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ab:tools1.txt 16jan90
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The Working Tools
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There are no magical supply shops, so unless you are lucky enough to be
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given or sold tools, a poor witch must extemporise. But when made you
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should be able to borrow or obtain an Athame. So having made your
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circle, erect an altar. Any small table or chest will do. There must be
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fire on it (a candle will suffice) and your book. For good results
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incense is best if you can get it, but coals in a chafing dish burning
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sweet-smelling herbs will do. A cup if you would have cakes and wine
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and a platter with the signs drawn into same in ink, showing a
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pentacle. A scourge is easily made (note, the scourge has eight tails
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and five knots in each tail). Get a white-hilted knife and a wand (a
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sword is not necessary). Cut the marks with Athame. Purify everything,
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then consecrate your tools in proper form and ever be properly
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prepared. But ever remember, magical operations are useless unless the
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mind can be brought to the proper attitude, keyed to the uttmost pitch.
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Affirmations must be made clearly and the mind should be inflamed with
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desire. With this frenzy of will you may do as much with simple tools
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as with the most complete set. But good and especially ancient tools
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have their own aura. They do help to bring about that reverential
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spirit, the desire to learn and develop your powers. For this reason
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witches ever try to obtain tools from sorcerers, who being skilled men
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make good tools and consecrate them well, giving them mighty power. But
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a great witch's tools also gain much power; and you should ever strive
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to make any tools you manufacture of the finest materials you can
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obtain, to the end that they may absorb your power the more easily. And
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of course if you may inherit or obtain another witch's tools, power
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will flow from them.
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-Published in Janet & Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way", from GBG's
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Text B/C BOS
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