Sorcery, merged with older thread Options

“Sorcery has no bounds or limits, except those that are put in place by the practitioner. It is the Study of Raw Power and often of Dark Energies. It stems from an Inherent need to delve into the deepest and darkest parts of One’s Self and although it may be dangerous and painful to Realise your Primal fears and desires it is well worth the effort”.

I was somewhat disappointed but not surprised to see so little interest in this category. I know that information is hard to find but so is anything that is worth the effort.

Although this is not the Path for everybody I hope that at least some of you are interested.

I am therefore inserting a basic description.

EDIT - text reduced to normal size. Mediocracy 01/04/2005

Sorcery is the need to study the deepest and darkest parts of ones self. Through understanding their primal desires, obscure passions, and emotionality the practitioner than draws on his or her own Raw Power. Most Sorcerers adopt an aggressive stance in their magical works. They tend to ignore whether or not they use their power for “good” or “evil, and often dismiss such concepts from their lives altogether.

Sorcery cares not what it changes.... it simply changes

Central to sorcery are Balance and Polarity within ones self, this can then be transferred to the world around us. The sorcerer is an expert at bending things to their own will. The most common way of achieving this is by using Twilight – this is a realm of the mind which is characterized by its extreme distortive properties, roiling energies, and occurrences bizarre enough to shock even the calmest, most accepting individuals. The practitioner can make changes in this shadow world that will then manifest themselves in the everyday world.

The unique art known as Sorcery is one which knows no bounds and has no limits, except those which are allowed by the user.

Another aspect of Sorcery is Glamour. This grants its wielder immense powers of persuasion. Ultimately it changes the way People Perceive the Person that is using it. It can Instill fear and create harmony. Oh and if you wish to temporarily change your appearance it can be useful to.

Hope this was some Help

This post has been edited by mediocracy: Apr 1 2005, 09:18 AM

LOL interesting metaphor you have chosen to compare sorcery with other magicks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)  With this metaphor I can see advantages to both methods then. For example with the whole renting the tux, cleaning the limo and actually talking to the person for a whole evening, getting to know who they are and seeing how they work and tick can be quite handy in the long run.  As with magick, with the learning, the preperation and the rituals one gets to know the forces contained within magick.  The downside, like you seemed to be pointing out is that you really don't need all of the extras to get to the point.  Yet the extras could be fun.  Some folks say that the foreplay starts from when you first look at each other.
With the naked partner at your door (you must live in a warm climate LOL) that can be quite handy but could perhaps get the newbie into trouble.  STDs, jelous boyfriends, and just a better disguise of the she/he thing.  Yet results would be acheived much more quickly and without all the added pomp.
Also this shows the difference between the enjoying the journey, or just enjoying the end result argument.  I of course enjoy both, so I would rent the limo and the gown one evening, then have a slaveboy summoned to my door the next <g>
Are you saying that sorcery can be done without all of the ritual, practice and training that other systems require?  Can a complete newbie do it successfully without the background knowledge (the whole talking to the date all evening) of the system?  Are there any dangers in the newbie getting their behind burnt?

Athena
www.nightshademagic.com

With magics, you have stepped along a habitual safe path, and have conditioned to believe this is the way things are done, and can easily determine the next step with your brain and mind off...
You thus forfeit the passion...
On top of the magic path of steps, you now must pay the piper...
Magic is religion. Magic is specialized... like tunnel vision...
Magic is like wearing a smelly diaper on your head...

With Sorcery = Life's ways... You have before you Raw Life... all of it....
The forces are all and everywhere... The forces and fourses and sourses and sorces desperately want to experience any, and as much Life as will embrace them... We are the seed...
The Unknown is full of surprises and wild rides... You have the Universe before you, and Nothing restricting you from this or that... Nothing but your low state of evolution, your lack of abilities, and your fears as anchors...


You infer that magic is foreplay... I illustrated that magic is the unnecessary labors to get to the foreplay... at a great cost... Sorcery is already at the foreplay...
Sorcery dawns a tux from the tux closet... The car is waiting... She has just arrived in her little rose memercedes. and as she strutts toward you she grins with emerald eyes, flashing a bouncy firm tit in the sunlight...

There are no viruses in the Sorcerer's equation... He knows about germs, and health, and life maintenance. and how to equate longevity... There's none of that disease crap here... just pure Life... The sorcerer knows how to live in the great expanse of the otherside...
The sorcerer knows how to live in this pathetic mindless dump...



"Can a complete newbie do it successfully without the background knowledge of the system?...

Are there any dangers in the newbie getting their behind burnt?"...


Um?... Doubt it, unless the newbie is a child of a god, or better....

And... Thousands of fires...




[PS: You know... It's real hard to write love, when that GD green monster is bashing the skull of another green monster... and all those goofy mindless movement in the smilies town...
You must be awake to your surroundings, or you forfeit the afterlife...]