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The Witches Pyramid is a set of four principles that are very important to successful magic: to know, to will, to dare, to keep silent.

To know
Do research on the kind of spell you’re trying to do. For Example, if you like to use candles in magic, read about what other people have done with candle magic. What steps so they go through? You don’t have to make your spell exactly like someone else’s, but if you notice everyone else is dressing their candles with oil while concentrating on their purpose (for example), it may be something that you want to try as well.
Also learn about the magickal correspondences for your tradition and use them in your spells. For example, if you were doing a love spell and you were a fan of the Norse pantheon, you might want to emphasize certain runes, invoke the goddess Freya, and do the spell on Friday (Freya’s Day). There are also correspondences in most traditions for colors, plants, animals, and times of day, seasons, and phases of the Moon, among other things. The more of these you can incorporate into your work, the more focused your energy will become.
GO over the spell in your mind a few times before you actually do it. Know what step comes next. If possible, memorize your lines.

To Will
Now that the spell is focused, YOU must be focused as well. If you throw a spell together at the last minute and do it half-heartedly while watching the X-files, no matter how skilled you are, you will get less “bang” from your magic than you would have if you prepared well and really concentrated on what you were doing. A regular practice of meditation will teach you to focus your mind, which will in turn fuel your magic much more effectively. You must have confidence in your spell for it to work. You must believe that you have done real magic and that real magic works. Your spell feeds off of your thoughts and energy, and if you don’t feed it well, it will die.

To Dare
It’s not only your conscious mind that has to believe in the spell, either. Any ambiguous thoughts you have lurking about will compromise your magic.
On the top of a sheet of paper, write what the spell is basically for: “A job. (For example)” Write down every thought that comes into your head about the spell topic. When you run out of ideas, read over your list. Are there any negatives in it? These are thoughts that will interfere with your spell unless they are dealt with.
The other part of daring is infusing your spell with some emotion. Emotion is energy. Feel something as you’re doing the spell. Give a fuck about how it turns out. If you don’t care, why should the Gods?

To Keep Silent
Now that you’ve done your spell, shut up about it. There are two reasons for this. One is that the energy you spend dwelling on it is energy that isn’t going to the spell itself. It’s more efficient to just think about something else and let your spell do its work. The other reason is that if you talk about your spell to someone who doesn’t believe in magic or who doesn’t want your spell to work for some reason, that person can undermine your confidence, which will weaken the spell.

Hear now the word of the Witches,
The secrets we hid in the night,
When dark was out destiny’s pathway,
That now we bring forth in the light.
Mysterious water and fire,
The earth and the wide-ranging air,
By hidden quintessence we know them,
And we will keep silent and dare.
The birth and rebirth of all nature,
The passing of winter and spring,
We share with the life universal,
Rejoice in the magickal ring.
Four times in the year of the great sabbat,
Returns, and the witches are seen,
At Lammas and candelas dancing,
On may eve and old Halloween
When the daytime and nighttime are equal,
When sun is at greatest and least,
The four lesser sabbats are summoned,
Again witches gather in feast.
Thirteen silver moons in a year are,
Thirteen in the coven array,
Thirteen times at esbat make merry,
For each golden year and a day.
The power has passed down the ages,
Each time between woman and man.
Each century unto the other,
Ere times and the ages began.
When drawn is the magickal circle,
By sword or athame of power,
The compass between two worlds lies,
In the land of shades of that hour.
Our would has no right to know it,
And the world beyond will tell naught,
The oldest of Gods are invoked there,
The great work of magick is wrought.
For two are the mystical pillars,
That stand at the gate of the shrine,
And tow are the powers of nature,
The forms and the forces divine.
And do what thou wilt be the challenge,
So be it in love that harms none,
For this is the only commandment,
By magick of old be it done.
Eight words the witches rede fulfill:
If it harms none, do what thou will!
By Doreen Valiente

