| As Aleister Crowley defined Magick - "The Science | | | | energy toward any material object will equally affect |
| and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with | | | | the individual who was once in contact with or |
| Will." | | | | possessed this object. This explains why practitioners |
| Low or Natural Magick evolved out of the lowlands | | | | of Applied Occult Metaphysics often use the personal |
| where farmers grew crops. Many Solitary Witches | | | | effects of whom they are performing spellwork for; |
| and Wiccans practice Low Magick as well as many | | | | some of these personal items might include articles of |
| ancient Pagan (i.e., from L. paganus meaning "a | | | | clothing, hair, nail clippings, bodily fluids, photographs, or |
| countryman or country dweller") cultures did. Low | | | | even jewelry. These items assist in empowering the |
| Magick utilizes natural objects such as crystals, herbs, | | | | spell and its potential outcome. |
| rocks, fire, air, earth, water, animal parts (i.e., not from | | | | Also note, Sympathetic Magick is the foundation for |
| sacrificial means but from the use of feathers, pelts, | | | | most divinatory systems and practices where healing |
| skins, horns, entrails, or bones found by a practitioner in | | | | is concerned. |
| the forest, fields, or grasslands), the weather, seasonal | | | | High Magick seeks to enhance your spiritual growth |
| changes, or anything found within our environment and | | | | and development transcendentally and bring you closer |
| nature. It can be looked at as taking care of your | | | | to the deities; and has been claimed to have evolved |
| physical earthly wants, needs, and desires such as | | | | from scholars and higher societies of people. This form |
| love and relationships, money, health, personal | | | | of magick is highly used by practitioners of Kemeticism |
| protection and is generally short term. | | | | (Ancient Egyptian religion), Qabalism (Kabbalism), |
| Sympathetic Magick (a.k.a. Primitive or Imitative Magick) | | | | Enochian Magick, Tenebrae Artes (Dark Arts, Black |
| is a centuries old form of Low Magick based upon | | | | Magick, or Infernal Sorcery), Hermetic Order of the |
| imitation and/or correspondence, practical experiences, | | | | Golden Dawn, and Thelema (founded and further |
| and observations within the natural world of the past, | | | | developed by Aleister Crowley) just to name a few. |
| present, and future. Imitation and correspondence are | | | | High Magick, in general, invokes great spiritual energy |
| two key elements of this type of magick and | | | | and power and usually does not concern itself with |
| represent a cause-and-effect relationship: | | | | Nature. It uses complex rituals and symbolic invocations |
| Imitation - refers to "like attracts or produces like" | | | | of deities, dramatic ceremonial wardrobe, and complex |
| based upon the Law of Similarity where a spiritualist, | | | | concoctions such as those used within Alchemy. |
| for example, is able to produce any effect that she or | | | | Ceremonial or Ritual Magick is a good example of high |
| he desires just by imitating the material object; i.e., the | | | | magick and concerns itself with the conscious |
| concept of an effect resembling its cause. | | | | application of willpower to achieve one's individual or a |
| Correspondence - refers to objects having been in | | | | group's spiritual objectives. |
| possession or contact with each other continue to | | | | Both forms of magick can be quite useful, effective, |
| react upon one another no matter the distance; this | | | | and almost "equal" in their strength and purpose in |
| concept is based upon the Law of Contagion | | | | order to achieve the intended results of the practitioner |
| (Contact). A priestess, for instance, knows that | | | | (e.g., a priest, priestess, shaman, magickian / magician, |
| whatever actions she performs upon or directs | | | | or alternative spiritualist). |