Hello, I have heard that weapons can be used for magic, too.
I decided to buy some weapon, I prefer sword..
But I dont know... How to use it in magic ?
Are there some special spells for weapons ?
Italian witchcraft is full of it. My husband has Sicilian blood and his grandfather performed Strega. He walked with a cane and if he was angry, if he wasn't using a hand sign he was waving his cane at the person!
I read a book on Malocchio afflictions and removal and a picture in it showed the "tools" used. It included a pistol, axe, knife, sword and other nasty looking weapons. I can just imagine a little old Italian woman coming up to me with an axe to remove malocchio! A little unsettling!
But yes, to answer your question, any weapon can be used for magickal purpose if charged and programmed to do so. But these are considered "sacred" and should only be used for magickal purpose. They are what some would consider "black magick" tools because they are used to attack or kill the affliction, illness, desire, curse, spell, etc. Unlike most tools in magick that are used for channeling energy, weapons are used as representations of the "threat" or "attack" that they are used for in combat.
Knives (athames) and swords in magick can be used for channeling however, it just depends on how you see them. But personally I have used my athame to cast circles and perform banishments in a "threatening" way when confronting and combating aggressive spirits, curses, etc. I use a different athame for that purpose, a black handled one. The white handle athame is my catalyst for ritual use.
Well they are and can be. But they are still used as protection due to their threatening nature. The possible attacker thinks twice about going after someone with a mean looking weapon. A weapon psychologically gives us a feeling of power, especially power in combat. A weapon is a tool aimed to inflict damage. But some weapons are also used for nicer things, like cutting up food, maintaining our garden, carpentry, art, etc.
It's understanding the weapons uses in our lives and taking the idea of it and using it for magick. In this same light, an artist could use a paintbrush instead of a wand. This is why we have besoms, all it is is a broom! People had them, cleaned their houses with them, and one day thought, "if it can clean up dirt, why not bad energy?"
I personally carry a pocket knife on me for protection/self-defense. So a knife is something I would correspond with protection very easily. To you a sword may feel more proper. Perhaps you collect them and plan to use it as an alternative to a firearm to protect yourself in the case of a breakin. Or you use them in martial arts, where the vow you make is only to fight when in defense of yourself or others (protection).
Since tools are merely ways to facilitate the reality of magick in our minds, all items used in magick should have a personal meaning to us. The closer we can relate to the meaning of an object, the more "believable" it will be when we put it to use.
Thanks for replying.
I admire swords and knifes.. but bad is that I dont have any enemy to fight with (and if ill kill him, Ill solve it with police xD).. I think that it will be better tu use it in magic.
Ill bless it, use it for casting circles and Ill make some sword spells by myself..
Another way to charge a weapon magically to enchant it. I reccommend cleansing it beforehand, I find it helps make everything run smoother!
Also, there are ' weapons of magick' that are technically not weapons. They are not used to harm. One you may know is the athame. Its not a weapon in the traditional sense, but it could be used to hurt. They are used to assist you in magick, and for that purpose only. (If you have these, I encourage you to purify them weekly)
Well, in the end, Magick, Weapons and etc are just tools, it's how you use it.
Another tips is:
If you learn Astral Projection, you can "Forge" astral weapons, program them, imbue them with a specific element etc and etc.
After the Astral Weapon is done, you can go back to the Physical Plane and imbue a specific Physical Weapon with the Astral Weapon you forged.
If for example, you programmed it effectively enough, you can make a physical knife, that has been imbued with an Astral Weapon (that has been imbued with the element of Lightning in return), to cut a... say for example, a hand of a criminal, for self defence.
If programmed correctly, it may produce an added effect to the target, he will not only get hurt but electrified as well!
Well, some of my mentors told me that, but I didn't tried it yet, you can try it for yourself though.
As 2012 approaches and this Biogenetic Experiment Program ends at December 21, 2012, the earth shall be less of a material plane, that's why anything thought "impossible" before can be easily achieved by that time.
You can, imbue an astral weapon with salt, so that the physical weapon you may imbue this thing to shall have a more painful wound inflicted or something like that.
Or imbue an Astral Weapon with element of Fire, so that the physical weapon you may imbue this thing shall cut tress and at the same time, make it appear "burnt" or possible burn the tree down as a whole, or you can make a charcoal out of it.
So many applications haha, try to experiment.
Though yeah, the most practical use is to imbue it with Fire and Lightning, and Light itself, fuse that Astral Weapon into a Physical Weapon and use it during your rituals or something like that to ward of viruses that can cause illnesses like common cold, or negative energies, curses, and etc.
Through proper energy manipulation and programming, you can make these things possible.
