Magic
Magic Section Contents and Corewords
1] Is Fate a Mystery to You? ... answer, accident, amaze, beginning, book, charm, chance, create, call, courage, destiny, doom, desire, dissemblers, enchantment, eyes, evil, fate, fame, faerie, fable, fortune, formulas, glamour, grammar, happen, history, incantations, judge, just, Jack, knowledge, key concepts, learn, legend, look, letters, loops, language, mystery, meaning, magic, melody, Muses, myth, narrative, Norns, origins, purpose, proverbs, power, pain, play, question, root, rhyme, religion, rhythm, real, story, speak, songs, spells, see, say, saga, spinners, sound, skill, spirit, tale, three fates, thread, tell, true, understand, utter, voice, vision, wish, wyrd, weave, web, wisdom, yarn. 2] Magic Unconfounded ... astrology, awe, breath, believe, church, consider, compose, chatter, dream, delight, deceive, elders, fact, fear, humpty dumpty, hate, love, life, marvel, miracle, mutter, name, old, priests, prophecy, propaganda, runes, time, tongue, words, wonder, work, wizardry, whisper, write. 3] Psychic Power ... ask, bible, context, consciousness, cadence, fancy, fantasy, fun, glance, genie, imagination, insight, intonation, illusion, intuition, lyric, learn, logic, lullabye, leisure, music, map, maze, meditation, need, observe, psi, psyche, puzzle, pupil, perceive, poetry, plan, problem quotation, reveal, reverie, sight, soul, scheme, soothsayer, symbol, secret, stare, sure, three wishes, thought, teach, tutor, telepathy, wealth, will, water, wisp. 4] Quintessential Wizardry ... clever, clue, dream interpretation, essence, grimoire, gramarye, heaven, keen, quintessence, spin, spin-doctors, sage, sagacious, scholar, trickery, wit.
Is Fate a Mystery to You?
The root meaning of fate is what is spoken ... The root meaning of fame is report ... The root meaning of faerie is enchantment ... The root meaning of fable is story, narrative ... the root meaning of all these words is fari … To Speak ... Fate also means destiny, doom, fortune
Enchantment ~ incantation means charm, to act on by songs or rhymed formulas of magic, to cast a spell upon, to delight highly
If you are spellbound by glamour and prefer to remain so, you will not be interested in having the secrets of fate spelled out. But if you wish to gain mastery of your life, you'll accept that knowledge is a very useful thing. indeed, in these days of information explosion, knowledge is more vital than it has ever been.
The original meaning of 'mystery' was 'to close one's eyes' (at the beginning of an initiation) Closing one's eyes is a deliberate action.
If we want to get to the bottom of the matter, dispel the mystery and understand the masking 'glamours', we need our eyes fully open. For we know 'there are none so blind as those that will not see'.”
There is no mystery to Fate. Most sources equate it with destiny. Destiny means 'ordained' - something set in order or 'reckoned'. It also denotes purpose and end.
Something 'reckoned' is something tallied or 'told' - which is a tale or story. So, primarily, your Fate is your story - including its outcome.
But the root meaning of Fate is 'that spoken'. This meaning has the added connotation of 'prediction' (foresaying), which leads to 'prophecy'. Translated into twentieth century terms, "what is said is what will happen". Confirmation can be found in many places, for this is a fundamental concept of all language!
Isaiah, in The Whole Book, says …
"So is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it".
In the same book there is a proverb which proclaims:
"The Tongue Has The Power Of Life And Death".
So Fate first points us in the direction of the word and the 'secret forces of nature' (a meaning of 'magic') that it uses.
Both Fate and end are cognate with doom. Doom means a 'judgment' or 'decision'. In Anglo-Saxon a 'doomsman' was a judge. And when a judge issues a sentence (!) what he says is what happens.
From the stem of the word Fate we get fable - which means story – and faerie/fairy.
Both of which mean 'enchantment', which, in turn, means song.
So Fate includes singing as well as speaking. This is of paramount importance, as most languages and religions show.
