Jason Miller's Daily Magical Practice

Miller’s daily sequence (paraphrased from The Sorcerer’s Secrets; exact wording and visual details are his):

1. Banishing first — clear and define the space. Begin by banishing to settle the mind and mark the working area as yours. Miller teaches several options and is explicit that the practitioner should pick one and keep it: the classic Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) for those from a ceremonial background, or his own simpler/Hekatean alternatives (see the Sphere of Hekas in his protection material). The point of the banishing is twofold — psychological (it clears mental clutter and signals “practice begins now”) and magical (it disperses unwanted influences and creates a delineated “zone”).
2. The Pillar — establish a vertical axis of light. Standing or seated, visualize a current of light descending from above the crown, through the central channel of the body, and down into the earth, and another rising from the earth upward — establishing you as a pillar connecting heaven and earth. (Miller’s “Pillar and Spheres” is his reworking of the ceremonial Middle Pillar, informed by Tibetan central-channel work.)
3. The Spheres — activate centres along the pillar. Bring light to a series of energy spheres/centres along that central axis, breathing into each, letting them brighten and stabilize. The aim is a felt sense of a balanced, charged, grounded body — a reservoir to draw on in later workings.
4. Breathing the elements into the body. In a complementary exercise, draw each of the four elements (earth, water, fire, air) into the body on the breath, one at a time — feeling the quality of each (solidity, flow, heat, lightness) saturate you — then balance them. This both charges and equilibrates the practitioner’s internal “elemental” makeup.
5. Offerings — close by giving. Conclude with offerings to a hierarchy of beings: burn incense (force rising) and pour out water, tea, or whiskey (force descending), making offering to enlightened beings, protectors/saints, all spirits and the living, and those to whom debts are owed. (Full method in.) This builds merit, goodwill, and working relationships, and ends the practice on reciprocity rather than acquisition.
6. Consistency over intensity. Miller’s overriding instruction is do it daily. He recommends short, sustainable sessions (he suggests beginning meditation at ~10 minutes morning and night, knitted together by brief “meditative moments” through the day) and warns against grand routines you can’t maintain. The compounding of daily practice (Only Love Is Real) is the actual source of power. (Sourcing note: the three-part structure — banishing, Pillar/Spheres energy work, offerings — and the “breathing the elements into the body” phrasing are Miller’s documented daily practice from The Sorcerer’s Secrets and his teaching. Specific visual/colour details vary by edition and are faithful paraphrase, not verbatim quotation.)

Jason Miller (b. 20th c., active US practitioner and author) draws this routine from three streams he was trained in: Western ceremonial magick (the banishing and Middle-Pillar form, via the Golden Dawn lineage), Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana (central-channel energy work, the four-class offering, merit accrual — he studied in Nepal), and folk rootwork/conjure (the practical, results-first ethos).

It is documented chiefly in The Sorcerer’s Secrets: Strategies in Practical Magick (2009) and developed in his Strategic Sorcery course. → (if present). Related Miller methods.

Middle Pillar (Golden Dawn / regardie) — the direct ancestor of Miller’s Pillar and Spheres. → ceremonial sources.

• LBRP / banishing rituals — the clearing-and-defining step.
• Tibetan central-channel & tummo work — the somatic energy model Miller layers on.
• Daily sadhana / liturgy — any tradition’s fixed daily devotional sequence shares the structure (clear → cultivate → dedicate/offer).
• Coué-style daily conditioning — the “do it every day, modestly” principle.

Over-designing the routine. The classic failure: an elaborate 90-minute sequence abandoned within a week. Miller’s whole emphasis is sustainability — start short, keep it daily.

• Skipping the banishing. It’s the transition that makes the rest land; doing energy work straight off a distracted mind dilutes it.
• Forcing the energy work. Straining to “feel” the pillar or elements is counter-productive (cf. the law of reversed effort). Let the visualization and breath do the work lightly.
• Treating offerings as transactional. The offering step is about reciprocity and merit, not buying favours; grasping undermines its psychological benefit.
• Mistaking the foundation for the whole strategy. Daily practice charges the battery; it does not replace the practical/mundane action Miller insists must accompany any real goal.
• Inconsistency. The power is in the compounding. Occasional intense sessions underperform daily modest ones.