In more detail.
1. Karma. Everyone rushes to cleanse their karma: there is so much negativity, it must be cleared away. Yes, that is true, it should be. But cleansing without doing the inner work is only a temporary measure, because the source has not been removed. You need to become aware of your karma and then look for its source, and so on. Cleansing by itself is secondary: either it is individual and involves working through the issue, or it is temporary.
To “cleanse karma” properly, you must go deep into the problem and find its source. Whether you then work with it through a ritual or through katathymic imagery is not important.
2. Obsessing over karma is itself karma. You turn the inevitable—karma—into a problem. Trying to avoid bad karma is nonsense bordering on madness! And here is the question: what should count as bad or good? Suppose you get the flu, recover, and develop immunity. Later an epidemic comes, and you get through it more easily because you have acquired immunity to a similar virus. Initially, the illness was negative, and you thought of it as punishment. But when the epidemic arrived, was that earlier illness really a bad thing? It is the same with everything: we assign meanings to things ourselves, and karma is also a product of our meanings. That is why there is no need to dwell on karma as such.
3. Problems that you try to shift onto karma do not get resolved. The problem with today’s understanding of karma is its consumerist character. It is not a solution; it creates yet another problem. You transfer responsibility for your inner difficulties to karmic laws. Oh, how great is the person who has decided they understand the laws of karma! A god-man, no less! 😂
4. The solution to the problem of “karma” is to accept your own problem. Recall Dostoevsky: a person punishes themselves. By defining certain actions as right or wrong, we ultimately create a mechanism of self-punishment. Once we remove the false definition of punishment, we free ourselves.
5. Imps are free energies that have attached themselves to a complex. You can picture a complex as a collection of false beliefs, ideas about sin or karma, the events in life for which we believe we are “paying”, and the free energy that sustains all of this. This can be personified as an imp. Some such imps are even ancestral. They must be soothed and released, not pampered and cherished as certain immature sorcerers do. 🤡
Only when we have freed ourselves from all sorts of imps can we talk about freedom. These imps impose a false picture of the world on you. They say it is important to follow the philosophy of “successful success”: be better, higher, faster! But what is this race for? Simply to satisfy another desire of your little imps. When, at the end of your life, you have to part with all of this, it will be terribly painful, because you are not free. Worse still, none of it will help you on the line of contact either; instead, it could lead to a nervous breakdown. And where do you go from there? Your imps are hungry; your familiar rhythm of life has been disrupted. You are angry, furious, and unable to change anything. You have locked yourself in this prison.
It is by untangling and releasing your inner imps that you become free.
6. Freedom is not about refusing to bow before gods or spirits. Freedom is the principle of not submitting: you may bow to them in a ritual, but you do not serve them with your life. Many newly minted gods are nothing more than collective imps (like ancestral imps, only larger). They do not require a kneeling ceremony: even without these formalities, they take possession of your souls.
A competent demonologist knows that indulging an imp’s desires leads to degradation. Indulging the “desires of the gods” is no different.
Gods are not entities; they are states. You experience archetypes, but when you turn an archetype into a personified being, you reduce it to the human level. At that point, its will becomes another prison for the soul.
You must recognise yourself as free. All you need for that is to contemplate snow or a flower.
An easier approach is to work with demons and imps, releasing them and thereby releasing yourself.
And in this process, the process itself matters, not the goal; the path matters, not the result. This is the principle of Being. When we have a goal, we move instead into the earthly mode of Having.