Spell Basics
Here are the basics for you to remember—a kind of cheat sheet to summarize what we’ve learned together.
Components of Magic
1. Interconnection
2. Transcending time and space
3. Intention
4. Power
Components of a Spell
1. A stated goal
2. A target
3. Intention
4. Ingredients gathered beforehand (possibly none)
5. Raising power
6. Sending power to the target
7. Finishing the spell
Sources of Power
1. Power from deity
2. Power from the self
a. Mind: concentration, focus, meditation, trance
b. Body: movement, dance, sex magic, pleasure, pain, aura/etheric body
c. Mind and body jointly: rhythm, repetition, textile magic, music/sound/chants, austerities
3. Natural and supernatural sources
a. Nature as a whole
b. Natural things
c. Elemental power
d. Supernatural beings
e. Supernatural things
4. Saved, accumulated, or stored power
a. Magical tools
b. History, folklore, archetypes
c. Things used in raising power in other ways
5. Magic words: Magic words are a means of accessing power from the mind, from the body, and/or from accumulated/stored sources—depending upon the words and how they are used.
a. Incantations, rhymes, charms, spells
b. Calls
c. Prayers
d. Affirmations
e. Barbarous words