By Day of Greenleaf, Yaiyr
Nasarean White Magic Wizardry and Green Magic Wizardry. Nasarean Wizardry, White Magic, and Green Magic are described in detail in a number of my books including, Magdalene The Wizardess: Her Green Wizardry and Nasarean White Magic! That book features a section dedicated to her Essene Herbal Teachings, a topic that is central to ‘Green Magic’. The main thing to know is that Nasarean White Wizardry/White Magic/Green Magic are all based on LOVE and GOODNESS. The Hebrew word Yidde’oniy means Knowing One and is commonly translated into English as Wizard.
The Nasarean Wizards/Wizardesses were – and are – the highest teachers and priests and priestesses of the Nasarean Religion of The Essene Way. Miriam the Magdalene – and her husband/soul-mate/Co-Messiah Yahshua (‘Jesus’) – were/are the highest ranking of all White Wizards/Wizardesses, according to Nasarean cosmology/theology.
Let us begin by asking – then answering – an obvious question: WHAT IS A WIZARD/WIZARDESS?
In a general sense, to some degree, all of us – even those that are uncomfortable with the word wizard – practice wizardry every day. Our thoughts, words, and deeds are our wizardry and conjure things into manifestation that affect not only our own lives, but also the lives of those around us.
Your beliefs, and the words and actions that stem from those beliefs, are your magic (your conjuring), and your magic is only as good as your beliefs, thoughts, words, and deeds are good. What separates acknowledged wizards from the rest of humanity is simply that they are aware of the above, and are working with it in a formal, conscious way.
Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged Second Edition defines wizard as follows:
WIZARD, from WISARD…
1. Originally, a wise man; a sage.
2. a magician; conjurer….
3. a very skillful or clever person.
Having given a good general definition of WIZARD (Wisard) as a Wise-One that typically uses enchantments/chanting/affirmations/words of power/invocations in a more intentional and focused manner than the average general-public-type-wizard, I will now define the word ‘wizard’ within the specific context of Nasarean wizardry.
What is a Nasarean Wizard? Because the word wizard is English, and because the ancient Nasareans did not speak English, they did not use the word wizard. However, they did use a Hebrew word that scholars translate into English as ‘wizard’. That word is Yidde’oniy (pronounced yid-deh-o-nee) and means: a Knowing One. The word Yidde’oniy stems from the Hebrew root yada, which is pronounced yah-dah and means to know. Although the word Yidde’oniy literally means a Knowing One, in the mainstream (non-Nasarean) ‘Old Testament’ that Hebrew word is used as a designation for Conjurers. In the mainstream version of the ‘Old Testament’ – the ‘Torah’ of non-Nasarean Judaism – the word Yidde’oniy (‘Wizard’ or ‘Conjurer’) is used in a negative sense, but that scripture was written by a priesthood that was the avowed enemy of the Nasarean form of Judaism. Nasareans used the word Yidde’oniy in a positive sense, as the title of their highest ranking Priests and Priestesses.
Of course, the Nasarean religion recognizes that there are evil wizards, just like there are evil priests. But the fact that there are some evil priests does not mean that there are no good priests. Likewise with wizards: there are good wizards and bad wizards. Nasarean wizards are good wizards. They are ‘Knowing Ones’ who conjure good things.
The word conjure means to cause something to be, change, or go away, by use of magic or special knowledge. The word conjure is associated with the use of intention (will) and words in the form of entreaty to God/Goddess (or other entities such as Angels), often in the form of an incantation or chant. Again, there are good conjurers and bad conjurers, good incantations and bad incantations. Likewise, there are good entities that one might entreat, and bad. Nasarean Wizards are conjurers of good, and only entreat YHWH (God/Goddess Immanent and Transcendent) or Angels that serve YHWH (e.g. the Angels of the Essene Tree of Life). The word entreat means to ask earnestly. Obviously, prayer is a form of entreaty.
We are surrounded in life by good wizards and bad wizards. Since a wizard (Yidde’oniy) is a Knowing One, a good wizard is one who knows good things and uses those good things in good ways. A bad wizard is the reverse.
Again, if the word wizard bothers you, remember, it is simply the accepted (by scholars) English translation of the Hebrew word Yidde’oniy, which means Knowing One and is used in The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way to describe the most advanced spiritual teachers of the Nasarean Religion of The Essene Way.
