How Witchcraft & Sorcery Parody Moral Government 101

From Got Questions.org: Like the whole book of Psalms, the psalms of lament follow a pattern that begins with suffering and ends with glory. Usually, these songs start on a negative, complaining note, but they end on a positive, faith-filled note.


Suzerain Covenant Outline


Shema

Historical Prologue 

General Stipulations 

Specific Stipulations 

Covenant Renewal

Document Clause 

Witnesses

Victory Statement 


A Witch’s/Witchcraft Contractual Malediction reverses the outline of a suzerain covenant & is intended by the user to parody a suzerain covenant. 


Victory Statement 

  • Imprecation(s) delighting in the fall/suffering/destruction of their enemies. This sometimes gets quite specific.

Witnesses 

  • Names one or more of their enemies & even themselves (especially for those witches / sorcerers for whom wearing their personal &/or communal  suffering is a badge of (unhonor, dishonor, &tc. 

Document Clause 

  • The witch(es)’ real &/or imagined sacrifice.   It isn’t unusual for them to sacrifice something that they believe they own but do not.  

Covenantal Renewal 

  • Includes a chaining clause in which they voluntarily or involuntarily chain themselves to one or more of their own &/or pseudodeities.  Sometimes they will even impose this chain upon their target pseudodeity pseudodeities as a parody of how God Himself imposes His covenant on us.  

Specific Stipulations 

  • Specific manifesto that often includes a list of specific people, places, things, &tc that they have either stolen already or plan or desire or plan to desire to threaten,
  • steal, destroy, own, conquer, enslave, abuse, etc. (once that know this/that/it/them/&tc.

General Stipulations 

  • General Manifesto that often includes a list of specific people, places, things, &tc that they have either stolen already or plan or desire or plan to desire to threaten, steal, destroy, own, conquer, enslave, abuse, etc. (once they/that/them know this/that/it/them/&tc)

Historical Prologue 

  • Can be of any length; Might or might not be objectively true. 
  • At times waxes “Yea Verily” (especially in Pseudo-Mormon Witchcraft/Sorcery)

Shema 

  • “I am / AM an Exhalted Man, etc.” 
  • Usually is about the witch/witches’/et.al’s (alleged/real/imagined (pseudo) glory. 


These sort of prayers sometimes seek to parody, in addition to one another, the text of one or more bona fide suzerain covenants, up to & including those in one or more testaments of the Bible, &/or Magna Carta, &/or any number of documents, even abstract thoughts, that are written in suzerain covenant/treaty form.    Since the prayer/spell/malediction parody’s a legal treaty/legislative form, it qualifies as (un/anti-legislation) that parodies the 3fold use of both the Law & Gospel & operates along multiple levels of (immoral/amoral/anti-moral) government. 

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