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typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/250px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/330px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg/500px-Double-alaskan-rainbow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1919" data-file-height="1008" /></a><figcaption>Those who don't <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">believe</a> in magic will never find it. ~ <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Blavatsky.008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Blavatsky.008.jpg/220px-Blavatsky.008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Blavatsky.008.jpg/330px-Blavatsky.008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Blavatsky.008.jpg/440px-Blavatsky.008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="756" /></a><figcaption> It is an insult to human nature to brand magic and the <a href="/wiki/Occult" class="mw-redirect" title="Occult">occult</a> science with the name of imposture. To believe that for so many thousands of years, one-half of mankind practiced deception and fraud on the other half, is equivalent to saying that the human race was composed only of knaves and incurable idiots. ~ <a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(supernatural)" class="extiw" title="w:Magic (supernatural)">Magic</a></b> is the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_magic" class="extiw" title="w:Ceremonial magic">ceremony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ritual" title="Ritual">ritual</a>, incantations, the casting of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_(paranormal)" class="extiw" title="w:Spell (paranormal)">spells</a> or various other <a href="/wiki/Occult" class="mw-redirect" title="Occult">occult</a> techniques believed to manipulate or subdue <a href="/wiki/Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces">forces</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>, divine or demonic entities, or other paranormal, "supernatural" or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/preternatural" class="extiw" title="w:preternatural">preternatural</a> agencies. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking" class="extiw" title="w:Magical thinking">Magical thought</a> processes, operations or beliefs are involved in many <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religious</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mystical</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_and_religion" class="extiw" title="w:Magic and religion">spiritual traditions</a>, including those which refer to it as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema)" class="extiw" title="w:Magick (Thelema)">Magick</a>" to distinguish it from the skills of those <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(illusion)" class="extiw" title="w:Magic (illusion)">"magicians" or illusionists</a>, who often appear to perform such feats. More generally, the word often refers to the abilities of those who simply produce forms of <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts">arts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Sciences">sciences</a>, or various fields of endeavor. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It must not be forgotten that the old methods of magic were connected with other forms of life. Of course, magic is based on precise fulfillment of technical conditions, but if all the formulas of life have been altered, then too all magical effects must be correspondingly changed. This is why contemporary magic has sunk into necromancy and the other low manifestations. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agni_Yoga" title="Agni Yoga">Agni Yoga</a>, <i>Fiery World II</i> (1934)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The abolition of magic will be a white stone on the path of the World. 249. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agni_Yoga" title="Agni Yoga">Agni Yoga</a>, <i>Fiery World II</i> (1934)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>She sowed in my mind the idea that <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isabel_Allende" title="Isabel Allende">Isabel Allende</a> Eva Luna (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> saying, this is an inversion of the third of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws" class="extiw" title="w:Clarke's three laws">three laws</a> : "<b>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</b>" It has been called "Niven's Law" and attributed to <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a> by some, and to <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in <i>Keystone Folklore</i> (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Look at the children around you and you will find the magic curtain, magic indeed in this respect, that instead of dropping slowly down before your wondering eyes, it is <i>growing up</i>, unfolding and expanding some new beauty or exposing some well-remembered fault. What pleasure to note the many wonders of this all-revealing scene! What innocence in the sweet child face, what purity in the clear child eyes! <ul><li>Nellie V. Anderson, in "Glimpses Of Childhood" in <i>Unity</i> Vol. 15, No. 7 (16 May 1885), p. 109</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The warrior said, “Much can be achieved without magic. We do not trick or compel materials to behave against their nature. Instead, we learn what each material can do.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Arnason" class="extiw" title="w:Eleanor Arnason">Eleanor Arnason</a>, <i>Kormak the Lucky</i> (2013), reprinted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Horton" class="extiw" title="w:Rich Horton">Rich Horton</a> (ed.) <i>The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014</i> (p. 546)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Durrell" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerry Durrell">Gerry Durrell</a> was, to use the modern idiom, <i>Magic</i>. You imbibe it in his books, you feel it in his Zoo, you see it in the eyes of his trainees, and you hear it in even the most restrained tones of zoo directors, who may command budgets ten times the size that he ever did. <br /> Magic people, as all well read children know, are especially susceptible to mortal dangers and Gerry was no exception, but, before it finally ran out, he sprinkled his Magic in such vast quantities, that much of it has germinated, and hundreds of good gardeners are feeding the new growth as if their lives, and the lives of other animals depend upon it — <i>and indeed they do.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Attenborough" title="David Attenborough">David Attenborough</a>, in "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shoarns.com/GDMemVideo.html">"Durrel's Ark : The Renegade Who Was Right"</a> for the Gerald Durrell Memorial Celebration, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:Natural History Museum">Natural History Museum</a> (28 June 1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no magic in parchment or in wax. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Ashurst_(judge)" title="William Henry Ashurst (judge)">William Henry Ashurst</a>, <i>Master v. Miller</i> (1763), 4 T. R. 320; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, <i>Dictionary of Legal Quotations</i> (1904), p. 163</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The greatest <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">action</a> is not conforming with the world's ways. <br /> The greatest magic is transmuting the <a href="/wiki/Passions" title="Passions">passions</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ati%C5%9Ba" class="extiw" title="w:Atiśa">Atiśa</a>, as quoted in <i>Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning</i> (2008) by Walter Taminang, p. 63</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College,_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg/220px-Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg/330px-Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg/440px-Roger_Bacon_in_his_observatory_at_Merton_College%2C_Oxford._Oi_Wellcome_V0018155.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2536" data-file-height="3484" /></a><figcaption>Many <a href="/wiki/Secrets" class="mw-redirect" title="Secrets">secrets</a> of <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> are <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> by the unlearned to be magical. ~ <a href="/wiki/Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, everything that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Bacon" title="Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>, Novum Organum, Book II, Aphorism 29 (1620)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Many <a href="/wiki/Secrets" class="mw-redirect" title="Secrets">secrets</a> of <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> are <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> by the unlearned to be magical.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon</a>, as quoted in <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction : An Illustrated A to Z</i> (1979), by Peter Nicholls, p. 376</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Much is said amongst occult students these days anent white and black magic, and much that is said is without force, or truth... The distinction between the two exists in both motive and method, and might be summed up as follows: The white magician has for motive that which will be of benefit to the group for whom he is expending his energy and time. The magician of the left hand path ever works alone, or if he at any time co-operates with others, it is with a hidden selfish purpose. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_A._Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice A. Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, <i>A Treatise on Cosmic Fire</i>, p. 984/9 (1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The cultivation of emotional tranquility is one of the first steps towards the achievement of the needed equipment of the white magician. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_A._Bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Alice A. Bailey">Alice A. Bailey</a>, <i>A Treatise on Cosmic Fire</i>, p. 983 (1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would remind you also that in that home of ancient magic which you call Egypt, the magical work there performed was definitely concentrated upon the producing of physical effects and material results. p. 119 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Bailey" title="Alice Bailey">Alice Bailey</a>, <i>The Destiny of Nations</i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The difference between White and Black Magic lies in the motive which determines the Will; when that Will is set to benefit others, to help and bless all who come within its scope, then is the man a White Magician, and the results which he brings about by the exercise of his trained Will are beneficial, and aid the course of human evolution. He is ever expanding by such exercise <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/studyinconscious0000besa"><i>A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology</i></a> (1904), Part II, Will, Desire and Emotion, Chapter 4. White and Black Magic.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When the Will is exercised for the advantage of the lower self, when it is employed for personal ends and aims, then is the man a Black Magician, a danger to the race, and his results obstruct and delay human evolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/studyinconscious0000besa"><i>A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology</i></a> (1904), Part II, Will, Desire and Emotion, Chapter 4. White and Black Magic.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Will of the Black Magician has the strength of iron, pointing ever to the personal end, and it strikes against the great Will, and sooner or later must shiver itself into pieces against it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Besant" title="Annie Besant">Annie Besant</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/studyinconscious0000besa"><i>A Study in Consciousness: A contribution to the science of psychology</i></a> (1904), Part II, Will, Desire and Emotion, Chapter 4. White and Black Magic.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Evil power disappears <br /> Demons worry when the wizard is near <br /> He turns tears into joy <br /> Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath" class="extiw" title="w:Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a>, <i>The Wizard,</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(album)" class="extiw" title="w:Black Sabbath (album)">Black Sabbath (album)</a>, written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" class="extiw" title="w:Ozzy Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Iommi" class="extiw" title="w:Tony Iommi">Tony Iommi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" class="extiw" title="w:Geezer Butler">Geezer Butler</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ward" class="extiw" title="w:Bill Ward">Bill Ward</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magician. — This term, once a title of renown and distinction, has come to be wholly perverted from its true meaning. Once the synonym of all that was honorable and reverent, of a possessor of learning and wisdom, it has become degraded into an epithet to designate one who is a pretender and a juggler; a charlatan, in short, or one who has "sold his soul to the Evil One"; who misuses his knowledge, and employs it for low and dangerous uses, according to the teachings of the clergy, and a mass of superstitious fools who believe the magician a sorcerer and an enchanter. But Christians forget, apparently, that Moses was also a magician, and Daniel, "Master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers" (Daniel, v. II). The word magician then, scientifically speaking, is derived from Magh, Mah, Hindu or Sanscrit Maha — great; a man well versed in the secret or esoteric knowledge; properly a Sacerdote. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <i>Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology</i>, Vol. I, Before the Veil, (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is an insult to human nature to brand magic and the occult science with the name of imposture. To believe that for so many thousands of years, one-half of mankind practiced deception and fraud on the other half, is equivalent to saying that the human race was composed only of knaves and incurable idiots. Where is the country in which magic was not practised? At what age was it wholly forgotten? p. 19 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <i>Isis Unveiled</i>, Vol. I, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-01.htm">Ch. I</a>, (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the West we find magic of as high an antiquity as in the East. The Druids of Great Britain practised it in the silent crypts of their deep caves; and Pliny devotes many a chapter to the "wisdom" of the leaders of the Celts. The Semothees,--the Druids of the Gauls, expounded the physical as well as the spiritual sciences. They taught the secrets of the universe, the harmonious progress of the heavenly bodies, the formation of the earth, and above all--the immortality of the soul.<br />Into their sacred groves--natural academies built by the hand of the Invisible Architect--the initiates assembled at the still hour of midnight to learn about what man once was and what he will be. They needed no artificial illumination, nor life-drawing gas, to light up their temples, for the chaste goddess of night beamed her most silvery rays on their oak-crowned heads; and their white-robed sacred bards knew how to converse with the solitary queen of the starry vault. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <i>Isis Unveiled...</i>, Vol. I, (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On the dead soil of the long by-gone past stand their sacred oaks, now dried up and stripped of their spiritual meaning by the venomous breath of <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialism</a>. But for the student of <a href="/wiki/Occult" class="mw-redirect" title="Occult">occult</a> learning, their vegetation is still as verdant and luxuriant, and as full of deep and sacred truths, as at that hour when the <a href="/wiki/Druid" title="Druid">arch-druid</a> performed his magical cures, and waving the branch of mistletoe, severed with his golden sickle the green bough from its mother oak-tree. Magic is as old as man. It is as impossible to name the time when it sprang into existence as to indicate on what day the first man himself was born. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <i>Isis Unveiled...</i>, Vol. I, (1877)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magic is a dual power: nothing is easier than to turn it into Sorcery; an evil thought suffices for it. Therefore while theoretical Occultism is harmless, and may do good, practical Magic, or the fruits of the Tree of Life and Knowledge, or otherwise the “Science of Good and Evil,” is fraught with dangers and perils. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Doctrine" title="The Secret Doctrine"><i>The Secret Doctrine</i></a>, Vol. 3, Section VI. The Dangers of Practical Magic (1888)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magic, White, or “Beneficent Magic”, so-called, is divine magic, devoid of selfishness, love of power, of ambition, or lucre, and bent only on doing good to the world in general, and one’s neighbour in particular. The smallest attempt to use one’s abnormal powers for the gratification of self, makes of these powers sorcery or black magic. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H.P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Theosophical%20Glossary/Thegloss.htm">The Theosophical Glossary,</a></i> (1892)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Magic?” said Sykes. “Magic is that power that dwells somewhere in the back of our dreams, that makes us wish that miracles were possible and that a mortal man could have the ability to grasp a part of eternity, if only for a moment. Magic is the total of all the mysteries we can’t understand and the culmination of all the hopes we’ve ever thought possible. It is our last true miracle, and you know that it exists every time you feel the rain on your face, or hear the sound of children asking questions, or an old man laughing at a slightly off-color joke his nine-year-old grandson told at dinner. It is with us always, and it will comfort and protect us when the darkness arrive, holding our hand until the morning is in sight. It’s the reason that we go on living, even in the face of hopelessness. It’s the final mystery of the human heart, my friend. For it is there and only there that all true wizardry lies.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_A._Braunbeck" class="extiw" title="w:Gary A. Braunbeck">Gary A. Braunbeck</a>, <i>The Hand Which Graces,</i> in Denise Little (ed.) <i>The Magic Shop</i> (2004), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7564-0173-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7564-0173-9">ISBN 0-7564-0173-9</a>, pp. 273-274</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is one of continual <a href="/wiki/Growth" title="Growth">growth</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/Doors" class="mw-redirect" title="Doors">doors</a> and windows of <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> are always open to the <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and magic that life offers.</b> To love is to risk living fully. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Buscaglia" title="Leo Buscaglia">Leo Buscaglia</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.peopleandpossibilities.com/interview.html">interview with Veronica M. Hay, in <i>A Magazine of People and Possibilities</i> (1998)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>There is magic within <br /> There is magic without</i> <br /> Follow me and you'll learn <br /> Just what <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>'s all about.<i></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0">"The Magician"</a> a song written for the soundtrack of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician_of_Lublin_(film)" class="extiw" title="w:The Magician of Lublin (film)">The Magician of Lublin</a></i> (1979), based on the novel by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/December" title="December">December</a> will be magic again.<br /> Take a husky to the ice <br /> While <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby" class="extiw" title="w:Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> sings <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:White Christmas (song)">White Christmas</a>. <br /> He makes you feel nice. <br /> <b>December will be magic again.</b></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_Will_Be_Magic_Again" class="extiw" title="w:December Will Be Magic Again">December Will Be Magic Again</a>" (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The notion that <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> is a kind of magic and that the poet knows <a href="/wiki/Secrets" class="mw-redirect" title="Secrets">secrets</a> and has <a href="/wiki/Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Powers">powers</a> not shared by other men is deeply rooted in the <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> race. <ul><li>Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bowra" class="extiw" title="w:Maurice Bowra">Cecil Maurice Bowra</a>, in <i>The Heritage of Symbolism</i> (1954), p. 28</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Parting your soup is not a <a href="/wiki/Miracle" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle">miracle</a>, Bruce, it's a magic <a href="/wiki/Trick" class="mw-redirect" title="Trick">trick</a>.</b> A single mom who's working two jobs, and still finds <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says no to <a href="/wiki/Drugs" title="Drugs">drugs</a> and yes to an <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, that's a miracle. <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">People</a> want Me to do everything for them, but what they don't realize is, <i><b>they have the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a></b></i>. You want to see a miracle, son?<b> <i>Be</i> the miracle.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Almighty" title="Bruce Almighty">Bruce Almighty</a></i> (2003), written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Koren" class="extiw" title="w:Steve Koren">Steve Koren</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O%27Keefe" class="extiw" title="w:Mark O'Keefe">Mark O'Keefe</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Oedekerk" class="extiw" title="w:Steve Oedekerk">Steve Oedekerk</a>, in lines written for <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> in magic, the word being used in its best sense, is older in Egypt than the belief in <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, and it is certain that a very large number of the Egyptian religious ceremonies, which were performed in later times as an integral part of a highly spiritual <a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">worship</a>, had their origin in superstitious customs which date from a period when God, under any name or in any form, was unconceived in the minds of the Egyptians. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Wallis_Budge" class="extiw" title="w:E. A. Wallis Budge">Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge</a>, in <i>Egyptian Magic</i> (1901), p. ix</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From the religious books of ancient Egypt we learn that the power possessed by a priest or man who was skilled in the knowledge and working of magic was believed to be almost boundless. By pronouncing certain words or names of power in the proper manner and in the proper tone of voice he could heal the sick, and cast out the evil spirits which caused pain and suffering in those who were diseased, and restore the dead to life. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Wallis_Budge" class="extiw" title="w:E. A. Wallis Budge">Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge</a>, in <i>Egyptian Magic</i> (1901), p. x</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> is <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>'s sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue</b>:<br />Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton">Richard Francis Burton</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kasidah" class="extiw" title="w:The Kasidah">The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî</a></i> (1870), VII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What should it be, that thus their <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> can bind? <br /> <b>The <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> of <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">Thought</a>, the magic of the <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">Mind</a>!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, in <i>The Corsair</i> (1813)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized.</b> Make big plans; aim high in <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> and <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a>, remembering that a <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">noble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logical</a> diagram once recorded will not die. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Burnham" title="Daniel Burnham">Daniel Burnham</a>, as quoted in <i>Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities</i> (1921) by Charles Moore</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG/220px-Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG/330px-Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG/440px-Homemade_fusion_reactor.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption> Any sufficiently advanced <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> is indistinguishable from magic. ~ <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg/220px-Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg/330px-Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg/440px-Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1140" data-file-height="969" /></a><figcaption> No matter how farsighted and <a href="/wiki/Imaginative" class="mw-redirect" title="Imaginative">imaginative</a> he might be, your pre-twentieth century scientist would have said: "What utter <a href="/wiki/Nonsense" title="Nonsense">nonsense</a>! That's magic, not <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. Such things can't happen in the <a href="/wiki/Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Real">real</a> <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>." ~ <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg/220px-Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg/330px-Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg/440px-Soopermanlevitation.nwr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1720" data-file-height="1397" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Real" class="mw-redirect" title="Real">real</a> <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> of magic lies in the <a href="/wiki/Performance" title="Performance">performance</a>. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(illusionist)" class="extiw" title="w:David Copperfield (illusionist)">David Copperfield</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taijitu_polarity.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG/250px-Taijitu_polarity.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="256" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG/330px-Taijitu_polarity.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Taijitu_polarity.PNG 2x" data-file-width="413" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption> I must make <br /> MAGICK <br /> the essential factor in the <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> of <br /> <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">ALL</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg/220px-Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg/330px-Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg/440px-Aleister_Crowley_abode_of_Chaos2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take "magickal weapons", pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" — these sentences — in the "magickal language" i.e., that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth "spirits", such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will. In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar. ~ <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg/250px-VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg/330px-VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg/500px-VanGogh-starry_night_ballance1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1879" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Everywhere we look, complex magic of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> blazes before our <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a>! ~ <a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Magic's a nasty <a href="/wiki/Game" title="Game">game</a>. Go and play with your dad's chainsaw instead. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carey_(writer)" class="extiw" title="w:Mike Carey (writer)">Mike Carey</a>, lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine" class="extiw" title="w:John Constantine">John Constantine</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Hellblazer" title="Hellblazer">Hellblazer</a></i>, No. 175 : "High on Life", Pt. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All that <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">Mankind</a> has done, <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a>, gained or been it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">Books</a>. They are the chosen possession of men. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Heroes and Hero Worship</i> (1840), Lecture V</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the most tragic things I know about <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreaming</a> of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dale_Carnegie" title="Dale Carnegie">Dale Carnegie</a>, in <i>How To Stop Worrying and Start Living</i> (1948), p. 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_J._Carroll" title="Peter J. Carroll">Peter J. Carroll</a>, in <i>PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick</i> (2008); another derivative of the third of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws" class="extiw" title="w:Clarke's three laws">three laws</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance," Ortega responded. “A magician is someone who can do something you don't know how to do. All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker" title="Jack L. Chalker">Jack L. Chalker</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_at_the_Well_of_Souls" class="extiw" title="w:Midnight at the Well of Souls">Midnight at the Well of Souls</a></i> (1977), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-345-25768-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-345-25768-5">ISBN 0-345-25768-5</a>, </small> p. 66</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I believe in the magic and <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a> of <a href="/wiki/Words" title="Words">words</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Char" title="René Char">René Char</a>, in a message as a member of the French resistance, to his superiors in London, insisting that certain codewords "The <a href="/wiki/Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Library">library</a> is on <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a>" be changed after a disastrous parachute drop which set a forest on fire and alerted the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" class="extiw" title="w:Gestapo">Gestapo</a> to the location of his group of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_(World_War_II)" class="extiw" title="w:Maquis (World War II)">Maquis</a> fighters, as quoted in <i>René Char : This Smoke That Carried Us : Selected Poems</i> (2004) edited by Susanne Dubroff</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the terms used in the science books, '<a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>,' '<a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">necessity</a>,' '<a href="/wiki/Order" title="Order">order</a>,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual ....<b>The only words that ever satisfied me as describing <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> are the terms used in the fairy books, 'charm,' 'spell,' 'enchantment.' They express the arbitrariness of the <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Tree" class="mw-redirect" title="Tree">tree</a> grows <a href="/wiki/Fruit" title="Fruit">fruit</a> because it is a magic tree.</b> <a href="/wiki/Water" title="Water">Water</a> runs downhill because it is bewitched. The <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a> shines because it is bewitched. I deny altogether that this is fantastic or even mystical. We may have some <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mysticism</a> later on; but this fairy-tale <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> about things is simply <a href="/wiki/Rational" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational">rational</a> and <a href="/wiki/Agnostic" class="mw-redirect" title="Agnostic">agnostic</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, in <i>Orthodoxy</i> (1908); Ch. IV: The Ethics of Elfland</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Magic is the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will.