Let us next consider the word ‘Magic’ in the context of Nasarean Wizardry. Nasarean Wizards/Wizardesses practice both ‘Green Magic’ and ‘White Magic’. It is important to understand what Nasareans mean by those terms, but let us begin by defining the key word ‘magic’. Because real magic, real wizardry, is about spiritual transformation and the magical alchemy of LOVE, we will ignore the definitions that relate to the pretend magicians that use slight-of-hand and other trickery to entertain audiences.
Webster’s Dictionary defines several key words as follows:
Magic. Noun. Latin magice, from Greek magike (magical art), the magic art, wizardry, from magicos, of the Magi, from magoi, the Magi, priests of the Medes and Persians….
Magian. 1. of the Magi….
1. a magician; wizard.
A ‘Magi’ or ‘Magian’ is simply a Persian wizard, and that is where we get the words ‘magic’ and ‘magician’.
Magician. 1. an expert in magic; specifically… a wizard.
The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible Of The Essene Way informs us that:
“Nasarean magic flows from our special knowledge. Our special knowledge is our higher knowing.”
So, a Nasarean ‘Magician’ is a ‘Wizard’ in the original sense of the word: Wisard, literally Wise-One. Our ‘Magic’ is our ‘highest knowing’, our ‘highest light’, our ‘highest wisdom’, launched toward manifestation in the form of both informal and formal acts of conjuration.
Conjuration. Noun. 1. a conjuring; invocation.
2. a magic spell; incantation.
Nasarean Wizards – Nasarean ‘Wise Ones’ – chant (verbally or mentally; verbally can add extra power) ‘affirmations’ or ‘words of power’ or ‘prayers’ or ‘invocations’.
I will now explain the terms ‘White Magic’ (‘White Wizardry’) and ‘Green Magic’ (‘Green Wizardry’).
For such a seemingly complex concept as ‘White Magic’, the Nasareans have a very simple definition:
“You practice White Magic when you intentionally help good things happen within and around you.”
Of course, what one person considers ‘good’ may not be what another person considers ‘good’. And so the teaching is: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and “Do not do to others what you would not have done to yourself.”
Because our understanding of White Magic and ‘goodness’ increases with the expansion of our own awareness, and because that is true of others, we recognize that there are ‘gradients’ or ‘levels’ in the practice of White Magic. Relatively immature understandings and practices of White Magic exist, as do relatively higher understandings and practices. Those ‘wise ones’ of relatively higher understandings and practices of White Magic are the great Wizards and Wizardesses of the various spiritual traditions.
The gradients or levels of understanding and practice in White Magic exist naturally, whether or not one is aware of them. Those levels are referred to as the ascending and descending rungs of the ladder of consciousness. The gradients or levels are also demarcated within the schools of wizardry as specific levels of initiation, such as ‘novice’, ‘apprentice’, ‘adept’, etc.
Nasarean ‘Green Magic’ (‘Green Wizardry’) is only practiced in the context of ‘White Magic’ (‘White Wizardry’). Before I define ‘Nasarean Green Magic’, I will define the more general term ‘Green Magic’ (there are non-Nasarean forms of Green Magic) which is also called ‘Natural Magic’. My thick, unabridged Webster’s Dictionary does not mention the term ‘Green Magic’ but, as a sub-listing under ‘magic’, it offers a brief definition of natural magic:
natural magic; the art of employing the powers of nature to produce effects apparently supernatural.
A much more expansive definition is given in Cassandra Eason’s Complete Book of Natural Magick (many neo-pagan writers use the old English spelling of Magic: Magick); Cassandra writes:
…. natural magick uses tools made from natural materials: wood, clay, herbs, beeswax or crystal [a few examples]. Usually they are very simple because they are secondary to the setting of the spell or ritual. For where possible natural magick is performed outdoors, winter or summer, rain or shine, whether in woodland, on the seashore or in your garden. You can, in really bad weather or if it would not be safe or feasible to cast spells outdoors, practice natural magick inside your home by bringing in flowers, herbs, or berries….
