title: Masterful Magick: A Guide for Advanced Wiccan Practice
author: Kirk C White
description: Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a healer, teacher, and author. He has been a practicing Witch and Magician since 1973, a psychotherapist for 21 years, and a licensed oriental medical practitioner since 1994. A past co-president of Covenant of the Goddess (North Americas oldest and largest association of Witches and Wiccans), and past director of the University of Vermonts Parapsychology Program, he also founded Cherry Hill Seminary, a professional Pagan ministry program with faculty and students worldwide, and Standing Stone Academy, a Pagan healer training program. In 2006, Wildhunt.org named him one of the 25 most influential modern living Pagans today. In addition to working as a consultant with Pagan seminaries nationwide such as the Aquarian Tabernacle Churches' Woolston Steen Theological Seminary, he is a licensed acupuncturist/ Chinese herbalist, registered psychotherapist, legal Pagan minister, active Freemason, and adept in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. His skills and interests include traditional healing modalities, various magickal and spiritual traditions, and models of Pagan leadership and ministry. For more bio info: www.revkirkwhite.com or www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_White
zlib_text: THE BASICS OF MAGICK 
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  THE BASICS OF MAGICK 
   
   
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  THE BASICS OF MAGICK 
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  I.  Ethics 
   
   
  A.  The Wiccan Rede 
   
  B.  The Law or Return (sometimes called the "Threefold Law") 
   
  C.  Perfect Love and Perfect Trust (among partners in magick) 
   
   
  II. 
  The Witches' Pyramid 
   
   
  A.  Faith in your abilities and powers. 
   
  B.  Imagination to vividly create in your mind that which you desire to 
  manifest. 
   
  C.  Will to achieve your goal despite all obstacles. 
   
  D.  Secrecy to keep your magickal intention concentrated and pure. 
   
  III. The four Qualities of the Mage 
   
   
  A.  To know 
   
  B.  To will 
   
  C.  To dare 
   
  D.  To keep silence 
   
  IV. 
  Preparatory Skills (hatha and raja yoga are good aids to developing 
  these) 
   
   
  A.  Cleansing, clearing and stilling 
   
  B.  Grounding 
   
  C.  Centering 
   
  d.  Concentrating ieving one-pointed