Chaos Creation Jun 6, 2015

Chaos Creation

Chaos, in this context, does not mean utter disorder and destruction. It is ‘Chaos’ in the Greek terminology Chaos, meaning nothingness and formlessness. Chaos was deity in its form just before creation.
Chaos is the most primal form of all Deity. It is both nothing and everything. It is the One and the none. Other names for Chaos are: Sage, Spirit, and the Great Spirit. Most commonly it is named “the All.”

The All is just that, All! It contains all forms of Deity: both Goddess and God. It is every Goddess:
•Kali,
•Freja,
•Isis,
•Shakti,
•Kwan Yin,
•Diana,
•Dana,
•Sehkmet,
•Cerridwen,
•Sophia,
•Hokhmah,
•Shekinah,
•or Yemaya.
It is every God:
•Lugh,
•Logos,
•Jehovah,
•Yahweh,
•Adonis,
•Attis,
•Shiva,
•Ganesh,
•Odin,
•Thor,
•Anubis,
•Osiris,
•Metatron,
•or Papa Legba.

The terms, ‘Spirit’ and ‘Great Spirit’ are used interchangeably. They refer to Deity before it divided into male or female. Of course this use of the word Spirit is different here than its use meaning ‘ghost’ or ‘specter.’
Early Christianity, highly preserved by the Gnostic Christians, held that Chaos was Deity named Sige. Sige means, “silence.” It was, in other words, pure silence before creation ever formed.
This form of Deity is androgynous, meaning it’s both genders: male and female, in one being. Chaos has no body, no mind, and no emotion. Some refer to Chaos as an essence. Some see Chaos as a mass of whirling light. Some see Chaos as an androgynous human, having both male and female parts and appearances. But even that takes away from its aspect of being both everything and nothing at the same time.
Chaos is the original state that contains Itself -- all beginnings and all endings. It is that which was, is, and will be. Chaos is dormant Deity. It is Deity at rest. Chaos is the between point of the destruction of a universe and the creation of a universe.
Goddess:
Goddess is the female division of Deity. Goddess was the side of creation that was darkness: spiritual, mental, and energetic. She is the division that creates and nurtures. She has three forms: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. These three forms make Her the Triple Goddess.

The Maiden is the youth of the Goddess. She is the blossoming young woman. The Maiden can be the essence of independence and self-worth or She can be the sexual and beautiful lover. She represents growth and new opportunities. She is the beginning of life.
The Mother is the womanhood of the Goddess. She is the strong woman. She is the creatrix, the giver of life, She who gives birth to creation. She can be the strong protective mother or the imperial queen of power. She represents fullness of power, desire, and strength. She is the lasting of life.
The Crone is the elderhood of the Goddess. She is the wise woman. She is the aged height of feminine might. She represents the wisdom that comes with age. She is the transformer and changer. She is the destroyer that enables rebirth to exist.
The Triple Goddess correlates to the Moon and its forms. The Waxing Moon is held under the form of the Maiden. The Full Moon is held under the form of the Mother. The Waning Moon is held under the form of the Crone.
So a waxing moon gives off the power to grow and be new. The full moon gives off the power to be full and at the zenith of strength. The waning moon gives off the power to banish and shrivel.

Maiden Goddesses:
Brigid- Celtic Goddess of Poetry and Smith craft. She is a crafter and artist and guardian of fire.
Flora - Roman Goddess of Flowers and Beauty. She is the adorable and delightful.
Kore - Greek Goddess of Spring and youth. She is young, playful and has the energy of springtime.
Artemis - Greek Goddess of the Hunt and Moon. She is the sporty, active one. She is also known in the Roman form as Diana.
Athena - Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War. She is the warrior who fights first with knowledge and moves to war if necessary. She is also known in the Roman form as Minerva.
Venus - Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty. She is the sexual temptress who holds ecstasy in love. She is also known in the Greek form as Aphrodite.

Mother Goddesses:
Gaea - Greek Goddess of the Earth and Mother of the Gods. She is the strong primeval mother who is the nurturer and giver of life.
Demeter - Greek Goddess of the Harvest and mother of Kore. She is the nurturer via grain as food. She could reward or punish through the fruitfulness or barrenness of the harvest.
Yemaya - African Goddess of life. She is the bounty of the oceans that make the lands fertile. She is protector of mothers and children.
Kybele - Phrygian Goddess of fertility and life. She is mother of the gods and queen of the earth and its heavens.
Crone Goddesses:
Hekate - pre-Greek Goddess of the Underworld. She is the Queen of Spirits and guardian of the key to rebirth.
Morrigan - Celtic Goddess of Ghosts. She is the sorceress and keeper of sovereignty.
Nephthys - Kemetic Goddess of the Spirit world. She is also a sorceress and guardian of the dead as it passes through the underworld.
Persephone - Greek Goddess of the Underworld. Though she is not by technicality a “Crone,” she does hold power in the Crone’s realm.

God:
God is the male division of Deity. God was the side of creation that was light, physical, and material. He is the division that maintains and changes. He essentially has two forms, but from tradition to tradition it changes and they all shall be covered here.
First is the two-form God or the Dual God. Celtics refer to these two forms as the Holly and Oak Kings. The Strega refer to these two forms as the Wolf and the Stag. Others may call them the Dark and Light Gods. But essentially they all hold a similarity: division of the year into the growing half and the waning half, based upon sunlight and nature’s cycle. And at each Solstice the two God forms commence in ritual battle to govern the next half of the year.

