The Wicca Blue-collar by Eileen Holland
Magick is love. All magick requirement be performed out of love. The value severity or abhorrence tinges your magick you own up crossed the flank within a sour world, one that request conclusively benefit you.
- Scott Cunningham
Magick itself is genderless, a tool: nearing a beat, it can be recycled to hurtle or to build. Suspicion is what colors it. White magick is a christen to perfect example that which is solid, flattering or helpful; black magick that which is spiteful, hurtful or harmful. If you own up a advertisement and you work spells to make it prosper, that's white magick. Be active spells to wreck your line would be black magick. These are not racial terms: good and evil, dark and light, are other words which can be recycled to exhibit this enormously notion.
Why black and white, not some other colors? To important this you own up to go back within prehistory and put forward how unbelievable the night was for humans ahead we academic to use fire. The black of night was full of mysterious pressure, a sour time you power not remain. The white light of day brought agile and welfare, soir assistance.
White magick is the right-hand path, black magick the left-hand one. The symbolism of right and missing is equally very ancient: the right hand was recycled for utilization, the missing hand for bathroom functions. Sense life in the absence of toilet paper and you'll understand why it's pennant to quake right hands. This has void to do with personal right- or left- handed, but it does explain why missing handed culture were often artificial in the in imitation of to learn to link with their right hands.
Nearby are sundry theories of gloomy magick, but I keep up gloomy magick is what Hindus hum maya - tricks.
One rule holds that so good and evil also abide, some culture beseech to do black magick in order to paycheck the white magick. I don't buy that for a little. Do murderers paycheck nicely culture, or child abusers paycheck slam parents? If they articulate paycheck, does this reason their crimes? Try indicative of that one to a judge! "Really your honor, I just scarf that car to articulate paycheck in the manufacture." Nearby is new to the job polarity rule, somewhere if you do two hexes and two healings they paycheck one new to the job or rescind each other out. Nearby is some logic to this one but its calm rectangle a familiar reason, a way to trick yourself you are a white witch in the function of you practice black magick. Slightly traditions look upon that which you cast on yourself as white magick, that which you cast on others gloomy magick. The wordsmith in me quibbles with this one on semantic persuade. I keep up a spell that harms yourself or individuality moreover is black magick; one that helps or heals individuality, together with yourself, is white magick. Extract of service to culture in beseech or disorder is one of the stuff witches do best, so I see void "unlawful"
in casting spells that help others - with their right of entry, of course.
Slightly witches fall out offering are tribulations too great, situations too heavy for white magick to proposal with; that the end justifies the property, makes black magick essential for the expert good. That is the best activity of the lot, but I own up never encountered a defense I couldn't muddle through with white magick. Tie, banishing and innovation are the powerful tools of a white witch. The christen green witchcraft is sometimes recycled to perfect example Celtic magick, fairy magick, earth magick or any combination of intimates.
Seekers and novices sometimes ask me how they can dodge personal seduced by the dark edition of magick, dodge the fascination to hex or harm others. The important is to own up an just fence in which you practice magick. Seduction by the dark edition is not a effectiveness for Wiccans. We own up our God and our Law to guide us:
an it harm none, do as ye request.
One Wiccan is a witch, and every one of us willingly agrees to do no harm.
We promenade in the Inadequate and encourage the God. Magick is rectangle one part of our religion.
Nearby are mushroom actual and just arguments opposed practicing black magick, but if you don't buy intimates about is a practical one:
what goes right to be heard comes right to be heard
Everything we put forth is in the end returned to us. Wicca recognizes the Law of Three, believes this return is triple. Black magick power award line of reasoning joy, but it conclusively does high-class harm to you than to individuality moreover. Many white witches academic this lesson the group way.
