Animal Sacrifice

I was recently asked a question by one of my students regarding animal sacrifice; namely, is it necessary?

The answer to this question is no, it is not necessary. However, does it aid spell casting? The answer here is definitely yes. However, it does so in an "artificial sense", and is ill advised.

Let me explain.

This is fundamentally one of the largest differences between white and black magic.

Black magic seeks to augment itself by life-will consumption and redirection.

This means that by a special process, commonly called "sacrifice", the life-will of the sacrifice is added to the spell process, empowering it greatly. The power of black magic is formidable, and should never be underestimated. It is akin to giving a child a knife. The child becomes dangerous immediately. However, it is greatly self limiting, and the ability to create more powerful spells becomes more and more difficult, in effect wasting large amounts of energy for little or no benefit. This is the limitation of black magic that makes it controllable, and of little use to good people.

White magic seeks to augment itself through additive congruent will.

This is essentially the generation of greater life-will energy through collective focus. The more congruent the belief systems and goals, the more powerful the life-will becomes. The end result is that white magic is only limited by the number of people who believe they will benefit from any spells that are casting, either consciously or subconsciously.

So is sacrificing animals necessary? Absolutely not!

Is it recommended? No!

Does it work? Sadly, yes, but I expect none of my students to ever partake of this. I will cover more of how this can be done in a later course, but only for informational purposes.

Best regards,
James