So, I was inspired by a few posts in here to give this another shot and I have a few questions for anyone who is knowledgeable in the subject.
First, as I understand it, you gotta have a system of beliefs full of deities and spirits and all that stuff from which to work. What does someone like me who has been an atheist for their entire life do? Is it okay to make up your own religion or something or do you still have to adhere to someone else's system of beliefs.
Also, I've once read someone say that there's some kind of special formula for making a sigil where you take the letters out of your intent and arrange the in some way. Could you just write them in some way that's meaningful to you like in japanese kanji or other languages that you don't understand.
That's it for now.