Waxing Half of The Year
The Waxing half of the Year is governed by the God in his forms of the Oak King, the Light God, or the Stag. These God forms win the ritual battle of the Winter Solstice and rule in power until the battle of the Summer Solstice. They represent growing strength, power, and the lengthening of the days.

Waning Half of the Year
The Waning half of the Year is governed by the God in his forms of the Holly King, the Dark God, or the Wolf. These God forms win the ritual battle of the Summer Solstice and rule in power until the battle of the Winter Solstice. They represent weakening strength, beginnings of death, and the shortening of the days.
Another set of God-forms is the Triple God. He is the Youth, the King, and the Sage. This triplicate governs more over the course of the day rather than of the year.

The Youth is the young man who is sporty and playful and strategic in all manners. He represents the morning part of the day.
The King is the high lord and master of the world. He possesses great strength. He represents the noon part of the day.
The Sage is the wise one and the shaman. He possesses great knowledge. He represents the dusk part of the day.
Quintile God Forms

The next set of God forms is the Quintile God Forms. This is a set of five god forms that also rally around the course of the day.
The Lad is the young one who symbolizes the dawn. He is new, cleansing, and beginning.
The Prince is the older one who symbolizes the morning. He is growing, building, and expanding.
The King is the lord who symbolizes the noon. He is charging, peaking, and potency.
The Father is the wise man who symbolizes the afternoon. He is weakening, declining, and setting.
The Ancient is the elder who symbolizes the dusk. He is ending and alleviating.

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From Raven's Nest Jun 6, 2015

Importance of Inner Alignment

Many people in society today work at jobs they don't like, and find themselves with little or no time for activities that increase the quality of their lives. Such people are being kept out of alignment with their inner selves.

Traditionally, society has pressured people into conformity. Peer pressure to conform to an immediate social group begins at school because, from an early age, people are taught that they should conform to outside standards.

In England, the phrase "know your place" is used as a put-down to someone who has started to become outstanding in some way. In Australia, the traditional phrase is "cut down the tall poppies." In Japan, it is "The nail that sticks up shall be pounded down."

However, this pressure towards conformity has been lessening in recent decades, and it will continue to lessen as people realize that there is strength in diversity. Diversity is natural. Conformity is unnatural. In the universe, every snowflake, every person, and even every proton is unique. Together, the sum of the parts makes up a perfect universe of infinite diversity.

Diversity is designed into the universe because the universe exists in order that Infinite Being, the All That Is, may gain an infinite variety of experiences. In the case of human beings as expressions of the one source, we have freewill so that we can makes choices. Making choices, and experiencing the results of those choices, is what human life is all about.

Inner alignment means becoming more of your true self. Your inner being is your true self, and by developing your inner potential, you express more and more of your true self.

In heart-centered, New Reality consciousness, mutual support is shared between people. That means that being different is good, developing personal skills is good, and exploring your own potential is good. Deep within, everyone is equal. However, in your unique form of expression in the outer world, you are different to everyone else. Not better or worse, not more-than or less-than; just different, because diversity is natural and is honored through mutual respect.

The New Reality of heart-centered consciousness is being built on this Earth, one person at a time. New Reality consciousness is a supportive and empowered state of consciousness, rather than the Old Reality consciousness of separation and fear.

When a person manifests their own unique, inner being, they become aligned, in the way that a laser beam is aligned, rather than being scattered by external should's and should-not's. When many people in society become aligned in their own personal power, the whole becomes far more influential than the sum of the parts. In fact, it becomes exponentially more powerful.

When enough pioneers choose New Reality consciousness, there will come a day when their powerfully aligned influence will reach a critical mass. Then, it will transform the remainder of society and, suddenly, everyone will "get it." Society, as a whole, will then realize that heart-centered consciousness is the way forward into creating its bright, new future.

Come on YOU can do this!

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From Ravens Nest Jun 5, 2015

How to Find Your Animal Spirit Guide.
Dr Raven Dolick MsD March 8, 2011 
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Finding Your Totem
Totem animals are a popular tool for self exploration and development. However, it is not always easy to determine which animal is your personal totem.
Animal totems have existed in many cultures throughout the world. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in totems and their meaning, and their popularity only continues to increase. Today, many people are searching out their totem animals in the hope of deepening their understanding of self.

What is a Totem Animal?
In essence, animal totems are symbolic objects that are generally used to get in touch with certain qualities that you may already possess, but are hidden. These qualities are found within the particular totem animal, and often, you will feel a specific affinity for the animal totem, but this is not always the case.
It is possible to have several animal totems at different points in your life, as there are several types of totems. Totem animals will come into your life when you need them, and then be replaced when their assistance is no longer required. The direction your life takes will determine which totem animals you attract. These ‘animal guides’ will instruct and protect you, and will guide you back to your natural state of being. That is, they will help you to find the person you were meant to be. However, before they can do this, you must know who your totem animal is.

How Can I Discover My Animal Guide?
Some people know instinctively which animal is their totem without any guidance. Most people do not. If you fall into the latter category, there are several questions you can ask yourself to determine which animal might be your guide at this moment. Remember that your animal guide can change, so revisit these questions whenever you feel the need to.
◾Which animal do you feel most resonates with you? In other words, which animal are you most drawn to?
◾When you go to your local zoo, which animal do you always insist on seeing?
◾Is there an animal that you frequency see in your life with no logical reason? For example, do you see a squirrel every time you turn around?
◾If you could only research a single animal, which animal would you choose to research?
◾Is there any animal that you find particularly frightening or intriguing?
◾When you dream, does the same animal seem to present itself?

