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Web of Cause and Effect
Today we are talking about fatalism, and yes, it was inevitable. 😛 There are questions of causality that come up in any magickal practice. Sort of the principle of damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and some think that any magickal practice flies in the face of these notions. Especially when it…
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Essence of Real Magick
Why would anyone try to practice magick? To exert control over events, the same reason people pray. Yet the structure of the practice is different. It would seem that structure would be largely if not completely meaningless, yet we do relate to one differently than the other. Why is that? Structure makes it seem more…
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One Force
Changing the future can affect the past? Indeed. Changing the future can change the past, because there are not two things to change, just one. The world is full of these crushing forces of probability, like huge glaciers sliding down a mountain side, but even the mass of these glaciers can change, even completely disappear.…
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Free Your Will
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Have Some Part
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Know Your Instrument
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Harmonize
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Owning ‘The Doer’
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Owning ‘The Orderer’
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Owning ‘The Talker’
Category: Fatalism
People struggle with fatalism, also known as defeatism. It calls into question our feelings and desires, our hopes and dreams, and seems to crush them under foot almost completely.
Real magick is a system of observations, actions, and practices based on the little lattices of probability, cause and effect, and it works with the assumption that with the right cause being initiated, you can be confident of the desired effect. In magick, you look at what could be called quantum systems. Coincidence, in a sense, in that they state that things occur in whole patterns, and that these patterns consistently reproduce themselves. Your life can’t change only by parts. You can’t change one habit and not have it affect other habits. In time, it affects all habits. We do live in a quantum world.
In magick, everything and anything we would influence is seen as whole and thus holographic. If you would change it, you have to have some part of it. The purpose of practicing magick is to establish a resonance with a power in the world you would seek to master. People say they didn’t ask to be alive. Which is fine, it doesn’t matter if they asked, they can decide how it will all go. By owning it, you can control it. By disowning it, it controls you.
“Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.” Honore de Balzac (French Novelist, 1799-1850)