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   From: arlon.staywell@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "Rhyanon"  wrote   
      
   > Words aren't necessary for "spells". which is a misnomer in itself. I   
   > don't   
   > have the patience to dumb down the basics for you nimrods.   
      
        I wrote a paper for an English class on whether the election of Clinton   
   was the result of a spell witches put on the United States.  It is important   
   to understand that it was not a political science class, not mathematics,   
   nothing "serious."  It was a topic "for fun."  The English professor didn't   
   want another paper on Clinton because he said he was sick and tired of them   
   after grading so many.  By making the paper about witchcraft I made it   
   different enough to be allowed the topic.   
      
       My point is this though, I read many books on the topic.  I read most of   
   them the James Branch Cabbell Library had about it.  I tore my best book bag   
   loading it with so many books.  The paper had to be over 20 pages long and   
   have at least 25 references.  Consistently the essence of the matter is   
   accessing the subconscious through symbolism.  Carl Jung of course wrote   
   quite seriously on that (and I included references to him and other   
   scientific sorts), but books on "magic" and "witchcraft" (often misused   
   terms) made much the same point, to whit:  Symbolism is the key to the   
   influence, such as it might be, exercised by those believed to be or   
   purporting to be practicing "magick."  Words are the ultimate symbols.   
   Practicing "magick" without word power is like practicing medicine with   
   leeches and poultices.   
      
        It is quite possible to make people sick, healthy, apprehensive,   
   courageous, contented, empowered, to laugh, to cry or almost any other way   
   through the "magic" of words and symbols.  Other methods aren't really   
   "magic" although possibly more sinister.   
      
      
               Arlon   
   rec.arts.poems   
   Now begone before someone drops a house on you.   
   -- Glinda of the North from "The Wizard of Oz"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)