The natural world is a powerhouse of magickal energy that can be used to amplify our personal psychic powers and daily lives…. We all possess these abilities but they can get blunted by modern life. Working with nature rapidly restores the instinctive connection with our own inner self…. At specific times we can tap into the ever-changing energies of the sun, the moon, the seas, lakes and rivers and the weather and into the magickal qualities manifest in different flowers, herbs, trees, and crystals.
Just as many modern neo-pagan writers use the term ‘Green Magic’ as use the term ‘Natural Magic’, and Nasareans use both terms interchangeably. Essentially, the terms mean the same thing. Although many natural substances like beeswax, sun, dried herbs, stones, etc. are not literally colored green, in the term ‘Green Magic’ (or the synonymous ‘Green Wizardry’) the word Green is used loosely as a blanket term for all herbal/natural products used in support of White Magic. Ann Moura – a popular neo-pagan author and self-described ‘Green Witch’ – makes that broad definition of ‘Green’ clear in the following beautiful passage from her book, GREEN MAGIC: The Sacred Connection To Nature.
The practitioner of Green Magic lives a magical life…. She is connected to Nature, aware and appreciative of its sacred rhythms and portents. She observes the rising and setting of the Sun, the phases of the Moon, and the movements of the planets and constellations. She pays attention to the taste of the air, the smell of the Earth, the waving wildflowers, and the behavior of birds and animals. She celebrates the changing of the seasons.
Talking to plants, letting the trees know you appreciate the beauty of their turning leaves, greeting birds and butterflies, and speaking to the clouds are part of the practice of Green Magic….
While that excerpt well describes the lifestyle and attitude of a practitioner of Green Magic, a particular act of Green Magic is likely to involve something like holding a particular herb in your hand while making a magical affirmation while standing in a powerful natural setting – or any of thousands of similar variations that combine natural substances and settings with words of affirmation/conjuration. I am going to demonstrate that Miriam the Magdalene – the Nasarean Female Christ – was herself a practicing Green Wizardess of White Magic and that she performed conjurations – ‘Green Magic’ – of the kind just described. But first, I will explain what is meant by ‘practicing Green Wizardry/Green Magic only in the context of White Magic/White Wizardry.’
First, a reminder of our definition of White Magic:
You practice White Magic when you intentionally help good things happen within and around you.
The definition of ‘Green Magic in the context of White Magic’ is as follows:
When the means of a particular act of White Magic is/are of the domain of practices commonly called ‘Green Magic’, that is called PRACTICING GREEN MAGIC/GREEN WIZARDRY IN THE CONTEXT OF WHITE MAGIC/WHITE WIZARDRY.
For example, if I am holding a particular herb in my hand while chanting a White Magic Affirmation/Prayer in a natural power spot, I am both: a) Practicing Green Magic, and b) Practicing White Magic. But if I am performing an act of White Magic that does not particularly involve any of the elements, settings, or practices of Green Magic in a significant way, I am only then performing b) White Magic.
Would it be possible to perform Green Magic outside of White Magic? Sure; for example: if, while holding a twig while standing in the forest under a full moon, you envisioned your perceived enemy breaking his/her leg, then chanted an affirmation that he or she would break their leg as you symbolically broke the twig, you have then performed Green Magic in the context of Black Magic.
Nasarean Wizardry forbids the practice of Black Magic spells/conjurations. Nasarean Wizardry also teaches a method to keep your formal conjurations firmly established in the domain of White Magic, and includes yogic practices that progressively increase the ‘whiteness’ (‘goodness’/‘kindness’) of even the informal conjurations of your daily life experience.
In her excellent book A Study In Consciousness, in a chapter titled The Will – under the subheading White and Black Magic – Annie Besant differentiates between White Magic and Black Magic:
Magic is the use of the Will to guide the powers of external nature…. The human Will, being the power of the Divine in man, can… bring about the results desired. The difference between White and Black Magic lies in the motive which determines the Will; when that Will is set to benefit others, to help and bless all that come within its scope, then is the man a White [Magic] Magician, and the results which he brings about by the exercise of his trained Will are beneficial, and aid the course of human evolution. He is ever expanding by such exercise, becoming less and less separate from his kind, and is a center of far reaching help.
But when the Will is exercised for the advantage of the lower self… then is the man a Black Magician, a danger to the race [Day: ‘human species’], and his results obstruct and delay human evolution. He is ever contracting by such exercise, becoming more and more separate from his kind, shutting himself within a shell which isolates him, and which grows ever thicker and denser with the exercise of his trained powers.
