Light And Dark

In a world so conflicted with the thought of right and wrong, good and bad and high and low Magic has been mislabeled. It would seem that those who practice spirit control and necromancy are bad witches and of the dark side. Those of us who practice herbal medicine, healing, and protection are of the light or white magic types.

I have a big problem with this thinking. How on earth can you know how to control a spirit unless you have first spoken with it and gotten to know how it can be controlled? How is it that someone would know how to protect against the "dark" magic unless they know how to use it themselves?

People think that the study of a certain kind of magic is all that is needed. They are wrong. Magic is magic, The study of magic includes ALL of the practices. This is why people who do not practice it fear those who do. But it is the same in all walks of life. A lawyer can prosecute you just as easily as they can defend you. A doctor knows how to kill you just as he knows how to save you. They know how to do both right? Magic is the same way. It is not the type of magic but the type of person that dictates style of the magic. There are those who practice for the betterment of people and in the interest in balancing against those who are in it for selfish reasons.

If you have to ask "are you a good witch or a bad witch?" you might as well ask them the nature of their very being. Are you a selfish person only looking out for the things you want? In which case, who would want to be around them no matter their practice or religious beliefs?

Pagans need to stop all the pointing of fingers and realize that people are people and we dont need to punish a practice with a less than desirable name just because they dont agree with the practitioner. If you dont like a practitioner name the person not the practice.