Search Yourself For Clues to Your Animal Totem
The answers to these questions may not yield any particular results. For some people, the answers will lead them to believe that they have several totem animals. For example, it is possible that you feel attracted to cats, want to see the monkeys at the zoo, see many squirrels around your house, love to research bears, and are terrified of spiders. Maybe you are also intrigued by horses, and see tigers in your dreams.
It is unlikely that all of these will be your totems all at the same time (though it is possible that they will all eventually have their parts to play). In this case, you’ll want to do some additional searching to find your totem animal. There are some exercises you can do to help you discover your animal guide, but you must never try to force an animal guide to come. They will sense this and avoid you.
This exercise takes patience, but it does eventually work for most people. Start by considering your answers to the pervious questions. Make a list of the animals on that list, and add any animal that has played a significant role in your life at any point. Look around your personal space and see if you have pictures or carvings of specific animals around you.

Start an animal journal. In this journal, record any animal that shows up in your life more than once. Your pet cat doesn’t count, because the cat will obviously be in your life. See if a stray cat sits outside your door frequently. Perhaps ravens gather outside your window. Maybe that hawk just will not get out of your dreams. Add these animals to your list.

Sit quietly and meditate upon your list. Ask that your true totem animal be revealed to you. If you feel the need, use incense, candles, or any other tools you feel comfortable with. Take your time and commit yourself to finding your totem animal.
Be patient when attempting to connect to your animal guide. There are many different types of totems out there, so it may take a while for your own totem to make itself known. Repeat your meditation over and over again until you are successful.

When you do eventually find your animal totem, make sure you honor the animal in question. Fill your space with pictures, paintings, of sculptures of your animal. Perhaps wear a pendant representing your totem. You might even want to have the animal itself in your home, assuming that your totem isn’t something exotic. Your animal totem should be respected as a friend, teacher, and guide.

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DR Raven Dolick M.s.D.

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST JUN 4, 2015

FROM RAVEN'S NEST JUN 4
The Lore of the Pooka

Variants: phouka, puca
No fairy is more feared in Ireland than the pooka. This may be because it is always out and about after nightfall, creating harm and mischief, and because it can assume a variety of terrifying forms.
The guise in which it most often appears, however, is that of a sleek, dark horse with sulphurous yellow eyes and a long wild mane. In this form, it roams large areas ofcountryside at night, tearing down fences and gates, scattering livestock in terror, trampling crops and generally doing damage around remote farms.
In remote areas of County Down, the pooka becomes a small, deformed goblin who demands a share of the crop at the end of the harvest: for this reason several strands, known as the 'pooka's share', are left behind by the reapers. In parts of County Laois, the pooka becomes a huge, hairy bogeyman who terrifies those abroad at night; in Waterford and Wexford, it appears as an eagle with a massive wingspan; and in Roscommon, as a black goat with curling horns.
The mere sight of it may prevent hens laying their eggs or cows giving milk, and it is the curse of all late night travellers as it is known to swoop them up on to its back and then throw them into muddy ditches or bogholes. The pooka has the power of human speech, and it has been known to stop in front of certain houses and call out the names of those it wants to take upon its midnight dashes. If that person refuses, the pooka will vandalise their property because it is a very vindictive fairy.
The origins of the pooka are to some extent speculative. The name may come from the Scandinavian pook or puke, meaning 'nature spirit'. Such beings were very capricious and had to be continually placated or they would create havoc in the countryside, destroying crops and causing illness among livestock. Alternatively, the horse cults prevalent throughout the early Celtic world may have provided the underlying motif for the nightmare steed.
Other authorities suggest that the name comes from the early Irish poc meaning either 'a male goat' or a 'blow from a cudgel'. However, the horse cult origin is perhaps the most plausible since many of these cults met on high ground and the main abode of the pooka is believed to be on high mountain tops. There is a waterfall formed by the river Liffey in the Wicklow mountains known as the Poula Phouk (the pooka's hole), and Binlaughlin Mountain in County Fermanagh is also known as the 'peak of the speaking horse'.
In some areas of the country, the pooka is rather more mysterious than dangerous, provided it is treated with proper respect. The pooka may even be helpful on occasion, issuing prophecies and warnings where appropriate. For example, the folklorist Douglas Hyde referred to a 'plump, sleek, terrible steed' which emerged from a hill in Leinster and which spoke in a human voice to the people there on the first day of November. It was accustomed to give "intelligent and proper answers to those who consulted it concerning all that would befall them until November the next year. And the people used to leave gifts and presents at the hill..."
Something similar seems to have occurred in south Fermanagh, where the tradition of gathering on certain high places to await a speaking horse was observed on Bilberry Sunday until quite recently.
Only one man has ever managed to ride the pooka and that was Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland. Using a special bridle containing three hairs from the pooka's tail, Brian managed to control the magic horse and stay on its back until, exhausted, it surrendered to his will. The king extracted two promises from it; firstly, that it would no longer torment Christian people and ruin their property and secondly, that it would never again attack an Irishman (all other nationalities are exempt) except those who are drunk or abroad with an evil intent. The latter it could attack with greater ferocity than before. The pooka agreed to these conditions. However, over the intervening years, it seems to have forgotten its bargain and attacks on property and sober travellers on their way home continue to this day.

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST Jun 3, 2015

Alchemy The Most Secretive of Arts

Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.

