Another great essay by Vanessa Irena. I love how her mind works and makes connections between things. 🖤

“Magical practice is also an art, and its formal constraints generate the same eros. The magic circle concentrates the encounter, heightens attention and sensation within the boundary, and mediates contact with overwhelming or dangerous forces. It facilitates the ecstasies of spirit flight by protecting the physical body of the witch. The spirit pact takes this even further. Its conditions are often initiatic: rendering a person something more than human; disassembling them completely to produce someone new.”