</b> This change can occur 1) in the outer, manifest world; 2) in the magician's consciousness; and 3) most often in both, for changing one often changes the other. Magical change occurs in a way that is not currently understood by modern science because it works through the Unmanifest — through subtle manipulations of the invisible, spiritual realms. However, the workings of magic are subject to natural law. The effects of magic are sometimes clearly visible in the physical world and other times they are only apparent on a personal, spiritual level. The workings of magic are not limited by the constraints of time and space. <ul><li>Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, in <i>The Essential Golden Dawn : An Introduction to High Magic</i> (2003), p. 70, at times quoting or paraphrasing remarks by <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Any sufficiently advanced <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> is indistinguishable from magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>, in <i>Profiles of the Future</i> (Revised edition, 1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Suppose you went to any scientist up to the late nineteenth century and told him: Here are two pieces of a substance called Uranium 235. If you hold them apart, nothing will happen. But if you bring them together suddenly, you will liberate as much energy as you could obtain from burning ten thousand tons of coal. <b>No matter how farsighted and imaginative he might be, your pre-twentieth century scientist would have said: "What utter nonsense! That's magic, not science. Such things can't happen in the real world." </b>Around 1890, when the foundations of physics and thermodynamics had (it seemed) been securely laid, he could have told you exactly why it was nonsense. … The wholly unexpected discovery of uranium fission in 1939 made possible such absurdly simple (in principle, if not in practice) devices as the atomic bomb and the nuclear chain reactor. No scientist could have predicted them; if he had, all his colleagues would have laughed at him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>, in <i>Profiles of the Future</i> (Revised edition, 1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Nursery Magician</a> took<br />All little <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a>:<br />And led them <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laughing</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Book">book</a><br />Where <a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice walks in Wonderland</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Savile_Clarke" title="Henry Savile Clarke">Henry Savile Clarke</a>, as quoted in <i>A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends</i> (1933) edited by Evelyn M. Hatch, p. 188</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>God is alive. Magic is afoot.</b> God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. <b>Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied.</b> Many sick men lied. <b>Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled.</b> God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Losers" class="extiw" title="w:Beautiful Losers">Beautiful Losers</a></i> (1966)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All creative <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of <a href="/wiki/Mankind" class="mw-redirect" title="Mankind">mankind</a>, pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Conrad" title="Joseph Conrad">Joseph Conrad</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_James_(book)" title="Henry James (book)">Henry James — An Appreciation</a></i> (1905)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The real secret of magic lies in the performance.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Copperfield_(illusionist)" class="extiw" title="w:David Copperfield (illusionist)">David Copperfield</a>, as quoted in <i>The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments</i> (2009) by Charles Goyette, Ch. 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Poetry is a kind of magic, a transfiguration of the world in words which produces an idea of order, even if this order is fictional.</b> Not that it is <i>only</i> fictional … the only possible ordering of reality is fictional. In this sense, the orderings of reality offered by religion, science, art, psychoanalysis, para-psychology, astrology or whatever are all fictions (not that they are fictions of equal value, which they clearly are not, because they must adhere to reality). <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Critchley" class="extiw" title="w:Simon Critchley">Simon Critchley</a>, in <i>Very Little — Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature</i> (2004), p. 232</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The old spelling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Aleister_Crowley)" class="extiw" title="w:Magick (Aleister Crowley)">MAGICK</a> has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Book_4)" class="extiw" title="w:Magick (Book 4)"><i>Magick Book IV : Liber ABA</i></a> Part II : Magick (1912)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in "Magic" an escape from reality. I myself was first consciously drawn to the subject in this way. And it has repelled only too many scientific and practical minds, such as I most designed to influence. <br /> But <br /> <b>MAGICK <br /> is for <br /> ALL.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, in his Introduction to <i>Magick Book IV : Liber ABA</i>, Part III : <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/aba/"><i>Magick in Theory and Practice</i> (1929)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I must make <br /> MAGICK <br /> the essential factor in the life of <br /> ALL.</b> <br /> In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of <br /> MAGICK <br /> and setting forth its main principles in such a way that <br /> ALL <br /> may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon <br /> MAGICK <br /> and the right comprehension and right application thereof. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, in his Introduction to <i>Magick Book IV : Liber ABA</i>, Part III : <i>Magick in Theory and Practice</i> (1929)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Magick is the Science and Art of causing <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">Change</a> to occur in conformity with <a href="/wiki/Will" class="mw-disambig" title="Will">Will</a>.</b><br /> (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>. I therefore take "magickal weapons", pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" — these sentences — in the "magickal language" <i>ie</i>, that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth "spirits", such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.) <br /> <b>In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, in his Introduction to <i>Magick Book IV : Liber ABA</i>, Part III : <i>Magick in Theory and Practice</i> (1929)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. <b>The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, in <i>Magick Book IV : Liber ABA</i>, Part III : <i>Magick in Theory and Practice</i> (1929), Ch. 1 : The Principles of Ritual</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We're so lucky we're still alive to see this beautiful world. Look at the <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a>. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is in fact deep blue. And over there! Lighter blue. And blowing through the blueness and the blackness, the winds swirling through the air. And there shining, burning, bursting through, the <a href="/wiki/Stars" title="Stars">stars</a>! Can you see how they roll their <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>? <b>Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a>!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a>, writer of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_and_the_Doctor" class="extiw" title="w:Vincent and the Doctor">Vincent and the Doctor</a>", portraying <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> conversing with the <a href="/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor#Vincent_and_the_Doctor_.5B5.10.5D" title="Eleventh Doctor">eleventh incarnation of the Doctor</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> television series.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg/220px-Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg/330px-Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg/440px-Sleepingbeautycastle50.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. ~ <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Above all, watch with glittering <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a> the whole <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> around you because the greatest <a href="/wiki/Secrets" class="mw-redirect" title="Secrets">secrets</a> are always hidden in the most unlikely places. <b>Those who don't <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">believe</a> in magic will never find it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minpins" class="extiw" title="w:The Minpins">The Minpins</a></i> (1991)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I want to find some connection between the unconnected moments... want to say something magical and profound. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Sam_(Vertigo)" title="Uncle Sam (Vertigo)">Steve Darnall in <i>Uncle Sam</i> (1997)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“It’s a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in—” he grunted, twisting something—“the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That’s why it’s powerful. That’s why it’s magic.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany" title="Samuel R. Delany">Samuel R. Delany</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevery%C3%B3na" class="extiw" title="w:Neveryóna">Neveryóna</a></i> (1983), Chapter 12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin Kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our <i>belief</i> in their existence, to survive. … That is a lie. <b>All they require is our recognition.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a>, in "Border Spirit" in <i>The Little Country</i> (1991), p. 337</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>She’s always so ready to believe anything that anyone tells her, so long as it’s magical.<br />Well, I believe in magic, too, but it’s the magic that can turn a caterpillar into a <a href="/wiki/Butterflies" title="Butterflies">butterfly</a>, the natural wonder and <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beauty</a> of the world that’s all around me. I can’t believe in some dreamland being real. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a>, <i>The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep,</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Datlow" class="extiw" title="w:Ellen Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Windling" class="extiw" title="w:Terri Windling">Terri Windling</a> (eds.) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White,_Blood_Red_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Snow White, Blood Red (book)">Snow White, Blood Red</a></i> (1993), p. 77</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a>, in "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" in <i>Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection</i> (2003), p. 183</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">People</a> think magic's a way of transforming <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> — but in the end, you find that all that you've really changed is yourself.</b> Which probably explains why every magician I've ever met's a self-absorbed arsehole. <b>Still, first rule of magic: <a href="/wiki/Perception" title="Perception">perception</a> is reality. You gotta look the part.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Diggle" class="extiw" title="w:Andy Diggle">Andy Diggle</a>, lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine" class="extiw" title="w:John Constantine">John Constantine</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Hellblazer" title="Hellblazer">Hellblazer</a></i>, No. 232 : "Systems of Control", Pt. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, as quoted in <i>The Quotable Walt Disney</i> (2001) edited by Dave Smith</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We are magic. It is magic that we're walking around.</b> It's fantastic magic. Some people would call it <a href="/wiki/Miracles" title="Miracles">miracles</a>; I like to call it magic. … Yes, I'm very <a href="/wiki/Aware" class="mw-redirect" title="Aware">aware</a> of this. Yes, the more aware I get, the more I can understand how big it is, how big it will get. It'll be harder to comprehend; that's why I have to go along with it, 'cause its so vast. To say to somebody that <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is everything that lives and ever has lived and ever will live, and you're never going to touch and see, smell and be everything that is God. Magic is very hard to comprehend. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donovan" title="Donovan">Donovan</a>, in an interview in the first issue of <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine (9 November 1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Obviously our body <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> controls a great deal of how we conduct our lives, but you must come to an understanding that is fundamental to our <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>: If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds. <ul><li>Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Dyer" class="extiw" title="w:Wayne Dyer">Wayne Dyer</a>, in <i>Real Magic : Creating Miracles in Everyday Life</i> (2001), p. 220</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg/220px-Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg/330px-Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg/440px-Weiss_with_mother_and_wife.jpg 2x" data-file-width="617" data-file-height="447" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Houdini</a>, the great transitional figure between "magical" acts and ingenious tricks, was at pains to explain that everything he did was a trick; he offered rewards, never collected, for any "supernatural" act he could not explain. ~ <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Harry_Houdini" title="Harry Houdini">Houdini</a>, the great transitional figure between "magical" acts and ingenious tricks, was at pains to explain that everything he did was a trick; he offered rewards, never collected, for any "supernatural" act he could not explain.</b> <a href="/wiki/James_Randi" title="James Randi">The Amazing Randi</a> carries on in the same tradition, bending spoons as easily as <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a>. And yet in Houdini's time, there were those who insisted he was doing real magic; how else could his effects be achieved? <br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Mark_Epstein" class="extiw" title="w:Daniel Mark Epstein">Daniel Mark Epstein</a> wrote about the Houdini believers in a 1986 issue of the <i>New Criterion</i>, which I read as I read everything I can get my hands on about Houdini. The thing was, Houdini really did free himself from those fetters and chains and sealed trunks dropped into the river, and survived the Chinese Water Torture (an effect used prominently in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prestige" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prestige">The Prestige</a></i> night after night). But there were those who argued his tricks were physically impossible, and thus must be supernatural. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/REVIEWS/709060303/1023">review for <i>The Prestige</i> (7 September 2007)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I have been in love with magic all my life.</b> I'm no good at it, even though I bored my friends for years with cheesy illusions, and even today can make a dime disappear from your forehead. These days I am most impressed with the skills required for close-up magic. Teddy Nava, the son of writer-directors Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas, can make cards change while I am holding them in my hands. Now how does he do that? Not through divine intervention, I am fairly sure. But I was holding them! <b>The trick is told when the trick is sold.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/REVIEWS/709060303/1023">review for <i>The Prestige</i> (7 September 2007)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past.</b> As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Umberto_Eco" title="Umberto Eco">Umberto Eco</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose" class="extiw" title="w:The Name of the Rose">The Name of the Rose</a></i> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In imitating the exemplary <a href="/wiki/Acts" class="mw-disambig" title="Acts">acts</a> of a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">god</a> or of a <a href="/wiki/Mythic" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythic">mythic</a> <a href="/wiki/Hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Hero">hero</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Simply" class="mw-redirect" title="Simply">simply</a> by recounting their <a href="/wiki/Adventures" class="mw-redirect" title="Adventures">adventures</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">man</a> of an archaic <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> detaches himself from profane <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> and magically re-enters the <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">Great</a> <a href="/wiki/Kairos" title="Kairos">Time</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sacred" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred">sacred</a> time.