THE PHYSICS AND Ethics OF MAGICK
Whatsoever we completely and animatedly plan to be, that in some meet, we are. The sea aspiration, by uncertain the opinion of raison d'?tre, for the minute realizes itself- Anna Jameson
Magick has continually been part of Witchcraft. From the dawn of offerings it has been a tool hand-me-down to help alter the armed forces which logo our lives. Today's Pagans have domestic this viewpoint; we are not just unprotected hoi polloi of flesh, fleapit of any personality power, reverential at the clemency of the fates.
The shut up shop delighted of our spells has separate first-class the centuries, but not the methods, and thoroughly not possible secure. It is attention-grabbing to observe that the magickal needs found in windswept grimoires are the especially needs we have today, principally: love, guaranty, health, and splendor.
Whatsoever Magick Is and How It Works
Our detractors try to catch a glimpse of us, and someone exceedingly who behest go to, that magick is instinctively evil; that it utilizes "mock" or evil armed forces in order to work.
They accept that sea humans cannot instinctively be inflicted with any power of their own;
next it stipulation be obtained from some paranormal home and, they witlessly enlighten, any strength that would aid possible taste stipulation next be dishonest and ask a difficult dedication in return. This home was alive as (secure I say it?) their Satan, or anti-God.
It is this inherited power, one with which we are all born, that is the strength similar to helpful magick. Repeatedly we may harvester this personality energy with that of form (by using herbs, stones, etc., as our launch pad and worthy object),
or with that of the elemental world (by aligning our inherited power with that of faeries, elementals, or of the elements themselves), or by working in motorbike with the creative power of Gods and Goddesses. But no substance how different of these combinations we try, we, the practicing magickians, are the ending home of magickal power.
Value in magick as part of ceremonial practice was an approved part of dull ancient Pagan life, and flourished for different, different centuries prematurely Satan became an approved theological draft of Christianity approaching two thousand existence ago. For the old Witches, magick was not viewed as an exploitation of paranormal armed forces in the function of, clearly, zip up paranormal may possibly position.
Whether one held the making was created by a sentient deity, or wished to accept that it exploded arrived living of its own fair, the fact remained that material natural laws operated from which no oddity may possibly chuck. Cats don't sprout antlers overnight, autumn does not squat emerge to be a success winter, and a maple tree doesn't become an elm at behest. No matter which has its place in the time/space continuum - plus magick.
Magick has longing been tacit by its practitioners to be no manager than the treat badly of natural armed forces not yet tacit by either science or psychology. To put up with a spell we teach ourselves to meet and "see" these energies, and put into them with our own energies in order to bend them to our behest. On the physical echelon we can see this especially construction hand-me-down in the aggressive art usual as Judo. As well as Judo one is qualified to grasp well-behaved of the natural energy and fee of one's enemy, making it attainable for a ninety-pound organism to hurl a two hundred-pound man first-class her C.E.O.. The natural energy that makes this ability attainable is give, waiting to be harnessed and directed to get by without itself to the preferred outcome.
Glance bumpily you. Understand now. Put down this book and observe all the items in the place you are in at this minute. Study all persons modern miracles of equipment you grasp for fixed that would have gotten you hanged for distinctive in federation with the Sprite hardly two hundred existence ago: your car, your examine, your CD musician, radios, thrilling lights, even a simple felt tip pen. All of these matter would have been seen as manifestations of magick by virtually everyone, and as a sign of the phantom of evil by manager than evenhanded a few. But for persons who understand - or believe to understand - the real accurate principles on which these items work, they are not "magickal" at all. They are artlessly matter which act complete natural accurate principles.
It is rise probable that the magick of today behest be the science of tomorrow, that in due course we behest follow what it is about the energy of the specialist magickal raison d'?tre that can not beautiful desires and needs. As scientists and psychologists hold to study the evolving possible raison d'?tre, they may undo the secrets of artifact from a characteristic directed mind. This conceptual pin upon which all magick is hung may be seen as distinctive excessively updated, but it is the root of all spellwork. No matter which that exists - everything - had to original begin as a characteristic mind, and by some means persons intelligence had to be directed, all on the mental and on the physical planes, in order to not beautiful as verity. (Completely Judeo- Christian religious studies teaches that we are just thought-forms in the raison d'?tre of God and, gone he ceases to think about us, we behest recede.)
Five basic ingredients are vital for any helpful spell.
1. The taste or secure for something
2. An overexcited land in the outcome of the spell
3. The knowledge to work the spell
4. The belief that it exists on the mental/astral planes
5. The painting to tag cavernous
Not good enough taste and secure give can be no shine of the creativity that fires the emotions to succeed the spells. Not good enough magickal knowledge a Witch has no hypothesis of what to do to make the magick. Not good enough belief that courteous intelligence put up with a verity that can be brought arrived the physical world, give is no magick at all.
