Do you believe that there is more magick in the world then people know( not show buz magic)?

Answer 1

If one defines magick as the study and practice of the manipulation of the secret forces of nature, the application of the dynamic human will to the rapid evolution of the living forces of nature, then one is immersed in magick. One could go on to say that magick becomes science and technology when it becomes very reliable. For the most part we do not "see" the forces that govern the Universe they are invisible. We do observe their effects as in the case of gravity for instance. In much of this Arther C. Clarke's Third Law applies, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Btw, I'm a bit thin on the "supernatural". If it exists in this Universe it is by definition "natural" and that includes what is commonly labeled "magic". Another thing to consider is everything moves all of the time so that "creation" is an ongoing process governed by probability. This is observable
and I hope this provides some food for thought.

Answer 2

If by magic you mean just in general supernatural powers at work, then yes. But then again if one were using that definition, then anything from a tidal wave to a bus full of children being saved from going over a cliff could be considered to have some magic behind it. Remember that under this definition, miracles count as magic.

If by magic you mean people controlling supernatural events, then no, I don't believe that one can truly control something that is outside of them. That and I don't recall watching very many people pulling fireballs out of thin-air.

Answer 3

I would like to think so. It's the romantic in me. LOL

This is my take on it. We have replaced the word "magic" with science. Today's science was yesterdays magic. If you healed someone with penicillin 300 years ago you would have been burned at the stake for witch craft. So yes there is still magic. There is many things that are unexplained. We just took the fun out of it is all.

Answer 4

Yeah... but it's spelled magic. I'm sick of fluffies who want to "distinguish" their magic from illusions.

Answer 5

Yeah. My Mom's a witch and she's created several spells that have worked.

Answer 6

magic is all around us, just take a walk in the woods!

Answer 7

Look at the lives of these famous occultists, and then decide if it's worth persuing:

Henry Cornielius Agrippa von Nettesheim: Despite all his occult knowledge, he died in poverty at age 41 in 1532.

Cagliostro did the most embarrassing things, like putting a teacup on his erect penis and telling women "This is the only Bishop you will bow to!" He died in the Bastille in 1795.

John Dee discovered Enochian Magick and tried unsuccessfully to get the spirits to bring him money. He spent the final years of his life stripped of his honors and income and was forced to live incommunicado. He died in extreme poverty at 81.

Paracelsus: Though himself a great physician, but was really just an alchemist who had bizzare theories about human anatomy and prescribed dangerous remedies for his patients. This man was said to be arrogant and conceited, and was shunned by the other medical experts of his day. He died broke at the age of 48.

Edward Kelly: After failing to strike it rich with Enochian Magick, he was killed trying to escape prison. He had been imprisoned for his old hobby, counterfeiting.

Aleister Crowley had a nervous breakdown in spent 4 months in an insane asylum after trying to conjure a demon in a Paris hotel. In 1947 he died impoverished in a flophouse, forgotten by his family, a drug addict and alcoholic, despite strating out in life as a rich heir to Crowley Ale. He squandered it all on drugs and whores. "Success is your proof " - -Liber Al Vel Legis 3:46, Aleister Crowley

Gurdijef was a Russian con man who got involved in many money making scams. Once he dyed sparrows in peroxide and sold them as canaries! Even his biographers admit he had a "streak of charaltainism" about him. He created a system of bunk psychotherapy which is convoluted and even people who practice it can't clearly explain what is. In other words, it was the forerunner of Scientology.

Christian Rosenkrutz never actually existed. The whole Rosicrucian thing was started as a joke to make fun of occultists by a Lutheran minister named Valentin Andrea.

The Fox Sisters started the whole spiritist/seance’ movement in 1840. Years later they confessed the whole thing had been a hoax, but no one wanted to listen.

Samuel "Macgregor" Mathers Eventually all the members of te Golden Dawn figured out Mathers lied about the secret chiefs, which led to him being kicked out, & the Golden Dawn being disbanded. He died in poverty from Pnumonia in 1918.

Jack Parsons blew himself up in his basement, making nitroglycerin, which he sold on the black market to supplement his income (apparently his money spells didn't work, either!).

Pamela Coleman Smith painted the illustrations for Authur Edward Waite's tarot deck. She died penniless and alone in a London flat.

Paschal Beverly Randolph inspired people like Aleister Crowley, the members of the O.:T.:O.:., and Henri Gamache. His books are still in print. He committed suicide at age 44, leaving his wife and son to live in poverty.

They couldn't make the occult work, neither can anyone else.
Here's a quote from Wiccan Tradition Head Silver Ravenwolf:

"For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

She also wrote a book about Prosperity spells. Does she sound like she can make it work? She can't even afford a hairdresser! My wife just spent $100 at the beauty parlor and we're far from rich.

Here's another quote from that same book:

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

If you want to really have a good life, ditch the occult.