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mircea_Eliade" title="Mircea Eliade">Mircea Eliade</a>, in <i>Myths, Dreams and Mysteries</i> (1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ballet_dancer_heart.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ballet_dancer_heart.svg/220px-Ballet_dancer_heart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ballet_dancer_heart.svg/330px-Ballet_dancer_heart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Ballet_dancer_heart.svg/440px-Ballet_dancer_heart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="347" data-file-height="317" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">Genius</a> is another <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a> for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ~ <a href="/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn" title="Margot Fonteyn">Margot Fonteyn</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><i><b>You have to <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">believe</a> we are magic, nothin' can stand in our way</b> <br /> You have to believe we are magic, don't let your aim ever stray <br /> <b>And if all your <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hopes</a> survive, <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a> will arrive <br /> I'll bring all your <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> alive, for you.</b></i> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farrar" class="extiw" title="w:John Farrar">John Farrar</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(Olivia_Newton-John_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Magic (Olivia Newton-John song)">Magic</a>", from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Xanadu_(film)" title="Xanadu (film)"> Xanadu</a></i> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It's one of the greatest damn <a href="/wiki/Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysteries">mysteries</a> of <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a>: a magic <a href="/wiki/Number" title="Number">number</a> that comes to us with no understanding by <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a>.</b> You might say the "hand of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>" wrote that number, and "we don't know how He pushed his pencil." <b>We know what kind of a <a href="/wiki/Dance" title="Dance">dance</a> to do experimentally to measure this number very accurately, but we don't know what kind of dance to do on the <a href="/wiki/Computer" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer">computer</a> to make this number come out, without putting it in secretly!</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a>, on the numerical value of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant" class="extiw" title="w:Fine-structure constant"><i><b>α</b></i>, the fine-structure constant</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Light_and_Matter" class="extiw" title="w:QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter">QED : The Strange Theory of Light and Matter</a></i> (1985), p. 129</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I still believe <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> is a kind of magic. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Field_(poet)" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Field (poet)">Edward Field</a>, in <i>A Frieze for a Temple of Love</i> (1998), p. 201</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Genius" title="Genius">Genius</a> is another <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a> for <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margot_Fonteyn" title="Margot Fonteyn">Margot Fonteyn</a>, as quoted in <i>Thoughts from Earth</i> (2004) by James Randall Miller</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>My general expression is that all <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> beings who can do anything; and <a href="/wiki/Dogs" title="Dogs">dogs</a> that track unseen quarry, and homing <a href="/wiki/Pigeons" class="mw-redirect" title="Pigeons">pigeons</a>, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fort" title="Charles Fort">Charles Fort</a>, in <i>Wild Talents</i> (1932), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.resologist.net/talent27.htm">Ch. 27</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If we analyze the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_George_Frazer" class="mw-redirect" title="James George Frazer">James George Frazer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Golden Bough">The Golden Bough</a>, 1922, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3623/3623-h/3623-h.htm#c3section1">3: Sympathetic Magic; Part 1: The Principles of Magic</a>, Bartleby</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_magic_circle,_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg/220px-The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg/330px-The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg/440px-The_magic_circle%2C_by_John_William_Waterhouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1373" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Child, magic exists. There are <a href="/wiki/Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Powers">powers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces">forces</a> and realms beyond the fields you <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg/220px-Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg/330px-Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg/440px-Chaos_Clock_-_The_Steampunk_Spell-Shaper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a> is a way of talking about the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> in words that bind it to a common <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible. ~ <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg/220px-United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg/330px-United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg/440px-United_States_President_Barack_Obama_meets_with_His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_of_Tibet_in_the_Map_Room_of_the_White_House_on_18_February_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3912" data-file-height="2339" /></a><figcaption>We need a little more <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>, and if we cannot have it then no <a href="/wiki/Politician" class="mw-redirect" title="Politician">politician</a> or even a magician can save the <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planet</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Child, magic exists. There are <a href="/wiki/Powers" class="mw-redirect" title="Powers">powers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces">forces</a> and realms beyond the fields you <a href="/wiki/Know" class="mw-redirect" title="Know">know</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, in lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Stranger" class="extiw" title="w:The Phantom Stranger">The Phantom Stranger</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Invisible_Labyrinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic"><i>The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth</i></a> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>First <a href="/wiki/Rule" class="mw-disambig" title="Rule">rule</a> of magic: Don't let anyone know your real <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a>. Names have power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, in lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine" class="extiw" title="w:John Constantine">John Constantine</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Invisible_Labyrinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic"><i>The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth</i></a> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Invisible_Labyrinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic"><i>The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth</i></a> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a> is a way of talking about the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> in lines for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Stranger" class="extiw" title="w:Phantom Stranger">Phantom Stranger</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Invisible_Labyrinth" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic"><i>The Books of Magic : The Invisible Labyrinth</i></a> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. If that is not there neither is magic. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, in lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_E" class="extiw" title="w:Mister E">Mister E</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Road_to_Nowhere" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic">The Books of Magic : The Road to Nowhere</a></i> (1991)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you choose magic you will never be able to return to the life you once lived. Your world may be more … exciting … but it will also be more <a href="/wiki/Dangerous" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangerous">dangerous</a>. Less reliable. And once you begin to walk the path of magic, you can never step off of it. Or you can choose the path of science, of rationality. Live in a normal world. Die a normal death. Less exciting, undoubtedly. But safer. … It is your choice Timothy. <b>Always and forever your choice.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a>, in lines for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Stranger" class="extiw" title="w:Phantom Stranger">Phantom Stranger</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#The_Road_to_Nowhere" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic">The Books of Magic : The Road to Nowhere</a></i> (1991)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A <a href="/wiki/Book" class="mw-redirect" title="Book">book</a> — a well-composed book — is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.</b> Yet, in another sense, all true works of fiction have their scenes laid in the same country, and the events take place in the same climate: that country, that climate which we all long for and in our several ways strive to reach — the region where truth is eternal and man immortal and flowers never fade. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Gordon" class="extiw" title="w:Caroline Gordon">Caroline Gordon</a>, in <i>How to Read a Novel</i> (1957), p. 234</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Graham" title="Martha Graham">Martha Graham</a>, in "I Am A Dancer" written for the radio program <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_I_Believe" class="extiw" title="w:This I Believe">This I Believe</a></i>, published in <i>This I Believe</i>, Vol. 2 (1952); also in <i>The Routledge Dance Studies Reader</i> (1998) by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We need a little more <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>, and if we cannot have it then no <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politician</a> or even a magician can save the planet.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama" title="Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama</a>, as quoted in <i>Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama</i> (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 49</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg/220px-Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg/330px-Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg/440px-Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="1300" /></a><figcaption>One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg/250px-Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg/330px-Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Herrmannn_the_Great.jpg 2x" data-file-width="334" data-file-height="465" /></a><figcaption>I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, "Don't!" ~ <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Herrmann" title="Alexander Herrmann">Alexander Herrmann</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>There is a certain magic or charm in company, for it will assimilate, and make you like to them; by much conversation,, with them, if they be good company, it is a great means to make you good, or confirm you in goodness; but if they be bad it is twenty to one but they will infect and corrupt you; and therefore you must have a special care in the choice of your company… <ul><li>Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hale_(jurist)" class="extiw" title="w:Matthew Hale (jurist)">Matthew Hale</a>, in <i>A Letter of Advice to his Grand-Children, Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary and Frances Hale</i> (1816)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things — ways that work but often we don't know why.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Glory_Road" title="Glory Road">Glory Road</a></i> (1963), Ch. 13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I would be <a href="/wiki/Disappointed" class="mw-redirect" title="Disappointed">disappointed</a> if everything I saw turned out to be something Western Electric will build once Bell Labs works the bugs out. There ought to be some magic, somewhere, just for flavor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Glory_Road" title="Glory Road">Glory Road</a></i> (1963), Ch. 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_For_Love" class="extiw" title="w:Time Enough For Love">Time Enough for Love</a></i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There are three schools of magic.</b> One: State a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tautology" class="extiw" title="w:tautology">tautology</a>, then ring the <a href="/wiki/Changes" class="mw-redirect" title="Changes">changes</a> on its corollaries; that’s <b><a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a></b>. Two: Record many <a href="/wiki/Facts" class="mw-redirect" title="Facts">facts</a>. Try to see a <a href="/wiki/Pattern" title="Pattern">pattern</a>. Then make a <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> <a href="/wiki/Guess" class="mw-redirect" title="Guess">guess</a> at the next fact; that’s <b><a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a></b>. Three: <a href="/wiki/Awareness" title="Awareness">Awareness</a> that you live in a malevolent <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> <a href="/wiki/Controlled" class="mw-redirect" title="Controlled">controlled</a> by <a href="/wiki/Murphy%27s_law" title="Murphy's law">Murphy’s Law</a>, sometimes offset in part by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle" class="extiw" title="w:Brewster's angle">Brewster’s Factor</a>: that’s <b><a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineering</a></b>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:The Number of the Beast (novel)">The Number of the Beast</a></i> (1980), Ch. XLVIII : L’Envoi or Rev. XXII:13, p. 508</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A so-called magician, more than a poet, must be born with a peculiar aptitude for the calling.</b> He must first of all possess a mind of contrarieties, quick to grasp the possibilities of seemingly producing the most opposite effects from the most natural causes. He must be original and quick-witted, never to be taken unawares. He must possess, in no small degree, a knowledge of the exact sciences, and he must spend a lifetime in practice, for in the profession its emoluments come very slowly. All this is discouraging enough, but this is not all. The magician must expect the exposure of his tricks sooner or later, and see what it has required long months of study and time to perfect dissolved in an hour. The very best illusions of the best magicians of a few years ago are now the common property of traveling showmen at country fairs. I might instance the mirror illusions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eug%C3%A8ne_Robert-Houdin" class="extiw" title="w:Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin">Houdin</a>; the cabinet trick of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Brothers" class="extiw" title="w:Davenport Brothers">Davenport Brothers</a>, and the second sight of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Heller" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Heller">Heller</a> — all the baffling puzzles of the days in which the respective magicians mentioned lived. <b>All this is not a pleasant prospective picture for the aspirant for the honors of the magician.