Jun 3, 2015

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Along with astrology and the qabalah, alchemy is considered one of the principal branches of the Western Esoteric Tradition. But while many students are familiar with zodiacal charts and the fundamentals of the Tree of Life, far fewer are acquainted with the basics of alchemy. Too often alchemy is still wrongly caricatured as an attempt by medieval quack-scientists and con-men to gain quick wealth by turning lead into gold, or to dupe others into handing over their gold, only to receive a lump of lead in return while the swindler makes a quick getaway!

The origins of Western alchemy date back to Graeco-Roman Egypt, particularly Alexandria. It was here that techniques of metallurgy and herbal medicine were combined with Greek philosophy, astrology, religion, and mythology to form the earliest Western teachings on alchemy. Medieval authors often called alchemy the "Hermetic Art," suggesting that the origin of this science was none other than the fabled master, Hermes Trismegistos, or "Hermes the Thrice Great," who was said to have written forty-two books covering all manner of knowledge. Greek philosophers, such as Empedocles and Aristotle, first developed the theory that everything in the universe was comprised of the four elements of fire, water, air, and earth. These were regarded as qualities that exist within all matter and not merely the outward expressions of the physical elements. The treatises of alchemy included the physical properties and the magical powers of the elements as well as various material substances in nature.

After their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, the Arabs absorbed the knowledge of the Alexandrian alchemists. By the middle of the seventh century alchemy had become a mystical discipline. The medieval Arabs carefully preserved the knowledge they had received and safeguarded all manner of Greek and Arabic alchemical treatises, which they brought to Spain in the eighth century. By 1350, several alchemical tracts were being copied in monastic scriptoria.

In truth, alchemy is the occult science of the transformation of matter. It is a philosophical wisdom tradition and a spiritual discipline that touches upon almost every aspect of the human experience. At its core, alchemy teaches that in this divine universe all matter comes into existence from a common substance or fusion of substances. Everything within the cosmos moves toward a state of perfection known as "gold," but only if the component materials are present in the right proportions or degree of purity. The fundamental goal of alchemy is to bring all things, including humanity, to its preordained state of purity and spiritual perfection—a worthy goal indeed.

The work of alchemy was two-fold: the practitioner worked in a laboratory setting to perfect a physical substance, such as a mineral or a plant, often with the goal of making a medicinal substance. This was the alchemy full of experiments and laboratory equipment: furnaces, bellows, stills, alembics, cucurbits, condensers, and glass beakers. Yet in conjunction with this process the alchemist prayed, meditated, fasted, and carried out other spiritual disciplines, so that the work of purification affected not only the substance of the experiment, but also the soul of the alchemist who was conducting it. Alchemists sought to give the quality and purity of "gold" to their own being. They sought to transmute the base materials, or rather the base portions of their own nature, into spiritual gold or divine wisdom. However, the principal interest of many alchemical philosophers was spiritual—many wrote commentaries on the alchemical treatises without practicing the art themselves. Over time, these two aspects of alchemy—practical alchemy and Inner alchemy—came to be seen as separate disciplines.

Unfortunately, the early practical alchemists who penned treatises about their sacred art did not often help their cause; they were so intensively secretive that they tended to write instructions in riddles and parables that did more to confuse than to instruct. The classical texts of alchemy are rich in symbolism and allegory. Some of these treatises contained little more than alchemical prints and illustrations. To guard their work from the profane, alchemists wrote in a symbolic language illustrated with fantastical drawings of dragons and lions, fish and birds, kings and queens, stars and planets, hermaphrodites and unicorns, animals fighting, curious beings, and weird creatures composed of symbols—all of which made little sense to the outsider. As a result, spiritual seekers today are still baffled by the lingo and imagery of alchemy. To many it remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma, and so alchemy continues to be the most secretive of the magical arts.

Take for example, a cryptic seventeenth-century alchemical engraving of the "Azoth of the Philosophers" used by the Golden Dawn in the Portal Ritual where it is called "The Great Hermetic Arcanum." This diagram I used in this postings pic shows the massive amount of arcane symbolism that the alchemists packed into such illustrations.

The central face in the diagram refers to the number one, the monad—the synthesis of the many parts united into the whole. The duad is symbolized by the two gender archetypes of masculine and feminine, the Queen of Luna and the King of Sol, to the left and right of the central figure. The triad is portrayed in the triangle of spiritus, anima, and corpus, which are the three alchemical principles of spirit, soul, and body. The number four is depicted by the four elements in the corners of the drawing. The number five is represented by the five parts of the central figure (hands, feet, and head), which are each associated with one of the five elements in the diagram. The number six is symbolized by the points of the two triangles in the drawing. The number seven is shown by the heptagram of the planets. Sol and Luna are the male and female principles, which are separated in nature. Through the alchemical art the two are united and the resulting offspring is the Philosopher's Stone—male and female, soul and spirit—merged into one. In the circle that surrounds the figure, a Latin sentence of seven words is shown: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectifando Invenies Occultum Lapidem, which translates to "Visit the interior of the earth, in rectifying you will discover the hidden stone."

When Israel Regardie wrote The Philosopher's Stone in 1937, he was convinced that the symbols, metaphors, and allegories presented in the cryptic textbooks of medieval and renaissance alchemists were not what they appeared to be. It was his belief that the equipment, techniques, and materials and substances described in alchemical treatises in practical or laboratory alchemy were part of an elaborate smokescreen concocted to hide what he believed alchemy really was—a perfect method of psychological reintegration—spiritual alchemy. To Regardie, descriptions of various substances and laboratory equipment were symbols of the various parts of the human psyche: the sun and moon represented the animus and the anima, the crow symbolized the astro-mental body, the fire of the alchemical furnace alluded to the human libido, the egg of the philosophers referred to the human aura, the dragon symbolized repressed psychic energy and fears, and so forth. Regardie surmised that the goal of the Great Work in alchemy was one and the same as the goal of Individuation in analytical psychology. He sought to decode the enigmatic writings of the alchemists and to share his insights with students of magic and mysticism by publishing The Philosopher's Stone.

