Love spell Evocation

General Discussion
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I always wondered: Why are there so many love spells around?
Today I found a interresting Point I wanted to share.

[Quote]The reality that may escape newcomers is that 80% of love spells in Arabic books are not about love at all. Does this mean that most of these love spells can be used for any purpose a magician desires? Absolutely! Most of those spells are not designed or written in the familiar structure of love spells that populate Western Wicca books. Literally, all you have to do is change the end line of the spell from “make so and so fall madly in love with so and so” to whatever you want, including, “come and appear here before me visibly”. The love spells turn with a switch of a few words to a spirit evocation not that dissimilar from what appears in Western grimoires. When the spell stipulates the use of an object belonging to the target for the spell, a classical magician knows that this can often be replaced by the effigy or seal of the spirit for general evocational purposes

The love spells turn with a switch of a few words to a spirit evocation not that dissimilar from what appears in Western grimoires. When the spell stipulates the use of an object belonging to the target for the spell, a classical magician knows that this can often be replaced by the effigy or seal of the spirit for general evocational purposes.

This begs the question. Why hide magical techniques under such a crass veil? Herein rests the need for cultural understanding. Arabic sorcery books are often banned in Islamic countries with severe penalities, including beheading, for any one that owns them. They are so taboo that most people will hide them from family and friends. People buying them in the first place do so for extreme reasons as it can bring about major legal and social consequences. Unless the books stay in print, there is a massive risk that the knowledge will be lost through the generations. This means that each Arabic book has to appeal to the most primal and consistent of human needs to guarantee that people will take huge risks to acquire them. There is no more powerful a positive urge other than love and sexuality. Couching magical techniques in the veneer of a love spell ensures their survivability due to demand and this approach has worked! [/quote]

What do you think? A reason?
Yours Vergil

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That’s talking about ARABIC magic. Not love spells in general.

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He asked why he always wondered why there where so many love spells!
He gave an example that involved Arabian Magick. The same principle could apply to any other form of LOVE magick in a equally religiously oppressive environment.

Hell people where put to death in the times of the inquisition for performing any kind of magick, regardless of if it was LOVE magick. They endured the same risks as anyone in Arabia.

It is no different than some of the traditional witches in Scotland. Some of their practices involved household items, this was done to disguise their practices because if they were caught they would end up dead.

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Uh no. According to the quote, they hid the summoning of spirits in love spells. Western magic did not do this. Have you ever read Lesser key of Solomon? Grimorium Verum? They.PLAINLY speak about evocation.

There’s so many love spells because so many people are obsessed with love and sex.

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People have always been put to death for performing black. It did not begin or end with the Catholic Church. The West of the past couple of centuries is one of the exceptions.