Before reading this article you must be curious to know what a blank book of shadows is. learning about which would open you to many unknown powerful secrets. Well, ‘a blank book of shadows’ is a book where all the alphabets are written in a coded way to lock the secrets of witchcraft and wizardry forever from laymen.

These alphabets are written in a special style called the Theban alphabetic style. It is also known as the ‘runes of honorious’. This name has been derived from the name of its creator, Honorus of Thebes. These alphabets resemble certain pagan symbols. Very often some books of shadows were written in Wiccan alphabets because the community of witches and wizards wanted to keep away all others from trespassing in to their forte.

This was one common reason, why the witches in ancient times were brought publicly and prosecuted by the church. Fearing that their information may get leaked after their deaths they preferred writing the books in Theban alphabets completely. The beauty of these alphabets lies in their mysticism inducing factor.

The occult phenomena, in which they use to engage themselves, remained a mystery for a very long period of time. Whether these acts of magic were effective and constructive, no one knows.

If the writing of these ‘blank book of shadows’ are studied properly, it can give you a hint and an idea of the logical sequencing that followed. Some of these books are as old as 700 years. Some people say that they bear a close resemblance to Latin. In modern world, the people who still practice these forms of art convert the Latin alphabets into their native language to keep away prying eyes. These alphabets of the ‘book of shadows’ are also used by many for candle inscriptions, and for other magic employing tools.

Now its time that it must be revealed to you that nothing is completely magical and without any account. Nothing around us happens just without any logic. The early days’ witchcraft and wizardry may evoke a sense of awe in you, but this was just done in order to keep the formulae of absolute mind control, a secret forever.

Why should early day’s witches and wizards want the key to natural mind power, which they had found out, be so easily revealed to a lay man? Who would not want to enjoy absolute power and control over any earthly phenomenon?

But now it’s no more a secret and there are many ways in which you can learn this game of mind power which in ancient times was better known as voodoo or black magic- something so unparalleled, that no one can account for it.