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Herrmann" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Herrmann">Alexander Herrmann</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Cosmopolitan (magazine)">Cosmopolitan</a></i> (December 1892)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people.</b> Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous. <br /> Of course human ignorance is no longer a source of profit to the magician, as it was in the days of the diviner, the oracle, and the soothsayer. Few believe nowadays that the magician claims any supernatural aid. I will scarcely be believed, therefore, when I tell my readers that in a few cities in Italy and Spain in which I have performed hundreds came to see me as a curiosity, impressed with the belief that for the power he gave me I had made a compact with the devil for the delivery of my soul. In these cities I have seen people reverently cross themselves when I was passing… <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Herrmann" title="Alexander Herrmann">Alexander Herrmann</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://victorian-magic.blogspot.com/2006/05/art-of-magic.html"><i>The Art of Magic</i> from <i>The North American Review</i> (July 1891)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>No one regards the magician today as other than an ordinary man gifted with no extraordinary powers. The spectators come, not to be impressed with awe, but fully aware that his causes and effects are natural.</b> They come rather as a guessing committee, to spy out the methods with which he mystifies. Hundreds of eyes are upon him. Men with more knowledge of the sciences than he come to trip and expose him, and to baffle their scrutiny is the study of his life. Long years of training and exercise alone will not make a magician. … <b>There must be some natural aptitude for the art; it must be born in a man, and can never be acquired by rule. He must be alert both in body and in mind; cool and calculating to the movement of a muscle under all circumstances; a close student of men and human nature.</b> To these qualifications he must add the rather incongruous quality of a mind turning on contradictions. <b>With a scientific cause he must produce a seemingly opposite effect to that warranted by order and system.</b> <br /> I know of no life requiring such a series of opposite qualities as the magician's. And after the exercise of all these qualities I have named, resulting in the production of the most startling and novel results, the magician has not the satisfaction, like other men, of the enjoyment of his own product. He must be prepared to see it copied by others, or after a short time discovered by the public. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Herrmann" title="Alexander Herrmann">Alexander Herrmann</a>, in <i>The Art of Magic</i> from <i>The North American Review</i> (July 1891)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, "Don't!"</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Herrmann" title="Alexander Herrmann">Alexander Herrmann</a>, in <i>The Art of Magic</i> from <i>The North American Review</i> (July 1891)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> is a form of magic for me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)" title="Linda Hogan (writer)">Linda Hogan (writer)</a> Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (2014)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[M]agic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Howatch" title="Susan Howatch">Susan Howatch</a>, <i>The Wheel of Fortune</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Then how is it done?”<br />“By magic, I suppose. How else?”<br />“That is a foolish and flippant answer,” he said. “‘Oh, it's magic,’ is not a handy solution to every mystery. I am not the child.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)" title="Matthew Hughes (writer)">Matthew Hughes</a>, <i>Majestrum</i> (2006), <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-59780-061-9">ISBN 1-59780-061-9</a>, </small> p. 181</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We talk about "mere matters of words" in a tone which implies that we regard words as things beneath the notice of a serious-minded person. <br /> This is a most unfortunate attitude.</b> For the fact is that words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. <b>The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect — but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.</b> "A mere matter of words," we say contemptuously, forgetting that words have power to mould men's thinking, to canalize their feeling, to direct their willing and acting. <b>Conduct and character are largely determined by the nature of the words we currently use to discuss ourselves and the world around us.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>, in <i>Words and Their Meanings</i> (1940)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>All energy is the same, through its different states and names. Movement creates heat which is also light that waves like sound which tightens or loosens the atomic bonds of crystal as they hum with strong and weak forces. In mirroring resonance with all of this is magic, the radiant emission of life and death. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/N._K._Jemisin" title="N. K. Jemisin">N. K. Jemisin</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Sky" class="extiw" title="w:The Stone Sky">The Stone Sky</a></i> (2017) p. 97</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Furthur_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Furthur_03.jpg/220px-Furthur_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Furthur_03.jpg/330px-Furthur_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Furthur_03.jpg/440px-Furthur_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a> line to go with it. And <a href="/wiki/Writing" title="Writing">writing</a> is essentially a trick. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif/220px-Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif/330px-Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif/440px-Light_dispersion_conceptual.gif 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="435" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Newton</a> was not the first of the age of <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>. He was the last of the magicians… ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" title="John Maynard Keynes">John Maynard Keynes</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BookOfLove.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/BookOfLove.jpg/220px-BookOfLove.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/BookOfLove.jpg/330px-BookOfLove.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/BookOfLove.jpg/440px-BookOfLove.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~ <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>In science, as well as in other fields of human endeavor, there are two kinds of geniuses: the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better.</b> There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what he has done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. <b>It is different with the magicians.</b> They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. <b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a> is a magician of the highest caliber.</b> <a href="/wiki/Hans_Bethe" title="Hans Bethe">Hans Bethe</a>, whom <a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Dyson</a> considers to be his teacher, is an “ordinary genius”; so much so that one may gain the erroneous impression that he is not a genius at all. But it was Feynman, only slightly older than Dyson, who captured the young man's imagination. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kac" class="extiw" title="w:Mark Kac">Mark Kac</a>, in his introduction to <i>Enigmas of Chance : An Autobiography</i> (1985), p. xxv</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is entirely conceivable that <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>’s splendour <a href="/wiki/Forever" class="mw-redirect" title="Forever">forever</a> lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.</b> It <i>is</i> there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. <b>If you summon it by the right <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">word</a>, by its right <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a>, it will come. This is the <a href="/wiki/Essence" title="Essence">essence</a> of magic, which does not create but summons.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Kafka" title="Franz Kafka">Franz Kafka</a>, journal entry (18 October 1921), published in <i>The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923</i> (1948), edited by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Brod" class="extiw" title="w:Max Brod">Max Brod</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>What I always wanted to be was a magician...</b> My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a> line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a>, in "Trip of a Lifetime", an interview in <i>The Sun Times</i> (29 August 1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton">Newton</a> was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians</b>, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10 000 years ago. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes" title="John Maynard Keynes">John Maynard Keynes</a>, in an address to the Royal Society Club (1942), as quoted in <i>A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations</i> (1977) by Alan L. MacKay, p. 140</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Books are a uniquely portable magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>, in <i>On Writing : A Memoir Of The Craft</i> (2000), p. 96</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>While the facilities of observation secured to some of us by our condition certainly give a greater breadth of view, a more pronounced and impartial, as a more widely spread humaneness... we might justly maintain that it is . . . <i>the business of magic to humanise our natures with compassion</i> for the whole mankind as all living beings, instead of concentrating and limiting our affections to one predilected race. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koot_Hoomi" class="extiw" title="w:Koot Hoomi">Koot Hoomi</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Mahatma_Letters_to_A._P._Sinnett" title="The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett"><i>The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett</i></a>, Letter No. VIII, p. 32-33, (1923)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magic makes for a slippery concept. Like "gender," "race," or any other term that can be picked apart as a social construction—which of course means <i>all</i> of our terms, every attempt at producing order through language and classification—the word "magic" does not simply express a straightforward, self-evident reality, but rather creative reimagining on the part of everyone who uses it. Magic's meaning is continually shaped and reshaped by changes in our knowledge, values, and prejudices. Scholars writing about magic today, when confronted with the matter of definitions, often chose to simply admit the incoherence and uselessness of the topic and then move forward with their projects. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight" title="Michael Muhammad Knight">Michael Muhammad Knight</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight#Magic_in_Islam" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Muhammad Knight">Magic In Islam</a></i>. Penguin. 2016. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ih13CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5">5</a>. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98349-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98349-2">ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5Bw%3AMichael+Muhammad+Knight%23Magic+in+Islam%7CMagic+In+Islam%5D%5D&rft.date=2016&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dih13CgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA5+5%5D&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.isbn=978-1-101-98349-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Magic_(supernatural)"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"...Religionists concerned with proving their rationalism and compatibility with science often make efforts to separate their religions from anything magical, while many pro science atheist thinkers charge that any distinction between religion and magic is flimsy at the best. ..." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight" title="Michael Muhammad Knight">Michael Muhammad Knight</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Muhammad_Knight#Magic_in_Islam" class="extiw" title="w:Michael Muhammad Knight">Magic In Islam</a></i>. Penguin. 2016. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ih13CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5">5</a>. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98349-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-101-98349-2">ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5Bw%3AMichael+Muhammad+Knight%23Magic+in+Islam%7CMagic+In+Islam%5D%5D&rft.date=2016&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dih13CgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA5+5%5D&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.isbn=978-1-101-98349-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Magic_(supernatural)"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%84lvalek.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/%C3%84lvalek.jpg/220px-%C3%84lvalek.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/%C3%84lvalek.jpg/330px-%C3%84lvalek.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/%C3%84lvalek.jpg/440px-%C3%84lvalek.jpg 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="408" /></a><figcaption>That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"<b>I am mistress of all the sciences. I go so far beyond all else that my work is called magic.</b> I manipulate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon" class="extiw" title="w:Noumenon">noumena</a>, regarding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Greek_philosophy)" class="extiw" title="w:Monad (Greek philosophy)">monads</a> as points of entry tangential to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism" class="extiw" title="w:Hylomorphism">hylomorphism</a>. As to the paradox of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism" class="extiw" title="w:Essentialism">Primary Essence</a> being contained in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiddity" class="extiw" title="w:Quiddity">Quiddity</a>, the larger in the smaller, I have my own solution. The difficulty is always in not confusing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency_(philosophy)" class="extiw" title="w:Contingency (philosophy)">Contingency</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection" class="extiw" title="w:Inflection">Accidence</a>. <b>Do you understand me?</b>" <br /> "Sure. <b>You're a witch.</b>" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Lafferty" title="R. A. Lafferty">R. A. Lafferty</a>, in <i>Space Chantey</i> (1968); dialogue between Aeaea and Captain Roadstrum in Ch. 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I am the consummate scientist, Road-Storm. Science has suffered in having her name applied to mechanics, an ugly step-child of hers.</b> Matter herself is a humiliation to the serious. We cannot make it vanish forever, but can make it seem to. For my purpose that is even better. <b>All matter can be modified as long as it is kept subjective. Let us keep it so.</b> … Those who fail to understand my science may call it magic or hypnotism or deception. But it is only my projection of total subjectivity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._A._Lafferty" title="R. A. Lafferty">R. A. Lafferty</a>, in <i>Space Chantey</i> (1968); Aeaea in Ch. 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and deadly can settle. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Lake" title="Jay Lake">Jay Lake</a>, <i>The Decaying Mansions of Memory</i> (2011), in <i>in Untold Adventures</i> <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7869-5837-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7869-5837-5">ISBN 978-0-7869-5837-5</a>, </small> p. 355</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I can do a magic trick with my hand.</b> <ul><li>Emma, displaying her abilities in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Mimzy" title="The Last Mimzy">The Last Mimzy</a></i> (2007) — loosely based on "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimsy_Were_the_Borogoves" class="extiw" title="w:Mimsy Were the Borogoves">Mimsy Were the Borogoves</a>" (1943) by <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Padgett" title="Lewis Padgett">Lewis Padgett</a>, the pseudonym of husband and wife team <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kuttner" title="Henry Kuttner">Henry Kuttner</a> and <a href="/wiki/C._L._Moore" title="C. L. Moore">C. L. Moore</a>; screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich, James V. Hart, and Carol Skilken</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Ambition wedded to sloth,” said Molnar. “Let no one say you don’t think like a true magician.