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Magic, as it is understood at modern religious organisations, has less or nothing in common with the "witch schools" which are well known to the public by cinema or fantasy books up to now.
It is more a collection of the natural psychic gifts of every being which too often cannot be explained by scientific means alone. Thus, our deal with magic more is kind of development of one's own personality. Of course the Self of every being isn't to be divided from environment surrounding us. By this, magic study at the Medusa Iseum isn't an excercise in 'watching the own belly'. Magic is exchange, a Give and Take; it helps us to understand we're a part of the Great Whole "Earth".

White and black Magic doesn't exist by opinion of us here in the Lyceum.
Magic is a tool which is neither good nor bad. Of course, there always exist humans with good or bad intentions. Thus there are some mages who act ruthless and are interested only in their own benefit. Those maybe could be denoted as black mages. In contrast we who care about some fundamental rules of peaceful coexistence here on Earth then would be white mages.

In the Fellowship of Isis a rule is to respect the Free Will of all beings. Already at time of the Medusa Iseum some of my students were surprised a supposedly harmless "love spell" was not ok (think about why!).
It is also a very basic rule for us, everybody who takes part in a meeting or rites at all times must feel safe. Nobody should do something which she or he doesn't want to attend. Rites are not mandatory but can be adapted to personal needs. Rites are not of "god-given" but have been written down by inspired humans.
Free Will will also be respected for beings without physical bodies. It is not ok to ban a faerie, an elementary being or a ghost to force it to do some service.