Misconception about magic

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Re: Misconception about magic
By: Moderator / Adept
Post # 11
Lumpino, not everything that is old and Eastern is necessarily true. It was an old belief that the Earth is flat.We know now that it isn't. A great many of the "truths" of old texts,especially Eastern ones, have been proven to be untrue!
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 12
But west does make fun of magic. Western authors have proved this. The greatest example silver ravenwolf
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 13
Yes,indeed,Wolf! And not only make fun of it, but condemn it! Christians have been doing it for two thousand years! And all have failed.Magic is still here! The problem with magic is trying to write about it. I can demonstrate magic. But writing about it is difficult, often impossible! Reading about it is also difficult; usually because the authors don't know what they are talking about! I have read many books about magic, and none of them got it exactly right. I was "shown" magic, by a very wise witch; and it took many years to be able to do it properly. Magic cannot be learnt in a day!
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Re: Misconception about m
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Yes it'z indeed like a black hole the deeper u go the more u are lost
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 15
Magick and magic is different.Magic is illusion.Magick is to me sending your will into the universe to cause a action.The illusion magic is what Harry Potter uses.
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 16
Magic is magic. The K on magick was put there at the whim of Aleister Crowley. Harry Potter is fiction.Illusions are "stage" entertainment. Magic and Magick are both the same.
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 17
LoL!
Isn't this amazing that there is misconcept in spelling too...!!!
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 18
Magick with a k was used by Crowley to define HIS system and separate it from stage magic. His magick is a system of of training the mind, analysing and reintegrating the self, finding you purpose, and accomplishing it.

His use-

"I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. "Theosophy", "Spiritualism", "Occultism", "Mysticism", all involved undesirable connotations. I chose therefore the name."Magick"as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the available terms.
I swore to rehabilitate magick,to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word." Liber ABA

http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/defs.html

Later people have adopted, maybe because most traditions which came after him were influenced by him in some way, he permeated every circle.

Easter authors dealt largely with yoga, and often with superstitious nonsense entwined into it, give me a Western author who cuts out all dogma and nonsense any day of the week!

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Post # 19
Brysing - Lumpino, not everything that is old and Eastern is necessarily true...

I agree, but there is another thing. Many (not at all, but frequently) modern autors write book only for profit. Older autors mostly had effort write books according to their real opinion.
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Re: Misconception about magic
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Post # 20
Hadit explains the K in magick better than I did,or could! But it really was Crowley who put it there.
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