Written by Before there were candles on altars or circles cast in salt, before there were books of correspondences or crystals arranged by intention, there was the human voice.
Every tradition of magic and spiritual practice that has ever existed uses sound. Drumming, chanting, singing, humming, toning, the ringing of bells, the crack of a clapper, the whispered charm. The world’s oldest known musical instruments, bone flutes found in cave sites in Germany and Slovenia, dated to around 40,000 years ago, were found alongside evidence of ritual and ceremony. Whoever made those flutes was not only making music. They were doing something sacred with sound.
We have largely forgotten this. In the modern world, music is entertainment, background,