It is wonderful hearing a fellow priest and initiate talk about Magic in such a detailed manner, especially with regards to historical texts (Grimoires, PGM, Picatrix and Agrippa) as well as the works of Dr. Stephen Skinner. I am very impressed, and I just realised that you have a book about Qabalah- which I definitely intend to buy now. Blessed be 🔮🌹
1:39 I love that they categorize stage illusions as a type of magic rather than being separate from it… illusion is a powerful type of magic (as is psychology… so things like manipulation and clothing, appearance, color theory etc, etc…) Anyway, I was gonna say- so much if what ninjas do is illusion and mind-trickery.
I love your videos. I would have to agree with "raising energy" is a more modern frame work(?) or practice. I would love to befriend a lake. I'm planning on writing a beginner witch book and you helped me identify where the term "sympathetic magick" comes from, so thank you for your help! I like that 3 M idea, I'll have to look into it and omg I love mudras. They are a highly underused practice. Both of those books are on my list.
I'd say I probably prefer the older division between ceremonial and folk magic versus the sympathetic/spirit-based distinction. Your understanding of the mechanics of sympathetic magic as widely practiced by people who call themselves witches is very good; you recognize that, for example, witches don't normally call spirits during spells unless they have a particular inclination towards doing so, but in terms of ceremonial magic, well, it's not all spirit-based. There's sigil magic which is normally associated with the modern ceremonialist community, the psi magic movement, and chaos magic, which is sometimes considered a third category, but chaos magic practitioners normally tend to hang out with ceremonialists online and IRL, so I'll stick them on the ceremonial side of things. None of those three movements are really into creating sympathetic links, but they're not primarily focused around spirits either. So the ceremonial vs folk magic divide is probably better I would say, specifically based off of historical/cultural factors around which sub-groups influenced each other at different points in history to create the divide, plus how different groups associate with one another in the modern community, rather than dividing them based off of the nitty-gritty of mechanics/philosophy. The ceremonial magic movement being a mixture of Roman-era Hermeticism, Medieval/Renaissance magic, early modern grimoires, turn-of-the-century Golden Dawn and Thelema, and modern chaos magic and other movements, and the folk magic movement being mostly built around specific techniques developed by Wiccan witches in the 20th and early 21st centuries, with the basic mechanical steps being drawn from little scraps of info collected by Gardner and friends from records of working-class folk magic practitioners from the early modern era all the way back to ancient Greece. Technically, as you know, there are other groups of modern folk magic practitioners that don't call themselves witches nor Wiccans, but their numbers are so small that the witchcraft community is basically entirely synonymous with the folk magic community, although that could change.
Interesting point about 'raising power'. Would you consider things such as repetitive changing, intonations, or even novenas, etc to be operating in a manner of raising power?
Hi I have a question So I can create any kind of video with my tarot cards or just myself and whatever someone else is saying in the video I’m creating there words or the sound effects chimes in with my cards or my body language. What type of magic would you call this..sympathetic magic or ?
"Fundamental cleavage" brought me here. Ha, Kidding. Hey there's a LOTR larp happening for chaos magic version 1 practitioners. I practice versions 1-5 myself however I'd like to share a story about atheist magick where I I did something I shouldn't have done but it turned out well due to some psychic intervention. I am a student of Jane Roberts as a matter of consequence and I learned ESP mainly from her book Adventures in Consciousness but there was an occasion I was "assigned" incorrectly to a sexual partner who most assuredly wasn't right for me by some extremely flakey Thelemites. Well, it's true, I did have sex with her, but the terrible part was that she had a boyfriend of two years she hadn't had intercourse with yet so that was just wrong but the morning after, using ESP, I led the both us to a community garden down the street from her she didn't even know was there. She was recovering from Judaism but I think the object lesson was that if some crusty old, primitive, plantation owner type tells you not to eat their apples, tell them to shove it and build your own garden.
Thanks for your kind words about my book. I am enoying your channel.
Thank you!