In his later years, Regardie gained new appreciation for practical alchemy, but he also knew that his early work in The Philosopher's Stone could provide students with valuable clues that encourage self-refection and spiritual wholeness. Decades after it was first written, students are still finding that this classic text contains precious gemstones of knowledge well worth discovering.

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST Jun 2, 2015

as the legend goes...

There was once a time when all human beings were Gods.
But they so abused their power that Brahma, the chief God, decided to take it away and hide it somewhere it could not be found.
But where?

Brahma called a council of the Gods to help him decide.
“Let’s bury it deep in the earth,” said the Gods.
“No, that will not do because humans will dig into the earth and find it,” answered Brahma.
“Let’s sink it in the deepest ocean”.
“No, not there, for they will learn to dive into the ocean and will find it,” said Brahma.
“Let’s take it to the top of the highest mountain and hide it there.”
But once again Brahma replied, “No, that will not do either, because they will eventually climb every mountain.”

Giving up, the Gods replied, “We do not know where to hide it, because it seems that there is no place in existence that humans will not eventually reach.”

Brahma thought for a long time and then said…
“Here is what we will do. We will hide their divinity deep in the center of their own being, for humans will never think to look for it there.”
The Gods agreed that this was the perfect hiding place, and the deed was done.
And since that time humans have been going up and down the earth, digging, diving, climbing, and exploring – searching for some secret power already within themselves.

So, like most people, you might feel as if you're searching in all the wrong places for what you really want...
Peace, love, wealth, joy, success.
Yet, the truth is, it all comes from within... from your own inner divinity.

Discover you Inner Riches!
Now the story doesn't have to stop there, you CAN change the ending...
Re-tune yourself for a richer reality...
Find your inner source of strength, power, and creativity...
Live a life authentic to your purpose...

And stop searching to find your own divinity in books written by others.....
Let me help you in self empowerment and write your own!

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FROM RAVEN'S NEST Jun 1, 2015

Romani’s And The Effective Curse
Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.
May 28, 2015

Ok, ok, ok, I get it Dark Magick isn't evil. Magick has no color but I want to go beyond that with Effective Curse. 
Now just because your panties are all wet cause lil' miss tootoo pissed you off doesn't mean you can have the ability to effectively curse. To bend the will of the universe it takes days of application and complex ritual. But depending on INvolvement tonight we may go there.
To start here is a 61 item lists that every Romani engaging in familia' curse must master.

Attitudes of the Curse

Black magic is the belief of practices of magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers. This type of magic is invoked when wishing to kill, steal, injure, cause misfortune or destruction, or for personal gain without regard to harmful consequences. As a term, "black magic" is normally used by those that do not approve of its uses, commonly in a ritualistic setting; the argument of "magic having no color, and it is merely the application and use by its user," backs the claim that not everything termed as "black magic" has malevolent intentions behind it, and some would consider it to have beneficial and benevolent uses. These uses could include killing diseases or pests.
Practitioners who use magic in this way argue that the effect itself is malevolent by causing death to insects (as in the above example), but as an indirect consequence of black magic, good can be a result, such as in the form of fewer pests around. In this school of thought, there is no separation between benevolent and malevolent magic as there is no universal morality against which magic can be measured. A rather different view on Black Magic is used in the system of Chaos Magic. In this branch of occult practice, spells sometimes correspond to colors, depending on the supposed effect (i.e., red-magic, which is magic concerned with combat, such as low-level curses). Black Magic, according to Chaos Magic, corresponds to magic that is performed around the themes of death, separation, severance and entropy. This can refer to powerful curses meant to bring the strongest effect, spells to sever emotional ties to objects or people, and so on.
In fiction, black magic will quite frequently be synonymous with evil, such is the case in Rosemary's Baby, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (referred to as the dark arts in the novels), and Shakespeare's Macbeth, with many other examples existing. In many popular video games, such as Final Fantasy, white and black magic is simply used to distinguish between healing/defensive spells (such as a "cure") and offensive/elemental spells (such as "fire") respectively and does not carry an inherent good or evil connotation.

Black and white magic differences
The differences between what is considered black magic and white magic are debatable, though generally can fall within the following broad categories:
•The All as One theory states that all forms of magic are evil, irrespective of color (white or black). This view is generally associated with Satanism. People that maintain this opinion include those belonging to most branches of Christianity
•The Dark Doctrine theory states that black magic is the power of darkness, usually seen from a Left-Hand Path point of view. This may or may not contrast with white magic, depending on the user's acceptance of dualism.
•The Formal Differences theory states that the forms and components of black magic are not the same due to the different aims or interests of those casting harmful spells than those of white. Harmful spell-casting tends to include symbolism that seems hazardous or harmful to human beings, such as sharp, pointed, prickly, caustic, and hot element(s) combined with very personal objects from the spell's target (their hair, blood, mementos, etc.). This distinction can primarily be observed in folk magic but pertains to other types of magic also.
•The No Connection theory states that both black and white magic is completely different from the base up and are accomplished uniquely, even if they achieve similar effects. This stance is often presented in fiction, and as a result, the two classes of magic-users are portrayed as being both ideologically and diametrically opposed. In The Lord of the Rings, the Elves find it strange that Humans and Hobbits can even use a single word, "magic", which refers to both forms, as Elves's tongues regard them also linguistically as completely separate and unrelated.
•The Separate but Equal theory states that black and white magic are exactly the same things, differentiated only by their end goals and intent. According to this theory, the same spell could be either white or black (see gray magic); its nature is determined by the end result of the spell. The majority of religions follow this belief, as does the remainder of fiction that does not follow the No Connection theory. By this interpretation, even such spells commonly seen as good can be misused, so healing could be used to regenerate the body to the point of cancer, for instance.

