Dagger or Fan

Here you'll see at first glance that a dagger is seen easily as a weapon and that a fan is not seen or even defined in this respect.  You should consider the usage.

If you take a moment and flip through all of the Weapons you'll find a certain common denominator. Knowledge=power.

When you ask yourself how the pain of obligation or the labor of preparation could be weapons?

Each of these leads to one similar conclusion. Knowledge.  The weapon is knowledge. We learn by work and effort.  We learn by mistakes and pain.

This is important to be considered at this point, because the weapon doesn't apply to your common everyday life.  It does, however apply to a spiritual nature of weapon.

Also in the realm and nature of meditation and path working (path working is a form of meditation where the images and symbols are predefined which bring the individual

to a specific area, very much like in a movie) what's heard, seen and otherwise communicated in a various multitude of aspects results as the experience of the work.

You don't need to be in the state of meditation here, to use the weapons that are listed. It works both ways.

You could be in a meditative state or you could just use them outright, without being in a meditative state.

Knowledge being strengthened/fortified allows the user to apply the energies in a way that gives force to the item (wand, cup, thought, dagger) itself, for its individually specified

functions, use and application.

For a more simplistic description I'll give the use of a weapon in the temple as in relation to, what are called, the workings of the spirit.

In the realm of the spirits (unseen universe) the dagger has an impact like no other weapon can have.

Actually it has a bunch of uses for drawing lines and angles that communicate in the invisible universe. 

With the proper application as mentally directed it can draw certain intended colors projected by the user also.

 It's also shown (by the user) to portray the achievement(s) of the adept (trained student) to the called in entities/creatures of the unseen universe.

Once the dagger is properly created, marked and consecrated it's not to be used for common purposes and should be considered a temple tool, used for its specific reason(s) alone. 

Not to open cans of paint or pry nails out of boards. With enough training and practice it's considered to have the power to dissipate/destroy a spirit. 

Although nothing is ever, actually, really destroyed. More like to spread its particles of being out to such a magnitude, that the entity is no longer able to reunify itself into that form

to which it had, throughout it's former existence/evolution.

This causes spirits to have a great deal of respect caution and even, what you might call fear from the tip of this particular dagger.  Being properly directed in the right hands.

Concerning the fan. You may want to consider what I just said, in the concept of blowing away or dissipating a spirit.

It's an important similarity in usage of temple and meditational working(s). 

It's known to many a Magus that entities will use smoke to appear in a relatively tangible, physical form.

This being the case as evidenced throughout millennia it's, hopefully, much easier to see how a fan is a weapon. 

It's far more dangerous on the spiritual plane than it appears on the physical. The level/degree of the student has much to do with the potency of the weapon.

I'm forced, to some degree, to be somewhat cryptic in several of my sections please forgive me for this. 

But be assured that this method is total assurance for some and frustrating confusion for others.

When you're confused by what you might consider missing then you're more compelled to seek out the answer(s).

What's just handed to you is thought of, by you, differently than what you've actually worked for.