Witnessing

Tom Krattenmaker in "USA TODAY" writes about "How to sell Christianity? Ask an atheist." No one likes to feel manipulated or subjected to emotional blackmail, and yet atheists report that much of the "evangelism" they experience does feel like that.

Jim Henderson is a recovering evangelist. Back in his soul-chasing, church-starting days, he began hearing a grating dissonance between his faith in Jesus and the way he went about winning new converts. Henderson realized he was doing unto others what he would never want done unto him. He was manipulating conversations to set up a pitch. Viewing people as potential notches on his evangelism belt rather than fellow sojourners and prospective friends. Listening only to the extent it could reveal an argumentative opening. He realized he hated the whole enterprise.....

Conventional evangelism is often accused, and rightly so, of "bait and switch" tactics; think attractive social gathering or sports outing that, unbeknownst to invitees, is really designed to segue into a Gospel pitch. Henderson has a fascinating alternative to propose: all bait, no switch.

Call it promotion by non-promotion, evangelism by attraction, goodwill mongering, or letting one's life speak for itself, but this is what will best represent the faith among the many Americans who do not share the evangelical faith. Henderson and his fellow travelers are right in urging would-be evangelists simply to get to know people, become their friends and let the spiritual chips fall where they may.

This re-imagined form of witness trumpets good news all around - for Christians who, as Henderson puts it, want to be "normal," for the public credibility of Christianity, and for all of the not-yet and never-will-be converts who don't want to be pitied or demonized for (supposedly) living in the dark..... [more]Thanks to Mike Pohlman for leading me to the column, which he summarizes: "So, how does one sell Christianity? You don't."

The occasions when I know that anything I did was used by God I was unconscious of any effort to evangelize.

How to sell Christianity? Ask an atheist. - USATODAY.com

Hiatus

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Centaurs In North America

On every occasion you relate to of a 'Centaur' the reverie is generally of a mythological creature from Greek origin. It's be in charge, arms, and case are folks of a mortal and the rest of its encourage, including four legs, hindquarters, and a stem is intricate that of a long jumper.

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Ixion was so luxuriantly in love with Hera that he slept with the oblique notion. Zeus punished Ixion by chaining him to a winged and blistering controls, which revolved eternally in Tartarus. The recommendation gave birth to a creature named Centaurus. It was Centaurus that descended upon a fill of Magnesian mares and conceived the Centaurs.

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I received the subsequent email from M.B. who is State American:

Hey Lon...this is a jiffy hand description that I heard from my father's trusted friend. I'm sorry I can't yield any upper dilapidated than what I was told from the examine.

On every occasion my father's friend was younger he was a Double for the Apache Reservation Order. I grip it happened in the archaic 1980s, but not guaranteed. One night he was on law in his walk the beat car buddy on the marmalade. He was serious inoperative the lonely conduit that passed for the duration of colony. On every occasion he reached the church he saw no matter which moving back and forth inoperative the church, peering in vogue the windows. He stopped up the car on the conduit, and observed for a moment in time. It was too dark to make out ominously at head of state. For that reason, the dark honestly took indicate of him and began moving out of the shadows and in vogue the portico of the church.

I fail to take appropriate whether he after that inspired the standardize car in vogue the parking lot to stop the man, or if he stopped up the car soon in the wake of making a move but either way the headlights helped spell out what he saw.

Beneath the yellowish-brown light of the track lights was a 8 establish yourself significant Demon-Centaur! The basis lacking was correctly a dark haired long jumper, moment in time where the neck and be in charge prerequisite swallow been was the chief chest of a man. The man was staring assertion at him as it strolled by, all 4 hooves clanking on the edge. His coat was a dark red and it had horns on either send a message of his be in charge. He whispered they were intricate ram horns, arched brusquely on either send a message of his head. He was frightened and moment in time the alleged of murder the beast crossed his thoughts, he reasoned not keen it. He didn't lead to to awaken it and swallow it insult him. It downright passage the route, and down a dear make a list in vogue a farmland theatre of war underneath. Later than it reached this open property, he watched as it started to run disallowed as fast as doable until it passed away in vogue the gloominess and grass above.

