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DOORS 

Doors are important structures in everyday life and in many mythologies, religions, hermetic and mystical practices. Doors represent passage, transition between places, times and beings. There are but a few of the many rituals known to humanity involving doors.

How to Discover Your House is Haunted: 

Before you execute this ritual, make sure there is no one in your house except you for at least a day. No animals are allowed, unless they are so tiny that they cannot exert any force over a door (that is, move it in any way).

Before you sleep, make sure you are alone in your house tightly close and lock all doors of your house that lead to the outside. Close also your windows, making sure they are well sealed so that not even a light breeze can form inside any room. Now open all doors from the inside of your house, making sure that they are ALMOST closed, so that a simple touch can cause them to close and the door latch/bolt to click in place, closing it.

Now turn off all light sources inside your house and sleep.

Once you wake up, check if any of the doors your left slightly closed have closed completely, if one or more of them are closed and your windows were shut tightly, then your house is probably haunted.

It is said you can somewhat gauge the power or mood of the ghost by counting how many doors were closed by the time you woke up.

If only one is closed, you could probably brush it off as an accident.

If two or three are closed, then your house is most likely haunted.

If more then three are closed, your house is probably haunted by a powerful or at least playful spirit.

If all of them are closed or you heard the doors open and close several times during the night, your house is inhabited by a powerful or very angry spirit. I recommend that you move out as soon as possible.

Doors of Janus 

This ritual is said to have been used by Romans ever since the time Rome was merely a kingdom.

If you ever find yourself in a period of peace or joy in your life, make sure most of your doors are locked or at least closed most of the time. This is supposed to lengthen this pleasant time of your life.

If you are going through a turbulent, perilous or overall bad time in your life, leave most or all the doors of your house open for as long as possible, during day and night. This is supposed to hasten you toward a change in your life, but you cannot control what kind of change it may bring. It could bring great fortune which will solve all your problems, or worsen your situation even more. It will also possibly expose to danger, such as burglars and some evil supernatural beings which might see your mostly open house as an invitation to enter.

A similar ritual can be performed to allow a loved one to return from a journey.

If someone you love, who lives with you, goes on a trip or journey from which they might not return, keep open the door they left through open at all times. This is said to bring them good luck and make them return safely.

This ritual offers the same dangers of the previous one, with an added problem: Something else might return in place of your loved one. If a person you never saw comes before this doorway and asks to enter, do not allow them. If they look exactly (and I mean exactly) as your loved one did when he/she left, absolutely do not allow him/her to enter. No natural being looks exactly the same after returning from a journey.

Traps and Doorways 

First, find a small room with no windows or other openings apart from the door that leads into it. A large wardrobe, a safe or any other large container (large enough so that you may fit in is preferable) may work. Just make sure that, once closed, no light can shine on the inside, and that no breeze or small creatures can penetrate inside, so that the inside is completely isolated from the outside world. Cover every single of the inside walls with mirrors, so that the inside is completely mirrored, leaving no bits without a mirrored surface on it.

You must now close and lock the door as tightly as possible, and make sure it stays closed for several years. This is the tricky part, it might take dozens of years for the inside space to become disconnected enough from our world.

For the next part, you will need enough salt to encircle completely the outside of this enclosed space, a good ammount of salt water and alcohol, and a large blanket or veil, at least large enough to completely cover you.

After this long time, you should, occasionally, go to the door and put your ear on it, and try to detect any sort of noise coming from the inside. If you hear nothing, try knocking lightly on the door and see if you get any answer. If you hear nothing, leave and try again in a month or so. If you do hear something, immediately start encircling the container with salt (you may want a friend's help for this). Depending on what answer you got, you may have achieved one or several of these things:

If you heard noises without knocking, and the temperature of the door's surface is unusual, there is a chance you may have linked the inside of the container with another world. You may be able to reach it by opening the door and going inside it. However, this would be a very imprudent thing to do, as there is no way to know what lies beyond.

If you heard nothing at first, then knocked and got an answer, either as a noise or a knock on the door, then you have captured the spirit of a dead person, who's probably really confused right now. You may try asking questions, and they may answer if they hear it. Ghosts sometimes have some very useful insight, and you may now use the trapped spirit as a consultant on varied matters. After they answered your questions (or prove they do not know anything), cover yourself with a veil drenched in alcohol and salt water and open the door, releasing the spirit. The veil is to make you imperceptible to the spirit, so that they cannot follow you or seek revenge on you.

If you do get an answer that indicates a spirit, but the spirit has answered you in multiple, strange languages before finally talking to you in your native tongue, made very strange inhuman noises, maintained contact with you even after your distanced yourself considerably from the container, managed to move the container slightly in any way or caused very sudden changes of temperature on the container's surface, then you might have captured a non human spirit.

Something like a demon or an angel, whatever you like to call it.

These spirits have a great insight or practically everything, they can tell you how you will die, give you hints on what will happen tomorrow, teach you how to attain great power and fortune, teach you how to become very lucky, how to make people fall in love with you, who really shot JFK, what happened to the cross Jesus was nailed to, if aliens exist, etc.

If you have captured one of these beings, you must never, ever allow it to go free again. I recommend that you secure the container so that it cannot tip over or move out of the circle of salt you made, and make sure the salt doesn't get blown off by a breeze. You should also move very far from the container whenever you are not consulting with the spirit, or at least far enough so that the spirit cannot contact or affect you in any manner. You and your friends should bathe in salt water mixed with alcohol after coming in contact with the container or communicating with the spirit. If any of them (or yourself) start acting strange or having strange dreams, you and them should go father away from the place in which the container is located, and repeat the purifying rite with salt water and alcohol until all is normal again.

If the container is ever opened or damaged, so that the spirit breaks loose, there is nothing that can help you. The purifying rite will only keep it from finding you for so long, if you are still alive, it will find you. 