Blood Magick & Scott Cunningham's Stupid Quote

This pic is from a Shiite sword and blood ritual called Ashoura

I heard at work of Brenda Crozier, who has a Youtube presence. I watched a video of hers where she was using her own blood in ritual. She has a quote from Scott Cunningham: "Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need".

Why would you discard negative or disturbing information? That's such a fundie thing to do! Here's some negative and disturbing information (I like it the best of all):

In Ritual Offerings, the consensus from knowledgeable magicians is to stay away from blood offerings. There's quite a bit of information, or warnings rather, about this, in the book. Warnings are disturbing and negative information, but if not heeded can lead to disturbing and negative experiences.

 

Yesterday I heard Joshua Cutchin, author of A Trojan Feast, on The Paracast. It was an excellent interview. It was brought up stories of people who had been offering "the faeries" or Genius Loci, or whatever, food offerings, and then let's say they then had to go in hospital or be away, and were unable to continue their offerings to the spirits. They allegedly had come back to find their livestock slaughtered. That's something to think about... This brought up cattle mutilations of course, which is more food for thought.

The other thing that is interesting to me is the story of Federick Hockley's. He was a 19th Century magician, student of Francis Barret, and perhaps the source of the Golden Dawn's Cipher Manuscript. It's interesting that his experiments caused him to turn from a Unitarian into a Trinitarian Christian with "a firm belief in the Virgin Birth". I came across the following bit on him in The Goetia of Dr Rudd by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine. Apparently Hockley, in one of his experiments "used blood from his own finger to supplement the fluid condenser in the glass receptacle which he was using for skrying. The experiment concluded with him almost losing control. The application of one's own blood by way of sacrifice is definitely not to be recommended."

I get the picture in my mind of crazy-eyed blood-lusting hungry ghosts, who if hungry enough, have the ability to be catalysts for acts of ultra-violence. Cool, eh?