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>>136551

Potential Dangers and Gotchas When Dealing With Divinity

>Not every god is good for you

It is important to do your research on a god before you go invoking or evoking them.

I'll give you a story on why it's important to watch out for the "Crazy aunts/uncles" of your divine family. I accidentally ended up invoking a Saturn-based god when playing with symbols. It wasn't until later, that the complete clusterfuck, and the fights that happened out of nowhere, were because the god I had invoked is a cruel and devious one. In fact, the only reason I didn't get metaphysically turbo-fucked by him was because I had symbols in my altar that were pleasing to him. THIS HAPPENED IN A SINGLE DAY, ALL IN THE SPACE OF SLIGHTLY OVER SIX HOURS.

The price I paid was peanuts, and yet the realization of how much damage in inviting a saturnine god could do was terrifying to me.

Likewise, war gods are another thing you should do your research on before you interact with. My pantheon, thankfully has a stern, teacher-like war god who shows restraint as much as he makes you push yourself. Despite the war god I know being just, I've only heard horror stories of the Celtic Morgana, and if the Greek Ares's and Egyptian Somerset's actions are any indication, you need to be careful when interacting with them.

So, look up information on who you plan to interact with before you actually do.

>Be careful when worshipping fictional gods

The idea of fictional gods actually existing is something few people are willing to believe, I understand if you don't. I just personally feel that everything exists, it just needs to be discovered, and from what I've seen, gods that are typically from fictional settings are most definetly not good for you.

If you have realized how to do deliberate disbelief, you have a valuable tool to keeping yourself away from them. I unfortunately can't explain how to do that, because it's a highly instinctual act. Anyone else who can explain it, you're perfectly welcome to do so.

The gods of the warhammer universe are most notable in that there are real synchronicities in the various god-related reposts among the Warhammer imageboards. If you're afraid of them, it's okay, here, in this universe, they are weak, and the divinity of your world easily overpowers the terrors from 40000 years into a future that has zero existence here.

In short, if it's from a book, and it's evil, I would avoid worshiping it.

>Why they say 'Don't go shopping for gods'

If you ended up choosing to worship gods from multiple pantheons, that's okay, it's perfectly find to do that, but I have a warning for you about that. If you try to invoke/evoke gods from multiple pantheons at once, you risk ending up with conflicts.

Sometimes it's a personality clash, other times, it's a wavelength clash. Either way, if in doubt, stick to one at a time.

>When divinity leaves your life

Sometimes, just like friends, interactions with divinity don't last. I had a brief thing with the egyptian gods, but it never went beyond more than a few sessions before I settled with my current divine family.

Even gods come and go, and if they go, it's best to leave them be. If you're worrying about being abandoned, it's okay, you'll find someone who can help you another way. Keep looking for symbols of gods and you'll find someone to help you.

>>136553

Meeting Your Divine Family

>The father (or mother) and son- literally.

There is a good reason I have been periodically calling gods "your divine family", because if it was hyperbole, then I would have been zero need to phrase it as such.

You are more than just a devotee or worshiper, you are their beloved child to them. It's perfectly fine to treat them as your parents, in fact I've found that it works magnificently for pantheons with kind, loving deities. Likewise, it's perfectly fine to just pop in every now and then and talk to them about the day- just be sure to mind your manners when your interacting with kingly-deities (like Jupiter, Odin, Indra, etc…).

If for some silly reason you wonder how a god could have time for you when there's all the other people suffering in the world, read below.

>Sacred time, endless patience, and boundless empathy.

Time in the astral plane doesn't exist the way we know it in the physical. To mundane people, time is a bondage, to gods, time is a tool, something to be used to their whims, and as far as my instincts understand, divinity can be in contact with all their mortal worshipers at literally all points in time and space. Another reason divinity can interact with so many worshipers at once and in so many spaces and times, is not only because they want to, but they just straight-up can.

Gods are beyond the "empathy fatigue" that humans get when they're tired of caring for people beyond the first 100 people they regularly interact with. Combine that with being able to speak to literally anyone they choose, anywhere?

This is why you're worth talking to. Because they can, and they want to.

>Speaking and Listening to your divine family

When it comes to prayer, dogmas of religion make people overthink it way too fucking hard. The following phrase below is perfectly fine as a prayer for anyone in your divine family:

"To <insert deity's name here>, thank you for helping me today, yesterday, tomorrow, and forever. Thank you, thank you."

It's fine to talk to your divine family like a normal person does, it's okay to hug them, kiss them, love them as if they were your parents and such. In fact, they love being treated like normal people do, it affirms the family-connection.

But there is a perfectly good reason for the elaborate songs, hymns, poems and more-mainline prayers among your divine family's pantheon. it's a form of gratitude, and a personal challenge. Feeling like you're being forced to pray when there really is zero need for that is one of the biggest problems among modern religion- dogma is a bitch and needs to be chained.

Likewise, on the opposite spectrum, you have people who pray, talk and even scream at gods in despair when their life goes absolutely down the shitter somehow, but yet they don't seem to get a response.

The reality is, they aren't looking or listening to their family, just lashing out.

The simplest way to see what your divine family wants to tell you? Meditate on their sigils. When you get more connected to them, just imagining them and listening to your idle thoughts as you go along your day can show you how they're talking to them.

Synchronicities are the most prominent and world-shattering messages you get from them. It can be simple as say, associating the number 444 with "establishing foundations with your divine family" and then suddenly your seeing 4s everywhere. Video games are amazing for establishing little synchronicities, but the big ones, come up in everyday life during the least-expected circumstances.

Your divine family is the therapist for you when your mortal family is stir-crazy or dead. Because you are their family.

>invoking and evoking divinity

Invoking is as simple as imagining their symbol enter your mental body. There are many reasons to invoke your deity, but the most direct one is the ego-dissoluting-purpose of becoming said god- even if it's just temporary.

Evoking is simple in a similar matter, imagine their symbol

Likewise, to repeat what I said back in the dangers post, get to know who you're inviting into your home or body before you actually do the act..

>>136554

Some extra stuff

>A brief on sacrifices

Sacrifices should be used as momentary gratitude- a gift every now and then. Libations, invoking and having meals as them, divine sexuality, those should be considered sacrifices as such, and it's best to keep it on an irregular monthly-ish (plus or minus a few weeks) basis.

>Why you should meditate when you eat

This is a little thing that's been helping me progress quite a lot. You know how most religions thank god for their meal? It's actually even more effective if you meditate on your divine family or thoughts of enlightenment while you're eating your meal.

>Autism. Glorious autism.

And when I say autism, I mean shit that sounds obsessive and weird. Can you imagine metaphysically transforming into a baby and being breastfed by goddess? Can you imagine doing that when you're drinking the milk from your breakfast cereal? Kissing her heart?

Autistic? Maybe, but when something works, you tend to see function over autism. Your divine family has extraordinary patience, and your many divine mothers (wives if you're invoking their partner-gods) have little worry about sacred things that mortals call autistic.

just remember, talk it out, and if you're worried, ask if it's okay.

>Thanks for reading this guide

I know at least one person appreciated my old version. Hopefully this in-depth-divine-family-meeting guide helps anons to look for faith on their own with zero strings or dogmas attached.

>>136553

>somerset

for the record, I mis-corrected this in my browser. I meant Sekmet.

>>136554

Because I didn't proofread my writing, here's the bit on evoking a god

Just imagine their sigil in a sphere and expand it to all around your space. There.

>>136555

>when I say autism, I mean shit that sounds obsessive and weird

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