Acting on the world through intermediaries. This form of magic generally acknowledges the idea that there are beings outside of oneself that can be requested or ordered to perform actions for you. In addition, in certain practices, some believe that the force that is being made to perform the function desired is a power called out of yourself and externalized. Any magic used to extend your senses or bring you knowledge. This involves many lesser arts that bring you knowledge through the use of foci, but in general, this is often considered one of the highest magicks, especially when combined with Invocations designed to instill in oneself knowledge of the Divine.
Few practices are as powerful and have such a potential for causing change.
This is the magickal action whereby a similarity or connection is found between two seemingly non-connected things. It can be in the form of binding magickal energy to a staff or a knot, or tying the wind into a knot, or bringing a husband and wife together in a handfasting. I would also add a proviso here, that being that the word Binding has some negative connotations since it has been used to describe a type of magick where a person is bound to a particular end, be that pain or a certain action. While this practice no doubt occurs and can be morally questionable, it is indeed a type of binding since the target of the spell is being bound to the action or end in question. The arts we are discussing here do not consider the morality of the ideas involved.