Psalm 9: Powerful Magic To Conquer Darkness

 Today we are working Psalm nine. In Psalm Magic, some of the traditional uses for Psalm nine are to overcome evil, to reduce the power of any enemy, to reverse curses and hexes, and for help in court cases. And it's also used to overcome oppression; and I would like to use it to overcome oppression today.

Now remember, oppression can come from people, from circumstances and from ourselves. So if you're feeling oppressed in any way, Psalm number nine is a wonderful psalm to come to for that. It's also been used throughout history to overcome political oppression: people who are being oppressed by governments and political figures and corrupt politicians and things like that.

The way we work, Psalm Magic is simple, easy, and effective. We take the psalm that we are working and we speak it out loud all the way through once without stopping, and then we go back through that same psalm and we consider each verse in turn and we search for those hidden meanings within each verse.

We call them occult meanings because they are hidden. Those are viewed frequently as magic seeds. And those magic seeds need to be planted in fertile ground in order for them to take root. And the fertile ground is in our minds. And how do you plant those seeds By looking for them, contemplating them, and doing your best to apply what you find to whatever the situation is that you brought to the psalm.

And when you plant those seeds into the fertile ground of your mind, they take root, they grow, they blossom forth. And then they bear fruit after their kind. And that is exactly what you and I are going to do together right now with Psalm number nine.

I will praise thee oh Lord, with my whole heart. I will show forth all thy marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee I will sing praise to thy name. Oh thou most high. When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. For thou has maintained my right and my cause. Thou saddest in the throne. Judging right thou has rebuked the heathen. Thou hast destroyed the wicked.

Thou hast put out their name forever and ever. Oh thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end and thou hast destroyed cities. Their memorial is perished with them. But the Lord shall endure forever. He hath prepared his throne for judgment and he shall judge the world in righteousness. He shall minister judgment to the people in upr ightness.

The Lord will also be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee. For thou Lord has not forsaken them that seek thee. Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them.

He forgeteth not the cry of the humble. Have mercy upon me, oh Lord, consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me. Thou that lipes me up from the gates of death; that I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in thy salvation. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net, which they hid is their own foot taken.

The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaeon; Selah.

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God for the needy shall not always be forgotten. The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. Arise, oh Lord, let not men prevail.

Let the heathen be judged in thy sight. Put them in fear, oh Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men.

It's fairly common to believe that Psalms nine and ten were originally a single Psalm, and frequently they are treated as a single Psalm, but in Psalm Magic, we don't usually do that. We let them each have their own autonomy.

It starts out with praise. This appears to be a Psalm of Thanksgiving, and then it makes a little bit of a turn.

First and foremost, when we're working Psalm Magic, we orient ourselves to the idea of what the Lord actually is. Because it's really easy to put ourselves in the point of view that there's some Lord out there that's going to come rescue us, if we're good enough, if we do the right things; and if it's having a good day, it's gonna come and help us.

That's not a powerful posture to start a spell. What we want instead is to orient ourselves to the truth of what the Lord represents. The Lord is a symbol. It's a symbol of that which is the one power, and it's important that we do that each and every time.

Take a moment and orient ourselves to the one power, the one source, the one force in all the universe, and there is none other. And when we understand that, when we accept that, then we realize that this is why Psalm magic is powerful and effective, because there's nothing that can oppose this power.

There is nothing but this power.

I will praise the oh Lord, with my whole heart. I will show forth all thy marvelous works.

In the Psalms, the heart represents the deep mind. It represents the habitual mind, such as I know that by heart, I can play that by heart. You are habituated to it. I will praise the oh Lord with my whole heart, means that I'm going to habituate myself to praising the Lord, to praise the Lord, to praise this force, means that we need to praise that, which is good.

Just like you need an object for your affection. You need an object for your praise. Otherwise, it's just some sort of exercise. What are you grateful for? What are you thankful for? Where does the good show up in your life? And that's what you want to be able to do habitually, to see that which is good.

Now, that's not to say that you're not going to also take into account that which needs healing and that which is not good. We tend to, in this world, be taught to look only at the world through the eyes of that which isn't working, and we disregard things that are working and we want to habituate ourselves to the idea that things do work out for us and give those praise.

