So, someone recently asked why the name of this blog is Merlin's Hallow when Merlin's Hollow would "be more appropriate."
It's an appropriate question...
And admittedly, the word Hallow has come, essentially by default, to be used in modern English as a transitory verb defined as "paying homage to holiness" (as in "Hallowed be Thy name")...
But me being me - being a linguistically-symbolic kind of guy - I've been using Hallow in the archaic sense, as a noun - a Sacred Thing - in Magickal charms and incantations for nearly 30 years. I became enamored of the profound meaning of the word, studying the brilliant Arthurian/Hallowquest Tarot, and it still works quite well for me.
You see, there are two Essential Truths in Magick ...
1.) In the Ordinary World, Things are Symbols -
(Cars, clothes & sometimes spouses are an excellent examples of this: easily becoming Status Symbols for many folks.)
2.) In the Magickal World, Symbols are Things -
(Example: in Hinduism a Deity can be ritually invited to cross-over, entering into a statue, painting or other iconographic symbol - which becomes that actual Deity present in the ordinary, Material World. A similar process takes place when ordinary reality becomes affected Magickally-produced influences.
Thus, Magickal Rites & Spells utilize Thing-Symbols (objects, words, movement, etc) to coax the desired Thing/Personality/Idea/Event into crossing-over from the Magickal World, materializing as intended, in our Ordinary World.
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So you see ... sometimes what appears to be a mistake in grammer, or antiquated terminology can best convey the Thing Intended, itself.
Bledsians,
Merlin Emrys
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* Bledsians is Olde English for "Blessings"
Copyright © 2019 Merlin Emrys (aka W.A. Ryan)
Copyright © 2019 Merlin Emrys (aka W.A. Ryan)
