QUOTE(levannah60 @ Nov 27 2006, 06:36 PM)
Look, I'm new here, but I couldn't resist in adding my oppion to this topic: Stealing souls is quiet easy...bits of your 'soul' or spirit is contained in your hair, your skin, your nails, your bones, your saliva, etc: Collecting bits of these things is like collecting bits and pieces of a person/s soul. It's known that you have to collect these things to cast a simple spell on a person. If you are wanting to contain a soul, the jar or bottle idea someone mentioned is a good one. Suprised that no one mentioned the hair and nails thing. Anyways, that's enough for now, I've got to go to work. New here, so have a little patience with me. (IMG:
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Actually, what you're referring to is an application of the law of contagion, and doesn't actually constitute the acquisition of a 'piece' of someone's soul.
A person's soul is not their body, nor is the body the soul, although it is the soul of the universe that ultimately results in the manifestation of a body, which is energy given structure, pattern, and ego.
However, if I cut off my fingernail, that fingernail only retains my impression through it's unique similarity to my physical context. Genetic code, proximity, connection to my energy by nature of the means by which it was produced, etc. Having it doesn't mean your magick is garunteed to get to me - that depends on your ability to utilize the law of contagion, and on my ability to be aware of and in control of my energy, and changes in it. It also doesn't mean you have a part of my soul, although with the proper knowledge and ability, perhaps you could get my soul that way - I highly doubt it's possible to just yank a soul directly through a weak link like that. Even with blood, i think what you're really looking at is just a particular part of a system within the 'target'. If anything could get you a soul it would be the person's blood, though. Being that it represents the vitality of the body - again, though, not a piece of soul.
peace!