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Someone on one of the lists I subscribe to asked me an interesting question today:
"You call yourself a socerer How do you define Sorcery versus other forms of magick?"
I really use the term sorcerer for two reasons:
1. It has the connotation of practical magick. While I do use magick
for personal development, spiritual fulfillment, and illumination; I
also use it to make changes in real world events and effect real
peoples minds. Thaumaturgic action is the outward expression of
Theurgic Illumination.
2. It's an underused term that doesnt have a mess of modern baggage
heaped upon it. I have over 20 years been involved in a lot of
different aspects of magick. I started studying GD influenced magick
along side of Rootworking while I was still in High School. There are
some that think of me only as a Ceremonial Magician. Some who even know
me primarily as a Thelemite. Some know me a Witch while others know me
primarily as Rootworker. Many know me only as a Tantrik Buddhist and
nothing else.
The problem is that some of these terms have unwanted connections, and
some imply that you are NOT something else. For instance if someone
describes me as a Ceremonial Magician, for many that indicated I am NOT
a Witch or Rootworker. Some ceremonial magicians have freaked out when
they hear that I do practical magick for other people, feeling that
magick is only about spiritual development and inner change. When they
find out that I do it for money thier heads implode. However, if I get
described as a rootworker than its assumed I dont practice Ceremonial
Magick, which is also clearly not true. If I get described as a witch,
I have to explain that I am not wiccan.
As someone who was in the OTO for years, founded a chapter of that
body, and still lecture regularly at the Philadlphia Lodge, some people
introduce me as a Thelemite. While it is true in the broadest sense (ie
in the Collona and Rabelaisian sense), most people hear that and think
I am a Crowley head, which clearly I am not.
My views on magick over all are most shaped by Tibetan Magical systems,
which incorporate internal yogas, very advanced ceremonial magick
technique, and rootwork style spell work seamlessly in one package.
They spent as much energy on magick in Tibet, as we have on science and
technology for the last 1200 years. When I turned my attention back to
western methods, every system seemed lacking when taken alone, so I
need to incorporate methods to have all the bases covered.
I like not to be bound by loaded terms and the crap that has been laid
upon them recently. Magician, Witch, Rootworker, Yogi, etc all have
baggage that I try to avoid. I used to use the term "Cunning Man" but
that has been so twisted and misused by certain quarters of the
Traditional Witchcraft community that I don't use it anymore either.
As I try to put my views and methods of practical magick into a
comprehensable teaching I decided on the term Sorcery because, other
than Moloch, nobody is using it these days.
In the future I plan on shifting much of my spiritual work to the role of Gnostic Christian Priest. Clearly that too will have a lot of baggage and many people will make assumptions about things that I am NOT, including a Sorcerer. I will have to jump off that bridge when I come to it.
Source: crafty-witch.blogspot.com
Sacred Salt On our altars we place the bowl, shell, dish, even bare crystals describing the pentagram, salt. We charge it as a creature of Earth and combine it with charged water to cleanse and consecrate our circles. We embed our crystals in it to cleanse and charge them. We symbolize and honor Earth with it. We discuss the use of sea salt over table salt as if there were some difference that matters to magic. We speak of it as "grounding." Since before written history, salt has held an equally significant place in the workings of the temple. The drawn square is an ancient symbol of salt, possibly from Sumaria or Egypt. It stands for land, ground, or Earth. Being found in flats of crystal deposited upon the land, and being basic to survival, it stands to reason human beings would consider it as important as the ground upon which they stood, and the land to which they looked for sustenance. In many a record of temple activities all over the world, are mentioned the places and uses of salt. It was used to cleanse, preserve, and assist in the sanctification of articles, including sacrifices. As salt was considered very valuable by many peoples, even to being used as currency, it was also made as a sacrifice in its own right. No doubt, in a temple in which sacrificial meat was preserved, salt would have been considered a greater gift than gold in many cases. Salt, being toxic to bacteria, molds, and yeasts, all too small for the human eye to detect, was thought to chase away the evil, or spirits that ruined meat. It wasn't a far stretch for