I doubt most of my readers read this type of books but I still find it a good idea to let people know about this. Her book Beyond the Third Eye has been pulled from publication after it was found that she had plagiarist big parts of the book. The people behind this exposure are now being harassed all over the internet by Rochelle her self and her fans. Now you are at least aware of this and can make a choice to warn people about this or not.

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Just wanted to give you all a heads up on the interview Karrigan from Witchtalk did with Sorita d’Este a week or two ago. She mentions many interesting things for all sorts of magicians.

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Now after the show which was extremely interesting and very funny at times can be downloaded from the Witchtalk site. It is well worth the download. The interview covers some info on Sorita, Avalonia Books, Different issues about Wicca, Hekate, Both Sides of Heaven, Angels and questions from the audience. It was even continued after the show was ended so it is a long interview.

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First of all I am mainly talking about western traditional magic and high magic now. What I am about to explain does not apply to the eastern techniques since they have had this thinking for a long time. Nor does it apply on the so called sympathetic magic or nature magic.  Nor are all modern magic like this. I talk here in very generalized terms.

Anyway if we look at traditional western magic it has changed from being an outer process to an inner process. One of the big reasons for that is probably when Crowley changed the definition of magic. Crowley meant that magic was the art of causing change according to once will. It is very much alike the older definition with one exception that before Crowley it meant that magic was the art of causing change according once will with help from spirits. This thinking is supposed to come from Zoroastrian magic. Not exact quotes but this is the basic meaning of the two definitions.  So magic went from something that was an outer process that we needed help from spirits to perform. Meaning that the magician in it self did not really have any magical powers but was only able to function with the knowledge on how to manipulate spirits of different kinds. In a way they did have power of their own but it was in form of deep knowledge and Now in Crowley’s definition he has moved the power directly to the magician it self, making magic an inner process not at all depending on any spirits to be able to perform magic. The magic went from us believing in the spirits to us thinking they are just a part of our own psyche.

At about that time magic also changed its shape in other manners as well. It went from being a way to gain things like money and so on to become mostly about finding your self. Ideals that former were to be find in mainly eastern magical forms suddenly became the ultimate goal for the western magician as well. It started to be all about either becoming like a god your self or to be as close to god as possible. Finding and attaining your so called HGA was all of a sudden a primary goal for many magicians. It went from being a way to gain earthly things to a sort of self discovery method. It can sometimes be hard to see what the difference is between some magical orders and being in to Scientology or taking yoga classes. To me Yoga, Ki and the likes are not magic. It is energy manipulation mostly.

Now all modern magic is not like that but many are. Is there modern magic that is effective? Of course there are. So why make it more complicated and practice traditional grimoire magic? There are even modern ways to work the grimoires that work good. Well several reasons. One of the main being that most modern magic has been highly influenced by the grimoire tradition even if they are not aware of it. Even Wicca (can be read about in Sorita D’Este’s Wicca: The magical beginnings). So to understand much of the modern magic you really need to study the older one as well. Another reason is that grimoire magic is hard so if you can work traditional grimoire magic you have a very solid base to stand on and from there you can develop the magic further. It is is also highly effective if done right.

For me there are other reasons as well. I just fell in love with the actual art form and consider it to be one of the highest arts of magic you can ever achieve. So it is also a challenge for me and at the same time something I want to preserve in its original shape. I do other types of magic as well. Sometimes I even mix in some new age thinking to the more personal style of magic I practice. I am also a fan of root magic Santeria style even if I do not work it in a traditional way there.

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