The Real Meaning of Egregore

The word "Egregore" derives from the Greek word egrégoroi, meaning "watchers," which
also transliterates as "Grigori." The word appears in the Septuagint translation of the Book
of Lamentations, as well as the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch. Even being derived
from the word Grigori, which acquired a somewhat negative aspectation over the time, the
general concept of Egregore is not evil. Gaetan Delaforge, in Gnosis Magazine in 1987,
defines an Egregore as a kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come
together for a common purpose.

When a group of people pray and meditate collectively towards an objective, an Egregore of
protection and blessing is sent forth, as a circle of Light that shields and safeguards the
purpose of the prayers.

Psychologically speaking, an Egregore is that "atmosphere” or "personality" that develops

among groups independent of any of its members. It is the feeling or impression you get
when walking into a neighborhood that “feels different” from the surrounding area, or when
visiting a club or association that has been around for a long time.

In an occult or magical context, an Egregore is a general imprint that encircles a group entity.
It is the summary of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energies generated by two
or more people vibrating together towards the same goal; being a sub-product of our personal
and collective creative process as co-creators of our reality.

An Egregore has developed to the point of attaining an independent existence as an entity

itself or as an intentionally created entity, such as a servitor, that has grown in power well
beyond its original design. To a non-religious practitioner of magic, an Egregore, and a god,
or goddess, would be interchangeable terms. To a religious practitioner, an Egregore would
be just below the level of a god or goddess.

The vast majority of human beings both incarnated and disincarnated are, in one way or form,
connected to an Egregore.

An Egregore (or astral Group mind) can be either negative or positive, depending on the level
of vibration and the frequency. Most of the connections with negative Egregore come from
negative contracts made with physical or astral entities in exchange for power, fame or
material goods. Also, some of these contracts or pacts can come from emotional persecutions,
which at some point was born of the intent to keep the victim under its dominion to the extent
of various earthly and parallel lifetimes. Some of these connections can also be activated
through vices, addictions, and unruled sexual activities. When a soul gets committed to these
types of obscure energies, there is always the tendency to lose vital energy which can result
in the compromise of the monadic essence.

In general, the dominion of the negative Egregore is reaffirmed through artificial implants,
which are limiting devices, which can be of a variety of forms, objectives and done with
diverse possibilities allowed by the molding of astral matter. They are and functions more or
less as thought forms, as holographic projections that may or may not solidify inside of the
etheric bodies.

These devices are dangerous for the various levels of consciousness of incarnated and
disincarnated beings because they are the means from which negative entities from negative
Egregore feed on their vital energies. Progressively, these losses of energy can cause
disturbances in the physical, psychological, emotional, mental and spiritual areas. It is
sometimes hard to identify these implants because, in many cases, they did not originate in
the current lifetime, but in previous ones which can be spontaneously activated if some
subjective memory cells are activated during this incarnational period.

The Egregore is maintained through the mental and psychic energies of its creators and, as an
autonomous entity, it is formed through the persistence and intensities of the current
emotional and mental waves. Weak emotions and feelings tend to create undefined Egregore,
with short life spans. The opposite is also true: big circles are created by strong will,
emotions, and determination of purpose. There is a good Egregore that are positive and that
bring blessings, good energies and protection against negative vibrations.

An Egregore can be personal or collective. The Egregore of the Umbra[1] is comprised of

souls that were negativated by the bodies of desires; they are adepts of vices, drugs, and all
sorts of unnatural sets of behaviors that are not characteristic of the spiritually enhanced
human being. They are the ones that vibrate and maintain the negative collective Egregore. A
person psychically balanced and with positive thoughts creates a very positive, prosperous
and luminous personal Egregore. The same can be said of the opposite behavior. The only
way that one can be rid of a negative Egregore is to affiliate with a stronger positive one.

[1] The umbra, Latin for "shadow", is the darkest part of the shadow, where the light source
is completely blocked by the occluding body. An observer in the umbra experiences a total
eclipse.

Breaking it down into strong sentences of stated intend that only deal with one or two things at a
time. Spreading the intention across too broad a spectrum will dilute its strength and therefore
lower its chance to manifest properly.

For example, "By my Will I posses more and more confidence at every opportunity and be perceived
as such" or "with every challenge my discipline will grow, my Will thus strengthened and it will
show" try to avoid negatives and ending with "so mote it be" or "my will be done" helps to empower
the stated intend.

Your intent, or petition as I call them, should be written in a clear decisive sentence. “I want a new
job,” is fine but “I want a new job in my field that does not require relocation,” is better. The first
sentence can find you having to move across the country, or being flooded with offers that you are
not interested in. The second sentence gives the magick parameters to work within. There are still
ways we could make this petition better, such as by mentioning things like a pay rate or benefits, but
for the purposes of this example, this is fine.
Sigils, servitors and godforms:
Part I
Sigils, servitors and god-forms are three magical techniques that chaos
magicians use to actualize magical intentions. Sigils are magical spells
developed and activated to achieve a specific, fairly well defined and often
limited end. Servitors are entities created by a magician and charged with
certain functions. God-forms are complex belief structures, often held by a
number of people, with which a magician interacts in order to actualize fairly
broad magical intentions. These three techniques are not quite as distinct as
these definitions would suggest, they tend to blur into one another. The
purpose of this essay is to explain these magical tools, indicate their
appropriateness for different types of magical intentions, and show how
these tools relate to the general theories of chaos magick and of Dzog Chen,
a form of Tibetan Buddhism.

Part One: Sigils

1. A Universe neither of Man nor God