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CONTENTS

00 FOREWORD
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10 NEWSGROUP
11 Why do some people spell magick with a K?
12 What is a spell? What is a hex?
13 I don't read newsgroups; will people send me spells by e-mail?
13 Shouldn't there be limits to what people can post here?
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20 SUBJECT
21 What is magic(k)?
22 A Is magic real, how does it work, what influences it?
B Is magic compatible with modern Science?
C How are magic and religion/mysticism related or different?
23 A Is magic black or white? Should we do black magic?
B What about the "Three-Fold Law of Return"?
24 When casting a spell is there always an incantation?
25 Is animal sacrifice common in spell-casting?
26 Is the Latin language a more powerful spell casting language?
27 Is it possible to invoke Gods or to summon the dead?
28 Is there a spell that actually turns you invisible? (etc.)?
29 Can spell casting heal the sick or kill a healthy person?
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30 STUDIES
31 How should I start learning about magic? teachers?
32 What are the best books for a beginner to read?
33 Where is online information about magic to be found?
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40 SPELL COMPILATIONS
41 Love and Lust
42 Hexing, Cursing, and Death
43 Summoning Demons and Making Infernal Pacts
44 Fortune and Money-Bringing Spells
45 Purification and Blessing
46 Court Cases and Legal Matters
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50 REFERENCES AND REFERRALS
51 Archives
52 Other magic-Related E-Lists and Newsgroups
53 Card Game Magic (e.g. 'The Obsession')
54 Role-Playing Game Spellcasting
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60 AFTERWORD
61 Footnotes
62 Credits
63 Copyrights

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00 FOREWORD

The alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic FAQ may be obtained at:
http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/spellshexesmagicfaq.html

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10 NEWSGROUP

This section pertains to the most commonly asked questions
about the newsgroup itself; specifically the newsgroup's
name and its customs.

Alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic is part of the
alt.paranormal.* hierarchy. Other newsgroups in this
lineage -- with descriptions taken from their entries at
http://www.tile.net/news/paranormal.html> -- include
alt.paranormal
("phenomena which are not scientifically explicable")
alt.paranormal.channeling
("spiritual mediumship, channeling and channelers"),
alt.paranormal.crop-circles
("a discussion of crop circles")
alt.paranormal.pyramid
("theories on mystic aspects of pyramids").

11 Why do you some people spell magick with a K?

The reason for the two spellings -- on the internet --
is that computers need differing spelling to distinguish
between two files. Some time back in the early 1990s,
the usage of "magic" for stage magic and "magick" for
mystical-ritual-supernatural practices was adopted by
general consensus.

This newsgroup, alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic, is one of
the older in usenet and was created BEFORE the
magic-with-a-k spelling rule was agreed upon. Later,
alt.magick and its derivatives were created with a 'k' to
avoid confusion with stage magic. *01

'Magick' is a spelling popularly associated with Aleister
Crowley, yet the spelling precedes him by hundreds of years. *02

12 What is a spell? What is a hex? ?

Generally speaking, a magical spell is a formula that may
involve spoken, written, or chanted words; symbolic
enactments; candle burning; ritual baths; burning of
incense; sprinkling of powders, salts, or dusts; and/or the
manufacture and deployment of charms, amulets, or talismans.

The purposes of spells are varied. They include "drawing" or
wish-fulfillment in regard to love, money, and good fortune;
apotropaic, "banishing" or "drive-away" spells for ridding
oneself of unwanted influences; and "jinxing," "crossing,"
or "cursing" spells to bring bad luck or harm to another.

"Hex" is a regionally popular word from the Pennsylvania
Dutch country. It refers to a symbolic drawing (usually
a six-sided figure in a circle, hence the word Rhex,S as
in RhexagonS). Hexes are made to protect farm animals
to draw love, to symvbolize and strengthen a marriage,
or to a curse. The term hexencraft (the making of hexes)
is a Pennsylvania Dutch term that refers to magical spells
in general, and may also include medical herbology. One
who makes hexes is a RhexmeisterS (hex-master).

