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'?