I will show forth thy marvelous works.

You will show forth the marvelous works. You'll make sure that you show that you demonstrate the marvelous works. What are the marvelous works of the Lord? Everything that's good. Where does good show up in your life ,and how can you express good in your life?

When you make choices in each and every moment, is the habit to make the choices to be compassionate or to judge? Are your choices automatically to find common ground or to find division? Is it to relax or is it to tense? Is it to judge or is it to forgive?

I will be glad and rejoice in thee. I will sing praises to thy name, O Thou most high.

The most high is a title given to the Lord to remind us that there is only one, that there is nothing but this.

It is not, "my Lord is better than your Lord. Our God is more powerful than yours." That's not what this is. This is "all Gods are one. There is nothing but this." And to sing praises unto this force's name means to sing praises to the qualities of this force, the nature of this force.

There are infinite names of God. There are infinite qualities. And to sing praises means to disturb your experience. To sing is to disturb. I know that sounds funny, but in the Psalms, when you're singing, it means that you're making noise. And to make noise doesn't just mean to make physical noise. It means to make psychic noise. It means to make a psychic disturbance to upset that which isn't working. And in this case, if it's oppression, we are disturbing the oppression by singing in our minds with our auras, with our intentions to sing praises unto the qualities of the infinite.

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

So when we turn this key of singing praises to the qualities of that which is the one and only force in the universe, what that does is it allows for the oppression in our lives to be turned back to be destroyed by its own oppression. The oppression oppresses itself.

For thou has maintained my right and my cause. Thou sattest in the throne judging, right.

And that's what the infinite does. This is another one of those psalms that puts the infinite in a setting of sitting on its throne As a judge in a legal setting.

We do want the infinites judgment on everything. On everything because the infinite only sees the truth, and so it only looks as though the infinite is judging against oppression from the point of view of the oppressor. The infinites only judging through righteousness and only sees that which it created, and it didn't create oppression. The infinite doesn't will for oppression.

So therefore, when we're singing praises unto the infinite, we are turning that key so that we experience the truth of the righteous judgment of what this source is. And that causes everything that doesn't look like the righteous judgement of God To fall away, to be destroyed. And we always say it's very similar to turning on a light in a dark room.

The darkness is destroyed by the light, but not because the light is seeking to destroy the darkness. It's just the darkness doesn't exist in its presence.

Thou has rebuked the heathen. Thou has destroyed the wicked. Thou has put out their name forever and ever.

And from our point of view here, it can seem like the Infinites really mad at these oppressors and is punishing the bad behavior.

But that's just because the bad behavior and the oppression is coming back on the person. It's coming back on the person, because life is a game of boomerangs. What we throw out comes back to us. What we throw out comes back to us, and when we turn the light on and we say, only righteousness shall prevail.

Everything that doesn't look like that righteousness has to go back into the native nothingness from once it came, and it has to do that by going back into its source.

Ultimately, its source is nothing. There is no source of evil. I. There is no source of oppression. And so when we turn the key of this psalm to get the oppression to be healed, ultimately what we're discovering is that oppression never really existed from the point of view of Zion or from the point of view of this level of consciousness, but in our experiences, it looks like the oppression and the oppressors are being destroyed.

Oh thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end and thou has destroyed cities. Their memorial is perished with them.

This is so important because not only does the infinite make everything right, again, it blots out the memory of it. It blots out the memory of it. You don't even remember that you were oppressed anymore.

It's such a vague, distant memory, and that's what we want to get to. And when we allow this spell to work and things are made right again in our lives, it's up to us to tow that line and not keep saying, remember how bad it was. Remember how they mistreated me. They're not mistreating you anymore. That's been healed.

So we don't want to recreate it. We want to allow the infinite to blot the memory of it from us, and we stay with doing what? Singing praises unto the infinite. Because we want to be perpetually a disturbance to oppressors. We want to habitually be a disturbance to anything that's unlike the truth, but the Lord shall endure forever.

