THE BASICS OF MAGICK
Ethics
The Wiccan Rede
The Law or Return (sometimes called the "Threefold Law")
Perfect Love and Perfect Trust (among partners in magick)
The Witches' Pyramid
Faith in your abilities and powers.
Imagination to vividly create in your mind that which you desire
to manifest.
Will to achieve your goal despite all obstacles.
Secrecy to keep your magickal intention concentrated and pure.
The four Qualities of the Mage
To know
To will
To dare
To keep silence
Preparatory Skills
(hatha and raja yoga are good aids to developing
these)
Cleansing, clearing and stilling
Grounding
Centering
Concentrating ieving one-pointedness)
Defining the Goal: Form vs. Essence
Working with the Power
Confining it (casting the Circle)
Raising it
Sending it (channeling it)... for immediate effect or into storage
Earthing the excess (grounding it)
Systems and Techniques
Spellcraft
Words of Power and affirmations, charms and
incantations
Dance, postures and mudras
Meditation, trancework and hypnosis, fascination
Stone magick
Candle magick
Amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic batteries"
Healing
1. Psychic (visualization, laying on of hands)
2. Herbal
3. Energy channeling iwht auras and chakras
4. Color therapy
5. Other systems listed above
Divination
1. Scrying
2. Astrology
3. Tarot
4. Runesticks
5. Lithomancy (casting the stones)
6. I Ching
7. Other systems
8. Pendulum or radiesthesia
Astral travel
Thought forms; wraiths, fetches, artificial elementals
Extra-sensory perception
1. Clairsentience
2. Clairvoyance
3. Clairaudience
4. Precognition
5. Telepathy
6. Telempathy
7. Psychometry
8. Telekinesis
9. Teleportation
Sympathetic magic (poppets and such)
Runes
Mediumship, necromancy, and spirit guides
Philtres and Poteins
Cleansing, purification, protection and blessing; exorcism;
ligature, binding
Power animals, totems and familiars; shapeshifting
Tree magick
Dreamcraft
Ritual tool magick
Invocation, evocation and going into aspect
Symbols, sigils and images; Tattvic symbols; numerology
Conjuration or summoning; banishing or exorcism
Commemoration or linking
Past life regression or recall
AA. Pathworking on the Tree of Life
BB. Ceremonial magic
Timing
The lunar cycle
The Wheel of the Year
Astrological conjunctions
Planetary hours and days
Individual biorhythms
Creating your own reality, following your True Will
Prepared by: Amber K -- Our Lady of the Woods
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