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Agreed. Prayer among Christians is evoking Christ. In Pentecostal and Charismatic circles, one could also say that Christ is invoked and when someone feels "filled with the Holy Spirit" and thus manifests "gifts of the Spirit" (prophesying, speaking in tongues, healing, trancing out, and various other phenomena that otherwise occurs in the context of shamanism or other culturally defined forms of spiritual reverie).
In magical Christianity Christ also is evoked in circle casting, such as facing the South and intoning INRI. Also in medieval and early modern ceremonial magick (and also traditional European folk craft [ie, witchcraft] Christ and even the Virgin Mary are often evoked. So it does happen although not so much in post-19th century ceremonial magick or Craft of post-modern sorcery because the paradigm as well as cultural memory changed once the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and then Thelema and Gardnerian Wicca set new standards about what Reality was.
This post has been edited by SororZSD23: Mar 15 2010, 09:30 AM
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Leaving aside those principles of magic that play on the superstitious and that, whatever they be, are unworthy of the general public, we will direct our thoughts only to those things that contribute to wisdom and that can satisfy better minds . . . -from De Magia by Giordano Bruno (born 1548; burned at the stake February 16, 1600). My Webpage
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Evoking Christ?
grim789 Evoking Christ? Mar 11 2010, 07:35 PM
Mar 11 2010, 07:35 PM
