OCCULT TERMS
SORCERY : A FUNCTIONAL DEFINITION
Sorcery is the usurping for ourselves god-like powers to
manipulate reality. We attempt to be Sovereign and Lord. We
attempt to get what we want through :
(1) Incantations (confessing it)
(2) Mind Power techniques (thinking it)
(3) Voodoo (doing a technique)
Sorcery (dictionary definition) - The use of supernatural
power over people and their affairs.
Magick - The use of charms, spells, rituals to cause or control
events or govern natural or supernatural forces.
Witchcraft - The use of supernatural power by compact with the
devil or evil spirits. (A modern witch would rather define
witchcraft like "Magick", above, is defined.)
Divination - To foretell the future or to know the unknown by
occult means.
Alchemy - The use of magical techniques for the transmutation
of baser metals into gold and the finding of the elixir of youth.
Occult - Things that are hidden, concealed, secret, esoteric,
or magick; or things having to do with alchemy, astrology, tarot
card reading, palm reading, tea leaf reading, etc. etc. etc.
Esoteric - That which is intended only for the chosen few, or
only understood by the chosen few, or the initiates, or the inner
circle.
(Taken from Webster's New World Dictionary, 1976)
