Wizard Wars

[AbammonTheGreat]

Recently dealt with this. My lady has an ex boyfriend who is a demonolater. He's in a little bit of a fit over our relationship i guess, doesn't want her to be happy so he sent something our way.

She performed a return to sender, seeing as I don't really have a relationship with the person in question I made a solar talisman for myself to illuminate those who would send dark forces my way. I may have also packed a little of the solar nature of combustion into the talisman as well... but all in all I don't really think that a wizard who is casting harmful magic at me or mine is on my level if that makes sense. Whatever he sent was noticed immediately and even then wasn't able to effect me.

I think in these kind of situations I just trust that the person who's petty enough to cast something at me is not on the same spiritual wavelength. That type of magical behavior indicates a person that hasn't received the same gifts from magic.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I don't think I've ever had anyone bother to do magic war on me. I've only clashed with one magician afaik, and that was because I laughed at him calling himself "Magus" and slagged off his favourite sci-fi book. I don't recall any consequences, either magical or non-magical from that.

I have found out since that he died of cancer :-/

 

[jkeller293]

For all you seasoned adepts and magi who pulled themelves up in the magic world by their own bootstraps, how do you deal with wizards who have a bone to pick with you out of nowhere?
Are some people really that bored and malicious?
What are good grounds for magical war, vs self defense?
What's the best book on middle hand path or grey Magick cursing and binding?
I'm a newbie at those.

I know this has nothing to do with what you are specifically asking for, but if you ask me i simply would not feed into it. In my opinion an attack on you for no reason reveals their ignorance. Even if they attack you for some reason, i still see that person as a very weak individual. Unless you specifically challenged someone or provoked someone intentionally, i would not worry about them.

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@Telafiel, I agree with what you say. Yet, having experienced weakness through and through, while being weak you can't just easily quit being a victim to whatever powers are overwhelming you. And then you have a hard time to find out how to cope with all the shit. Getting strong and being able to defend yourself or even getting that strong that you don't even realize any attacks, can be a long and winding road.

I myself that had the victim mindset for years can agree with you that getting out of that mindset is difficult. I do have something to say about getting out of that mindset. You can empower yourself by telling yourself that only what you think of yourself matters, and that no one else's opinion matters if it specifically is meant as an attack on you.

I want to stress that its important to not over empower yourself which can lead to you becoming narcissistic. So i believe you must find a threshold of personal empowerment and the key to that is being true to yourself which is knowing what you know and what you do not know. If you do not know you should strive to learn how to know.

Do not be like your attacker, strive to be better than them. You do not need to show them that you are better than them. Let them burn in their own fire. The best counter attack is ignoring them in my view, because you become a mirror which reflects the energy they project at you.

 

[Xenophon]

I have found out since that he died of cancer :-/

All because you slagged off his book?

Seriously, any reason to suspect magickal influence with the cancer?

 

[Robert Ramsay]

All because you slagged off his book?

Seriously, any reason to suspect magickal influence with the cancer?

Not from me. The problem with cancer is that it's a scaling event of exactly the kind that is susceptible to magic - it starts with a single mutation, or combination of mutations, takes over a cell and multiplies up. IMO, banishing rituals are for removing unwanted effects of magical workings, including possible cancers. It may be that he didn't do a rigourous enough banishing for every ritual. Or he may have just fallen prey to the random number generator :-/

 

[MidnightProphet]

Practice dispensing with the enemy before they know you're their enemy.

 

[frater_pan]

For all you seasoned adepts and magi who pulled themelves up in the magic world by their own bootstraps, how do you deal with wizards who have a bone to pick with you out of nowhere?
Are some people really that bored and malicious?
What are good grounds for magical war, vs self defense?

I have only had to use magick to defend myself once and not from a mage (although the person may have been a natural witch - if so this was unknown to themselves though).

I was in an online seminar with a formerly well-known chaos wizard who stated flat out that at almost any given magick conference/gathering there's always someone taking magickal potshots at someone else. I was shocked. But if we just do normal purification/grounding within our chosen system this should take care of most problems. If we really think we are being attacked then divination on the question would be the first step. Then we can take other action.

 

[rice candy]

Based on my own observations, the most common cause of magical wars is drama.

Dabblers and/or newbies tend to think they won anything just because they threw a hex, curse, jinx, etc. with some energy behind it.
A seasoned practitioner will have already won the war before the battle has been fought.

I say this as my favorite thing to-do is to make friends out of my enemies. Once the immediate threat is de-escalated, then I lay down my magical traps just in case. However it's rarely necessary for me to tap into these traps again as I'll use additional magic to get them to overshare information with me instead. I prefer to make my enemies useful to me whenever possible.

 

[jkeller293]

Based on my own observations, the most common cause of magical wars is drama.

Dabblers and/or newbies tend to think they won anything just because they threw a hex, curse, jinx, etc. with some energy behind it.
A seasoned practitioner will have already won the war before the battle has been fought.

I say this as my favorite thing to-do is to make friends out of my enemies. Once the immediate threat is de-escalated, then I lay down my magical traps just in case. However it's rarely necessary for me to tap into these traps again as I'll use additional magic to get them to overshare information with me instead. I prefer to make my enemies useful to me whenever possible.

In my view the winner is the one who avoids getting into a situation were you would need to worry about such a thing. Usually the case is the person brought themself into that situation.

Of course you can be someone like myself that welcomes it as i love a challenge and have fun taunting those the like to threaten others — usually they are weak to begin with if they are seeking to brag about how well they can curse someone. If i ever got into a situation with a real adept, i would still welcome it as i see suffering as the best teacher. Its a test of my will and how else can i strengthen my will without having a means to exercise it? I like the idea of it being forced to exercise when it is too idle and comfortable.

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In my view the winner is the one who avoids getting into a situation were you would need to worry about such a thing. Usually the case is the person brought themself into that situation.

Of course you can be someone like myself that welcomes it as i love a challenge and have fun taunting those the like to threaten others — usually they are weak to begin with if they are seeking to brag about how well they can curse someone. If i ever got into a situation with a real adept, i would still welcome it as i see suffering as the best teacher. Its a test of my will and how else can i strengthen my will without having a means to exercise it? I like the idea of it being forced to exercise when it is too idle and comfortable.

No need to use magic back if you choose to endure suffering, just show them how weak they are. Let it boil inside them.

 

[MidnightProphet]

In my view the winner is the one who avoids getting into a situation were you would need to worry about such a thing. Usually the case is the person brought themself into that situation.

Of course you can be someone like myself that welcomes it as i love a challenge and have fun taunting those the like to threaten others — usually they are weak to begin with if they are seeking to brag about how well they can curse someone. If i ever got into a situation with a real adept, i would still welcome it as i see suffering as the best teacher. Its a test of my will and how else can i strengthen my will without having a means to exercise it? I like the idea of it being forced to exercise when it is too idle and comfortable.

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No need to use magic back if you choose to endure suffering, just show them how weak they are. Let it boil inside them.

Beautiful.