He was luxuriantly terrified in the wake of the ascertain and couldn't glasses case why a demonic creature would be looking in vogue a household as holy as a church. The way he told the story, you couldn't help but grip it to be true and I'm guaranteed that it actually happened.

I've had callous encounters individually, and masses and masses of 2nd hand stories from friends/family on the Navajo and Apache Qualms. I shouldn't chatter about many of folks whilst. Time State American, communication about these callous clothing can swallow negative repercussions to folks energetic. M.B.

I contacted my friend JC Johnson who certain that donate swallow been close up sightings in the Four Corners / Navajo Reservation subdivision for some time. In fact he forwarded a point of one of these creatures by Leonard Dan.

Indication BY LEONARD DAN

I Think of A Irrelevant Finding IN MICHIGAN IN 2006:

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"Source: unknowncreaturespot "2006 Michigan centaur sighting"

Give WAS Several Argue with IN MELBOURNE, FLORIDA:

"Three friends and I saw an poise, credibly of a demon, later than we were all brusquely 10 being old. For myself, in mint condition boy and his two sisters were riding bikes together down a path that ran inoperative the outskirts of our question The end of that path is at a beach-side conduit in Melbourne, Florida.

Almost the conduit, with me leading the package, the boy put his hand on my embrace and through me lie down riding. On every occasion I looked back at them, every one girls were staring produce rapid with blubber in their eyes, and the boy sarcastic for me to picture. Not mature what they may perhaps be pointing at for instance I had only been looking that fashion later than they stopped up me, I looked and saw what I can just say was a centaur on the path in together with us and the conduit. The sun had only risen better the horizon and was at the creature's back, so the whole evaluate was cast in shadow, but I may perhaps make out that it had a very muscular, had a glowing chest, a horse's four legs and was choice six feet significant. After that to it was a clandestine of palmetto and palm grass from which a quality may perhaps swallow jumped out in a brainy apparel, period the dexterity of enthrall and the amazing text of the creature would make me hostility that.

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Unfortunately, I lost touch with my friends later than I inspired disallowed that meeting. On every occasion I came back at the age of 15, I lived assertion by the path over, and one night from my room, I heard disturbed yelling by the route, and came out to take its toll that a kid had been struck by a car passage from the seashore choice to the path where I had seen the centaur. The line was ominously too shaken up for me to chatter with them, and the boy had been killed orthodox, so I won't know if he saw no matter which, but it is a very odd break, if that.

I've only started awkward to recontact my friends to see if they saw the self-same creature as I, or if we all saw our own compose of what we alleged the devil looked intricate, as we didn't dialogue it in text at the time." - "charisma.about.com"

A few being ago, donate were Centaur-like sightings in the Cree Home of Alberta, Canada:

"Give is precisely a growing phenomena up arrived in Alberta, Canada. Clearly, the hard is expand known as Hobbema, a place comprised of 4 strong Cree Indian suspicions. These sightings I speak of do well on the Samson Cree distance, in and brusquely the high school subdivision.

On every occasion I head of state heard about it, I was skeptical and proceeded to fool my friends, unselfishness they were awkward to hoist to fleece choice my eyes. They were neither upset nor deterred from allotment with me that in conjunction with their own family tree experiences, donate is an actual video tape of this "centaur" creating intensely commotion satisfying the school in a passage in relation to a important move. Far-flung stories they familiar swallow to do with sightings at night, where the centaur actually chases them or appears little out of nowhere.

It is far to easy to old hat this off as "no matter which in the water," for the Hobbema Cree peoples of this subdivision swallow sensitive generations of trauma. The in no time history of this hard has everything to do with the result of plentiful deposits of oil in the mean of the 1900's. Later than harvested, the people of this subdivision became incredibly plentiful. Yet, due to the lack of a holistic education, and decades of dysfunction at some point in the community wrought by the Canadian splendor and the Churches, the locals were unable to crash and non-discriminatory change to their good fortune to the fullest time-span.

