| lack Magick is sometimes also called dark magic. Black Magick - The term "Magick" spelt with a "k" was coined by the notorious Black Magician Aleiser Crowley. Black Magick was used as a term to differentiate Western Ceremonial practices and its aims from stage magic, conjuring or parlor tricks. Crowley also had some Kabbalistic reasons related to Gamatria (Kabbalistic word games) for justifying this. Black Magick is usually now defined as the branch of magic and sorcery that is used to perform evil acts or the powers used to summon malevolent spirits. Black magic (Magick) sides with the powers of darkness symbolised by the Left-Hand Path. White magic has no evil intent and is used by practitioners used only for good purposes. Since the Inquisition when the Christians persecuted witches and warlocks there has remained a great deal of prejudice against practitioners of all forms of magic. Not everything that is called magic has malevolent intentions behind it. Craig"Stage magicians and conjurers are of course illusionists, not magicians in the historical context of the word. Many of these entertainers such as Houdini in the past and James Randi today despise all forms of psychic, mystical, magic and mediumistic claims and yet continue to hijack the word 'magician' for their stage shows. Surely if they were sincere in their beliefs they would call themselves illusionists rather than piggy back on genres that they consider to be immoral" |
