What is Magick?

So many non-pagan people seem to not know or not understand what Magick truly is. Fundamental Christianity View Witch-Craft as something that comes from the devil and that it is evil. Which is a bunch of misunderstood stereotypes that are not true. Especially when Christianity is also guilty of witchcraft. If you are Christian asking, how So? Well I am about to give an answer to that.

Christianity stole Celtic Holidays and Stories and Celtic Rituals and transformed it to fit their doctrine. Christianity is only 3,000 years old where as the gods and other pagan beliefs extend far beyond those years. Ever since Humans walked this planet humans believed in the existence of more than one god. An example of this is during the holiday Lunasa or Lughnassadh (August 1st). It is a holiday to celebrate the harvest, and the balance of light and dark as autumn approaches. In this ancient Celtic Ritual, it has the purification of Bread and wine much like what Christians do as Communion. If Communion was taken from a Celtic Ritual that is based upon a Celtic Holiday is that not also still incorporating Magick?

In the book Celtic Magick by DJ Conway, the Lunasa Ritual outlines as thus:

Cast the circle, call out 4 corners or 4 watchtowers, Light Cauldron Candle and say "Oh ancient gods of the celts, I do ask your precense here, for this is  time that is not a time, in a place that is not a place on a day that is not a day, and I await you."  Then set a plate of bread on the pentacle. Stand still and breath deeply for a few moments. Concentrating upon the cleansing power of the breath and air. When you feel ready say: "I have purified myself by breathing the life force of the universe and expelling all evil from me."

Then lift the plate of bread high then set it back on the alter and say: "I know that every seed, every grain is a record of ancient times and a promise to all of what shall be, this break represents life eternal through the cauldron of the triple goddess."  Now Eat a piece of bread ( sound familiar?)  Put the challice of wine on the pentacle, hold the wine in the air and set it back on the alter and say "As the grape undergoes change to become wine, so by the sacred cauldron of life shall I undergo change and as this wine can give man enchantment of the divine or sink him into the lower realms, so I do realize that all humans rise or fall according to their strength and will" Drink some of the wine (Again sound familiar?)

Then after drinking wine you say: "As in the bread and wine, so it is with me, within all forms it is locked a record of the past and a promise for the future. I ask that you lay your blessings upon me, ancient ones, that this season of waning light and increasing darkness may not be heavy, so mote it be,"  Then do the standard closing of letting go of the watch towers and putting out candles, and casting the circle (DJ Conway).

This is nearly the exact same ritual as communion, the only difference is that Christians changed it to symbolize the blood of Jesus and the Bread for the Body of Jesus and they say different words. Orriginally the Bread and Wine ritual came from a Celtic Holladay and thus using basic Magick ritual/spell to ingest Jesus's energy instead of the ancient deities to create a connection to Jesus through spirit and soul Magick.

So now to answer the question What is Magick? Magick is basically the manipulation of Astral Energies and the connection to the higher self. Of which case, happens in every culture and religion. Meditation is a way to connect to the higher self which is manipulating your own astral energies, and thus Magick. Magick is a natural part of this world of which God (primal source who is the nameless one) and the Gods (Created by primal source to help create life and run the universe) put here on earth. It is one of our gifts. For Centuries people used magick to heal, and make food and contact the god's and the dead.

Also the whole candle burning thing that comes from Magick. Burning White Candles in the church to purify the space is something Pagans have done for a long time. Creating holy water is not just within the power of the church but within the power of ones own being. Burning Incense to create a sacred and purified state is also something that comes from the pagans. The Chalice and incense burners and the way rituals are held in the Catholic Church, as well as Many of the churches Ideas come from Pagans. If Christians and priests and pastors actually took the time to do the research and be open-minded about it, I bet anything people would realize that Magick is everywhere, in everything despite what they have come to believe.

One of the problems I have with Christianity, is that they Condemn Magick but yet use it at the same time. Which is totally hypocritical. Jesus was sent by the primal source to become a teacher to man, and help restore the balance of this world, but Man (influenced by the devil who is not the same entity as the god of the underworld and is not Lucifer the fallen angel) twisted his teachings and dominated the world into a patriarchy seeking power and control of the human race.

Another problem I have with Christianity is something they do not realize, but they are being manipulated by what they call the devil, who is not the god of the underworld nor is he Hades or satan, The devil is a whole different entity who is seeking to disrupt the balance of this world and wants to conquer this section of the universe, and has been fairly successful in the last 2500 years or so since Christianity conquered the western world through religion. When Christians try to Connect to Jesus through meditation and prayer (just like in ancient cultures) Some of them connect to something that they shouldn't be connecting with instead because they give up their will to "God" and in surrendering their will, they surrender their strength and are easily manipulated and can easily be possessed (or so that is what makes sense to me).  Instead of connecting to their own higher selves they are actually connecting to something other than themselves and that is not the way it is supposed to go. Truth comes from within yourself, not from a book, nor from another inter-dimensional Being.

The God of the underworld is not the devil nor is he the source of all evil. He is just one of the god's who is good and who does his job is in order to put balance on this earth by taking the dead and making sure they go to the right places either down in his underworld (or prison) for people who are bad, or to heaven for people who are good. His Celtic Name is Arawn, his greek name is Hades and has many more names in other pantheons. Christians like to call him Satan, But like I said he is someone that is not to be feared, and is on the side of good in his own way. 

If anything I think the source of all evil comes from humans and their stubbornness and their misguided religions. After all it was the Christians who decided to pin the source of all evil on a God that is just doing its Job to help the primal source of creation run the universe. It was Christians who killed millions of innocent men, women, and Children in crusades, and even ended up Killing other Christians because they objected to the conquest that happened so long ago.

Some Churches have even manipulated the bible so much that it promotes hate towards GLBT, People of different skin colors, and just hate towards people who are not Christian and still cling to the old pagan pantheons. I have read some of the bible and I have even heard preachers preach to people that we are supposed to hate what god hates and then they have a list of what god hates. The most misguided and naive thing about Christianity is saying that god hates anything. The Ture Primal Source God (who is neither male or female but both at the same time and is called the nameless one) does not Hate anything. God the primal source of Creation is all about Love. Christians Teach Love, but from my experience it is a very limited love that they teach. God is only supposed to love Christians and hate everything else. So not true. This is why I became Pagan. I just got tired of all these lies and misguided-ness.

The last Problem I have with Christians is their whole view of what is evil and what is good, and the whole Light V.S. Darkness. I have stated in a previous blog called The Battle of Light and Dark that Darkness doesn't mean evil and that darkness is not to be afraid. You may go to the blog for farther information.

Viewers Discretion: I do not think Christians are evil. I have met many Christians who are on the side of light and good. I have met many Christian Individuals who are open minded and also don't believe everything the bible says and they still are very spiritual people. I have some Christian Friends who have some the same spiritual gifts I have and accept what is and what isn't. Also I am not attacking Christians individually or their faith, I am just stating what I have experienced and seen through my eyes of The Christian/Catholic Church, and not the individuals who are believers. These are opinions I have formed by researching other religions and the unbiased look into Christian History. No harm is intended to any one or anything.