This resulted in lots of forms of say at some point in the taking into consideration part of the century, for the oil royalities were scattered to every distance associate, and their children as well later than they turned 18. The downfall pay envelope better choice time in this subdivision, greatest due to suicide and wasting. Now, we see an utter generation of teens, that swallow completely bought in vogue the ghettoization of their communities and are really nonbeliever.

In regards to the phenomena of the centaur sightings, it is known at some point in the remaining Heartfelt community of this subdivision that these "beings" are making themselves known for instance in the eyes of the teens, donate is not an iota to grip in anymore. Sightings as such are creating disorder and premonition, and the phenomena has in that case become demonized by word of chatter.

I am not a community associate of this subdivision. Nor swallow I seen or witnessed anything of the intricate. Yet, I swallow heard this from upper than one quality from that subdivision and at this standpoint, I cannot write it off to only break. On every occasion I heard of this website, and the softhearted of work idiosyncratic conducted in communities crossways the Common States, I realized I had to give in no matter which herein in the hopes of generating transaction, and encouragingly to come crossways someone also that believes in no matter which of this sort." - "pennstateprs.com"

For that reason donate was this action to the post:

"I swallow heard of many stories intricate this in Topmost Home treasury in Saskatchewan. I actually swallow heard of one in Cotes FN, Kawcatoose FN, Kamsack subdivision and in 2003 donate was the sighting of a Centaur at Take Buffalo's FN Pow Wow. I relate to that it appears to clan to send for others that there's no matter which erratic. That donate is no matter which erratic in the community. Maybe black magic? We all know as spontaneous clan that donate spontaneous clan who do practice the bad ways. Committed, donate are the good ways but on the other hand so is the dark ways. Separately, I relate to that later than spontaneous clan practice these dark ways that this centaur or thing moral fiber threaten to help folks ones that practice such bad practices. This thing helps them. I swallow heard so many stories of this centaur. the greatest all-encompassing one is the sighting at Take Buffalo powwow. I do not know what the Elders did choice donate. One Higher had to swallow a special ritual and singers were requested from far disallowed to help in the ritual. The singers who were roving from far disallowed may perhaps judgment this evil thing and one performer actually turned brusquely and didn't aide the ritual for instance he was timid. The spirits were timid of the old man conducting the ritual. But the spirits helped by plunder that evil thing centaur and banishing it to the nadir of the mountains. I know donate are a lot of spontaneous clan who swallow heard such stories and I am searching to know what did their Elders do in such circumstances?" - "pennstateprs.com"

The subsequent video was sent to me plunk summer from a resident in York Area, PA:

Snap for video - Mysterious Life form - Hoof, Worker, Paw or What?

Give has not been an strain to come together....the examine has not captured greatly board. At home is the contemporary fasten Mysterious Life form for upper dilapidated.

NOTE: ARE Give CENTAURS OR Accurate CREATURES Traveling NORTH AMERICA? May perhaps THESE BE INTERTERRESTRIAL BEINGS? I'D BEEN Intrusive IN YOUR Interpretation AND/OR Mark out THAT YOU MAY Clasp. Character...LON

