Scott Cunningham Quotes

• The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

  Scott Cunningham

  Nature, Animal, Wind

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• Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

  Scott Cunningham

  Book, Simple, Wind

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.101, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• If you would be a magician, honor the Earth. Honor life. Love. Know that magic is the birthright of every human being, and wisely use it.

  Scott Cunningham

  Love Life, Honor, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (1991). “Earth, Air, Fire & Water: More Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.196, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.

  Scott Cunningham

  Real, Way, Six

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.26, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

  Scott Cunningham

  Honor, Salmon, Bees

  Scott Cunningham (2011). “Cunningham's Book of Shadows: The Path of An American Traditionalist”, p.19, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
  all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

  Scott Cunningham

  Practice, Magic, Wish

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is our birthright...and should be available to all who wish to utilize it as a tool of personal transformation.

  Scott Cunningham

  Personal Transformation, Magic, Wish

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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

  Scott Cunningham

  Energy, Negative, Negative Energy

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is love. All magic should be performed out of love. The moment anger or hatred tinges your magic, you have crossed the border into a dangerous world, one that will ultimately consume you.

  Scott Cunningham

  Dangerous World, Hatred, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.19, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.

  Scott Cunningham

  Fate, Creating, Evil

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
  Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Secret, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

  Scott Cunningham

  Essence, Body, Earth

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

  Scott Cunningham

  Deities, Paganism, Asking For Forgiveness

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• Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

  Scott Cunningham

  Religious, Book, Steel

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.13, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Energy, Natural

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.28, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is not always serious or solemn.
  It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Paganism, Serious

  Scott Cunningham (1985). “Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise”, p.9, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

  Scott Cunningham

  Practice, Magic, Use

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.

  Scott Cunningham

  Energy, Earth, Tiny

  Scott Cunningham (2011). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Earth, Our Relationship

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.49, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

  Scott Cunningham

  Stuff, Substance, Creation

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

  Scott Cunningham

  Mean, Energy, World

  Scott Cunningham (1988). “The Truth about Witchcraft Today”, p.10, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Earth magic can help to sort out, work through and solve many of the minor crises and problems facing us as individuals today. True, it is not a simple solution to the world's problems, but it can bring order into our lives, and that's a good start.

  Scott Cunningham

  Simple, Order, Magic

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

  Scott Cunningham

  Past, Religion, Has Beens

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.71, Llewellyn Worldwide

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