Black Magick vs. Dark Magick part one

So, we'll start with the differences between black magick and dark magick. First of all, let's get one thing straight right now. Darkness and Evil are two completely different things. As I'm sure most of you have already figured out, you can wear black clothes and have piercings and tattoos without feeling some strange urge to go sacrifice a baby.

Black magick includes things like summoning demons to possess someone. Let's not do this. I can't say I have experience in this arena, but something just tells me it's probably a bad idea. Cursing and hexing, if used incorrectly, can also be considered "black magick." An example of the incorrect use of cursing would be if someone at school gets on your nerves for being a shallow Barbie ho, so you go home and make a voodoo doll of her. Did she really do anything to hurt you? Is she just a poor ignorant soul who is not inherently evil? Leave her alone. That doesn't call for cursing.

Dark magick is a celebration of all things hidden and mysterious. It's actually very psychological, as darkness represents the power of the subconsicous mind. Our dreams, intuitions, emotions, and psychic abilities are all considered to be "dark" traits. This is where the idea of "psychic vampires" comes from… the concept of a person who feeds off psychic or spiritual energy.

I would like to give a quick and easy example of a dark spell. This has almost no materials (one candle, and it's optional) and takes about five minutes. (At this point, I'm trying to keep things quick and interesting. I will go more in depth on the topic later)

Sit comfortably in a dark room
Light that optional candle…if you want (color, scent, size of your choice, yes it can be already used)
Breathe deeply for about a minute, just to chill and quiet your mind (music is ok though)
Close your eyes half way and observe the light of your candle and/or the shadows around the room. Let your vision go in and out of focus.
Close your eyes and see (in your mind) the shadows drawing close to you. They grow taller and take on a vaguely human form. You see they are holding silver weapons, glinting in the candlelight… and shadow. They are strong warriors of darkness. They kneel down before you and present you with their weapons. You take each one and equip it to your person. Next, they offer to shake your hand. Each time you touch one, its strength drains from its hand into yours, causing you to grow stronger, and causing the warrior to melt back into a simple shadow. They have gone, and left you with their psychic strength and weapons.

Congratulations, you now draw power from the shadows!


Dark Magick Part 2

On the subject of practising dark magick:

I have realized that many pagans seem to fear karmic retribution as christians fear hell. I think perhaps it is residual christian conditioning that keeps them in a mindset of needing to have something to fear… but all it does is disempower them. They are so afraid of "upsetting the balance" that they do not realize they themselves have become imbalanced, and are now content to sit and watch villains get away with evil, rather than step in and use the very tools we have been given by the Universe to make it right. Our hearts and spirits are fully capable of showing us right from wrong, and we should be able to tell whether a curse is truly in order, or if the poor ignorant soul just doesnt know what they are doing. Some people are truly evil at heart, and completely deserve to be taken down.
A witch who cannot hex, cannot heal. If you can't curse, you can't cure.
This is said for a reason. It is because we need both the light and the darkness. Witches are powerful because we are to be emissaries of the Goddess and the Universe. She will not be angry at us for doing ourselves what we would ask Her to do. She gave us the tools, and we have the power Within to accomplish anything. As long we know we are not being unjust, then it is Right. We must have discernment and wisdom regarding these things however, and must not simply curse anyone who looks at us the wrong way. We must have a good, strong foundation of reason and even impartiality to know what needs to be done. We must be able to see it not only from our own perspective, but also from that of the Universe.
Just like superheroes, we must protect the innocent. In my opinion, it is better to beat up the bully who is hurting an innocent kid than to just watch the kid get the shit beat out of them. Teach the bully a lesson right? The universe gave us the power to do something about it, so why sit around and wait on the Universe to do it for us?
Other pagans do not see it this way however, and I'm not sure why… So, adhering to the "Be Silent" rule, we must keep this to ourselves, or risk alienation. It isn't fair, but sadly that is the way it must be.


