What magic really is.

Well, it depends on who you ask, you might ask a stage performer what magic is, they will tell you it’s tricks, illusions or a simple sleight of hand. You might ask a religious person and they will tell you magic is of the devil and to be avoided, and you will understand why that’s funny later on this article.

The most popular definition of magic was defined by Aleister Crowley, and he defined magic as: “the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will”. This definition is both accurate and misleading at the same time, I mean, it could be my will to have a sandwich, but I don’t have to go to a temple and perform a ritual to get a sandwich, I can just go to my fridge, grab something here and there and make one, you will say: “oh that’s not magic!!”, but as defined by Crowley, IT IS MAGIC! That’s why this definition is both accurate and misleading because, to the magician, everything you think, everything you say, everything you do, everything around you, and everything within you is magic.

Here’s the best part, since everything is magic, it cancels itself out, therefore there’s no such thing as magic, I personally don’t even like using the term MAGIC, for it carries a lot of stereotypes with it, I might instead call it LIFE. Everybody performs magic whether they know it or not, and that’s why it’s so funny when people say that magic is of the devil because they themselves perform magic on a continuous basis, without even knowing !
 Rituals performed in churches, synagogues, mosques are all magic, every thought is a prayer, and every word is a spell, which makes this idea a good starting point when it comes to understanding what magic really is.

So what’s the purpose of performing ceremonial magic, if everyone’s already performing magic anyway? The answer is: the magician knows how to control his magic, by utilizing hermitic principles and higher laws to his advantage, and that’s the first basic law, so the truth is that you don’t have to dress in robes and perform rituals or light candles in a dark room and conjure spirits to perform it, he who really is in control of his magic doesn’t really have to, he can perform magic anywhere anytime within his own mind and be quite successful at it. One example can really illustrate what I’m saying: try, anytime you have a negative thought, to treat it as an offer for you to either accept or reject, so you say “I reject that thought”, you don’t need to say it out loud, it’s certainly more powerful if you do, but you can just say it in your head, on the flipside, if you have a positive thought you say “ I accept that thought”, and do that during a period of time, and start to see how much your perspective on your daily life begins to change by that one practice alone, and by doing this, you start to condition and train yourself to control your magic that YOU ARE ALREADY DOING ANYWAY, without the need for any ritual nor chance nor candles, those things have their place, time and reasons.

You might say: “How am I supposed to monitor my thoughts all the time?” well, just like anything else, it takes practice and after a period of time it becomes a habit. Understand that this is not just with thoughts, this is with anything that is said to you, anything you read or anything you hear…You might not be able to control your thoughts, or the things people say to you, or the things you come across, or the things you hear, but you can flip the switch between YES and NO, you can certainly do that and begin to take control. You’d be surprised how many people curse themselves by the things that they think and the things that they say, and also the things that they do, that’s the magic they perform upon themselves, because everything you think and say has a charge, and that charge is either going to be negative or it’s going to be positive, it’s either going to bless you, or it’s going to curse you, this is just simple basic principles, we have to get used to the idea that everything we put out there is going to return to us, and it’s amazing how people don’t get this, or make fun of it.

You are already performing magic anyway, with what you’re saying and with what you’re doing, be attentive to what you are putting out there!