Why you should keep silent about magic.
To know, to dare, to will and to keep silent.
Those who perform magic do not talk about magic, unless they want to screw it up.
The first and probably the most important reason is the fact that magic is a result and process of the mind, and while you’re talking to other people about it, you are getting their minds involved in your magic, for better or worse, typically worse, because your mind is not the only mind that has a link to the divine, and your conscious mind is not the only filter that can block your magic, especially from those who are ignorant, prejudice and fearful of such things, and even if they’re not fearful but doubtful and they’re conscious mind is thinking about what you’re doing, is going to end up by blocking what you are doing, so if you are on social media just talking about magic, or posting pictures of your rituals, or your intentions regarding future projects, since magic is not only about rituals, magic is everything we do in life, then you will have everyone’s conscious and subconscious mind working against you, and the number of minds involved does matter ! Perhaps you will get people praying for you, which is a form of magic, aimed at negating your magic. It does not matter if they’re of good faith or not, if they’re praying with you or against it, the important here is their mind being involved in your magic.
The second reason you must keep silent about your magic is that we are all expressive beings, all life is expressive, what goes in has to come out in order to complete the great electrical circuit, and by talking about what you are doing, you are diverting that energy from what you are doing, it’s like a water hose that has a lot of water pressure built up into it, and you are trying to hit something on the other side of the garden with the jet spray, but if the hose has a leak in it, you’re not going to get enough pressure or force to do it, the spray is going to dwindle, that is the reason why we keep silent, so that our force is focused on our magic and our goals instead of all over the place.
Perhaps you enjoy dressing Goth and wearing pentagrams as an expression of who you are, but the best magicians are the ones who blend in with society, it’s those expressions that are going to return and hinder you for the very reasons that we’ve been talking about. I know as I am writing this paragraph that I may sound like a complete fanatic, and it’s not that I am against anything anyone does because he or she likes it, what I am saying is that these kind of expressions are very loud announcements of who you are, what you like and what you are doing, which are accompanied by stereotypes and very fixed mindsets. Silence is a form of depolarization, and the way you dress is part of that, so if you dress extreme you are placing a huge limitation on yourself. That is why he or she with the pink Mohawk, nose ring and the face tattoo is going to have a lot more limiting and restrictive options in life than somebody who just dresses "normally", and he or she will sit around and complain how life is not fair because everybody is judging them by the way they look, and it is because of the self-limiting thing they put upon themselves, that was a choice that they made, they restricted their own options only to get validated and recognized. That is why we have to redirect and focus our expression into our magic, magic being everything that we are doing in life and not only the « occultist » part of it.
The conscious mind is always wanting to project and express everything, that is why we are projecting things onto others, onto the divine, and onto anything but ourselves, and it would be better if we took those conscious projections and focused them on our will to make things happen for us instead of against us.
