my thread will begin with the question: what is magick? this is the main question which i will try to answer in this thread. i will quote from agrippa and paracelsus to understand what is magick?
according to agrippa, magick is the faculty of wonderful virtue of natural things. for example the attaction power of loadstone is magick, the faculty to some herbs to cause love of other person is magick etc..the job of the magician(also known as wizard and sorcererors) is the job of producing wonderful effect by mixing natural things.
now we will see some real life example to find out if the definition of agrippa is right or not. we will see what the wizards or sorcerors did in olden times as written by many authors. according to odisi, circe, the witch, turned the men of odesious into beasts with the help of a magic potion. but hermes gave a particular herb to odesious that destroy the effect of the magic potion. here the potion is nothing but the mixture of natural thing.
in the drama macbeth, shakespere wrote about 3 witches that mixed many herbs and animal parts in the cauldron and predicted that macbeth will become the king of denmark. again mixture of natural thing to produce wonderful effects.
in one of the wall painting of villa of pompei, we could see that a woman, lets a man to inhale a particular kind of smoke coming from the alter which allow the man to see the future. now the smoke must be of some herbs.the wonderful faculty of the herb is to make the inhaler see the future.
so we can conclude that what agrippa said is right because many sorceror or wizards and witches produced wonderful effects by mixing natural things. the magick is the wonderful faculty of these natural things.
from this definition we can deduce the usage of some of the witch's aparatus;
1] cauldron: to mix natural thing to produce things(potion etc.) that have a magickal effect.
2] dagger: to cut the roots and animal parts.
3] cat: to receive signs of future events or presence of spirits.
in the next post i will discuss how the magician collects wonderful virtues from the world.
according to agrippa, magick is the faculty of wonderful virtue of natural things. for example the attaction power of loadstone is magick, the faculty to some herbs to cause love of other person is magick etc..the job of the magician(also known as wizard and sorcererors) is the job of producing wonderful effect by mixing natural things.
now we will see some real life example to find out if the definition of agrippa is right or not. we will see what the wizards or sorcerors did in olden times as written by many authors. according to odisi, circe, the witch, turned the men of odesious into beasts with the help of a magic potion. but hermes gave a particular herb to odesious that destroy the effect of the magic potion. here the potion is nothing but the mixture of natural thing.
in the drama macbeth, shakespere wrote about 3 witches that mixed many herbs and animal parts in the cauldron and predicted that macbeth will become the king of denmark. again mixture of natural thing to produce wonderful effects.
in one of the wall painting of villa of pompei, we could see that a woman, lets a man to inhale a particular kind of smoke coming from the alter which allow the man to see the future. now the smoke must be of some herbs.the wonderful faculty of the herb is to make the inhaler see the future.
so we can conclude that what agrippa said is right because many sorceror or wizards and witches produced wonderful effects by mixing natural things. the magick is the wonderful faculty of these natural things.
from this definition we can deduce the usage of some of the witch's aparatus;
1] cauldron: to mix natural thing to produce things(potion etc.) that have a magickal effect.
2] dagger: to cut the roots and animal parts.
3] cat: to receive signs of future events or presence of spirits.
in the next post i will discuss how the magician collects wonderful virtues from the world.
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