Magick
"The art and science of causing change to
occur in conformity with will which could be put more simply as making
desired change happen; or as "energy tending to change"; a definition I use
is "magick is conscious evolution through directing energy". This does not
really explain magick though, so I will try to elaborate on these phrases
without jargon.
Magick tends to work a lot with symbols, as these are the language of the
unconscious, and this is an area of tremendous power to tap. Symbols have
many functions, and one of these, released through magick, can be the
ability to confound the ego and the censor mechanisms, and enabling us to
perceive more subtle truths, or experience direct revelations. Although we
may not be able to fully explain how symbols work, we know from experience
that certain symbols seem harmonious with certain types of energy
Magick is finding your connection to the Earth and all that is natural, alive and moving in the universe! It binds all that exists together.
Magick is living in balance with the flow of life, and knowing that you are a vital force within that flow. Magick is everywhere! In the trees, rain, stars, and in the sea. It is the spark that quickens a seed to rise up from the soil.
Magick is laughter, joy, wonder and truth the of the world around us!
! Magick is not greed, or power, or pretense...It is real. It exists. And it works.
Magick is the mystery that lies in the secret soul of the world. It is the essence of creation. What we imagine, we have the power to create! Magick is within you and wihtin all life/
Sympathetic Magick
Sympathetic Magick known to be the oldest forms of magick. It is based primarily on two principles,"likes produce likes," or that an effect resembles it cause; and, second, that things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distant even after they have been severed or disconnected. The former principle is called the Law of Similarity The practice of sympathetic magick involves the enacting of symbolic or real acts on the object which has a magickal link with the desired target of the acts. This includes, but is not exclusive to, fetishes andPoppet,and "voodoo dolls" which are, incidentally, used in both positive and negative magick. An element of sympathetic magick may be useful in any physical "results magick" since it creates a stronger link between the ritual and the desired resultMuch of candle magick is sympathetic magick as well
Magick
Magick is different from Magic
The term magic is used for the magicians on stage
Magick is what is within us all it is working .channeling and manipulating energy in accord wiht our highest will.
Have you ever made a wish and it come true, itis magick.
An article I found interesting
What Is Magick
What Is Magick
David Rankine
© copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 David Rankine
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is magick? Forget all the fallacies and
stereotypical pre-conceptions
taught to you out of fear and ignorance and
approach this question with an
open mind. You will probably find it is not what
you have been taught to
think. Magick has been defined as "The art and
science of causing change to
occur in conformity with will *1" which could
be put more simply as making
desired change happen; or as "energy tending to
change"; a definition I use
is "magick is conscious evolution through
directing energy". This does not
really explain magick though, so I will try to
elaborate on these phrases
without jargon.
An aim of magick is to train the mind by
harnessing and making more
consciously accessible such higher faculties as
intuition, inspiration and
the creative imagination, and by drawing on the
power of the unconscious -
to try and use more than the 10% of our brain's
capacity that we do.
Magick assumes belief in, or rather experience
of, subtle energies. We can
only see about one seventieth of the light
spectrum, yet what we cannot see
still affects us - such as x-rays and ultraviolet
light. Similarly, magick
is about focusing more subtle, non-physical
energies, and directing them to
create change. To go about this requires
experience, and training to improve
the power of the mind, and specifically, the
will.
Acts such as meditation, breath control, voice
work, body work,
visualization, drama, ritual, and others, are all
designed to improve our
body and mind, to better sharpen us and balance
us, and to enable us to
perceive and wield more subtle energies.
In the same way, an individual is as strong as
their will, and the more
balanced and integrated a person is, the stronger
their will (note, this is
probably one of the main reasons why so many
magicians have experience of
counselling and/or psychology, recognising the
help these processes can
give, both through training and experiencing
them. This also acts as a
removal of farcical social stigma often attached
to these processes).
Practising magick tends to act as a
deconditioning mechanism and can be a
subtle process, the longer you practice, the more
you change and the
unnecessary inhibitions, stigmas, guilts and sin
complexes that society
builds in are removed. This has the effect of
releasing their energy into
the psyche, where it can strengthen the
individual.
The more physical side, such as yoga, bodywork,
dance and massage, also
removes the tension held in the body as body
armour, and releases this and
removes energy blockages which impair full
efficiency and may result in
illness.
Possibly the major difference between magick and
many of the religious paths
to spiritual growth is that magick is more
dynamic, and places the emphasis
on you to work for change - there are no gurus in
magick, rather there are
fellow students with different perspectives and
experiences - we learn from
each other, as in other areas of life.
Magick tends to work a lot with symbols, as these
are the language of the
unconscious, and this is an area of tremendous
power to tap. Symbols have
many functions, and one of these, released
through magick, can be the
ability to confound the ego and the censor
mechanisms, and enabling us to
perceive more subtle truths, or experience direct
revelations. Although we
may not be able to fully explain how symbols
work, we know from experience
that certain symbols seem harmonious with certain
types of energy.
