The Magical Art of Correspondences

This is the outline of a workshop Passion and *Diuvei organized at CoG Merrymeet '95. Our purpose was to encourage people to focus on the underlying theory of "correspondences" -- which we believe is the basis of magic itself -- rather then simply accept by rote what authors and teachers have told them.

-- CORRESPONDENCES COMMONLY OCCUR in everyday life, though most are unconsciously perceived and many, negatively used. Especially on a cultural level, they shape the way people think:

ABOVE = HEAVEN = MALE = SPIRIT = GOOD
below = earth = female = body = bad

-- WHAT ARE CORRESPONDENCES? WHY do we use them?

-- TABLES OF CORRESPONDENCES:

-- WICCAN CORRESPONDENCES are a hidden key to Wiccan theoilogy:

-- THINKING IN WHOLE SYSTEMS seems to be not only the habit of mind that the theory of correspondences encourages, but also the most effective way to practice it:

-- EXPERIMENTS AND SPECULATIONS:


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