Spiritual concepts
Spell

A specific type of Event, - physical activity - that has been observed to trigger a set series of predictable and ordered functions – a Transaction.
As the end point of a transaction [from our point of view] is nearly always a physical reaction to the stimulus, this will be seen as something happening in the physical world. What happened in between we do not know.
So to be a little flippant for a moment, we wave our magic wand [event], issue the magic words ‘umbygunby ottle splot’ and this triggers a whole series of invisible functions in the Egg and after these have worked their way through - it rains! [another physical activity].
As the Universe is a System, the same Spell should trigger the same series of functions every time, BUT in reality exactly the same set of conditions [inputs] have to be present for it to work.
If we now take another analogy. We take a banking card and we enter it into the machine in the wall, we issue the magic numbers and ‘hey presto! As if by magic – money appears. But next time we go and we think we have done exactly the same thing, we enter the bank card into the machine, we enter the magic numbers and ….. nothing! The reason nothing happened was because our bank card had expired. So the same set of conditions was not in place.
So we are actually using spells all the time, because we don’t know most of the time how the systems we use actually work, we only know the outcome.
What is perhaps not obvious to people, however, is that the systems in the spiritual world respond in the same way. For example, I put a seed into the ground, I pour liquid fertiliser over it, I issue the magic command, ‘grow little seed, may you prosper in your dark little home’ and it grows!!
And you may laugh, but actually we have no real idea functionally what happened in between. It is still all magic really.
All we ever see is the physical reaction to our action. Cause and effect, with a lot of the in between functions as unknowns.
So, the actual outcome may appear different to us, because all systems - including those in the Spirit world - work at the level of a class not occurrences, so for example, we wave a different magic wand [different occurrence of the wand but same type of event] and the chain starts all over again, but this time it doesn’t rain – wrong type of wand.
The physical activity - whether waving magic wands or droning an incantation or reciting some well-known formula, or putting a bank card into a machine, or placing seeds into the ground with liquid fertiliser and a good word are all ‘spells’. Sometime they work, sometimes they don’t. And when they don’t, it is because the inputs aren’t right.
A spell can thus be defined as a specific type of physical activity – an Event in other words – which, after a series of Spirit based functions, appears to produce a defined type of physical action as a consequence and in this we are of course dealing with heuristical learnt function.
Observations
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- A Magician of Cairo
- A P Elkin - Aboriginal men of high degree - Yualai (Euahlayi) initiation
- Abbe Don J Ignatius Molina - Mystery men in Chile
- Ailo Gaup - The Night Between Days - The Sámi noaides
- Aristotle - On celestial music
- Atharvaveda - I 22 Charm against jaundice and related diseases
- Atharvaveda - I 3 Charm against constipation and retention of urine
- Atharvaveda - II 32 Charm to secure perfect health
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Atharvaveda - VI 105 Charm against cough
- Atharvaveda - VI 132 Charm to arouse the passionate love of a man
- Atharvaveda - VI 142 Blessing during the sowing of seed
- Atharvaveda - VI 42 Charm to appease anger
- Atharvaveda - VI 46 Exorcism of Evil dreams
- Atharvaveda - VII 38 Charm to secure the love of a man
- AwoFa'lokun Fatunmbi - And the concept of 'alien' spirits
- AwoFa'lokun Fatunmbi - Yoruba martial arts
- Ball, Dr Martin - On Sound and Structure
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Creeping heals
- Bodenham, Anne – 02 Finding in what part of the house the Poison was that should be given her Mistris
- Bodenham, Anne – 03 Constructing a witch’s brew
- Bodenham, Anne – 04 Shape shifts into a big black cat and admits she can fly
- Bodenham, Anne – 06 Other shamanic and magical abilities
- Boethius on Orpheus
- Bouissou, Madame Michael - The cursed leeks
- Bruno, Giordano – On Magic - The Universal symbol system
- Daumal, Rene - A Fundamental experiment - Part 3
- Daumal, Rene - A Fundamental experiment - Part 5
- Diotima – 02 Eros and his role
- Dr J C Barker - The auto-suggestive power of curses and death prayers
- Dr T Levin - Narantsogt and timbre music
- Druids, Celts and the Ancient Religion
- Ella, prime numbers and magic
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - On songlines
- Empedocles - from Iamblichus’s Life of Pythagoras - Empedocles prevents murder
- Engel, C - Ancient Egyptian music and healing
- Engel, C - Musical Myths and Facts - Birdsong
- Engel, C - On ancient pitch and modes
- Engel, C - On the role of magicians
- Engel, C - The indefatigable fiddler
- Engel, C - The Khoikhoi and celestial music
- Engel,C - The Mode Asbein
