Psalm 34: Send The Evil Back To Its Source (A Reversing Spell)

Today we are working with Psalm 34.

Some traditional magical uses for Psalm 34 include dissolving arrogance, attracting influential friends, reversing evil, and supporting the health of bones. Today, let's gear this as a reversing spell—so if something negative is being sent to you, it bounces right off and goes back to the sender. But if you have other uses in mind, you can take the seeds we discover in the Psalm and apply them to whatever your need happens to be.

The way we work Psalm magic is simple, easy, and effective. We take the Psalm in question and recite it out loud once all the way through without stopping. Then we go back through that same Psalm, consider each verse one at a time, and search for hidden or occult meanings that lie behind each verse. We apply what we find to whatever situation we brought to the Psalm. By doing this, we dislodge the magical seeds that exist within each Psalm. There are countless magical seeds—you can never find them all—but those seeds get planted in the depths of our mind, where they take root, grow, blossom, and bear fruit after their kind. That is exactly what you and I are going to do together right now with Psalm 34.

"I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked. And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants, and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate."

The first thing we have to do is orient ourselves to what we mean when we say "the Lord." The Lord is a representation of the Tetragrammaton here in the King James Version of the Bible. Anytime you see "the Lord," it's talking about Yed He Vav He. But for a magician, it goes deeper than that. Yed He Vav He is also a symbol—of the one power, the one force, the one source in all of the universe. Another name for this is "I Am" or Eheye. These are two ways of talking about the same force.

It's important to understand that "I Am" exists in you. The Lord exists within you; it's not an external deity. You are an extension of this force—a personification, an individualization of this force. You are one with this force, and therefore you are one with everyone else who is an individuation of this force. There is no separation, but we live in a world in which we are under the illusion that we are separate. Because of the power of our minds, we are capable of projecting onto the screen of space either the truth or that which is not true. The deep mind doesn't differentiate between the two. We are either able to have experiences of truth or experiences of illusion.

When we are calling on the Lord, we are asking to be reunited with the truth. That's what this is all about. "I will bless the Lord at all times." To bless the Lord at all times is to be one with this force, to bring it to mind. No matter what you're going through, remind yourself you are one with this force, one with the infinite, and it is within you, extending out.

"His praise shall continually be in my mouth." To praise something is to be enthusiastic about how good it is. Be enthusiastic about how good it is for you to be alive, because this force is life itself. To have a mind—this force is intelligence itself. To be loving—this force is love itself. To be real—this force is truth itself. To be perfect—this force is law itself. To be at one with this force is to acknowledge its presence, to understand that you as an extension are soul, and your soul is of the same substance as this source, which is spirit. Spirit cannot be destroyed, cursed, hexed, or attacked. Understanding this is very important as we move through here. If we want to undo whatever is being done to us, we have to come from the point of view of strength, which is the truth of our being.

"My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof and be glad." In the Psalms, the soul is not the same as the soul being an extension of the infinite. Here, the soul refers to the deep mind—the unconscious or subconscious habitual mind, which is responsible for what is projected on the screen of space. It doesn't differentiate between truth and untruth; that's not its function. It takes its cue from us. So when it says, "my soul shall make her boast in the Lord," it means the deep mind is boasting in the Lord, understanding that the Lord will project onto the screen of space for us. We want the truth of the infinite to be projected onto the screen of space so that that's our experience, rather than the illusions we've been dealing with.

The humble is you—in your right mind. The humble, the righteous, and the meek are all the same thing. You, in your right mind, are humble. You aren't arrogant. What's arrogant is the ego mind projecting pain onto the screen of space. It's arrogant to think we can undo the perfection of the infinite or make ourselves imperfect. When we come into alignment with the infinite, it undoes all our illusions, and we are glad because we understand it was arrogant to think we could be attacked or harmed in any way.

"O magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together." Now it's talking to you as if we were in a congregation. In Psalm magic, the congregation exists in your mind—all your thoughts coming together as one cohesive unit. That's power. Our thoughts having a unified purpose is the greatest power we could conceive of. When we say, "magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together," the name refers to the qualities or nature of that thing. The different names of the Lord are the different qualities of the infinite: spirit, soul, intelligence, life, truth, love, law, presence. Magnifying the Lord and exalting His name means instructing all our thoughts to focus on the qualities of the infinite. You can take one quality and think of it—like infinite life, feeling your heart beating, your lungs breathing, your blood pulsing. You are one with the force of life itself. Or think about spirit—eternal, immortal, more than the body. That's how you magnify the Lord and exalt His name.

"I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears." It's important to recognize that it doesn't happen to us; it must come from us. People ask, "Why doesn't the infinite just fix it?" We have free will. We can use our minds any way we want. The infinite will never go against its own law that we get freedom, nor against the law of cause and effect. What we use our minds for, we will have the effects of. If we don't know how to change our minds, we have to ask for help—and in asking, we receive. But the asking must come from us. The infinite always hears you and is waiting for you. It's not the will of the infinite that you be afraid or attacked or under duress. By asking for help and being willing to have the infinite undo the thinking responsible for these experiences, we are freed from them.

"They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed." It's surprising at first to understand that the Lord doesn't hold anything against us. The infinite doesn't keep track of mistakes or call for punishment. The infinite is pure life, pure love, pure correction, pure healing, and sees us as we were created—perfect and righteous.