You may have been told or have read in a dictionary that
the "hexes" of Pennsylvania Dutch folk-magic are evil or
malign in intention. People say the same thing about
African-American hoodoo and European witchcraft --
they use the words hex and hoodoo and bewitch as verbs
synonymous with "curse" or "magically harm,S leaving off
any mention of the love spells, prosperity spells, animal
fertility spells, or home protection spells that are
worked in these traditions. This is not done out of
malice but because they are describing essentially
alien cultures to their own and they have not bothered
to research the subject thoroughly

Luckily, vocabulary-ignorance only affects the people
who are misusing a word -- it doesnUt infect the actual
culture in which the term originated. Thus, if you were
to go to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, right now and ask
for a hex, you would not be given a curse, you would be
given the Pennsylvaia Dutch version of a sigil, talisman,
veve, or seal -- a six-sided geometrical image to be used
for magical purposes.

In some regions (e.g. in the Ozarks) hexencraft or
Germanic-rooted peasant-style folk-magic is called
"Pow-Wow magic" after the book "Pow-Wows or Long Lost
Friend" first published in 1820 in Pennsylvania (in German)
and then in English in the 1850s. "Pow-Wow magic" --
that is, Ozarks-style hexencraft -- forms one of the
bases for the Faerie (or Feri) Tradition of neo-paganism
transmitted by Victor and Cora Anderson.

"Hoodoo," "conjure" (or "conjuration"), "rootwork," and
"laying down tricks" are also regionally popular terms
for spell-casting, either benevolent and malevolent. They
come from the African-American culture and are common
terms all over the United States in the black community.

Italian spell-craft is called stregharia. In Mexico the
word is brujeria, usually translated as Rwitchcraft.S

13 I don't read newsgroups. Will people send me spells by email?

Newcomers to usenet newsgroups ("newbies") often fail to
understand that these are discussion groups, not sources of
free goodies. People who post to a newsgroup only to ask for
information to be sent to them via email are sometimes thought
of by usenet regulars as "parasitic posters." If you want to
learn from and meet other people who regularly read and post
to the group, please stick around and participate.

14 Shouldn't there be limits to what people can post here?

This newsgroup has existed for many years as a place for
people to exchange information about spells and
spell-casting. Occasionally, people with a dogmatic
religious background (for instance in Wicca or Christianity)
post abusive messages about the sorts of spells that are
"acceptable," but the group generally ignores them and
moves on.

For those interested in specific forms of magic that may or
may not be attached to a given tradition, there are many
newsgroups to which discussion can be taken if you wish to
cooperate with newsgroup regulars. Here are a few such
discussion-oriented newsgroups to get you started:

news:alt.lucky.w (lucky charms and amulets, folk-magic, hoodoo)
news:alt.magick (general -- mostly ceremonial -- magic)
news:alt.magick.chaos (chaos-magic)
news:alt.magick.ethics (the ethics of magical practice)
news:alt.magick.folk (folk-magic)
news:alt.magick.marketplace (magical tools and books for sale)
news:alt.magick.order (magical societies, orders, fraternities)
news:alt.magick.tantra (sex-magic and tantra)
news:alt.magick.tyagi (magic, mysticism, philosophy, religion)

There is a far more comprehensive list of occult-related
newsgroups in the document called The Mage's Guide to the
Internet (MaGI) at
http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/.

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20 SUBJECT

A few questions about spell-casting arise with
regularity. Some concern an analysis of magic,
its workings and principles, and its relationship to
science and religion. Others attempt to establish
definitive guidelines governing the morality of
spell-work.

21 What is magic(k)?

Magic has been defined by many people in many different
ways. One infamous mage defined it as "the Science and Art
of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." *03

Some see magic as a kind of energy which pervades the cosmos.
Others see it as a psychic tool by which we may influence the
material world using symbols and ritual. Many see it as a
means of coming to unite with the divine, some consider
it to be the exercise of will or Will, or the manipulation
of reality.

Whatever the word means, 'magic' is the subject, generally,
of the newsgroup, and will likely be given many differing and
contradictory meanings during discussions there.

22A Is magic real, how does it work, what influences it?

Many have suggested the differentiation of magical 'currents'
or 'energies' based on style and/or intent. Some posit the
notion of principles, a la scientific structure, 'laws of
magic' and what-not. Others approach it more subjectively,
considering all knowledge about the elements of magic to be
personal and therefore particular only to the individual
condition, variable of form.

