mentally. Option three: you send out one unit of positive or negative energy and get one-third of that unit back in return, another third is added to the reservoir of energy that surrounds us and the last third is aimed at getting your wish. Option four: you send out one unit of positive or negative energy and get back one part of negative energy as well as one unit of positive energy while you send out one part of the respective energy used. Most of the options need no further explanation. Option four, however, works the way it does because of another Law in magick and science: Newton’s Third Law; every action has an equal and opposite reaction. These is sense in this; if you send out negative energy, you probably do so for a reason. Perhaps you want to hurt someone who has hurt you. The other person gets hurt and you feel better because of it. Your reaction to the justice served is the one part of positive energy you get back after sending out one unit of negative energy.
The part negative energy you get back is the cost you pay for performing magick of any kind. In the case of a positive unit of energy being send out, you send out one part towards your goal and you get two parts back, one positive, one negative. The positive part represents the boost of spirits or ego that comes with doing magickal work and the negative one is, again, the price of magick. This price of magick is a controversial principle within the magickal community. After all, if you will get negatively influenced with every magickal act you perform, then why do it at all? Most advanced magick user will agree, however, that the universe always keeps a balance or tally of your actions. The bad is always balanced out with the good eventually, as well as the other way around. Novices are always warned of the dangers associated with using magick. Risks to health, to loved ones, to the Veil between worlds... all are risks that we take when we shuffle our cards by way of
magick. But there is more. If you force a positive result on a situation, another situation which had a high chance of success, will fail to balance out your previous actions. This might sound far-fetched but if you go back to the card analogy, it makes sense. You have used the cards for the second situation to stack the first situation. It’s logical you are a few cards short for the second situation... and that leads to failure. Knowledge is power but remember that all that is written about magick is written by individuals and based on their own experiences, this article included. Your experiences and ideas can be very different and are just as worthy of consideration as those of Elders in the Craft. Still, the best advice to any magick user is to be careful, aware and use magick in moderation. Find someone to teach you if you are unsure of yourself and if you don’t feel ready, don’t act. Magick is very powerful if you know what you are doing and part of that knowledge is figuring out how magick works for you.
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