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 MAGICK
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Aleister Crowley first suggested the spelling of magic with
a "k" to distinguish between side show/parlor trick
magic and occult magic.
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Magick involves working with the natural forces within and
around us to bring about change.
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To work with the natural forces at play in magick, one must
first understand and exercise these forces within ourselves.
This means our personal power. This can be achieved through
trance, meditation and visualization.
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A practitioner's intention determines what path the magick
will take -- working for the highest good of all or manipulating
another person's free will is a matter of choice.
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ALEISTER
CROWLEY:
"All Art is Magick" "The Goal of Magick is the knowledge and
conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel."
NEVILL
DRURY: "High Magic is intended to bring about the
spiritual transformation of the person who practices it. This
form of magic is designed to channel the magician's consciousness
towards the sacred light within, which is often personified
by the high gods of different cosmologies. The aim of high
magic has been described as communication with one's Holy
Guardian Angel, or higher self. It is also known as Theurgy."
"Whereas science deals with empirically observable causes
and effects, occultism deals pragmatically with methods of
altering consciousness to produce certain effects. One of
these is the assimilation within the self of the characteristics
of a deity, another is the separation of consciousness from
the physical body."
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MACGREGOR
MATTHEWS: "To practice magic, both the imagination
and the Will must be called into action, they are co-equal
in the work... The Will unaided can send forth a current...
yet its effect is vague and indefinite... the Imagination
unaided can create an image... yet it can do nothing of importance,
unless vitalized and directed by the Will."
HELENA
P. BLAVATSKY:
"The art of divine Magic consists in the ability to perceive
the essence of things in the light of nature (astral light),
and - by using the soul-powers of the Spirit - to produce
material things from the unseen universe, and in such operations
the Above and the Below must be brought together and made
to act harmoniously". (The Secret Doctrine). "Magic is spiritual
wisdom. Arcane knowledge misapplied is sorcery." "Magic
was considered a divine science which led to a participation
in the attributes of Divinity itself."
DION FORTUNE: "Magic is
the art of changing consciousness at will."
WADE
BASKIN: "The art and science of magic is based
on three basic principles. 1) one may communicate with other
realms, or planes of existence, through the medium of the
Astral Light; 2) the power of the magician is unlimited; 3)
external characteristics (signatures) are signs through which
everything internal and invisible can be revealed."
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