Rufus Opus

Rufus Opus

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Illuminating the darkness, one magus at a time.

04/30/2026

Pondering the iniquitous nature of samsaric malaise, the phantasmagoria of self-sustaining corruption. Handed the protogonos, they set it aside, s**t in their hands, rub it in their faces, and proclaim “we’re all adults”.

You can't argue someone out of "we're all adults" because the maturity-claim depends on the refusal: the choice IS the refusal-disguised-as-knowing.

The only thing that ever moves them is when their own life inevitably produces a problem their framework can't dispatch.

Until then the cynicism is doing its job, which is keeping them small enough to remain comfortable.

04/20/2026

Rufus Opus walks through the three Orphic Hymns to Zeus — to Zeus, to Zeus Keraunios (Thunder), and to Zeus Astrapaios (Lightning) — as one operative ritual in three phases: Source, Declaration, Strike. The morning chant "Zeus ho kephalē, Zeus ho mesos, Zeus ho pantokratōr" is the compressed operative manual, and the three hymns unfold what's already in it. Direct continuation of the Projection Phase of Alchemy and Hermetic Soteriology threads. Covers where most magicians stall — the contemplative trap (all Source, no Strike), the talker's trap (all Declaration, no landing), and the chaos trap (Strike without frame) — and gives a full weekly practice that runs the whole arc on one real intent.

Whether you're new to Orphic tradition and Zeus worship or a serious practitioner refining the projection phase of your own Work, this one hands you the operative key: how declaration becomes manifestation when the source is properly invoked.

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Principles of Planetary Magic Course: https://rufusopus.com/product/principles-of-planetary-magic-course/
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04/15/2026

“Air differs in essence in accordance with its rarity or density. When it is purified it becomes fire…” -Anaximenes

So also may speech become action, our words become fire that in turn catches hold across our created worlds.

04/13/2026

To Those who would like to “CALL ME OUT” on using AI, I present the following response:

you can do what you want, including “call me out.” The world is yours. 😀

But i’m specifically letting people know what content is mine vs. what is the stuff i’m having AI put together as a condensation of the LLM’s information that is useful. I think that makes it ok, but you may not.

Do you think it’s wrong to use AI for anything ever?

I have used it at a bio-pharmaceutical company to help generate likely proteins that will work on destroying cancer cells. We went from creating 25 candidate proteins for testing quarterly to thousands.

So i can’t get on board with that nonsense.

I use AI every day to do the work of about 5 people in IT. It’s great. I also use it to develop apps, like a horse-racing prediction app i am going to test and make publicly available, just for fun. I used it to turn my goetia recommnder powerapp into a .js app i could put on my web site, cause i don’t know how to do that.

The essays i have astra create are based on my experience. I had her write up a method of working with the Filth Eater epithet of Hekate because i used it the other day to get rid of some cursed items someone had sent me. I had her do a more formal piece using the parts of the PGM that use that epithet. She did the research and put together a rite in the same style in minutes. Would have taken me longer.

Call me out if you want, i think you’re ignorant of the value of what you are rejecting, but i support your free choice, and i honestly give no f***s what you think regardless.

I only explained because i expect you’re not alone in this opinion. I should make a whole post about this probably. (This is the whole post. :D)

Whatever.

I suspect a lot of occult “authors” are going to be using AI and not telling anyone. The courts have ruled that NOTHING GENERATED BY AI CAN BE COPYRIGHTED. So it’s unethical af for these guys to be pretending they did any of it.

I’m letting people know up front, i asked the AI to do a blog about whatever, and i gave it the constraints, and i read it before it was published.

If you don’t want to read that because you think it’s schlock, don’t read it.

I think it’s a valuable tool.

04/13/2026

Free courses on Hermetic Transformation and the Great Work:

https://rufusopus.com/courses-in-conjuring-new-worlds/

I get accused of "moralizing" a lot because the hermetic path to freedom in the light from slavery to the darkness of other people's desires is the great work, the process of transformation and purification so that we put out the healthy vibes that draw the awesome life experiences we desire.
But people who are making money on other people being broken, treating symptoms instead of curing the illness because curing illness would put them out of work are, imo, sick twisted evil pieces of trash. They don't want me to "moralize" because they need people to stay in the darkness, to keep creating dramatic, unhappy lives to keep peddling their wares.
Hermetics teaches the way to have a good time on earth is to remember who you are and start creating. When you heal what got twisted along the way, you can have a better time, and create a better world for yourself and the people you bring with you.
No one has to do that. Magic CAN be used for terrible things, if you want, but the only people who are encouraging that are making money off your suffering.
They got me for too long, and the icing on the cake for me is knowing that for every person i free, it weakens those who scurry about the tunnels of darkness they have woven into the foundations of the Mystery Traditions.

03/30/2026

When life burns down around you, magic gives you a blueprint to rebuild.

A few people have had some life-changing experiences lately, and i've been through it a few times myself.

I want to share the practical Hermetic framework I used to stop the pain, protect myself, and rebuild my life from the ashes.

We start with triage: Saturn and Mars rites to stop the bleeding and create a hedge of protection, followed by a Solar rite to kickstart healing and remind you that you're still alive.

Then we go to the Source to rediscover who we really are underneath the wreckage. And from there, we bring it back down through every sphere to manifest a new life on earth: Saturn for structure, Jupiter for blessings, Mars for action, the Sun for identity, Venus for connection, Mercury for expression, and the Moon for the rhythms of daily living.

This is the Seven Spheres applied to real crisis recovery. If you or someone you know is rebuilding right now, this one's for you.

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03/22/2026

EDIT:

Omg, this got more traction than i thought it ever would. 😂

Look, don’t leave the candle on your phone, i just dressed it in oil and put it on the phone and read the incantation. Then i took it off before it got too hot.

Please don’t leave a lit tea light candle on your phone.

Original post:

in case you hadn't noticed this feature, when you hit "Conjure" on the spirit you want to work with on the Goetia Recommender app, you get it's seal in the middle of a table of practice in the triangle of manifestation with a mini conjure script you can scroll through below, and it fits a tea light candle just right.

just don't uh, don't burn your phone.

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