enemies, by an impulse of ineffable love did institute the sacrament of thy body. Thou has made it possible, even for the most most wretched and miserable to obtain redemption, and have the privilege of making daily commemoration thereof;  thou did deign unto thine servant, thus holding thee living body in his hands, all strength and ability for the profitable application of that power with which has been entrusted against the horde of rebellious spirits.  Thou splendor and radiance is great indeed, and they all tremble at the utterance of thy name, and upon that holy name I perform miraculous wonders. Christ, be thou my help, walk with me now and forever!”

On the following dawn, he or she will kneel at his or her godfather’s or godmother’s Holy Altar.

He or she will have their head washed with holy water, hyssop and other herbs. The godfather or godmother will dry their hair and then anoint his or her head with El Christo Rey oil.

Afterwards he or she will place the plucked rooster’s feather upon the altar along with a new sharp knife.

The following signs will be inscribed on a sheet of new clean white paper with consecrated magic ink using the tip of the feather like a quill upon the Holy Altar.

The paper should be folded in a new veil of violet silk, along with the wafer of bread.

Using the new knife, he or she scratches a cross into a yellow taper candle and places that along with the knife back on the Holy Altar.

At midnight he or she, having been sprinkled with holy water, must light the yellow taper candle.

With the candle lighted he or she must recite psalm 77 and speak the Office of the Dead with both Lauds and Vespers.

Then he or she will say:

“Deliver us, Oh Lord, from the fear of hell. Let not the demons destroy my soul when I shall raise them from the deep pit, when I shall command them to do my will. May the day be bright, may the sun and moon shine forth, when I shall call upon them. Terrible of aspect are they, deformed and horrible to sight; but do Thou restore unto them their angelic shapes when I shall impose my will upon them. Oh Lord deliver me from those of the dread visage, and grant that they shall be obedient when I shall raise them up from hell, when I shall impose my will upon them”.  

After the Office of the Dead, he or she will snuff the candle and retire for the night.

The skin of the lamb shall be spread out in the middle of a field.

The ground blessed with holy water, rum and tobacco smoke before being laid down and for the space of of six (6) days, four (4) time a day (6am, 12 noon, 6pm, 12 midnight) sprinkled with holy water.

On the seventh (7th) day before the rising of the sun, the lambskin shall be covered with the ashes of the heart and tongue, and with the ashes also of the Rooster while speaking psalm 78.

The Litanies of the Holy Name of El Christo Rey must then be repeated, and the following passage included at the end.

“Immolated Lamb, be Thou a pillar of strength against the demons. Slain Lamb, give power over the Powers of Darkness! Immolated Lamb, grant favour and strength unto the binding of the Rebellious Spirits. So be it”.

The lambskin shall be stretched for eighteen (18) days.

On the nineteenth (19) day the fleece shall be removed, burned to ashes, and buried in the same place.

His or her godfather or godmother will write the word VELLUS above it with their finger along with the following characters:

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

While drawing these characters, the godfather or godmother will speak these words:

“May this which hath been reduced into ashes preserve against the demons through the name of Christ”.

Now the godfather or godmother will add these signs.

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

Lastly the lambskin is set to face the sun for three (3) days, and the ensuing characters being cut with the sharp new knife:

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

This being accomplished, recite psalm 71.

and cut the following characters:

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

Recite psalm xcv and cut subsequently these characters :

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

Next recite psalm 77, and compose the following figure:

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

Which being accomplished, recite Psalm ii, and then make another figure as follows

***Signs omitted for initiatory reasons***

Recite psalm cxv and now being wrapped in the skin of the lamb by his or her godfather or godmother, he or she will say aloud:

CIPIUM ET FINIS, PRIMOGENITUS, SAPIENTIA, VIRTUS, PARACLITUS, VERITAS, VIA, MEDIATOR, MEDICUS, SALUS, AGNUS, OVIS, VITULUS, SPES, ARIES, LEO, LUX, IMAGO, PANIS, JANUA, PETRA, SPONSA, PASTOR, PROPHETA, SACERDOS, SANCTUS, IMMORTALITAS, JESUS, CHRISTUS, PATER, FILIUS HOMINIS, SANCTUS, PATER OMNIPOTENS, DEUS, AGIOS, RESSURRECTIO, MISCRIROS, CHARITAS, AETERNAS, CREATOR, REDEM PTOR, UNITAS, SUM MUM BONUM, INFINITA!

-Papa Crocodile