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caves found on magical mountains. Their rituals produced emanations that may still linger on the floors
and walls of these caves. They may also have buried hexes and spells in the depths of the caves, so
experienced magicians do not enter these places without first cleansing them with rituals of their own. It
is better to stay away from such sites because one never knows what they have been used for in the past.
What Is Life? Life is the opposite of death. To be alive is to breathe, move, struggle, and react to
stimulus. Man moves even before he is born. Life is, therefore, movement.
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But, while Death does not discriminate between people, life does. It discriminates between rich and
poor, rulers and the ruled, between the races, the sexes, and even between brothers. Thus, it is impossible
for everyone to be equally rich or equally poor.
In life, a person passes through four distinct stages: infancy, adolescence, maturity, and old age. In
general, his future is determined while he is still an infant by his ethnic identity, his parents financial
stability, and his environment. This means that by looking at a child we will know what kind of man he
will be, and by looking at a man we know what kind of child he was.
After childhood, a person loses his innocence and becomes contaminated by evil as he is subjected to
the violence of others. But he soon learns the ways of society and as an ambitious young man, crosses the
seas and climbs the highest mountain in order to make a name for himself. He then seeks to make his life
easier by getting married and surrounding himself with children. In the end, he grows old and dies,
satisfied to have achieved what he and others expected of him. He has lived intensely and will rest
peacefully in his grave. Such a person knew how to live.
But unless an individual is naturally lucky, he will need to know the principles of Chinese sorcery if
he is to live life to the fullest and avoid being sent to jail, sinking into poverty, incurring a bad reputation,
or dying prematurely.
Indirect Attack. It is not always best to respond to an attack by making a frontal strike, unless one
is supremely versed in the profound Chinese principle of using force-against-force to defeat a stronger
opponent. It is usually best to attack an enemy indirectly. The principles of sorcery allow a magician to do
this because they teach him to counterattack through the use of sophisticated spells. Only the very smart
and the very foolish use direct force against their enemies.
The Debt Incurred for Killing. Anyone who kills another person will contract a debt with the
victim's parents and eventually pay a terrible price when making retribution to Heaven. And, although
some priests say that confession and absolution will relieve a person of responsibility for his crimes, the
Judge of Death does not admit intermediaries and will hold a killer accountable for his actions.
Taoist rituals can help a person make amends for his terrible deeds by soothing the spirits of his
enemies, but will not allow him to obtain total absolution. Given this fact, anyone tempted to kill should
remember that his earthly actions will determine his fate after death just as his skeleton provides the
support for and determines the general shape of his body.
Good Luck Is Essential. In the Orient, a person who is being considered for an important civil or
military position is first taken to a sorcerer who will determine if his luck is good. After all, a general who
lacks the protection of the divinities will lose easy battles even if he commands great armies. If the job
candidate is experiencing a streak of bad luck, he is pushed aside in favor of less qualified but luckier
individuals.
When entering a business, a magician takes a good look around to see if its owners are fortunate
individuals. He understands that good luck is more important than fame and that if a person such as a
lawyer, doctor, or merchant enjoys good fortune, he will be of more help to his clients than if he suffers
from misfortune. An average doctor, for instance, will have greater success curing patients if his lucky star
is in ascendance than if he is star-crossed. Thus, when a magician enters a store or business, he determines
what kind of people frequent the establishment. If he senses a dark aura hanging over the place and its
customers, he leaves immediately.
Bodyguards Are Useless. No bodyguard can protect a person from all acts of revenge. This truth
is corroborated by the fact that many powerful people are kidnapped, killed, or wounded every year by
revengeful enemies, despite the many bodyguards who surround them. Individuals whose enemies take
revenge through sorcery are in even greater peril because if bodyguards cannot stop a bullet, they will
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certainly not be able to stop a curse. In the end, anyone bent on taking revenge will succeed, even if he has
to wait until he is dead to achieve his goal. Since life is a difficult road even in the best of times, a curse
should be feared even more than poverty.
Under normal circumstances, a person does not experience more misfortune than destiny has assigned
him, unless he brings misfortune on himself by forcing someone to wish for his death. When an individual
has harmed others so seriously that they have sought the help of a killer or sorcerer to avenge them, his
life is over. He may remain alive but he will seem dead to the rest of the world. Nothing will ever work
for him again, and his former good luck will turn to ruin as surely as the sun rises every morning.
To avoid becoming a target of revenge, the sorcerer takes the precaution of occasionally asking the
gods to keep his name from being written on any black lists. If this is done, the gods will protect him by
making others blind and deaf to his existence.
Rolling Stone Curse. This type of curse condemns the victim to wander from place to place
forever, in a state of anxiety. When a magician has been afflicted with this curse, he uses high rituals and
petitions to dispel it. Once it is lifted, he will be able to come to a stop and rest in a single spot. Ordinary
people who do not know sorcery rituals are usually unable to deal with this hex and live a restless
existence without ever knowing the reason for their eternal wandering.
Counterspells. With a great deal of hard work, people can refine crude metals and minerals and
turn them into valuable products such as gold, silver, jewels, or crystal. Although the process of
transformation is a slow and gradual one, it eventually produces objects of striking beauty. Magicians use
a similar process when casting spells, although in a different manner and for different purposes. For
instance, if the ashes of petitions and spirit money burnt during a ritual are mixed with the wine on the
altar and then poured on plants, trees, or grass in the backyard, the plants may change color. By examining
the color changes, the sorcerer can determine what type of hex is being used against him.
When employing sorcery for defensive purposes, magicians also follow a process of change in that they
seek to reverse the effects of malignant hexes solely through rituals. In this case, spells are countered by
spells, curses by curses, and hexes by hexes. Counterspells unleash a kind of invisible retribution that
allows unseen spiritual hands to work against evil curses and spells.
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