He hath prepared his throne for judgment. The Lord endures forever is a reminder that the Lord exists only in the present moment. The Lord does not exist in the future or in the past because those don't exist in Zion. We're in this state of consciousness. The past and the future are constructs of the ego consciousness, of the ego mind, and the ego mind's basic function is to keep us ruminating over the past and the future so that we don't use our power in the present moment.

The Lord shall endure forever.

The Lord is here now.

He hath prepared his throne for a judgment

and that's simply reiterating that the infinite only sees the truth. And when you go to the infinite, you do it in the present moment and you allow it to heal whatever the situation is. Your job is to stay in the present moment and not reenter those old habits of living in the past or living in the future and not recreating the problems that have already been solved.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness. He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

And that's the whole point of this psalm. Once we are connecting to the righteousness of this power and righteousness means right mindedness, healthy thinking, sanity, peace of mind. When we connect with this sanity, this right mindedness, this healthy thinking, this peace of mind. It permeates every aspect of our consciousness. And anything that doesn't look like that is destroyed from the point of view of problems like the darkness is quote, destroyed when you turn the light on.

The whole point of the Psalm or any Psalm is to connect with that vibration that is the infinite or what they call the Lord, so that the Lord's judgment prevails and the Lord's judgment is that you be happy. That's the will of God is that you be happy, that you be safe, that you be at peace. The will of the infinite is that is true for everybody and all of these allusions of oppression and darkness be something that we awaken from and that we no longer perpetuate.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

So it's telling you what to do. When you're feeling unsafe, when you are feeling oppressed, when you are feeling in trouble, you go to your refuge. You go where you are safe, and you are safe when you call upon this power because this power's will is for your safety, for your happiness.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord has not forsaken them, that seek thy.

When you know this secret, you know where to go and you know what to do, and you no longer try to fix things yourself. You no longer try to make yourself safe all by yourself. Because your ways are very limited when you think in terms of only what your surface mind and your ego understand. It only knows what it already knows, but the infinite knows everything. The infinite has infinite possibilities that you don't understand. So when you go to the infinite for your safety, your safety can show up in all kinds of ways that you couldn't have come up with on your own. It says,

and they that know thy name will put their trust in thee.

Once you know the name, the nature of the infinite, where else are you going to go? Why would you go anywhere? But the source of all it is, why would you even consider that the idea that there could be something separate from the source of all that is, is why we feel unsafe in this world. We live in a world that believes that it's separate from this source.

This whole world is a projection of fear. Based on the idea that we all believe that we're separate from this source. So once you know the name of God, once you understand the qualities of the infinite, you realize that you're always safe, but you can't create that safety for yourself based on your own past learning.

You have to go outside of the thought system that is based on fear to find that safety. And that's what we do when we seek our refuge in the infinite.

For thou, Lord, has not forsaken them that seek. thee.

Of course not. When you seek the infinite, you're seeking truth. You're seeking reality. You're seeking sanity; you're seeking healthiness. You're seeking all of that which is real. And when you go to that which is real, everything that is false is shined away in its presence. Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion declare among the people his doings. Remember in the Psalms that people represent your own thoughts.

So when you do this, when you go to Zion and remember what Zion is, Zion is the meeting place between you and the infinite. It's where the tabernacle is. Where the temple is. And Zion, you have to climb. That's you climbing up, meaning rising in mind, in consciousness to the best of your ability so that you can meet this infinite intelligence.

Without climbing Zion. It's as if you're saying, well, I wanna keep all of my false beliefs, I wanna hate them, and I want to hate myself. I wanna just indulge in all of these false beliefs, and can you fix it for me? That's not climbing Zion. So you gotta climb up that hill to get to the tabernacle. You must rise in consciousness to the best of your ability, and then the infinite will do the rest for you.

Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion. That means that you are going to use the idea of singing and you can sing with your physical vocal chords. That is absolutely fine, but let's think in terms of what singing means in regards to raising your vibrations. When you sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion, you are doing what you can to raise your vibrations, and you do that by praising those qualities of the infinite or the names of God. And then it says,

DEclare among the people his doings.

