Scott Cunningham Quotes

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Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

Scott Cunningham
Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.

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Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.

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Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

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Earth magic can help to sort out, work through and solve many of the minor crises and problems facing us as individuals today. True, it is not a simple solution to the world's problems, but it can bring order into our lives, and that's a good start.

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Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

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In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

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Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

Scott Cunningham
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

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Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.

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We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

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Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

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If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

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The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

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Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

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The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

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Magic is not always serious or solemn.
It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

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Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Scott Cunningham
Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

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