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'This ā€œpossessionā€ seemed a little different, though. Most notably, for some reason I was stuttering wildly as I tried to talk—a problem I’ve never had. It seemed like this was an expression of a different demon inhabiting me than the ones I’d lived with for years.

I still had to get through the day, though, and for whatever reason, more article assignments were coming in faster than usual. I didn’t have time right now to spend hours engaging in ceremonial magick again, especially doing something that would leave me exhausted.

Very worried about me, Sally took Jasmine outside, as a dog regularly demands, saying pointedly that maybe I’d feel better when they came back in. Feeling sick, I could only mutter, ā€œokay."

Then, sitting here at my desk in the living room, where I’m sitting now as I type this, I decided to try something easier than the experience of being tortured to death.

I grabbed my large metal ankh again that I’d use to summon Thoth. This one:

I gripped the ankh tightly, as though on a roller coaster, and I yelled out, ā€œThoth, I invoke thee! Thoth, I invoke thee! Help me! Free me of this demon!ā€

And then the giant bird-headed man who towered over me showed up again. He seemed casual, as though this were no big deal: just a minor ailment that he, as the god of medicine, knew how to handle.

And then he did what he had done previously when I invoked him. He reached his beak down and ate both of my eyeballs. This then ā€œopened my third eyeā€ in the middle of my forehead. He then reached his beak down through that and pulled out what seemed like a big worm. He swallowed it like it was nothing and grinned at the opportunity for a midday snack.

I saw this as I had seen all such experiences: in my mind's eye. But I felt a very real rush of relief nevertheless, and returned back to the self I’d been before going out to get those damn library books on Wednesday. In fact, I felt fantastic. By invoking Thoth, I had not only gotten rid of the demon, but now took on his own qualities, myself. I started laughing and rose from my desk to dance around the room, shocked that it had, once again, been so ā€œeasyā€ to cast out a dark force that had tried to get me to kill myself.'

The beginning of this makes it sound like you got possessed by a worse demon, though. What "seemed to be a big worm" was also probably not. Why would Thoth eating it turn you into something more like Thoth? That was probably the kundalini snake or something imo. Disclaimer: I don't cast spells and do ceremonial magick, I just know of a few esoteric ideas.

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