WHAT SOUTHERN AFRICAN WISDOMS HAVE TO OFFER THE WEST #10

Soul Sickness and  Soul Loss

The soul and the body are supposed to be as one. The soul is pure, made in the image of the Divine and is always unified - it does not "split". When the body becomes subject to control by ego, monkey mind and shadow and the allure of sentient pleasures the soul may separate or split to a greater (soul loss) or lesser extent (soul sickness) from the body. 

There are many other factors besides physical, emotional and spiritual abuse by oneself (sex, drugs, rock and roll) or by others that can cause soul sickness or more rarely loss. The latter include; severe abuse, trauma from war or violence, isolation and loneliness, severe burn out or illness and some of the spiritual diseases discussed in the prior blog.

    

Witchcraft or sorcery. 

The commandment,

“Thou shalt not covet your neighbor or anything that belongs to your neighbor…”

 

 is an edict against those with an evil eye, an evil tongue and an evil inclination. Witchcraft and sorcery arise from someone with a heart of envy. Envy can lead to malicious covetousness which can have malignant consequences on others as well as severe karmic effects on the perpetrators.

The commandment not to covet one’s neighbor or anything that belongs to him or her is a preventative against jealous and toxic intentions. Witches have a compulsion to prevent someone from getting things they deserve or to take away the things that they already have. 

For some it is a lucrative profession when done on behalf of others. A heart of envy arises out of an inherently very dark shadow side or evil inclination. 

Witches and sorcerers with power are aligned with dark spirits who work with them as opposed to medicine men and women, indigenous healers and others who work with light spirits to do good. 

Witchcraft is more powerful if the victim believes in it and knows they have been bewitched (nocebo effect - the opposite of placebo.) Fear is a great ally of the sorcerer.

A hex is further empowered if there is an underlying guilt arising from wrong doing which led to the spell. At some level, even if subconscious, the victim feels that they deserve to be hexed. 

Apart from nocebo hexing works non-locally through the Field with the help of tricksters and occult dark forces whether the victim believes it or not or knows about it or not. 

The witch is often the traitor in the gates and assumes a benign appearance so that they can work unopposed.

Witches and sorcerers have real power and are also able to manipulate the "Field" which is non-denominational, or spiritually neutral. Evil intentions go through the "Field" just as effectively as do healing ones. There is no curse that cannot be neutralized. 

Witches and Sorcerers and their Dark Forces do not obey the Cosmic Law of Free Will. They operate maliciously with or without permission. Like many shamans they also use "containers" especially through the Law of Contagion. 

When objects are in contact with one another they can affect the other. 

Witches and sorcerers invoke their dark help using hair, a nail clipping, clothing or an effigy of the victim to enhance the power of their curses. 

 

Illness and misfortune can also occur because of malevolent intentions imposed by those who unknowingly have conscripted negative spirits.  These individuals are not necessarily recognized as being sorcerers nor themselves necessarily believe that they have this power - only that they are successful in their self-serving endeavors. These include some in positions of power.

 

There is nothing you can think or intend that is not accessible to dark forces and that they will not attempt to corrupt.

 

The greatest ally of the dark is in making you believe they do not exist, so that they can operate unopposed. The dark side, sorcery and witchcraft were recognized by Kabbalah as part of the omnipresent primordial darkness as opposed to its light.

 

“I create the light and the dark – choose light!”

 

Lucifer who became Satan and the Nephilim (the fallen angels) in a sense are "real" and not mythological. However, they may assume different titles and forms in varying cultures. 

 

“If you would dispel the darkness, seek the sacred.”