Everyone who comes to Hoodoo wants to have something done for them.
The reason why they come to Hoodoo is because they have tried everything
else and they have not been successful. That is why they are willing to
try the power of the spirits which we call Lucky Hoodoo. But you, dear
student, are different, because you are now on the road to becoming a
Hoodoo practitioner, someone who will be able to help others because he
has been so successful and powerful in his Hoodoo work with the spirits.
Generally
speaking, the Hoodoo spirits are asked to do one of four major kinds of
things for those who come to them for help. Sometimes we will find a
person who has a lot of needs, but they are usually variations of the
basic four These needs are usually:
1. The desire to have good health and be free of illness.
2. The wish to have more money or a better job or boss.
3. The wish to know more about the spirits for betterment.
4. The wish to have a new or better lover for romance and sex.
All
of these needs are valid and very good for the person to seek. There is
no reason why anyone should feel ashamed to want to have these goals.
They are the aims of everyone who is in a right frame of mind. Now, we
have to see what the Hoodoo Spirits think about these goals for gain.
All of these aims are based on the need to gain something more. So there
must be something or somebody in the spirit world who is willing to
help us to get what we want. The answer is that there are many spirits
who have as their purpose the helping of mankind to gain what it needs.
These spirits come in order to make up for the lack of something which
is the basis of need. We are seeking the help of the spirits in order to
gain what we do not now have. Fortunately, there are many spirits who
are quite willing to help us out. In fact they are often more willing to
help us than we are ready or able to let them help us. In other words,
many persons are not yet ready to make contact with the spirits in order
to have the spirits help them with their plans. But once a person has
made contact with spirits, then it is quite simple to ask them to help
you with a particular project, which will bring you
exactly what you are seeking.
Your
own case would be an example of a person who is already on the road to
successful communion with the spirits, for you have done the ritual of
dedication to the Hoodoo spirits, which was given in the first lesson of
this series of documents.
Now, we will begin from where we left
off in the last lesson, in order to see just how it is that the spirits
are able to bring to a person who is seeking something what that person
wants.
In the world of the spirits there is a particular group of
Spirits who are concerned with doing special projects. These are called
the "Work Loa," and they are to be found among both the Hoo-Spirit.s
and among the Doo-Spirits. These working gods are very helpful to
mankind, for they are the powers that enable mankind to get exactly what
he wants at any time. They are powerful helpers to mankind, because
they are paid by mankind in turn in response to what they have done for
him. The "Work Loa" are very wonderful gods in the sense that they have
infinite powers, because they are pure spirit and not tied down to this
world of earth. Therefore, they are able to be everywhere at all times
and to do everything that needs to be done. However, it is necessary to
approach these gods by means of special rituals, for like all of the
Hoodoo Spirits, these beings are very much in sympathy with
ceremonies and rites.
Many
persons are of the opinion that the Voudoo gods can be contacted simply
by directing the mind in the way of their being and thus attunement
with the Spirits is achieved by pure and silent thought. This may be
true for those Big Shots who can build Mental Temples with their minds
and imaginations but it is not true for those who are just beginning.
Such novices in Hoodoo must make use of ceremonial work and ritual to
summon the Spirits, for if a person wishes to summon the spirits, it is
done either with a Mental Temple that is built up in the mind or else it
is done with a ceremony done in the very room where the person is. But
in either case it is done making use of some kind of magick. That is the
important factor. It is necessary to make use of powerful magick in
order to summon the Hoodoo Spirits at any time. For they respond only to
magick, whether or not it is mental or physical it does not matter
except to the student or practitioner. They will come quicker through a
good magician using physical methods than through a careless student
making use of mental methods, only. And it is important to understand
this point, for they are not too interested in how you call them to your
aid. They are only interested in that you do call upon them to help
you.
On the other side and in the world of the spirits, the "Work
Loa" can easily recognize a call for help because of the astral colors
that it sends along with itself. The call carries with it the secret
colors of true petition if it is a sincere call for help. If it isn't,
then the colors will be absent and other colors which indicate deception
will be present. Pity the poor fool who tries to trick the spirits, for
they know everything and that is why they know you and what you want
from thern. So be perfectly honest with them for they can tell
intuitively when you are sincere and when you are not sincere. Even if a
person sought to attract them by means of a Mental Temple, and still
was insincere, he would not be successful. They can tell even when the
person is working in the world of Mind. For the colors of the Mental
Temple will apear to be those where insincerity is present and they will
not come, except to punish the wrongoder. Therefore be perfectly honest
with them and you will be helped.
