Path: typhoon.sonic.net!pants.skycache.com!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.novia.net.MISMATCH!novia!news-out.uswest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3909F965.1BA86CDE@uswest.net> From: Ischade Reply-To: deimos1@uswest.net Organization: There's no place like home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.magick.tantra,alt.magick.sex,alt.pagan.magick,alt.magick.folk,alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic Subject: Re: Books of Darkness and Books of Shadows (was Lovespells) References: <8e3mtf$7di@bolt.sonic.net> <3905EDA1.DB0E5B88@kahealani.com> <8e4rlg$ssa@bolt.sonic.net> <3906B7B5.FCEF020B@kahealani.com> <3907524D.3EFC@luckymojo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:49:42 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.225.199.130 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 956954986 63.225.199.130 (Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:49:46 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:49:46 CDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:22935 alt.magick:190463 alt.magick.tantra:15574 alt.magick.sex:84744 alt.pagan.magick:22096 alt.magick.folk:4530 alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic:22511 Quick interrupt, but an interesting thread. Morality and Magic a constant question it seems. *** catherine yronwode wrote: > I understand that -- for you -- the prospect of influencing IN ANY WAY > another being's free will is "evil," but for most of the rest of us, the > issues are fuzzier and less strictly defined. Especially among > magicians, for whom there is often a REAL non-physical dimension of > operation, the distinction between what is done "in the flesh" and what > is done "symbolically" is not always easy to make. In the family tradition that I grew up with, once the magic is bought ("cross my palms with silver") the witch or what ever you call yourself is freed of karmic attachment by virtue of commerce. -Ischade