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Magick and Language

eeoam

09:15 / 27.06.03

Hi there,

does anyone know where I may find a good book that focueses on the practice of magick using language as primary tool?

thanks in advance.

illmatic

09:50 / 27.06.03

Bit vauge, innit? What are you looking for exactly? I mean, NLP is magicial in a way and that's all about communications skills. Or are you after a spellbook? A book on Mantras? Genral semantics?

eeoam

11:07 / 27.06.03

Well I'm trying not to succumb to tunnel vision by only limiting the field of inquiry to a particular area.

Having said that, what's that about general semantics?

illmatic

12:26 / 27.06.03

Well, there's a thread here
that's about E-Prime, Korbyzski's "language" which might be a good start, Korbyzski being the inventor of GS. I've always wanted to read his book, but have found it too daunting to actually part with cash for. If you have a Google around there's probably some more popularist books on it.

I don't know of any books that focus on magick from a language POV though (or vice versa).

Quantum

14:03 / 27.06.03

spells=spelling
grimoire=grammar

Magick is a language. If you want specifically linguistic magickal practices, you could look at song (bardic tradition) rhyme, invocation evocation summoning controlling banishing binding cursing blessing sigilising creating destroying weaving or imagining using language.
Usually there is a linguistic component to every magical system, as well as gestures. (e.g. a hand gesture and an incantation) Check out the RPG narrative hypersigil project thread for an example of a purely textual working.

LVX23

22:19 / 27.06.03

To flip what quantum said:

Language is Magick.

Look into Terence McKenna and his ideas about the Logos...

Quantum

09:31 / 01.07.03

Yup, it goes both ways. Language is a way of getting your thoughts into other people's heads even at it's most basic.

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