Black magic practices
Within common mainstream religion, such as Christianity and The Old Religion of Paganism to an extent, there are certain taboos surrounding forms of magic. Although culture may place certain forms of magic in one side or another of this spectrum, there are in fact some cultural universals about free will,
• True name spells - the theory that knowing a person's true name allows control over that person, making this wrong for the same reason. This can also be used as a connection to the other person, or to free them from another's a compulsion, so it is in the grey area,
• Immortality - from a Taoist perspective, life is finite, and wishing to live beyond one's natural span is not with the flow of nature. Beyond this, there is a major issue with immortality. Because of the need to test the results, the subjects must be killed. Even a spell to extend life may not be entirely good, especially if it draws life energy from another to sustain the spell,
• Necromancy - for purposes of usage, this is defined not as general black magic, but as any magic having to do with death itself, either through divination of entrails, or the act of raising the dead body, as opposed to resurrection or CPR,
• Curses/Hexes - a curse can be as simple as wishing something bad would happen to another, to a complex ritual.

Black magic as part of religion
Many rituals performed by black magic practitioners mentioned on television are mentioned as having aspects similar to Christianity though in a perverted form, and it appears to be universally based upon a religion, but using perverted rituals to suit the needs of the user. For example, black magic users might invert a pentacle. Likewise, corrupted rites or sacrifices may substitute blood or feces for the water or wine. Seen from this perspective, the distinction between black and white magic would be simple,
•White magic would be the original rituals, which embody the tenets of the religion in question. For Buddhism or Hinduism, this might be long and complex prayer sutras. Taoist and Shinto magic would largely be based upon fertility and nature rituals.
•Black magic would be corruption or misuse of such above rituals, using them to self-serving or destructive ends without regard for the cultural morals of the religion. This could be something such as making poppets to cause harm.

