PRINCIPLES & LAWS of MAGIC and WITCHCRAFT
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- What are the principles of Magick? Which are the laws of witchcraft? What's the philosophy of magick and witchcraft?
In this video, we will cover the main theoretical approaches to understanding magical practices and the philosophical foundational elements underpinning magick.
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REFERENCES
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2012) Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture, Cambridge University Press.
Hanegraaff, W. J. (2016) ‘Magic’, in Magee, G. A. (ed), The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 393-40.
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Wow! I am going to have to watch this one several times. There is so much to take in as well as delve into. I will be back with questions and or comments later.
Thank you, Andrew! Looking forward to them! :-)
Thanks to Religion for Breakfast for sending me this way. Great videos. Love the presentation.
that's lovely, thank you!
I found your channel through Religion for Breakfast as well; and it feels like I've come home.
What video from Religion For Breakfast points to this channel?
This has to be one of the best explications of magic I’ve ever heard.
Aw, that's lovely, James! Thank you so much!
Yes, quite agree; the fundamental principles were discussed without getting bogged down into vast tables of correspondences. The laws of sympathy and contagion underpin all magic. (No, I don'
t feel compelled to add a 'k' to the word magic -- its clear the meaning is real, no stage magic for entertainment). Again, kudos to Angela Puca for sharing her thoughts with us!😊
Informative and delightful as always! You mentioned possibly doing a video on Hermeticism; I would really enjoy that, particularly how it dovetails with quantum physics. Thanks again!
Great suggestion, Kenzokan! Noted. :-)
Let success be our proof
My magical brain is being satisfied. I thank you!
haha, thanks Tiffany! Glad I pleased your brain! :-) Please share my videos around so that I can keep making educational content for you guys. ^_^
Thats the first time ive seen that approach used on a thesis committee . Bling. Genius.
I could have save myself at least 2 years.
Great video and nicely explained, plus the "genius" moment is perfect xD
hahaha thanks xx
I really like your approach! I wanted to learn about historical magic and the beliefs and world views connected to it.
If you still take ideas for new videos, I would really love a video on how I might envision spirits. While we today think of them as incorporeal and invisible, in mythology there are several spirit creatures - such as ghouls, vampires, nymphs, satyrs... - who are described as corporeal, even carnal or violent. Yet they all obey more "spiritual/mental" rules like the inability of the vampire to enter homes uninvited.
that's a great suggestion! There's an interview on Irish Folklore where the scholar I interviewed will touch upon these themes. I think you're going to like it.
I've gained wisdom of existence and now I'm in the beginning of gaining knowledge of it. I like how you explain magik in its similarities to other practices of exploring existence. I'd love to know how you explain the foundations
Thank you, Elijah! Stay tuned, then. 🤓📖
You pack so much in a short video! I like Chaos Magick which takes a bit from each philosophy to push things in a more probable path.
I like Chaos Magick a lot myself! I will make a video on it for sure! I just need to find time and books to conduct proper research and retrieve the academic sources on the topic! :-)
Very nice synopsis. Regarding the spread of Wicca and its changing role I have a few thoughts. I was involved in starting a chapter of CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) as part of a Unitarian Universalist congregation on Connecticut. We had several members who were more, for lack of better terms, magic oriented and several who were more religious oriented. There was a real dichotomy and eventually the group I helped found died off and a new one took its place that was more inclusive/family friendly. This was one of the big challenges. There were those of us who believed that magic by its very nature is initiatory and requires study and maturity vs the religious folks who wanted to include children in services and have a more general approach. I came away believing that Pagans sacrificed too much to be accepted.
thanks for sharing
Have you tried Church of Eternal Light in Bristol?
Thank you for the reminders.
Ita such a delight to see a beautiful and intelligent woman explain you and teach you.
You're shinning in this video my dear Angela thank you for the lecture 🙏🏾
Wow, thank you, Omar! That's such a lovely message.
"Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined."
I find it interesting that Frazers two sub-categories of sympathetic magic, that is contagious & imitative, are of the same forms as NLP's anchoring where any part of an intense experience can be used to reaccess that experience, a form of single trial learning & pacing, that is by subtly copying another's behavior ie breathing, certain words or phrases etc, one gets rapport with that person, if these are true, maybe the earlier magical forms were an implicit unconscious understanding of their existence?
Absolutely wonderful videos! very informative and broken down in logical terms. U r extremely gifted. 🙂
Thank you so much, Christopher 😀 Please share my videos around to help me make more content like this!
