tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post5965322984221739532..comments2024-03-12T12:06:53.187-07:00Comments on Doing Magick: Criminal Witchcraft?Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-37488103622707309322008-09-11T11:16:00.000-07:002008-09-11T11:16:00.000-07:00"As for the book asking you to explore the reasons..."As for the book asking you to explore the reasons that you want to get laid and such, all I can say is that my drivers manual doesnt ask me to explore my reasons for driving, so I dont see the conflict. "<BR/><BR/>Jason, you rock.<BR/><BR/>I love this book too, and don't look to books to tell me what morality to choose. That was my parents' job as a minor and now as a mature adult, my own personal responsibility. I don't appreciate being patronized by my witchcraft authors.<BR/><BR/>This book is an awesome contrast to Cunningham's "roll your own witchcrap" book which is so overbearing with the author's morality in every second paragraph I wanted to toss it across the room many times when I reviewed it back during my Dedicant studies in Wicca to see what it was about.<BR/><BR/>Huson's book is definitely a work of its time -- a time much more earthy and less "politically correct" than our current milieu.Mike Rockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940014620591250936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-9020825746339920652008-09-07T10:34:00.000-07:002008-09-07T10:34:00.000-07:00The philtre is not designed to make it so that you...The philtre is not designed to make it so that you make the other party incapable of saying no. Its there to improve the chances of the other party saying yes. <BR/><BR/>If philtres could make the other party incapable of saying no, occult and pagan festivals would be filled with supermodels hanging on to the every word of dorky guys.<BR/><BR/>I think that the delivery system is throwing you a bit. Its not significantly different than slipping love me powder into someones shoes or the old trick that Anita Hill and Clarence thomas made popular of feeding one of your pubic hairs to someone. <BR/><BR/>The reality is that you cannot not influence someone. Magick is just another type of influence. Only the most extreme magick can actually dominate the will of another person and there is nothing in Mastering Witchcraft that even approaches that. <BR/><BR/>As for the book asking you to explore the reasons that you want to get laid and such, all I can say is that my drivers manual doesnt ask me to explore my reasons for driving, so I dont see the conflict. <BR/><BR/>Its fine that its not your cup of tea, and I am not trying to change your mind about that. Not everything in it is mny cup of tea either, but I respect what he tried to do at the time it was written and I respect teh system of sorcery that he put forth as its a bit closer to how magick is done in most of the world than what Wiccans were presenting at the time.Jason Miller,https://www.blogger.com/profile/03034226672257024583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-31410553898830642872008-09-07T07:10:00.000-07:002008-09-07T07:10:00.000-07:00It looks to me that both cases, the philter and th...It looks to me that both cases, the philter and the rufi, are attempts to make the other party incapable of saying no. I see little difference. <BR/><BR/>The rufi will make on unconscious and the philter would not. I suppose that allows the victim to feel as if the encounter was their own choice and thus lessons the trauma for them. However, for me, that is still WAY over the line. <BR/><BR/>Either one is forcing the victim to have have sex. I think there is a word for that. It amazes me the things people would do with magick that they wouldn't do physically.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-30931849114097461602008-09-06T22:02:00.000-07:002008-09-06T22:02:00.000-07:00Actually slipping love philtes into food is one of...Actually slipping love philtes into food is one ofthe most common forms of witchcraft from Ancient Greece to England. It is still widely used in America as well. <BR/><BR/>There is a difference between a magickally charged philtre and a rufi though. One has a magickal effect, the other chemical. There is a BIG difference. <BR/><BR/>There are Witches who would never consider anything at all in the book, which indeed was part of the point of the book. That the craft of witchcraft was being lost amidst the neo-pagan religion that was calling itself witchcraft.Jason Miller,https://www.blogger.com/profile/03034226672257024583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-32718924883113114412008-09-06T16:16:00.000-07:002008-09-06T16:16:00.000-07:00Perhaps I will. I will add those names to my Amazo...Perhaps I will. I will add those names to my Amazon list. <BR/><BR/>The idea of advocating slipping things into people's food to gain sex and calling that magick is just so abhorrent. If I did that with a rufi, I'd be a rapist. This guy says doing is legitimate witchcraft. I disagree. I know witches that wouldn't consider such a thing.<BR/><BR/>I think I made clear that mixing the mundane with magick is great. However, you have to admit, with that seduction scene, no magick was remotely necessary.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144040453666802786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889529596531127755.post-50967343852167013382008-09-06T15:13:00.000-07:002008-09-06T15:13:00.000-07:00No disrespect taken. Husons book is written with a...No disrespect taken. <BR/><BR/>Husons book is written with a bit of a tongue in cheek diabolism that was part of its mission: to antidote the squishy hippy witchcraft that was being pushed at the time. It is more than a bit dated, but I love it. <BR/><BR/>You wont find any theurgia in there, thats not what the book is about. <BR/><BR/>As for the mixing of mundane and magickal tech, its one of the most missed asects of magick and is one of the primary focuses of my next book. WAY to many people feel that magick alone will save thier business even though they have a shitty business plan, or get them a girl even though they smell and live in thier moms basement. If it doesnt, than they blame the magick. <BR/><BR/>I think you would find the vision of witchcraft presented by people like Robert Cochrane and later by Andrew Chumbley and Daniel Schulke to be more to your liking.Jason Miller,https://www.blogger.com/profile/03034226672257024583noreply@blogger.com