What is Magick?
Amoung different schools various definitions of magick are used, though most have many similarities. The spelling of MAGICK with a K is commonly used as compared to "magic" as meaning slight-of-hand or illusion (i.e. The Great Bobomimi).
Here, I offer my own.
Magick: The manipulation of energy to cause a change in one's environment where the cause and effect relationship is not fully understood.
Got you confused yet? LOL! Well let me give some examples. 500 years ago (and in many locals today) 90% of what we now call science was or would have been regarded as magick, just think of the excitement your computer would cause. Electricity as a whole was regarded as magick, as was magnetism, and even the fermentation of alcohol. But let me ask, how many people even today understand how Electricity works? How many of us just assume that if they hit the switch the light will come on?
Magick does follow laws (See Laws of Magick in my other blog). However, only in the past few decades has magick (often under the name Psychic phonomena) been given the scrutiny it deserves. Auras, aromatherapy, color magick are all assuming the attributes of science, as they are being more understood.
This definition will undoubtedly piss off some purists who view magick as belonging only in the realm of religion and what I have written here as an affront to paganism. "So sorry", but the empirical evidence of the validity of magick only serves to strengthen my own believes in the majesty and beauty of the Gods.The mechanics of nature and magick can be understood - and are MEANT to beunderstood!!! The HOW is not the WHY. And it is the WHY I worship, not the HOW.