All of these are popular responses to this question, though
more inventive theories would be welcomed. Conventional
approaches may be cross-posted to
news:sci.philosophy.meta.

The self-professed "newbie" Chameleon ([email protected])
put the question this way, in regard to casting spells:

"I have a couple magic books at home and have
read through them. A lot of them use a type of
hypnosis to channel energy and though I have
read of the use of herbs and incense to burn,
is it the burning drug that is supposed to do
the magic or is it your energy that makes it come
true? Different books do things differently."

Generally speaking, folk-magic and the magic of rural
people seems to place greater emphasis on objects -- herbs,
minerals, animal teeth or bones, human sexual fluids,
candles, incense, and so forth -- than it does on the
"energy" of the person casting the spell. Conversely,
ceremonial magic, chaos magic, and other urban-based
traditions tend to place more emphasis on "will" or
directed personal power. A third path is that of the
religiously-inclined magician, who believes that invocation
or summoning of deities, saints, spirits, or angels
influences the outcome of a magical spell.

To the best of my knowledge, none of these three distinctly
different theories has been empirically proven "right" or
"wrong," so the individual practitioner is left to follow
the tradition most congenial to his or her world-view and
personality.

22B Is magic compatible with modern Science?

An oft-asked question, particularly with reference to
Heisenberg and chaos theory. Hang around a little before
getting into one of these discussions. They can take quite
a while to untangle.

22C How are magic and religion/mysticism related or different?

There have been a number of different discussions on these
subjects. One extremely popular hypothesis is the
magic/individual : religion/group model. This notion holds
that magical practices that do not involve a congregation
and a worship service are not religious. (An example of this
would be a woman casting a love spell with oils and a candle
to attract a man.) likewise, according to this viewpoint,
magical practices that involve a congregation and worship
ARE religious. Some hold that religious [ractices cannot,
by definition, be magical. Others contend that religious
services that invoke the aid of spirits or unknown forces
to effect a change in the world are magical. (An example
of this would be a Christian prayer meeting for healing
a member of the congregation.)

Some religions openly include and acknowledge magical
practices. Some emphasize this aspect more than others.
Here are three examples, selected more or less at random:

Fundamentalist Christians tend to downplay magic, but
Catholic Christians often practice it openly, especially in
more rural cultures than the United States. For example, it
is common in Mexico to invoke the financial aid of Saint
Martin Caballero (a religious act) by means of a magical
phrase ("citrum neuvo"), a thread-wrapped horseshoe, and
a cloth bag filled with grains of wheat (a magical act).

Santeria and Vodoun, two Afro-Caribbean religions with
strong magical components, are sometimes wrongfully
characterized by outsiders as a form of magic, although they
are both actually religions. The use of ritual baths and
trance-possession seem to strike Euro-Americans as
"magical" acts, rather than "religious" ones, despite the
fact that both religions have priestly hierarchs who conduct
ceremonies for the congregation

Hinduism has an entire sacred book (one of the Vedas)
devoted to magical formulas and spells -- and this is in
addition to the more cosmlogical and worship-oriented Vedic
texts.

Child of Fire ([email protected]) framed the question of
how magic relates to relgion in terms of its "fit" with
goddess-worshipping Wicca, when she asked:

"I am not Wiccan (though two of my best friends are)
but I do find the magics interesting. I enjoy and
practice candle magic and herb magic... however,
[...] one of the main reasons I'm NOT wiccan is that
I can't honestly say that I believe in a goddess.
The other reason [is] that I am quite impulsive,
so that I tend to act BEFORE I think and when you
throw in the Three-Fold Law [of Return; a Wiccan
dogma], I find myself headed for a lot of trouble,
ya know? Any help would be much appreciated."

In my opinion, this question is more religious than magical.
While many Wiccans do practice magic, they certainly did not
invent it or have an exclusive handle on it. In fact,
magical practices -- especially those using simple objects
from nature such as herbs and minerals -- are to be found in
virtually every human culture, regardless of the type of
deity worshipped. Furthermore, even people who worship NO
deity may practice magic. As for opinions about the
universality of the Three-Fold Law of Return (or lack
thereof), see the next two questions.

