MAGIC
CANNOT
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SUMMARY
Though witchcraft
today claims to be a benign nature religion the fact is that all magic is evil
magic, trying to avoid what really matters.
What matters most is not spells, believing in God, a man who rises from
the dead, in miracles but believing in your power to change and make yourself
happy. Don’t try to change the world but
change yourself and nice changes will happen automatically around you. It is not what you have in life that matters
or who loves you. What matters is how
you feel about your life. What people need
is self-esteem training not magic. Magic
then arises from laziness and therefore lack of concern for self-esteem. Magic workers say that magic cannot work
without self-esteem for you produce magic from your own mind and emotions and
if you don’t have good self-esteem you cannot really trust in the spell so it
can’t work. So magic contradicts itself
by requiring something that it forbids!
Magic is trying
to manipulate reality. Believers claim
that love spells are wrong for they are too manipulative for they are trying to
make another person love you. They say
that instead you should do a spell to make yourself more lovable to
another. But there is no difference in
forcing a person to love you and in forcing them to see that you are lovable
and therefore attract them. Nobody can
love anybody unless they see them as attractive. If love spells are wrong, then who will want
to do magic? To do a spell to make
yourself more lovable to another is also manipulative for you are degrading
yourself by turning yourself into somebody else’s idea of desirability. We all love people with faults. The Witch trying to use magic to catch a man
who likes gossip is making him see her as a gossip or using magic to turn
herself into a gossip! This is
self-manipulation, self-deception. Also
to magically make yourself more lovable in the eyes of
the other is to manipulate him so that he will see this. For example, the spell might have the
side-effect of putting his mother in an accident so that you can help her and
he can see that.
The
self-righteous say that spells that use force are wrong. But that can be said of any spell. For example, a healing spell will try to
force a person to have a better attitude for a good attitude is one of the main
helps in recovery. A person wants to
change their own attitude. They don’t
want forces doing it for them.
All magic is
harmful and the notion of white magic is nonsense and sooner or later the white
magician will see that and the temptation to use malicious magic and start
calling up demons will get too much.
Magic should lead to black magic and Satanism. Magic workers who claim to harm none are just
deceivers.
We know that some
people will die in accidents. Nothing
can stop that. Then why not use magic so
that evil people or your enemies will be the ones struck down instead of the
innocents that these things happen to?
You would be shuffling the pack so that the deserving people have the
accidents. It is probably because magic
leads to attempted murder and evil that the Bible God says that we should not
suffer a sorceress to live (Exodus 22:18).
The context doesn’t allow us to get liberal. God is blunt.
He says the life of a sorceress should not be tolerated. He could have demanded some other treatment
for them but he demanded execution indicating that this was compatible with
love your neighbour as yourself for the sorceress is dangerous no matter how
altruistic she seems to be or acts. God
evidently believes that there is something in this magic – why else be so harsh
against it - but we know better! The
view that God opposed it for he wanted to keep his people free from pagan
influence doesn’t explain the harshness.
Magic workers
still get cancer and have accidents and die so magic is wasting time. Magic is always evil because it implies that
it is better to do nothing active for other people but spend all your time
casting spells to help them. This like
becoming a contemplative nun dedicating yourself to a
life of prayer for others is really putting faith before people. Religion is schizophrenic,
it pretends to want to help people and then chooses, in its smugness, a futile
way of doing so. Magic workers will
respond that magic doesn’t happen just if you sit back you have to help it to
work by doing something. But though you
may help it to work it is only a small part.
If you help your sick father by looking after him it is mostly how
circumstances you can’t control work out that do any good. The doctor will help, the nurse will help,
his medicine has to agree with him, the heating has to work, your
own health has to be okay there is so much.
Magic then needs to be very powerful to look after all those things so
why shouldn’t it work if you do nothing?
What I could never understand was how people who could allegedly bend spoons by mind power can’t change their DNA so that they remain youthful until death or manage to change their DNA so that they never die or get cancer. They say magic cannot give you a new set of teeth if your adult teeth all fall out. But why not? Some people do grow teeth a third time. When magic changes what is going to happen it should be able to change nature for changing this is still changing nature.
