If we analyse the principles of thought on which magick is based, they may be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. The first of these principles, infers we can produce any effect we desire merely by imitating it: from the second we can infer that whatever we do to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not. |
