The 
 everyday path to your holy guardian angel a study on the holy guardian angel Content P R E FA C E 3 C H A P T E R 1 : O V E R V I E W 5 C H A P T E R 2 : T R U S T 1 0 C H A P T E R 3 : J O Y 1 8 C H A P T E R 4 : D A R K N E S S 3 0 C H A P T E R 5 : R E A L I Z AT I O N 4 0 © Copyright © 2011 by Frater Acher | www.theomagica.com All rights reserved. This eBook can be shared and distributed freely in its complete PDF format. However, no portion or quotes taken out of context may be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the expressed written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. ii preface "It is necessary also that you should fully understand how you ought to enjoy these immense riches, so that they may not be in your hands unfruitful, or even harmful." (Book Abramelin) “Genuine Initiates do not grasp for powers they are unqualified to use beneficially, but they do seek to extend their capacity for rightdoing, so whatever power comes to them will be properly applied.”  (William Gray, Inner Traditions of Magic) To achieve knowledge and conversation with our Holy Guardian Angel there are manyfold ways. Some of them are shorter than others and most of them have been forgotten today.  What all of them have in common though is that they require you to work on yourself first; only then do you encounter another higher being. The focus of work moves from inward to outward. The raw stone has to be finished first before it can shift into the space that has been left empty for it in the temple. Our journey towards communion with our Holy Guardian Angel is a journey towards fulfilling, towards becoming what we are meant to be. That is what our HGA is assigned to support us on and if we want to connect to it consciously that is the journey we have to dedicate ourselves to. Thus we have to transform our embodied personality from an obstacle in the work of our HGA to a partner and co-creator. Achieving this is the first step in a long journey, not the finishing line. On the following pages I am sharing a path to achieve this goal. This path is based on my personal experience first and foremost and anyone setting out to walk it all the way will need to adjust it according their personal lives and needs. My iii main motivation for sharing these instructions is to reconnect the experience of our Holy Guardian Angel with our everyday lives. Rather than in isolation or remote desert valleys this work can take place in the middle of cities, in villages, in kitchens, on car parks and in pubs together with friends and families. It does require periods of isolation indeed; yet the tools to shape ourselves aren’t hidden in secret temples yet under the surface of the choices we make everyday. To navigate the path's chapters just use the menu in the right sidebar. Should you have any comments, feedback or questions please get in touch via the contact form in  the left sidebar. May the serpent bite its tail. LVX, Frater Acher iv C HAPTER 1 the everyday path to your hga overview “We do not have enough power at our own disposal to do anything very wonderful." (William Gray, Inner Traditions of Magic) 1. ON THE EVERYDAY PATH
 What is the everyday path to your Holy Guardian Angel (HGA)? Simply put - it might be the shortest one to achieve knowledge and conversation with your HGA. Yet, at the same time it might also be the most demanding one. The positive aspect is that in theory it could be achieved in a single moment, in literally no time at all. Because this path is not about who you are inside, but  how  you behave on the outside everyday. The harder aspect is that achieving such behavior will require most of us to shift and change our entire personalities in no insignificant way. That is why courage has to be the starting point of this path. What is really important to understand before we start out is the following: you yourself are the interface through which communion with your HGA will ultimately be achieved or not. Your angel is ready for communion and has been since your birth. So it is not on him that you have to work but on yourself. It's the interface between your angel and the world that has to be refined and that is your personality, or the person you think you are today. 5 Once this is achieved the only maintenance work is to keep this channel clear of anything that could clutter it again. 2. A SIMPLE METAPHOR
 Many people have asked: What is the actual relationship between my HGA and myself? Well, here is a simple metaphor I would like to introduce to illustrate this relationship. Imagine a doctor that has a really difficult disease to cure. The disease is hidden in the body of the patient and as he cannot kill the patient to just cut out the disease the approach has to be subtle yet determined and effective. Thus the doctor choses to insert a fine tube into the body of the patient. Attached to the end of the tube are a camera as well as a min-laser. The recorded images from the body of the patient are sent through the tube to a screen on which the doctor looks while operating. The beginning of this operation was the point of your first incarnation, the end of the operation will be your last. The camera at the end of the tube is yourself, the doctor is your HGA, the patient is the physical plane you are incarnating into. Now, what do we take from this? First of all, there is no need for the HGA to 'talk' to the camera at the end of the tube. He is in control of it already. Even if they never see each other their 'relationship' is perfectly fine, it just 'works'. Second, the only thing the doctor needs the camera to do is to 'record', to point the laser and to follow the lead he is giving. Third, emotions don't play a role here. It doesn't matter if what the camera records is pleasant or unpleasant according to the subjective perspective of the camera. The only job is to explore the body of the patient to be able to operate on it successfully. Fourth, if the camera had a conscious of it own and started to act independently from the lead of the doctor it would mess up the operation big 6 time and for certain: Because the camera has no idea where it is, why it was put there and how deliberate actions to safe something much bigger than herself are acted out through it.  