Philosopher Work Book

The New Hermetics Level 4 - The Philosopher focuses on exploring the sephirah Netzach and various paths to understand personal values, desires, and creativity. It includes practical exercises for creating and charging talismans, invoking archetypal god-forms, and enhancing intuition. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their values and document their experiences throughout the program.

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The New Hermetics

Level 4 - The Philosopher

In the Philosopher level, you will explore the sephirah Netzach, as well as the paths of 3 [ayin], 2 [samech]
and 1 [nun]. You will explore your values, your intuition, discovering how the driving forces of your will
are the hierarchies of values that control your morality, desires, ethics and even your creativity. You will
learn to harmonize your values with your actual desires. You will learn to create talismans, physical
representations of magical synchronicities that you are projecting out into the world. You will actively
invoke the powers of the ancient archetypal god-forms to balance and transform your abilities and your life.
You will begin to work practically with your intuition, and begin the practice called "rising on the planes."
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Mystical Correspondences
Charging Talismans
Exploring Archetypes: Invoking the Gods
Exploring Intuition and E.S.P.
Values Hierarchies
Changing Your Values
Breath Awareness - Mahasatipathana
Rising on the Planes

Each of these programs is a technology designed to move your mind in specific directions. Find a quiet
place to sit or lie down where you will be comfortable and able to devote your full attention to the
programs. Each program is about a half hour. DO NOT listen to these programs while you are engaged in
other activities, particularly driving or working on anything that requires your full concentration. You
should always have this workbook nearby so that you can complete the written work immediately at the
end of each program. This work is usually fairly small and can be completed in less than five additional
minutes. Please fill out the workbook as you proceed, completing each section in order to the best of your
abilities. You may skip around to a certain degree, but try to keep relatively in order.

Session 1 - Mystical Correspondences

Please have the seven colored linear shape pages in front of you as you listen to this program.
Date and Time You Listened to the Program ______________________________________________
Please describe your experience:
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Session 2 - Creating Sigils

Date and Time ______________________________________________
The easiest way to construct a talisman is to make a simple sigil or seal to represent your desire in the manner that
has been made popular by Chaos Magick. With this simple and fast little workshop you will be able to make a
talisman to accomplish anything you can imagine.
You first need to create a sentence that expresses what you want. It can be a simple sentence, but make sure that you
understand what you are wanting specifically. Avoid being overly vague because the universe may misunderstand
and give you something different than what you want.
Your sentence of desire ________________________________________________________________________
Now remove all of the repeating letters so that only one of each letter remains.
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The sigil is now created from these letters. Combine the letters into a shape that is pleasing to your eyes. You may
simplify things by including simple letters such as I or U within the shapes of other letters or representing M and
considering W and V to be represented by this shape as well. You may stylize or distort letters in any way that
pleases your sense of aesthetics. You can use these three spaces to construct and simplify your sigil.

Once you have settled on a sigil you can decide what sort of energy you are interested in attracting to your talisman.
At this point you can decide if you are going to use one of the planetary shapes and colors for your talisman or if
you are simply going to leave it a simple sigil. You must then create your full talisman. There are several black and
white talisman blanks at the back of this workbook. You can easily place your sigil into the center of one of these
and color it appropriately, or you can make your own. At the very least re-draw it onto a new blank piece of paper.
Once you have created your talisman you are ready to move on to the next tool to charge the talisman.

Session 3 - Charging Talismans

Date and Time You Listened to the Program ______________________________________________
This is a simple tool for charging talismanic objects with any desire. You may use this tool for talismans created
with the sigil technique you just used, or any other object that you want to charge magically. For now, simply charge
the talisman you just created. Answer the following questions about your talisman. You will want to ask these
questions anytime you are charging a talismanic object.
What specific purpose are you charging this talisman for?
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Who is this talisman for? Will the energy work for you, for anyone who holds the object, or for someone else only?
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How long does the talisman have to accomplish its job? Two weeks? A month? Will it last forever?
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The answers to these three questions form the statement of purpose that you make during the program.
Listen to the program now.
Please describe your results in a few days or weeks:
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Session 4 - Exploring Archetypes: Invoking the Gods

Date and Time You Listened to the Program ______________________________________________
This tool is for connecting with the archetypal energies of "the old gods," You may use this tool with any God, but
please be clear about what aspects of this God might be useful for developing new abilities or personality changes in
yourself. Below you will find the "planetary" Gods with some of their qualities, which will form a useful place to
start.

3. Saturn/Kronos- structures, limitation, responsibility, seriousness

4. Jupiter/Zeus- generosity, abundance and wealth, leadership, luck
5. Mars/Ares- strength, energy, battle, courage, competition, athletics
6. Sol/Helios/Apollo- harmony, wholeness, peace, illumination
7. Venus/Aphrodite- love, desire, aesthetics, beauty, pleasure, luxury
8. Mercury/Hermes- language, logic, knowledge, science, medicine
9. Luna/Selene/Artemis- imagination, subconscious, emotion, dreams

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Examine this list and choose a quality that you feel that you are lacking but which you would like to manifest in
your life. Use this program to connect with this force or quality and activate it in your life. In the future you may use
this tool with any God you desire to know.
God-form: __________________________________

Desired quality from this god-form: _________________________________

Please describe your experience:
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How has this Invocation changed you for the better?
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Please describe your results in a few days or weeks:
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Session 5 - Exploring Intuition and E.S.P.

Date and Time You Listened to the Program ______________________________________________
This is a very simple method for receiving information from the collective unconscious. It can be adapted to any
purpose, finding lost articles, missing persons, finding out information about a person or event, medical intuition or
anything else that you might want to do with psychic powers or ESP.
For this first time, listen to the program, asking about what you need to be doing to accomplish one of your goals.
Which goal did you ask about? ___________________________________________________________________
Describe what you received:
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Session 6 - Values
Date and Time You Listened to the Program ______________________________________________
Your values are really the states that you consider the most desirable and the states that you find most detestable in
your life. Values are not desires for possessions, honors or behavioral laws for your community, but rather the
emotional states that these things might provide.
Like your beliefs, your values were not consciously chosen but rather implanted by circumstance into your mind.
You must now begin to examine your values and to decide whether or not your current values are consistent with
who you really want to be.
Please listen to the program now.

Create a list of your values for the following subjects in the five elemental categories. Simply put what comes to
mind and don't worry about being repetitive.
Ask yourself the following questions:
What states do I value most in my... (spirituality, personal power, emotions etc.)?
What states do I most want to avoid in my... (spirituality, personal power, emotions etc.)?

AETHYR
Spirituality
Valued States
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