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Lynch" title="Scott Lynch">Scott Lynch</a>, <i>In the Stacks</i> (2010), reprinted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Guran" class="extiw" title="w:Paula Guran">Paula Guran</a> (ed.), <i>Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore</i> (p. 287)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Poetry is a kind of magic in itself: the Latin word <i>carmen</i> means "poem" as well as "magical chant". <ul><li>Georg Luck, in <i>Arcana Mundi : Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds : A Collection of Ancient Texts</i> (2006), p. 113</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_(by-sa).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg/250px-Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg/330px-Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg/500px-Phatman_-_Lightning_on_the_Columbia_River_%28by-sa%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="953" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Show me the magic. Come on, show me the magic. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tempest_(1982_film)" title="Tempest (1982 film)"><i>Tempest</i> (1982)</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.</b> <ul><li>George R.R. Martin, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Clash of Kings</a></i>, Sansa (III)—Tyrion Lannister</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Show me the magic. Come on, show me the magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a>, and Leon Capetanos, in <a href="/wiki/Tempest_(1982_film)" title="Tempest (1982 film)"><i>Tempest</i> (1982)</a>; Philip to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Mercury" title="Freddie Mercury">Freddie Mercury</a>, referring to <a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a> as epitomizing a rock star, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_04-XX-1975_-_Circus_Magazine">"Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London" by Scott Cohen in <i>Circus Magazine</i> (April 1975)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Through the <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> of the modern <a href="/wiki/Academic" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic">academic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/study_of_religion" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:study of religion">study of religion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies" class="extiw" title="w:Cultural studies">culture</a>, as we have noted, the definition of "magic" in relation to <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_and_religion" class="extiw" title="w:Magic and religion">religion</a> has been a major <a href="/wiki/Problem" title="Problem">problem</a>. At the root of the problem is the loaded, evaluative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/connotation" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:connotation">connotation</a> of "magic" as <a href="/wiki/False" class="mw-redirect" title="False">false</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deceptive" class="mw-redirect" title="Deceptive">deceptive</a>, discredited, or <a href="/wiki/Morally" class="mw-redirect" title="Morally">morally</a> tainted, contrasted with both <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Correct" class="mw-redirect" title="Correct">correct</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enlightened" class="mw-redirect" title="Enlightened">enlightened</a> <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a> of <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">natural law</a> and <a href="/wiki/Causation" class="mw-redirect" title="Causation">causation</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> (a correct, enlightened understanding of the <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">divine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">spirituality</a>). Thus, "magic" is relegated to the "they" side of a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic" class="extiw" title="w:Emic and etic">we/they</a>" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dichotomy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:dichotomy">dichotomy</a>. This is simultaneously unfair to the materials and practices studied under the heading of "magic," and self-serving for the materials (mainly those we identify as "our own") that are exempted from that label. It perpetuates a complacent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/double_standard" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:double standard">double standard</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_Meyer" title="Marvin Meyer">Marvin Meyer</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=h93iCQkR9WMC&pg=PA13">Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power</a></i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Press" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Princeton University Press">Princeton University Press</a>. 1999. p. 13. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-691-00458-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-691-00458-7">ISBN 978-0-691-00458-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ancient+Christian+Magic%3A+Coptic+Texts+of+Ritual+Power&rft.date=1999&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B13&rft.pub=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3APrinceton+University+Press%7CPrinceton+University+Press%5D%5D&rft.isbn=978-0-691-00458-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dh93iCQkR9WMC%26pg%3DPA13&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Magic_(supernatural)"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the comics are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic)" class="extiw" title="w:Sigil (magic)">sigils</a>. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. <b>All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all.</b> It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qabalah" class="extiw" title="w:Qabalah">Qabalah</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema" class="extiw" title="w:Thelema">Thelema</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chaos" title="Chaos">Chaos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">Information</a> and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. <b>Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "<a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a>" plus "<a href="/wiki/Semiotics" title="Semiotics">significance</a>" = magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison‎</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html">"Grant Morrison: Master & Commander" by Christopher Butcher, Part 4 : Highway X</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So once I got into the chaos magic thing, I started to think well if all I'm doing is triggering a state of mind can I do the same thing with something I know to be unreal? And I would start instead of summoning up Greek gods or Voodoo Loa, I would summon up Metron from the New Gods or HP Lovecraft monsters, or the Cenobites from Clive Barker and get the same thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Morrison" title="Grant Morrison">Grant Morrison</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.comicbookgrrrl.com/2011/09/29/full-and-uncut-interview-with-grant-morrison/">Comicbookgrrrl</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Resident mockery <br /> give us an hour for magic</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Morrison" title="Jim Morrison">Jim Morrison</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Prayer" class="extiw" title="w:An American Prayer">An American Prayer</a></i> (1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Mortimer" title="John Mortimer">John Mortimer</a>, in <i>Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life</i> (1982), p. 183</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><i><b>Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. <br /> Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!</b></i></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._H._Murray" title="W. H. Murray">W. H. Murray</a> in <i>The Scottish Himalaya Expedition</i> (1951); the "<a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Goethe</a> couplet" referred to here is from an extremely loose translation of <i>Faust</i> 214-30 done by John Anster in 1835</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>My hobby is magic. I learned the rudiments with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murry_Dickson" class="extiw" title="w:Murry Dickson">Murry Dickson</a> from a fellow who was at our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_camp" class="extiw" title="w:Training camp">training camp</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg,_Florida" class="extiw" title="w:St. Petersburg, Florida">St. Petersburg</a> in 1942 and liked it. I help entertain at parties and sometimes on trains. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial" class="extiw" title="w:Stan Musial">Stan Musial</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jjAgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3E0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818%2C5094149">"The Scoreboard: private life of Stan Musial"</a> by Les Biederman, in <i>The Pittsburgh Press</i> (May 15, 1955), Sec. 4, p. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alan_Moore_Interview_(1998)"><span id="Alan_Moore_Interview_.281998.29"></span>Alan Moore Interview (1998)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Alan Moore Interview (1998)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Star_map_painting_(iau1707a).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg/220px-Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg/330px-Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg/440px-Star_map_painting_%28iau1707a%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1791" /></a><figcaption>Magic is a broader map to me, it includes <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. It’s the kind of map we need if we are to <a href="/wiki/Survive" class="mw-redirect" title="Survive">survive</a> <a href="/wiki/Psychologically" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychologically">psychologically</a> in the age that is to come, whatever that is. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The difference between <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> and magic … I think you could map that over those two poles of <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a>. Magic is closer to anarchism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a> </figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small> Quotes on magic by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>, from an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.harrybravado.com/articles/alan-moore-interview/">"Alan Moore Interview" by Matthew De Abaitua (1998)</a>, later published in <i>Alan Moore: Conversations</i> (2011) edited by Eric L. Berlatsky</small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Burne-Jones,_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg/220px-Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg/330px-Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg/440px-Burne-Jones%2C_Edward_-_The_Garden_of_Pan_-_1886-1887.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1597" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a> works magic. <br /> It is the final <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a> <br /> Of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a>, <br /> The <a href="/wiki/Amen" title="Amen">Amen</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis">Novalis</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Faun_merse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Faun_merse.jpg/220px-Faun_merse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Faun_merse.jpg/330px-Faun_merse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Faun_merse.jpg/440px-Faun_merse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="562" data-file-height="848" /></a><figcaption>The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset" title="José Ortega y Gasset">José Ortega y Gasset</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg/220px-Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg/330px-Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg/440px-Invisible_Pink_Unicorn.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="236" data-file-height="157" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Imaginative" class="mw-redirect" title="Imaginative">imaginative</a> <a href="/wiki/Transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformation">transformation</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> of magic is recognition, not creation. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Palwick" class="extiw" title="w:Susan Palwick">Susan Palwick</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg/220px-The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg/330px-The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/The_Children_of_Odin_The_Book_of_Northern_Myths_31.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="189" /></a><figcaption>Baby do you dare to do this?<br /> Cause I’m coming at you like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dark_horse" class="extiw" title="w:dark horse">dark horse</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Katy_Perry" title="Katy Perry">Katy Perry</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG/220px-Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="323" data-file-height="215" /></a><figcaption>A Thaum is the basic unit of magical <a href="/wiki/Strength" title="Strength">strength</a>. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls. ~ <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_Fantastic" class="extiw" title="w:The Light Fantastic">The Light Fantastic</a></i><br /> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Quark_structure_omega.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Quark_structure_omega.svg/44px-Quark_structure_omega.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="44" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Quark_structure_omega.svg/66px-Quark_structure_omega.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Quark_structure_omega.svg/88px-Quark_structure_omega.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="420" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png/220px-RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/RainbowFormation_DropletPrimary.png 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of <a href="/wiki/Knowing" class="mw-redirect" title="Knowing">knowing</a> one extra <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">fact</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#Night_Watch_.282002.29" title="Discworld">Night Watch</a></i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>I think there is too much <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> in magic.</b> I can understand that it is part of the theatre. I can understand <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a> – who I think was a great intellect that was sometimes let down by his own flair for showmanship — but he did a lot to generate the scary aura of the magician that you find these <a href="/wiki/Sad" class="mw-redirect" title="Sad">sad</a>, Crowleyite fucks making a fetish of. The ones who say ‘oh we’re into Aleister Crowley because he was the wickedest man in the world, and we’re also into <a href="/wiki/Charles_Manson" title="Charles Manson">Charles Manson</a> because we’re bad. And we are middle-class as well, but we’re bad’. <b>There are some people who seek evil</b> – I don’t think there is such a thing as evil – but there are people who seek it as a kind of Goth thing. That just adds to the murk to what to me is a very lucid and flourescent subject. <b>What occultism needs is someone to open the window, it’s too stuffy and it smells.</b> Let’s get some fresh air, throw open the curtains – I can’t go for that posturing, spooky guy stuff.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism" class="extiw" title="w:Surrealism">Surrealists</a> were openly talking about being magicians.</b></li></ul> <ul><li>What I would prefer to have is to have a kind of magic where we say, "OK, we’re going to do a magical performance on this night, at this time. <b>You come along, if you don’t think it’s magical, that’s fine.</b> We’ll show you. We’ll show you what we mean, and you judge for yourself." That’s only fair. So a lot of the magic we do tends to gravitate toward the practical end, toward something that is tangible. Where you’ve got a record at the end of it, a performance at the end of it, a painting at the end of it. You’ve conjured some energy, some idea, some information from somewhere and put it in a tangible form. You conjure something into existence in a literal sense. <b>A rabbit out of a hat. Something out of nothing.