Though the idea of most magick is opening one's mind, therefore letting go of any stereotypes that automatically tells someone that black=evil and white=good.
All in the learning process.
Re: Magic has no colour! By: kts Moderator / Adept
Post # 16 Jan 17, 2010
Magic is energy manipulation. Energy has no color, however you can describe a manipulation as good or bad depending on your perception. One mans curse can be another mans blessing. Colors are important in magic because it helps us connect with the things around us. Color correspondences are used often in magic and once a person studies them they will come to learn that black is a color for banishment of negativity, removal of hexes, protection, a representation of night, the removal of discord or confusion, and to help with meditation and opening up the unconscious. White has some of the same uses but also represents a balance of all colors. Though I agree that the stereo type of black magic is bad and white magic is good is an easy way for beginners to categorize things, they need to come to the understanding that it is the perception of the individual that gives an energy manipulation a subjective title.
"all that dark that is taught in the curses and hex spells in the books here"
"Dark" is rather a cynical term I think, coming from a suspicious mind-set. It assumes that what wants to hurt you is always in the dark, and that what is in the dark always wants to hurt you. A mistrust of the dark has made us complacent regarding the light.
Basically, at some point you evolve beyond the concepts of left vs. right, good vs. evil. This is what Indian Tantra advocates as well. However, it qualifies what it advocates with the admonition that you cannot fake wisdom. In other words, if you are to align with the truth beyond good and evil, you must be honestly there and not just talking out your backside bull-horn.
We only get what we can handle, when we listen to our deeper/greater self, and what speaks through the heart and intuition, the gut and deep feelings sensations. If we trust this, all will be well, despite the ups and downs, and then we won't be concerned about theoretical metaphore concepts because we will be dealing with the proof of the pudding.
Phoenix68k said it a bit better than I did. So I agree with him on this one.
Thank you for the clarification. :) I get wordy sometimes and make it way too short...
So your argument is that everythings debatable and everyones perception is different than others, than how is it that magics received color to begin with? Dont answer that, your answers already are ridiculous and fact less. Its obvious that people agreed on one thing or another and gave them colors and associates. A curse to another person is not white magic, if you want to believe it is, and your "higher self" tells you it is, than believe it but your delusional. Your opinions can remain unchanged, magic is going to have colors whether you ignore them or not. Energy colors have nothing to do with it and never have whoever was saying that.
Everyone indeed has an opinion. Opinions, agreement and disagreement really have nothing to do with truth, just how we get along or not. I'm not here to convince or recruit anybody to my way of thinking.
The most practical thing to do, in my opinion, regarding the orgy of confusion surrounding occult concepts is to draw a line. On one side of the line one exclusively depends on mundane reasoning, conception and rationalization. On the other side of the line, one has awakened qualities to get beyond those limitations. In practice such a line is quite thick, and few transitions are like a flip of a switch. However, to resolve the contradictions one must develop organs of resolution.
Re: Magic has no colour! By: kts Moderator / Adept
Post # 21 Jan 22, 2010
Energy has no color. If you see a color when looking at an energy it is your perception of the type of energy it is that gives it a color. Colors are an illusion of the eye. This is due to the rods and cones contained with in them. Some creatures do not even see colors other than black, white, and gray. Then others only add shades of one more color. As humans we are fortunate that we see the vast range of colors that we do, but even some of us are colored blind. This is mostly a male defect due to the gene is a recessive trait carried on the X chromosome, so for a female to to suffer from it they must have two X chromosomes that are carrying the defect. Perception is your reality. Even those who are not color blind do not see the exact same color as others. (My mother had a dress once that to her and I it was a light green but to her best friend and her mother the dress was light blue.) Truth also relies on perception. If you perceive a color to energy and the manipulation of that energy as a specific color than you are relying on an illusion of the eye to cloud your judgment. I think it best to describe magic which is energy manipulation as positive or negative but then that is also a perception. One man's blessing (a positive)is another man's curse (a negative).
I agree that it is human nature to catagorize things, thus giving magick color makes it easier for some to understand.
That being said, not everyone knows that magick has no color.
Is it annoying to see it repeated numerous times? Yes. But not everyone on this site is well versed in magick theory or magick period. So while some may be annoyed by the "education", it's better than no education on the subject at all.