The Egyptians held that "the word creates all things", but that it depended on a 'clear voice' and 'exact delivery'. In their 'House of Life' rhythm and melody were studied, for 'intonation' was critical.
The Greek Muses (equated with the Latin Fates) counted, amongst their number, 'history' (story) and 'song'. Indeed 'Muse' gives us museum (temple for prayer) as well as 'music'.
The Anglo-Saxon Wyrd Sisters' and the Scandinavian Norns lead us in the same direction. Wyrd is first Fate and then destiny. But it is also 'spell' (tale, narrative, story) and 'charm' (song).
So, at base, our Fate is our story or song.
But, as we have seen from the doomsman, the Fates, Muses, Wyrd Sisters And Norns, there are times when we let voices other than our own, decide our destiny. Which is where the propaganda war begins.
The Three Fates
Just who are these other voices? Traditionally there are Three Fates, Wyrd Sisters, Norns, and, originally, Muses. In all these languages they are seen to be feminine.
Where does one normally find three female voices? The first answer must be: in our childhood. For, all things being equal, we, as children, are nurtured by one mother and two grandmothers. They set the scene for our lives.
The three Fates were also called the Moirae - the distributors. They are named 'Clotho', the weaver, 'Lachesis', the measurer and 'Atropos', the cutter. They were also known as the spinners.
What is woven is your story - your web. It is measured and cut. It has, like any sound story, a beginning, a middle and an end. Following the thread of the weave is to follow the clues. For a clue (clew) is a ball of thread. The weave becomes clearer when we consider that the yarn is the story too.
Deception tangles that web, just as default drops a stitch.
These snags tell us that control of our Fate (principally our tongue) is far from easy.
Spells, Tales & Narratives
“When a spell is falsely woven, all things wear a different semblance.” “If a spell isn’t accurate, it will give another look to things.” “The world we live in is composed of impressions received through the senses, and if the senses can be attuned to receive a different series of impressions, we should infalibly find ourselves living in another of the infinite number of possible worlds.” L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, ‘The Wall of Serpents.”
“Fairies have a spell called glamour.” M. K. Briggs, Fairies, Hobgoblins and other Strange Creatures
” All men knew that the Cunning old Aesir were Past Masters at Spells to Deceive the Eyes and the Mind.” H R Ellis Davidson ‘Gods and Myths of Northern Europe’
One of the clues obtained from the Anglo-Saxon cognate of Fate - wyrd - is worth following. Here we found story as' spell'.
A spell is principally a tale or narrative. But it also means 'to tell or name letters'. And the Greek word for letter - gramma - gives us our word grammar. But this latter, as well as meaning 'the right use of language', also means 'magic'. For skill in grammar was cognate with skill in magic as the dictionary definitions of 'gramery /gramarye' confirm.
Magic is a derivative of Magi (Persian, 'maz' - great) familiar to us as the three Wise Men!
One of the main meanings of magic is enchantment (song), the word we found connected with Fate via faerie. Thus the loops (stitches) in the weave constantly reinforce themselves: the clear, untangled, blueprint story is embedded in the very words of language!
A corrupted form of grammar gives us 'glamour' - 'a charm on the eyes, making them see things as fairer than they really are. Note this well: the charm (song) affects vision!
If we examine the weave of the story in finer detail, we find further confirmation.
The Eyes Have It
Weave is a doublet of web - and we can open our eyes still wider, for one of the meanings of web is: 'a film on the eyes'.
Glamour also means 'fascination' - to control by the glance. Undoubtedly the eyes have it! “Let us not boast" said Plato in his 'Phaedo', "Lest some evil eye should put to flight the word which I am going to speak".
So the link between sound and vision has a radical tradition, long before science ever considered synasthesia. This cognisance is best illustrated by 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. But that, as they say, is another story.
In a BBC television series called 'Mysteries', the subject of Fate was briefly covered.
What Happens
Our host had obvious trouble with the topic and protested frequently "Its what happens!"
