Magic or Manipulation
Witches have been casting love spells, making healing medicines and
good-luck charms, doing astrology charts and looking into the past and future for thousands of years. We spend our whole life looking at the hidden Occult mysteries and how the science and Magic of the universe works, and that includes bending time and space and inventing ways to cause change within ourselves and the world around us.
If someone wants to classify that as manipulation, they would be at least half right. But that is the essence of witchcraft and alchemy. This is, after all, the Craft of 'bending and weaving.'
But it's our own universe we are 'bending and weaving,' and we study Magic and cast our spells to help us become masters of our own lives.
For hundreds of years, there has been a myth and distorted perception that witches take over another person's 'free will' when casting a love spell or that they control other people with their Magic. That is one of the main reasons witches were persecuted in the past, and it is really a lot of superstitious nonsense left over from the Dark Ages.
A Magic spell performed correctly can certainly change the atmosphere and greatly alter the dynamic flow - the energy patterns - between two or more people, which in itself is an incredible feat.
A powerful sorcerer can 'bend' and 'weave' perceptions and dynamic energy, which in turn may have an effect on the choice another person is going to make. But that person's final decision and ultimate choice is always made according to their own free will and universal destiny, and that can't be taken away or replaced with a spell.
Now this is where logic comes into play when working with Magic, and if you are really interested in the inner lore and High Magic of the Craft, the following information is important to think about.
Our god/dess Nature endows us all with the gift of free will so that we have the ultimate choice and responsibility for our own lives. Your free will is yours alone and is one of your greatest powers. It gives you the ability to shape your own life and future.
No one else has the power to take that away from you - and you don't have the power to take it away from anyone else - not with a Magic spell or any other enchantment.
This is one of the natural laws of the universe that many people (including some witches) either misunderstand or are too caught up in superstitious beliefs to think about clearly.
The influence a witch has on others is fleeting, but the influence she has on herself and her own destiny is huge, and that is what a Real Witch looks for and where her greatest Magical power lies.
There are thousands of people in the world who now follow the pagan or goddess way of spiritual worship and devote their life to it as their path or religion, and there are as many people among them who don't call themselves witches or cast any spells, which is completely their right andchoice.
Not all pagans practice Magic and Witchcraft. And not all witches follow a pagan religion.
If someone follows certain elements of magic and the Craft but at the same time feels is wrong or strictly against their beliefs to go ahead and use his or her acquired skills, then I also wouldn't call that person a 'witch.'
Weaving charms and casting spells is certainly a part of what witches did inthe past, what they've finally got the freedom to go again, and - with adash of luck - what we will still be doing for many millennia to come.
~ From "The Good Witch's Guide to Wicked Ways" by Deborah Gray ~
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