--- title: "Ritual Versus Internal Power in Magical Development" url: https://staging13.perseusarcaneacademy.com/post/ritual-versus-internal-power-in-magical-development/ date: 2025-09-28 modified: 2026-07-03 lang: en author: "Perseus Arcane Academy" description: "A very important subject to understand from Bob (SixtySkills), you can see the video on this subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJRnRKSrco Ritual vs Internal Power Systems What's your take on the ritual..." categories: - "Internal Martial Arts" - "Western Traditions" image: https://staging13.perseusarcaneacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ChatGPT-Image-Sep-28-2025-12_46_57-PM-1024x683.png word_count: 1007 --- # Ritual Versus Internal Power in Magical Development A very important subject to understand from Bob (SixtySkills), you can see the video on this subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJRnRKSrco ## Ritual vs Internal Power Systems What's your take on the ritual versus internal Power Systems? All right, um, first of all, they're not exclusive of each other. Most ritual systems will have some internal power workor, and most internal Power Systems will have an element of ritual with them. Okay, that's kind of a cop out answer. 60 skills let's be specific about waron all right take something like the Golden Dawn system well you have the middle pillar exercise that's an internal power part of that take something like Tibetan Buddhism highly ritual all these different things well they have trulkhor pranama breath retention with body movement even shinon Buddhism does a lot with the Puja or fire ceremony which is going to generate energy by burning things that's not really an internal power system but that's not purely ritual either. ## Internal Power Systems and Forms Likewise, a lot of internal Power Systems like say TaiJiQuan, Xingyi Quan, Bagua Zhang, traditional martial arts you've got your forms that's a kind of ritual because it's something you repeat over and over again. Okay, but the preponderance of your effort in that is holding posture doing Chiang doing certain kinds of breath work certain kinds of vocalizations that's all internal power work. ## Advantages and Risks of Ritual Work So, okay, ritual versus internal power the advantage with ritual work is it works fast because there's this egregor this intelligent empowered energetically empowered thought form out there that if you know the right gestures the right words to say the right movements to perform I.E the right right ritual and you have the right empow empowerments in many cases from practitioners of the system you can access that stored battery of energy in the aggregor and because it's intelligent it will come into you shut off some of those internal safeties you have share its power with you to a limited degree and allow you to do things that if you had to do purely on your own would be much harder to do if not impossible in many cases. Now, the catch with working with an egregor is as we've mentioned before not only the fact that it modifies your perception of reality and your thought process to be more in tune with it it impacts your free will there's no other way to say that. It's also the issue that because it works by disabling certain safeties in your body it may get your body to produce something or an effect if you will that is potentially damaging you because it's overriding those again those safeties. Also, ritual magic tends to be slow I'll get to this advantage of this involving internal power in a second but it's kind of the wind up in the pitch way of doing magic you have to do all these steps they take a certain amount of time the entity you're involved with also gets a say in whether or not you want to do something so in many cases while ritual magic can be very powerful it's often times not something flexible and frequently not something you can do on demand. ## Disadvantages of Internal Power Systems So those are the advantages and disadvantages of ritual magic now when it comes to internal Power Systems the big disadvantage is the time you need to spend cultivating that ability takes a lot of time a lot of practice because you're having to build something inside of yourself to do something and you're not getting any help from outside sources. So just the same way you gradually improve your run times in say the kilometer or the mile you're going to have to go through a lot of pain you're going to have to get over self-doubt you're going to have to defeat your internal restrictions on your own and that takes time that's the primary disadvantage to an internal power system. Other disadvantage toed internal power system is there's nobody there to tell you what to do it's a lot like when you're looking working with letter magic many cases when you're dealing with combinations of letters you have to figure out what the effects being generated are because there's no entity telling you what it what it's going to do you have to figure it on your own. ## Advantages of Internal Power Systems Now advantages one even though running a lot of Fire energy can make you manic or and a lot of water energy depressed for the most part internal power work doesn't impact your free will a whole lot for the most part it'll part it'll make you more animated and that can be a little hard to deal with depending upon your age and personal choices in life the I am a blazing Greek god while standing on top of a rooftop is something people have done from time to time before jumping into the pool blow. But ultimately internal power methods don't impact your free will a whole lot even if they do impact your decision-making through Mantic behavior and like. Okay, also internal Power Systems are generally something you can do as you need to it's very easy to do them what we English we call on the fly or spontaneously because you don't need to go through this elaborate ritual to make the effect happen so that's the advantage to an internal power system. ## Blended Approaches Keeping in mind that most systems out there are a combination of the two highly ritualized systems like say I don't know Tibetan Buddhism have trulkhor but on the flip side things like taichi have their long form and that's very much a rhythmic kind of dance I.E ritual so those are the advantages and disadvantages of ritual versus internal Power Systems keeping in mind there are very few examples of something that is purely one or purely the other. ---