Druid Magick or Conjure (Ár nDraíocht Féin > Our Own Draíocht)

Some have ask why I use the spelling of Magic with the K Magick, others feel that Druidia should turn a Blind Eye to Ceremonial Magick and the works of the Late great Aleister Crowley,

Some seem to feel that Conjure, Spells,  Draíocht, Curses (a form of Blessing), Druid Rhetorics Rosc Roscanna, Bérla Féini (Dark Speak) have no place in Modern Druidism or Druidry.

I will try to address these issues with links to wise words of others and crumbs of my own. This blog will grown as I share more Golden Acorns and Hazelnuts that I have found.

Use of Magick instead of Magic,  It is well accepted variant  to differ from (Magic) as a slight of Hand Art.

As Psychic / Real Magic (Magick) or Conjure was accepted as what one was referring to in the 12-18 century . There was I believe no need to have a different spelling (Slight of Hand is now the common meaning).

As for the Great Beast (Aleister Crowley) who is honored with coining this spelling, I feel strongly that any Druii that is not well read on CM " Ceremonial Magick" has lost a great opportunity to understanding  (Ár nDraíocht Féin > Our Own Draíocht) our real Conjure abilities both from the Past and Present.

And Sadly yes its true I feel that much of the Real Psychic, Magick, Summerlands  (Astral Multidimensional  Multi-Gods and races of non human Reality) is totally lost  to the Neo Pagans / Druids except in lip service and Role Playing.

Did Druids do real Magick / Conjure?  Druid Magick or Conjure  (Ár nDraíocht Féin > Our Own Draíocht)

Draíocht - One of the three primary arts, the word is used to refer to what we would now called "magick" (in both the simple and the ritual sense). It means "the use of powers to effect ends." Spell-casting, the use of evocations and invocations, the practice of chanting, circle dancing (intended to bring about a particular end) and other arts are all considered disciplines of draíocht.

http://www.isisbooks.com/celtic-springs.asp

The Late Druid Elder Author and of friend Isaac Bonewits  chose (Ár nDraíocht Féin > Our Own Draíocht) for the Last Druid Order / School and Grove he founded. Most often called AFD for short.

Notes:

1)

 Magick (thelema), in the context of Aleister Crowley's Thelema, is a term used to differentiate the occult from stage magic and is defined as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", including both "mundane" acts of will as well as ritual magic. Crowley wrote that "it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature".^[1] John Symonds and Kenneth Grant attach a deeper occult significance to this preference.^[2]

Crowley saw Magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny."^[3] Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Ref.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema)

As I do for all Druii that follow the call of the Ancient Oak and the Way of the Ley. TDK

2)

Cursing Rosc Roscanna and other Druid Rhetorics

The Excellence of Ancient Word: Druid Rhetorics from Ancient Irish Tales

http://www.imbas.org/articles/excellence_of_the_ancient_word.html

3)

Powers of Druids

http://www.summerlands.com/crossroads/library/druidpow.htm

4)

Passage Graves and Stone Circles

http://www.summerlands.com/crossroads/library/stonecir.htm

5)
"Searles O'Dubhain There are many names for spells and spellwork: togairm, ortha, brechtrad, epaid, airchetal, dichetal, corraigecht, bricht, brechta."

6)
"Aegis" The Druid's Crain Bag or Goat Skin Draíocht
http://hoodoo-vodou-druido-grove.blogspot.com/2014/04/aegis-druids-crain-bag-or-goat-skin.html

Moon Rising
Babel Risen

Beannaithe ag Draoithe - Blessed by Druids

TDK  / The Druid King

More Notes:


The Llewellyn Encyclopedia


Celtic Magic

The Druids and filídh were known for their divination and mysticism. These took manyforms, such as the learning and verse forms for composing blessings and curses,and the memorization of old hymns, chants and incantations. The basic song wascalled a cantalon in Gaulish (cetal in Old and Middle Irish).Another verse form was called a lay (or laedha, in Old Irish).Words, singing and poetic speech were considered magical in Celtic culture, andcertain forms of poetry or verse were used for accomplishing effects. A Druidicspell would thus be accomplished by singing a certain kind of song. Referencesto these songs have been found in ancient Gaulish inscriptions, as well asIrish texts such as the Book of Ballymote, and formed part of thefifteen-year training in the Filídhecht or "Bardic" schools. Thus certain formsof poetry or verse were used for accomplishing certain effects. Words, singingand poetic speech were considered magical in Celtic culture, and certain formsof Irish filídh also had to learn ogams; numerals, ciphers and codesmade from notches carved along the straight edge of a twig. Ogams wereprimarily primitive numerals and mnemonic devices, but were later used formemorizing and spelling out the sounds of the early Irish language, and fordivination. There were originally twenty ogam characters, but in medieval timesthe Filídh invented an extra five, called aicme forfeda, ("group ofextra woods [letters]"), for consonant clusters or diphthongs. Among othernatural phenomena, lists of trees, animals, hills, and bodies of water were allpart of the ogamic system. Only later did names of trees become associated withthe ogam alphabet.)

No where inthe Old Irish texts does one find any evidence for the ogams representingmonths; nor did they represent lines from the Song of Amerigan or the CadGoddeu, "Battle of the Trees." Although there were ogams representingtrees, trees themselves represented many things, such as playing pieces inboard games such as Irish fidhchell, or "woodskill" (Welsh gwyddbwyll),and brandubh, ("blackraven"). Trees could also represent people, sincepeople descended from the world-tree Bilios (Bile in Irish).


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