Going deeper and deeper into Esoterica.
indeed
Like the law of polarities and the law frequency , these laws you named are the same ones I learned from the kabalion.
This is great because to understand how the natural order of things work , you will understand why certain magickal workings are successful. I think this is important. Thx 4 another great video Angela. 🌞🌛
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Duan. 😊
Definitely genius! That moment screen shot should be your photo for your page.
Very fascinating. The difference way of describing magic don’t sound contrary to each other. They each have a different perspective rather than different definition that would
lead to contrary views.
Hahaha, don't tell my supervisors though!
Yes, you're right. They're more different perspectives rather than different definitions on the matter.
You are so lovely! Thanks for making these!
You are so welcome! Thank you so much, Ron!
Knowledge goes beyond the realms of 5 senses
most practitioners believe so
Excellent! love you, I learn so much. You make learning fun and interesting
Wow, thank you! It mean a lot to me, Ben.
I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation Angela. I love your relaxed fun style of presentation for these highly informative videos, and the running times are perfect too, although I am all for you producing longer more in depth content as well. Good luck to you in all your adventures and studies. 🌹🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Woooow! Really amazing, i love it! Clear and complete, i love the poetics
Thank you very much. Glad you enjoyed it. xx
I did smash the like button.
I would be really interested to hear about the tools and ritualistic items used in these practices. The athame and boline come to mind. Perhaps usage of candles and/or scrying mirrors?
thanks for the suggestion, Nicholas!
I enjoyed your approach .
Many thanks for yourwell organized and cogent explanation of magical practice
Glad you enjoyed it
A truly engaging and fascinating approach to a topic many(not all) people either look down upon or persecute due to the unique form of empowerment magick can provide the practitioner.
Could you expand upon the other spiritual planes/realities/dimensions?
Thank you for taking the time to broaden everyones perspective.
perhaps in a future video!
Amazingly informative video ❤️
Glad you liked it
Thank you. You make learning easy
Aw, thank you so much! That means a lot to me!
I love it.
Very interesting tıpic. Thank you for your work...
Thank you very much for this. I love your approach to magick and the occult. More power!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great Video! It was good to here an academic unbiased study on magic.
Wow, thanks, Zephyr!
Excellent presentation! Very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks for the new video
thanks for appreciating
Brilliant, Doc. Just BRILLIANT!
thanks Victor
This in a dense, informative video! I’ll have to watch it a few times.
I think you should use your professor’s glasses in a sympathetic ritual. 😉
haha, they work! :)
Angela's Symposium I’ll bet they do! 😏
Grazie.
Grazie a te 😊
Well analyzed video regarding Magick and witchcraft, thank you 🙏
So nice of you
@@drangelapuca what is evident shall be mentioned also your presentation of the topic is very intelligent, organized, precise and well presented, kudos 🙏
you are so amazing!!! love you !!
Thank you! :-)
I was recommended to check out your site by the good Doctor running the "Esoterica" site and as a Pagan and Magick practitioner of several different traditions, I find your work enlightening and in general terms a breath of fresh air. I look forward to viewing more of your work and best wishes for your thesis. Of course we both know that coincidence is for the blind and unaware whereas success and manifestation of personal goals and destinies belong to the adept and Magi of the world. Have a magical day
Welcome to the Symposium 😊
Have you ever done a video on the difference between high magick and low magic?
not yet
Nice one dear am new to magic
Thanks and welcome, Ravi
You probably hear that you are beautiful all the time and so I echo this. I have followed your videos for about two days now and I am recommending these to my daughter who has told me of her following of the old way and embraced the ways of magick. She is still learning about her path but has impressed me with what she has learned. I want her to see your videos because I believe that you are doing an amazing job of being informational with all things magickal and ritualistic .
Blessed be.
May you inspire her to become the knowledgeable person I know she is seeking to be.
Thank you for sharing your views on this.
Thank you so much, Douglas! Your comment really moved here! Hope to exchange comments and thoughts with your amazing daughter, too.
Thx!💝🎉
You're most welcome, Helena
Insightful and helpful video! Human cognition is pretty comparative (in contrast to abstract reasoning and probabilistic reasoning) so i understand the need to compare magik with other ways of making [sense of] the world but i have a hard time not seeing comparisons to science or religion as implicitly derogatory on the parts of those scholars. Doesn't any scholar compare magik practices to the artistic creative process? Nelson Goodman's philosophy of World-making or Feyerabend's Against Method seems like golden opportunities for understanding what we are doing when invoking and/or evoking.