Part 2
62 Doorways of the Curse

However, you choose to use them, be wise, and be warned. "If you wish evil to someone, the evil will come to you." That being said, here they are:
1. If you tie knots in the willow, you can slay a distant enemy.
2. If you would bring your enemy to death, pour poison in his footprints.
3. If you feel fear when you know you are safe, it will prove that when you are in danger you won't think of fear.
4. An image made of wax, named after an enemy or a person whom you wish ill, stuck full of pins and set before the fire, will cause the person named to pine away as the wax melts.
5. Indians charm a piece of worsted and tie it across the path of an enemy or across the door so that when he passes it, it will surely bring death upon himself.
6. The Devonshire peasant hangs in his chimney-corner a pig's head stuck with thorns, believing that so doing his enemy will be pierced in like manner.
7. A charm to be addressed to the spirit of the three winds: "Spirit of the three winds, hear me when I call. Go and make So-and-So go crazy!"
8. Old Highlanders will still make the "deosil" around those whom they wish well. To go around a person in an opposite direction to the sun, is an evil incantation and brings ill-fortune.
9. Old women frequently cut a turf a foot long which their enemy has recently trodden upon, and hang it up in the chimney, to cause their enemy to wither away.
10. The Tamils (a race of Southern India and Ceylon) believe that they can kill an enemy at a distance by a ceremony with the skull of a child.
11. If you make a cut on the wall of the house of an enemy, the members of his household will quarrel. (India.)
12. Take six new pins and seven needles, stick point to point in a piece of new cloth and place it under the doorstep of your enemy; when he or she walks over it, they will lose the use of their legs.
13. The following is a Finnish superstition: The image of an absent person is placed in a vessel of water and a shot aimed at it, thereby wounding or slaying a hated person at many miles' distance.
14. If you can get a few strands of your enemy's hair, bore a hole in a tree, put them in, and plug up the hole; you can thus give him a headache that cannot be relieved until his hair is taken out of the tree.
15. To make trouble for an enemy, take some hair from the back of a snarling, yelping cur, some from a black cat, put them into a bottle with a tablespoonful of gunpowder, fill the bottle with water from a running brook, and sprinkle it in the form of three crosses on his doorstep, one at each end, and one in the middle.
16. The Negroes think that in order to make an evil charm effectual, they must sacrifice something. In accordance with this idea, cake, candy, or small coins are scattered by those who place the charm. The articles thrown away must be placed where wanted, and they must be abandoned without a backward glance.
17. It is a true charm from the old country, that if you are tired of anyone, you can get rid of that person by taking a bushel of dry peas saying a wish for everyone you take out, as from day to day you take out some, and as they go, he will waste and go to his grave.
18. To cause the death of an enemy, mold a heart of wax and stick pins in it till it breaks. Another charm is to hold the waxen heart before a slow fire. As it melts, the life of the enemy will depart.
19. To harm an enemy, take salt and pepper and put them into his clothing or his house, and say: "I put this pepper on you, And this salt thereto. That peace and happiness you may never know." He will soon be miserable.
20. A sheaf of corn is sometimes buried with a certain dedication to Satan, in the belief that as the corn rots in the ground, so will the person wither away who is under your curse when you bury the corn.
21. Another form of malediction is to bury a lighted candle by night in a churchyard, with certain weird ceremonies.
22. The following recipe for avenging oneself on one's enemies is given by Kunn, in Westphalia: "When the new moon falls on a Tuesday, go out before daybreak to a stake selected beforehand, turn to the east and say: 'Stick, I grasp thee in the name of the Trinity!' Take thy knife and say: 'Stick, I cut thee in the name of the Trinity, that thou mayest obey me and chastise anyone whose name I mention.' Then peel the stick in two places to enable thee to carve these words: 'Abia, obia, sabis,' lay a smock-frock on thy threshold and strike it hard with the stick, at the same time naming the person who is to be beaten. Though he is many miles away, he will suffer as much as if he were on the spot." All this distinctly depends upon the moon is new on a Tuesday.
23. To make one die for sleep, dissolve lard, and put it in their drink.
24. You can cast a malefic spell on your enemy by repeating the Lord's Prayer backward, all the time wishing some evil upon him.
25. In Southern Italy, the hearts of onions are scorched over a fire in the name of the victim, to burn up their hearts.
26. There is a superstition among the natives of Natal that if the plant called Isanywane is placed on a man's heart; it will cause him to become generally disliked.
27. Pythagoras says: "That if a flame is put into the skull of a murderer, and the name of your enemy written therein, it will strike the person whose name is so written with fear and trembling, and he will speedily seek your forgiveness and become a steadfast friend."
28."If you wish to harm anybody, read the 107th, 108th and 109th Psalm at 8, 11 and 3 o'clock, and you will then have much power over them." (Elworthy, "The Evil Eye.")
29. The Greeks believed that to measure exactly the height and circumference of the body of an enemy, would cause him to languish and fall away, or die very soon.
30. If a man hates another and will repeat the 109th Psalm every morning and evening for a year, his enemy will be dead; but if he misses a single time, he will die himself.
31. In Bombay, if one man puts salt into another man's hand, it makes them sworn enemies for life.
32. Bury a dead man's hair under the threshold of an enemy, and he will soon be troubled with ague.
33. To repeat certain formulas among the Hindus, is supposed to bring injury upon an enemy.
34. In West Cork, people spit on the ground in front of anyone whom they wish to have bad luck.
35. Never let your enemy get hold of your picture. If he should keep it turned upside down or should throw it in the water, you would sicken and die or meet with an accident.
36. If you shoot the picture of an enemy with a silver bullet, you will cause the death of your enemy.
37. In Germany, old women cut out a turf a foot long on which an enemy had trod, and hung it up in the chimney, in the belief that the enemy would shrivel up just as the turf did, and in the end, die a lingering death.
38. When a man of one of the Indian tribes cannot get what he wants, or if he thinks he has been unjustly treated, he will cut or wound himself, or perhaps take the life of some member of his family, in order that the blood of the victim may rest upon the head of the oppressor.
39. If you wish to bring ill luck to a neighbor, take nine pins, nine nails, and nine needles, boil them in a quart of water, put it in a bottle, and hide it under or in their fireplace, and the family will always have a sickness. (Negro superstition.)
40. The Negroes "conjure" by obtaining an article belonging to another, boiling it, no matter what it may be, in lye with a rabbit's foot, and a bunch of hair cut from the left ear of a female opossum. They say terrible headaches and the like can be inflicted in this way.
41. The American Indians believe that anyone who possesses a lock of their hair or other thing related to their person will have power over them for evil.
42. When the bread is taken from the oven, a few red hot coals or cinders are thrown into the oven by the Magyars, in the belief that it is as good as throwing them down one's enemy's throat. Thus, if one's enemy would partake of that bread, he would come to grief.
43. Throw a pebble upon which your enemy's name is inscribed, together with a pin, into the well of St. Elian, in Wales, as an offering to the well, and a curse will come upon the one who bears the name, and in all probability, he will pine away and die.
44.To cause an enemy ill-luck, make a heap of stones, cursing him as many times as there are stones, and as every Christian must add at least a pebble as he passes by, his woes and his misfortunes will constantly increase. (Greece.)
