Spell Crafts - The Magick Moon

Spell Crafts Creating Magical Objects by Scott Cunningham and David Harrington.

Since early times, crafts have been intimately linked with spirituality.

When a woman carefully shaped a water jar from the clay she'd gathered from a river bank, she was performing a spiritual practice. When crafts were used to create objects intended for ritual or that symbolized the Divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grew more intense.

Today, handcrafts can still be more than a pastime, they can be rites of power and honor; a religious ritual. After all, hands were our first magical tools.

Magic can be a purely mental process, using no tools other than a trained mind. More often, though, it involves the use of specific objects as focal points for concentration, such as candles, brooms, and herbs.

These objects are usually handled in ritual ways while energy from within the body is sent into or through them.

This book describes many of these tools. Such objects, specifically made for a specific magical act, can be quite effective. The tools described in this book are rarely available in stores, but you can make them with your hands.

All handmade objects contain a bit of energy. The process that creates these objects is more than a simple repetition of techniques. During the creation process the crafts person, through concentration and the physical activity involved, moves energy from within the body, through the hands, and into the material being worked. This is what sets it apart from other objects, and what readies it for use in magic.

In magic, we have the opportunity to imbue our crafts with specific energies: a loving relationship, increased money, protection against harm, enhanced spirituality, a sense of peace, physical and emotional purification, and psychic awareness. Today, many are seeking the spiritual dimension of our physical world. Though some of us enjoy the increasingly complex manifestations of applied technology, we're also searching for subtle explanations of the ways in which we interact with nature.

We're also eager to take control of our lives, to fill them with positive energy, to wash them clean of doubt, guilt, depression, poverty, and pain. Magic is a tool that can be used to do this, and the magic starts in our own hands.

The aim of magic isn't the domination of nature; its the domination of ourselves. We can clasp magic as a tool of positive self transformation. Spell craft is one aspect of this tool. Sewing beads, weaving wheat, and creating magical brooms affirms, through simple techniques and rituals, the powers within our hands and their ability to shape our lives into nurturing, evolving experiences.

Look at your hands as they really are. See them as wondrous vehicles of power, of the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power!

Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be.

Create objects of magic and use them to transform your life into a positive experience. In doing so you'll celebrate nature, your hands and, ultimately, yourself.

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