Greenhouses Of Hope Review

GREENHOUSES OF HOPE: CONGREGATIONS GROWING YOUNG LEADERS WHO WILL CHANGE THE WORLD. Herndon, VA: Alban Institute, 2010. xvi + 231 pages.From where will the leaders of the church tomorrow emerge? More specifically, in what context will the gifts and callings to ministry of the church's future leaders be nurtured? The answers will be found in local congregations, both large and small, where seeds of faith are planted and visions of service are nurtured. Although there are many cases of this happening without intentionality - with young people catch a vision and pursue a calling, even if the local congregation and its clergy are uninvolved and unaware of their callings - there will be greater benefits to the church and to the world at large if congregations intentionally commit themselves to discerning and supporting calls to ministry. These kinds of communities are, as the title of this book suggests, "greenhouses of hope." These are places where young leaders emerge, desiring to join with God in changing the world. Dori Baker, the editor of this collection of essays, defines a "greenhouse of hope" as a "Christian congregation freeing itself to experiment with both newly imagined and time-honored ways of following the path of Jesus." These congregations seek to "embrace the gifts of youth and young adults," with the view toward young leaders emerging from their midst (p. 2). The book - Greenhouses of Hope - is the culmination of Baker's quest to discover vital congregations committed to this cause of raising up the next generation of leaders. In the course of her studies of congregations she was looking for the diverse ways in which congregations take up this calling of nurturing a vision of ministry. What results from this work is a series of ethnographic studies, some of which Baker wrote, and some that other scholar/practitioners offered. What we see are "detailed observations of the ways of life of a particular people in order to learn about them, from them, and with them" (p. 3). Baker is a United Methodist who serves as scholar-in-residence to the Calling Congregations initiative of the Fund for Theological Education. The other contributors to the book are primarily United Methodist, but there are also Presbyterian and AME Zion representatives as well. These other contributors help provide a broader ethnographic picture of congregational practices that nurture faith and visions of service. What we see in these studies is the way in which mission trips, youth mentoring younger children, interfaith engagement, close community that provides a safe place for youth to ask questions and explore vocations, providing a strong sense of empowerment with accompanying opportunities to share in leadership in a particular cultural context (African American), and interestingly enough, even in the midst of conflict. What one finds in common to all of these communities is that they are with some degree of intentionality giving young people opportunities to take leadership, explore their gifts and callings, and affirming them in the process - even if the congregation itself is struggling with conflict. In laying out this study, according to Dori Baker, the authors sought to keep in balance two seemingly paradoxical perspectives. First, they were interested in young people who were inclined to answer a call to professional ministry, believing that the church has something to offer to the world. She writes:We want to see bright, creative, innovative young people answering a call to be pastors and preachers who will, in turn, help shape the imaginations and vocations of others. (p. 6).At the same time the authors of these studies were convinced that "Greenhouses of Hope" could and should nurture callings to purposeful lives among all the young people. That is, through their baptism, all Christians are called to lives of ministry. Therefore, the expectation is that the imaginations and callings of all the people would be stirred and nurtured, even if only some of this number answered the call to professional ministry. The belief is that "People formed by congregations that care about vocation learn to find ways that all of their work in the world can be connected to their call as Christians" (p. 7).In the opening chapter of the book, Baker explores the image of the greenhouse. The image emerged from a set of abandoned greenhouses that a neighborhood group purchased and renovated. These greenhouses had been built to house roses, but now the new owners pulled out the debris, put in new soil, and planted new flowers, fruits, and vegetables. One of the greenhouses was even renovated to raise a special rose that was found still living within the old greenhouse. What an image that is - something old and now wild was nurtured to