image magick (image magic, sympathetic magic, sympathetic magick): Ancient form of magic whose basic principle is that like produces like - i.e., that a person or thing can be supernaturally affected through the name of, or an object representing, that person or thing. Specifically, it is a form of homeopathic magic (mimetic magic) that includes doll magic.

Practitioners typically use image dolls (e.g., voodoo dolls): small clay, cloth, straw, waxen, or wooden representations of their targets. image magick extends from black magic to love magick and white magic. For example, practitioners of white magic may use image dolls to effect healing or to increase fertility.

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creative visualization: Subject of the bestseller of the same name, written by Shakti Gawain in 1978.

In creative visualization, one clearly imagines whatever one wants to manifest (see manifesting); then one gives the idea, image, or feeling positive energy, by focusing on it regularly, until it becomes reality. Creative visualization's theory posits a spiritual source: a supply of infinite energy, love, and wisdom discoverable in the inner beings of humans.

Expressions for methods identical or similar to creative visualization include: active imagination, creative imaging, directed day-dream, directed waking dream, dynamic imaging, guided fantasy, guided imagery, guided visualization, imagery, imaginal medicine, imaging, initiated symbol projection, inner guide meditation, led meditation, magickal visualization, mental imagery, pathworking, Positive Imaging, positive thinking, positive visualization, visualization, visualization therapy, waking dream therapy, and willed imagination.

For example, willed imagination, also called creative visualization, is the magickal art of imagining the result one desires of one's magick (the word for Wiccan magic) in order to achieve that result.

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VISUALIZATION: The process of forming mental images. Magickal visualization consists of forming images of needed goals during ritual. It is also used to direct personal power and natural energies for various purposes during magick, including charging and forming of the magick circle.

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High Magick is the practice and study of esoteric disciplines specifically designed to complete the Great Work. The Great Work cannot be easily defined, but suffice it to say here that it entails the union of Spirit and Matter. Qabalah, Alchemy, and certain ceremonial ritual systems such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and Aleister Crowley's A∴A∴ are some examples of high magick. All magick that does not have for its aim the completion of the Great Work is "Low" magick. Usually, these forms of magick are practiced in order to effect changes in material, emotional, or mental states. Low Magick is a pragma ...

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Ceremonial magic is a branch of magick. Ceremonial magic, often abbreviated as CM, is a tradition inspired largely by Hermeticism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It includes, but is not limited to, Goetic magick, Enochian Magic, Tarot, Astrology, Grimoire magick, hermetic qabalah and Thelemic ritual. Ceremonial magic is commonly considered the most complex form of magick. It utilizes elaborate magic theory, draws from a large body of literature and always uses ritual. Practitioners of CM often organize themselves in magical societies such as the Builders of the Adytum, the various for ...

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Sex magic (or sex magick) is the use of sex for the purpose of magick, and is thought by many to be the most powerful of all magick. In accordance with most Pagan and Wiccan beliefs, sex magick is not limited to heterosexual individuals. Sex magic - Practice. This branch of magick takes many forms but always involves a preparation of a proper and sacred atmosphere (as with other magick), pre-cleansing of the body and mind, banishment of evil prior to beginning the ritual, focusing upon the ritual/out ...

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Dark Magick is a novel about a small town where everyone is either involved in witchcraft or has the 'powers' to be involved in it. This book was written by Cate Tiernan and is part of her Sweep book series. Dark Magick is a story about a girl named Morgan and her boyfriend Cal, who have accidentally 'killed' a friend named Hunter near a cliff after he tries to hurt Cal, stabbing him with an athame. Through her powers and those of Hunter's cousin Sky, Morgan runs into surprise after surprise. Everythi ...

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Sympathetic magick is magic based on imitation or on correspondence. Imitation involves using effigies to affect the environment of people. Correspondence is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship to another thing. Sympathetic magic is also known as imitative magic. Other related archivesmagic

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Magick is an alternative for magic, coined by Aleister Crowley to differentiate "the true science of the Magi from all its counterfeits". In the broadest sense, magick is any act designed to cause intentional change -- for example, changing the channel on your television set. This term is spelled with a terminal "k" and pronounced differently - mage-ick - to differentiate it from other practices, such as stage magic. The letter "k" is also the 11th letter of the latin alphabet; in numerology the number 11 represents hidden energies and thereby magick. Therefore it is thought that to add a "k" to ...

