Saturday, November 2, 2013

Magick 102

"...the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
~Roald Dahl

Mage Music 76

Scientists and other logically-based thinkers like to put down Magick as nonsense because Magick can't be readily perceived. The reasoning is that if something can't be perceived (with the physical senses on their own or enhanced with technology), it can't be measured, quantified, and duplicated in a laboratory.  If it can't be identified by science then it isn't real.

Science, of course, would be that area of human knowledge that changes all the time. New technology enables things to be perceived that couldn't be perceived before, and surprise! Science changes its tune about the nature of reality and we all pretend scientists aren't contradicting what they just said.

No scientist should say that anything is impossible or can't exist. In an infinite universe, by definition all things are possible and do exist. That's why even "laws" of nature are still referred to as theories. In spite of what some would have us believe, in fact humans don't know everything that can be known about reality.

Working with the impossible

Mages and artists, however, know that just because something doesn't yet exists doesn't mean it isn't possible. In fact, that very point may be the most significant difference between Magick and the rest of everyday human reality.

That is, just because you can't perceive something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.  It just might be hidden from human perception.

Creation is the act of changing reality, that is, manifesting something new in the world. It isn't duplication of something that has existed before. Creation is an act shared with the gods, and it is something that every human could do but few will. That means that for all intents and purposes, to the non-creative world the new thing that has been made manifest came from a secret place, and how it came to be manifest in the real world is a secret as well.

For truly, if the Work of a Mage or artist (a Mage musician for example!) was perceived and examined minutely, was measured, quantified, and duplicated over and over - where it came from and how it came to be manifest in this reality would still remain a complete mystery.

That's because Magick and art are hidden in the most hidden place of all - the duality of the infinite Universe manifest in the human soul ("as above, so below"), and of course that means Magick will never be found unless the seeker suspends the need for outside verification of the inner truth.
"Who’s to say what’s right and what’s wrong? In another 50 years, it’ll all be topsy-turvy anyway. It’s just the way people view a collective consciousness at any given time.
- Jimmy Page, Guitar World 2006 




Message to my readers:  Mage Music posts for the month of November will be briefer than usual and probably have no images. That's because I'm focusing on fiction writing for the month. I won't forsake you, but I am going to neglect you.


2 comments:

  1. In this post i found the mirror of my thougts. Words that have been flying around my head for years. So, i start this comment saying that this is the reason for which i say that art (and of course, Magick) is the best expression that humanity can give of itself. It isn't something that can be gathered in numbers or rules. It is an ensemble of feelings and emotions that give to us communicating with our souls.
    The mind of an artist, or a mage, is an infinite universe contained in the universe which surround our world. What happens, what already exists and what is starting to be in one of those universes, can happens also in the other, for analogy or consequence. And of course, in an infinite space in continuous expansion, everything can be created, nothing it's impossible. Creating something totally new and which doesn't have roots in anything else of already known, but conversely, that will be a point of reference from which will born another world, or another universe in the mind of another Mage, it's the best purpose we can have. The biggest satisfaction that worths a life. It's a infinite continuum.

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    1. You got it, Zeppelin' On!
      Creation is art is creation. Magick is creation is Magick.
      Creation is an act of gods.
      No wonder so many people are afraid of Magick.

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