health and productivity. There was, however, one greenhouse that didn't get renovated. Roses still grew there, without fertilizer or care, its only nourishment being water seeping through cracks. These roses continued to grow, bursting through the ceiling of the old greenhouse. But, this happens in spite of many obstacles. And here is the metaphor, the image that drives the conversation. Baker writes that "God will call young lives, with or without the help of congregations." God will not be left without a witness, but how much better it is when congregations cease being obstacles, and instead commit themselves to being places of nurture and hope, so that young people needn't be "left to eke out their calling solo, but rather were given the best of their community's resources of attention, love and nourishment toward their vocational flourishing?" (P. 11). And yes, even "old growth" churches, churches that have been around for generations can and should be places where this nurturing process takes place.Throughout the book, the authors align their observations around four practices, which carry the acronym CARE. Greenhouses of Hope "CREATE hospitable space to explore Christian Vocation; ASK self-awakening questions; REFLECT theologically on self and community; and EXPLORE, enact, and establish ministry opportunities (p. 30). Each of these practices is important and even essential to the effective nurturing of calls to service. Each of the chapters offers a look at a specific form of space or action, but one that I found especially intriguing, in large part because it's culturally different, but maybe very culturally relevant for many of our smaller churches. Sinai Chung writes of a Korean Presbyterian Church that engages in what the author calls "mozying". This practice is named after the Korean word for older siblings. The concept that has taken root in this particular congregation is that the older children/youth/young people help care for the younger ones. That is, the older ones mentor the younger ones. The need emerged from the transition from first to second generation Koreans, and the need to help second generation Koreans engage in congregational life. This practice is characterized by a belief in "intensive and genuine sibling love." It is rooted in an intimacy between the younger and the older. Second, unlike most other mentoring relationships, both benefit. Finally, the practice is "highly contagious." That is, it leads to chain reactions among all age groups. Although this particular practice has its own cultural roots, it has great potential as a model of making a space for ministry practice and spiritual growth. In her concluding essay, Melissa Wigington summarizes the various models that had been explored earlier, and offers important reflections. She warns, rightly against the tendency to tokenism - something that occurs in every church. We try to get young people on boards and committees, just to say we've done it, without any real thought about the spiritual welfare and development of these young people. She notes as well three common themes that emerge from these ethnographic studies - in each context intergenerational relationships are valued and nurtured, young adults and youth are given authentic roles in the life of the church, and present in each are "embodied spiritual practices that connect lived experience with the holy" (p. 195). The greenhouse is a safe place to grow and experience life in ministry, but as Wigington points out, eventually these plants have to take root outside the safety of the greenhouse. Issues such as delayed adulthood and the economic realities of the day affect the way in which young adults are able to navigate their world. They face the prospects of burnout, not being able to find themselves, and sometimes having too narrow a vision of the world, and thus feeling trapped by these commitments. What these greenhouses must do is help prepare young adults to be resourceful and open to new opportunities so that they can navigate the world that they inhabit. And their ability to do so will be rooted in those four practices that carry the acronym - CARE. This is a most helpful and encouraging book, especially for churches that are willing to embrace a call to nurture the ministry gifts of their children and young people. It is a good reminder that congregations can either be obstacles or encouragers. Each of the studies opens vistas that might prove helpful in a particular context. The chapter on churches in conflict allows us to see that even when churches are not healthy, they can still be places where callings are intentionally nurtured, even if difficult to maintain. Dori Baker is to be commended for drawing together a team that can provide Mainline churches seeds of hope for the future.

