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| THE ANCIENT ORIGEN OF THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS (standard:Flash, 6762 words) | |||
| Author: THELORDOFTHELOVE-CMCC | Added: Sep 07 2004 | Views/Reads: 3664/2501 | Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes) |
| This story is about the origen of magic , social classes of magicians and battles for the power between mages and the associations that diffrernts wizards can create with another wizards of different categories. | |||
THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS(ANCIENT-TIMES) A STORY ABOUT
BATTLES AND SOURCES OF POWER OF WIZARDS HI! Men here I am again
trying to explain the continuation and reasons to exist for a war of
two worlds. The origin of magic and the battles behind the simple
knowledge OF WHAT I HAVE EXPLAINED BEFORE. In this ¿short story I
explain the meaning and honor code of a mage, wizard, witch ;etc. I
will continue with the war before the war of two worlds in another
occasion but by the moment I jus to explain some definitions that
will make a better understanding of magic. Witches & Warlocks
(wit-chez and wor-locs) A person believed to practice magic, usually
black magic. These people are usually mean, ugly and old. They hide in
dark places such as caves and cast spells of evil upon their victims.
Warlock is a fantasy name most refer to the meaning to wage or lock
into battle or war. Witches and warlocks have roamed the earth for
thousands of years and still widely exist today, though they are masked
as everyday people. They have jobs and families and look like any
normal family. But when the night comes they shed their civilian outer
layer and become spell casting, evil worshipping fiends. In earlier
days, witches and warlocks were persecuted by the public and burnt at
the stake. It was believed that if a person could survive after being
thrown into a body of water, then that person was a witch or warlock
and was to be executed. As any culture, there are good witches and
warlocks as well. These good people help society and have even helped
law enforcement officials to track down murderers though the use of
meditation and crystal balls. Some of them can see the past, present
and future and can relay the messages to the proper people.
For all the sophistication of our high-tech civilization, we're not that
far removed from our ancestors: the nights are still dark, winter is
still cold and the future is still unknown. And we still turn to magic
to help us make it through. Part of the explanation is historical.
Twentieth-century writers such as Gerald Gardner and Aleister Crowley
brought about a widespread revival of interest in magic and witchcraft.
Gardner's Witchcraft Today described Wicca as an ancient religion based
on celebration of the seasons and the lunar cycle ('wicca' is the Old
English word for a male witch). Wicca is now a fully-fledged neo-pagan
belief system, with hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide.
Crowley revived the word magic, which he used to distinguish authentic
magic from the magic of conjuring tricks. In his Magick in Theory and
Practice, Crowley wrote: 'The question of Magick is a question of
discovering and employing hitherto unknown forces in nature.' Magic
could be both a scientific investigation and a way of getting closer to
nature. This approach has been hugely influential in the New Age
movement, which embodies many of the elements of magic.
But these historical and cultural explanations tell only part of the
story. Our society is pervaded with magical thinking. Every one of the
main features of the magical worldview finds an echo in our culture:
From fortune telling to homeopathy, magical thinking is ultimately an
expression of our desire to have an effect on the world: 'Magick is the
Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,'
Crowley wrote.
A pessimistic view would be that magical thinking expresses our
powerlessness in the face of a reality too complex for us to change.
But it is surely also the case that magic expresses our hope for better
times and our desire for intense, transcendental experience. It also
answers some very basic fears. Wizards. Our fascination with the
wizards of Hogwarts echoes the faith we all place in therapists,
scientists and political analysts. Among users of the Unix computing
system, expert programmers are even called wizards. Our ancestors
relied on witches, druids and shamans - people who knew the hidden laws
of the universe and could say what was around the corner. Maybe we're
not that different.
Divination. We may not consult witches but we all read our horoscope.
Not to mention palm-reading, rune stones, the Tarot and the I Ching. Is
Russell Grant a 21st-century wizard? Trance. It used only to be shamans
who danced for hours to repetitive beats. It's no accident that
'trance' is now a musical genre. Some clubbers report experiencing a
mystical sense of community. Drugs. Some people use chemical substances
which help them attain altered states of consciousness. Others take
herbal remedies - or drink herb tea. Both are traditions which go back
to the secret lore of witches. Ritual. Hundreds of years ago, entire
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