A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult
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Bütün pantheonların kendilerinin devamı olduğu düşüncesini tartıp duruyorum.
Örneğin: tanrıça Hekate ve onun kutsal sembollerinden biri olan yılan.
— As well as being an abstract force, there was a god called Heka who personified magic.
Heka helped ensure the harmony of the cosmos and acted as a conduit through whom worshippers could seek divine favors. He had a female counterpart, Weret-hekau (Great of Magic), who was depicted in the form of a cobra. It is thought that the snake-headed staffs often used by ancient Egyptian magicians may have represented her.
Nazar değmesin.
—or those in fear of the baskania (the evil eye) might have employed an eye-shaped pendant to ward off its gaze.
“Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole law. Love is the law, love under will.”
-Aleister Crowley
"I am noble, I am a spirit…
Oh, all you gods and all you spirits, prepare a path for me."
Behind much of the theory of Greek magic lay the concept of binding-tak-ing control of the physical or intellectual attributes of the victim and binding them to the will of the spell caster.
Even celestial objects such as the moon could be bound, in a ritual known as
"drawing down the moon," a speciality of Thracian witches who collected
"moon-foam" to act as an amplifier in magical potions.