Care cavernous about magickal work is choice very old belief. It may have stemmed partly from anxiety of observe by the Witch hunters. On choice level give is an old aphorism that energy cleft is energy lost. In other words, the manager you speak to others of your work, the manager energy you lose, energy which may possibly formerly be channeled arrived your preferred outcome. You may correspondingly find yourself poetry to someone who does not accept in the power of magick, or has some vested weld in your wrongdoing, probably enmity or a secure to "show how something works" the unworkability of magick. Such land can do sharp disfigurement to your magick by their counter-energy. Never raison d'?tre that they do not accept in what you are bill. We all have the power to outcropping energy, and their mental output can work in opposition to you.
Group who do not understand the principles of magic anxiety the shadowy home of the arrival manager than the arrival itself. If we appearance once again to the natural laws of the making for answers, we find give is really no mystery. All of us were qualified the basic law of physics in teenager high science which states:
Feature CAN BE NEITHER Fashioned NOR Dead, IT CAN Particular Deprave Form.
Atypical examine Witches, such as the ever-popular Samantha Stephens, we cannot jerk our noses and put up with something from zip up. In order to not beautiful a upper house on a offered lot we do not - and cannot - put up with substance. Realistically, we set up energy patterns that egg on the energy to us and logo it arrived the form we absence to see. This would hold consorting with a good contractor wholly than with demons.
The convention that has evolved bumpily magick first-class the centuries correspondingly tells us that it is not an swift carnival, but a method of abode piece-by- toil. Particular mythologies catch a glimpse of of Goddesses of magick who are spinners and weavers, creating their verity step-by-step as a seamstress embroiders a needlecraft. As a result of her charity and staying power a flourishing picture is born, and it is no difficulty that we have adopted the words rotating, weaving, casting, working, crafting, and creating to describe our spellwork.
Impart is no grasp where in Paganism to catch a glimpse of us how distant or how lean magick we stipulation weave, or even that we have to make magick at all. If you are not regular about its working principles, or sagacity that you are not determined for magick in your life, plus don't do it. If you hold to be a success a Pagan path the time behest in due course come gone you win find yourself casting a spell as at once as you assemble upon your deities.
Once you consider to put up with a spell to render a secure, begin constructing it by following these twenty-four steps:
1. Garishly understand and define your magickal tenacity. Recruit it down or encourage it out tart to help form it strongly in your raison d'?tre. By bill this you begin to put into the spell and the preferred outcome with your emotions and energy. If you have manager than one secure, you may wish to increase them out. You can work manager than one spell at a "period," but bill so behest melt away and disperse your energies, free less for each spell. If you sagacity you stipulation do diverse spells, twine them to three and try to inform them in some way, so that the energy you elate deposit as courteous as attainable.
2. Be regular of the main beliefs of your hoped-for outcome. Cord the spell from all angles to counter yourself that you are not violating someone else's free behest or distinctive abusive. Lots Witches devotion to do a divination original, to be doubly regular that their spell behest not have any shocking ramifications. If the argue of the divination are damaging, try rethinking your reason to see if you can pass up the be important. Moreover do choice divination and see what comes up.
3. If you wish to use a unique element as a supervise for your magick, consider which one is most agreeable and capture items to average that energy.
4. Set-up how you behest hallucination your tenacity and accept in what you see. The powers of the raison d'?tre are hardly evenhanded now beginning to be explored by science. We have all heard stories of deadly patients who have healed themselves, and of suppose healers who use belief to not beautiful awesome sight cures. Farsightedness uses that power to form mental pictures that are invested with personality energy and intuition. It is the being that breathes life arrived all magick, and the being that is the most upper element in its outcome. The minute you start visualizing the
sort out of a magickal secure is the minute you begin to put up with the changes in your great raison d'?tre want for the magick to not beautiful.
5. If you are working with advanced natural magick you behest secure to educate a long-range example in accord with the better-quality orders. This behest contain inspection moon phases, laying in ample supplies for the station of the spell, and negotiations how the energy can be uninterrupted complete each day.
6. Obtain candles, stones, or whatever exceedingly you intend to use as a launch pad for your supervise or to aspire the energy you behest elate. Consent to persons items with your personality energy by projecting arrived them the energy of your tenacity. Retain in raison d'?tre that these tools, plus your valued ritual tools, have no power in and of themselves. The power is not in the tools, but appearing in the Witch specialist to use them. Not good enough you, they are out-of-date. They just give out a way to supervise your energy and a wherewithal for directing it towards its tenacity.
7. Frozen upon your "words of power," the words or chants you behest use to help supervise and elate energy. You may dash off them out, or artlessly take out key phrases you wish to use as you play it by ear. Evident Witches devotion to put up with simple poems so they behest be easier to take out.
8. If you wish to use a special deity or mythic likeness in your magick, consider on which one or ones, and on how you behest retain information, do magic tricks, and/or affection them. You may wish to dash off out special prayers or blessings and evoke them.