It is a big thing in modern spirituality that nobody can hurt you unless you let them. This mentality blames the rape victim, for example, for being upset and devastated about being violated. If God helps and God does miracles, if magic helps and magic does miracles then this vicious attitude is more justified than it is. If there is supernormal or magical power available to help, it is far more the victim's fault for suffering than it is if there is no such power. That is the kind of malevolence that people who say miracles happen are engendering. Roman Catholicism upholds saints who suffered beyond belief for the faith as examples of how people can have peace and joy no matter what others do to them. The Church says these people turned to God and trusted him so much that nobody was really able to hurt them - they were so happy they might not have even registered the physical pain. So the Church then needs to explain why we should disparage rapists if the victims cause their own suffering. So the Church needs to explain why we should disparage paedophiles and child molesters for the victims have chosen to hurt themselves because of the abuse. It is small wonder with an attitude like that how the Church has so little sympathy for victims of child sex abuse. The Church has to think that the victims damaged themselves in relation to how they responded to the abuse and so the abuse itself did little harm. The Church has to think that the victims are evil for wanting the molesters punished for what the victims did to themselves.
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MAGIC CANNOT WORK
The occult means the hidden. It is about using hidden forces and beings to
get what you want be it an event or a revelation. Magic is causing things to happen by
non-physical means and by using the alleged hidden abilities of the human mind.
Believers when confronted with scientific evidence say that astrology
doesn’t work or that magic cannot do any good say that there are other ways of
knowing not just the scientific way for sometimes you just know something for
no reason. If they have the right then
to erect dogmas and dangerous practices on this foundation then what would they
say to a person who believes they just know that the world will end next year,
or that Jack the Ripper did right or that God wants women impregnated at all
costs? They set up a double
standard.
“Magic is picturing what you want
to happen in your mind and then working up a tremendous desire for it to happen
to make it happen.”
Many suppose that drugs and alcohol will have to be employed to intensify
the feelings for it is very hard to desire anything as much as the potent spell
requires. But drugs and alcohol trick
the will and cloud the mind. Using them means you are refusing to take the happiness that comes
from accepting yourself as you are. You
are taking the harder route. The real
will is still there and it does not want this so the spell cannot work. Deep down you want to be your own
person. There is always a part of you
that does not desire something you want which creates problems too. This is a catch-22 situation.
The will only goes after what is best for yourself – it only gets it
wrong when it misperceives what is good for you. Therefore magic is no good when it is done
for other people unless it is done to make you a nicer and happier person to
others and them nicer to and happier with you.
Magic is selfish when it is done to make you enjoy helping others for
that is really using them to please yourself and all magic is an attempt to
manipulate and sweeten up other people despite white magicians saying that to
use magic like that is wrong and is actually black magic.
Psychology refutes the power of magic.
Perhaps it works as a tool that enables
you to develop self-esteem? But you don’t
need magic for that and you should develop self-esteem on its own and by your
own devices not by using hidden forces. The
forces would be giving you fake self-esteem for how can you feel good about yourself
when you think it is happening because of magic and not because you really genuinely
think you are good.
The will only seeks what is best for you.
All the intentions for which spells are cast are really one intention:
what is best for the magician. What is
best for you is that you live forever in peace and not die. You cannot truly will to die because you are surer
that you will live on if this body does than you are if it will die - so spells
for anything else can’t work. All the
energy will be taken up to ensure that you live forever in peace or to attract
more energy to do this with.
Magicians who ask for friends and money and health for themselves are
wasting their power. It is not best for
them to waste magic so their spells will be impotent. Happiness lies in having friends and in
simplicity and everybody knows that so casting spells is a farce. They have the answer inside them.
If all magicians are after such things thinking they are for the best
then there are piles of energy all over the place cancelling each other
out. For example, if magician A does a
spell to get the job and so does magician B then the
energy will cancel. The one that gets
the job will imagine it was the spell did it.
you would need to do magic 24/7 for a week to
win at magic. If you finally get your
desire it won't have been worth the effort.
The best for every magic-worker is that there be
no competition. The growing popularity
of magic proves that there is no magic for spells should reduce magic workers
on this reasoning.
Some would object to this that the persons with real occult powers are
few and far-between and that most magicians are charlatans or impotent. But in that case the real ones should have
influenced science to stumble on the secret of eternal or longer life and
availed of it themselves. This hasn’t happened.
Altruism is doing good for others and being
willing to die and suffer forever to do that good. It is a total turning away from any thought
for self. It is impossible for nobody would
suffer forever just so that somebody might have a jelly tot.
Some would object that what is best for me is
not happiness but spirituality and self-sacrifice. They turn magic into a sacrament. But altruism is impossible and evil is not
what is best. The more spells you do to
make yourself self-sacrificing the less success you will have. Magic will not work to help those who can
help themselves without it for the energy is needed for better things than that
and laziness is not best for you if sacrifice is. Anybody could do what people call
self-sacrifice if they trained themselves.
We are naturally for ourselves alone.
We would rather go about in prefect bliss than get that contentment from
helping others or even in money. Spells
do not work for we don’t get such an amazing high from spell casting. If spells that are for ourselves worked then
why don’t they make up the idea of using them to be in permanent ecstasy occur
to us? They would if they had any power
in them.