For example a magician may tell you that if you
want to attract love you
should wear green, and rose perfume, perhaps wear
copper, like a bracelet or
necklace, etc. These are all things attributed
with Venus, who is associated
with love, and so the principal is one of
contagion - sympathetic magick, or
making something happen by working with items
linked to it. This is one of
the oldest and most commonly practised forms of
magick. Working with the
symbols of a type of energy does seem to attract
that energy.
A cautionary word here, magick is often seen as a
way to hidden powers, and
entered for the wrong reason, the "I want sex,
power and lots of money"
syndrome. Now there is nothing wrong with these
things in themselves, but
when you do magick you will discover that you
tend to get what you need
rather than necessarily what you want.
When you do magick you generally use techniques
to alter your state of
consciousness and raise energy, and then direct
that energy to create a
desired result. The channel that energy takes as
directed by your altered
state of consciousness is not necessarily the
path you might expect in your
normal everyday state. Magick does bring you
power, yes, but it is power
over yourself, not other people. It is the power
that is important, to grow
and to create positive change.
This does not mean there is anything wrong with
using magick to gain more
physical things, there is nothing wrong with
doing a ritual or spell to get
a job, whereas trying to make a specific
individual go to bed with you would
be wrong. Magick is very much about intent, and
if your intent is to get
work, you are not imposing on people, whereas if
you were trying to make
somebody do something that they would not
naturally do, you are imposing on
their will.
If you did a ritual to attract love without
specifying a person, but opening
yourself to the opportunity to meet someone where
love may arise, and to
feel more attractive and better about yourself,
you are not imposing, you
are trying to create positive change.
Magick is a commitment to yourself, and it
requires determination,
perseverance, strength, openness to change and
absence of rigidity, a love
of life (including yourself), and a desire to
grow and fulfil your
potential. It may be that you already have all
these qualities and do this
already without calling it magick - magick is not
about labels, and those
who think and talk as if it is unfortunately put
some people off. Magick is
learning about the natural flows of energy in the
universe, and working in
harmony with them to effect positive change, both
in yourself and in your
environment.
Some people ask why magick is spelt with a 'k' on
the end. This is to
distinguish it from magic, associated in the
popular mind with illusionism
and prestidigitation, stage magic. Magick is not
about illusion, it is about
creating real change, and the 'k' signifies this.
K is the eleventh letter
of the alphabet, i.e. the one beyond ten.
Symbolically this is very
powerful, as we work in base ten, and eleven
represents the unseen, or
hidden energies - the subtle energies of magick,
eleven is considered to be
the number of magick.
Magickal training and experience bring forth the
energies of the
unconscious, and so it is no surprise to see that
symbols become more
important as you develop, providing not only the
language of dream and the
unconscious, but also helping create a more
flexible perception grid of the
universe. To grow spiritually, it is vital that
you remain flexible and do
not become dogmatic, rather that you are open to
experience and willing to
question your ideas and beliefs as a result of
those experiences.
Magick can be a painful process. It is not easy
to maintain the discipline
and honest self-critical approach all the time.
It can also be hard work
dealing with the energy released without being
knocked off balance
sometimes. The important thing in these cases is
to remain honest and keep
at it. Nobody said magick was easy! It takes a
lot of practice and hard work
and pain, but the rewards are spiritual and
mental growth, the joy of life
and the beauty of unconditional love. Beyond the
limits there are no limits!
-end-
------------------------------------------------------------
© copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 David Rankine
www.avalonia.co.uk
This article may be reproduced for non-commercial
purposes, providing that
this original copyright notice stays in place at
all times.
The term magic is used for the magicians on stage
Magick is what is within us all it is working .channeling and manipulating energy in accord wiht our highest will.
Have you ever made a wish and it come true, itis magick.
An article I found interesting
What Is Magick
What Is Magick
David Rankine
© copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 David Rankine
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What is magick? Forget all the fallacies and
stereotypical pre-conceptions
taught to you out of fear and ignorance and
approach this question with an
open mind. You will probably find it is not what
you have been taught to
think. Magick has been defined as "The art and
science of causing change to
occur in conformity with will *1" which could
be put more simply as making
desired change happen; or as "energy tending to
change"; a definition I use
is "magick is conscious evolution through
directing energy". This does not
really explain magick though, so I will try to
elaborate on these phrases
without jargon.
An aim of magick is to train the mind by
harnessing and making more
consciously accessible such higher faculties as
intuition, inspiration and
the creative imagination, and by drawing on the
power of the unconscious -
to try and use more than the 10% of our brain's
capacity that we do.
Magick assumes belief in, or rather experience
of, subtle energies. We can
only see about one seventieth of the light
spectrum, yet what we cannot see
still affects us - such as x-rays and ultraviolet
light. Similarly, magick
is about focusing more subtle, non-physical
energies, and directing them to
create change. To go about this requires
experience, and training to improve
the power of the mind, and specifically, the
will.
Acts such as meditation, breath control, voice
work, body work,
visualization, drama, ritual, and others, are all
designed to improve our
body and mind, to better sharpen us and balance
us, and to enable us to
perceive and wield more subtle energies.
