The Devil’s Bargain
I’m finally able to share some insight into this mysterious term based on some recent personal experiences. I’ve mentioned elsewhere that anything below the Great Abyss tends to a “one step forward and one step backward” energy dynamic where very little is really gained. One can have the illusion of making progress but in reality a gain in one area of life is often at the cost of a loss in another area.
After crossing the Great Abyss true unity exists and the resolution of paradox at the highest level. It becomes the work of the Magus to master the powers of duality and make every action a movement toward the desired goal.
This is made more complex by the nature of the astral universe itself. Put simply astral creations are normally applied to a future life time and not to this one. The average person moves along a life thread that was created before they were born and exists as a personal destiny. Trying to add or subtract anything of consequence from this life thread is extremely difficult.
It is this energy dynamic that has led to the religious concept of “suffering in this life” and “reaping the rewards of a good life in heaven”. This is also applied to the concept of karma and how our life experiences have been brought upon us through consequences of our past actions.
This makes normal life a bit tricky. Hard physical effort toward a goal might bring us that goal but as a consequence bring a loss in a different area of life. The energy we generate working for the good things in life applies to things that are always out of reach and resist physical manifestation unless accompanied by some balancing loss.
The Magus creates in the astral a life that he or she wishes to experience. This is created out of the magickal energy that he or she generates and channels. The Magus starts at the highest astral levels and gradually works downward toward the earth. These efforts are met with resistance from other magicians and astral combat is the normal means to resolve differences or antimonies as they are sometimes called.
They are met with resistance because the astral creation of the Magus resists becoming physical reality and blocks the physical manifestations of other magicians by entangling and disrupting astral energy lines within the earth’s energy grid.
There is a master energy pattern, paradigm or egregore that determines how the astral energies must flow and the new Magus is attempting to alter that circuitry. To make a long story short a compromise must be reached between the forces of the old energy pattern and the new Magus or the stalemate will never be broken. It is this compromise that is called “the Devil’s bargain”.
In my case the OAK egregore took years to build and develop one astral layer at a time against sometimes violent opposition. It has only been this last Winter Solstice that the astral current began flowing heavily through the OAK circuitry. I could sense the massive energy surge as it hit the astral cords and traveled through them at full strength. For years I have struggled to manifest some physical results and a lighter burden in life. Financial weakness and poverty has dogged me my entire life and I wanted something better! Not that much really, a job that I loved, a nice home, nice car and a good marriage relationship. Every single gain has been against tremendous opposition as if every stone was turned against me. Little by little as my power advanced my abilities grew stronger and the resistance began to grudgingly give way.
The old energy pattern that I have struggled with is the Kaballah and its representatives or masters are the International banking community. To say this another way I struggled to create a financially secure life for myself in the astral and it stubbornly resisted physical manifestation. As I injected more and more energy into the astral the stresses became more severe and the energies locked together in a stalemate.
Essentially the Initiates of the old system/eon were demanding that I play their game and comply with their rules. I was magickally stating that there was a new game in town called OAK and they needed to comply with my rules. We were blocked in a severe no win situation that dragged on and on for years. This is something that happens to every new Magus.
I kept pumping energy into the astral and filling it up as much as I could. After almost twenty years of pumping energy into the astral a critical point was reached where a compromise could be made. Metaphorically it was as if I was living in California and needed to go to New York but my way was blocked so I went west instead by way of Japan crossing both oceans until I arrived in New York by going the long way around. Symbolically that is what happened I went the long way around and gained entrance to the old egregore by “right of might” and not by “right of initiation”.
The OAK egregore demands that only those willing to generate effort are authorized results. The old egregore demands tight financial control on a personal basis. By going around the “wrong way” I was able to make the “Devil’s Bargain”. I agreed to comply with modern financial restrictions such as living by a budget and paying massive gasoline prices if they agreed to physically generate as much personal energy on a daily basis as I did. This was a “Devil’s Bargain” because I was agreeing to submit to their monetary authority and I was also committing my life to a constant need of generating as much energy as I have been. If I continue to work as hard as I have been I will magickally draw money to me.
Because I made this “bargain” by “right of might” I was also committing them to the need to generate as much physical energy on a daily basis as I do. The contract was made to function only at a high energy level. If they failed to physically generate the needed energy they would lose money because the merger of the old and new OAK system required hard personal effort. Every new Magus must at some point reach their own “Devil’s Bargain” if they wish to achieve the physical manifestation of their astral creations.
The new merged egregore demands both conformance to International Banking restraints and controls and hard personal effort that is more demanding than the old eon. Still it is more fair and just because hard work does deserve reward and small effort does not. Each new Magus will modify this system with their own additions and demands as they in turn create their own “Devil’s Bargain”.