Of course it is. Fate is what happens. But Fate is what is spoken, so what happens is also what is spoken.
Happen is from 'hap', the meaning of the second Norn, 'Verdante'. The Anglo-Saxon equivalent, 'Weorthan', means 'become' (end). Happen and become are equivalents. Both connect with 'chance'.
Chance - and accident - stem from 'cadence' which is a 'just falling of words'.
The second line of defense was another scientist whose mantra was a repeated "Chance!" "... and we were getting nowhere ..."
On the surface the programme appeared to offer three different possible explanations - the 'mystery' remained unresolved.
Yet a little understanding of the regular English terms used is enough to provide a singular, comprehensive solution. It is unfortunate that our host couldn't put the pieces together - but thats what 'happens' when we use 'Humpty Dumpty' language.
What Is Spoken
We can sum up. And we have a lot to sum. Fate is primarily what is spoken. The question is "Who does the speaking?" If you are content for the propagandists - the experts in glamour - to dictate your Fate, so be it. But if you would be master then you can only allow those you trust to do the speaking.
In these days of post-millennium decadence, I suspect that there are few indeed who would trust any other but themselves - and, possibly, their God - to speak for them.
But if you should choose to venture down this tough and complex path, above all else you must come to grips with the language - with the full meanings of words.
In an age which puts its trust in plastic, printed paper and stamped, low-value metals, words are often thought to be no more than hot air. That this was not always the attitude, we have seen.
The Whole Book says it is by our words we are condemned or acquitted - and that the flesh counts for nothing. What is meant is that it is the strong spirit that protects the mortal body, not a tough physical body (or a large one) that protects the spirit. And 'spirit' means breath, which is one of the first requirements for speaking. The other is 'voice' - the vibration that stems from our vocal cords.
We are both wind and stringed instruments - capable of 'marvellous results' (meaning of magic).
Supernatural Effect
Some words are traditionally reckoned to have magical power. But, as we have partly seen, every spoken word has its supernatural effect. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Hebrews certainly agreed.
As a consequence every word counts. Every 'umm' and 'ah' and 'er' is a pause which makes for a loose weave. Every 'you know' seeks a confirming nod. Every word kept is a word (and a spirit) strengthened. The converse is also true. Repeated claims that 'so-and-so' is a 'pain in the neck' will produce a pain in your neck.
Great power is at stake - your power. Your birthright. Why give it away? If you don't trust others or the world, check things out personally. Learn the amazing power of the English language. Learn the embedded truth within it and refute all the dissemblers. You can do it. It is hard work and does require responsibility. But it is the truth which sets you free. And truth is that which is fact, that which is real, that which is certain. And it can be established.
Truths often come in small portions - as in proverbs. But truths always link together (lies always argue).
Hidden Story
Add a few proverbs together ... and find a hidden story. Try it with these: 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'; “The devil finds work for idle hands'; 'Love is the fruit of idleness' – [bearing in mind that 'idle' originally meant 'clear' and 'bright'.]
Sometimes a word will have a bigger story than is expected (try 'whimsy'). But all true stories lock together into a vaster saga - the one we are all living in - the one we call 'History'. And so it is with our Fate. It is part of the wider story. And if our Fate is to be solidly founded, then it must take full cognisance of History. But thats the biggest story of them all. Now you know what Fate is. And you know the rudiments of its control. All you need is the faith and courage to make your own decisions.
Fundamental
How fundamental corewords link together is explained and illustrated in the Wordlore & Textmaps section.
Magic Unconfounded
The root of Magic is Magi – Priests (= Presbyters = Elders) of the Persians, who were Wise Men, Astrologers, Enchanters And Dream Interpreters
Magic … Doesn’t science dismiss it? Doesn’t the Church condemn it? ... The answers are surprising. For true answers require true definitions, and ‘magic’ has been kept confounded by those that see it as a threat to their own agenda.