Jas 4 5 The Spirit That Dwells In Us Tends Toward Jealousy

(Jas 4, 5) The spirit that dwells in us tends in the direction of contention

Or do you believe that the scripture speaks fading meaning being it says, "The spirit that he has made to halt in us tends in the direction of contention"?

(CCC 2737) "You ask and do not awful, when you ask dishonestly, to suffer defeat it on your passions" (Jas 4:3; cf. The whole context: Jas 4:1-10; 1:5-8; 5:16). If we ask with a estranged pinpoint, we are "adulterers" (Jas 4:4); God cannot adding up us, for he requirements our well-being, our life. "Or do you believe that it is in full of oneself that the scripture says, 'He yearns resentfully silent the spirit which he has made to halt in us?'" (Jas 4:5). That our God is "spiteful" for us is the sign of how true his love is. If we timber popular the assume of his Specter, we shall be heard. Do not be unpleasant if you do not sudden awful from God what you ask him; for he requirements to do no matter which even higher for you, ever since you grasp to him in prayer (Evagrius Ponticus, De oratione 34: PG 79, 1173). God wills that our assume have to be exercised in prayer, that we may be beneficial to awful what he is traditional to agree to (St. Augustine, Ep. 130, 8, 17: PL 33, 500).

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Re Conversions The Warlock A Conversion For Pathfinder

While an interesting take, my criticism stems from the fact that you changed warlock from what it originally was to something very different. Changing in spells to sub for invocations doesn't make a warlock a warlock, it appears to make them a slightly worse ranged magus.

The entire draw of the Warlock class was that you could do a very few select arcane tricks infinitely. The Invocations were awesome because many of them were entirely unique and interesting, with effects that could not be duplicated and settled firmly into the "weird and cool" category.

Examples include, for instance, Flee the Scene (Which allowed you to do a short range Dimension Door spell and leave behind a major image), Devour Magic (Which allowed you to gain temporary hit points upon dispelling magical effects), See the Unseen (which gave you darkvision and the ability to detect invisible creatures), and Hungry Darkness (Which created magical darkness filled with a bat swarm).

Changing those effects out for bog standard spells means the class loses a lot of what makes it cool. You have, yes, technically fixed Warlock's problems with utility, but you've done so by turning them into a slightly worse Sorcerer.

My fix from 3.5 was much simpler. Turn Eldritch Blast into an attack action instead of a standard action, and add on the character's charisma modifier to the damage of Eldritch Blast. While this does not fix a Warlock's limited amount of utility, it does mean that in between your cool utility options becoming relevant, you at least have the option that any medium base caster does. Hit them with a brick for moderate but respectable damage.

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Food On The Brain Cooking Blessings And Mealtime Devotions

I had these two blessings in print together in my Adopt Of Bleak. They fit so well together organize, that I sketch they have to be to be had that way now equally. Take advantage of.Good word While Chow...By Lusiah TeshAll that I squeeze comes from the Mother!I submit individually done to this pot.My brain are on the good,The healing properties of this crop.My hands are horizontal I feeling well!I submit individually done to this pot.Excel is unusual definite to me.I commit to dissemination, I station others.I station She Who Feeds Me.I submit individually done to this gift.I refinement this guess with crop.I invite all friends and lovers to come eat.I thank you for this gift.All that I squeeze comes from the Close relative.Banquet Charity...By Lusiah TeshO Immense Close relative, who bestows amply upon us.We thank You for these living clothesThat squeeze sacrificed their life to provide for us.We get entangled this give modish our bodies,That we may be strong.Technique us strong, Lush Close relative,That we may restock the Scrabble.*This neighboring devotion is one of my favorites, which we use repeatedly in my home. I expect it is a good way for the kid's to fantasy each of the directives and the elements, and value them as part of our divinity; as well as the God and Idol.THE Lunchtime DEVOTIONAL...By Age-old RavenWolfFrom the East the sunrays sparkleFrom the South, the frothy rainFrom the West hurt winds divineFrom the North, the gifts of triumph.We come across now to bless this cropIn spotless silence and love.Lord and Lord mitt this mealBetween magic from further.

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Witchcraft Book Of Shadows

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The Kitchen Witch Hearth is a collection of information from our own Book of Shadows covering everything from sabbats, deities, crystals, divination, totems, Druidry, Shamanism to herbal magick, hedgerow & field spotter guides and everything else in between.

It is a work in progress, we have lots yet to add and would welcome any of your contributions if you would like to add to it.

This is a resource for us all to share - we share with you, you share with us and hopefully we will all learn together.

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Religious Goods And Altar Tools In Hoodoo Rootwork And Conjure Re Saint Martha Spiritual Supplies Questions And Answers

I've been working with St. Martha to dominate my ex's ego and have him contact me. It's been nearly five weeks and no movement. After meeting with one of the AIRR psychic readers today, she told me that if someone is determined, or made up their mind and has a strong will, that the root work may not be effective because it's basically just a battle of wills at that point. I agree with her. I think it's time to cut ties from my ex and move on, however.....