Remind your doubting thoughts, what you're up to. Don't let those doubting thoughts bring you back down into those ego realms, reeducate your own thoughts and be disciplined with your mind.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembers them. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

This idea that the infinite is going to destroy your enemies or kill your enemies or punish your enemies because he's not forgetting the cry of the humble is a very dramatic ancient image, and it's a powerful one. It's a fabulous one to use, but understand what that means.

From the point of view of the darkness. It's so scary when the light comes on. So it seems like there's this big battle. The light is just going after the darkness and kicking its ass. But in reality, that's not what's happening and that's not what's happening here either. But it can seem like that because it looks as though your oppressors are getting punished because everything is righting itself again.

But the idea is not that the infinite is going to punish its own creation. The infant is not going to punish its own divine child, but it can seem like that from your point of view. When it looks as though the oppression ends, it looks as though the infant's punishing them.

Have mercy upon me, oh Lord, consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that leftist me up from the gates of death

In the Psalms, for us, mercy always means the solving of the problem, the answering of the prayer, the fulfillment of the goal. Whatever you've brought to this psalm to get help with is mercy. It's solved, it's taken care of. So I have mercy upon me. Oh Lord. Consider my trouble, which I suffer of them that hate me. Very clear.

This is your petition. This is what's going on. This is what they're doing, and I want out of it. I want this handled. Now, again, if it's not another person that you're feeling oppressed by, if it's a situation, that's fine too. If it's your own ego thoughts that are oppressing you, that's fine too. Whatever the oppression is, you're just laying it out on the table and saying,

thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

The gates of death, meaning if I don't get this problem solved, I may as well die. I. That's how serious it seems. It may not be that severe in reality, but the Psalms are like the libretto of a grand opera. It's important that you get into it. There's a whole emotional connection with your issue that is very helpful. So whatever it is, it's like I'm dying when we say that, oh, I'm just dying. I'm just dying. Well, we're not technically dying, but it feels like we're at the gates of death.

That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion,

I will rejoice in thy salvation. So take me from the gates of one place into the gates of the other place, from the gates of death to the gates of the daughter of Zion.

Now the daughter of Zion is a poetic name for Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the city, is the Infinites property. We want to be in the gates of the daughter of Zion where we are a hundred percent taken care of. All of our needs are met. We're happy. Things are going well. When we're going into the gates of death, that's, "I'd rather do things myself. I'm separate from the infinite. I'm going to do ego things."

But you can't do both at the same time. You're either in the gates of death, ego, or you're in the gates of the daughter of Zion. Spirit, you can't do both, one or the other. Can't go east and west at the same time. So we're being clear about that. I don't want to be in the gates of death. I want to be in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I wanna be in your city. I wanna be in your town, not in the town of darkness. I wanna be in the town of light.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net, which they hit is their own foot taken.

Evil always destroys itself. No matter what it seems like. We're coming to the Psalms because we want it to work out now. We don't wanna wait for things to sort themselves out in time. We want to be in timelessness. We want to be in the gates of the daughter of Zion, which is the present moment, and we want this taken care of now, which is our right, by the way. That's our right.

The infinites not doing us a favor. The infinite is happy when we claim our birthright, our right to have these things sorted out for us. Right now, the infinite wants that for us. But remember how things work. We have to make the first move because we have the right to use our minds in a way we want to. We have the right to do anything we want with our minds.

And if we don't discipline our minds and we go along with status quo and we believe in all of these false concepts, we get what we get. When we start getting what we get and we don't like it, the good news about that is that it's a reminder to us that we can go back to the source and let everything be taken care of for us.

The trick there is once we get the problem solved, we learn to stay there. And again, we're not saying it's your fault. Boy, I gotta be careful that we say this because people really misunderstand that and they say, oh, I get it. It's my fault. Or, oh, you're blaming the victim. No, it's not your fault that you're in this. You're like everybody else. It's not your fault that you were raised to not know how your mind worked.

It's not your fault that you've been taught by generations of habitual learning that things work in a way that they don't really work. It's not your fault, but once you know better, you can do better, and that's what you're learning how to do. And you're going to be ahead of the pack now because you're learning how to use your mind in a way that most people never know.