Yes, science does dismiss magic – because it doesn’t understand the matter, and cannot explain it. So science denies magic, which is ironic ... for science unwittingly makes use of magic to explain itself to the layman.
Number is the root of science, for science is basically a measurer. Yet numbers cannot explain words. Science nonetheless must use words to explain itself: words explain numbers!
Words are the very root of magic as we shall see. Words are used to name numbers. Thus magic can explain science, for magic is completely logical. Magic does not deny science. It incorporates it!
Let There Be Light
Without words nothing could be explained. ‘Explain’ means ‘make evident’. And ‘evident’ means ‘visible’. Without words nothing is visible. What is said is what is seen. What is said is magic.
Superficially the Church also condemns magic. But it does not deny its existence. Since religion is largely magic, this is hardly surprising. Jesus was condemned in his time as a ‘false prophet and a magician’.
The priesthood does not however portray Jesus as a magician, for they misunderstand the word.
But say ‘miracle-worker’ and you will squeeze through the theologically-correct gate.
So, of our authoritarian spokesmen, one refuses to acknowledge the existence of magic, and the other implies that it is all bad.
Since there is no consensus of opinion, we must look elsewhere on the assumption that there is no smoke without fire.
Is then magic good or bad? There is only one way to find out. We must dig right down to the roots. We must check out the real meanings and not use Humpty Dumpty language.
In our everyday language the phrase ‘black magic’ exists. It betokens an opposite: ‘white magic’. A distinction is thus recognised in ordinary folk wisdom, together with the obvious acceptance of the reality of magic.
The hidden implication is that it is either the motive or the method which determines whether magic is good or evil.
Magic:
1] the art of producing marvellous results / wonderful effects with the aid of spirits, supernatural beings or the secret forces of nature
2] enchantment
We don’t yet know what the ‘secret forces of nature’ are. But we are left with some very significant keywords: marvellous/wonderful, spirits and enchantment.
Marvel is a doublet of miracle. So magic and miracle are equated – a ‘miracle worker’ is thereby a magician! (Wonder also equates with marvel).
The root meaning of Spirit however is ‘breath’.
So how is magic produced with the aid of breaths? Are we to assume that yogic breathing or something similar is all that is implied?
Hardly. It is too narrow a definition. We are missing vital ingredients. But we have one other keyword: Enchantment.
Enchantment: to act on by songs or rhymed formulas of magic:
to cast a spell upon: to charm: to delight in high degree
Here we begin to see more light. Magic uses breaths. It can be sung and formularised. It is necessary to breath in order to sing,
Singing adds to breath a series of vibrations produced by the vocal cords: sounds and words themselves. This is where we find the true key to magic.
So far we have considered the definitions of magic which are cognate or ‘branch’ meanings. A more complete map is shown below:
The Roots Of Magic
But we have yet to look at the root of the word, which is Magi, the plural of magus. The latter, like the Persian root word Maz, means ‘great’. The Magi were the priests of the ancient Persians, the ‘Wise Men’ of the east who were astrologers and wizards.
In the Gospels (God’s spell), the Three Wise Men [Magi] are recognisably on the side of good, their starlore implicitly accepted as wisdom. How then does the Church condemn magic?
The usual words used in connection with magic come from the root of the Hebrew word kashaph. In Micah 5.12. it is said in reference to Israel:
“I Will Cut Off Your Magic Arts Out Of Your Hand.”
“All that can be gathered from this passage is that what was done consisted of manual arts, and that it was abhorrent to Yahweh. When we turn to other terms used for practising magic we find that there is not necessarily any words of condemnation. The term lachash means ‘to whisper’ (an incantation) or ‘to mutter’ (a spell). The classical passage is Psalm 58. 3-9. This contains an incantation against the machinations of some evil-disposed persons. it is the innocent victim who has written down this incantation as a protective formula, but which his enemies have tried to counteract, though in vain: they tried to make the formula ineffective (like a ‘deaf adder’ which cannot hear the voice of the charmer) by seeking to avoid hearing the incantation. It is the term lachash which occurs here in the sense of ‘whispering the incantation’ In Isaiah 3.3. the R.V. rendering ‘skilful enchanter’ means in Hebrew literally ‘experienced (in composing) an incantation’ i.e. in writing magic formulas. It is instructive to note that the prophet here, far from condemning the practise, mentions the judge and the prophet with others in the same list, and regards the taking away of them as a calamity. Oesterley & Robinson, ‘Hebrew Religion.’
