Three Types of Magick
I find it highly amusing, and equally frustrating to listen to lectures about the three types of magick.
Sitting on their armchairs, various mystics and guru figures blab on about magick in different colors.
They go on and on about how white magick is pure and self-less, grey magick is some other flavor based on some arbitrary moral criteria, and how black magick is evil and selfish.
Then, rather than teaching you how to do magick of any kind, they lecture further about how you should not use magick of various colors, and discuss all sorts of concepts around morality and self-murder (spirituality=self-murder).
This is not something we care for. We are not here for someone to tell us what to do. Either give us the technique, or shut up and stop wasting breaths!
Anyway… I get riled up about this white-grey-black magick stuff because it amuses and frustrates me…
I find this type of lecturing amusing, because such lectures on magick are simply human projections on the mystical. It’s like yapping on and on about the virtues or evils of fire, and how you should or should not use it.
Fire does not care. You can burn with It. Cook with It. Enjoy It. Befriend It. Do all sorts of wonderful, horrifying, glorious things with It…
I also find this type of lecturing frustrating, because in the guise of teaching you about occult science, these lecturers are conditioning the listeners and contaminating their thinking with dogmatic values.
We didn’t escape religion, only to be indoctrinated by priests pretending to work wonders…
If I were a weaker minded or a more gullible individual, I might have fallen for their tricks.
And if you have fallen for such ploys, let me remind you: if you can be turned away from an operation because you are not supposed to do it – perhaps magick is not the best thing for you, at least not right now…
Magick is about manipulating the forces of the cosmos. It’s your intervention in the natural order of things. And it is fueled, above and beyond all else, by Will. If you happen to have any that is…
With this cleansing in place, let me project three categorizations onto the idea of magick to give a few clues about an elusive subject that is secretive and subjective.
Here are the three kinds of magick:
- Sympathetic Magick: Doing something to something with the expectation that a related something will happen to something else that is magically linked with your original thing.
- Spirit Magick: Invoking, evoking, summoning, conjuring or calling forth of something and then pleading, asking or charging it to do something on your behalf, onto something else.
- Energy Magick: Directly manipulating the something that makes up every other thing in order to influence anything.
Obviously, each of the three types are related… And exploring that which is common to all three is a worthwhile pursuit.
One key point is to realize that magick is more about manipulating the consciousness of the operator than manipulating matter. After all, the correspondences that govern magickal links, energies, spirits and anything else related; while they are obvious from a common sense daily life perspective, they make little to no sense from a materialistic reductionist view.
Another key is found in the observation of magick across cultures. If you do this, you’ll see that the outward manifestation (i.e. ritual, behavior, etc.) of each type of magick can be wildly different based on the paradigm an operator is perceiving the cosmos through.
And the fact that different paradigms with completely mismatched correspondences produce equivalent results (as far as I can tell), means that the paradigm has more to do with an individual’s mind, and less to do with any universal law.
In other words, sorry astrologers. You’re seeing things… 🙂