In the same way, an individual is as strong as
their will, and the more
balanced and integrated a person is, the stronger
their will (note, this is
probably one of the main reasons why so many
magicians have experience of
counselling and/or psychology, recognising the
help these processes can
give, both through training and experiencing
them. This also acts as a
removal of farcical social stigma often attached
to these processes).
Practising magick tends to act as a
deconditioning mechanism and can be a
subtle process, the longer you practice, the more
you change and the
unnecessary inhibitions, stigmas, guilts and sin
complexes that society
builds in are removed. This has the effect of
releasing their energy into
the psyche, where it can strengthen the
individual.
The more physical side, such as yoga, bodywork,
dance and massage, also
removes the tension held in the body as body
armour, and releases this and
removes energy blockages which impair full
efficiency and may result in
illness.
Possibly the major difference between magick and
many of the religious paths
to spiritual growth is that magick is more
dynamic, and places the emphasis
on you to work for change - there are no gurus in
magick, rather there are
fellow students with different perspectives and
experiences - we learn from
each other, as in other areas of life.
Magick tends to work a lot with symbols, as these
are the language of the
unconscious, and this is an area of tremendous
power to tap. Symbols have
many functions, and one of these, released
through magick, can be the
ability to confound the ego and the censor
mechanisms, and enabling us to
perceive more subtle truths, or experience direct
revelations. Although we
may not be able to fully explain how symbols
work, we know from experience
that certain symbols seem harmonious with certain
types of energy.
For example a magician may tell you that if you
want to attract love you
should wear green, and rose perfume, perhaps wear
copper, like a bracelet or
necklace, etc. These are all things attributed
with Venus, who is associated
with love, and so the principal is one of
contagion - sympathetic magick, or
making something happen by working with items
linked to it. This is one of
the oldest and most commonly practised forms of
magick. Working with the
symbols of a type of energy does seem to attract
that energy.
A cautionary word here, magick is often seen as a
way to hidden powers, and
entered for the wrong reason, the "I want sex,
power and lots of money"
syndrome. Now there is nothing wrong with these
things in themselves, but
when you do magick you will discover that you
tend to get what you need
rather than necessarily what you want.
When you do magick you generally use techniques
to alter your state of
consciousness and raise energy, and then direct
that energy to create a
desired result. The channel that energy takes as
directed by your altered
state of consciousness is not necessarily the
path you might expect in your
normal everyday state. Magick does bring you
power, yes, but it is power
over yourself, not other people. It is the power
that is important, to grow
and to create positive change.
This does not mean there is anything wrong with
using magick to gain more
physical things, there is nothing wrong with
doing a ritual or spell to get
a job, whereas trying to make a specific
individual go to bed with you would
be wrong. Magick is very much about intent, and
if your intent is to get
work, you are not imposing on people, whereas if
you were trying to make
somebody do something that they would not
naturally do, you are imposing on
their will.
If you did a ritual to attract love without
specifying a person, but opening
yourself to the opportunity to meet someone where
love may arise, and to
feel more attractive and better about yourself,
you are not imposing, you
are trying to create positive change.
Magick is a commitment to yourself, and it
requires determination,
perseverance, strength, openness to change and
absence of rigidity, a love
of life (including yourself), and a desire to
grow and fulfil your
potential. It may be that you already have all
these qualities and do this
already without calling it magick - magick is not
about labels, and those
who think and talk as if it is unfortunately put
some people off. Magick is
learning about the natural flows of energy in the
universe, and working in
harmony with them to effect positive change, both
in yourself and in your
environment.
Some people ask why magick is spelt with a 'k' on
the end. This is to
distinguish it from magic, associated in the
popular mind with illusionism
and prestidigitation, stage magic. Magick is not
about illusion, it is about
creating real change, and the 'k' signifies this.
K is the eleventh letter
of the alphabet, i.e. the one beyond ten.
Symbolically this is very
powerful, as we work in base ten, and eleven
represents the unseen, or
hidden energies - the subtle energies of magick,
eleven is considered to be
the number of magick.
Magickal training and experience bring forth the
energies of the
unconscious, and so it is no surprise to see that
symbols become more
important as you develop, providing not only the
language of dream and the
unconscious, but also helping create a more
flexible perception grid of the
universe. To grow spiritually, it is vital that
you remain flexible and do
not become dogmatic, rather that you are open to
experience and willing to
question your ideas and beliefs as a result of
those experiences.
Magick can be a painful process. It is not easy
to maintain the discipline
and honest self-critical approach all the time.
It can also be hard work
dealing with the energy released without being
knocked off balance
sometimes. The important thing in these cases is
to remain honest and keep
at it. Nobody said magick was easy! It takes a
lot of practice and hard work
and pain, but the rewards are spiritual and
mental growth, the joy of life
and the beauty of unconditional love. Beyond the
limits there are no limits!
-end-
------------------------------------------------------------
© copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 David Rankine
www.avalonia.co.uk
This article may be reproduced for non-commercial
purposes, providing that
this original copyright notice stays in place at
all times.
