Magic as the Power of Creation of One’s Self & Reality through Story
“Any intentional act is a magical act” - Crowley
the innate ability of every human being to create his Universe, and dwell within in.
“Magic is a spontaneously emergent principle of the universe, nature, and human beings. It’s how reality manifests, almost spontaneously. For humans, magic is the meaning-making faculty. It’s how we attribute meaning to our subjective experiences, the world, history, and the universe. The universe is infinite, but humans are meaning-making animals. We are time-binding creatures. A snail builds a shell, a spider weaves a web—humans create meaning and stories about their experiences. Sometimes, these stories are so elaborate, convincing, and appealing that others, even entire cultures, adopt them for thousands of years. This is how culture forms, emerging from spontaneous human reactions to their experiences. Unfortunately, most people—let's say 99.9 percent—don't realize everything is a story. They believe the stories told by media, religion, government, family, or local groups represent reality itself. They haven't grasped that these are just narratives someone created, whether about the progress of civilization, a religion, or events in America in 2018. A "magician" is someone who, through spontaneous insight, life experience, or hard lessons, realizes that everything is a story and nothing is objectively true. All is subjective meaning projected onto what might be objective truths, perceivable through mathematics or science. A magician not only recognizes this but also begins to write their own story for their life.” - Jason Louv, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7uRj7QjIo
"Magick is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing, and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other, and to their inferior suitable subjects, joining and knitting them together thoroughly by the powers and virtues of the superior bodies. This is the most perfect, the chief science, that sacred, and sublimer kind of philosophy, and lastly the most absolute perfection of all most excellent philosophy." — Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy