an object or item, often a common thing and not usually a living being, that has been charmed or enchanted with magic for some purpose.

The actions or procedures that form magical operations. Magical acts are made from magical techniques.

The backbone of a magician’s work, operations, also called procedures, workings, spells, rituals, etc., are the processes one undergoes to achieve significant magical results. Operations are composed with magical acts.

The small skills, movements, or processes that are the building blocks of magical acts. Techniques themselves are made of fundamental movements or intentions.

a visual and hand-created character-symbol (meaning a symbol made from shapes, lines, arcs, and other elements resembling alpha-numeric structures), a symbol placed on an item for purposes of enchantment.

The magic inherent within and derived from the working with stones, crystals metals, and rocks.

See magical operation.

a model of reality that, while certainly informed by our unconscious is for the most part assembled consciously to enable us a framework for building a magical practice and methodology. Among other considerations our paradigm includes how magic functions and how we might approach it, plus related considerations.

The energetic system that is the human being in totality. The core of this system is a matrix of interconnected bodies that can be conceptualized as layered and overlapping, with each body corresponding to a different plane of existence. These bodies are individually maintained and attuned with one-another through a complex framework of energetic fields, centers, pathways, and meridians. Aspects of the Personal Energy Matrix (or PEM) most people are familiar with include the chakras, the aura, etheric body, astral body, the acupuncture points and pathways, the middle pillar, and so forth. The physical body and mind are part of the PEM, as they are comprised of specific types of energy.