Another thing to understand is
that with them the morals of the human world are without meaning. Moral
codes were invented by certain political and religious groups to keep
the majority of human beings in chains. There is only one law of
morality in the spirit world and that is to tell the truth to the
spirits. So if a person desires to make love to another person and the
world of human morality would say this is wrong, or even the Bible would
say this is wrong, we must understand that to seek the spirits this is
not wrong, as long as the seeker is truly seeking that person as his
lover. For that reason you must not feel any shyness about speaking to
the wonderful spirits, for if you are honest with yourself, you are
honest with them. If you are to be honest with them, then they can come
to your aid and help you out.
There is a very simple ritual which
you can do in order to get the Hoodoo Spirits to come to your aid. This
is a simple request ritual, and it can he done at any time, once you
have done the dedication ritual and therefore should be done at least
one day later in order to give your own astral body a rest. However, it
is the basic ritual for getting in touch with the spirits and letting
them know just what it
is that you want them to do.
THE BASIC RITUAL FOR GAINING FROM THE HOODOO SPIRITS
Part
1. In a quiet place, you will sit at your table upon which you have now
placed four candles at the corners and a black candle in the center.
You will place a yellow candle in the north, a blue candle in the west
(same as before), a green candle in the south, and a red candle in the
east. Place your black candle from the previous ritual in the center and
between the black candle and the blue candle you will place a glass of
water. You will write out on a small piece of paper or index card what
you wish to gain and place this request between the red candle and the
black candle.
Part 2. Now, you will say the following prayer to
the Hoodoo Spirits in order to make known to them by ritual your request
for their help and presence. You will begin the prayer to the Hoodoo
Spirits by lighting the candles in the following order:
First, you will light the yellow candle and say:
"Holy Spirit of the Northern Cross of Light come forth."
Second, you will light the blue candle and say:
"Holy Spirit of the Western Cross of Light come forth."
Third, you will light the green candle and say:
"Holy Spirit of the Southern Cross of Light come forth."
Fourth, you will light the red candle and say:
"Holy Spirit of the Eastern Cross of Light come forth."
Lastly, you will light the black candle and say:
"Holy Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo come to my help and hear me."
Next, you will touch the glass of water and say:
"MEDIUM OF HOLY SPIRITS OF THE WATERS BELOW
AND BENEATH ALL WORLDS THE HOLY SPIRITS OF
THE DEAD AND THE SEAS J AM HERE TO SERVE YOU."
Then, you will look intensely upon your request card and say:
"0 LIGHT THERE IS NO DARKNESS. O LIGHT WE ARE
IN THE PRESENCE OF ENDLESS LIGHT."
Part
3. Then you will begin to say the following very short prayer of
request for gain to the Spirits either in a soft voice or silently to
show that you mean real business.
"Dear Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo.
You are my friends. What I wish to receive from you is written on the
card (paper) which I have written out as a special request. Please help
me to gain this that I wish so much. I know that you can help me. Here
is my gift to you, dear Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo."
Part 4. Then
you will offer power to the Spirits by rubbing your hands together for a
couple of minutes and then holding your hands towards the altar with
the palms open and extending the fingers upwards, so that the altar will
receive the power as it flows out of the palms of your hands and to the
Spirit world. This is your gift to the Spirits, the power of life or
vitality which will be used by them in healing or in some other work.
Part
5. You will now close your eyes and begin to think about the Hoodoo
Spirits and how they will come to you and what you wish them to do for
your request. They are present everywhere and perhaps they will indicate
that they are there by the flickering of a candle or some other sign.
You will then be silent for a few minutes afterwards. You will take the
glass of water and drink it, for it has spirit-power in it. You will
then silently put out the candles in the following order: first the
black, then the red, green, blue, and lastly the yellow candle. You will
feel relaxed and peaceful in love with all of the spirits and ready to
serve them and obey all the Holy Spirits of Lucky Hoodoo. You will then
clap your hands together quickly so that a sound is made and you will
say, either softly or silently:
"AND IT IS DONE HOLY SPIRITS OF LUCKY HOODOO."
Put
your candles away if you store them and keep the request written out on
card or paper to think about each day. You may do this ritual as often
as you like. Be sure of good luck, for you are a Hoodoo.