06/28/2025
Today, in our circle, we turned our attention to the crystal ball or as I prefer to call it, the crystal sphere. Not a toy, not a gimmick, but a sacred threshold. One of my students asked if the crystal itself is what holds the magick and I smiled. Because the truth is: the sphere is only as powerful as the mind that meets it.
The crystal ball is not magickal in and of itself. Rather, it is the vessel through which the trained imagination - that sacred and disciplined faculty - may contact the astral. The seer does not see in the crystal, but through it, as one might gaze into still water and perceive not the surface, but what stirs below.
Let none approach the art of scrying who have not first made friends with silence. For it is in stillness that the sphere speaks, not with sound, but with symbol, vision, and knowing. And woe to the unprepared mind for the astral is a mirror too, and it will return to you whatever chaos you carry within. The Qabalists say that every plane reflects the one above it and so too does the sphere reveal the hidden architecture of the soul.
When used with intention, purity, and proper ritual preparation, the crystal ball becomes a beacon. Through it, one may receive impressions from the inner planes, messages from guides, glimpses of past lives, or symbols that must be unraveled like a sacred text. But it is always the subconscious, that priestess of the temple within who brings forth the vision.
And so I say: approach the crystal not with expectation, but reverence. Consecrate it. Guard it. Do not seek spectacle, but truth.
Then shall the mists part, and the unseen will rise to meet you.
