Consequences of Black Mag

Everyone always talks about how black magic has consequences. Is this like alchemy were you have to give up something of equal value? Does the law of three mean if you make someone unlucky you become 3 times as unlucky? How long does the law punish you?

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The whole threefold thing is a Wiccan belief. It will only apply to you if you choose to believe in it.

Xena is right. If you want more information, here's a link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_Law

I took it from Moegami's biography.

The most dangerous thing about it is yourself. In black magic you can do things you may regret. I'll give you a little safety tip.

Rule #1.) Never regret any magical action

You can always undo or take back a spell but never regret doing it.

Wicca is threefold. Karma is Hindi. Fire and Brimstone is Abrahamic. It is a cosmic fact that what you send out comes back stronger. Why do you think almost every culture has this belief. Basic Science: For every force there is an equal and opposite force. What you send out will come back stronger in one form or another. :-)

while the threefold rule does certainly apply, something that you should worry more about is addiction to black magick. Ive been there. after a while, you start to feel empty without it, and it becomes harder to focus. while doing black magic in small amounts cam be helpful and banificial on some situations, don't do too much. that is when you start running into problems, at least in my case anyways.

Black magic? A person using magic may be "Black" (Evil) but Black Magic? I've never come across that, except in fiction!

First off there is No Black or White Magick it is all about a persons Intent. As for the Three Fold Law that depends on what you believe. Not everyone believes the exact same so that makes things different.

Now how the Three Fold Law works
Say you do a spell....You want someone to loss their job, husband/wife, or worse.
After doing a spell to "harm others" you better be prepared for some bad stuff to happen to you.
Same goes for a spell for something good....Say you did a spell asking for money ok? The Universe does not just "Give" you money. It has to come from some place right? So it could get you the money you wanted but at what cost? You could loss your job or a family member. So when doing Any Type of Spell think it through very carefully and make sure your intent and focus are on only whatever the spell is for

Historical Alchemy doesn't exactly include the law of equivalent exchange in the manner that it appears in the Japanese series Fullmetal Alchemist. While it is true that you can't create something out of nothing, there is a lot more to Alchemy than the idea of transmutation (however, this is a running theme, be it metals, the soul, etc. All Alchemic practices at the core are about the process of betterment and change, no matter what you are looking at).

While MindlessChaos has a point that every culture teaches about consequences, I wouldn't necessarily call it a cosmic fact. In science, we do observe every action creating affect and altering everything around it, even if only slightly, but there are a lot of things that don't necessarily fall in the parameters of 'good' and 'bad'. For example, a predator hunts prey, and while it can be looked at as good on the side of the predator and bad on the side of the prey, it is both and neither on the whole because it is a natural order of life and death. The predator doesn't inherently receive negative repercussions for taking down prey. The point being that not everything will fall in line with someone's beliefs.

As for the bit about black and white magick; they are accepted by many as simply labels for intent and nothing more. To say there is no such thing is also a matter of whether or not it is a part of your path and if you choose to use labels for intent, go right ahead. If you choose not to, go right ahead. There are uses for colors within magick, but as I just pointed in my last paragraph, they will not fall within universal parameters.

In closing, everything you do will affect everything around you. You can choose to believe that you'll receive good or bad consequences, but that is up to you. The only fact set in stone is that every action will have a consequence. This is a scientific truth.