On 29 June 2010 17:28, Daniel Harms <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>The whole picture of
>>our 'spirits' is hideously distorted from then on, with the dead
>>virtually omitted from Western magic rendering it artificial and
>>remote from every other culture.
> the potential overlaps between magic and spiritualism, and the presence of less formal necromantic ceremonies in the folk corpus (e.g. folklore about "if you X, you'll see the dead", or the Bloody Mary ritual/game).
folk magic is undergoing a bit of a renaissance (or course for
sociological reasons it isn't 'folk' magic nowadays, just as folk
music required academic attention and middle class hobbyists to
recover from the World Wars). It may well assist in rectifying what is
presently a very real gap. Spiritualism on the other hand is a more
complex area. Overcoming the Crowleyan snobbery against it is taking a
long time, certainly it isn't as yet assimilated into what we call
'Western magic'. Here again it is useful to compare the situation in
the ATRs and New World traditions. In Brazil for example the
spiritualism of Alan Kardec has been very influential in the syntheses
that have evolved there. It is in such respects that I contrast
contemporary magic unfavourably with such traditions.
Thanks again for your response.
ALWays
Jake
Jake
http://www.underworld-apothecary.com/
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