Category: Wicca
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Cardinal Points
87, This was in response to a message I received asking a good question I could answer. Thank you for your message at Magic Pure and Simple . com I genuinely didn’t know what to do with a genuine message like this. Like all my messages are either web development sales trying to get money out…
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Give a blessing
So I’m having a quick flick through an old fluffy bunny book for ideas on things I could post about. Long gone were the times when you would find anything they say helpful or authoritative, but they always were fun and remind me of the times when I first got involved in the occult and…
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Pagan Story-time is for Muggles
Introduction Story-telling is quite magical. Since it is so magical it can seem difficult to distinguish between story-telling and the performance of magic. For people who do not explore any spiritual dimension, story-telling is about the most magical thing in their lives. The story-teller creates a whole new universe and pulls our minds into it,…
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What is Magic and Why do I do it?
Famously, Magic is defined by Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune as “causing change in conformity with Will”. I was trying so hard to define it and I just felt like this definition didn’t quite cover it anymore. There arose for me a few definitions which spoke more about why I do Magic than what it…
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Wiccan Degree System
Okay it’s hard to come across a specific model that covers all covens that practice initiatory Wicca from Tradition British Witchcraft‘s founders: Gerald Gardner and Alexander Saunders. Both men claim to not be the start of something new, but there is a little written evidence of what came before and it would appear they were…
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Who are the Templars?
Okay! So this is a website concerned with the practical and accurate practice of magic in the modern day. So why would I write an article that sounds like it’s going to be a crazy conspiracy theorist rant? Also why is this relevant to us today? Firstly, I hope to pull apart from the romanticism…
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Working with Earth
My personal experience of working with the element of Earth is that my attempts to use earth to cause change directly is often ineffective. Earth is normally perceived as a passive element. It doesn’t act; it is acted upon. How does that work in the real world? We will have to experiment and see. This…