The word witch comes from Old English wicce "female magician, sorceress," fem. of Old English wicca "sorcerer, wizard, man who practices witchcraft or magic,"which in turn is of uncertain origin. Kleins Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language suggests connection with Old English wigle "divination," and wig, wih "idol." Ernest Weekley, a British philologist best known as the author of a number of works on etymology, notes possible connection to Gothic weihs "holy" and German weihan "consecrate," and writes, "the priests of a suppressed religion naturally become magicians to its successors or opponents." In Anglo-Saxon glossaries, wicca renders Latin augur (c. 1100), and wicce stands for "pythoness, divinatricem ." In the "Three Kings of Cologne" (c. 1400) wicca translates magi, plural of magus "learned magician" which originally referred to a member of ...

It's no secret that I'm pretty fucking magic. By that, what I mean is that I have the ability to get shit done in a creative and exciting way. I believe we all have magic powers. I'm not talking about supernatural abilities, I'm talking about our every day power to make stuff happen. Magic is the art of change and influence. My daily performance of taking charge of my own life might seem like miracle working. But what am I really doing? How does the trick work? Tarot of Marseilles If we translate the French name for this card, it is the "sleight of hand artist" or "illusionist". This card points toward the fact that we are living in a world of illusion, or false perception. It seems to us that the world is made up of separate parts, of opposites, of polarity. We feel ourselves to be individuals who are separate from the rest of the world. This is the illusion of ego. The number One represents the individuality of a separate "I" or ...

 "To Know, to Will, to Dare and to Keep Silent" what does this mean and where does this phrase come from? The origins are obscure as practically nothing is written on the subject outside of the works of Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley. Levi introduces us to the Witches' Pyramid in his most popular work, Transcendental Magic : " To attain the SANCTUM REGNUM, in other words, the knowledge and power of the Magi, there are four indispensable conditions--an intelligence illuminated by study, an intrepidity which nothing can check, a will which cannot be broken, and a prudence which nothing can corrupt and nothing intoxicate. TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO KEEP SILENCE--such are the four words of the Magus, inscribed upon the four symbolical forms of the sphinx." Levi refers to the words of the Magus as  The Four Powers of the Sphinx and links them with the four Elements and the four Kerubic Signs of the zodiac: " You are ca...