Exceptional content! So much to unpack & think about! I appreciate your observation regarding how thinkers have felt a need to contrast Magick to science or religion. I theorize Magick is (among many other things) an intersection of humanity’s attempt to grasp and understand the universe when both science & religion fall short. I feel the more we advance scientific knowledge, especially in quantum studies, and the more we advance religious knowledge, especially in ancient mysteries & mystical studies, the more this gap closes. I believe Magick might be the missing connection between these disciplines. One day we might actually understand our universe if Magick ceases being occult.
re-enchantment
poetic, isn't it? :-)
1. Correspondences. I would add to this that one needs to appreciate the mystical nature of human beings and the change in mystical practices as people left gathering societies and emerged in civilizations.
There is sort of a belief for instance that mesopotamians fashioned idols and preyed to them. But there is a growing body of evidence they practiced astronomy and astrology. Some of the temples may have been built to enhance mystical experience. Also there is a long tradition in both mesopotamia and Egypt of desert sages (The upkulla for ea) and there appears to be a site of Jahwist sages occupied from the 9th century BCE.
We have a distinctive magic because of a group of priest that were renouned for certain practices and more open mystical practices, but looking at the spectrum of beliefs there were practices of a variety of nature performed everywhere. The blood ritual and animal sacrifices in Judaism for example.
Getting to my point, the hiddeness in correspondence may be a trend, or inate feature of esoteric mysticism. That not only is esoteric things hard to see, but are meant by many/most practicianers to be kept hidden. The idea here is there is a mystic feature of the mind that allows the practician to see past ones or to influence or understand others. The esoteric influencers/influences constitute a part of the individuals definition of thier divine(ities).
I would love to hear your thoughts on modern physics and how using energies compare
Ma'am, if you would write an introduction to the occult as a book i would definitely buy it.
Great video. I have been reading a lot about the occult. There is a lot of terrible literature out there. Right now just reading “The Golden Dawn”. This one may take a while. Love your videos. Thanks
Thank you!
This is great video. I am learning a lot from your videos Thank you! This got me thinking of the concept of the true will and also the training of the will. that is one thing I think that makes magick different from religion, It is not about giving up the will but sharpening the will and making it stronger. there is a quote in the book the secret science behind miracles,"Dr. Paul Tillich, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Union Theological Seminary writes, "Magic is a special kind of interrelation between finite powers; religion is the human relation to the infinite power and value.... Magic is the exercise of imminent power, religion is the subjection to the transcendent power."
Long, Max Freedom. Secret Science Behind Miracles (p. 36). . Kindle Edition.
Fantastic, John! Thanks for sharing.
I am intrigued by a law of correspondences; how is it that analogy can work at all? I sometimes think of magic as the understanding/ use of the technology of metaphor . I like that positioning of magic between religion and science. (non-causal?; rather Jungs acausal or more accurately non-linear - it seems many confuse the lack of an efficient cause with no cause at all ). You reveal some of my own more obscure thinking to myself; thank you for that! i generally use the term 'fractal' as a way of understanding the way metaphor/analogy operate, how everything can turn into everything else (meta-morphosis as core process philosophy) Your definition of Occult is nice, makes me realize that its just always a matter of thinking larger - speculative riffing. Heck, when your video ended I felt a literal 'shove' forward towards the screen - freaked me out - you must be doing something right! Keep up the good work!
Hi Morgan,
So glad you liked and "felt" my video! :-)
I agree, there might be various ways of defining and understanding the elements I addressed in the video, like different perspectives to explain the peculiar way analogies work in magic. I will have to make a video on Jung sometime in the future as his thought intrigues me a lot!
Interesting video. I used to think that the idea of sympathetic magic was inherently ridiculous, but apparently quantum entanglement is a thing - in which case it is perhaps more a matter of finding a lever that works. ,🙂
Glad you liked it!
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@@drangelapuca when I get mad lightbulbs flash then burn out I can move the nedel of a compus by pointing at it or move the flame of a candel back and forth I can make lights get brighter or dimmer by opening or closing my hand I joined a group called sliders a lot of people can do this I am a occultist and very good also have empathetic abilities do you know a bought this tkanks
Your videos are so good! But i have to watch them multiple times to understand any of it 😅
you're very kind. I pack lots of information in each video, that's why ^_^
Loved the video. You have great character in your delivery. I wondered what you thought about the relationship between the causal nature of form and the means of expression within reality. Does magic provide a bridge or is it just a description?
