Back in March I told you of my experience with a Demon or unredeemed spirit (a less threatening term); in closing I alluded to the power of the Word. After reading the article I feel I should explain the power of the Word in greater detail.
Unlike the ancients the power of the word has been lost to a great extent in today’s world. Today most consider words little more than a way to communicate their wants or needs, and are far too willing to abandon them if it suits their purpose. To the ancients it was a way of life; their word was all they had. It was the business contract, the marriage license, the very essences of who and what they were. If their word was not respected, not only them but their whole family lost standing in the community. Their livelihood and perhaps their life and the lives of their family depended on the value of their word. Words convey who you are, they are a window to your soul, they also express how you feel, and feeling is the core of magic. Without feeling there is no passion, and without passion there is no magic.
The first word as an art form is best exhibited in the rime or poetry. This form of speaking was widely used in the casting of magical spells, as well as entertainment. Remember the Bard a prophet or diviner of old, known for their rimes. From the rime came the hymn and the hymn also played a dual role in past societies. Druids used both the rime and the hymn in their magic, because nothing is better at toughening the core emotions than the song. They can make you feel and do things you would never feel or do in any other circumstance. Remember the last time you were at a bar alone. The emotional stimulus you get from a song is one of the best examples of the Power of the Word. A good song can impart emotions that pale those of most poets or orators.
The spoken word with the right orator can also invoke emotion. A good speaker can bring even a dull subject to life, just as good music and presentation can overcome bad lyrics like “let the bodies hit the floor” and still generate great emotion. Sorry it’s just doesn’t compare to George Strait. Good speakers are able to open a channel to their core emotions and take the audience with them; their emotions merge and become one. From that moment on the speaker has control of the audience and can lead them wherever they wish, while feeding on the emotion of the crowd and them on the speaker it becomes a symbiotic relationship.
Words spoken in a ritual, chant, spell or prayer must impart a special meaning to you. Words can take you deep inside yourself or out into the Cosmos. The power of the word is limitless and the power they access is limitless and in some cases it lacks feeling or emotion it knows only purpose. So no idle thoughts, when you’re dealing with the Arts, or when you’re in an emotional state of mind. Emotion is the fuel that powers the Word that is the key that unlocks the door to places and things great and wonderful and sometimes to places and things better left alone, always choose your words carefully.
In The Art you must choose words that focus your thoughts on the objective and say them with passion and absolute certainty. There can be no doubt in yourself or your objective. If you waver in any way your objective will not be achieved. Failure can be a person’s greatest enemy for failure can bring doubt. Doubt in yourself or in the path you have taken. Keep it simple and work your way to the more complex. This will build your confidence and slowly push back your self doubt.
Words can bring your abstract thoughts to reality, and manifest your deepest passions. They can also bring your close held fears to realty. All we are and all we aspire to be are in our words. It is how we are judged and how we will be remembered. This is the power and the curse of the word.
As I have said words are a window to the soul they are also the key that opens the door to other plans. Most cultures, religions and I believe the Cosmos and all in it was spoken into existence. Basic physics tells us everything has a cause and effect. If you can explain the “cause of the first cause” I will be happy to rethink my possession. (The first cause was the explosion the effect was the Cosmos, what caused the first cause.) The power of the word was understood by our ancestors. They understood that words have meanings, and that they would be judged by their words, in this world and the next. So for them to believe that the universe was created by the word was only natural. Bear this in mind in your pursuit of all things. In the beginning there was the word and the word was God. So chose your words carefully you are not only speaking to man, you are speaking to your God.
Thomas
“You will know a man by what comes out of his mouth”