It's always good to ask these questions -- many people don't,
and thus make erroneous assumoptions about other people's
practices -- but if you wish to discuss mysticism or
religion, consult a newsgroup devoted to that topic. For
more reading on the subject, follow links from the MaGI's
Gehennom GOO at
http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/goo.html!

23A Is magic black or white? Should we do black magic?

For discussion about the ethics of magic, see the newsgroup
news:alt.magick.ethics.

23B What about the "Three-Fold Law of Return"? Don't curses and
coercive spells somehow bounce back and punish you?

While in many magical traditions there is a guide of some
kind against coercing a person, this rule is not culturally
universal.

"The three-fold law of return" (which hypothesizes that
whatever you do to others magically will come back to you
three-fold) -- is often cited by modern neo-pagans as a
warning against performing coercive spells. However, the
"three-fold law" is neither a law of nature (like gravity)
nor a world-wide law of magical practice, being found only
in those neo-pagan traditions that derive from or are allied
to Wicca. In Hindu magical practices, for instance, the "law
of karma" states that what you do will come back to you at
full force -- that is, it is a "one-fold law of return" --
not three-fold.

Both the Hindu and Wiccan rules of return can be
demonstrated to be false in a given person's lifetime. That
is, so many wicked people escape justice that no sane
observer would contend that it is a law of any kind that
punishment is certain for evil deeds. In order to support
their one-fold and three-fold "laws" of return, Wiccans and
Hindus rely on a secondary hypothesis, namely, reincarnation
of the individual soul. This is a matter of religious dogma.
Because reincarnation has never been satisfactorialy
demonstrated to occur, the majority of human beings neither
endorse reincarnation, nor a "law of karma" or "three-fold
law of return."

Most cultures in which magic is practiced have no stated
belief in a "rule of return" of any kind -- and it is
recommended that because discussions of such "laws," being
religious topics, are not of concern to the general
practitioner of magic, discussion about them should be
directed to an appropriate newsgroup in the soc.religion.*
or alt.religion.* hierarchies.

24 When casting a spell is there always an incantation
-- or is it belief or will-power that produces results?

This depends on the tradition -- and the spell. Some spells
employ incantations (to gods, demons, elemental forces),
some use objects (roots, herbs, minerals, amulets, talismans,
seals), some utilise actions (sprinkling, dancing, stepping
in a pattern, bathing), and many use a combination of these.

25 Is animal sacrifice common in spell-casting?

Animal sacrifice is more common in certain religions than it
is in magical rites in general, considered world-wide. Very
few folk-magic spells require animal sacrifice because they
derive from rural-agricultural traditions in which animals
are too valuable to butcher indiscriminately. Religions are
more likely to require the sacrifice of an animal, possibly
because the priestly class traditionally claims the carcass
as a sort of fee or payment for services rendered.

26 Is the Latin language really a more powerful spell
casting language?

Some folks think so. Others swear by Hebrew, Greek,
Egyptian, Sanskrit, or...you name it! There is certainly no
agreement that any one language is more powerful than
others, although each -- including common English -- has
advocates.

27 Is it possible to invoke Gods, Spirits, Angels,
or Demi-Gods, or to summon the dead?

Invoking an entity means to call it to you with a voiced
chant (an invocation). Summoning it means to coerce it to
appear. Many people claim to have done one or both of
these things, either in religious rites or in magical
rituals. To some observers, it seems that much invocatory
and summoning magic has a religious tinge to it and
vice versa. These folks cite the ceremony of Holy Communion
in the Catholic Church is an instance of summoning a deity
and the trance-possession of Santeria as an invocatory rite.

28 Is there a spell that will actually let your arm
spontaneously combust and not get burned? Allow you to fly?
Turn you invisible? Change the colour of your eyes?

These sound more like sleight-of-hand than sorcery. When
portrayed in movies, they may be the result of special effects,
stunt-doubling, or the like.

29 Can spell casting really heal the terminally ill or
kill a healthy person?

Many have claimed so and believed so. Examples of
spontaneous healing -- and spontaneous death -- abound in
the literature of science as well as the literature of
magic. This is not to say that such things are common or can
be predictably invoked, but they do seem to happen now and
then.

