The Elements of Spellcrafting by Miller, Jason -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

Three Parts of This Book The Importance of Spellcraft What I Hope You Get Out of This Book

Part 1: Setting Up the Spell

Key 1: Know What Magic Actually Does

Magic Is an Influence, Not a Cause Influencing What Exactly? The Take-Away

Key 2: Stop Making Crappy Goals

Impossible and Highly Improbable Goals The Lame Goal Vague and Immeasurable Goals Setting Goals Is Not an Accomplishment So What's a Good Goal Then? But I Don't Know What I Want! The Take-Away

Key 3: Make Sure Your Life Is Enchantable

How Flexible Are You? Love Shows Up on the Doorstep Financial Flexibility Health Enchantability Dangers of Forcing Magic into an Unenchantable Situation The Take-Away

Key 4: Everything Matters

Hexed by a Hexagram! Stuff that Someone Else Just Made Up Probably Still Matters Stuff that You Were Not Even Aware of Still Matters Materia Matters Slave to the Rules? The Take-Away

Key 5: “Matters” Does Not Mean Necessary

Experience Before Change Tweaking Your Thaumaturgy The Take-Away

Key 6: Make Skillful Statements of Intent

The Statement of Intent Future or Present Tense? Caveats and Modifiers The Take-Away

Key 7: Emergency Magic Is Bad Magic

The Power of Proactive Sorcery Emergency Magic Is Often Too Late Sometimes a Good Emergency Is Just What We Need The Take-Away

Part 2: Execution

Key 8: Embrace the Power of Offerings

Gumball Magic Regular Offerings Types of Offering Disposing of Offerings A Daily Spirit Feast A Word of Warning The Take-Away

Key 9: DIY Is Over-Rated

The Power of Tradition The Power of Craftsmanship Learning from Something Doesn't Mean You Have to Keep Doing It If Everything Reflects Who and What You Already Are, There Is No Growth When DIY Is the Magic The Take-Away

Key 10: Use Macro- and Micro-Enchantment

What Is Macro- and Micro-Enchantment? Micro-Enchantment The Might of Multi-Micro-Magics The Take-Away

Key 11: You Are a Spirit Too

Spirits in the Material World Spirits Teaching Spirits Leaving the Body Energy The Take-Away

Key 12: Check Your Links

What Are Links? What Makes a Good Link? Links to Place Sorcerous Sabotage Is It Good Enough? Living In a Material World The Take-Away

Key 13: Practice Sane Eclecticism

Do Not Usurp Titles Even If You Hold a Title, Don't Throw It Around Until You Know Something Real Separate Symbol Sets from Tech Context Matters Approach Any Tradition from Its Own Base Decide on the Level of Involvement You Want and Don't Confuse It The Take-Away

Key 14: Magic Is a Rhizome

Spell Spread Avoid Conflicting Spreads Spell Bleed Meta Magic Mediators The Take-Away

Part 3: Advancing Your Craft

Key 15: Judge Success Skillfully

The Feelies Go Beyond the Binary Spirit Contact Improve Your Perception/Projection Ratio The Take-Away

Key 16: Enchant for What You Don't Deserve

Set Point Theory Set Point Sacrilege We're Not Worthy Tips for Blasphemy The Take-Away

Key 17: Work Outside the Columns

It's Not What You Know, It's Who Hack the Planets Be a One-Trick Pony The Take-Away

Key 18: Failing Without Flailing

The Tower and The Star “I Meant to Do That!” The Take-Away

Key 19: Know Where Your Scarcity Lies

Money and Time Time and Attention Attention and Energy Other Types of Scarcity Shifts The Take-Away

Key 20: Trade In Goals for Trajectory

When Goals No Longer Serve The Trajectory of Fulfillment Inescapable Impermenance What Does Trajectory Thaumatury Look Like? Enlightenment as a Trajectory The Take-Away

Key 21: Maintain Sovereignty

You Are In Charge The Spirits Do Not Micro-Manage Mechanisms of Magic An Offering of “Thanks, but No Thanks” Sovereignty and Teachers Karma Avoidance Exercise Your Agency The Take-Away

Parting Words

Appendix 1: The Seal of Manifestation Appendix 2: 7 Keys for Successful Divination Notes About the Author

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