It can become a window into time, and it can be an effective amulet or ritual tool. It can be used to communicate with individuals or spirits over vast distances (with individuals, typically several mirrors are created-all of which are identical). Once created, blessed, consecrated, and empowered, the mirror opens that doorway to the user. While all things have a presence in the astral world, not everything functions in that realm. Without that energy flow, a mirror is just, well, a mirror.Ī properly contrived magick mirror works both in this world and in the astral. It boils down to the skill, focus, and willpower of the witch or mage who constructs it. To make an effective magick mirror, you first need to understand what it is that sets this implement apart from the one in your bathroom. Perhaps that was the whole idea−to keep unwanted spirits from tinkering with the outcome.
About the only item that seems odd the use of iron, since so many magickal creatures (like fairy folk) disdained the substance. This process speaks of ritual magick and folklore all in one historical tidbit.
This took several weeks, after which an appropriate time had to be chosen for polishing the mirror before it would heed the wizard’s questions. Each ingredient had exasperatingly precise measurements, and the steps for the process were each to be performed at specific times when the planets would be most auspicious. This process included heating lead and adding mercury, gold, silver, copper, iron filings, and dry herbs. In the sixteenth century, Swiss alchemist Paracelsus put together an elaborate formula for making a magick mirror. “We should be a mirror of being: We are God in miniature.”
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