So what does that tell us about the nature of the process of gaining knowledge and conversation with our HGA? It tells us that there are few operating principles we just have to accept in order to be successful: It is not a process that is necessary in any way for completion of a successful operation. Yet, under the right condition it can be beneficial to a positive outcome. This condition would be if the quality of the interplay between doctor and camera could actually be increased by giving the camera more consciousness of the process it is involved in. This again means we need to be prepared to listen much more once we are connected to our HGA - and talk much less. It also means the 'True Will' of the camera actually is the will of the doctor. And the camera has to accept that it doesn't have the processing power to understand everything the doctor knows or intends to do. The camera can become a better version of itself, a more sophisticated tool; yet it can never turn into the doctor. That's just the way it is. Traditional approaches to achieve this goal such as the Abramelin process are completely fine and a wonderful alternative to the path I will lay out. From the above it is clear that the doctor doesn't really care how the camera turns into a better version of itself - he only cares about how clean the image is it is displaying as well as how finely tuned the reactions of its laser can become to his intent...  So while approaches such as Abramelin are working well based on my personal experience I am convinced they can be significantly simplified. My own journey took me more than 14 years, was in many ways similar to the Abramelin rite - yet not identical - and it's only looking back that I can connect the dots and see all the detours I took... My goal for this series of articles is to simplify the approach down to a point where we leave away all 7 decorations and additions and get down to business straight away: That is the essential work on the raw stone - or camera for lack of a better metaphor. Because once this is achieved no fancy rituals are necessary to talk to your angel. He is talking to you already. At this point you will just be able to listen to him and observe the process he is working on and through you. And in order to get there fast yet painfully I think I can give some very pragmatic, essential and simple tips. Pain and lots of change, however, will be part of the journey. 3. OVERVIEW OF THE WORK
 So let's get started. I am suggesting five simple phases to pass through. Their sequence might depend slightly on where you are today - feel free to be playful, find out and adjust their order. However, all five steps play a vital role and need to be experienced in depth as part of the full process. Here are the steps to be taken:  Trust - is built by the courage to become visible as what you are today Joy - is experienced by approaching in spirit what you aspire to become Darkness - is essential to dissolve what you have built in desperation Realization - is experienced by fulfilling your true desire in humbleness Readiness - is the state you are in once you have become free of yourself In this small book I am describing very specific approaches to explore the first four phases of this work. The fifth and final one is up to you to discover for yourself once you get there. In writing this book I felt it was important to keep its language and instructions as straightforward and simple as possible. This is not the place nor time to hide actual important work behind veils of alchemical images or thick clouds of incense. If you want to play, play. If you want to achieve knowledge and conversation with your HGA be prepared to work. What I hope to present is raw, pure, essential work - stripped off any romanticism, 8 mysticism or lodge affairs. Why? Because your angel is a raw, pure, essential reality - simply on a different realm. So let's mirror this in our work: walking this path is not about our personal dreams, desires or preferences, it is about the work that has to be done. Nothing else. And that is to make your personality as open and permeable for the voice of your angel as it needs to be. As it needs to be for your angel can to talk to and through you in a better and more meaningful way. Because this work will include a lot of letting-go, a lot of tears for sure and teeth grinding as well and many losses of what you thought you are or needed for sure - it is essential to start this journey with an attitude of joyfulness. Joy is just the second step on the journey - let's do some teeth grinding first - but to me it is the most important one of all. A joyful place is waiting for us - and to get there the first step is to trust it actually exists.  One more note before we start: As a guardian of this work I have chosen an image of a statue of the Greek-Egyptian Agathos Daimon in his serpent form. The direct translation of his name is 'noble spirit' (as opposed to the Kakodaimon, the 'evil spirit').  The Agathos Daimon is one of the earliest version of cult images of a personal spirit companion. Thus it is wonderful iconic evidence of the ancient tradition we are continuing in this work. And while the practices of the Greeks and Romans to create communion with their Agathos Daimon might have looked slightly different their essential goal was the same: to spiritualize the matter of humans so they can become better agents in materializing spirit 9