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Types of Magic

BMW states magic itself is neutral – meaning there is no such thing as

black or white or good v evil magic. It is the practitioners who often
distinguish between good, or white magic and bad, or black magic—as
these distinctions are subjective.

Bardon divided magic into three types:

Lower magic, which deals with the laws of nature and control of forces
in nature, such as the ELEMENTS

Intermediate magic, which deals with the laws of human beings in the
microcosm, and how the microcosm can be in uenced

Higher magic, which deals with the universal laws of the macrocosm
and how they can be controlled

Types of Magic
Characteristics of different magic systems.

Black Magic.

Black magic is used for malevolent purposes—to harm or to kill. According

to tradition, black magic is accomplished with the aid of demonic entities.
Other terms for it are goetic magic or goetia.

Levi said in The History of Magic, “Black Magic may be de ned as the art
of inducing arti cial mania in ourselves and in others; but it is also above
all the science of poisoning.”
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Waite termed black magic as the utterance of words and names of power
for “unlawful purposes” and “the realm of delusion and nightmare, though
phenome- nal enough in its results.” It involves communing with demons
and evil spirits for materialistic gain or harmful purpose.

In The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, Waite said that black magic is
not a profane rendition of religion, and:

. . . it is not to do outrage to God in the interests of diab- olism, but to

derive power and virtue from above for the more successful control of Evil
Spirits, and this obtains indifferently whether the purpose of the operator
be oth- erwise lawful or not.

. . . God acknowledged and invoked by Goetic Magic is not the Principle of

Evil, as the myth of modern Satan- ism supposes, but the “terrible and
venerable Deity” who destroyed the power of the rebellious angels, the
Jehovah of the Jewish rituals and the Trinity of the Christian magi- cal
cycle.

Black magic is associated with sorcery and witchcraft.

The Christian church associated pagan and folk magic as “black magic.”

Chaos Magic.

Chaos magic developed in the 1960s that dispenses with the pomp and
ceremony of ritual magic and evocation of gods and spirits. AUSTIN
OSMAN SPARE is considered the “father” of chaos magic for his emphasis
on the power of the subconscious mind and his system of SIGILS. Chaos
magic is not about disorder, as the name might imply, but rather focuses
on order that is beyond conscious understanding. It combines elements of
Eastern mysticism and Western ritual magic.

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The practitioner summons power from deep within the subconscious

rather than calling upon the power of outside agencies. Ritual is used to
evoke images from the subconscious and to release magical power.

Ray Sherwin developed chaos magic theory and early rituals. With Julian
Carroll, Sherwin formed a “Circle of Chaos” for interested practitioners in
England. Peter J. Carroll wrote Liber Null and Psychonaut, chaos magick
training manuals, and was a leader in the formation of the Initiates of
Thanateros in 1977, the primary chaos magic organization.

Liber Null—half of which is devoted to the black arts, a “natural

inclination” of humans—teaches that magical abilities are attained
through altered states of conscious- ness, which can be learned “without
any symbolic system except reality itself.” Psychonaut is intended for
group magic and shamanic practice.

Gray Magic.

Gray magic is a term sometimes applied to the morally ambiguous and

subjective nature of magical power. For example, a curse might be black
magic from one perspective, but if it is used to stop an evil, then it is
considered justi able and falls into the realm of gray magic, perhaps even
good magic.

In ancient times, the moral and ethical uses of magic were often quite
ambiguous. Curses were regularly made against enemies and rivals of all
sorts as supernatural means by which people sought revenge and tried to
gain advantage.

Folk Magic

Local traditions of folk magic address casting SPELLS for healing, luck,
protection, and so forth. Folk magic blends other forms of magic, often
with mixed religious elements. Folk magic remedies and prescriptions are
handed down in oral traditions and in small handbooks.

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