45. Not many years ago, there was a system of cursing in common vogue in Fermanagh with tenants who had been given the notice to quit. This was: they collected, from all over their farms, stones. These they brought home, and having put lighted coal in the fireplace, they heaped the stones on it as if they had been sods of turf. They then knelt down on the hearthstone and prayed that as long as the stones remained unburnt every conceivable curse might light on their landlord, his children, and their children to all generations. To prevent the stones by any possibility of being burnt, as soon as they had finished cursing, they took the stones and scattered them far and wide over the whole country. Many of the former families of the county are said now to have disappeared on account of being thus cursed.
46. The great antiquity of sympathetic magic, by which a person is destroyed if an image of him is made and then ruined again, is shown by the discovery at Thebes of a small clay figure of a man tied to a papyrus scroll, evidently to compass the death of the person described therein. This figure and papyrus are now in the Ashmolean Museum.
47. A South Sea Islander persisted in saying he was very ill because his enemies, the Happahs, had stolen a lock of his hair and buried it in a leaf of plantain to kill him. He had offered the Happahs the greater part of his property if they would bring back his hair and the leaf, for otherwise, he was sure to die.
48. It is a widespread belief that one can injure another person by stepping upon his or her shadow. Any injury done to the shadow would have the same effect upon its owner. To cause an enemy's death, it is merely necessary to take his shadow away from him entirely.
49. Anciently, a small bunch of feathers placed in a person's path was -thought, in Jamaica, to give them a curse. Any piece of coffin furniture hung over the door was also capable of cursing the inmates of the house.
50. Put ashes from yellow stamped paper, together with ashes from the temple, on your enemy, and he will be sure to be very sick soon. (China.)
51. The head of a dog and the head of a buffalo, stamped on paper, the paper burned and the ashes collected and mixed with sacred ashes, is also used to make an enemy die if it can be got into the tea he drinks.
52. Lisiansky, in his "Voyage Round the World," gives us an account of a religious sect in the Sandwich Islands who arrogate to themselves the power to pray for people to death. Whoever incurs their displeasure receives notice that the "homicide litany" is about to begin. Such are the effects of superstition and imagination that the notice alone is frequently sufficient with these weak people to make them waste away with fear, or else go mad and commit suicide.
53. The Finnish superstition of producing an absent person in the form of an image in a vessel of water and then shooting it, and thereby wounding or slaying the absent enemy, is believed to be efficacious at a hundred miles distance.
54. It was at the instigation of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester (for which she was imprisoned), that a figure made of wax was used to represent King Henry VI., the intention being for his person to be destroyed as the figure was consumed.
55. In British Guiana, it is to this day firmly believed by the negroes and others that injuries inflicted even upon the ordure of persons will be felt by the individual by whom they were left. In Somerset, England, it is also believed that it is very injurious to an infant to burn its excrement. It is thought to produce constipation and colic.
56. In Australia, the sorcerer has different means of attacking an enemy. He can creep near him when he is asleep and bewitch him to death by merely pointing a leg bone of a kangaroo at him; or he can steal away his kidney-fat, where, as the natives believe, a man's power dwells; or he can call in the aid of a malignant demon to strike the poor wretch with his club behind the neck, or he can get a lock of hair and roast it with fat over the fire until its former owner pines away and dies.
57. In Calcutta, a servant having quarreled with his master hung himself in the night in front of the street door, that he might become a devil and haunt the premises. The house was immediately forsaken by its occupants, and, although a large and beautiful edifice, was suffered to go to ruins.
58. The western tribes of Victoria, Australia, believe that if an enemy can get hold of so much as a bone from the meat one has eaten, that he can bring illness upon you. Should anything belonging to an unfriendly tribe be found, it is given to the chief, who preserves it as a means of injuring the enemy. It is loaned to any one of the tribe who wishes to vent his spite against any of the unfriendly tribes. When used as a charm, it is rubbed over with emu-fat mixed with clay, and tied to the point of a spear. This is stuck upright in the ground before the campfire. The company sits watching it, but at such a distance that their shadows cannot fall on it. They keep chanting imprecations on the enemy till the spear-thrower turns around and falls in his direction. Any of these people believe that by getting a bone or other refuse of an enemy, he has the power of life and death over him, be it man, woman, or child. He can kill his enemy by sticking the bone firmly by the fire. No matter how distant, the person will waste away. This same belief is found among the American Indians.
59. It is a common belief among the American Indians that certain medicine men possess the power of taking life by shooting needles, straws, spiders' webs, bullets, and other objects, however distant the person may be at whom they are directed. Thus, in "Cloud Shield's Winter Count for 1824-1825," Cat Owner was killed with a spider-web thrown at him by a Dakota. It reached the heart of the victim from the hand of the man who threw it and caused him to bleed to death from the nose. (Mallory, "Picture Writing of the American Indians.")
60. In the North of Scotland, a peculiar piece of witchcraft is still practiced, where a cowardly, yet deadly, hatred is cherished against a person. A "body of clay," called in GaeKc "Carp Creaah," is made as nearly as possible to resemble the one sought to be injured. This is placed, in great secrecy, in the stream of some shadowy burn. The belief is that as the body of clay wastes away from the action of the water, the victim sought to be cursed will as surely waste away to death.
61. One of the charms formerly most dreaded by the natives of Madagascar was called berika. It is said to be most deadly in its effects, bringing about the death of the victim by bursting his heart, and causing him to vomit immense quantities of blood. Even the possessor of this charm stood in terror of it, and none but the most reckless of charm-dealers and sorcerers would have anything to do with it. It was popularly supposed to have an inherent liking for blood, and that it would at times demand from its owner to be allowed to go forth to destroy some living tiling; at one time it would demand a bullock, at another a sheep or pig, at another a fowl, and occasionally its ferocity would only be satisfied with a human victim. The owner was obliged to comply with its demands and perform the appropriate incantations so as to set it at liberty to proceed on its fatal errand, lest it should turn on him and strike him dead. In fact, the charm was of so uncertain a temper, so to speak, that its owner was never sure of his own life, as it might at any moment turn upon him and destroys him, out of sheer ferocity.
62. Another powerful charm is called manara-mody. It is supposed to follow the person to be injured, and on his arrival home, to bring upon him a serious illness or cause his immediate death. For instance, a person goes down from the interior to the coast for the purpose of trade. In some business transaction, he, unfortunately, excites the anger of a man with whom he is dealing, and who determines to seek revenge. For this purpose, he buys from a charm-dealer the charm called manara-mody. The trader, having finished his business on the coast, starts homeward, all unconscious that his enemy has sent the fatal charm after him to dog his steps through forest and swamp, over hill and valley. At length, he reaches his home, thankful to be once more with his family. But alas! The rejoicing is soon turned to mourning, for the remorseless charm does its work, and smites the victim with a sore disease, or slays him outright at once.

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