What Is Ritual Magic? Ceremonies, Tools and the Purpose of Magical Practice
Ritual magic is the use of deliberately structured actions, words, spaces and objects for an intended spiritual or extraordinary purpose. A ceremony may involve prayer, purification, a circle, divine names, images or offerings. The details differ so radically between an#western-occultism — Public Fediverse posts
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“Then along came Austin Spare, who identified the basic sleight of mind techniques underlying all forms of magic, and showed us that we could treat the whole baroque symbolism of magic as entirely optional. Spare invented the Postmodernist approach to magic well before the cultural advent of Existentialism or Postmodernism.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/04/28/then-along-came-austin-spare-who-identified-the-basic-sleight-of-mind-techniques-underlying-all-forms-of-magic-and-showed-us-that-we-could-treat-the-whole-baroque-symbolism-of-magic-as-entirely-op/ #allForms #alongCame #AustinOsmanSpare #AustinSpare #baroqueSymbolism #basic #BodyMindSpirit #book #chaosMagic #culturalAdvent #entirelyOptional #existentialism #identified #invented #magic #MagicStudies #mindTechniques #NewAgeMysticism #occultism #PeterJCarroll #philHine #Postmodernism #PostmodernistApproach #quote #showed #sleight #SpiritualityReligion #treat #underlying #wellBefore #WesternOccultism #whole