What is the difference between white and black magick?

Question

Why is magick given these terms...magick has no color....

Answer 1

It is the misinformed idea that magic used for good is white magic and magic used for ill is black magic. These are artificial terms used to make some of the less realitic practitioners feel superior to others who take a more...pragmatic...approach to magic. Magic is magic.

Answer 2

Religious propaganda mostly white and black representing good and evil respectively. But these are merely abstract concepts created for the human psyche.

Magick is magick there is no good or evil magic as this would imply that magick is a sentient thing. The intent of the witch, magician, etc. forms the good or evil not the magick. The magick is the means by which the good and evil is expressed by the caster/s. There are rituals and spells by which are meant only for evil purposes but unless they are cast by a person no evil can occur, likewise for the reverse.

Belief or disbelief in a thing does not change its existence nor does it prove or disprove its existence.

Answer 3

Magic does not have those terms. People who need to clarify their own lives give those terms to things they can't deal with.

Magic is energy, and it has no color, as you say. Magic, however, is manipulated by the person who is using the energy.

They specify what the magic is to be used for... intent. And intent is what determines how the magic is used.

Rather like a loaded gun. You can choose to shoot a paper target, or use it on someone. The gun is not bad, the person who holds it, however, has intent, a choice.

Then there are those folks who need to color it so they can deal with it. You get folks who need to blame the magic, rather than taking the responsibility for their own actions, so they call it black or white.

It's not the magic. It is the intent of the person using it.

Answer 4

I think it is more of a description as how the magick is used. As the others have noted white stands for positive and black for negative. I would say it is more of a classification or excuse.

Answer 5

You know, I don't know who coined the labels "white magick" and "black magick". Because, as you said, magick has no color, or alternatively, it is the essence of every color.

Magick is magick is magick. No matter the intent.

Answer 6

From what I've been able to understand (through some what strange college religion classess) is that white magic's main rule is 'and it shall harm none' protective charms, prayers(not entirely certain about the prayers) and things like that. White being the color of innocence and puriety. Black magic: a malevolent magic, something that does harm, the color black is used seeing as in most cultures it signifies death, danger, and in most movies if you're one to notice these things the bad guys almost always wears black.

Answer 7

OK, here we go.....White Magick is defined as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional Western science, for the purpose of obtaining the Knowledge and Conversation of your Guardian Angel."

Black Magick is defined as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood my traditional Western science, for the purpose of causing either physical or non-physical harm to yourself or someone else, and is done either consciously or unconsciously.

There is also Grey Magick which is the same as Black Magick but with the intent of doing good to yourself or someone else.

Answer 8

There are people out there who want to pretend that their shyte doesn't stink, that they can do magick without being selfish.....

White magick is all affirmations and meditations to merge with the One, submitting to whatever your idea of God is......

Black magick is using the techniques of magick to satisfy your desires....it has nothing to do with negativity or harm (though some people could have such desires), but it requires the mage to use his/ her "magickal will", to be forceful and change the world. It is the opposite of submitting.

Answer 9

The difference is motive. Black magic is a force divorced from Love and anything we understand as Divine. It is ruled over by lunar forces stemming from the cosmic astral planes. There are 12 representatives of evil on our planet on the etheric planes,- 6Oriental,- and 6 Occidental. They are known collectively as the ``Lords of Materiality``. These Dark Lords deal with the forces of involution and have a part to play in the material economy by up-holding the matter aspect of the planet ,and tending to the fires deep within the earth itself. But they are not always content with this ,-and every now and again their activity overflows onto the evolutionary arch of which humanity is treading, thus resulting in what we know as evil and chaos. White Magic is in cooperating with the ``Plan`` of evolution as it streams forth from the Mind of God. A true White Magician lives a life of service to both man and God,ever Loving all ,and harbors no hate or harmful activity. A White Magician knows the great truth that,;--`` Hate destroys the soul of anyone who tries to teach it``. The Masters of Wisdom have reached the apex of White Magic as far as this planet is concerned and will one day weald and master the forces of the Good Law on high cosmic levels we can not begin to understand. Black Magic is the employment of elementals that are ruled over by Lunar forces for deeply selfish reasons that are a menace to the endeavours of those who stand in the Light of Love. White Magic works with the forces of construction and evolution. The workers in the Light are custodians of solar energy restoring ``The Plan on Earth``. More I can not say.

Answer 10

White
is to aid others and thereby aid yourself in the process it represents healing, love,etc all the things representing good and clean use it to help

Black
is the satanical it is used to cause harm hatred,depression,basically its pain and corruption to control another by the means of dark magic use it to gain power over others

everyone as good and bad qualities for we need both to learn the right from the wrong this is where white represents the good of the person and black represents the bad
Look at the colours white lightens the mood the emotions its a colour that uplifts the spirits
black represents the darkness the anger greed etc it darkens your mood its an abyss

Magic has no colour but its a definition used by those who believe in magic to represent the good and evil
In christianity god is the white and the devil is the black