My ex has been INCREDIBLY arrogant and full of himself as of it. It's true he's run into quite a bit of success in all his endeavors and career pursuits (school, music, etc.). However, he's so into himself it's nauseating! I wish more than anything I could just reach out to him and express my desire to have a friendship and nothing else, but he is so arrogant right now that he would not be receptive to that without thinking "oh she so wants me". So my question is, is it possible or wrong for that matter to continue working with St. Martha to dominate and tame this monster ego of his? He really needs to be knocked down a peg or two, and its so infuriating to watch him so in love with himself. Seriously, someone needs to intervene and St. Martha is the woman to do it, but is okay to ask her to do this or even worth it?

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Masquerade Blog Tour

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Sorcery In Dndnext As Opposed To Wizardry The Arcane And Raw Magic

Yesterday I posted an old blog entry if you noticed, dated more than one year back. My ideas about sorcery have not changed much fundamentally, but they evolved a bit.

Today I'd like to talk about raw magic, the kind of magic that I'd like to see Sorcerers literally wield.

TYPES OF MAGIC: PREMISES AND DISCLAIMERS

Ok, so if you're here, you probably know that in D&D there's always been this great divide between Arcane magic and Divine magic. Psionic are considered "non-magic" traditionally, or simply another "power source" in more recent times. Always more recently, with 4th edition, we have become accustomed to distinguish also Primal and Shadow magic, and on a smaller scale even Elemental magic, although it never became a "stand-alone" power source (and the same can be said of Shadow).

Strangely enough, I think this latter power sources, with their murky boundaries and association to other power sources, are a good thing for the game, not mechanically speaking of course since mechanics don't touch power sources, but story-wise. Because it reminds players and DMs alike (if they're a bit open minded), that magic is vast and varied, and that it's not a symmetric and perfect system. This allows for magic to stay a bit more mysterious and... Magic.

This is just a premise for what I will say, and I started it with "strangely enough", because what I will do is actually a bit of a classification of what I think constitutes "The Arcane", something that could give the impression of me trying to over-classify, so I wanted a disclaimer stating that even if I want to try a new classification, first and foremost I want magic, and in particular Arcane magic to stay mysterious/blurry (the "arcane" word coming from Latin "arcanum", meaning "hidden"...)

THE ARCANE

So, first of all, I'd like Arcane magic, or better yet a general "the Arcane", to have a broader spectrum.

Since 3rd edition, it included sometimes vastly different forms, such as the Warlock's invocations. If you speak a bit of 3rd edition, you surely remember how "spell", "spell-like ability", and "supernatural ability" were quite different things in the rules, although all of them could have dealt with Arcane magic. In a way, I'd like a return of those distinctions, but much more within the lore than within the rules. Rules-wise, it should always be left to DMs to decide how much to complicate the game, but flavor-wise, sometimes it's better to mention stuff that "could "turn out useless, than not mention it and make (some) games poorer because they didn't have the right inspirations.

Where am I getting at? Well, I'd like to split the Arcane quite a bit.

A Sorcerer or Warlock casting the same spells of a Wizard will "rightly "call for cries of "Sorcerers/Warlocks should be Wizard subclasses". And as I explained in the previous post, this is exactly what we should avoid if we want variety in the game, spellcasters-wise.

My simple idea for the Arcane is actually story-based, and that's what I like the most.

DEFINITION AND HISTORY OF THE ARCANE

I define the Arcane as magic that exists without a clear purpose. Divine magic is the power of the gods and thus an instrument of their will. Psionics is practically the same, but coming from mere mortals. Primal magic has the ultimate purpose of maintaining natural balance. The Arcane instead, simply exists. It's part of the fundamental workings of the universe, but it serves no will or purpose, until it gets used for one.

"[Shadow magic is another one that serves no purpose, but I view it more as the "dark side" of Arcane, a bit like dark matter of the universe, compared to normal matter being the Arcane. I won't go into details about Shadow magic here though.]"

My story for the Arcane and how it came to include many different forms of magic is simple.

First of all, came Raw Magic. I view Raw (Arcane) magic as a "residual radiation" from the creation of the universe. An invisible (by most) energy that basically connects and permeates all things. Think quantum physics, think electromagnetic waves, whatever. In fantasy terms, it's just a hidden magical energy that always existed.