- Erasmus Darwin – Zoonomia – The power of a spell to do harm
- Fabre d Olivet, Antoine - Heals a little deaf boy
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Thomaso Valeri, Bishop of Florence
- Frost, Robert - Something there is that doesn't love a wall
- Gibier, Dr Paul - Psychism Analysis of Things Existing - After innumerable invocations to Brahma, we saw with stupefaction that the bowl had disappeared while we were looking at and touching it
- Giordano Bruno – A definition of magic and the magician
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - Becomes the victim of a death prayer
- Homer - The Odyssey - Circe
- Ibn al-Jazzar - The Guide for the Traveller and the Aid for those who Stay at Home
- Ibn Hindu - The Key to Medicine and a Guide for Students
- Isaac ben Soloman ibn Sahula - Commentaries on the Song of Songs
- Jennifer Isaacs - Australian Aboriginal - Making storms
- John Granrose on spells
- Keightley, Thomas - Music weaves spells
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Misc. Quotes - Men speaking with trees
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On spells and chants
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On spells and miracles
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On the healing power of music
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Rifai Sufi school
- Knud Rasmussen - The Little Diomede Diviner
- Language - Picts - 01 Overview
- Language - Picts - 02 Examples
- Language - Picts - 03 Examples
- Lewis, C S - Dawn Treader - The Magic Book
- Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Diabolical Possession, True and False – Sorcerors and magicians
- Lyall Watson - Ancient Egyptian - Ogham and Runes
- Lyall Watson - Celtic - Ogham and Runes
- Mare, Walter de la - A Song of Enchantment
- Medical Times and Gazette – A curse produces paralysis
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 03 Love with visualisation and Prayer
- Mesopotamian - Means of achieving spiritual experience 03 Ludlul bel nemequi
- Mircea Eliade - Inuit Weather control
- Mircea Eliade - On Bird song as spell
- Mircea Eliade - On Sorcerors, spells and soul loss
- Mircea Eliade - The secret language of the spirits
- Mrs Grieve on Yarrow
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Ogham and hieroglyphs
- N. S. Emerson control the winds
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 04
- Norse - Tricksters and ravens
- Omari and Isa Hassan - On the role of ngoma healing [tr Emmanuel Makala]
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - Old Aeson restor'd to Youth
- Pied Piper of Hamlin
- Plotinus - The Enneads - On spells
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The prayer is answered
- Poetic Edda - Lay of Sigrdrifa [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Sayings of the High One [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Sayings of the High One [extract]
- Poetic Edda - The Song of Rig [extract]
- Poetic Edda - The Song of Rig [extract]
- Poetic Edda - Völuspá [extract]
- Polynesian Researches – Ellis – Death prayers and possession in the Sandwich Islands
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing 'passions of the soul' and insomnia with music
- Quintillian on Orpheus
- Rig Veda - The Creation and Sacrifice
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 22 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Sabina, Maria - from The Mushroom Velada EROWID
- Sahagun - Aztecs and Mexica - Of sorcerors and death prayers
- Scotland, Barra - John MacNeill's testimony
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - Spells
- Shakespeare - Orpheus
- Shakespeare, William - Macbeth Act IV, Scene 1
- Shakespeare, William - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Sheridan, Clare – White Wolf, aged 93, the oldest Blood Indian alive
- Sheridan, Clare –The Terrifying power of the Horns
- Shi Kuang - And the ghostly music of the River Pu
- Simon Magus – Homilia II 26 Rehm
- Sir Arthur Grimble - And the Magic of Kindness
- Sir Arthur Grimble - On Spells and a Prayer for his daughter
- Sir Arthur Grimble - The Prayer of the Fisherman
- Steven Richards - Levitation - The Siva Samhita, Mouni Sadhu and Lenormant
- Teichelmann and Schurmann - Nguitkurra and small pox
- The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - Curing fever and wounds by incantation
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 720 to 830
- The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa - The Epistle on Music
- The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa - The Epistle on Music
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 7 "HADDOCKS' EYES."
- Tibetan Book of Exorcisms
- Tito Vignoli - Carmen
- Uruk - A Mask and a Tablet
- Vignoli, Tito - On healing spells
- Vignoli, Tito - On incantations and mantras
- Vignoli, Tito - The healing power of music
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - On Praying Rain
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Druids
- William Collins - An Ode for Music
- Williams, John - Conducts Devil's Dance
- Williams, John - Hedwig's theme
- Wordsworth, William - The Reverie of Poor Susan
- Ynglinga saga - 06 Chapter Six
- Ynglinga saga - 07 Chapter Seven