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To: alt.magick From: heidrick@well.sf.ca.us (Bill Heidrick) Subject: Re: Magick Date: 3 Dec 1995 18:47:12 GMT 93 Mark, Plotinus (plotinus@ix.netcom.com) asks: > Can someone please explain to me the laws governing sympathetic >magic and incantational magic? Please describe both and >compare/contrast. Thanks a lot. "Sympathetic" magic is a term used by anthropologists to distinguish from "contagious" magic. The former term means that intangible linkage is formed by analogy or likeness. The latter term refers to intangible linkage by means of previous contact or a part of something. Neither term applies accurately to actual practices of magic or magick, since all such practices can be analyzed in such a fashion as to reveal both sympathetic and contagious elements. These categories are abstractions used to discuss folk practices by scholars, hence they amount to a philosophy somewhat detached from real events. "Sympathetic" is seen in actual western tradition as the idea of "signatures" -- color, shape and other attributes of objects are used to identify symbolic value in those objects. Thus, these categories do appear in working Magic(k), but as elements of design rather than types of magic(k). Incantation is also a design element. See the terms "mantra" and "prayer" for other discussions. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick
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