Real Power
A number of words have traditional ‘magic power’. But in most cases the counterfeit magicians, the charlatans, have brought even this aspect of magic into disrepute: ‘hocus pocus’ is the root of our modern words ‘hoax’ and ‘hokum’.
“The skalds distinguished three different kinds of magic: Sejd or prophecy … Galder, a formula of enchantment and Rune Reading.” The Masks of Odin, Elsa-Brita Titchenell
Cause will have its effect even if it is not in the realm of mechanical karma. Let your watchword be your byword, and cast your spells with care.
Psychic Powers
“The understanding of Psi represents the understanding of miracles.” Frank Herbert
When it comes to psychic powers the literature on the subject is surprisingly fragmented. Terminology from myth, legend, fairytale and folklore differs greatly from that used in spiritualism or parapsychology. Thus we find ourselves, for example, dealing with ‘second sight’ in juxtaposition with ‘clairvoyance’. Are these terms synonymous or is there an overlap of meaning?
Such puzzles are magnified when we draw into our net the additional languages of science fiction, horror and the terminologies of religion, shamanism and magic: we have a wealth of source material.
Matters need clarifying. If we wish to establish what our psychic powers really are, and how and why they may be used, it pays us to research the matter fully.
We must begin with the very term 'psychic' itself, since it is obvious that the keys to definition are locked into the terminology.
Psychic: pertaining to the soul or living principle in man: spiritual: pertaining to the mind: a spiritualist medium. Further cross-checking reveals a basic context:
Psyche is the Greek equivalent of the Latin ‘spirit’ and the Anglo-Saxon soul’. Psyche and spirit both mean ‘breath’. Soul and spirit both mean ‘essence.’
Second Sight
We’ve mentioned ‘second-sight’ and ‘clairvoyance’ – where do these threads lead us?
Second sight is ‘a gift of prophetic vision, long supposed in the Scottish highlands and elsewhere to belong to particular persons.’ Clairvoyance is ‘the power of seeing things not present to the senses.’
These terms are not exactly synonymous. We have an overlap of meaning. The link is between sight, vision and seeing.
If we add to our equation the old term ‘evil eye’, it becomes obvious that the subject of sight and psychic power is a key one. We don’t need to go further than the dictionary to discover that one meaning of the word ‘web’ is ‘a film on the eyes’ and that glamour means ‘a charm on the eyes.’
We can find that the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘fascinate’ (to control by glance: to enchant by evil eye) is ‘Eyebite.’
To this growing network of concepts we can also add ‘remote-viewing’, mesmerism and the x-ray vision of superman and shaman.
The more we increase the number of connections, the greater is the disparity between our alternate sources and the supposed wisdom of science.
There are even more sources. But they are rarely given their due weight. Many researchers either miss or simply skate over the psi in science fiction. Because the authors are focussed on fiction they allow their imaginations greater freedom to access inner truths. This sometimes leads to short passages of great insight and clarity.
In the context of ‘eye power’, Larry Niven’s observation (‘A Gift From Earth’) is interesting:
“Contract the pupils of eyes not your own, and you got psychic invisibility. Expand them, and you got ... what? Fascination?”
More generally, Frank Herbert (‘The Godmakers’) says:
“Anyone who has ever felt his skin crawl with the electrifying awareness of an unseen presence knows the primary sensation of Psi ... He knew the Psi ... was responding to his innermost wishes, to those wishes uncensored by doubting consciousness, to those wishes in which he had faith ... the Psi ... obeys my uncensored will. That’s faith, the uncensored will.”
