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Raising Power Drawing ambient energy (or specific energies such as solar or lunar) into the circle and the aura, using techniques such as drumming or chanting, preparatory to sending it to a specific goal.
Receptive Hand The left hand in right-handed persons, the reverse for left-handed persons. This is the hand through which energy is recieved into the body. The hand that is used when recieving gifts.
Reincarnation The doctrine of rebirth. The process of repeated incarnations in human form to allow evolution of the sexless, ageless soul.
Rhabdomancy Divination by a wand or diving rod.
Ritual A ritual is a co-ordinated series of events that ultimately leads to the accomplishment of a goal through means of magic and witchcraft.  
Ritual Consciousness A specific, alternate state of awareness necessary to the successful practice of magic.  The magickian achieves this through the use of visualisation and ritual.  It denotes a state in which the Conscious Mind and Psychic Mind are attuned, in which the magickian senses energies, gives them purpose and releases them toward the magickal goal.  It is a heightening of the senses, an awareness-expansion of the seemingly non-physical world, a linking with nature and with the forces behind all conceptions of Deity.
Ritualist One who takes part in ritual.
Runes (Old Norse, Old English, and Gaelic "run", "secret, mystery") the ancient Teutonic alphabet, which developed into various forms, including an Old English form introduced in England by the Angles and Saxons; the symbols of that alphabet used for divination; a chant, charm, or spell, used for magickal purposes (because writing was originally a secret Mystery)