The Barakiel (Josephine Maccarthy)

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Another one taken from Josephine.I'll split it in sections...

The Barakiel

The Barakiel are an interesting lot and are taken up with protection and justice for innocent victims,
accompanying new life as it falls into generation, striking things/lightning, electricity, etc, and they
will work with you if there is a heavy possession of an innocent.

There are two main ways to work with them: bring them to you without vision or go to them in
vision. If you bring them to you, it can be very effective but you often end up with a flurry of dead
cows in the neighbourhood (lightning strikes). If the possession is serious though, it might be
necessary to just bite the lightning so to speak and get on with it.

If the possession is subtle, then you can go to them in vision either for them to come back and work
with you, or you can take the victim there in vision for them to work on the soul. It can be very
dangerous for a variety of reasons, so they are very much a last resort in some cases, but they are
effective. If there is cursing of an innocent, then they can be very good.

The way that they work in such circumstances is that they will strip the deepest part of the
possession or curse from a person, so that you as exorcist have a popped boil to work with. They won’t
do the whole thing, but they will do what is beyond you to do and they will also set in motion a chain
of fate, in the event of a curse, to rebalance the scales.

If you call them to you, do it on sacred ground. The reason for this is that they are a very powerful
consciousness and are not regularly worked with, so the path for them is steep, i.e. the energy filters
are not well used, so they can cause damage. If you are on sacred ground, that filters them a little. I
work in a church when I have to call them in.

Stand in both the void and the outside world, and inwardly call on them to assist you. If you cannot
work in a church, then open your working space properly, using the east for an altar and a flame. Set
up a sacred space with the directions so that there is an inner vessel to hold them.
If you are going to them, the vision to get to them is below.

The best way to work with these beings is to go to them if you are in a dangerous situation as an
exorcist and ask them to work with you or to work upon you to strengthen you. The way they affect the
body is through electricity. They work through the brain and nerves, which is precisely the area, along
with the endocrine system, that gets burned out with magical attacks, fielding demons, and clashing
with angels. They champion people on the front line as long as you don’t step off the fence—the
minute you cast judgement on a being, or attack, or lash out, they will strike you.

When you work with them, their action is twofold: to uphold your body in the face of demonic
attack, and to rebalance fate in a lightning strike. When you take on the role of exorcist, you wipe your
slate clean and get to work. If you muddy your slate, particularly while working with them, the
rebalance of that slate is quick, sharp, and dangerous. Slap a demon while you are in a bad temper and
a bolt of lightning slaps you. You can just see the wagging finger in the sky….

Sometimes they will also give you work to do. You crawl to them on your hands and knees,
exhausted from battling a demon and you ask for their help. They will give you help and then
sometimes also a job that needs a human touch—down time is not in the angelic language.

The following vision can be used to go to them for help, training, upholding, or putting back
together if you have had a very nasty time. But they will only help if you are innocent—they will not
help if you are being attacked by a demon that you yourself summoned. They will also not help if you
are working as exorcist and your host brought the demonic influence into themselves by their actions
with violence, sex, drugs, etc. The whole fluffy bunny expression ‘they had a bad childhood’ as an
excuse for bad behaviour does not wash with these beings

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The Vision Of The Barakiel

Sit quietly before a candle and close you eyes. See the landscape around you with your inner vision
and look up to the sky. Notice clouds gathering as if a storm is coming in. Lightning begins to strike
all around you and you remember your intention to go to the Barakiel. You call out to them in vision
and a bolt of lightning strikes the ground close to you and time freezes. The lightning bolt stays, like a
ladder, going up into the clouds.

You climb onto the lightning and step up and up into the clouds until you are at the top of the
lightning strike and out in the stars. All around is you is darkness and bright stars, and you reach out to
touch them. You hand feels something that you cannot see and you realise that there is a structure
before you that is clothed in night and stars.

Stepping off the lightning, you find yourself walking along a tunnel of stars until you come to an
entrance into complete darkness. You are reminded of the Abyss and the need to trust the powers that
are all around you. You step out into the darkness and find yourself stepping into a cave that vanishes
deep into something. You are drawn to walk down the dark passageway where you come to a wall of
fire. You know you must walk through it and as you step into it, you find yourself unable to move
forward. Things are burned from you, magic, illnesses, rage, fire magic connections, all lifted from
you, and you realise you are stood in a filter. Stepping out, you feel very different and you begin to
understand how much you carry around with you.

As you walk on you see a wall of water before you and you know it is another filter. You step in and
find yourself being washed of emotions that you have hung onto, hate, pain, sorrow are all washed
from you and as you stand there, you begin to see how the emotions are a body expression but are not
part of your soul. You begin to detach and look at your emotive structure as a human, and how that
structure allows your soul to express itself in life.

Stepping forward you walk further into the passage and see a wall of falling sand that you must
walk through—yet another filter to prepare you for meeting the Barakiel. The sand pours over you and
abrades you. It rubs your skin and stings, but in some places it fills holes, gives ballast, and
strengthens your bones. You feel the strength that substance can give you, and you begin to understand
why the soul searches for physical expression, for life.

As you step out of the sand a sharp and powerful wind blows all around you, filling your lungs and
screaming in your head. You find yourself trapped in a tornado which pulls words out of you, and
shows you the power of those words. Your breath takes on form as you struggle to breathe and the
form stands before you—the Word that is God and that is humanity stands before you as you begin to
see the power of recitation.

The wind pushes you forward and you fall out of the tornado. Looking back you see that four angels
stood in the passageway— the thresholds of the elements that make up humanity. They have prepared
your body, mind, and soul for the meeting with the Barakiel in vision—to meet such beings in vision
without preparation is to dance with death. A hand is placed upon your shoulder and you turn to see an
angelic guardian waiting to take you into the hall of the Barakiel.

You are led down the passageway into a large circular hall with thirteen beings stood in a circle.
You are placed in the middle and one of them speaks to you. They ask you who you are, why you have
come and what do you want. You must answer with what comes to you first, not what you decide to
say.

From your answer they will decide if they are going to help you or not. Commune with the beings,
and be willing to do whatever they ask you to do.

When you have finished and you are ready to go. The floor beneath you vanishes and you find
yourself falling away from the hall and falling through stars. One of the Barakiel falls with you in the
form of a shooting star and you fall together towards the earth.
You fall through a storm with lightning and you see the Barakiel all around you in their
conversation with the land as the lightning bounces back and forth.
You fall towards the room where you first started and if you are going to work with the Barakiel,
they fall in with you. When you are ready, open your eyes and begin your work or blow out the candle

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The Sigil Of the Barakiel

The sigils for angels come from a variety of sources: some can be found in the work of Dr John
Dee, some are in and around various ancient sites and will remain obscure until an angel shows you it
—then the markings on stones and old icons you have seen suddenly begin to make sense. For
example: the Barakiel can be connected to humans via the use of a lightning Z with a small star at the
side of it ( Z* ). The Barakiel showed me this to use, alongside a figure of 8 that lies horizontally
through the abdomen of a human and would pass in and out of the body like an energy circuit.