Music
Note that there are three wishes in this short quotation. A further quotation from the same source gives us more than a little food for thought:
“Music represents an essential part of many Psi experiences which are labeled religion. Through the ecstatic force of rhythmic sounds, we perceive a call directed at powers outside of time and lacking the usual breadth and length compressed into the forms of matter by our corner of the infinite dimensions.”
Music may not immediately spring to mind when we concern ourselves with psychic matters – apart perhaps from the music ambience at many seances. However the magical words ‘charm’ and ‘enchantment’ are rooted in song.
The subject of Psi is extensive and encompasses large areas which are yet to be properly mapped.
We began with Frank Herbert equating Psi power with miracles. As we’ve seen, miracles are marvels, are magic. So Psi powers are an aspect of magic.
And one keyword for magic is enchantment:
‘to act on by songs or rhymed formulas: to charm: to delight in high degree.’
Now a song is both the music and the lyric, the tune and the words. To sing the words, we need the vibration of voice, the cadence of intonation and the carrier of breath. Breath returns us to psyche and spirit, and we begin to see how it is put in practise.
Poetry
Rhyme, rhythm and lyric point us to poetry, about which Charles Causley (‘Magic Verse’) says:
“All poetry is magic.”
This is illustrated by Robert Graves (‘The White Goddess’):
“Let a man offer the least indignity to an Irish poet ... and he would compose a satire on his assailant which would bring out black blotches on his face and turn his bowels to water, or throw a madman’s wisp in his face and drive him insane.”
Graves also says of the poet:
“He was in Irish called Fili – a seer.”
Which brings us back to second sight and prophecy.
The Mindkey
“There was a trace, a minor trace of awareness in man not dependent upon the tools and artifacts of physical science – extra sensory perception, Psi. Underdeveloped because having found answers with physical tools, man stopped looking for answers other than these? Was there then a science of controlling things, forces, without the use of physical tools? Was there a road of transition from the crude manipulation of things and forces through tools to a manipulation without them?” Mark Clifton, ‘Eight Keys to Eden’
“I’d heard him speak of ‘adding’ and ‘subtracting’ as though the universe in which he moved were a big equation ... he was somehow adding and subtracting items to and from the world that was visible about us.’ Roger Zelazny, ‘Nine Princes in Amber’
“That’s where the key is ... in our minds: there’s so much there, and we haven’t even scratched the surface.To the mind nothing is impossible. Matter is an illusion, space and time are just convenient fictions.” Keith Laumer, ‘End as a Hero’
“If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” (genesis 11.6)
Desktop Wizards?
In the electronic world of cyberspace, we find pc wizards with virtually every programme..
Mirror, mirror, on my desk …
Sit down in front of your PC Monitor and ask yourself the question, “Are you monitoring it, or is it monitoring you?” Within this play on words lies a real equivalence, a basic magical truth. For the word, ‘monitor’ has transferred its meaning from a person to a thing. The piece of computer hardware we call a ‘monitor’ carries an honourable and ancient name, and it serves an honourable and ancient purpose.
A Monitor was once an adviser. Now it is a screen which displays images. A Typewriter was originally the name for a typist. Now it is a machine. [‘keyboard’ is rapidly displacing this obsolescent word.] A Computer was once a person who counted things. Now it is an electronic machine which calculates rapidly. A Wizard was a wise man.
Now it is also the name of a computer utility programme. Human functions have been transferred, via the mechanical world, to the electronic realm.
“All you ever see is yourself.”
Switch on your PC and open up your windows.
Which way are you going to go? You can click on a desktop/menu bar icon or you can follow the path that begins with a tap on the Start button. If you’re looking for wizards, you can go via the start menu to Word. A ‘Letter wizard’ can be found under tools. [There is also a ‘genius’ hiding in ‘office assistant’ guise.]
The question is, can any of these programs teach us wizardry?
The answer is yes they can, but not in the conventional master-pupil fashion. We must learn by magical analogy, by symbolism.