"This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." The poor man in you can be poor in many ways. In this instance, we are demonstrating this Psalm as if we are under attack and need protection. Whatever the poverty looks like, if you call out, the infinite always hears you and saves you out of your troubles—if you are willing to change your mind. You can't ask to be saved from troubles while keeping the thoughts that created them. The infinite can't go against your free will or the law of cause and effect. If you want to be saved, you have to allow the infinite to undo and reorient your thinking, and not return to old habits.

"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him and delivereth them." To fear the Lord is to be aware of the presence of the infinite—an ecstatic experience, the only kind of fear without pain. It's not technically fear, but ecstasy—the awareness of the presence of the infinite. Those who have this fear have nothing to fear in the world. When you have the awareness and ecstasy of the infinite, you are enlivened, lit up, and impervious to harm. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them—a poetic image of how safe you are in the presence of the infinite.

"O taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him." The Lord, the infinite, is goodness. Whatever is good in your life is the Lord. Use all your senses to experience that which is good. Blessed is the one who trusts in the goodness that is your source and reality. Ask yourself, what is good in your life? When you orient your thinking toward what is good, you find more good, and more good manifests, while what is not good dissolves and disappears.

"O fear the Lord, ye His saints, for there is no want to them that fear Him." Here, "saint" refers to you as a soul, perfect as you were created. The infinite loves you exactly as you are. When you experience the presence of the infinite, you understand your divinity. As an added benefit, this opens the floodgates for all good to appear in your life—there is no want, no poverty, no attack. Anything you could need is provided by this force.

"The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing." The young lions represent the ego mind—a predator, always seeking to attack because it's afraid. The ego is a habit of thinking in terms of fear, leading to defensiveness and attack. When you come from the ego's perspective, you suffer want and problems. But those who seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. It's simply changing the thought system—from ego, which creates scarcity and pain, to spirit, which is love, gentleness, and perfection. The vision of one world always costs you the vision of the other; you can't do both. If you're experiencing lack, it's a call to move to the thought system of spirit.

"Come ye children, hearken unto me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord." The teacher speaks to you as a young child. Allow yourself to feel that innocence. Hearken to the teacher to understand the presence of the infinite. When you experience that ecstatic presence, everything changes. Take time to sit and feel for the divine presence within you.

"What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good?" If you desire life, you desire the infinite, the presence of the divine. That orientation brings you the life you seek, including all you need or want. The true desires of your heart are there for you to achieve and experience. The ego's lusts keep you on a treadmill of want and lack. Take time every day to feel this ecstasy and presence, and the power undoes all those ego lusts.

"Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile." Watch what you say. When you say something you don't want, take it out of the law of cause and effect. If you misuse your speech, correct it—even silently.

"Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it." It's simple. If you seek peace, everything works out. Evil here means anything that keeps you stuck—tension, ego, attack, defense, problems, lack, limitation. The ego uses your addiction to being right to keep you stuck. By noticing this and spending time experiencing the presence of the infinite, those things dissolve. Pursue peace and turn your back on old ways.

"The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry." The attention of the infinite is always upon you, but you may not understand that unless you are in your right mind. The infinite always knows you as you were created—righteous. If you don't see yourself as righteous, you're living in a fantasy. The infinite only sees your truth. It's up to us to ask to be delivered from our illusions and back into our truth.

"The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." Whatever is being pointed at you that you want to bounce off, that's a given—the infinite's will for us. But the infinite can't undo our free will. We have to do our part and allow ourselves to undo the evil in our own minds—negative, limited, judgmental thinking. Just be willing to see things differently. The reversal of the curse is already handled by the infinite; you don't have to give it a home by engaging in negative thinking.

"The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles." This could be a wonderful affirmation throughout the day while working this spell. You are righteous, you ask for help, and the help is coming. All you have to do is not dig your heels into the problems or the need to be right. Have the attitude of, "I don't know, I just want to be delivered and happy." The infinite is glad to give that to you. The more open and willing you are to unlearn what you thought you knew, the faster it happens.

"The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as being of a contrite spirit." A broken heart means an open heart. You experience the infinite's presence when you are open to it. If your heart is closed and you are focused on judgment, the infinite has no way to reach you. If you are willing to open your heart and mind, the infinite takes care of everything for you.

"He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken." You do not have to worry about anything when you and the infinite are consciously working together. The way to do this is by experiencing the presence of the infinite—closing your eyes and feeling for that presence.

"Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." You don't have to fight against evil; it takes care of itself. If you remove yourself from it and have an open heart, the structures of the ego collapse.

"The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants, and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate." To trust in the infinite is to take time to be with and feel the presence of the infinite. Then you are redeemed—distilled, cleansed. Everything unlike perfection is gently discarded. All illusions about yourself fall away, and your deep mind is filled with truth, projecting truth onto the screen of space so your physical world reflects that. Even if everyone else is living in a scary world, you may find yourself living a charmed life—and you deserve that. The more you live that charmed life, the more you inspire others to do the same, and soon the charmed life becomes the norm.

Keep coming back to this Psalm every day until you get an inner certainty that everything is working out. When you feel that peace and certainty, you know your spell has been cast and you can move on, letting it manifest perfectly.

Thank you so much for spending time with me today. Until next time, blessed be.