### belief | magic:

Black magic
* deals with the forces of involution.
* is an attempt to conjure evil results through assistance with evil spirits or demons
  - another area where the birds are used
  - based on the degradation of sex and of the creative function
  - concerned with the form, with matter
  - mahavidya without the light of atma-vidya
  - practiced and animal sacrifices are used in sacred pagan ceremonies
  - ruled over by the moon
  - satanic and demonic
  - used for purposes while so-called white magic is summoned to perform good
* represents the magic of death.
* works with opposing poles.

Necromancy
* Necromancies are divination.
* holds a place of honor among ancient oracular arts.
* is contact with the dead, actually demons in disguise, as familiar spirits
  - divination by communication with the dead
  - taught in the City of the Dead, in Hades
* is the act of conjuring the dead for divination
  - seeking of the spirits of the dead
* requires a bone.

### belief | magic | necromancy:

Witchcraft
* All witchcraft is based on making curses.
* Pagan folk-religion of personal experience rather than transmitted revelation
* Path with depth.
* abounds and spells are often cast.
* are sorcery.
* benign earth religion.
* can have at least two, mutually incompatible meanings
  - broad political ramifications
* class of magic characterized by two things.
* has many holidays and rituals
  - much in common with magick
  - nothing to do with long black dresses, black lipstick, or spiked collars
  - some very positive and life affirming teachings
* implies evil doing.
* is also very widespread.
* is an ancient religion requiring child sacrifice which has resurfaced in our day
  - that has been practiced since the Roman times
  - based on paradigm or worldview
  - both a religion and a way of life
  - everywhere
  - evil magic a person uses to do harm to another person
  - for desperate situations
  - generally a Spiritual, Earth-loving religion
  - in the churches
  - neither white magick nor black magick, simply magick
  - one of the oldest religions, surviving centuries of persecution
  - part of African traditional medicine and has to do with evil spirit
* is practised and some men are thought to be able to turn into tigers
  - openly everywhere
  - prevalent
  - quite prevalent
  - recognized in the United States as a legitimate religion
  - soul-force allied with demonic power
* is the 'craft of the witch'
  - art of worship
  - illegitimate use of authority in a spiritual dimension
  - mistress of the city of Salem
  - practice of trying to control others for personal gain
  - spirit inside, and for lack of a better word, science
  - very much a magickal way of life
  - worldwide in scope but has had greatly varying roles at different times and places
  - worship and the art and a gift is using a tool or ability
* leads to an eternity in the lake of fire.
* means something different to people who have read the books.
* offers bondage to rituals.
* operates by spells, curses, hypnosis.
* personal faith.
* positive religion that reveres nature.
* refers to sorcery, superstition, the occult and horoscopes.
* relies on an internal quality or disposition of the witch.
  - of respect and honor
* religion, and magick tool.
* seeks to conjure up the dead.
* spiritual path and way of life that is both personal and individual.
* strongly imbues the view that all things are independent and interrelated.
* unique religion.
* way of tuning one's self into nature and the natural energies found in all things.
* word that frightens many people and confuses many others.
* work of the flesh.
* works around a general principle that there are two planes or levels of 'reality'.

Real magic
* is the ability to please a room full of children.
* transaction of the heart.
* uses laws that haven t yet been discovered.