Sit and stare at your monitor screen and consider: thus also did the wizards of old stare into telescopes and crystal balls, into bowls of ink or water and skrying stones.
Upon such screens, we project our inner vision. Within such vision we see ourselves and our part in the scheme of things. For we are today’s wizards.
And if we’re tuned in to the uses of enchantment, we’ll welcome the potential, the detailed definition, the help and the tutorials available in cyberspace for the useful concepts, terminology and formulations they provide.
A wizard today is a mixture of magician and electronic assistant. But his original skills are more than mythical. They never faded, never became outmoded. So that magical intuition, which bridges the gap between the manifest world and inner understanding allows us to adopt and adapt key concepts from any relevant source.
Pc Terminology And Cognate Words Of Wizardry
Fantasy borders science fiction, where the psychic magicians are Espers. Many 1960s novels provide valuable service by introducing useful terminology and definitions.
In the context of ‘eye power’, for example, Larry Niven’s observation ['A Gift From Earth']:
“Contract the pupils of eyes not your own, and you got psychic invisibility. Expand them, and you got ... what? Fascination?”
is interesting when we consider that fascination means: act of charming: control or render helpless by looks or spells. Here we have encapsulated the comparison of pairs of opposites: Fascination/invisibility and pupil dilation/contraction, and the direct link between both sets. Many profounder insights exist in science fiction.
Teach Yourself Esperspace
For every attribute of the physical world, there is a psychic equivalent. For in making things, we mirror internal realities. We understand ourselves by turning abstract thought into tangible reality. Because of our natural impatience we do things the hard, physical way. But there is an alternative, intuitive way. And, between the two, a paralleling of language.
If we would open up the windows in our heads, we must first be able to picture them. To find the esper wizard in our heads we need precise directions and definitions – as we’ve seen. But we no longer need to seek beyond the root of wizard. For, as wizard stems from wisdom, so wisdom stems from wit. And, at the root of wit lies both knowing and seeing. To see is to know [intuition] and to know is to see.
Through a similar formulation, a wizard is a seer and a soothsayer. To see is to say [prophesy] and to say is to see. For every dream begins with an initial fancy, which is then ‘freed’ to follow the same symbolic logic that is common to algebra, language and magic.
Our imagination works best if we feed it colourful, lyrical and enchanted descriptions (suggestions/ instructions).
So, next time you are sitting comfortably, close your eyes and picture yourself at your desk. In your imagination, start up your computer. And, as you do, remember that a computer was first a human being. So you are effectively switching part of yourself back on!
You are consciously electing to enter local esperspace, a gentle process. If it is a first time experience, you’ll be ‘seeing’ darkness only. You’ll be looking at the equivalent of a live but dark monitor screen: You haven’t got a picture because you haven’t loaded a programme. Specifically, for most of us, we need to load the ‘right programme’ – i.e. mentally go through the correct formulas to construct the imaginary equivalent of ‘windows’. It sounds a very daunting task. It isn’t.
Magic Formula
Formulas are as common to wizardry as they are to mathematics and chemistry. For we need the right ingredients, in the right measures, mixed in the right order.
¯ Enchantment: to act on by songs or rhymed formulas of magic: [In Isaiah 3.3. the Revised Version of the Bible’s rendering ‘skilful enchanter’ means in Hebrew literally ‘experienced (in composing) an incantation’ i.e. in writing magic formulas.] [“Magic conjuration prescribed the intonation, the secret rhythm which Thoth, god of magic and inventor of language had taught to the wise men. Success depended on the exact delivery of the formula.”]
¯ Charm: a metrical form of words.
¯ Incantation: a formula of words said or sung for the purposes of enchantment
¯ Spell: a magic formula.
In sum, a rhymed, metrical and magical formula of words, is said or sung for the purposes of enchantment. The metrical rhyme helps us memorise both the words and the intonation.
Visualisation through mnemonic formulas.
Now we come to the matter of application. How do we use what, is in essence, a lullabye, to focus visualisation? The answer is, by choosing the right words and intonation.