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30 STUDIES

How to learn about magic and what ought be considered the
best sources are frequently discussed topics in usenet.

Occasionally someone will compile a REF file of newsgroup
posts for a common topic. Make a collection of posts and
assist in the project yourself by adding to the Lucky Mojo
Esoteric Archive at http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric.html.

31 How should I start learning about magic? teachers?

Some recommend the use of particular mechanisms or tools,
such as tarot, a magical diary, meditation or dreamwork.
Some recommend specific books or teachers, others place more
emphasis on the aptitude and imagination of the student.

As CHenningsson writes:

"Books are one answer. There are actually books which
try to take you from your first tentative attempts
at relaxation into holding a ritual....

"Other than that ... Just do it! If you like to, you
can see this as one of the very first exercises in Will;
you Will yourself into making a ritual."

Robin provides marvelous advice:

"Resist the temptation to believe what anyone else
tells you. Try to invent ways to find out things
for yourself. Remain skeptical.

"Look for ways in which you may have been
doing magick without realizing it. Think about
what it might mean if you could use it with
intention, and how you might go about that."

MKampe offers:

"if you have clear notions of what magick is all
about, it might be better for you to pursue your
inner course and avoid outside contamination
[from teachers/books/etc.]."

32 What are some books for a beginner?

There are at least three online occult book lists available,
as well as one list of mail-order occult book dealers.

book list one:
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/bookref
book list two:
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/bookref2
book list three:
http://www.luckymojo.com/tkbibliocontents.html
occult book dealers:
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/bookpubs.

33 Where is more online information about magic to be found?

Online reference files dealing with the Kabbalistic Abyss,
Chaos magic, Wicca, the Golden Dawn, and more are at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/ref.html.

Magical organizations may wrangle out their political
issues in news:alt.magick.order.

People with religious issues to discuss in regard to
magic(k) can search for like-minded souls in the various
soc.religion.* and alt.religion.* newsgroups.

For the most complete online guide to occultism on the
internet, try the Mage's Guide to the Internet (MaGI)
at http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/.

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40 SPELL COMPILATIONS

Spell-exchange within the alt.magick.* hierarchy is at
times discouraged by newsgroup regulars or newbies
concerned with considerations of ethics or expertise.
The only newsgroup apparently designated for such an
exchange is news:alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic.

A continually updated list of spells, most of them
compiled from posts in usenet, can be found on
The Lucky Mojo Esoteric Archive Spells Page, which is at
http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html.
To see the complete contents, please go to that page;
for your convenience, some of the most popular of these
sell-casting compilations are noted below. The spells
contained within these files may be dangerous to your
health, but we welcome contributions to them and will
be happy to source them properly so that those who
taste of their repercussions can adequately compensate
you.

41 Love and Lust Spells

The alt.magick love and lust spells file at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/fukspls.html
is a usenet collection and includes spells designed to
secure the love and/or passionate embrace of your target.
A second set of folk-magic love-spells may be found at
http://www.luckymojo.com/lovespells.html .

42 Hexing, Cursing, Death, and Hot Foot Spells

Jinxing, hexing, cursing, and death-oriented spells were
collected from usenet over the past few years and these have
been placed in online as an alt.magick ref file at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/owspls.html.

43 Summoning Demons and Making Infernal Pacts

Collected usenet posts about demon-summoning and infernal
pacts may be found at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/sumspls.html.
A separate file that contains lists of demons from which
you may choose is at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/dmnspls.html.

44 Fortune and Money-Bringing Spells

Some spells to obtain cash through skill or chance
and achieve success in other ways, compiled from posts
to usenet, asre part of the alt.magick. ref files at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/cashspls.html.

45 Purification and Blessing

A file containing spells designed to rid you of bad luck,
spiritual parasitism, or that unwanted jinx is at
http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/blesspls.html
Use them to prepare for more powerful works of magic.

46 Spells for Court Cases and Legal Matters

A compilation of spells for keeping the law away,
winning in court, and combatting the forces of the
INS, IRS, and other bureaucratic agencies is online at
http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/occultism/magic/
spells/purple/courtcasespells.html.

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50 REFERENCES AND REFERRALS

After consulting the various resources listed in this FAQ
and lurking in the newsgroup for a few weeks, feel free to
bring up any relevant subjects there.

