VardlokkurShamanism
First off what is Vardlokkur or Warlock Shamanism ?
You may have an already perceived notion as what a Warlock is, please read this blog and return: Warlock
The Temple of the Morning Star reclaims the word Warlock as: An Old Norse word ‘vardlokkur’. There are debates about the exact meaning of the word in it’s original form. However there are several mythological tales about the Vardlokkur guarding the gates of knowledge. In these legends, the Vardlokkur were the wise men, the Shaman's of divine knowledge who protected that wisdom and guarded it with their lives. The magick of the Shamanic warlock is to understand the nature of daemons/spirits and they would devour these spirits obtaining their essence, drawing on their knowledge and keeping the sacred wisdom safe. Some also call the vardlokkur the Norse Guards or Guardians, the warriors of the spiritual community.
The Shamanic warlocks also used these daemons/spirits on their journeys through different states of consciousness, whether it was through the psychological dimensions of the upper, lower, and middle-worlds or traveling through the landscape of those they wished to heal or deter.
We see a similarity that is connected throughout all Shamanic cultres, the Shaman's of Amazon Basin and their use of Tsentsak (Daemon helpers).
The Shaman will devour the energetic essence of the object, the living or energies of an object they wish to use in non ordinary states of consciousness and in ordinary states of consciousness.
The Shamanic Warlocks uses their Tsentsak(Daemon Helpers) to help bind and lock other Daemons,archetypes and egregores so the Shaman can devour them, the Shaman devours the essence and energies of the daemon absorbing their qualities and abilities.
This is in many ways is vampiric in nature and it is the original form of predatory spiritualism, but the Vardlokkur shaman understands this as symbolic and metaphoric.
The Vardlokkur is a Necromancer:
Necromancy (besides the fictional and fantasy role play aspect Hollywood version in movies) it is not about literal corpse reanimation, it can be symbolic and astrally done for ritual purposes, there is phenomenological processes that must be applied and thus the questions of
'What is Death and what are the cycles and the symbiotic relationships that creates the system?
Is Death purely life-ending or is there an element within the psychological processes as well?
For example Inanna's descent and Ascension through the seven layers of the underworld or the death and rebirth of the seasons.
I can only provide a synopsis online, but It goes much deeper than this for me, I just put forth some experiential questions for someone if they choose to explore the subject within themselves.
Necromancy could be also be viewed from a narrative therapeutic perspective and in my own professional practice I use this for people to reconnect to parts of their self that have become dead (repressed), or though dialoguing to find healing from Grief and loss with a passed loved one by externalising a conversation between them (evocation).
Some use the aspect of the psychopomp as an necromancy tool, but it is only s basic element of a much wider spectrum. The psychopomp is like the Valkyries,taking souls to Hel. Hel would be the Necromancers main focus as she is the Goddess of the Underworld.
The Necromancer is a psychopomp but evolved beyond the psychopomp as they transcend through spiritual alchemy and absorb the essence of death, they sit at the altar of death and discover life.
Or another way to view this is by looking at the Shaman, the shaman is a psychopomp, that travels the different levels of existence including the underworld.
Shamans also can travel within others to heal and harm if they wish, some shaman devour animals and items to assist them in their journeys.
Some Shamans will become the necromancer, the witch doctor, the spiritual vampire and travel within people or the underworld and use the spirits that they have gathered to devour death itself and it awakens them to the illusion of both life and death.
As we know some Shamans consumes Ayahuasca and interact with death her glorious self and she strips away the illusion, the necromancer would devour her to consume her wisdom and knowledge, she absorbed within the necromancer.
In the Australian Indigenous Shamanic culture there are three types of Shaman:
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The Medicine Man or Doctor (The Mann’gur) – His task within the clan is for the physical healing of the body with the aid of medicinal herbs, other “magic” concoctions, and amazing illusionary acts of curing perceived as “magic” deception. He was a “staged” healing magician.
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The Spiritual Sorcerer/Doctor/Mind Healer, Philosopher, Religious Teacher, Soothsayer, Forecaster (The Kgun’diri) – His task within the clan is to teach his philosophies, mind and other healing, visionary, illusionary, educational states. He was a “spiritual” Guru/Psychologist.
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The Spirit Man (The Kgai’dai’chi) – His “Clever Man” task (when chosen anonymously by ballot) was to administer punishment, justice and death as Underworld Spirits of similar names were sung up to enter his physical body. He was the Judge and Jury of those times. Justice in this manner was the sacred law of the clan. Regretfully, the victim could not win.
The Australian Indigenous Shaman "medicine men." The Shaman combine the roles of doctors, wise men, religious leaders, and sorcerers in Aboriginal communities. To people of the tribe, and to themselves, they are imbued with special knowledge of the Dreamtime which allows them to perform magical rituals for the benefit of the tribe, or the ill of their enemies.
The Shaman are always males who have undergone a special initiation into the deepest secrets of the Dreamtime. They hold a place of status and power in the tribe and are respected and admired despite their somewhat aloof nature. Apart from this, they are not treated different from other male tribe members. The Shaman participates fully in the daily life of the tribe, hunting, taking part in group ceremonies, marrying, and having children. In effect, the Shaman is simply a normal man with a more highly developed awareness of the powers present in all Aborigines.
Each tribe will have at least one (possibly more) Shaman, since he is essential to the well-being of the tribe. His main role is to maintain good relations with the spirits of the land and the dead, the Rainbow Serpent and the sky-being, and Shaman of other places. This ensures good weather, food supplies, and peaceful relations with neighboring tribes.