I have been working with NAP in various ways since October. Back in September I presented a talk about Agrippa here in the UK. Apart from being an enjoyable day, two further good things happened to me: 1) I was told about this website. It was described to me as the best magical forum on the net…and I reckon they were right. 2) By coming here I remembered about NAP.
I had been interested in buying the book for around two years, but the prices of the book were very pricey, and I was in a cash dip at the time. I had logged the details on a memory stick which then stopped working so I could no longer remember the name of the author of the book or the book title!
After being prompted by this site I found a reasonably priced copy and set to work. I must say I am impressed by this system. I was already familiar with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and the Middle Pillar, but it was the chants and the Point A Ritual that really got my juices going.
The method I use is based on the book but not really identical to the book. I sit with my back to Arzel rather than face her/him. I simply sit in a chair and read aloud the Point A Ritual and then chose one or more of the chants. I have found that I drawn to more than one chant sometimes to tackle one problem from a number of aspects. This works fine for me.
I discovered that the best way for me to work with all the spirits of this book was to ask them to locate their points of reference in my body and charge them. What I mean by this is that, as a microcosm of the macrocosm I must have aspects of this spirits in my mind/body etc, and by exchanging a charge with the spirit I can become a talisman for the objective I seek/desire rather than sending the spirit off to do my will. In other words I draw to me the changes I want.
I would like to share two successes I have had with the spirit Elubatel, continuing the theme of the message above.
Back in October I was required to attend a meeting in a town some 20 miles away. I don’t drive and had positioned myself geographically to be able to get to a number of our offices but not all. To get to the office I needed to go to, I would have to walk 6 miles in the early hours (not a problem), then try and catch an early bus in a village to get to a town to make a connection to the town I needed. This involved (typical for the UK) going 11 miles in the wrong direction.
I was particularly apprehensive as I do not get on well with my boss and wanted to make damn sure I was there. So I got up and did my usual morning ritual and included the invocation to Elubatel.
The spirit reassured me that I would make the bus on time and all my travel arrangements would be perfect. I was worried that there was only two minutes between one connection.
So off I went for the first leg of the journey….my torch failed on a main road lol. I was not sure that I was going to make the first connection. However, I arrived in a village still some 4 miles outside of the first village I needed reach to catch the bus as advertised.
Coming the other way, the wrong way, was the first bus! I signalled to the driver and he completely ignored me. A wave of panic overtook me, but I reminded myself how adamant Elubatel had been. Sure enough the bus turned around and stopped to pick me up, four miles near home at a stop and time not advertised on the website.
However, the price for the ticket I needed had gone up. Being in a tight financial situation at that particular time I was concerned that I did not have the money. I put my hand in my pocket and found the exact amount of money needed to buy an unlimited day ticket. I got to the bus station and made my connection comfortably within the two minutes as the bus I was on parked next to the bus I needed to get on. I arrived early for the meeting, spoke at the meeting and even got the support of my not so friendly boss.
I left and walked on to a bus and was on my way home when I got the vibe to get off at the next town. If I did get off I would still be some distance from home with no connection, but the feeling persisted and I felt a connection to Elubatel. The spirit informed me that there would be transport all the way home but I needed to get off at the next town and go and see a friend who recently moved back to the area. According to Elubatel, there would be a visitor at my friend’s house with a car. Sure enough there was. In fact both my friends were formally in an old magical group with me some 10 years previously and were just talking about me as I rang the doorbell. I had not seen one of the friends for around 5 years. We did an impromptu working and later after food I was driven to my door as Elubatel had said.
The second time I worked with this spirit has been over the last couple of weeks. I have some money invested in a scheme that I have had a feeling I should cash in. For various reasons which would be too complicated to go into, it made sense to opt out and ask for the balance to be sent to my bank so I could use the money over Christmas. All went smoothly until just before Mercury went retrograde on the 10th. Having made the arrangements to have the money transferred back in November I saw no reason why this would present problems. But something was nagging at the back of my mind. So I called on Elubatel and he/she informed me all was not well and in fact some important bits of information where not known to me. Sure enough I had been misinformed about the process and the company had not given me the correct form to fill in to access my money. To process this new form would take a further 25 working days at least, which to due having paid out for a major repair to my home, would mean I would have no money to live on over the Christmas period. I felt down to say the least.
As I walked back to my house I suddenly felt different about the situation and it came to me to go home, clean the house, feed the animals, bathe and perform the ritual associated with Elubatel. Through the Tarot Elubatel informed me I would have the money I needed but not from an expected source and the key to my success would be to adopt the attitude of the spirit.
Back at work the following day, from out of the blue, a friend who I had been out of contact with for a short while, but in the past worked on a few projects with, sent me an e-mail asking me if I would like some money! Obviously this was a loan, but I would have the money to cover what I needed easily and shortly have the cash to pay him back. The e-mail came without any prompt. In fact this was not the only offer of support I had.
The interesting thing about all of this is, like the previous message by [V], there are things which let me know that Elubatel is on the case, and they for me, are all to do with transport. The day after the invocations and the day of the e-mails etc of support it throw it down with snow. I got into work but the buses were no longer running which meant a 10 mile walk home in dangerous conditions. Again I received advice “go to the bus station”, this was nuts, no buses were running. I did go, and a driver was about to leave to go home and offered me a lift all the way back to my village. Back in the village, I went to the shop and bought some bread, came out and was offered another lift to my house by a driver who just stopped on a dangerous and icy junction, like he was compelled. I pointed out this was not necessary as my house was literally yards away, but he insisted. As I got out of the car my inner voice said “Does this seem familiar?”
It does seem that this spirit likes to do patterns of things to let you know he/she is working.
A side note before I end. Through reading the threads here I have noticed that Geof Gray-Cobb changed his mind over his approach to these spirits, changing from a commanding stance to a more reverential stance. I myself perform the more commanding invocation and then when the spirit has made contact I bless the spirit as a child of God and thank the Divine for its creation and office…this seems to work.
Lastly, when invoking Elubatel, when I come to the communion/mediation point I get a sense of someone being in the room, and if my eyes are closed I can actually sense where he/she is standing and sense them move, just like you would with a physical person as the spirit blocks out light momentarily as they move around the room.
Kind regards,
D