It is wonderful hearing a fellow priest and initiate talk about Magic in such a detailed manner, especially with regards to historical texts (Grimoires, PGM, Picatrix and Agrippa) as well as the works of Dr. Stephen Skinner. I am very impressed, and I just realised that you have a book about Qabalah- which I definitely intend to buy now. Blessed be 🔮🌹
Correspondences (so spells that use herbs, stones, candle colors, days of the week, etc) are sympathetic magic.
1:39 I love that they categorize stage illusions as a type of magic rather than being separate from it… illusion is a powerful type of magic (as is psychology… so things like manipulation and clothing, appearance, color theory etc, etc…)
Anyway, I was gonna say- so much if what ninjas do is illusion and mind-trickery.
Great points, thanks!👍
I love your videos. I would have to agree with "raising energy" is a more modern frame work(?) or practice. I would love to befriend a lake. I'm planning on writing a beginner witch book and you helped me identify where the term "sympathetic magick" comes from, so thank you for your help! I like that 3 M idea, I'll have to look into it and omg I love mudras. They are a highly underused practice. Both of those books are on my list.
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This is so comprehensive and fantastic!
I'd say I probably prefer the older division between ceremonial and folk magic versus the sympathetic/spirit-based distinction. Your understanding of the mechanics of sympathetic magic as widely practiced by people who call themselves witches is very good; you recognize that, for example, witches don't normally call spirits during spells unless they have a particular inclination towards doing so, but in terms of ceremonial magic, well, it's not all spirit-based. There's sigil magic which is normally associated with the modern ceremonialist community, the psi magic movement, and chaos magic, which is sometimes considered a third category, but chaos magic practitioners normally tend to hang out with ceremonialists online and IRL, so I'll stick them on the ceremonial side of things. None of those three movements are really into creating sympathetic links, but they're not primarily focused around spirits either.
So the ceremonial vs folk magic divide is probably better I would say, specifically based off of historical/cultural factors around which sub-groups influenced each other at different points in history to create the divide, plus how different groups associate with one another in the modern community, rather than dividing them based off of the nitty-gritty of mechanics/philosophy. The ceremonial magic movement being a mixture of Roman-era Hermeticism, Medieval/Renaissance magic, early modern grimoires, turn-of-the-century Golden Dawn and Thelema, and modern chaos magic and other movements, and the folk magic movement being mostly built around specific techniques developed by Wiccan witches in the 20th and early 21st centuries, with the basic mechanical steps being drawn from little scraps of info collected by Gardner and friends from records of working-class folk magic practitioners from the early modern era all the way back to ancient Greece.
Technically, as you know, there are other groups of modern folk magic practitioners that don't call themselves witches nor Wiccans, but their numbers are so small that the witchcraft community is basically entirely synonymous with the folk magic community, although that could change.
1:10 this sounds quite fascinating…
Interesting point about 'raising power'. Would you consider things such as repetitive changing, intonations, or even novenas, etc to be operating in a manner of raising power?
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I have a question
So I can create any kind of video with my tarot cards or just myself and whatever someone else is saying in the video I’m creating there words or the sound effects chimes in with my cards or my body language. What type of magic would you call this..sympathetic magic or ?
"Fundamental cleavage" brought me here.
Ha, Kidding. Hey there's a LOTR larp happening for chaos magic version 1 practitioners. I practice versions 1-5 myself however I'd like to share a story about atheist magick where I I did something I shouldn't have done but it turned out well due to some psychic intervention.
I am a student of Jane Roberts as a matter of consequence and I learned ESP mainly from her book Adventures in Consciousness but there was an occasion I was "assigned" incorrectly to a sexual partner who most assuredly wasn't right for me by some extremely flakey Thelemites.
Well, it's true, I did have sex with her, but the terrible part was that she had a boyfriend of two years she hadn't had intercourse with yet so that was just wrong but the morning after, using ESP, I led the both us to a community garden down the street from her she didn't even know was there.
She was recovering from Judaism but I think the object lesson was that if some crusty old, primitive, plantation owner type tells you not to eat their apples, tell them to shove it and build your own garden.