The Will of the Magician [Day: both Black Magic Magician and White Magic Magician] is ever strong, but the Will of the White Magician is strong with the strength of life, flexible at need, rigid at need, ever assimilating to the great Will, the Law of the universe. The Will of the Black Magician has the strength of iron, pointing ever to the personal end, and it strikes against the great Will, and sooner or later must shiver [Day: shatter] itself into pieces against it. It is the peril of Black Magic… to erect his [the Black Magic Magician] personal Will against the great Law…. Just as it was said… that the saint harmonizing the forces of disharmony within himself is truly the White Magician, so is he a Black Magician who uses for his own gain [Day: in selfish manner] all the forces he has acquired by knowledge, turns them to the service of his own separateness, and increases the disharmony of the world by his selfish graspings….
- Eliphas Levi was perhaps the best-known ‘Mystical Christian-Based Wizard’ of the 1800’s. Levi published a list of twenty-two axiomatic sayings on ‘The Will’. Here are seven of those sayings.
- To will evil, is to will death. A perverse will is the beginning of suicide.
- To will good with violence, is to will evil, for violence produces disorder, and disorder produces evil.
- It is by the will that the intelligence sees. If the will is healthy, the sight is just.
- God said: “Let there be light!” and light is…. This is the meaning of ‘So be it’. [Day: ‘Amen’ means ‘So be it’.]
- To affirm and to will what ought to be is to create; to affirm and to will what ought not to be, is to destroy.
- Light is an electric fire put by Nature at the service of the will, it lights those who know how to use it; it burns those who abuse it.
- Before saying that a man is happy or unhappy, find out what the direction of his will has made of him….
In the axioms listed above, Eliphas Levi demonstrates a belief in ‘Goodness’, and that we can rise on the ladder of truth and ‘Will’ good things, and that this is the power by which we conjure our life circumstances… and is the secret to TRUE HAPPINESS.
Keep in mind our previously given Nasarean definition of White Magic:
You practice White Magic when you intentionally help good things happen within and around you.
Based on that definition, White Magic is linked to two things: 1) Intention; and, 2) Good Things.
To intentionally help good things happen within and around you, you must first intend that good things happen. Your intention is that which you, the intender, earnestly want to happen, that which YOU ARE ‘WILLING’ TO HAPPEN. When we perform An Intending – an intentional of White Magic, an ‘Affirmation’, an ‘Enchantment’, a ‘Conjuration’, an ‘Incantation’ – we have an Intention (a goal, intended end, purpose, something we want to accomplish) on which we focus our ‘Will Power’ with great attention and earnestness, as we mentally or verbally affirm with great conviction the words of the magical affirmation. For example: “LET THERE BE LIGHT!”
Historically – and this is very true within the Nasarean tradition – Green Magic/Green Wizardry is very associated with ‘Green Environmentalism’ and ‘Green Activism’. By that I mean: Defending Mother Earth – the Green world of nature – from polluters and other harmful practices. That form of Green Wizardry is what much of my ‘Green Wizard Poetry’ is about.
I end this ‘Key Teaching on Green Wizardry/White Magic’ with my previously promised example of Miriam the Magdalene performing an of Green Magic within White Magic. The following excerpt is from The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way:
Miriam’s Green Magic Enchantment on the Shore of Lake Mareotis
12. During a windstorm, Miriam picked up a small stone.
13. She climbed onto a large square rock atop a nearby hill and, holding the small stone between her thumb and middle finger, chanted three times the following Green Magic enchantment.
14. She said, “The rock of Universal Love is My strong foundation!
15. According to this enchantment, even amidst the storms of life, Universal Love is My strong foundation!”
16. Amidst the strong winds of both lake and life, Miriam stood strong on that foundation.
17. She taught Her disciples to teach this enchantment to others.
18. She said, “Anyone that wants to know what kind of magic I practice can have their answer in the form of this enchantment.
19. It is an example of Green Magic because it is done in nature, preferably on a windy day, standing on a large stone while holding a small stone.
20. This ‘Green Magic’ can also be called ‘Natural Magic’; by either name, it is also an example of ‘White Magic’, for it affirms the power of Universal Love.
21. All other foundations will one day crumble.”
