Deborah Lipp - Magical Power For Beginners

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

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Magical Power For Beginners: How to Raise & Send Energy for Spells That Work 2017 by Deborah Lipp.

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First e-book edition 2017

E-book ISBN: 9780738752433

Cover design: Kevin R. Brown

Interior illustrations and photo: Llewellyn Art Department

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lipp, Deborah, author.

Title: Magical power for beginners : how to raise & send energy for spells

that work / Deborah Lipp.

Description: First Edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2017. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016056367 (print) | LCCN 2017006558 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738751986 | ISBN 9780738752433 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Magic.

Classification: LCC BF1611 .L48 2017 (print) | LCC BF1611 (ebook) | DDC

133.4/3dc23

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Dedication

Holy Goddess Brigid, Lady of Creativity,
I offer this creative work to you.

And in Memorium

To Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, 19302015

Acknowledgments

T his book rests on the shoulders of my wonderful magical teachers, especially Susan Carberry and Isaac Bonewits. It is unlikely Id know much without them. This book is also a gift to me from everyone Ive ever worked magic with or worked magic for. Every spell has taught me something important. I cannot begin to enumerate every spell Ive done or every magician Ive worked with!

As a start, I owe thanks to every former and current member of Rowentrye Coven, Stormcircle Coven, and Coven of the Dark Waters. I owe thanks to innumerable women with fertility concerns, soldiers who needed protection when going off to war, job seekers, cancer patients, AIDS patients, and others who reached out to ask for help. Asking for help is brave, and I thank you.

I particularly acknowledge Joseph Hull and Orien Rose Laplante. These two wonderful people survived devastating, horrific accidents as childrensurvived in part due to the hard work of many dedicated magic workersand have grown up strong. Seeing them now gives me faith in the work I do.

I also acknowledge my wonderful son, Arthur Lipp-Bonewits. He gets a checkbox for a bunch of these thanksI worked fertility magic for myself in order to get him, he was the subject of a number of spells at various points in his life, and he was a participant in spells as well. As a teenager, he faced an illness so thorny and complex that it took six different doctors and three different spells before he could get diagnosed and treated. Hes also an expert on angels, and I reached out to him when angels and archangels were mentioned in this text.

Naturally, I also need to acknowledge the writing part of this process. My editors Elysia Gallo and Andrea Neff are everything editors are supposed to bepeople who make writing better, and sometimes make it possible.

I also thank the wonderful group of people who were present for a ritual dedicated to Brigid performed in February 2016. At that time, this book was about 80 percent done, but I was facing an uncharacteristic writers block and was just stuck. I opened myself up to Brigids creative energies and promised to dedicate the completed book to her (which I have done).

Finally, to my beloved spouse, Melissa. Not just because I love her, nor because shes perfectly fine with me spending long evenings ignoring her so I can write, but also because our relationship is the result of not one, not two, but three spells. First, we each performed a spell to find a partner. Then we met each other and became friends, not recognizing who we were to each other or that we were the answer to those spells. Then we met other people and decided, separately, that they were the partner asked for in the spells. Finally, I performed another spell, at the end of which my friend came for a visit, and the rest is history.

contents

Chapter : What Is Magic?

Chapter : Everything Is Connected to Everything Else

Chapter : Time and Space

Chapter : Magical Intention

Chapter : Raising Power, Part One: Power Sources, Deity, and Self

Chapter : Raising Power, Part Two: Natural and Supernatural Sources, Accumulated Power, Magic Words, and Flavor

Chapter : Sending Power

Chapter : Spells

Chapter : Constructing a Spell

Chapter : Bag of Tricks

: Tables of Correspondences

: Spell Basics

: Recommended Reading

exercises and figures

Exercises

Figures

: Magician Card: As Above, So Below

: Etheric Energy in a Group

: An Ideal Power Raise-and-Send (Male Sending)

: Peaks and Valleys of Actual Power Raising

: Send Power Before the Peak

: Female Power Sent in Waves

: Alter Setup

introduction

T his is a book about magic. Its about how to plan, construct, and perform magic, which is to say, how to do spells.

Some people say that magick with a k distinguishes occult magic(k) from the kind of magic done on stage with rabbits and saws and scarves. Maybe Im a writer first and an occultist second, because I dont like purposely misspelling words to make a point. If youre flipping through this book to learn card tricks, let the bookstore owner or librarian know its misshelved, and move along.