If you've ever seen a "slasher" film, this scenario is going to be familiar to you: The mad, "pure evil" slasher comes after his victim with an axe. There's a loud "thump!" and a scream. The victim looks in horror at his shoulder, now issuing copious spurts of fake red blood. Jason Voorhees character from the Friday the 13th Movies © 2003 New Line Cinema There's no doubt. The mad monster is evil. Pure evil. There's no way he or his actions could be described other than calling him evil. *   *   *   * Let's move to a different film, a Western. It's been a long cattle drive. Curiously, the never-shoot-first hero's clothes are still white while everyone else's are dusty and dirty.

Yesterday I read a nice post on the subject of spirit evocation by Fra.AshenF.:N.:F. Basically, his position seems to be that the evocation of spirits is not proven when you Evoke a spirit for a purpose and You later obtain the purpose or think you get a message concerning that purpose. I believe this is fairly accurate. As Fra.AshenF.:N.:F. accurately points out, if you achieve your goal without seeing the spirit, how do you know you actually evoked a spirit? The successful results could have been caused by some other type of magick, such as sympathetic magick, triggered by your unsuccessful evocation. So the essence of spirit evocation is, well, directly communicating with