Good question, Shane! I'd say it provides an active bridge.
@@drangelapuca - Does evidence support such a bridge or is it the case that at the base of reality, expression is achieved through reductive alchemical activity.
Seems to me that magic may just be ordinary reality expression cloaked in the inscrutability of the magician rather than something of itself.
Unless you are suggesting its a separate activity of nature?
Magick acknowledges religious claim of a greater reality beyond the physical plane. It also states there is a methodic way to explore it, as rational as science aims to be. Hence a proficient magician is a seeker, never is a believer. He /she knows certain methods produce certain results. That is all. The main actual field explored is, consciously or not, the quantum field.
Ok i surrender. hi angela, thanks for the video! first of all i always thought myself to be an atheist or an agnostic. with that said, lets unburden things i always thought could never be spoken. i used to write short stories and draw little cartoons. but i stoped. because all i ever did was heavily influenced by kafka and camus (sort of tainted on how small and irrelevent our lives are macrocosmically). i would write these things trying to get rid of these feelings and thoughts but it would all come back to haunt me. it all came back to haunt me. i also studied cinema, and i started to believe that part of this haunting thing was due to some people having something like cameras on their faces. positive and negative poles play a huge part on these beliefs. so in this mix of "self-damnation" i stoped producing (what i always thought of as) art or things i did just to get it out of my system. i never really liked "ready" explanations of what was going on, such as calling it magick or turning myself to wiccan beliefs (i did study hinduism and paganism) and have been taking medication and going to a psychiatrist for the last 10 years. i dont want to call it magick. because all i ever did was damn myself with this. id still like to call myself an atheist, because sure there are unexplained things out there (and in here) but i believe gods have nothing to do with it. forces, not gods. polarities and attractions, dispersions, not gods. i think i just wanted to share my (sort of) entry in the occult. i also believe knowlege is somewhat divine. :) i dont really share these things, but your video made me confortable enough to.
Have you ever read comic book authors Grant Morrison (i highly recommend The Invisibles) and Alan Moore? i believe both believe and practice magick, or some sort of manipulation of occult forces and symbols.
Cheers! and sorry for babling...
Not babling at all! thank you for sharing, Rafael. I will have to catch up on Grant Morrison and Alan Moore!
Love ur top. I cannot find one in my size. I would so wear that. 😩
Sorry to hear that!
I’d like to see a whole video on the concept od Re-enchantment
it's gonna happen at some point! :-)
Really enjoyed this one! Genius... hahahahah!
Thank you!!!
Symbols nd analogies
thanks for sharing
Pretty cool actually.
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
Like it
thank you, Drew
Angela great vid I feel like I'm back in theology class
Question
In your opinion do you think that Majik was meant and developed to bring out our inner power to influence our lives and the world around us
Or do you think Majik was developed to cause us to call upon entities from another realm so they could teach us how to empower ourselves
Hey David! Do you mean 'Magic' or 'Malak'? Not sure I understand what term you're referring to.
cool
thanks Brian
Could the practicing of magic been the root of both the sciences, and religion?
Do you have an opinion about Julius Evola?
he was a very influential occultist. I shall make a video on him in the future.
😊
Have you ever heard of Oberon Zell-Ravenheart or the Grey School of Wizardry? His book that he uses more or less as a curriculum for the school covers this same topic in language meant to be digested by children 11-18, just like Hogwarts hypothetically would have in the Harry Potter universe. I deeply appreciated your more adult treatment of the subject, but if you have not already interfaced with him, I would highly recommend it.
thanks for the recommendation, Andy. Glad read your suggestions and thoughts in my comments.
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this question may not be related but is there any connection with the magician and the artist. can the Magician by creating art ..... cast a spell? is it a ritualistic process in itself?
kind regards,
Philokthetis
Yes, Philokthetis, There are magic practitioners who use art as a guide to their magic. 😉
Interestingly enough, everything in this world is kind of linked as atoms from all substances mix on some level when in the vicinity of one another. It's crazy how many ancient beliefs actually line up, in some ways, with what we have discovered through scientific advancement.
Reminds me of Democritus
@@drangelapuca I had never heard of Democritus before. Sounds like an interesting guy, now that I am looking him up. Not only considered by some to be the father of science but "The laughing philosopher" who found the humorous side of human folly. I imagine he would enjoy living in our modern times :).