1. Law of Knowledge: Understanding brings control, the more you know about a subject the easier is it so control it.
Knowledge is Power.
2. Law of Self: The most important magickal knowledge is about oneself, familiarity with one’s own strengths and weakness is vital to a magician.
Know Thyself.
3. Law of Cause and Effect: If exactly the same actions are done under exactly the same conditions, they will produce exactly the same results; similar strings of events produce similar outcomes.
Control every variable and you control every change.
Lots of luck.
4. Law of Synchrosity: Tow or more events happening at the same time are likely to have more associations in common than them merely temporal; events rarely happen in isolation from nearby events.
There is no such thing as a mere coincidence.
5. Law of Association: If any two or more patterns have elements in common, the patterns interact through those common elements, and control one pattern facilitates control over the other(s); the greater the commonality, the greater the influence.
Commonality controls.
6. Law of Sympathy: Things that have an affinity with each other influence and interact with each other over a distance.
Everything is connected to everything else.
7. Law of Similarity: Like produces like and an effect resembles its cause; having accurate image of something facilitates control over it.
Look-alikes are alike.
8. Law of Contagion: Objects or beings once in contact with each other continue to interact after separation.
Magick is contagious.
9. Law of Positive Attraction: Like attracts like; to create a particular reality you must put out energy of a similar sort.
That which is sent, returns.
10. Law of Negative Attraction: like attracts unlike; energy and actions often attract their complimentary opposites.
Opposites attract.
11. Law of Names: knowing the name, you know that which is named; knowing the complete and true name of an object, being or process gives one complete control over it.
What’s in a name? Everything!
12. Law of Words of Power: certain words are able to alter the internal and external realities of those uttering them, and their power may rest in the very sounds as much as their meanings.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
13. Law of Personification: any phenomenon may be considered to be alive and to have a personality that is to be and entity or being, and may be effectively dealt with thusly.
Anything can be a person.
14. Law of invocation: it is possible to establish internal communication with entities from either inside or outside of oneself, said entities seeming to be inside oneself during the communication process.
Beings with.
15. Law of evocation: it is possible to establish external communications with entities from either inside or outside oneself, said entities seeming to be outside of oneself during the communication process.
Beings without.
16. Law of Identification: it is possible through maximum association between the elements and oneself and those of another being to actually become that being to the point of sharing its knowledge and wielding its power.
You can become another.
17. Law of Infinite Data: the number of phenomena to be known is infinite; we will never run out of things to learn.
There is always something new.
18. Law of Finite Senses: every sense mechanism of every entity is limited to both range and type of data perceived.
Just because you cannot see it, does not mean it is not there.
19. Law of Personal Universe: everyone lives in and quite possibly creates a unique universe which can never be 100% identical to that lived in by another; so called reality is in fact a matter of consensus opinions.
You live in your cosmos and I will live in mine.
20. Law of Infinite Universe: the total number of universes into which all possible combinations of existing phenomena could be organized is infinite.
All things are possible, though some are more probable than others.
21. Law of Pragmatism: if a pattern of belief or behavior enables you to survive and accomplish chosen goals, than that belief or behavior is true and real or sensible on whatever levels of reality are involved.
If it works, it’s true.
22. Law of True Falsehoods: a concept or act may seem nonsensical and yet still be true, provided that it works in a specific context.
If it’s a paradox, it’s probably true.
23. Law of Polarity: any pattern of data can be split into at least two patterns with opposing characteristics, and each will contain the essence of the other within itself.
Everything contains its opposite.
24. Law of Synthesis: the synthesis of two or more opposing patterns of data will produce a new pattern that will be truer than either of the first ones were; that is, it will be applicable to more realities.
Synthesis reconciles.
25. Law of Dynamic Balance: to survive and become powerful, one must keep every aspect of one’s universe(s) in a state of dynamic balance with every other one; extremism is dangers on all levels of reality.
Dance to the music.
26. Law of Perversity: also known as Murphy’s Law; if anything can go wrong it will and in the most annoying manner possible.
If it can go wrong, it will.
27. Law of Unity: every phenomenon in existence is linked directly or indirectly to every other one, past, present, or future; perceived separations between phenomena are based on incomplete sensing and/or thinking.
All is one.
28. Law of Unintended Consequences: whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have at least three you never expected and one of those usually unpleasant.
There is always something else.

1. Be excellent to each other.
2. Prepare for being the compliment one to another as a oneness of service is a constructive manner ever (let not either be a drain on the other).
3. As helpmates, be forgiving, find the good; one that enable another to help her/himself has gained more than one that take a city.
4. Do not block the development of another.
5. Aid to others brings release, peace and harmony.
6. One will never find harmony by finding fault with what the other does.
7. Work towards oneness of purpose and spirituality in a complimentary manner to achieve and maintain wholeness.
8. One cannot change or improve anyone but their self.
9. One can only change their attitude about the other.
10. Unconditional love.
(Before one can accept others, one must accept themselves. Accepting that others are on their appropriate paths and that they are right for who they are. We must learn to accept and tolerate others as being part of oneself.)

Be: cheerful, forgiving, helpful, hopeful, supportive, optimistic.
Shun: criticism, condemnation, complaint.
Use: encouragement, gentleness, kindness, love, patience, tolerance.

1. Be true to your faith.
2. Stand up for your beliefs.
3. Defend the weak.
4. Love your country.
5. Show courage against opposition.
6. Oppose evil.
7. Do your duty.
8. Speak truth and keep your word.
9. Be generous to all.
10. Be the champion of the right and the good against injustice and evil.

Every witch is different, and as everything there is a variety of common things, in this case; belief structure or “religion.”

Kitchen Witch: Practices by home and hearth, mainly dealing with practical sides of the religion, magick, the element of the Earth.

Ceremonial Witch: Mainly use ceremonial magick in their practices. They commonly use Qabbalistic magick or Egyptian magick in their rituals.

Celtic Witch: Goes by the elements, the ancient ones and nature. They are usually healers or respect them highly. They work with plants, stones, flowers, trees, the elemental people, the gnomes and the fairies.

Eclectic Witch: Doesn’t follow a particular religion or tradition. They study and learn from many different systems and use what works best for them.

British Traditional Witch: A mix of Celtic and Gaurdenarian beliefs. They train through a degree process and the covens are usually co-ed.

Alexandrian Tradition: They are said to be modified Gardenearian.

Gardenarian Tradition: Follow a structured root in ceremony and practice. They aren’t as vocal as others and have a fairly foundational set of customs.

Dianic Tradition: Includes a lot of different traditions in one. Their prime focus nowadays is the Goddess. It is the more feminist side of the craft.

Pictish Tradition: Originally from Scotland and is a solitary form of the craft. It is more magickal in nature than it is in religion.

Hereditary Witch: Someone who has been taught the “old religion” through the generations of their family.

Calendonii Tradition: Also known as the Hecatine Tradition, its’ the denomination of the craft with a Scottish origin.

Pow Wow: Comes from south central Penssylavani and is a system based on a 400-year-old elite German magick. They concentrate on simple faith healing.

Solitary Witch: This is one who practices alone, with a coven, and follows any tradition.

Strega Witches: Originally coming from Italy are known to be the smallest group in the US. It is said that their craft is wise and beautiful.

1. Know your self.
2. Know your craft.
3. Learn.
4. Apply knowledge with wisdom.
5. Achieve balance.
6. Keep your words in good order.
7. Keep your thoughts in good order.
8. Celebrate life.
9. Attune with the cycles of the Earth.
10. Breathe and eat correctly.
11. Exercise the body.
12. Meditate.
13. Honor the God and Goddess.