Essential Magical Elements.

[MidnightProphet]

Greetings, dear forum Wizards (and Wizardesses.) I have been searching the forums for about an hour now to no avail, so please, if this is a topic that has been presented here before disregard it.

My question is this: What are the essential and indispensable aspects of ritual in your practice? What do you emphasize? Color? Furnishings? Incenses? Tools? Weapons, etc?

Please share what you find to be absolute must-haves for executing rituals and spells. I'll share here as an example.

1.) Lighting. I eliminate all natural and artificial light and operate by candle light only.
2.) Furnishings. I typically employ an altar of some fashion.
3.) Garb. I favor cloaks of the Benedictine style, with hoods and large arms, either brown, black or white.
4.) Tools. Thurible, candle-holders, bowls, etc.
5.) Armaments. Wands & Daggers, baby.

What elements do you feel are most important? I look forward to reading what everyone has to share.

-MP

 

[Yazata]

I made a small copper bowl which is what I use every single time and it is multi purpose. If I strike it it is a bell, it holds a tea light, and if I want to burn a spell paper i do it in there (roll up the paper and soak it in oil: an magickal lamp)
Two other main things are the dagger and table of praxis I made which are also used daily.
And of course my zip hoodie for that modern monk feeling

 

[MidnightProphet]

I made a small copper bowl which is what I use every single time and it is multi purpose. If I strike it it is a bell, it holds a tea light, and if I want to burn a spell paper i do it in there (roll up the paper and soak it in oil: an magickal lamp)
Two other main things are the dagger and table of praxis I made which are also used daily.
And of course my zip hoodie for that modern monk feeling

That's what I'm talking about! Very inventive with the copper bowl. I think making things by hand employs the rule of magnitude of change and makes them...better.

And garb, while it's not essential, in my opinion aligns my mental perception of self more closely with the role of Dungeon Master.

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

What elements do you feel are most important?

Intent is the most important, and feeling is the next most important. Having the intent to perform a ritual, knowing that the ritual is set up properly, and feeling like you have all the aspects of the working correct are the most important parts.

Tools and garb don't really matter unless you specifically feel they are necessary and add them to your planned ritual, and planning your ritual is just another part of your intent to perform your ritual. If you feel a certain tool or item is necessary for your ritual, it probably is, but specifically for you and not necessarily other people if they were to follow the same steps.

 

[Dascent]

There are a few aspects:

• self-confidence - because the magic is within
• imagination - if you can imagine it, it is already created
• will - without the will, without the momentum, nothing happens
• action - because we are operating in a reality where physicality is still a thing, we need to act in order to create the environment for the manifestation to take place to react.

 

[MidnightProphet]

There are a few aspects:

• self-confidence - because the magic is within
• imagination - if you can imagine it, it is already created
• will - without the will, without the momentum, nothing happens
• action - because we are operating in a reality where physicality is still a thing, we need to act in order to create the environment for the manifestation to take place to react.

This is a beautifully stated distillation of things I consider to be essentially true.

 

[Fausto]

Greetings, dear forum Wizards (and Wizardesses.) I have been searching the forums for about an hour now to no avail, so please, if this is a topic that has been presented here before disregard it.

My question is this: What are the essential and indispensable aspects of ritual in your practice? What do you emphasize? Color? Furnishings? Incenses? Tools? Weapons, etc?

Please share what you find to be absolute must-haves for executing rituals and spells. I'll share here as an example.

1.) Lighting. I eliminate all natural and artificial light and operate by candle light only.
2.) Furnishings. I typically employ an altar of some fashion.
3.) Garb. I favor cloaks of the Benedictine style, with hoods and large arms, either brown, black or white.
4.) Tools. Thurible, candle-holders, bowls, etc.
5.) Armaments. Wands & Daggers, baby.

What elements do you feel are most important? I look forward to reading what everyone has to share.

-MP

I would seek to know more on the four Basic elements in the Nature First. Powerful Secrets are getting that.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

In the Graeco-Roman papyrus, it says "Inferior magic requires tools; superior magic requires only words"

I would go even further and say that magic requires only a particular kind of thought.

 

[MidnightProphet]

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In the Graeco-Roman papyrus, it says "Inferior magic requires tools; superior magic requires only words"

I would go even further and say that magic requires only a particular kind of thought.

