Magic is an individual action, undertaken because the cosmos is not believed to be benevolent by nature, or, at least, not benevolent enough to that person.
Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Magic is the ancient and absolute science of nature and her laws.
A. Constant, The History of Magic (1922)
A. Constant, The History of Magic (1922)
the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will
Crowley
Crowley
The whole aim of magick is the stage by stage development of the entire human being.
Stewart Farrar
Stewart Farrar
Magic is not just something you do, or make. It isn't something one does to the Univers; magic is what a living Universe does with you once you have awakened to its divinity.
Phyllis Currott
Phyllis Currott
Magic is the art of affecting the manifest through the Unmanifest. The manifest is all that can be seen, touched, perceived, manipulated, imagined, or understood. The Unmanifest is none of these things. It is the place, or rather the non-place, from which everything issues. All that comes into being comes from the Unmanifest. All that passes away goes back to the Unmanifest.
Donald Tyson, Truth about Ritual Magic
Donald Tyson, Truth about Ritual Magic
(Magic) is a creative act, fusing our desire and will and vision with the Divine energy within/around us to reach a specific goal.
Diane Sylvan, The Circle Within
Diane Sylvan, The Circle Within
Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as included the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.
Margot Adler
Margot Adler
Magic, the art of sensing, and shaping the subtle, unseen forces that flow through the world, of awakening deeper levels of consciousness beyond the rational, is an element common to all Witchcraft traditions
Starhawk
Starhawk
the art of changing consciousness at will
Dion Fortune
Dion Fortune
How do *YOU* define magic? What is it, how does it work?
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