Greetings. I’m in a mood. I’ve read (yet again) how some “Occultists” decided they wanted to hang out in a cemetery/grave yard so they could ‘evoke’ NPE’s (re: Non-Physical Entities). Ugh!

If there is nothing more pathetic than Pagans acting like morons it’s well read Occultists acting like morons! Hanging out in a cemetery after dark? Um isn’t that illegal? Yes it is! And yes you may need privacy to evoke an NPE/Spirit but folks, there’s little reason to do it in a cemetery! If you need that sort of privacy, try a wooded area or try it on a hillside out in the moonlight away form the city out in the countryside.

First off most Occultists are ignorant of the implications of fookin’ around with the Dead. Necromancy is a practice better left to those with some friggin intelligence & common sense. I don’t’ give a damn if you’re pretending to be a vampire, vampyre or however you spell it, for a few days or a few years, it’s moronic & foolish to go playing aroundwith the Dead unless you’ve been trained in working with them.

Secondly, usually playing in cemeteries is what dufus teenagers do, not adults. I was taught to respect the Dead, even as a child, and left cemeteries & graveyards alone during my formative years (let alone my Occult ones.) Would you want some drunk half-wit sitting on your grave marker once you’re six feet under? Bad enough squirrels will plant acorns & shit on your grave but to have some pimple faced putz out there urinating on himself & dancing around with his friends in a circle… Oy!

Finally, yes there are ATR practitioners who get into cemeteries at night to collect items. Legitimate ones normally don’t have to do stuff at night. I don’t. I do my work in the daylight because my Spirits protect me. Hell I was doin’ some work out in plain sight in the front of the cemetery one day and a city cop cruised right on by while I was working like he didn’t see me. (wink) There are houses to the sides & across the street of this particular cemetery (it’s in town) and yet no one saw me at 10:00 a.m. of the day.

You see, if you’re meant to be there, then you’ll be protected by the Dead themselves. If not, however, well.

Why is this important? Because 99.9% of the knowledge people know about the cemetery & the Dead is all bullshit. Most of it made-up by some half-wit Occultist sitting in his parent’s basement, in his easy chair, on the Net reading his Agrippa. Um sorry bub, but ol’ Agrippa was not wise when it came to the Dead. He may have known his Angels, Astrology, Timings & what-not, but when it comes to the Dead, the stuff that mainstream Occulitsts are relying on is bunk.

Hell, the methods that Hoodooers (like that word? I just now made it up!) use to gather Graveyard Dirt are bullshit. Got that? Bullshit as in manure from the anus of a bull. Garbage. Caca. In other words, nonsense. Funny thing is, most of these yahoos are using techniques & methods from so-called ‘authorities’ on Hoodoo, RootWork & other half-assed ATR practices that they’re getting themselves into big trouble & then later do not understand ‘why so much negativity is attracted to them’.

Um genius, it’s simple: Stay the hell out of the grave yards & cemeteries unless you’ve been taught by a competent Necromancer or Geude practitioner on how to gather Graveyard Dirt accurately Either that or if you’ve been duly initiated & your Head Spirit knows how to correctly collect the dirt from graves.

WHY is this so important? Because you can attract the attention of the Dead – a ghost(s) – who will follow you home & screw with your head OR worse, enter your head & seriously screw you up. And if you think your HGA or some other Spirit is going to protect you? Well, Mighty One, understand that your HGA SHOULD know how to properly gather such dirt (that is IF your HGA is legit!).

From what I’ve read from such people who claim to know how to collect Graveyard Dirt, they’re way off base. Am I going to tell? Hell no! It’s part of my tradition to know how to do that & I’m under oath not to discuss that unless it’s with someone of my House. Otherwise forget it.

Ceremonial MagicKians need to stay OUT of the cemetery & keep their nose in ther little grimoires Dr. Dee studies & leave the serious workings in the graveyards to knowledgeable people who know how to work safely in those environments.

When I worked with Tiriel, the Intelligence of Mercury, I learned quite a bit about Necromancy from Him. Mercury, as Hermes, is the Psychopompos who leads the Dead to the River Styx. There they meet Charon the ferryman & barter with coins to pay their way across to the Elysian Fields or Hades.

Tiriel taught me a great deal & I’ve verified that what He taught me was accurate since coming into the Haitian Vodu tradition. I work Guinen so yes I can work with the Dead as well as any of the LWA because I’m also a Houngan Asogwe. But there’s people out there running around taking people into cemeteries who have no right to be there & fiddle-fookin’ around. That’s only going to attract unwanted attention, folks.

If you want to gain the admiration of the Dead – but that does NOT mean they’ll want to work with you – then spend some time in your family’s cemetery & clean up your Ancestor’s graves. Plant some flowers, clean the markers & so on.Respect the Dead. Your Ancestors will appreciate it & it will help to endear you to them.

Ceremonial & tHe ChAoS MagicKians all should stay the hell out of the gravyard. It’s sacred. It’s for people & loved ones at rest. It’s for those who’re trained on the proper procedures & protocols of working in a cemetery, not for thrill seeking wannabes to go traipsing around in ritual regalia speaking in Enochian to call up the Spirit of Aunt Petunia. How pathetic is that???.

Wanna make a difference in your life with the Dead? Go have a mass sung for them at your local Catholic church. Set up a shrine to them & give them a weekly offering. That’s all with the Dead YOU need to bother with. Stay the hell OUT of cemeteries (at least in a Magic/K or Occult manner) and let the professionals do in cemeteries what we have to do when we have to work with the Dead.

In fact, if someone is really legit in Necromancy, they don’t have to go to the gravyard to work with the Dead. They can get the Dead to come to them wherever they are! Now there may be times they have to go to their local cemetery to do something but for the most part, we don’t have to go to the cemetery to get one of the Dead to do our bidding. But when we have to, we know the PROPER protocols & standard operating procedures of our traditions that allow us safe passage in & out of a cemetery let alone how to collect dirt.

If you elect to ignore this advice & get yourself into trouble, then suffer. Lie in your own iniquity & deal with it on your own. Summon your HGA – you know the one you didn’t gain thru the Abramelin Rite? – and ask It how to get your arse out of the fire. Don’t come asking me beause I’m going to laugh at your foolishness.

In closing, try to use some of that gray matter that splits your eyes & keep out of cemeteries after dusk. If you want to pretend you’re a vampyre, wizard or witch, go watch some old Horror flicks & order pizza or play some Vampire the Masquerade game. Oh and speaking of which, kids, the info in those role play games for working with the Dead, gathering graveyard dirt & so on is all utter nonsense. It may sound legit but trust me it’ll do little more than get a ghostly foot shoved up your ass and you don’t want that to happen! So heed my advice, O true believer.