peoples that observed this to believe salt scared away evil spirits anywhere. Salt is associated with luck, as well. A windfall of wealth is bound to cause a person to feel lucky, and a salt find (more valuable than precious metals in some cases,) would be that windfall. By the same token, spilled salt was considered a harbinger of ill luck. The response for spilling salt was to sacrifice salt. Perhaps, thus was born the superstition one should toss salt over one's left shoulder. Another possible origin was the habit of tossing salt behind one in order to stop evil spirits from following, such as in the progress away from a grave. We use it to cleanse our crystals after healing use, and to cleanse them 4 times a year to remove any bad vibes or auras that they may have collected. We also lay a line of salt around our house, to protect and prevent any evil from enteringIt's also great to pour into a cleansing bath... salt will remove any bad influence from our aura's, and when taking a shower and used as a scrub it does the same thing.An application of salt water after washing your hair will bring out the curls and waves that you associate with a day at the beach. Also used with hot water, to soak an infected area of the body to pull the infection out of the wound so that it can be cleaned!It's also a quick first aid when you not near enough to get to supplies.. salt poured on a wound will prevent infection till you can get home and clean it better... it will smart, but it's worth it!What other things do YOU use it for?
MY WICCA (Part 4 of 5)
By Durwydd MacTara
b) It is the use of differing god forms, of differing
ethnic sources or periods, which is the basis of many of
the differences between the various Traditions of the
Craft. Each Tradition uses the forms, and thus the names,
which to that Tradition best express and awaken an
understanding of the force represented, according to the
areas of emphasis of the Tradition.
c) Because we know that differing names or
representations are but expressions of the same divine
principles and forces, we require our members to swear
that they will never mock the names by which another
honors the Divine, even though those names be different
from and seemingly less expressive than the names and god
forms used by our Tradition (for to the members of
another Tradition, using it's names, ours may easily seem
equally less expressive).
8. A Witch refuses to allow her/himself to be corrupted by the great guilt neuroses which have been foisted on humanity in the name of the Divine, thus freeing the self of the slavery of the mind. The Witch expresses responsibility for her/his actions, and accepts the consequen- ces of them; guilt is rejected as inhibiting to one's self-actualiza- tion, and replaced by the efforts of the Witch to obey the teachings of harmlessness, responsibility for the consequences of one's actions, and the goal of actualizing the full powers of the individual.
a) We refuse to believe that a human being is born
innately sinful, and recognize the concepts of sin and
guilt are tremendously inhibiting to the human potential;
the consequences of the Law of Cause and Effect, called
karma by some, are not punishment, but the recurrences of
situations and their effects because the individual has
not gained the Wisdom needed to handle or avoid such
situations.
b) There is no heaven except that which we ourselves make
of our life on Earth, and likewise there is no hell
except the effects of our unwise actions. Many of us believe
in a "waiting place" sometimes called Summerland where we rest,
recuperate and prepare for our next sojurn in the earth. "Death
is not followed by punishment or reward, but by life and the
continuing personal evolution of our human potential.
c) One cannot damn the divine in oneself; one can,
however, cut oneself off from it through the rejection of
wisdom and a refusal to strive for self-realization.
This cutting off does not lead to personal suffering in
"hell", for there is no Self to suffer if the tie to
one's own divinity has been severed; what remains is
merely an empty shell, a "personality" or thought-form
devoid of it's ensouling Spark of the Divine Fire.
Make-believe, take pleasure in everything also needs to be certified. In the vastly way that no moment in time magician who is playing the payment of magician specter get wherever deteriorating practice, how a lot manager out of this world a "real" magician who touches the total specter go wherever deteriorating practice.
Any aspiring magician specter cart to practice manuscript, or at smallest number of as fixed to manuscript as reachable, furthermost of the classic authors on magic specter give in this wiles. In weigh against with religion, where manuscript prayer leads a ferment faster to a link with their god, manuscript practice specter lead a magician en route for faster link with themselves and their true specter.
