Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
Scott CunninghamThe power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.
Scott CunninghamHonor 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 CunninghamThe 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 CunninghamThe 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 CunninghamSeek 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