Good Witches

While glamour may bewitch

And Roma may still roam,

Fake bohemians buy

Terrible kitsch to take home.

 

Do you move too slowly or too fast?

Do you do so as a nomad?

Do you view the present and the past

In a beautifully suitable format?

 

Know that this is a grimoire.  Its grammar is acceptable for practicing equanimous goodness and necessary spells. 

This unique volume gathers no dust or moss or fans.  It mostly accumulates knowledge of enlightened sorcery from suitable sources.

A good witch knows there are times when grey magic is urgently necessary.  This is one of those times.  

You may have noticed that white magic fails to thwart corruption while black magic encourages the corrupt.

What do you know about summoning good spirits, or at least the courage to understand their meanings?

What do you know about ways to prevent bad spirits from gaining influence and blocking better thinking?

How do you distinguish between the magnanimous activities of good witches and the sometimes glamorous expressions of ego by the misguided?

How do you summon your own spirit to assist with attempts to thwart evil? 

Are you currently in good spirits or are you rather melancholic?

Perhaps you have been feeling dispirited.

Perhaps you even despair when witnessing corruption and other forms of cruelty.

How do you distinguish between your mind, your spirit, your ego and your soul?

How well do you practice the gentle magic of magnanimity and equanimity?

Do you do so with enchanting sprezzatura?

Good witches are not particularly glamorous, amorous or famous.  They know which witch is which, but do you?

Have you acquainted yourself with the wonderful witches of Australia?

Are you capable of distinguishing between witchery and trickery? 

While all good witches much prefer to work only with white magic, they know they must reluctantly use grey magic when the white version is too weak. 

If you have gained your views about good witches, and bad ones, mainly through corrupt media organisations and works of fiction, you are unlikely to have been picturing witches particularly accurately.

What do you know about apparitional culture?

What do you know about psychosis?

What do you know about romantic views regarding necromancy?

How do you distinguish between the truth and flights of fancy?

How do you distinguish between drama, psychodrama and real life?

All dominant societal institutions are corrupt.  That is primarily due to the fact that egocentric ambitiousness is a corrupting influence.

Dominance itself is a corrupting influence, too. 

Egocentric ambitiousness is frequently rewarded by the gullible.

The gullible always mistake the overconfidence of overbearing dominance for genuine competence.

The gullible mistake unjust power for justifiable prestige and privilege.

Grey magic is meant to empower the powerless.  Yet it can only disempower the overly powerful by enlightening the gullible.

What is your acquaintance with eminent emanations? 

How carefully do you distinguish between nature and hubris?

Overcoming corruption is the most important task for anyone to achieve.

How have you already attempted to achieve it, and who has tried to help you, and who has tried to stop you, and why?

How carefully do you distinguish between matter and imaginings?

All white magic expresses virtue.

Grey magic additionally attempts to prevent vice.

Personal virtue often counts for little in a corrupt world.

Using virtue and creativity to empower the good to act against the wicked is therefore a moral duty.

Good witches do not form covens.

Nor do they put children in the global warming oven.

Instead, they perform communitas enchantments.

How do you usually attempt to attain heightened awareness?

How authentically and ethically have you been seeking to experience higher realms, and with whose assistance?

Which minds, in your view, have the ability to re-enchant the world?

If they are not minds with the ability to improve politics and reshape prosperity for the greater good, by providing the creativity necessary for sustainable peace, who possesses them?

Are you a scholarly magician or a corrupt politician or another sort of person?

How do you find grey magic in art?

How do you find grey magic in science?

How do you find grey magic in philosophy?

How do you find grey magic in your soul?

How do you distinguish between higher realms and Commonwealth realms?

How do you distinguish between Ananke and anarchy?

How do you distinguish between natural magic, ceremonial magic and political magic?

This grimoire, with the help of art, science, philosophy and history, provides an introduction to political magic, as practiced by wonderfully good witches everywhere.

Perhaps you regard political magic as hovering artistically between a morality play and a picaresque novel.

Perhaps you regard political magic as hovering scientifically between the primordial EverTime and the end time.