A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ONE ON ONE MAGICKAL ASSAULT Magickal assualt, one person contending with another, is a tricky subject. This article covers one solution to the problem. It is by no means the only one, but it does work. The first step is to obtain some sort of talismanic link with the individual who is the object of the attack. This link will act as the conductive medium through which the attack will flow. Talismanic links may be divided into three types; Physical, Mental and Astral. A physical link is some material item related in some way to the object individual. By tradition, a strand of hair or a nail paring is best. Handwriting is also good, especially if it is something that the object individual concentrated on as produced it. This puts more of "himself" into it, relating it strongly to his own mind. Items of personal property will also work, the more personal or favored, the better. The second type is the mental link. This is easily obtained if the object individual is known to the attacker. Pet expressions, recalled with their pronunciation and intonation, are excellent, since they conjure the image of the object individual, his habits, and manners to mind. Ideas or problems which concern the object individual should be considered. If these are very important to him, enough that he keeps them ever in his mind, they will work. The last is closely related to the second. This is the Astral or emotional link. If there exists a mutual emotional tie between attacker and attacked, regardless of its nature, then a link is established. Some feeling toward a third party, which is the same for both persons, is also usable, although in such cases great care must be taken to keep the wrong person from being harmed. The choice of link depends on the attacker. It is he who must work with it so he should pick the type that seems best suited to him and his purposes. The degree of sucess depends on the ability of the attacking Magickian to work with his tools. Once the link is obtained, the attack may begin. The first step of the attack itself is to establish identity between the attacker and the link, thence proceeding to identification of the attacker- link-object individual. First, consider the link strictly as an object, an "item" in the universe. Examine it as one would a rock. Note its size and shape, its concepts and ideas, its nature and substance. View it objectively, then move toward contemplating of the mental, or purely conceptual nature of the link. Think of the item as if you were in the place of the object individual. What does He think of this? What ideas does this hold for Him? See the link as an extension of the object individual himself would see it. The next step is to strenghten the link until its existence is as automatic as possible. This is accomplished by brute concentration. The mind is made to operate in harmony with that of the object individual's. With effort and a little time, the mind of the attacker falls into the groove, as it were, in the area concerned with the link. Once this automatic synchronous linking action is obtained, the actual substance of the attack may begin. The energies basic to the nature of the attack are superimposed onto the link. The best energies for the purposes are ones which have some harmony with the link itself. The only limits of degree are those inherent in the attacker. The assualt is as irritating or devastating as the Magickian is weak or strong in the area in which he is operating. A Magickal attack executed along the lines given above has several advantages. Since the attack comes against the object indiviual from a source within him, it evades many, if not all Magickal defences. The source of the damaging energies appears to the object individual to be internal. Familiars do not recognize it as alien and so do not leap to the defence. Also, talismanic protections fail since they need not be passed. Further, owing to the internal nature of the attack, it is hard to detect while in progress. The object individual may sense the same energies but since the source is apparently some part of himself he does not immediately realize the true threat is external. Thus even as his mind itself tries to counter it seeks an origin in the wrong place. Finally, since the nature of the method of attack places the attacker within the object individuals mind, albeit only to a small degree, the attacker may be able to establish a feedback loop. This feedback loop generates energies in harmony with those of the attack, but the point of origin shifts to within the object individual's own mind. This allows the attacker to depart the area, cut the link, and let the attack continue automatically. This feedback loop would ingrain itself in the object individual's mind until its original source and the source of the attack become lost. It eliminates the chance discovery. Also. since the feedback loop would be made by another mind's artifice, the object individual would find it harder to destroy once he found it. As was said before. this is not THE WAY, it is but one. Each individual has his own way of operating, so it is best to find one's own methods. If nothing else, the above may form a guide by which another may forge his own weapons and draw his own plans of attack. L aus F