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I am curious as to why those who practice the Dark arts are always faced with stigma and vilification. I have been a practitioner for most of my life, and I have done nothing that would garner any form of negative Karma, and I have done nothing evil. i am a Master Necromancer, and I am also skilled with the arts of the Ancient Arch-Mages. the only things that I have not studied are Numerology, Astrology, I Ching, or Stone/crystal Magick. My studies have encompassed the Mysteries of Eygpt, the Secrets of the Semitic Mystics, and the Lost Arts of the Ancient Races, now long dead.
I have not raised anything that I couldn't put back and/or control, and no spell that I have done has ever been done "just because." So why is there a stigma on myself, and those extremely few who are like me?
My magicks are just as valid as anyone else's. I deserve recognition, same as any other Craft-worker. Magick is not one way or another. No-one has the right to segregate or discriminate against another's Craft, because it is ALL Magick.