Articles: What is Magick & What Magick Is

[Saeiane]

Disclaimer: These are quite obviously not my own articles, I take no credit for the work as well as the views expressed herein

A side-conversation with Lady Dunsany sparked a memory of an article I found a time ago, defining White, Black and Grey magick. I tried and failed to find this article but I found two more which together, are a very good read for anyone new who is asking themselves the question "What really IS magick?"

What is Magick? | Spiral Nature (http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/what-is-magick.html) "What is Magick" by The Curator

What Magick Is | Spiral Nature (http://www.spiralnature.com/magick/what-magick-is.html) "What Magick Is" by David Rankine

[Lady Dunsany]

I missed this. Thank You for posting this. I must check this out. By the way next month I am ordering the Foxglove book. Looks good. These two statements resonated with me.

“Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.”
- The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon.

Courage is the criterion of belief. To back one horse and fancy another means willing one thing and believing another. Magic (faith) is simply a means of unifying Desire and Belief. The subconscious mind is employed to create your belief and unite it to a real desire.
- Austin Osman Spare, Two Tracts on Cartomancy