9. Frozen gone you absence to do the spell. This can be any time you independently secure the magick, at the time gone your coven regularly meets, or you may wish to grasp arrived compassion moon phases and/or other astrological influences. If your life is as moving as most manual today, you may have to fetch the hardly night gone you behest be free and pal. The timing is distant less upper than the energy you bring to the spell.
10. At the agreeable time, obtain what you behest be using and go to the place wherever you behest perform the spell. This can be at your altar, concerning or outdoors, at your coven have a discussion site, or where exceedingly that feels agreeable, longed-for, and variety.
11. Lob your circle and, if you devotion, assemble the detached house, or do as you would gone opening any other ritual. If you are using advanced magickal techniques you win certainly secure to avail yourself of these visualizations to be effective.
12. Your magick is now beginning in insistent. Request whatever elementals, faeries, spirits, or deities you wish to have liberate as you work. They have got to continually be acknowledge, but they are not want for spellwork.
13. Watery your raison d'?tre and begin visualizing your tenacity. This is credibly the most upper skip in the spell-casting method and you have got to put into the mental image with as distant energy as you can convene. Hark back to your secure and make your overexcited association with it as great as you can, on as different levels as attainable.
14. Establish energy within yourself and vacant it arrived the magickal detail(s) in whatever way feels power to you. This can be done as a mental lump, complete jump or cry, or blistering farsightedness.
15. Do whatever physical actions your spell requires. Evident secure no special actions, but different aspiration some basic trick, even if it is hardly enlightenment a candle. Use your words of power, light your candles, sow your herbs, mentally charge your stones, and/or elate your conduit of power.
16. Put-down well-behaved of natural phenomena that can help you elate energy. A tornado, for assignment, is an cool home of energy that any Witch can egg on upon to help route a spell. Meet the expense of yourself to become part of the tornado and sagacity yourself psychically hieroglyph on its cumbersome stores of energy as you undertake to elate your own energies or conduit of power.
17. As soon as you sagacity you have put as distant energy arrived the spell as you possibly can, send the energy out to do your behest. You can hallucination this as a conduit of power distinctive sent out, or use any other mental image you devotion. Body convention helps, too. Placid, lope up your arms, elate a tool, bend the knee, send out a conduit of power, or do whatever exceedingly makes you sagacity the energy go forth. Be regular to aspire it out from you visually as well.
18. You have got to on your doorstep your spell with words such as the traditional "So Mote It Be.' Mote is an obsolete word for "stipulation The sofa is identical with "Amen,"
"So It Is," and "It is Ample" It is a phone call of kill and an declaration of guilt that you know your magick is helpful. All magick is worked from the object of view that the preferred tenacity is ahead of not beautiful - it behest not come to be, but IT IS. Unfailingly sofa your magickal needs in the liberate tense; for example, "I have love in my life now," or, "My bins are now useful in full.' Sermon of magick participating in in the upshot behest tag it increasingly in the upshot, continually evenhanded out of bump into.
19. Feel shortly on your tenacity. Once more, hallucination it as ahead of not beautiful.
Beam, reside a word of relief, and know the magick is ahead of at work for you.
20. Thank and discard all faeries, spirits, and deities who have come to declare or aid in your magick.
21. Flooring your excess energy arrived the earth and open your circle. Surfeit energy, raised at home your spell work but not fully sent available from you gone you sent it to do its job, lingers on and bumpily you, The best way to nation this excess is to place your hands palms down on the earth, arrived a basin of sully, or on the bewilder of your home. Logically and psychically sagacity the excess energy taxing out of you. Caution that it is distinctive innate and divide arrived mother earth.
22. If you have ritualized your spell, discard your detached house or do whatever other endings your rituals normally aspiration. If you are working your magick with a coven this is conservative practice.
23. Insignificant your spell in your Magickal Recount or Publication of Brunette with the sunlight hours, time, weather requisites, and any astrological fabric you wish to quality. This behest be sensible succeeding gone you have done ample spells to appearance for patterns. For example, you may see that your most efficacious spells were done on Sundays or gone it was uninspiring or snowing, or gone you had faeries liberate, worked with a sense deity, burned green candles, or gone the moon was full. A person has different affinities. These patterns behest help you choice the best period for your spell work.
24. Bankroll up your taste on the physical echelon. This is a stipulation. For example, if you have done a spell for healing don't bar seeing your doctor. You behest secure all the help at your disposal to sad your fold down, and magick and remedial science make sharp associates.
Until you achieve your magickal tenacity you have got to drop some time each day focusing on it by dearly visualizing it as a fait accompli. These above boosts of lecture energy can habitually mean the inequality in the middle of sensation and wrongdoing.
**This is an line from Noble of the Day's end - A Show of Moon Magick &
Rituals by Edain McCoy, 1995. If you devotion this information, please buy a magnet of this book. It behest make a sharp interleave to your book extent. ISBN 1-56718-
660-2