</b> That’s one level to it, but there’s a lot of background to that. That’s the stuff that people see, that’s the end result of the process. But we also do a lot of ritual work purely on our own.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The reason I got into magic was that it seemed to be what was lying at the end of the path of writing.</b> If I wanted to continue on that path, I was going to have to get into that territory because I had followed writing as far as I thought I could without taking a step over the edges of rationality. <b>The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.</b> It’s a point outside normal consciousness from which you can look at normal consciousness, it’s a point outside beliefs from which you can look at beliefs. <b>All beliefs are reality tunnels, to use <a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Anton Wilson</a>’s phrase.</b> There is the Communist reality tunnel, the Feminist reality tunnel, all of which seem to be the whole of reality when you are in the middle of them. The whole universe is based on Marxist theory if you’re an intent Marxist. <b>Magic is having a plan of all the tunnels, and seeing the overall condition in which they all work. Being aware of different possibilities.</b></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I can understand why magicians have such a high insanity rate. We don’t end well, most of us, it has to be said.</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Daniels" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Daniels">Paul Daniels</a> might escape the worst effects, but the rest of us are pretty obviously doomed. Once you step over that line, you are in danger from a lot of stuff. Delusion, obviously, being the main thing.</li></ul> <ul><li>If I realised the power of magic to worry and terrify people before, then I certainly would have used it before. Everyone freezes before it for different reasons – perhaps because it means madness to them, or because it means opening the door to a whole lot of stuff that the Age of Reason should have firmly bolted the door upon. A lot of concepts that we got rid of a long time ago that would be a bit creepy to have them back.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The schizophrenic has had their window kicked in, the magician has got a body of law – probably most of it bollocks, it doesn’t matter. The magician’s got a system into which the alien information that will be pouring into him or her will be fitted.</b> They’ve got a filing cabinet, like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Qabalah" class="extiw" title="w:Hermetic Qabalah">Qabalah</a>, which is a filing cabinet for ideas. It divides the whole universe up into ten drawers. Any experience can be passed into one of the drawers. <b>The schizophrenic is probably having exactly the same experience as the magician but has no context in which to understand it.</b> … The schizophrenics I have known, the most evident thing about it is the interconnectedness of everything. That’s standard lunacy, it’s also standard magic. But with one of them, it is uncontrollable, you are lost in a world in which everything is obviously connected by symbolic threads. That is what the magician is seeking, to see these threads that connect things up. If you’ve got a system – even if it’s a completely made-up bogus system – then you’ve at least got a filing cabinet to sort this stuff into, you don’t have to get crushed under it.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.</b> You ask the protective spirits to look after you, or whatever. This provides a framework over an essentially amorphous experience. You are setting up your terms, your ritual, your channels – but you deliberately stepping over the edge into the madness. You are not falling over the edge, or tripping over the edge</li></ul> <ul><li><b>I don’t distinguish between magic and art.</b> When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.</li></ul> <ul><li>We forget what power these things originally had. The bardic tradition of magic whereby if someone puts a curse on you, it may sour your milk for a month, or burn your house down yeah yeah yeah. Someone puts a satire on you that will destroy you in the eyes of your friends, in the eyes of your family, in your own eyes. If it’s a particular good satire that’s well-worded and funny and clever, then five hundred years after you are dead, people will still be laughing at what a shit you were. That is destroyed. That’s not just making your cow sick. People understood that as a real power, which of course, it is.</li></ul> <ul><li>I believe it was <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Wittgenstein</a> who said a thought is a real event in space and time. I don’t quite agree about the space and time bit, Ludwig, but certainly a real event. <b>It’s only science that cannot consider thought as a real event, and science is not reality. It’s a map of reality, and not a very good one. It’s good, it’s useful, but it has its limits.</b> We have to realise that the map has its edges. <b>One thing that is past the edge is any personal experience. That is why magic is a broader map to me, it includes science. It’s the kind of map we need if we are to survive psychologically in the age that is to come, whatever that is.</b> We need a bigger map because the old one is based on an old universe where not many of us live anymore. We have to understanding what we are dealing with here because it is dangerous. It kills people. Art kills.</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Organised <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition.</b> It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well. <b>The difference between religion and magic is the same as what we were talking about earlier – I think you could map that over those two poles of <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchism</a>. Magic is closer to anarchism.</b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg/220px-Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg/330px-Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg/440px-Amateur_flame-in-hand_illusion_with_hidden_tealight_candle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1712" /></a><figcaption>All of <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> essentially involves sneaking something you want past <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> while it’s distracted and looking the other way. ~ <a href="/wiki/Naomi_Novik" title="Naomi Novik">Naomi Novik</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Nightingale" class="extiw" title="w:Earl Nightingale">Earl Nightingale</a>, quoted in <i>Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer</i> (2003) edited by Barry J. Farber, p. 38</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.</b> The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". <b>The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary.</b> Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because <b>making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" class="extiw" title="w:Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a>, in the opening narration of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prestige" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prestige">The Prestige</a></i> (2006) based on the 1995 novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Priest">Christopher Priest</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Love works magic.</b> <br /> It is the final purpose <br /> Of the world story, <br /> The Amen of the universe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis">Novalis</a> in <i>Blüthenstaub</i> (1798)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>* All of <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a> essentially involves sneaking something you want past <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a> while it’s distracted and looking the other way. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Novik" title="Naomi Novik">Naomi Novik</a> in [w:The Scholomance Trilogy|<i>The Scholomance Trilogy</i>]], 2022.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbol">symbol</a> of <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> is seen again in the magic flute of the <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">Great</a> <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> <a href="/wiki/Pan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan">Pan</a> which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove.</b> <br /> All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset" title="José Ortega y Gasset">José Ortega y Gasset</a>, in "Art a Thing of No Consequence" in <i>The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel</i> [<i>La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela</i>] (1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" class="mw-redirect" title="Metaphor">metaphor</a> is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.</b> All our other faculties keep us within the realm of the real, of what is already there. The most we can do is to combine things or to break them up. The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands. A strange thing, indeed, the existence in man of this mental activity which substitutes one thing for another — from an urge not so much to get at the first as to get rid of the second. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset" title="José Ortega y Gasset">José Ortega y Gasset</a>, in "Taboo and Metaphor" in <i>The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel</i> [<i>La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela</i>] (1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grass_of_Happiness.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/220px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/330px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Grass_of_Happiness.jpg/440px-Grass_of_Happiness.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><i>This</i> is the school, isn't it. The magic place? The world. Here. And you don't realize it until you look. ~ <a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#The_Wee_Free_Men_.282003.29" title="Discworld">The Wee Free Men</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG/220px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG/330px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG/440px-John_William_Waterhouse_-_Magic_Circle.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1255" data-file-height="1880" /></a><figcaption>Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Roberts" class="extiw" title="w:Nora Roberts">Nora Roberts</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG/250px-%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG/330px-%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG/440px-%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C.JPG 2x" data-file-width="486" data-file-height="648" /></a><figcaption>Thy sweet magic brings together<br />What stern <a href="/wiki/Custom" class="mw-redirect" title="Custom">Custom</a> spreads afar;<br />All <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> become <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood" title="Brotherhood">brothers</a><br />Where thy <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happy</a> wing-beats are. ~ <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png/220px-Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png/330px-Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png/440px-Sarah_Silverman_with_the_Jesus_Dress_Up_magnet_set.png 2x" data-file-width="529" data-file-height="687" /></a><figcaption>If my boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that mommy is one of God's <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">chosen people</a>, and daddy believes that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is magic! ~ <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Silverman" title="Sarah Silverman">Sarah Silverman</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Psi_and_Caduceus.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Psi_and_Caduceus.svg/220px-Psi_and_Caduceus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Psi_and_Caduceus.svg/330px-Psi_and_Caduceus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Psi_and_Caduceus.svg/440px-Psi_and_Caduceus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>When religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~ <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Szasz" title="Thomas Szasz">Thomas Szasz</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>No magic can change something into something that it is not; the imaginative transformation at the heart of magic is recognition, not creation. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Palwick" class="extiw" title="w:Susan Palwick">Susan Palwick</a> in "<i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn">The Last Unicorn</a></i>: Magic as Metaphor" in <i>The New York Review of Science Fiction</i> (February 1989)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar corporation and a world renowned research laboratory, then I should also be able to apply this genius in the magical field. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons" class="extiw" title="w:Jack Parsons">Jack Parsons</a>, (1949) as quoted by George Pendle) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://disinfo.com/2014/03/exclusive-excerpts-songs-witch-woman-occultists-jack-parsons-marjorie-cameron/">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is real magic in enthusiasm.</b> It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale" title="Norman Vincent Peale">Norman Vincent Peale</a>, as quoted in <i>Spiritual Literacy : Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life</i> (1998) by Frederic Brussat and Mary Ann Brussat</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Parsons treated magic and rocketry as different sides of the same coin: both had been disparaged, both derided as impossible, but because of this both presented themselves as challenges to be conquered. Rocketry postulated that we should no longer see ourselves as creatures chained to the earth but as beings capable of exploring the universe.</li></ul> <dl><dd>Similarly, magic suggested there were unseen metaphysical worlds that existed and could be explored with the right knowledge. Both rocketry and magic were rebellions against the very limits of human existence; in striving for one challenge he could not help but strive for the other. <ul><li>George Pendle (2005). Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. p. 18</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>So you wanna play with magic?</b> <br /> Boy, you should know what you're falling for. <br /><b> Baby do you dare to do this?<br /> Cause I’m coming at you like a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dark_horse" class="extiw" title="w:dark horse">dark horse</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Katy_Perry" title="Katy Perry">Katy Perry</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_(Katy_Perry_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Dark Horse (Katy Perry song)">Dark Horse</a>", on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_(Katy_Perry_album)" class="extiw" title="w:Prism (Katy Perry album)"><i>Prism</i> (2013)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>; for it is the exact and <a href="/wiki/Absolute" class="mw-redirect" title="Absolute">absolute</a> <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a>.</b> <br /> Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false <a href="/wiki/Gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Gods">Gods</a>, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a <a href="/wiki/Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Star">Star</a>, to adore the Saviour of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> in His cradle. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Pike" title="Albert Pike">Albert Pike</a>, in <i>Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry</i> (1871), Ch. XXXII : Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, p. 841</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in his second <a href="/wiki/Discworld" title="Discworld">Discworld</a> novel, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_Fantastic" class="extiw" title="w:The Light Fantastic">The Light Fantastic</a></i> (1986), p. 33</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#Sourcery_.281988.29" title="Discworld">Sourcery</a></i> (1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#Moving_Pictures_.281990.29" title="Discworld">Moving Pictures</a></i> (1990)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart.</b> Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in … er ... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#The_Science_of_Discworld_.281999.29" title="Discworld">The Science of Discworld</a></i> (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#Night_Watch_.282002.29" title="Discworld">Night Watch</a></i> (2002)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"<b><i>This</i> is the school, isn't it. The magic place? The world. Here. And you don't realize it until you look.