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November 10, 2025

Prehistoric Hunting Spells to Hunt Money Today

Discover how cave painters used ritual art as survival magick — and how that primal instinct evolved into modern manifestation.

Written by
Leslie McQuade

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Before civilization, before kings and commerce, magic was survival.
On the cave walls of Lascaux, our ancestors painted bison and deer not as art, but as intention — spells in ochre and firelight.

Each animal image was a promise to the tribe: “We will eat. We will live.”
This was the first spellwork — the earliest expression of human will shaping reality.
These paintings were not religion as we know it, but practical spirituality.

Through rhythm, pigment, and trance, the hunter’s imagination became a bridge to the unseen.

They believed that what was drawn in the cave would appear in the hunt.

And they were right — not because of superstition, but because of focus, intention, and the unbroken current of human consciousness.

As humanity evolved, so did magick.

The same force that once ensured food became the energy of wealth, influence, and creation.

This current — the low magick of survival and prosperity — still flows today through what we now call Spellwork.

It’s the ancient art of turning thought into form, rooted in anthropology and psychology.
Low Magick aligns with the lower rungs of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:
food, shelter, stability, and community.

It is sacred because survival itself is sacred.

But humanity did not stop there.

As societies grew secure, attention turned inward and upward.

From the ashes of survival magick arose High Magick
the path of transformation, illumination, and divine communion.

Where Spellwork shapes the outer world, High Magick refines the inner.
It speaks to the higher levels of the pyramid —
creativity, wisdom, and self-transcendence.

Both are necessary.
A starving magician cannot meditate on the divine,
and a prosperous soul without purpose will still hunger.

Spellwork and High Magick are twin flames of the same fire:
one grounds, the other ascends.

When you study Spellwork, you are studying the root system of human consciousness —
the first magic that let us survive, adapt, and dream.

When you practice High Magick, you climb that same evolutionary tree toward the light.
Modern initiates who walk both paths consciously discover something remarkable:
manifestation and illumination are not opposites.

They are mirrors.

To feed the body with intention is to feed the soul with gratitude.

To align will with spirit is to remember that creation itself began as a spell.

So, the next time you visualize success, remember the hand that once painted bison on the wall of time.

You are the descendant of magicians who changed the world through imagination.
Your prosperity ritual is their hunt reborn.

And your consciousness — focused, awakened, radiant — is still the oldest tool in human history.

Spellwork meets the world. High Magick meets the Divine.

​​​​​​​Together, they complete the Great Work of being fully human.

Learn the anthropology and mastery of Spellwork → https://SpellworkMastery.com

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