ritual magic

Ritual magic is the practice of rituals for magical purposes.

Virtually all magical traditions include ritualized forms of magic. This, as in the hermetic or Solomonic magic, highly complex, connected to a script -like sequence and many prescribed items such as a sword, a staff, a robe and a censer, and the like be more and the magic practice largely or completely occupy, or as in shamanism or chaos Magic only be an elaborate form of intuitive and informal magical practices.

In contrast to religious about or social rituals are not necessarily repeated at fixed occasions in the same or similar form of magical rituals, but many magicians are careful to perform their rituals at times that according to astrological or Kabbalistic point of the hoped-for goal of the ritual magic act useful should be. In addition, there are always elements and symbols that appear within a ritual tradition again and again, for example, hitting a protective circle or the invocation of the elements. As with religious or social rituals are the rituals of magic mostly at specific locations, a temple or a place in nature, which is to have a special aura, performed.