The Western Gate

Although these blogs are in the main written works that are not included in that personal grimoire held by any Nomadic watchers commonly, and vulgarly, known as The Book of shadows, below some examples of written works and a video lecture on the same writings. Taken from Devas Sublime Book Four, no extra commentary or analysis has or will be added (with the exception of the sub-titles shown in blue).

The Theory.

This practice begins with the recognition that life unfolds along two intertwined currents. One follows linear cause and effect, where actions lead to predictable outcomes. The other operates through meaning rather than mechanism, revealing itself through coincidence, symbol, and timing that feels significant. What is often called manifestation occurs when these two currents begin to resonate. The aim is not to dominate events, but to bring inner orientation into coherence with this deeper order, allowing life to respond in meaningful ways.

The first movement of the practice is conscious orientation. Desire is treated not as a superficial wish, but as a signal of inner change seeking expression. An intention should be stated clearly, then examined for what it implies about identity. Every genuine desire points toward a way of being, not merely an external result. One must consider whether the fulfilled state represents growth or avoidance. When an intention aligns with deeper psychological movement, it carries energy; when it is driven by fear or imitation, it tends to fragment or stall.

Once orientation is clear, the intention must be impressed beyond rational thought. Deeper layers of the psyche respond not to logic, but to image, emotion, and symbol. For this reason, intention is embodied rather than repeated mentally. This may take the form of imagining oneself within a scene that expresses the fulfilled state, or translating the intention into a simple symbolic act. What matters is emotional authenticity. Feeling acts as the carrier, allowing intention to take root beyond conscious thought.

After this transmission, restraint becomes essential. A common failure of intentional practices lies in the need to monitor and control outcomes. Here, the required discipline is trust rather than effort. Once the intention has been clearly oriented and emotionally impressed, it must be released from constant evaluation. This is not passivity, but non-interference. The stance cultivated is one of quiet inevitability: an underlying sense that something meaningful is already in motion. Doubt, when it arises, is understood as a reflex of the mind’s demand for certainty rather than evidence of failure.

What follows is attentive receptivity. Life responds through coincidence, interruption, repetition, and chance encounter. These events are not instructions, but communications. A conversation that arrives at the right moment, an obstacle that redirects rather than blocks, or a symbol that repeats across unrelated contexts may all carry significance. The task is to notice without grasping. Interpretation should remain provisional, guided by resonance rather than certainty. When an event feels charged—when it seems to require response rather than analysis—action is called for. Such actions often feel slightly irrational, yet precise.

Over time, this exchange forms a feedback loop. Each meaningful response builds confidence grounded in experience rather than belief. Orientation becomes more refined, emotional transmission more economical, and trust less strained. Coincidences may not increase in number, but they gain clarity. One becomes more fluent in the language of timing and symbol, better able to distinguish genuine alignment from anxious projection.

No practice of this kind functions without confronting resistance. When intentions repeatedly stall or unravel near fulfillment, the cause is rarely external. Such patterns often indicate unacknowledged fear or disowned aspects of the self that would be exposed by change. This inward work is not a detour but a condition of progress. Without it, the same conflicts reappear in altered form.

Ultimately, the purpose of this practice is not control, but participation in a meaningful order. Life is not treated as a machine responding to correct inputs, but as a responsive field that communicates through pattern and timing. When intention is clear, emotionally coherent, released from domination, and met with attentive response, one finds less resistance to events. What arrives may not match the imagined form, but it carries the unmistakable sense of rightness that marks true alignment.

The essential question, then, is not whether reality responds, but whether one has learned to listen well enough to recognize the response when it arrives.

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The Philosophy

1. On Income and the Name You Call Yourself
As a man knows himself, so does his wealth know where to rest.
Income settles where the body feels familiar, not where desire points.
The nervous breath guards its threshold and admits only what feels safe.
Therefore do not pursue gold as hunter or beggar—
become the one for whom it arrives as custom.
When the inner voice says not fortune, but order,
the world agrees and rearranges itself.

2. On the Daily Twenty Minutes
Great rivers are carved by returning, not by force.
So too the mind is shaped by what it meets each day.
Sit first and quiet the flesh; let breath remind the body it is not in danger.
Then see—without strain—the state already fulfilled.
Anchor this knowing with word or symbol, and release it.
Thus repetition teaches inevitability,
and inevitability opens the gate.

3. On the Mark Beneath Thought
When speech becomes too heavy, reduce it to sign.
Strip the wish of excess letters until only essence remains.
Charge the mark when the watcher sleeps—
in rhythm, in trance, in the heat of life-force.
Then forget it, as seed forgets soil.
What is planted beneath thought
rearranges action without command.

4. On the Shadow That Hoards or Refuses
What blocks wealth is not error, but unhealed memory.
Fear learned early speaks with the voice of protection.
Sit with it. Ask what it guards.
Let shame, guilt, and loyalty be seen without correction.
When the shadow is welcomed home,
money ceases to be threat or test,
and moves again as current.

5. On the Living Nature of Time
Time is not empty; it listens.
Jupiter opens the hand of growth and lawful gain.
Venus teaches value, pleasure, and the art of receiving.
Choose their days and hours,
when the sky already leans toward increase.
This is not belief but alignment—
sailing with the wind instead of naming it illusion.

6. On the Sudden Turning.
The mind follows images faster than reason.
Replace the old face swiftly with the new,
before doubt can speak.
Do this again and again, with speed and feeling.
Soon the body responds as if it has always known this self.
Habit changes without struggle,
for the watcher has been re-trained.

7. On the Sevenfold Working
Seven days bind intention into form.
Each day bears one task and no confusion.
Begin with clarity, align the self, clear the block,
charge the current, act the symbol, surrender the grip,
and seal what remains.
Continuity collapses doubt.
When focus does not waver,
results follow as echo follows sound.

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The Summary

I. Identity & Wealth
Gold rests where the body consents.
Wealth settles where the self feels normal.

II. The Daily Return
What is met each day becomes law.
What returns daily becomes inevitable.

III. The Sign Beneath Thought
The forgotten mark commands the deepest.
What is planted beneath thought reshapes the world.

IV. Shadow & Release
What is faced no longer guards the gate.
What is faced releases what it guards.

V. Living Time
Work with the hour, and the hour works for you.
Choose the hour that already agrees.

VI. The Turning Image
The mind follows the form shown fastest.
The mind becomes the image it obeys fastest.

VII. The Sevenfold Working
Unbroken focus breaks the world open.
Continuity collapses resistance.

An Example of Praxis

The Witches’ Ladder of Measure and Gain

By knot of one, I bind my worth to what I earn, and claim it as my own.
By knot of two, I bind the daily act that turns intention into form.
By knot of three, I bind the hidden sign to work beneath my sight.
By knot of four, I bind the fear that barred my way and loose it from its fight.
By knot of five, I bind the hour when stars agree and fortune turns my way.
By knot of six, I bind the self I choose to be and cast the old away.
By knot of seven, I bind the work complete and sealed—so done, so grown, so made.

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Header Illustration;- Willem Claesz Heda – Still Life with a Gilt Cup (1635)