Do these principles apply to HooDoo practices? Do you or Dr. Sledge have anything on African Magic?
yes, I have a video on Hoodoo
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Like attracts the like
the principle of similarity
How can I become a practical magician??
not a question that a scholar can answer
Where do you live im movin there.
REally i love your outfits i am pagan and i recent discover you channel
I smashed the Like button! You should too! :))
Done! hahah!
From my point of view magic is divided by its definition and united by its field of study. For the latter, everything. For the former; contrast LeVey's definition of magic as that which science has not yet explained with Crowley's definition as the art of science of causing change to occur in accordance with Will, ad infinitum.
Thanks for sharing
Some other-worldly creatures, like fairies, are reportedly able to use "glamour" (the ability to use the power to create illusions to make humans see them as more beautiful or ugly as they actually are or appear to shape-shift - in fact, any sort of illusion). Do any modern practitioners of magic use this art and if so which philosophical element does it fit into? Thanks :)
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for the interesting question.
There are indeed contemporary practitioners who practise Glamour Magic, which fits perfectly the Law of Sympathy and would fit the Law of Contagion, provided there is another person involved.
For instance, if someone has to cast an invisibility spell to go unseen through a dangerous situation, they might construct the ritual by enacting some kind of hiding or using a cloak. This follows the 'like attracts the like' principle, according to which things and actions which resemble each other have a connection and can trigger a change in reality. If the person wanted to become "invisible" to a certain person, they might employ something that belongs to that person (Law of Contagion) and is somewhat connected to hiding or concealing (Law of Sympathy).
Hope this makes sense and answers your question. :-)
@@drangelapuca Thanks Angela, That clears up a question I have long wondered about.
I love your videos. They are excellent. Thank you for doing this. I wonder if you have ever heard of a philosophy which says that everything is magick? That once a magical operation is mastered to some extent and phenomena becomes repeatable in a lab, it then attains the invented label of "science"? It still remains magick. Is not the smart phone the realization of the fabled magick mirror? Isn't The automobile the carnate dream of a horseless carriage? Manufacturers can create sapphires and diamonds from a handful a dust and precise rituals utilizing complex and arcane accoutrement. How is that not magick? I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea and how it could pertain to standard magickal philosophy. Personally it makes common life more interesting and special but also frustrating. Standard people refuse to see it that way even if they are holding an all knowing, all seeing god devise in their hands. It's just a phone to them.
That's fascinating, Mike! Thanks for sharing 😊
It's somewhat funny and strange to see that Frazer built his "evolutionary" framework on the common but false assumption that evolution implies progress. It really doesn't, it implies change and adaptation to the current enviroment. To use the memetic language, it implies that the cultural memes that stay with us are the ones that are best at multiplying and sticking in our heads for any reason. Doesn't necessarily mean they improve or worsen our condition and happiness, only that humans found them attractive enough to keep copying them
Holy crap
I just noticed your shirt halfway through
I can tell you put a lot of work into these vids
I do! Thanks for noticing.
Its kind of interesting how similar the law of contagion is to quantum entanglement. In quantum mechanics, instead of being in contact causing a connection, it is making a measurement. So, if one thing gains information about the quantum state of another thing, it causes the two things to become quantum entangled. So, in both magic and science, two items having a past connection of some type can result in a lasting unseen and mysterious connection between the two. Here is a link to a youtube video that talks about the exchange of quantum state information causing entanglement th-cam.com/video/sFRdVj4rrAE/w-d-xo.html
thanks for sharing!
When I first read the title I saw "Pineapples and Laws of Magic" 😅🍍
I feel really foolish
:)
ur such a cuuuuuuutttttyyyyy
Thank you
I've commented on one of your other videos, where I object to there being any scientific in religion, New Age, magick, whatever. The reason is that science is *far from* almighty. I want to pinpoint that science in the strict sense requires reproducibility, based on rigorous observation, preferably providing an explanation based on earlier science. Therefore science delivers *much much less than* it promises. Then: the rigorous observation apparatus and explanations based on earlier science is missing in magick/magic, or whatever.
I never said so
Did your supervisor actually view your thesis as rubbish ?
Haha no!
Frazer was neither a practitioner of magick nor was he much good at anthropology. The keyword is not Contagion but Persuasion. Stanley J. Tambiah's work with the Zande sorcerer's is much more relevant to magick as it is actually practiced.
Thanks for sharing
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