About Traeonna A. R. Wagener Expertise I am a Suitheist who has been practicing magick since 1984. I am willing to answer questions about magickal entity creation, divination (specifically dice, coins, and runes), sigilization, aromagicks, magick (in general), and Suitheism (in general) as these are some of my areas of expertise. Although not my areas of expertise, I have an intermediary understanding of magickal/ritualistic body modification, sex magick, and chaos magick and would be willing to discuss what I know of those subjects. I have a background starting/reorganizing occult teaching/discussion groups, so I would be willing to discuss that topic as well. Since I only have rudimentary knowledge of such or it is not my area of expertise, I DO NOT answer questions about Wicca, Asatru, Druidism, Modern Satanism and other such religions or spiritual paths, love magick (or any magick involving personal relationships), astral projection, tarot (and forms of divination not listed as an expertise area), past lives, astrology, and anything else not listed as an expertise area. If I receive such questions, most of the time I will respond with "I cannot answer this as it is outside of my expertise."
Experience
Background I have been practicing since 1984, became an ordained minister in 1999, and was licensed in the State of Ohio to solemnize marriages in 2001. My family's spiritual tradition is called Akaeris (so I'm an Akaerin) and is Suitheistic in nature.
Publications/Public Speaking Book: Creating Magickal Entities: A Complete Guide To Entity Creation (Co-Author) [Egregore Publishing] Booklet: Aromagicks [out of print] Booklet: Basic Herbcraft [out of print] Booklet: Sigil Basics [out of print] Online Articles: Various Speech: University of Toledo EarthFest 2002 - Earth-Based Spirituality
I have several questions for you... In first place, forgive my poor english, since I´m not educated in this language, in fact I am a brazillian guy who know the elementary notions of your language.
I will separate each and every question in order to make things easier for you, and allow my better understandment. Ok?
Feel free to contact me if you need to know anything about myself... I´m at your disposal.
a) What is Suitheist? What doest it mean?
b) Is it possible to invoke or stabilish a conversation with entities of other worlds/dimensions? How does it works, where are they, who are they?
c) What are demons and angels?
d) Have you ever heard about Mr. James Randi? He offers 1 million dolars to anyone who can prove be able to make anything paranormal or magical.. Why anyone challenges him?
e) What is magick? Is it possible to predict the future?
f) Do you think it´s possible to manipulate reality? i mean, sorry, but I´t possible to create fire or to cross wall, be in two different places at the same time, stay invisible cast a disease on someone, etc...?
g) Do you reccomend any specific readings for a starter like myself? i seach only to discover the truth, to know what lies beneath the illusory world.
h) What is Satanism? Who are they, what do they want? Why worship Satan?
i) Who is satan?
j) How many gods do exist?
Thanks in advance for your help, sorry my lack of knowledge, and i would be very happy to hear from you soon!
I hope we can talk from time to time.. My msn is fabiovictol@hotmail.com be my guest!
Truly yours,
Fabio.
Answer Greetings Fabio!
I apologize for the delay. I was out of town and was unable to answer this sooner. Your English is easily understood by me, so please do not worry, I understand you.
a) What is Suitheist? What doest it mean?
A Suitheist is person who believes themselves to be a god, but does not deny the existence of other gods. The term was coined by David Michael Cunningham and Traeonna Amanda R. Wagener (co-authors of the book Creating Magickal Entities) in 2001 (although the term had been used prior starting in 1998) when they were unable to find a 'theism' to describe their principles of belief and others like them. Sui ("of oneself") comes from Latin, and theism (belief in the existence of a god or gods) from Greek.
The term autotheism has been used to mean the same thing in English since 1619. However, some find this confusing since the term has been used in the Christian context to mean "belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ." Other definitions of autotheism are, "the soul becomes identical with God," "becoming wholly one with god," "belief in self-subsistence of God the Son," and "heresy that Jesus is God in Himself independent of the Godhead." Seeing that Pagans, Neo-Pagans, and Satanists do not tend to identify with the Christian god, the term autotheism would seem incorrect to use. However, the term autotheism may be preferred over suitheism by etymological purists, since it comes from Greek words rather than partly from Latin and partly from Greek.
b) Is it possible to invoke or stabilish a conversation with entities of other worlds/dimensions? How does it works, where are they, who are they?
Yes, it is possible although I do not personally use this technique as I do not like working with established entities as I believe they come with too much “baggage.” I prefer to create my own entities to work with. Invocation of established entities is not my expertise area. You may want to check out some books by Donald Michael Kraig or Konstantinos as I know both have written about this topic.
c) What are demons and angels?
I personally don't really study existing entities such as demons, angels, and the like. Exisiting entities really aren't my expertise area, creating ones are. Again, may I suggest reading the aforementioned authors books for more information regarding it.
d) Have you ever heard about Mr. James Randi? He offers 1 million dolars to anyone who can prove be able to make anything paranormal or magical.. Why anyone challenges him?
No, I have never heard of Mr. James Randi. I don't know why anyone would accept his challenge to prove anything. My personal beliefs are that I don't have to prove anything to anyone but myself. I could care less what someone like Mr. Randi would think. But this is me, others may need validation.
e) What is magick? Is it possible to predict the future?
It is my personally understanding that magick is the knowledge and craft of causing change in the universal spiritual energy that surrounds us, both internally and externally. It is used in compliance with a person's own true will, using means that are not currently understood by traditional science. Magick is understanding and employing the principles to make manifest one's wishes or needs.
Magick is a hidden door that leads out of the conformity known as modern society. It opens on a new awareness of the world where dreams can happen and where human actions have meaning. It opens on hope and purpose. Through magick the world can be changed by changing the fundamental nature of the self and the relation of the self to the world.
When someone alters themselves, they change the world in a real sense. The world is created by every individual, from moment to moment, within the mind, from the substance of the mind. This act of creation occurs below the surface of consciousness. Magick allows people to gain access to the levels that create their world so that they can control the pattern of the creative process.
Magick permits humans to wrest control over the state of the world and their place in it. The ultimate goal of magick is the fulfillment of personal destiny. The whole focus of magick is directed at changing the world through the application of will. To cause such transformation, whether for higher or lower ends, is the purpose of magick. The most profound and useful change is the transformation of the self, and thus the world, so that the highest and best possibilities of the self are realized in the world. This is the fulfillment of destiny.
The potential of magick extends far beyond materialism. It can not only give someone what they think that they want now, but can make them want something entirely different that they never before valued in the least. This is the true power of magick, at the same time awesome and terrifying.
As to predicting the future. I believe that one can use divination to see what choices they have ahead of them, however, it is their choice which choice to make and therefore, a clear and defined future can never be predicted as the future changes with every action you take. Your future yesterday is different from your future today.
f) Do you think it´s possible to manipulate reality? i mean, sorry, but I´t possible to create fire or to cross wall, be in two different places at the same time, stay invisible cast a disease on someone, etc...??
I believe people can manipulate their own reality, but this is on a more psychological level. If you are talking about manipulating the group reality, I don't really have a good answer to that. I would like to think all things are possible in some reality. This is really dependant on your own personal beliefs on such.
g) Do you reccomend any specific readings for a starter like myself? i seach only to discover the truth, to know what lies beneath the illusory world.
Are you looking for more information on magick and the practice of it? I'm not sure exactly what you may be interested in. Once I know that, I can make appropriate recommendations.
h) What is Satanism? Who are they, what do they want? Why worship Satan?
You may wish to check out these URLs to read an article about Satanism.
