Periodically the issue of what is the most appropriate form of magic to use in a given situation comes up. This is a difficult question as often Lesser, Medial and Greater Black Magic can be equally appropriate to resolve a given situation but will bring about the resolution in vastly different ways. Here is a look at what I mean.
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Situation: You are in need of more money
Lesser Black Magic: You take a quick look at your situation, realize that part of the reason you get passed over for promotions at work is because you're appearance can be somewhat shabby and frankly you don't really care about the job. You take a look at the classified section of the newspaper and find some jobs you think might be interested. Before the interviews you give yourself a bit of a make over, buy some new cloths and use those NLP rapport building skills you learned at that Pylon Workshop a few years ago. You end up landing a job at about 10% more money then you were making before and the work is a bit more interesting. By all accounts you haven't really changed much as a result.
Medial Black Magic: You take a look at your situation with an eye towards probabilities. You have some investments that aren't really earning much income but you heard it through the grape vine that they have a new product about to be launched that will either make of break the company. You decide to do a small Medial Black Magic working the night before the product unveiling for its success. The next day the product is shown, ends up being a big hit and your stock price soars. Since you weren't that heavily invested in the company you cash out with a small profit and go on with your life the richer for it.
Greater Black Magic: You look at your situation and realize that you have terribly ideas about what Wealth and Money actually are and how best to use them when opportunity is upon you. You spend a few weeks exploring these ideas, reading on the topic of Wealth psychology, money management and investing and investigating your own ideas about what attracts you to Wealth and Money (say the ability to get things done more quickly and having access to a wider range of experiences) and what about their achievement disturbs you (that the people using your investments may have the ethical sense of a rabid hyena and that your Punk Rock friends will stop inviting you over to their flophouse parties when they find out). When you feel as if your consciousness has become full of the topic you perform an act of Greater Black Magic with all the trimmings and decide to use Mesoamerican trappings as you find this a most stimulating tradition. Afterwards you have a series of dreams that clearly seem to be trying to communicate something to you (Airplanes? Ruins? Some super attractive person you've never met?) but you are not really sure what. When you wake up, nothing is changed immediately but you write down those dreams.
You go about your day and by coincidence find a local paper on the seat next to you that has an article on a start up company that is looking to engage in Ethical Import/Export and distribution work in Guatemala. Their home office in your area.
You take the magazine with you into work and decide to look up more about the company and discover they have jobs posted, including one that would involve travel to Guatemala to engage in business negotiations and hunt out new potential products in the more obscure villages. You decide to give them a call and schedule an interview, using all the LBM tricks you know when it happens and thus get the job but it pays a bit less then your old job. As a benefit however they offer you an early window on their eventual IPO and you decide to do some preliminary investment even though it is risky to dump cash into unknown start ups.
While on your first trip for the job you discover that there is enough free time to explore the old Maya Ruins and find a local guide who shows you things tourists never see. While at one of these sites you end up meeting a Mesoamerican researcher with whom you share a tremendous amount of sexual chemistry and you mutual decide to act on it. One night they tell you about their interest in trying to preserve these old sites, how it wouldn't take much cash to do it due to the tremendous exchange rate between Guatemala and your home country and how their dream is to form a non-profit to help raise funds and oversee the work.
A few years later you and the researcher have formed a serious relationship, the company has been a success and is about to go public. Since you were there for almost day one you hold a sizable stake and end up making a small fortune freeing you from having to work for anyone else if your smart with it. You and your partner decide that now is the time to start that non-profit and you use the connections you made both at home and in Guatemala to raise funds and find people qualified to oversee things on the ground. It is hard work but you find yourself deeply dedicated to doing it. You find a lot of eager young faces who want to help and discover that in addition to their regular work you have opportunities to impart some of your Initiatory Understanding to them, usually in covert ways, and start suggesting books and practices which had been important to your own transformation. You even manage to find a gig for your old Punk Rock friends who did look at you a bit suspicious for having sold out to the Man years ago but who kept inviting you to their parties anyway. ____________________________________________________________
Not all experiences are going to be this dramatic, but hopefully some people will get some ideas.
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