What is Magick
Here are some famous historic quote to help define what magick is, and the significance of the practice. Enjoy!
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Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes – what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back – to widen the ‘sphere’ of possible action. — Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos
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Courage is the criterion of belief. To back one horse and fancy another means willing one thing and believing another. Magic (faith) is simply a means of unifying Desire and Belief. The subconscious mind is employed to create your belief and unite it to a real desire. — Austin Osman Spare, Two Tracts on Cartomancy
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Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with the Will “– Dion Fortune
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The true practice of magic depends on the legitimacy of the individual human will. The magician wills something to occur which under ordinary circumstances would not occur, and thereby demonstrates the reality of his or her own individuality. Magicians make the world dance according to their tunes, religionists seek to find the tune of the world and have it teach them how to dance. — Crystal Dawn and Stephen Flowers, Carnal Alchemy
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Magic is the most useful too for bending the odds to our favour in an given circumstance, but does not go beyond the scope of being a tool concurrently aiding your mundane efforts. — Joshua Wetzel, The Paradigmal Pirate: Liber Lll And Liber Ventum
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[R]eal magic is attuning your spirit and intention with the holon of the universe by gaining a deeper awareness of its parts. — Clea Danaan, Sacred Land
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Magick may be described as a system of communication, a language used exclusively between the conscious (the logical mind) and the subconscious (the thinking mind). During the dialogue, the magician’s objective is to use his logical mind to convince the thinking mind to reveal a method by which to directly access the superconsciousness, the higher mind…the Holy Guardian Angel. — Gerald del Campo, The Heretic’s Guide to Thelema
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Magic is a science that differs from the so-called positive sciences due to the psychic and spiritual factors, which it implies just as well for the object as for the subject of the operative act. Magic is never either white or black; but it can be benefic or malefic, according to the purpose for which one makes use of it. Magic is a weapon, and like all weapons, one can make use of It for the good or ill of oneself or another – but because it is powerful, it is obviously dangerous in unskillful hands. — Maria de Naglowska, in the Preface to Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Magia Sexualis
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MY DEFINITION OF MAGIC IS THAT IT’S A RITUAL OR MEDITATION THAT ENABLES INDIVIDUALS TO MOVE ALONG THEIR SPIRITUAL PATH TOWARDS GOD. IT’S THE GOAL OF ALL HUMANS TO FIND GOD AND TO BE PRESENT WITH HIM. MAGIC IS A GRADUAL PROCESS AND A DEVELOPMENT OF ONE’S SPIRITUAL NATURE TO BECOME ATTUNED TO GOD. THIS MOVEMENT TOWARD GOD WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD IN STRENGTH UNTIL THE GOAL OF REACHING COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS AND ONENESS WITH GOD IS FINALLY ATTAINED IN ITS FULLEST EXPRESSION.
— JOHN DESALVO, THE LOST ART OF ENOCHIAN MAGIC