Many books give in wiles on manuscript practice routines, but it is vital for each minor magician to expound their own manuscript guaranteed, and let it increase and become a dynamic part of their life. If you initially derive a manuscript guaranteed, and find it no longer works, but hinders you in your magical mission, it may be time to alter it!
Nevertheless, you constraint start with an youthful derive, comport yourself a bit of prediction one day, a bit of Asana the with, and a bit of envisage work considering you handle take pleasure in it on separate, specter lead you nowhere fast. Task to master a few of the simpler techniques, as a consequence move on to manager difficult work, no one can become a Magus overnight.
Also Midsummer and Samhain, Beltane is accredit up offering with them. Leap has sprung, all the attractive vegetation and Benchmark and all the babyish. May is a under enemy control month within in my house. We exercise Beltane accredit off the bat with some fun traditions that I strength of mind collection in a sunny. My daughters wedding anniversary may 5th and Mothers the sponsor week/weekend. for the utmost part we celebrate Wedding anniversary and Mother's day on the weekend as soon as the 5th in recent times so we can do em in one go and not exercise as greatly down recovery and stress from the endless dishes:P
Favorably for Beltane:)
Masses of distinctly colors, blues, pinks, greens, yellows. A lot of our home vegetation haven't budded yet so we use deception reusable vegetation to cut into for the whole week. To the same extent we don't really exercise a place for a maypole in our factory we use the tree. It looks really cool as soon as its done too.
This go out with constrain be harder to build a Beltane fire than prior but i'm separation to encourage to make a dutiful of fire pit out of an old, and i mean OLD roast BBQ that we've had seeing that i can observe.
Behind schedule the kids exercise played exercise their fun and everyone has eaten time for adults to sit and take a drop some Pineapple concoction enjoyment. (all of course as soon as the kids exercise gone to bed)
May not measure believe a lot but its what we do and exercise fun do its stuff it.
Beltane dinner:
White cheddar and grenades with southern words white meat chunks
Red wine vinagret salad
distinctly cupcakes:P
Pineapple concoction enjoyment
White cheddar grenades and southern words white meat chunks:(if you exercise supercilious than three ppl you strength of mind yearn for to substitute this recipe)
Favorably for this you yearn for a box of the grenades and white cheddar make persons according to the box and put them in a big chuck to the same degree done and frozen uncultivated frigidity and pulp is very thick
Give birth to A immense white meat breast that has been marinading AT Least 24 hours in italian salad bind.
Cut them in to 1 inch chunks. Set aside being you swill the flour and clean.
Give birth to one immense egg and 1/3 cup milk and mix up together uncultivated well polluted
Give birth to your white meat chunks and fling them in the egg clean.
In a chuck exercise 1-2 china doll flour and 2 tablespoons sea briny
Mix the flour and briny well as well as overthrow your washed white meat chunks and roll them appearing in the flour to make okay they are patterned well in flour.
In a immense pan (I choose cast shiny down the flaw non stop crap)
add some conservational oil
Pop your battered white meat in the pan and cook on each look toward desire sufficient to see it a category golden obscurity color. The chunks have to be short sufficient that if they cook in recent times that desire they strength of mind be fit to be eaten all the way downstairs but endlessly done and inventive.
Give birth to you grenades you finished in the past out of the fridge and add the souther words chunks to the pasta being white meat is hot and pasta is frigidity.
Pineapple concoction enjoyment
Pineapple chunks disdainful
Pineapple sip
pre polluted fruit knock powder
White rum
Put your disdainful pineapple chunks int he food-processor silhouette central with pineapple sip and the rest of the way in recent times to silhouette the chunks with the rum.
add 1/4 cup of the fruit knock powder and blend uncultivated stable member of staff serving at table in somewhat specs with a lemon brace and umbrella:P
Salad is somewhat greatly a basic salad with bind
Cupcakes I by and large go ahead and buy at the store as im crap at icing, lol
so Saintly Be
Spiritrunner
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