Archive-name: magick/faq
Updated: 200502
Posting-frequency: monthly or by inquiry

*alt.magick FAQ Part 1. General*

What is alt.magick about?

The technical and scholarly discussion of magick and related arts and
sciences. This includes but isn't limited to: alchemy, Kabbalah/
Qabalah, Western ritual magick, Hermetics, renaissance neoplatonism,
Eastern mysticism, Neo-Pagan magick, folk magick, chaos magick,
divination, mythology, and occult and magical organizations. Methods
and schools of magick vary. The general viewpoint in alt.magick is to
try for a dogma-free approach to magick, which precludes a lot of
religious discussion, although we draw religious and mystical
vocabulary in *all* the time, since we are too short-lived to reinvent
all the symbols in the world.

What is magick, and why do you spell it with a 'k'?