51 Archives Online

Usenet posts on occultism make up a large part of the
Lucky Mojo Esoteric Archive (which hosts this document).
Access its top-level directory structure at
http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric.html

52 Magic-Related Newsgroups and E-Lists

See the MaGI at http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/
for much occult, magical, and mystical information,
including a lengthy file of occult e-mail lists.
From that document, here is a further set of usenet
newsgroups not listed above:

(occult-related)
news:alt.astrology
FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astrlgy.9401
news:alt.astrology.asian
news:alt.chinese.fengshui
FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/fengref
news:alt.divination
news:alt.occult.kabbalah.golden-dawn
news:alt.pagan.magic
news:alt.tarot
Old FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/taroref
New FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.a-tarot.9801
Layouts REF: http://www.luckymojo.com/altmagickfaq/trtlyref

(darkness and power)
news:alt.necronomicon
news:alt.satanism
FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astncos.9901
Another FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astnmgp.9901
Another FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astnngp.9902
Another FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astntks.9901
Another FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.astntos.9901

(mystical thought)
news:alt.consciousness.mysticism
news:alt.meditation
news:alt.meditation.moderated
news:alt.philosophy.taoism

(psychology and consciousness)
news:alt.consciousness
news:alt.psychology.transpersonal
news:rec.drugs.psychedelic
news:sci.psychology.consciousness

(shamanism/neopaganism/wicca/religions incorporating magic)
news:alt.folklore
news:alt.folklore.gemstones
news:alt.folklore.herbs
news:alt.mythology
news:alt.mythology.mythic-animals
news:alt.native
news:alt.pagan
news:alt.religion.asatru
FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.asatru-.9506
news:alt.religion.orisha
news:alt.religion.shamanism
news:alt.religion.wicca
FAQ: http://www.luckymojo.com/faqs/faq.arwicca.9506
news:alt.shamanism
news:alt.techno-shamanism

(ufos/parapsychology/spiritualism)
news:alt.consciousness.near-death-exp
news:alt.hypnosis
news:alt.out-of-body
news:alt.paranet
news:alt.paranet.metaphysics
news:alt.paranet.paranormal
news:alt.paranet.psi
news:alt.paranet.skeptic
news:alt.paranormal
news:alt.skeptic
news:alt.soulmates

53 Card Game Magic (e.g. 'The Obsession')

There are many newsgroups in the rec.games.* hierarchy
from which to choose. Also see MOXPERL at
http://mox.perl.com/deckmaster/.

54 Role-Playing Game Spellcasting

If you are looking for role-playing game magic, you can find
it in the Great Net Spellbook at
http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/Text/RPG/GNSB/0-intro.html.

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60 AFTERWORD

Thanks to all the fine authors of files who helped tyagi
nagasiva during his sift for networking documents to fill
out the alt.magic faq, upon which this document is based.
Thanks most of all to tyagi himself, my dear one, my sweet
sweet sweet inspiration.

61 Footnotes

*01
See news:alt.magic for stage magic and news:alt.magick
for magick in theory and practice.

*02
Due to his many publications (see a list at
http://www.luckymojo.com/crowley/)
and the orders he crafted, Aleister Crowley (described at
http://www.crl.com/~thelema/crowley.html) is revered
by many and despised by as many more, and his magical
treatise ("Book Four", published by Samuel Weiser)
may likely prove his most popular text.

*03
"Magick in Theory and Practice" by Aleister Crowley; p. 7.
See the text at
http://www.luckymojo.com/crowley/004mitapintro.txt.

62 Credits

Those who assisted by reviewing the FAQ, whose ideas
and/or networking were utilized to good measure:

[email protected] (tyagi nagasiva)
[email protected] (AShub)
[email protected] (Peggy Brown)
[email protected] (Kim Burkard)
[email protected] (Dshoem)
[email protected] (Karen)
[email protected] (peter kim)
[email protected] (robin)
[email protected] (josh geller)

If you have suggestions for changes or additions to this
document, send them to the Editor ([email protected]).

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63 Copyrights

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maintained. Other requests for distribution should be directed
to the Editor or to the individual authors of the quoted
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