The Bible & Conjuring
I know a lot of folks have issues with Christians and the church. The thing is that the church is man-made. Man rules the churches. Most of the folks that go to church worry about what they are going to wear or what Dick and Jane are doing; than what Gods word is saying. I’ve never had a bad experience with Christians or the church and I’m shocked to hear that so many have, but the thing is humans run these churches and to err is human. The thing is you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water if you want to be a Conjurer. The Bible is the meat of Conjure; it is the power behind the work. Some would argue this point and that is their right to do so.
The Bible is a book of power, if you want to learn Traditional Conjure then you must work with the Bible. Actually I was taught to work with the Old Testament and that is what I work with, although there are something’s in the New Testament that I have learned to work with. You don’t have to be a Christian, you can be anything you want to be but if you are going to claim to be a Conjure worker you need to know how to do the work. Why would you want to waste your time doing some watered down mess when you can do the real deal?
That book we call a Bible is a Tome of power, and when you pray the chapters and verses over your work you are creating a powerful force, one that will get the job done. You don’t ever have to set foot in a church if you choose not to, just work with the Bible. God has many names and I personally don’t care what name you call him or her as long as you do Conjure the way the work is supposed to be done. If you have to change it to suit you then you need to find something else that works for you! Plain and simple! Prayer builds power and power leads to success! I know some folks don’t know how to pray, so if you are one of those folks then just start out by talking. Say what is in your heart, don’t worry about if you are doing it right or not. Just DO IT! You have to start somewhere. Conjure is not a religion but it is built around the Bible, the Trinity and prayer.
I can’t speak for the folks in Africa because I have never been there although I did have a lady come all the way from Africa to learn from me; she stayed the whole weekend with me. I ask her about this type of work over there and she told me that if you got caught doing this work where she is from you could be stoned by the people and even run out of town. If it is a lie she is the one that told it. One thing I do know is that he Bible is part of Conjure maybe not in what folks are calling New Orleans Hoodoo but it is in Southern Conjure.
I don’t dispute the fact that when the ancestors were stolen from Africa they were not Christian. I’m sure they weren’t; but I know my history of the South. I was raised on it. This was a whole new world to them. Different language, different food, different clothes, different houses, DIFFERENT ROOTS AND HERBS, everything in this new world of horror was different. The only thing that couldn’t be taken from them was their KNOWLEDGE! It is obvious that they held on to some of their knowledge because we still practice Conjure today; but let’s be honest just for a minute. Let’s go back in time and take a look at the real horror these great Ancestors who endured a brutality not many could survive.
When they were captured they were chained in the bottom of the ship, they were allowed to wash when the body odor became so bad the sailors couldn’t stand the smell any longer. My dogs are kept better than these Ancestors were. Then once they reached the Carolina’s that wasn’t much better. They were stood up on platforms and inspected the way you would cattle. They checked their teeth, privates and God only knows what else was done to them. Then they were sold. They became the property of another human and “I question that”. So woo hoo we be home! If you believe that then you better go read your history books.
They had no homes, they lived in shacks. They were abused and treated less than animals; so do you REALLY believe they were allowed to keep their religion. They would have been looked at as devils or witches; if they would have lived after those Christians “I use the term lightly” got done with them. Unless you have lived in the South you really can’t comprehend how it really is. I’m talking about Georgia on up to the Carolina’s; even today in 2012 it’s a whole different world than the rest of the U.S. I will never believe that they were allowed to have their religious ceremonies amongst their Christian owners. They were smarter than their owners gave them credit and brought Christianity into the work or hid the work inside of Christianity. Conjure is a lot more than what some see as spell work. There are remedies and such that go along with the work; it is a way of life. It is not only about the work. If you try to remove the Bible out of Hoodoo/ Conjure then you are NOT doing Southern Conjure work. You can’t separate the two because our Ancestors hid the work in Christianity. I can’t speak for New Orleans Voodoo/ Hoodoo which folks see as the same thing or that they interchange but I stand firm about Southern Hoodoo/ Conjure.
I don’t claim to know it all nor do I claim to have a bunch of PHD’s next to my name; I have something that money can’t buy; the knowledge that has been handed down through my family and my elders. I believe that the Bible is part of the work and always has been. This is what I have seen growing up in a Southern family.
Source
The Conjure Workbook Volume 1: Working the Root
Starr Casas
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