From:    FireSpell                              Area: MagickNet
To:      Khephera                                6 Aug 96 23:07:18
Subject: Hmmm... Oddball question...            UpdReq 

On Sat Aug 03, 1996 (15:41), Khephera wrote about Hmmm... Oddball question...:
 K> The main purpose of Ceremony (once all of the window-dressing has
 K> been striped from it) is simply to involve the Self totally.  It is a
 K> way of centering your ENTIRE attention on one single goal- to the
 K> total exclusion of all else.
     In my experience this is only ONE of the purposes of cerimony. Another 
fairly common purpose is to tap into pre-existing energy systems in the 
environment.
 K> So, that's the run down on not just incense, but ALL Ritual
 K> paraphenalia.  Of course, there is more to it than that- but that is
 K> the basics of it.
     Darn right there is more to it than that.  Just for starters, "ritual 
paraphenalia" can build up a "magick charge" turning it into what is oftne 
called a "talismman".  Once this happens, the iten has some real power of 
it's own in addition to anything it does for your emotional state.
     FireSpell


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From:    FireSpell                              Area: MagickNet
To:      Stardance                               6 Aug 96 23:21:42
Subject: ouija                                  UpdReq 

On Mon Aug 05, 1996 (11:43), Stardance wrote about Re: ouija:
 Fi> Stick around.  Somehow I suspect weirder things will come your way
 Fi> at some point.
 S> Besides ghosts, lucid nightmares, and Dream Walking?
 Fi> Almost certainly.  What you have described so far is only the
 Fi> beginning to intermediate stuff.  Stick around for what happens when
 Fi> the advanced stuff kicks in. ;-)
 S> <Wry look> That was the extremely short list I gave you back there.
     OK, whatever.
 S> I'm talking about those people who go to their local toy or hobby
 S> shop, and spot one of these tucked with the Monopolies and Scrabbles
 S> and other 'board games'.  Most of those out there are 'dead' boards,
 S> and harmless, but that doesn't mean they can't and won't become
 S> active, especially if someone with potential should come in contact
 S> with it.
     Yeah, I understand that.  Most of those boards "do nothing".  For the 
ones that do, it's anyone's guess as to what will happen.
     FWIW I got my Ouija board at "Toy's R Us".  It was real easy to 
"activate", but then again I'm fairly comfortable working magick.  Of course, 
I did end up fighting a spirit with a real attitude problem, but it's not 
like I didn't forsee this as a possibility.  It's the true "newbes" (the ones 
that can't effectively protect themselves if something goes wrong) that I 
feel sorry for.  Oh yeah, my Ouija usually sit's in the basement with binding 
spells on it (ie it's not going to do diddly-squat until/unless I decide to 
get it "out of mothballs" as they say).
     FireSpell


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