Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nagasiva yronwode) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.occult.methods Subject: The Construction of Magical Tools (was cross-posts okay?) Organization: Sonoma Interconnect,Santa Rosa,CA(us),http://www.sonic.net Lines: 73 Sender: yronwode@sonic.net Message-ID: <8tdlm7$igv@bolt.sonic.net> References: <39F9E6F9.1FD1@luckymojo.com> Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.4 (NOV) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 04:39:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.224.36 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 972707986 208.201.224.36 (Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:39:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:39:46 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:25830 alt.occult.methods:9 50001027 Vom Happy Nulatix! catherine yronwode : >Since alt.occult.methods is a new newsgroup, i am hoping that it will be >okay to cross-post some of the practical material that i mention in >alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic, namely spells. tools and techniques, cross-posted or not, sound good to me. if we can discourage topic drifts into nonpractical subjects, then all the better. some newsgroups (e.g. alt.magick, alt.pagan.magick) may be more difficult to control in that way, so I will be gradual in my cross-posting there. >I am also interested in the construction of tools for use in magical >rituals, and would be interested in hearing what different people do in >that regard. I have often consecrated by candlelight with my own semen at a crescendo of recorded music, holding the item to my bosom as a christening, up to the sky as a glorification, or grounding it as a cementation of form and magical purpose. sometimes I've incorporated elemental consecrations, especially during a period I studied with Wiccans, but typically this has not been an issue. usually I find or am given a magical tool, though occasionally I have intentionally purchased one or purchased it for one purpose and later designated it for purposes magical. in the rare instances that I have actually *made* a magical tool (recommended by many magicians, I'd add), this has largely been some kind of composition or collage effort, not fashioning it out of raw materials as is often suggested by traditional books. I have not found a greater or lesser degree of power for found or made tools as compared with purchased or gifted. I enjoy fabricating mythic or legendary stories behind any particular tool. I suppose this may tie into my background in role-playing magic and fantasy fiction. I try to make a story which both conforms in its rough character to the item's historical past as well as its emotional quality with regard to my rite and my person. typically I give my magical tools names, and I treat the items at that point as a being or spirit ally, often before their consecration or christening (the rite being a kind of sealing). from then on I try to refer to them by their name (which is sometimes also an English word representing their role in my life, like the ring I named 'Patience' or the other I called 'Enjoyment'). my most favourite method of obtaining tools for magical use is by using oft-used ordinary tools. the first magical tool I ever used with any consistency when coming to ArkaotikA, for example, was the screwdriver that was consistently utilized in the laboratory for the mixing of herbs and powders. I'd used it myself a number of times and as far as I know it has been used for that purpose for a number of years. it was a kind of 'wand' or directing power of will used by a handful through the years for innumerable magical formulae. I really enjoy RECYCLING magical tools, especially when one or more outlive their purpose in my mind and I find some other purpose for which they seem suited as a combination. a good example of this was the red felt triangle given to me at an initiation. I found that its symbolism was of relatively weak intensity to me, and I later wrapped the triangle around the shaft of a stylus I'd had sitting around, using this composite as a ritual pact-signing instrument. one of the reasons that I typically need to replace magical tools is that eventually they pass from my hands, whether because someone admires them and the tool calls to be given away, they escape on their own to an unknown location, or they are sacrificed in some glorious cleansing inspired by Kali. :> nagasiva -- FREE HOODOO CATALOGUE! send street address to: catalogue@luckymojo.com mailto:nagasiva@luckymojo.com ; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html ; mailto:boboroshi@satanservice.org ; http://www.satanservice.org/ emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired