Hypocracy
Why do people hate magic? I run into people every day who try some sort of magick in their lives. They make wishes; throw salt over their shoulder, turn their chair, and so on. They think these are harmless things, but they all have their roots in old magick. Then when you talk to them about using magick they get all righteous and condemning...
Why do they do that? On the one hand they use magick for their personal use (like you’re supposed to) then on the other hand when someone else professes a belief in it they get angry and want to burn you at the stake.
The answer is in education. Many people have been exposed to magick uses their whole life, and it is ok. They learn about the little things, lets focus on luck. They use things like lucky charms, make wishes on pennies, don’t break mirrors, and many similar things. All these are direct decedents of magick use. They are normal every day stuff.
Somewhere in their upbringing, they were mind controlled and someone taught them that magick use is bad, and magick users are bad people. This causes an internal conflict with many people but they do realize it.
Magick is a fact of life, it exists whether you choose to believe it or not. There are forces that affect you every day, all the time, and even if you are not aware of them or think they are a fable, they still exist and still affect how you do things.
Just because you use magick in your life does not make you a bad person, but admitting that you believe and use it consciously makes many people go into some rabid discourse about burning you at the stake. Such a conundrum...
So what to do about it? First a short history lesson; There are three "major" religions in the world and a lot of minor ones. The three majors are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Both Islam and Christianity sprang from Judaism. Now the Jews have a subculture called Kabballah, and this delves into magick use. So why do the other two majors disdain magick so much? You can read the entire Old Testament and not find a single reference to magick users being executed. You can find a few references that they existed even back then but nothing about any form of execution.
Doing a little more research reveals that it was the pope who issued a thing called a "Bull" that started this whole kill the witch thing. The inquisition started out to eradicate any competition to their religion. It included anyone who did not believe according to the church. One of the most popular religions was a form of nature worship. If the people who worshiped the sun did not convert and worship the son, they were branded a heretic or witch and executed. The inquisition went on for over 300 years, eventually turning into a political weapon that was used to "purge" cities and towns of less than desirable citizens, but got carried away and ended up getting about a third or more of the population killed and ruining the economy of the area. It is believed that over 5 million people were killed by witch hunters and inquisitors, the number may be closer to double that as the record keeping was not very accurate back then, especially if you had no property to be seized by the church, you would not even get listed as one of those executed, what a waste of human life...
The most painful book I have ever read was about the witch hunts in France and Germany. Where a witch hunter would come to town and start the whole process but finding some poor beggar woman that nobody liked. She would be accused of witchcraft and condemned without fair trial or representation. The accused faced something along the lines of this: You are accused of witchcraft either admit you are a witch or be executed. If they admitted they were a witch then of course they were executed anyway. The accused were not allowed a defense of any kind, to be accused meant a death sentence. Now here is where it gets real ugly; the accused was tortured and forced to name other people who were their cohorts in witchcraft. Even if the person was not an actual witch they were still tortured and forced to name others. Then those people were arrested and condemned and tortured to name others and so on. In one German town at the peak of the hunt, over 800 women were burned at the stake in one week... When the men came home from war they found that their town had no women. Their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters had all been executed as witches. In a five month time frame this one inquisitor had killed over 9000 people, from one town. The inquisitor left town the day before the soldiers returned, but not before making sure all the property deeds were in order so that the church now owned most of the province. This was repeated all over Europe. It even came to America but before Salem could be depopulated the governor called a halt to it. At the time of the stay, there were over 300 people in jail for being witches. For another painful book read the Crucible. (Watching the movie is just as painful)
So what people did was teach their young to immediately accuse others of witchcraft so that they would not be accused themselves. While at the same time teaching them to about minor magick like luck without actually calling it magick.
This inquisitorial fear still affects us today. People are so afraid of unfair, instant execution and torture that as soon as you mention magick they go off on a huge tirade in defense of themselves. By condemning you they hope to keep themselves clean of the chance of accusation. This is so ingrained into our society that I am surprised some sociologist hasn't named a psycho-disorder after it.
What can we do to clear this away? Education. Learning the truth of the matter. Do some research of your own and discover just how wrong the papal bull was. See for yourself that the whole concept was cruel and inhumane. You will probably need therapy after reading some of those books about the witch hunts. It was actually worse than the holocaust. In some cases it is so painful to read how even young children were burned at he stake or hung because someone accused them of witchcraft.
There will be more on this subject so stay tuned
Be Blessed
Why do they do that? On the one hand they use magick for their personal use (like you’re supposed to) then on the other hand when someone else professes a belief in it they get angry and want to burn you at the stake.
The answer is in education. Many people have been exposed to magick uses their whole life, and it is ok. They learn about the little things, lets focus on luck. They use things like lucky charms, make wishes on pennies, don’t break mirrors, and many similar things. All these are direct decedents of magick use. They are normal every day stuff.
Somewhere in their upbringing, they were mind controlled and someone taught them that magick use is bad, and magick users are bad people. This causes an internal conflict with many people but they do realize it.
Magick is a fact of life, it exists whether you choose to believe it or not. There are forces that affect you every day, all the time, and even if you are not aware of them or think they are a fable, they still exist and still affect how you do things.
Just because you use magick in your life does not make you a bad person, but admitting that you believe and use it consciously makes many people go into some rabid discourse about burning you at the stake. Such a conundrum...
So what to do about it? First a short history lesson; There are three "major" religions in the world and a lot of minor ones. The three majors are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Both Islam and Christianity sprang from Judaism. Now the Jews have a subculture called Kabballah, and this delves into magick use. So why do the other two majors disdain magick so much? You can read the entire Old Testament and not find a single reference to magick users being executed. You can find a few references that they existed even back then but nothing about any form of execution.
Doing a little more research reveals that it was the pope who issued a thing called a "Bull" that started this whole kill the witch thing. The inquisition started out to eradicate any competition to their religion. It included anyone who did not believe according to the church. One of the most popular religions was a form of nature worship. If the people who worshiped the sun did not convert and worship the son, they were branded a heretic or witch and executed. The inquisition went on for over 300 years, eventually turning into a political weapon that was used to "purge" cities and towns of less than desirable citizens, but got carried away and ended up getting about a third or more of the population killed and ruining the economy of the area. It is believed that over 5 million people were killed by witch hunters and inquisitors, the number may be closer to double that as the record keeping was not very accurate back then, especially if you had no property to be seized by the church, you would not even get listed as one of those executed, what a waste of human life...
The most painful book I have ever read was about the witch hunts in France and Germany. Where a witch hunter would come to town and start the whole process but finding some poor beggar woman that nobody liked. She would be accused of witchcraft and condemned without fair trial or representation. The accused faced something along the lines of this: You are accused of witchcraft either admit you are a witch or be executed. If they admitted they were a witch then of course they were executed anyway. The accused were not allowed a defense of any kind, to be accused meant a death sentence. Now here is where it gets real ugly; the accused was tortured and forced to name other people who were their cohorts in witchcraft. Even if the person was not an actual witch they were still tortured and forced to name others. Then those people were arrested and condemned and tortured to name others and so on. In one German town at the peak of the hunt, over 800 women were burned at the stake in one week... When the men came home from war they found that their town had no women. Their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters had all been executed as witches. In a five month time frame this one inquisitor had killed over 9000 people, from one town. The inquisitor left town the day before the soldiers returned, but not before making sure all the property deeds were in order so that the church now owned most of the province. This was repeated all over Europe. It even came to America but before Salem could be depopulated the governor called a halt to it. At the time of the stay, there were over 300 people in jail for being witches. For another painful book read the Crucible. (Watching the movie is just as painful)
So what people did was teach their young to immediately accuse others of witchcraft so that they would not be accused themselves. While at the same time teaching them to about minor magick like luck without actually calling it magick.
This inquisitorial fear still affects us today. People are so afraid of unfair, instant execution and torture that as soon as you mention magick they go off on a huge tirade in defense of themselves. By condemning you they hope to keep themselves clean of the chance of accusation. This is so ingrained into our society that I am surprised some sociologist hasn't named a psycho-disorder after it.
What can we do to clear this away? Education. Learning the truth of the matter. Do some research of your own and discover just how wrong the papal bull was. See for yourself that the whole concept was cruel and inhumane. You will probably need therapy after reading some of those books about the witch hunts. It was actually worse than the holocaust. In some cases it is so painful to read how even young children were burned at he stake or hung because someone accused them of witchcraft.
There will be more on this subject so stay tuned
Be Blessed
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