Personal Hoodoo Doll Magickal
Terrarium Machine
This is a basic description of Hoodoo Doll construction with a few
contemporary developments.
The
ancient technique is associated with sympathetic magic, a type of
magick based on intimation or correspondence. In this instance, the
Doll is identified with the Target of the Spell or Magickal
Operation. In many folk-lore and Hollywood productions the Doll is
identified with a person other than the conjurer. This other becomes
then, the Target of the Operation. In the instance of this Magickal
Machine, The Target will be The Conjurer himself or herself. This is
a technique often used in Africa.
All
Magickal Manifestations begin firstly as impulses of The Soul of the
Magician, then become Thought-Forms, then are saturated with emotion
and desire, and then are finally clothed in a physical envelope. You
now have the Solar impulse, which is demonstrated by you reading this
article.
Next
you will develop a Thought-Form as a mental picture of yourself in a
positive three-dimensional environment, surrounded with objects of
Power and Good Luck. You will meditate on this imagery for at least
one moon cycle so ensure proper development. You may even take a
non-human form of a power animal. Your intuition will be your guide,
allowing your Soul to continue influencing the development of your
Magickal Machine. As you meditate through the month you will be
saturating your Thought-Form with emotion and desire, until you are
ready to crystallize the physical form.
A
mannequin of some sort is constructed. Any materials can be used. Of
course, many traditions of esoteric science stress the use of
specific materials in the construction of any magickal tool or
machine, and this technique does have its merits. Using Gold or
Silver or precocious stones or wood or cloth will have its positive
effects on the illusory world of physical matter and in the mind of
the magician. But, it is helpful to remember that, as we have
mentioned, the worlds of matter are all illusion and what it much
more real is the Mind of the Magician and its Thought-Form. Many
simple people have constructed mannequins dolls from a stick or
simple cloth with powerful, well-known effects. Many traditional
conjure-people also fill a cloth doll with desirable herbs and roots
and sometimes add a picture of the Target inside or upon the doll. I
have developed into making small paper maché stars and painting them
to resemble the Target. Remember, The Though-Form is the REAL object.
Next
we move into the space surrounding the Target. I have found that this
is a particularly useful idea because as we know, the Universe is One
Organism, so it is impossible to visualize any object or person
without a surrounding environment. This then gives us the
opportunity to include our Power objects and Good Luck objects with
our self, Inseparable and Protected from damage and even dust. For
this last reason, Protection, I use a glass jar or bowl with a strong
lid turned upside down to form a protective aura around my Doll of
Myself. This then give us also the opportunity to surround ourselves
constantly and for ever with veves of the Vudu and other magickal
symbols of our choosing.
I
usually fill the bottom of the inside of this Magickal Terrerium
Machine with salt and semi-precious stones.
After
the Terrarium scene is completed and sealed closed the machine can be
placed in an auspicious spot upon the Alter. If the Temple area of
the Magician is to be considered the Heart or Engine of His or Her
Life, and The Alter is the Computer that operates this Engine, then
this Personal Hoodoo Magickal Terrarium Machine can be considered an
additional micro-processor for the Alter-Computer. The Machine is
already composed of matter from a four-dimensional construction, as
was explained in the second paragraph of this article, but now it can
be re-enforced and enhanced four-dimentionaly by ritual invocation of
Loa, Vudu-Gods, and many other sources of energy and power. As this
Personal Hoodoo Doll is in reality, YOU, you now can force
Purification, Energizing, Development, and any other phenomenon that
you desire into yourself by directing all such phenomenon into The
Doll.
