
Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice

getting away from cruelty without compromise
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
It works like this: Whenever you feel the sexual urge, at times of your private choosing, you mentally redirect your desire towards an expression other than the physical. You do this through the intellectual act of consciously rerouting your sexual impulse from physical to creative expression. This takes the shape of whatever your wish or effort is
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sexuality-thought-will, symbolized by the serpent and united toward a clarified end.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
In my usage, magick is causative ritual. Magick may also be considered ritual that heightens psychological aptitude or inclination—or, very possibly, an amalgam of psychology and extra-physicality, a topic considered throughout this journey. In any case, magick is results based—or it is nothing but a museum piece.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
I seek relations with a Greater Force.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
I used to, and in some ways still do, pose an exercise to others and myself. Let’s say you encounter the proverbial genie in a lamp. He offers you one—and just one—wish. Your wish will be granted, but only if you are entirely self-honest about what you want. If you are not, you will lose everything. What is it?
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
venture that warranted realization of our innate extra-physicality is sufficient for the act of selecting or revising an event or outcome. In matters of magick, the wish may be enough.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
Magick reaches those who practice, or at least attempt, impeccability.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
What are ethics? I use the term frequently. It seems to me that ethics emerge from the emotions. Empathy is ethics. Empathy is at the heart of all ethical principles. Empathy is why ethics differ from morality, which is judgment.