Evocation

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Evocation is the act of evoking, calling upon, or summoning a spirit,

magical
traditions and may employ the use of mind-altering substances with and without uttered word formulas.

Conjuration

Native American "conjuror" in a 1590 engraving

In traditional and most contemporary usage, conjuration refers to a

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Within some

hoodoo and Hermeticism or ceremonial magic, conjuration may refer specifically to an act of calling or invoking deities and other spirits; or it may refer more generally to the casting of magic spells by a variety of techniques.[3]

In Western esotericism

evoking a spirit

The

evocatio was the "calling forth" or "summoning away" of a city's tutelary deity. The ritual was conducted in a military setting either as a threat during a siege or as a result of surrender, and aimed at diverting the god's favor from the opposing city to the Roman side, customarily with a promise of a better-endowed cult or a more lavish temple.[4] Evocatio was thus a kind of ritual dodge to mitigate looting of sacred objects or images from shrines that would otherwise be sacrilegious or impious.[5]

The calling forth of spirits was a relatively common practice in

.

See also

  • Apport – Paranormal transference
  • Materialization – Alleged creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources
  • Psychokinesis
     – Influencing of objects without physical interaction
  • Servitor – Psychological complex employed in the use of chaos magic
  • Thaumaturgy – The working of miracles by an individual
  • Theurgy – Practice of rituals with the intention of invoking the action/presence of one or more deities

References

  1. ^ "Conjure | Define Conjure at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  2. ^ "Conjuration | Define Conjuration at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  3. ^ Houdini, Harry (1926). "Conjuring". Encyclopædia Britannica (13th ed.). Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  4. ^ Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 41.
  5. ^ Nicholas Purcell, "On the Sacking of Corinth and Carthage", in Ethics and Rhetoric: Classical Essays for Donald Russell on His Seventy (Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 140–142.

Further reading

External links

  • The dictionary definition of evocation at Wiktionary