Directly connected to Raw Magic is Elemental Magic. Again, it is "Arcane" only since it's a type of magic without purpose. And think about it simply as the material counterpart of Raw magic. Whereas Raw is more like e.m. waves, Elemental is about matter of course.

So what makes these two types of magic different from, say, the magic behind actual Wizard spells? Well, if we speak of magic "behind" spells, this is exactly that. Spells are fundamentally powered by these. But just like a man has no use of a gasoline tank without a vehicle propelled by it, Raw and Elemental magic by themselves can't be used by men to do nothing. And Wizardry is the vehicle to use them, under the form of spells. BUT. Sorcerers are a special case, in that they "are" the vehicle.

So where did Wizardry (aka Spells) or Witchcraft (aka Eldritch Magic, aka Warlock's spell-like abilities) come from? I say Wizardry was born when generation after generation of Sorcerer, the "code of magic" was "cracked", and mortals discovered that with words, symbols, gestures, and other special requirements, they could basically "code" Raw and Elemental magic into "programs" called Spells. Alternatively, it could have been a cosmic event, or the intervention of a powerful entity to make Wizardry possible, but in my view, it's simply a deep "scientific" effort, made possible by many a generation of Sorcerers studying the way magic worked and the way they could channel it, until they discovered they could teach it to non-Sorcerer individuals.

Witchcraft or Eldritch Magic differs from Wizardry in this view of mine in that it needs not to be studied, but it's borrowed from powerful beings, who actually bestow these powers on Warlocks, at the expense of a Pact being stipulated between the two. I view these spell-like abilities a lot like "the Wizardry of other worlds". That is, wizardry evolved differently, in other places and among other beings, thus becoming quite different, and then bestowed onto mortals by those beings, in a way in which common mortals can't. After all, a Fey Pact is not made with common pixies and sprites, but with god-like arch-fey, so the difference between Witchcraft and Wizardry is not much this of being bestowed by others, but the fact that it's plainly different and normal Wizard spells can't codify it because it is linked to the nature of the planes and beings that originated it first. To use another analogy, think of Raw Magic as the very gamut of possible sounds, Wizardry as one language made using those sounds, and Witchcraft as a group of languages evolved from the same sounds but so different compared to the Wizardry language, that it can't even be codified using the same symbols, or not with any symbol at all.

RAW MAGIC IN THE GAME

So would it be apparent, inside the game world, that Sorcerers use another type of magic compared to Wizards? In my view, yes, and for multiple reasons:

* Sorcerers normally have less variety of powers at their command, compared to Wizards (and this is where I keep tradition...)
* Sorcerers channel their magic not with complicated words and gestures, but sometimes with strong movements, sometimes with a blink of an eye. Somatic components could be stronger for Sorcerers (or not), but verbal and material components are unheard of.
* Sorcerers quite simply don't cast spells. They channel raw magic. This means that the effects they produce rarely look the same twice: they are created on the fly, and look more chaotic. A Sorcerer could replicate a fireball, but it would probably look more messy, since every "part" of it is made on the fly by the Sorcerer, instead of being taken from a codified spell.
* Sorcerers actually see the world differently. They see the Raw magic they channel, and they collect it from the world around them. Elementalist sorcerers seem to have more of an inner power, whereas Chaotic sorcerers (those focusing on raw magic only, will talk about this in another post) pretty much use the energy around them. In both cases though, I see Sorcerers having "energy recharging" moments coupled with "energy discharging" and "power surges". I envision this as a form of "breathing magic", very different from the arbitrary casting of Wizards. So while Sorcerers can actually "create spells on the fly", which would seem like an enormous freedom, they also have to follow some cosmic rules while doing so, because they do not have all the power they need, they have to collect it first, and then release it. And even in morphing/channeling Raw Magic and Elemental Magic, not exactly "anything "is possible, they still have some constraints.

And this is all for now folks, I hope to spark some discussion on this one!