Dark Magick Part 3

I have obviously offended my own policy of silence by publicly stating my true beliefs. Well, this is my right I am stating these things out of a desire to spread knowledge.
If you refer to history, you will find that for thousands of years, a common practice of the world's elite has been to withhold knowledge from the general population. I have found that the main reason for this is so that knowledge can be used against the population. While esoteric, magickal knowledge is readily available to us, society condemns involvement in such things as crazy and freakish, oblivious to the fact that this knowledge is used against them by the government and corporations every day.
Now, the knowledge being withheld is the truth behind politics and the origins of not only our species, but others like us as well. Granted, the truth behind politics isn't terribly hard to figure out. If you follow the first links I gave you on the OpEvolve page, you will find lots of information about the Elite, the NWO, the Illuminati, and various hitherto-unmentioned clandestine government acts, crimes, and um… secret resort holidays? (that would be the Bildebergs)
The point is: everything they do, all the mental manipulation and spiritual subversion, all that stuff is Black magick. It is not dark magick. Black magick is evil, and I would rather it simply be called "evil magick," but it is better known this way, so allow me to make only the one simple clarification.

For a moment I would like to stop and examine what dark magick truly is. Another word for it is "night" magick. All of the things which attract us to being goth and dark and different have a single common thread: they all scare some people in some way.
Black clothes, vampires, harsh or eerie music, tattoos and piercings, heavy make up and deathly pale skin, simple darkness in general: all of these things are disturbing to certain people.
It can be argued that dark clothing is simply a fashion aesthetic, like being preppy, and to leave shallow variables out of the equation.
Ok, but what about the attraction to darkness in general? That isn't skin-deep.
And do some of us also have an aversion to light?

Here is my theory:
For the past thousand years or so, it has been society's bad habit to masculinize the light and feminize the darkness. Within our own psyches, this has been very easy to do. By calling the light male and the darkness female, the whole psyche of the human is completely torn in half.
Allow me to explain.

Within ourselves, light is expressed as the following (Solar) qualities:
ambition, aggression, assertiveness, strength, waking consciousness, decision-making, and rationality.
While these are qualities everyone needs, society dictates that any woman who displays these characteristics is trying to be like a man, or fit into a man's world.

Darkness is expressed as the following (Lunar) qualities:
intuition, introspection, emotion, passion, subconsciousness, dreams, psychic ability, peace, and compassion.
Again, these are traits everyone needs to have, and yet these concepts are relegated to the world of women, and even children and their faerie tales.

The truth is, we can be dark or light, as long as we are good, and being whole (incorporating both the lunar and solar qualities within ourselves) can be expressed in an even more spiritually neutral way.

There are Five Elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit.
We all have the five elements present within ourselves, expressed this way:

Earth (lunar): the physical body
Water (lunar): our emotions

Air (solar): our intellect
Fire (solar): our will

Spirit: our spirit, energy, soul, etc

Therefore, it doesn't really matter what you look like, as long as you know your five elements are being expressed in a balanced way.

But back to why these things attract us…
The lunar, dark qualities are connected to our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is a very dark place. When people say "inner demons" that is where they live.
Apparently, we are not afraid of our inner demons. Many philosophers say this is the key to enlightenment; venturing into one's own subconscious mind to face your demons and discover great power. This is why dark protagonists are so popular in stories, they show us that it is possible to be a dark person, and still be truly good within.


Revenge Curse

This curse is to be laid upon the victim while burning an
image of the victim (wax sigil, photograph, drawing,
anything) in the flame of a consecrated black candle Speak
aloud the following:

There has been unfairness done to me
I summon the elements
I envoke them
I conjure them to do my bidding

The four watchtowers shall lay their eyes and minds
there shall be fear and guilt and bad blood
there shall be submission and no pity

I point the threefold law against thee
against thee it shall be pointed
threefold, a hundred fold,
is the cost for my anger and pain

Thou shalt be blinded by the fear
blinded by the pain
blinded by me
binded by me
Cursed by me
So mote it be!