But that is but one example of dreamshaping. We can convert our future programme by the written word. Poems have punch, but tales can evoke great enchantment.
We already have, in memory, numerous ‘programs’ for dealing with detail. Our inner genie is far smarter, more versatile and autonomous than any physical hardware. We don’t need the detail.
Such songs, poems and tales become auto-suggestions. For, in the realm of imagination, suggestibility is key. Hum your mnemonic poem and up will pop the window of your mind’s eye. Decide what you want to see with further instructions in verse – short, easily remembered couplets are undoubtedly best. Seven or eight syllables to a line create an easily recollected rhythm.
It all sounds a bit silly. Until we realise we are casting spells, charms and enchantments on ourselves successfully everyday.
Mindscreen
In poetically designing your imaginary screen, make it as versatile as your PC, but only create functions you need. Don’t be overwhelmed by the complexity of the options available on your PC.
Think it through. You’ll want to be ‘on line’. You’ll want to be able to send and receive both espermail and espervoice on the TelePath. Lists of esper/psi talents, from a wide variety of sources, and under different guises, when combined, are very extensive. Take your pick. Create colourful imaginary icons and buttons as shortcuts. Personalise everything carefully, and have fun.
Put a natural scene on your mindscreen. Put yourself in the picture - do an Alice - and set forth on your travels. Seek interesting people, discover pathways, gateways and doorways – mayhap with icons …
… and, as positive encouragement, be sure you’ll find find some excellent signposts along the way:
Good Medicine
Quintessential Wizardry
The phenomenal and continuing success of the first film of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, following close on the heels of Harry Potter’s rise to fame, has kindled an interest in wizardry. Although both films are fictional, they recall the existence of wizards like Merlin and John Dee. But where are today’s real wizards?
In seeking wizards, we are primarily seeking wisdom. To find them, we must know who we’re looking for, and how to recognise them.
Established science denies magic and wizardry. Established religion condemns it, in spite of the careful distinction made in the Bible between the manual arts, which are condemned, and the uses of enchantment, which are praised: one authority is in denial and the other is in confusion or is dissembling.
‘Wizard’ occurs in the KJV Bible eleven times, as the translation of the Hebrew ‘yiddeoni’ [‘knowing one’]. That this translation was erroneous is demonstrated by the fact that the word, wizard, does not appear once in the NIV. The translation has been corrected and ‘yiddeoni’ is now translated as ‘medium or spiritist’. Thus we see that words are tricky things that frequently have their spin ‘doctored’. We need first to know what a wizard really is, and what he really does.
The Wizard Defined
A wizard is a wise man, sage and magician who works wonders*. He is clever, sagacious and knowing. He is skilled in all kinds of learning including astrology, dream interpretation and enchantment. [*wonder equates with marvel and miracle, so a wizard or magician is also a miracle-worker.]
He is primarily a scholar, for the root of the word ‘wizard’ stems from wisdom and wit, and, as you might expect, will turn to his books - his ‘grimoires’. Grimoire is a variant spelling of gramerye [magic, enchantment], which is, itself, a variant of grammar [skill in grammar is skill in magic]. Grammar is the science of language.
If, as a Jack of all trades with the ambitions of a polymath, he is persistent with his studies and follows up every clue, he may complete his ‘great work’, and discover the keys to the kingdom of wizardry.
A wizard is a magician But wizardry is more than words alone. Intonation is also important.
Practical magic demonstrates that success as a wizard is proportional to the size of vocabulary. So, we don’t begin by referring to the trickery legerdemain, prestidigitation, sleight-of-hand of the stage illusionist. Neither do we turn immediately to occult treatises, for they are invariably incomplete and frequently corrupt.
Quintessence
Literally the fifth and highest essence or element in ancient and medieval philosophy that forms the heavenly bodies and permeates all nature, reckoned to equate with spirit its being additional to the four elements of air, earth, fire, and water
Essence
the real or ultimate nature of an individual being or thing,
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