Powers & Principalities; power and eyes wide shut

We are not watching politics.

We are watching sorcery.

~Pseudo Agrippa

What’s unfolding across the world today, wars, economic collapse, culture fraying at the edges—is not just a geopolitical crisis. It’s a war of symbols, sigils, and psychic dominance. A clash of powers and principalities. This is not about good and evil. This is about control. Will. Dominion. It’s metaphysical geopolitics.

Epstine

Iran

Israel

China

Trade

All of it….

From the view of Western occultism—especially the chaos magic current—this moment isn’t random. It’s ritual. Mass-scale manipulation of belief, attention, and fear. Each side believes it’s seizing the “real” levers of reality, not just military or economic ones. They are conjuring narratives, weaponizing symbols, aligning themselves with ancient egregores and emergent hyperstitions.

Chaos magicians know: belief is a tool. And right now, belief is being weaponized.

Before you engage your friends, neighbors and colleague in self righteous diatribe.

Know this.

We are watching nation-states and their proxies play out an invisible war behind the visible one. Every media feed is a battleground. Every act of violence echoes through the astral. It’s not that the elites are all literal magicians…though some may be….but the mechanics of power are magical. Projection, illusion, initiation, sacrifice. The structure is ritual whether they know it or not.

In this storm, the role of the mystic becomes essential….not as a savior, but as a stabilizer. A keeper of the signal beneath the noise. The mystic-hermit doesn’t retreat in cowardice; they retreat to see clearly. To hold the view steady while the world burns around it.

The magicians power isn’t loud.

It’s precise.

The real occult practitioners don’t take sides in the theater of empire. They listen. The look for the long games. They study and peak to the symbols under the propaganda. They remember that history is not linear, and neither is fate.

If you’re feeling the pull to unplug, to fast from media, to return to your cave, your journal, your grimoires….you’re not escaping. You’re reorienting. Reconnecting to the Source. The real.

Not all who engage in this work are Hermeticists, and not all Hermeticists will agree. But those walking the inner path know this: When the outer world falls to confusion, it is the inner plane that demands our attention. Power feeds on attention. Withdraw it. Refine it. Reclaim it.

The world stage is a mess because power is reorganizing itself.

And in this moment of chaos , the magician watches carefully not in retreat but in clarity.

Because in chaos, doors open that are usually sealed.

Because when belief cracks, the real can slip through.

Because in the end, no empire can survive truth.

“We are the witchcraft. We are the counter-magic against the enslavers of the soul.”

—Jack Parsons