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In reply to the discussion: Witches around the world are planning a mass casting of spells on Trump [View all]panfluteman
(2,194 posts)Back when my day job was being a professional pan flutist with an Andean band back in San Francisco, I would experiment with magic in my spare time. I found an herbal love charm written about in a book entitled Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham. I followed his instructions and sure enough, each time I did the love charm, it would bring some new lady into my life. And being an astrologer, I noted down the exact date, time and place of my love charm, booted up an astrology chart for it on my astrological software, and studied the natal astrology charts of the women whom the love charm brought. And there were definite linking planetary configurations between what was happening in the heavens when I did my love charm and the natal astrology chart of the woman who the charm attracted.
You say that magical spells are no different, no more effective than prayers, but actually, magical spells are going one step further than prayers and utilizing various occult and metaphysical forces to bring your desired result to come to pass. And so, in my experience, magical spells can often be more effective than prayers alone.
For many who were previously skeptical materialists, magic has really opened doors for them, and opened their eyes to the fact that there hidden (occult) metaphysical forces that transcend ordinary physical cause and effect, and operate on a higher level than the latter. It has opened their eyes that there is something beyond the physical world and superior to it. As for me, I chose to renounce the herbal love charms, even though they worked. My reason was spiritual, and it could be summed up in the phrase, "Bind not, so ye be not bound."