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post Dec 17 2007, 09:08 AM
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Greetings all of SM ~
I've come to ask a question on "Grey Magick", regarding the various outcomes that would lead to it either being white or black. As I've heard many examples as to how different spells can in turn become w/b, I've yet wondered in great detail if other variables of performing any spell can in turn overcome the initial goal and turn that spell into the opposite sort of magick.
I'm not entirely sure if this statement clarified my question well enough so I'll provide an example. Let's say perhaps you perform a spell to help a stranger come out of a coma, a coma that this stranger would never wake from, with no other background information on this stranger whatsoever, you decide being in a coma is just a terrible thing to endure in the long run. You run the divination process to put your mind at ease of what you want to accomplish and it turns out you have the green light. In this case, divination has told you no real negative influence has befallen your wish to return the stranger to his health. You go through with the spell, the man awakes and all is well. Two years later you understand this very stranger woke up one morning and decided to grab his own personal automatic rifle and go down to a super market and wreak havoc on 12 other lives before turning the gun on himself.
Now, I'm currently not a practicing magician. Perhaps, divination would enlighten you to events like this, though theres also so much the divination process can tell you about what you currently want done. Is an example like this accurate? Can it be? If so, to what incentive do the rest of us have to continue with magick if it will have unknowingly dramatic feedback.
I base my life on, everything having a purpose, every action causing a reaction that can potentially be bad or good. Even though I do a lot of good in my life through natural means, Im not going to truly know if that bit a good I just did, will take a turn for the worse. Is this how we're supposed to view magick?
Please, put my mind at ease. Thank you all in advance. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/egypt1.gif)

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post Dec 17 2007, 04:10 PM
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why must we work within black or white constraints? - why not orange or purple constraints, or puce constraints, or the color of the inside of a grape constraints? - does magic even have to have a color? - do the gods think (out all the possible outcomes) before they do?

only humans are evolved enough to screw up magic by over-complicating it


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post Dec 17 2007, 04:50 PM
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I agree with Esoterica's sentiments to some degree - why work with so many contraints?

But think of it this way - let us say there is a doctor who has discovered some unprecedented method of fixing a coma patient, maybe some kind of neurosurgery. Instead of your doing magick to help the coma patient, the doctor does, with no mystical intervention, and the patient wakes up. Two years later the same thing happens. Did the doctor incur bad karma, or practice black magick?

My point is that you should judge the magick you do just as you would your actions. People feel, sometimes, that they can hide behind magick and take actions they normally wouldn't, because magick is somehow more justified - you wouldn't kill someone, but doing magick to cause their death is no big deal, after all if it's unwarranted the universe won't oblige, or something like that.

Is it more or less moral to do love magick on someone than it is to just seduce (or woo) them personally? What if they already have a lover? Does a doctor ask a john doe if he can operate to dislodge the bullet in his brain that's keeping him unconscious?

Weigh it like you would any other action. In the end that's all it is. You don't get more or less karma for using magick to accomplish something than you do doing it any other way. One might argue that's one reason to reserve magick for the really big stuff you can't accomplish on your own, or as a supplement to guide your intuition when trying to accomplish something.

Magick is only as black/white/grey as your own 'normal' actions are. Don't do anything magickally that you would not do normally, because it amounts to the same thing, with the same kinds of consequences.

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