The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth.

Isn't that great? It's the same idea that the name of God means the nature of the infinite. It's God based on what God does. And the judgment that God executes is the nature of God. When you go to this power, when you go to this force with an issue and the issue gets solved, you know you went to the source, you know that because of your success. You know the infinite by its effects. The fruits of a tree show you what kind of tree it came from. The judgments of the infinite are how you know that the infinites there. You know it because it works.

The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaeon. Selah.

Anything that is not of the infinite, any part of this illusion that is oppressing you, is going to be taken care of by its own undoing. The more you have a hands-off approach and you don't try to help things along, it'll help itself along. People end up being their own worst enemy. The serial killers eventually screw up because they get so arrogant about what they do. They get caught. Whatever it is that's opressing you, it's going to get itself snared in its own net.

And if you have a hands-off approach, if you detach from it and you turn your attention to the infinite, it helps that happen much quicker because you're not helping them delay. So hands off, let it destroy itself. Whatever the problem happens to be, even if it doesn't have anything to do with another person, it will still resolve itself.

Higgeon Selah they're both musical terms. Selah means to pause. And so when you have Selah in a Psalm, it's usually a reminder that this last verse was important, so you want to think about that.

Higgeon we don't know for sure, but it seems obvious to me that it means allow the harpist to play. Allow that harpist to play. While we consider this. Let there be a musical interlude, so it's even longer of a pause than a normal Selah. It's that bardic imagery. When the bard is telling a story or speaking a poem while playing the harp, when it stops for a minute to let that sink in, just let that heart keep playing. Let that meditation keep moving.

The wicked shall be turned into hell. And all the nations that forget God

WHen hell is mentioned in the Psalms, it's Sheol. And that's native nothingness. It's just nothing. So, the wicked will return to the native nothingness from when it came. It's not the people's souls that are gonna go to hell. Souls don't go there. Because souls aren't nothing;souls are created by the infinite. But their wicked behavior and everything that affects their behavior will be returned to the native nothingness from once it came. Whatever the problem is, no matter what it is, it's going to disappear. It's going to disintegrate, it's going to evaporate.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

So your needs aren't ever forgotten. Whatever your needs are, they're not forgotten, and the poor will not perish forever. Whatever you're going through, even if you didn't come to the Psalm, it would eventually resolve one way or another. But now we are recognizing that we don't have to wait. We don't have to wait for time to sort this out. We went right straight to the source, and since we're now in the present moment where all power is. In Zion, it's handled Now. It's already handled.

We've used our mind in a powerful way. We've said, enough, I'm not trying to fix this myself. I'm not trying to deal with this myself. I'm going straight to source. I. And Source says, "okay, well, now that you've used your free will to come to source to get this taken care of, let me take care of it for you. We are co-creators in this."

Arise, oh Lord, let not man prevail. Let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

When we say arise oh Lord. The Lord wasn't sleeping, but it appears as though the Lord was sleeping because until we invoke, there is no response. If there's a response before an invocation, there is no free will. It is an attack. We're just auto automatons. We're just robots. You do what I say. You do what I say. That's not how it works.

The infinite's given us free will, though it seems to be dormant, but remember, there's that line in the Bible Before you call, I shall answer. That just means that there's always an answer to any problem. There's a solution to any problem, and once you call, that answer will reveal itself to you. It's all ready for you. It's the nature of things that the solution is created at the moment that the problem is created because the problem ultimately doesn't exist. In the infinites mind, there are no problems. But when we have problems in our world, automatically the solutions to those problems are created. It's just part of the nature of things. It's just how things work here. That's the mercy of the infinite.

Put them in fear, oh Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be. But men Selah.

To put them in fear means to cast out this oppression, to cast out this oppression. And the nations are the overarching thought forms in our mind, so that all of our thought forms will know, when it says they are but men, that these oppressions are nothing but illusions. They're nothing but ego structures, and the infinite has this.

You just keep coming back to the same Psalm each and every day, and once you get a sense of peace and certainty about the situation, then you know your spell is cast; and then you can stop working it and go on to something else.

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