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Boline is the name given to a knife used by some practitioners of ritual magick. Unlike the athamé, which in most traditions is never used for cutting in the material plane, the boline is used for cutting cords and herbs as well as carving candles. It consists of a small, straight or cresent-shaped blade and a handle, which is traditionally white in colour. Traditions differ in opinion as to whether the boline can truly be considered a magickal tool or is merely of utilitarian purpose. It is also known as the Kerfan in some traditions, the name traditionally giv ...

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Wicca Craft: The Modern Witch's Book of Herbs, Magick and Dreams reveals the traditions, tools and symbols of Wicca craft and offer methods for Wiccan rituals. Written by Gerina Dunwich and published by Citadel Press in 1991, it was instrumental in increasing the popularity of the Wiccan religion in the 1990s. A Revised Edition was published in 2005. Wicca Craft - Chapters. 1: Witchcraft: Past and Present 2: Sabbat Celebrations 3: Tools and Symbols of Wicca Craft 4: Pagan ...

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The term sigil may refer to: A seal (device) or signet ring. A type of symbol used in magick. See sigil (magic) In some programming languages, a symbol that must be attached to a variable name. See sigil (computer programming). A city in the Dungeons & Dragons setting Planescape. Other related archivesDungeons & Dragons, Planescape, magick, programming languages, seal (device), sigil (computer programming), sigil (magic), signet ring, sym

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The Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis is an occult society in the United Kingdom interested in magick and typhonian concepts. It was founded by Kenneth Grant, who disputed the claim of heritage the "Caliphate" Ordo Templi Orientis made concerning the original occult order that Aleister Crowley had made famous. The prefix "Typhonian" is only a commonly-accepted distinguisher in the range of OTOs, not an official part of the name of the organization. The number of members has so far never exceeded a few dozen and there is ver ...

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Evokation, Evocation (to Evoke, to call forth outside) is a form of magical operation whereby the required force or entitiy is called forth into a protected area. The magician or operator is usually protected inside what is commonly called a "magic circle" and the entity is evoked into "the triangle of Art". Such forces called forth are, for obvious reasons, useful demons rather than god forces. Evocation is regularly confused with invokation or invocation. Invocation is a magical operation intended to call forth ...

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The following is a list of religions. Note that the classification hereunder is only one of several possible. This system uses a filter system for categorization. A group will be listed in a category as close to the top of the page as the definitions for the category allow. Even if multiple definitions are applicable a religion will only be listed once. The definition of religion for this page is fairly liberal. A discussion of the ways in which "major religions" have historically been separated from the list of all religions c ...

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David Michael Cunningham is a respected and an influential figure in modern magick. He is primarily known as the last officially appointed administrator of the Society of Magi (SoM), a magickal organization, which in its original form doesn't exist today, although several modern fraternities claim to continue its tradition. Besides being a proficient occultist, Cunningham is a talented musician, artist, and actor. He was born on December 16 in the State of Ohio, USA, under the astrological sign of Sagittarius. His father, Gerry ...

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Lon Milo DuQuette (1948-), AKA Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, American writer and occultist best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism. Since 1975 he has been a National and International governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, one of the most influential (and controversial) magical societies of the 20th Century. Since 1994 he has been the O.T.O.'s United States Deputy Grand Master an ...

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Arcanum may refer to: the secret of the philosopher's stone, in alchemy, the Grand Arcanum By extension, an arcanum is any nostrum said to be a panacea Major Arcana, the trumps of Tarot cards Minor Arcana, the numbered pip Tarot cards Arcanum (RPG), a pen and paper role-playing game Arcanum (comic), a comic book Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, a computer role-playing game Arcanum, Ohio, a village Arcana (V

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A Poppet is a Maiden or Mother Goddess doll. It is used in harvest or other festivals to symbolize the fertility of the Earth and/or Goddess. In some instances, dolls are used to represent the male gender instead of the female (scarecrows and the Wicker Man of the Druids are examples). Poppets are believed to be infused with life by their makers. The doll is a “little life,” symbolic of the inner person. Poppets are used in healing, fertility, and binding spells. In magick, the doll can be made from a carved root, grain or corn sh

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The Babalon Working was a series of magickal ceremonies or rituals commenced on March 2, 1946 by Jack Parsons, essentially designed to manifest an individual incarnation of the archetypal divine feminine called Babalon , as well as to catalyze the reification of that force as it exists latently in every man and woman. During the ceremony L. Ron Hubbard acted as a scribe noting the results of the magical workings. The ritual performed was based largely in the enochian magical system devised by Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelley, though

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