</b> Do you know the pictsies think this world is heaven? We just don't look. You can't give lessons on witchcraft. Not properly. It's all about who you are... you, I suppose." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/Discworld#The_Wee_Free_Men_.282003.29" title="Discworld">The Wee Free Men</a></i> (2003)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Priest">Christopher Priest</a></b> <i>[on his use of the term "<a href="/wiki/The_Prestige" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prestige">The Prestige</a>"]</i>: I noticed its closeness to the magicians' word "prestidigitation" (sleight of hand) I realized it would make a perfect title for the book I was then planning. This sort of coincidence is always valuable to a novelist. <br /> <b>Don Iffergrin</b>: But "prestige" is a word magicians have used for centuries. <br /> <b>Christopher Priest</b>: A lot of people think that, including contemporary magicians. In fact, its use as a magical word only goes back to 1995. <b>I made the whole thing up. It has entered magicians' language already.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/christopherpriest/pres_qa.htm">"The Prestige" interview with Don Iffergrin (October 2006)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I'm just a novelist. I don't even know how most tricks are done — it's all in the performance, because magical secrets are never that complex. At the risk of sounding pretentious, my main interest in stage magic is its metaphorical nature in relation to art.</b> For instance, I've always been interested in misdirecting my readers in my novels, and magicians use techniques of misdirection that are similar. This isn't sleight of hand: real misdirection is when the performer allows or encourages his audience to make assumptions about what they are seeing … or in my case, assumptions about what they are reading. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Priest" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Priest">Christopher Priest</a>, in "The Prestige" interview with Don Iffergrin (October 2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._B._Priestley" title="J. B. Priestley">J. B. Priestley</a>, as quoted in <i>Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up</i> (2003) by Ellen Dugan, p. 206</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:From_Beyond.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/From_Beyond.jpg/220px-From_Beyond.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/From_Beyond.jpg/330px-From_Beyond.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/From_Beyond.jpg/440px-From_Beyond.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1353" /></a><figcaption>The Teaching is beautiful and true when it is realized, but no tricks of pseudo-occultism and magic will lead to true discipleship. In order to fill one's vessel from the High Source, one has to establish the corresponding high vibrations. ~ <a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The end of magicks among the people of Gyrvan marked the close of an age of insanity, when men sought to be gods.<br />Her people had turned to a disciple of Truth and Knowledge, shunning all occult affairs. They had unraveled the secrets of the world around them, to understand the interlocking forces that moved within Nature. Theirs became the power of reality, not sorceries and spells woven by capricious deities. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wyatt_Proctor" class="extiw" title="w:George Wyatt Proctor">Geo. W. Proctor</a>, <i>A Kingdom Won</i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Offutt" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew J. Offutt">Andrew J. Offutt</a> (ed.) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_Against_Darkness_III" class="extiw" title="w:Swords Against Darkness III">Swords Against Darkness III</a>,</i> p. 228</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In Welsh <a href="/wiki/Myth" class="mw-redirect" title="Myth">myth</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">goddess</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceridwen" class="extiw" title="w:Ceridwen">Ceridwen</a> owned a great cauldron that would magically produce nourishing food — when commanded by a spell known only to the goddess. In modern science, <a href="/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" title="Buckminster Fuller">Buckminster Fuller</a> gave us the concept of "ephemeralization", technology becoming both more effective and less expensive as the physical resources invested in early designs are replaced by more and more information content. <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> connected the two by observing that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". <br />To many people, the successes of the open-source community seem like an implausible form of magic. High-quality software materializes for free, which is nice while it lasts but hardly seems sustainable in the real world of competition and scarce resources. … what spell is the goddess speaking? <ul><li>Eric S. Raymond, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F6qgFtLwpJgC&pg=PA115&dq=ephemeralization&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ephemeralization&f=false"><i>The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary</i></a> (2001), p. 115</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a>, as quoted in <i>Vision : Defining Your Destiny in Life</i> (2000) by Stephen R. Covey</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't know what holds the bloody world together. Unless it's Magic. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ney_Rieber" class="extiw" title="w:John Ney Rieber">John Ney Rieber</a>, in lines for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hunter" class="extiw" title="w:Timothy Hunter">Timothy Hunter</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Magic#Bindings_.281994.29" class="mw-redirect" title="Books of Magic"><i>The Books of Magic : Bindings</i> (1994)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Robbins" title="Tom Robbins">Tom Robbins</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (novel)">Even Cowgirls Get the Blues</a></i> (1976), p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Roberts" class="extiw" title="w:Nora Roberts">Nora Roberts</a>, as quoted in <i>Rainbow Bridge Farm</i> (2003) by Lynn Roberson, p. 127</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Avoid all magic and pseudo-occultism! Without the proper development and broadening of consciousness, all the widespread suggestions for the sliding out of the astrosom, and other externalizations, conjurations and other manifestations, might be harmful. (28 August 1931) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helena_Roerich" title="Helena Roerich">Helena Roerich</a>, <i>Letters of Helena Roerich Volume I: 1929-1935</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew each other. <b>Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a>, <i>Cosmos</i> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sorcerer" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorcerer">Sorcerer</a>, you do have magical powers, but where is your <a href="/wiki/Sense" class="mw-redirect" title="Sense">sense</a>? <ul><li>Sagburu, sorceress of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eresh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Eresh">Eresh</a>, to Urgirinuna, sorcerer of <a href="/wiki/Aratta" title="Aratta">Aratta</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Enmerkar_and_En-suhgir-ana" title="Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana">Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Sumerian" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Neo-Sumerian">Neo-Sumerian</a> period (ca. 21st century BCE). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.4#">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It probably <i>does</i> make some kinds of magic easier, if no one made a concerted effort to teach you <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">natural philosophy</a>. <ul><li>Graydon Saunders, <i>A Succession of Bad Days</i> (2015), ch. 28</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Thy sweet magic brings together<br />What stern <a href="/wiki/Custom" class="mw-redirect" title="Custom">Custom</a> spreads afar</b>;<br />All <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> become brothers<br />Where thy <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happy</a> wing-beats are. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller" title="Friedrich Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy" class="extiw" title="w:Ode to Joy">An die Freude</a></i> (Ode to <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">Joy</a>; or Hymn to Joy) (1785), Stanza 1; this poem is most famous as providing the inspiration for <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a>'s Ninth Symphony, and the lyrics to the choral portion of that work.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Henry</b>: There ain't no such thing as <a href="/wiki/Magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic">magic</a>, is there?</li></ul> <dl><dd><b>Bollie</b>: I guess not, Henry. Or maybe...maybe there is magic. And maybe there's wishes, too. I guess the trouble is...there's not enough people around to <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a>... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" class="mw-disambig" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a> <i>The Big Tall Wish</i> written by Rod Serling</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">Art</a> is the magic <a href="/wiki/Mirror" title="Mirror">mirror</a> you make to reflect your invisible <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your <a href="/wiki/Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Face">face</a>: you use works of art to see your <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>.</b> But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. <b>We have a direct sense of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your <a href="/wiki/Toys" class="mw-redirect" title="Toys">toys</a> and your dolls.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Methuselah" class="extiw" title="w:Back to Methuselah">Back to Methuselah</a></i> (1921), The She-Ancient, in Pt. V</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I wear this Saint Christopher medal sometimes because — I'm Jewish — but my boyfriend is Catholic. It was cute, the way he gave it to me. He said if it doesn't burn through my skin, it will protect me. Who cares? Different religions.<br />The only time it's an issue, I suppose, would be like if you're having a baby and you've got to figure out how you want to raise it. Which still wouldn't be an issue for us, because we'd be … honest, and just say, you know, like, "Mommy is one of the <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">chosen people</a> … and daddy believes that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> is <i>magic</i>!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Silverman" title="Sarah Silverman">Sarah Silverman</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman:_Jesus_Is_Magic" class="extiw" title="w:Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic">Jesus Is Magic</a></i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Smith" class="extiw" title="w:Godfrey Smith">Godfrey Smith</a>, in a letter lo a new grandchild, in <i>The Sunday Times</i> (5 July 1987), and <i>The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations</i> (2004) edited by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 724</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have the courage to say no. <b>Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._Clement_Stone" title="W. Clement Stone">W. Clement Stone</a>, as quoted in <i>Teen Ink : What Matters</i> (2003) by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer, and Peggy Veljkovic, p. 309</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In spite of the dominance of mechanistic thought in the contemporary world, a perplexing residue of the magical tradition still survives in the form of several issues, solutions to which do not appear possible within the context of a purely mechanical view of the world.</b> … It is important to recognize that the materialist, scientific paradigm that dominates the late twentieth century world and provides the basis for its dominant institutions, has its basis in the life and work of <a href="/wiki/Pythagoras" title="Pythagoras">Pythagoras</a>, one of the most significant representatives of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy" class="extiw" title="w:Perennial philosophy">perennial philosophy</a> and a founder of the magical tradition. This spirit, which gave rise to our <a href="/wiki/World_view" title="World view">world view</a>, is a spirit that must be recaptured if our civilization is to flourish. The choice is a clear one to many, and was summed up in a book title by the late Pythagorean and futurist <a href="/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" title="Buckminster Fuller">Buckminster Fuller</a>, <i>Utopia or Oblivion</i>. <ul><li>John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook, in <i>Divine Harmony : The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras</i> (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Indeed, what is magic but impossible science? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Swanwick" title="Michael Swanwick">Michael Swanwick</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Tide" class="extiw" title="w:Stations of the Tide">Stations of the Tide</a></i> (1991), Chapter 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, <b>men mistook magic for medicine</b>; now, when science is strong and religion weak, <b>men mistake medicine for magic.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Szasz" title="Thomas Szasz">Thomas Szasz</a>, in <i>The Second Sin‎</i> (1973), "Science and Scientism", p. 115</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><b>One dream, one soul, one prize<br />One goal, one golden glance of what should be<br />It's a kind of magic</b><br />One shaft of light that shows the way<br />No mortal man can win this day<br />It's a kind of magic<br />The bell that rings inside your mind<br />Is challenging the doors of time<br />It's a kind of magic<br />The waiting seems eternity<br />The day will dawn of sanity.</i> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Meddows_Taylor" class="extiw" title="w:Roger Meddows Taylor">Roger Taylor</a>, in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_Magic_(song)" class="extiw" title="w:A Kind of Magic (song)">A Kind of Magic</a>", on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kind_of_Magic" class="extiw" title="w:A Kind of Magic">A Kind of Magic</a></i> (1986)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. p. 19<br /> If you can recognize <a href="/wiki/Illusion" title="Illusion">illusion</a> as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself. p. 20 <br />When the <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a> is at war, know that it is no more than an illusion that is fighting to survive... All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible. <a href="/wiki/Awareness" title="Awareness">Awareness</a> is the power that is concealed within the <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">present moment</a>. p. 50 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle" title="Eckhart Tolle">Eckhart Tolle</a> in <i>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,</i> (2005)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is clear from <a href="/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff" title="G. I. Gurdjieff">Gurdjieff</a>'s writings that hypnotism, mesmerism and various arcane methods of expanding consciousness must have played a large part in the studies of the Seekers of Truth. None of these processes, however, is to be thought of as having any bearing on what is called Black Magic, which, according to Gurdjieff, "has always one definite characteristic. It is the tendency to use people for some, even the best of aims, without their knowledge and understanding, either by producing in them faith and infatuation or by acting upon them through fear. There is, in fact, neither red, green nor yellow magic. There is 'doing.' <b>Only 'doing' is magic.</b>" Properly to realise the scale of what Gurdjieff meant by magic, one has to remember his continually repeated aphorism, "Only he who can be can do," and its corollary that, lacking this fundamental verb, nothing is "done," things simply "happen." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._L._Travers" title="P. L. Travers">P. L. Travers</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers1.htm">"Gurdjieff" in <i>Man, Myth and Magic : Encyclopedia of the Supernatural</i> (1970)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Magic_(supernatural)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. 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