Freeing the Soul

updated by: High Priest Zevios Metathronos

With knowledge and power, one can supersede so-called "karma." We are all aware of reincarnation. Many of the people in your life, for good or ill, you have known before, especially family members. These relationships can last many lifetimes. Some of them have a negative effect on us and are destructive to our growth and wellbeing. The same negative relationship is repeated over and over, back and forth, in different ways, times, and bodies.

The good news is, with the proper knowledge and appropriate action, these negative ties can be removed. You can set yourself and the offending ones free from the cycle of destructive repetition.

Step 1: Identify the Ties

Enter into a trance and go back through your lifetime, as early as you can remember. Write down every person involved in a negative or destructive relationship you have experienced. Leave the positive and beneficial relationships out of this. Those are people you want to continue with.

Negative people can include parents, siblings, relatives, schoolteachers, former friends, enemies, spouses, lovers, and anyone who has used you or harmed you in any lasting way, either physically or psychologically. Family relationships are the most powerful. This includes spouses and significant others.

Take your time with this exercise. You can always go back and add more names to the list as old memories surface. When you judge each relationship, remember that no relationship is perfect. The most negative relationships will be obvious. Start with those.

Step 2: Deal with Repressed Anger

If there is serious repressed anger that cannot be dealt with outside of retribution, then perform the appropriate revenge ritual or rituals. Get it over with in the here and now, and be sure to vent everything. This acts as a cathartic and is very therapeutic. Once the anger has been fully expressed and directed, you will be able to heal emotionally and psychologically. Suppressed rage is poison to the soul. It does not dissolve on its own. It festers. The rituals give it a channel and a target, and then it is gone.

Step 3: Timing

It is best to perform the working during a waning Moon. This working should be done every single day, from a full Moon to a new Moon, to ensure it will be effective. Workings done only once are rarely very effective unless one has exceptional power or the stars are in very favorable positions, which is rare.

The Moon should NOT be in the signs of Cancer or Libra, nor should it be void of course.

Step 4: Cut the Cords

Others attach themselves to your soul via strands resembling those experienced during astral projection. These strands are NOT all "silver," as most popular books claim. Gold and bronze-colored strands have been observed, and there may be even more colors. Assume nothing about what you will see. Perform the Detaching exercise to remove these ties.

Make absolutely sure that the other person (as well as yourself) is completely sealed off when you remove the attachment. Don't try to do more than one person per session. Start with the worst individuals, living or deceased. If you don't know whether they are dead or alive, it doesn't matter. When you are finished, clean your aura.

Different people should be dealt with in different sessions. At the end, you should feel lighter, freer, and at peace. Thank the Gods at the end of each session. They are the ones who bring us the knowledge we need to be free.

Step 5: Addictive Relationships

Relationships can be as addictive as drugs and alcohol. These types can be extremely difficult to get rid of and detach from. You must be 100% sure you want to let go.

In many cases, there is a need in the victim where the other person attaches: someone who is lonely and vulnerable, and then the wrong person comes along and attaches (often unknowingly), and a love obsession can develop.

If this is the case, it is best to work on programming the mind and soul to be free of the person first. This can be done by stating affirmations such as:

"I am totally and completely free from [person's name] in every way."

"All of my emotions and feelings for [name of person] are completely and permanently gone."

You can do both the detaching and affirmation meditations at the same time, but you have to make sure you WANT to let go. Otherwise, this can be a waste of time. The soul follows the will. If the will is divided, the working will be divided.

Simplified Guide: Freeing the Soul in Practice

What This Working Does

Every significant relationship you've ever had leaves an energetic connection, a cord, between your soul and the other person's soul. Positive relationships produce healthy cords that nourish both parties. Negative relationships produce toxic cords that drain your energy, distort your emotions, and repeat the same destructive patterns across lifetimes.

This working identifies those toxic cords and cuts them. Permanently.

How to Know If You Need This

If you think about someone from your past and feel a sudden surge of anger, guilt, shame, or obsessive longing, there is almost certainly an active cord. If you keep repeating the same type of destructive relationship with different people, you are following a karmic pattern that needs to be broken. If you feel "haunted" by someone who is no longer in your life, that person is still energetically attached to you.

Visualization Tips

When identifying cords: In your trance state, visualize yourself standing in a dark room. Ask to be shown the cords. They will appear as strands of light or color extending from various points on your body (often the solar plexus, heart area, or lower abdomen) outward into the darkness. Follow each strand and you will see or sense the person on the other end.

When cutting: Visualize a blade of white or golden fire. Cut the cord cleanly. Then seal the point where it was attached to you with bright white light, like cauterizing a wound. Do the same for the other person's end. This is important: if you leave the other end open, the cord can regrow.

After cutting: You may feel an immediate sense of relief, lightness, or even grief. Grief is normal. You are losing a connection, even a harmful one. The soul mourns all losses. Allow it. Clean your aura thoroughly after each session.

Important Tips

One person per session. Don't rush through a list of ten people in one sitting. Each detachment is a significant energetic operation. Give it the time and focus it deserves.

The waning Moon timing is not optional. The waning Moon supports the energy of release, dissolution, and removal. Working during a waxing Moon can actually strengthen the ties you are trying to cut.

The daily repetition from full Moon to new Moon (approximately 14 days) is necessary because most cords have been reinforced over many years or even many lifetimes. A single cutting may weaken the cord, but it takes sustained work to remove it entirely. By the new Moon, the cord should be gone.

For the most difficult cases (parents, long-term partners, abusers), you may need to repeat the entire cycle across multiple Moon phases. There is no shame in this. The deepest wounds take the longest to heal. What matters is that you keep cutting until you are free.

Using Words of Power - Freeing the Soul

Sources and Further Study

Plato, Phaedo 81c-e (c. 360 BCE): Plato describes how the soul, after death, can be "dragged back" to the physical world by its attachments and desires. The attachments described in this working are the energetic mechanism behind what Plato observed: the soul's bonds to people, places, and patterns that persist across lifetimes.
Orphic Gold Tablets (c. 4th century BCE): The Orphic initiates were buried with instructions for navigating the afterlife, including specific formulas for freeing the soul from the "cycle of wearying grief." The principle is identical: the soul must be deliberately liberated from its accumulated bonds.
Patanjali, Yoga Sutras II.12-14 (c. 2nd century BCE): Patanjali describes the "storehouse of karma" (karmashaya) as the residue of past actions that determines future births and circumstances. The detaching exercise works directly on this storehouse, removing specific karmic imprints tied to specific individuals.
Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter 125 (c. 1550 BCE): The "Negative Confessions" before the 42 judges of Ma'at include the declaration "I have not caused suffering." The karmic ties described in this working are precisely the energetic residue of suffering caused and received. Cutting them is an act of Ma'at: restoring balance.
Iamblichus, De Mysteriis V.18 (c. 300 CE): Iamblichus describes theurgic rituals specifically designed to "liberate the soul from the bonds of fate" (heimarmene). The principle that ritual action, performed with knowledge and will, can override karmic determinism is foundational to both Neoplatonic theurgy and Zevist practice.