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Does your view of the world, or history of spiritual belief, include magical thinking? Perhaps it does, in spite of the fact that you may never have seen it as such.
Have you instinctively thrown salt over your shoulder after tipping the shaker, or refrained from opening an umbrella inside the house, or went out of your way to avoid walking under a ladder? These things that you may have learned as superstition are actually examples of belief in our own power to influence fate. In other words... magic!
You have arrived at a fork in the road. Do you desire knowledge or power? The path to knowledge continues below. The path to magic is here.
You have no doubt heard of Aladdin's Lamp, or the Ark of the Covenant. The Museum of London’s "Spellbound" collection included 17th century stoneware pots, each found stoppered and filled. Their contents mark them as magical talismans used to ward off evil or cure disease. Our ancestors used containers to encase various forms of magic- which were carried, buried, or kept in plain sight- to help cope with the unpredictable world around them.
The things in your everyday life do not appear magical, unless you have been taught to recognize their power and symbolism. We endeavor to open your eyes to all of the magical possibilities already in your grasp. Flowers, herbs, roots, charms, candles... many ordinary things can be enlisted to create extraordinary results. Simplified, our magical engagement with these objects is that like draws like, or that an object may represent or imitate the desired result.
You have a brush with magic almost everywhere. You sneeze, somebody says, 'bless you!' Apparently, your heart stopped for a while and you are blessed to be revived. You make a wish upon the first evening star. You knock wood to avoid a jinx. These are the things that we do without any rational explanations. You may say these are mere superstitions. They do, however, fall under a broad category of magic that involves our belief in things seemingly irrational or fantastical.
A goal not defined is not likely to be achieved. Creating Magic in your everyday life requires intent and focus. Amulets or charms were defined by Pliny as "an object that protects a person from trouble" and "a means of reaffirming the fundamental fairness of the universe" by ancient Egyptians. There are universal meanings to many symbols, but their specific use as charms is personal and subject to your own interpretation. In magical thinking, they are used to provide comfort, perseverance, and to draw and focus energy.
Summoning magic requires faith. But the faith needed for magical thinking is not bound to any specific religion. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Medieval Mysticism and even Native American Shamanism each embrace their own versions of magic. It is inevitable that some of these beliefs are tied to various forces of nature, spiritual entities, and/or some version of a supreme consciousness. What name we call them by matters less than our faith that some power outside ourselves exists.
We hope to have given rise to some curiosity in you. Perhaps you are seeing the world around you a bit differently; it is indeed full of possibilities. But where to start? We have created a series of magical kits, with which you will create your own potion, spell, or "prayer in a bottle". You will be provided all materials and instructions, the result of which will be a bottle talisman that you can wear, containing a magical formula of plants, minerals, and oils to enhance the magical thinking in your everyday life. But first, your education must continue!
An accidental philosophy that arose from the efforts to predict complex weather systems, "The Butterfly Effect" took on social and spiritual implications never intended by it's creator. But why? We embrace the hope that the chaos that we sometimes experience in life is not only predictable, but that the outcome can be influenced by seemingly inconsequential changes.
It is impossible to see a brilliantly colored butterfly flitting around a garden and not smile. Their beauty and agilIty gives us all something to aspire to. If you have had the rare and wonderful experience of one unexpectedly perching on your shoulder, you know the power of being visited by these small, fragile, and yet transformative beings. They are a miracle of transformation and resurrection.
Magicians throughout history have used the symbol of a circle, real and imagined, to provide a sacred space for spiritual intent and a vehicle of protection as they ventured into the unknown. There is an actual organization in London known as the Magic Circle, dating back to 1905, which houses a theater, library, museum, clubroom, and even a couple of bars. Our circle is meant to emulate the concepts of both, providing a spiritual and a practical forum to explore magical traditions.
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