THE BASICS OF MAGICK
I. Ethics
A. The Wiccan Rede
B. The Law or Return (sometimes called the "Threefold Law")
C. Perfect Love and Perfect Trust (among partners in magick)
II. The Witches' Pyramid
A. Faith in your abilities and powers.
B. Imagination to vividly create in your mind that which you
desire to manifest.
C. Will to achieve your goal despite all obstacles.
D. Secrecy to keep your magickal intention concentrated and
pure.
III. The four Qualities of the Mage
A. To know
B. To will
C. To dare
D. To keep silence
IV. Preparatory Skills (hatha and raja yoga are good aids to
developing these)
A. Cleansing, clearing and stilling
B. Grounding
C. Centering
d. Concentrating ieving one-pointedness)
V. Defining the Goal: Form vs. Essence
VI. Working with the Power
A. Confining it (casting the Circle)
B. Raising it
C. Sending it (channeling it)... for imediate effect or into
storage
D. Earthing the excess (grounding it)
VII. Systems and Techniques
A. Spellcraft
B. Words of Power and affirmations, charms and incantations
C. Dance, postures and mudras
D. Meditation, trancework and hypnosis, fascination
E. Stone magick
F. Candle magick
G. Amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic
batteries"
H. 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
I. Divination
1. Scrying
2. Astrology
3. Tarot
4. Runesticks
5. Lithomancy (casting the stones)
6. I Ching
7. Other systems
8. Pendulum or radiesthesia
J. Astral travel
K. Thought forms; wraths, fetches, artificial elementals
L. Extra-sensory perception
1. Clairsentience
2. Clairvoyance
3. Clairaudience
4. Precognition
5. Telepathy
6. Telempathy
7. Psychometry
8. Telekinesis
9. Teleportation
M. Sympathetic magic (poppets and such)
N. Runes
O. Mediumship, necromancy, and spirit guides
P. Philtres and Poteins
Q. Cleansing, purification, protection and blessing;
esxorcism; ligature, binding
R. Power animals, totems and familiars; shapeshifting
S. Tree magick
T. Dreamcraft
U. Ritual tool magick
V. Invocation, evocation and going into aspect
W. Symbols, sigils and images; Tattvic symbols; numerology
X. Conjuration or summoning; banishing or exorcism
Y. Commemoration or linking
Z. Past life regression or recall
AA. Pathworking on the Tree of Life
BB. Ceremonial magic
VIII. Timing
A. The lunar cycle
B. The Wheel of the Year
C. Astrological conjunctions
D. Planetary hours and days
E. Individual biorhythms
IX. Creating your own reality, following your True Will
Prepared by: Amber K
Our Lady of the Woods
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