Thank you for the edification! I had no idea I was engaging in "inferior magic." Fuck!

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Post automatically merged: Apr 28, 2025

Thank you for the edification! I had no idea I was engaging in "inferior magic." Fuck!

It's all about baby steps

Seriously though, IMO it all comes back to the fact that there is no overall magical theory. If we knew why magic worked, we could pare it down to its essentials.

 

[MidnightProphet]

I like the cut of your jib, Ramsay.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I like the cut of your jib, Ramsay.

Thank you! It's why I've spent thirty+ years trying to build said theory

 

[MidnightProphet]

That's actually what this post is for. I am not trying to create a theory as much as I am trying to create a modular flow-chart for people finding where they need to be. Seems to be that the modern preponderance of information has not helped many who earnestly seek a path.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

That's actually what this post is for. I am not trying to create a theory as much as I am trying to create a modular flow-chart for people finding where they need to be. Seems to be that the modern preponderance of information has not helped many who earnestly seek a path.

I don't know about "where they need to be" as magic is so personal, but, after Alan Chapman:

1) define your intent correctly
2) find an external rerpresentation of this intent
3) program said intent into your subconscious
4) try and forget all about it; usually by distracting yourself with something else
5) don't tell anyone until you are certain it has completed

 

[MidnightProphet]

I don't know about "where they need to be" as magic is so personal, but, after Alan Chapman:

1) define your intent correctly
2) find an external rerpresentation of this intent
3) program said intent into your subconscious
4) try and forget all about it; usually by distracting yourself with something else
5) don't tell anyone until you are certain it has completed

Yes, where they need to be for themselves as individuals.

Forgetting is an important part, I agree with you. I've had discussions with people over the years who state that they will work out a ritual and then a few days later conduct divination to see if it has worked, only to find that it hasn't. I often wonder if they had let it travel its course rather than essentially calling their issues back to them through divination, if they would be more successful.

 

[NightWatchman95]

Greetings, dear forum Wizards (and Wizardesses.) I have been searching the forums for about an hour now to no avail, so please, if this is a topic that has been presented here before disregard it.

My question is this: What are the essential and indispensable aspects of ritual in your practice? What do you emphasize? Color? Furnishings? Incenses? Tools? Weapons, etc?

Please share what you find to be absolute must-haves for executing rituals and spells. I'll share here as an example.

1.) Lighting. I eliminate all natural and artificial light and operate by candle light only.
2.) Furnishings. I typically employ an altar of some fashion.
3.) Garb. I favor cloaks of the Benedictine style, with hoods and large arms, either brown, black or white.
4.) Tools. Thurible, candle-holders, bowls, etc.
5.) Armaments. Wands & Daggers, baby.

What elements do you feel are most important? I look forward to reading what everyone has to share.

-MP

well everything i need i have on my computer, but i guess some people need a physcial space to better anchor themselves in their practice and practically, it saves money.

 

[PinealisGlandia]

Sage, cedar, marijuana, tobacco.
I put a jann in my glasses.
In my approach, everything is a potential majiqal focus. I use a spatula to cast Delicious Burger every day I go to work, lol.

 

[MidnightProphet]

Sage, cedar, marijuana, tobacco.
I put a jann in my glasses.
In my approach, everything is a potential majiqal focus. I use a spatula to cast Delicious Burger every day I go to work, lol.

Is it of the golden variety, this spatula?

 

[AlfrunGrima]

The people before me said a lot of good things, all wise men and women, but I miss one thing: creativity. With creativity you can use everything or nothing to perform magic and have succes. For me, most of the time I use no material things or substances. I don't even have formal tools anymore.

Another: the ability to make contact with everything around me so I can make allies if desired.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

The people before me said a lot of good things, all wise men and women, but I miss one thing: creativity. With creativity you can use everything or nothing to perform magic and have succes. For me, most of the time I use no material things or substances. I don't even have formal tools anymore.

Another: the ability to make contact with everything around me so I can make allies if desired.

I guess the reason I didn't mention it is because creativity comes from the same place as magic

But yes, absolutely, it is creativity which allows you to do as much as you can with as little as you like