The great occult systems place a lot of emphasis on free will.
If you believe in free will then you believe you deserve to suffer all
the time. You know how much harm you do
chiefly by not sacrificing yourself for others.
This will prevent your magic from working good
for you for the belief that you should suffer will counteract it.
If there is magic power in us it cannot be used for it does not give
anybody eternal youth and life.
Magic cannot work when you do not believe or prove it to yourself because
the true will only goes after what is real and most important.
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MIND REIGNS OVER MATTER
This seems to be a watertight argument for the idea that mind can control
matter.
There are no beings that can change the laws of nature. So, there is no supernatural.
All things must have been designed so how did things come to be so
organised?
Minds must have been made by chance and this led to all things being
organised for minds had the power to do all this organising. The mind is not all-powerful and cannot
change the laws of matter. It just uses
these laws to do its will. Suffering and
evil are caused by the imperfection of the mind and matter. We can reduce them but we cannot get rid of
them for if we could it would have happened long ago. Evolution alone cannot account for
design. If there is a law of evolution
then why don’t some people live forever and be free from suffering thanks to
some force-field? Any evolution that
happens happens by chance or is caused by mind-power
that makes things improve gradually.
The mind is separate from the body when minds existed before the
body.
We use the energy in our minds to make nature work in our favour but only
in harmony with its laws. I might be
able to make myself win money but I cannot turn sheets of paper into cash.
Whatever we summon into our lives through the power of imagination and
emotion we will get. If I ask for a
million pounds I will get it in some future existence.
Healing is an important work for us but it only works in harmony with
medicine.
Cosmic design proves that mind rules matter.
I try to make a die come up six three consecutive times. What if it doesn’t happen? What if it doesn’t happen even when I want
this proof of mind over matter to happen with great intensity? Does that prove
there is no mind power? I cannot use the
power unless I believe in it. If I don’t
believe then I am not really intending to change my world. If I believe in the power I don’t need trial
runs so it won’t work. I don’t really
want the experiment to succeed for it would not prove that I have power. It is too trivial of a test. My will only wants what is best for me so it
would ensure that my energy will only be spent on what is worthwhile.
We know that the mind can survive death and is stronger than matter when
children who have hardly any brain mater at all still have minds for the mind
is something that is plugged into the body and is not the brain. The mind is a machine that is made of
undetectable matter. It is not spirit
for when it goes unconscious then it would be non-existent for its nature is to
be aware. And being without parts there
would be no forgetting or making mistakes.
That we have no souls or spirits is proven.
CRITIQUE. It
could be that mind power only works on the body alone. Perhaps we got bodies by chance and evolved
them.
We have no evidence when the die experiment cannot work. It is only a theory.
If we evolved ourselves to get where we are why couldn’t we alter our DNA
to make us live to 300? All you would
need to do is make a few changes in your stem cells and soon your body would be
full of long living cells.
Consider again the argument
“I try to make a die come up six three consecutive times. What if it doesn’t happen? What if it doesn’t happen even when I want
this proof of mind over matter to happen with great intensity? Does that prove
there is no mind power? I cannot use the
power unless I believe in it. If I don’t
believe then I am not really intending to change my world. If I believe in the power I don’t need trial
runs so it won’t work. I don’t really
want the experiment to succeed for it would not prove that I have power. It is too trivial of a test. My will only wants what is best for me so it
would ensure that my energy will only be spent on what is worthwhile.”
There are two replies to this.
Some people do need trivial tests to start with. They need them to work to have belief. Magic workers say that faith in magic develops
gradually and starts off with small blessings achieved through magick.
It is best for me then for the trivial tests to work. They give me the assurance that I should try
the harder things such as healing cancer patients.
MAGIC AND NATURE
Occultists say that they cannot change the way nature works. If you have a nose like a potato, magic will
not turn it into a nice slender nose with white soft skin. You will not be able to become a metamorph.
This doctrine of the concord between magic and natural law is part of the
Law of Balance in the
But if magic works, miracle changes can be done and should be happening
all the time.
If magic can help cure cancer then why can’t it make the nose take some painless
disease or a disease with a pain that you can bear or control by injections
that takes the excess cartilage off and leaves a nice perfect nose behind? Why can’t it make Mother Nature into a
first-class cosmetic surgeon?
Nature changes the structure of things and atoms all the time. What was a living cell today will be
something else tomorrow. So magic should
be able to turn princes into frogs and vampires into bats. This is not against nature if you summon the
forces of change in nature.
But perhaps the reason a person cannot change their nose or turn princes
into frogs is because that would be an irrational spell? It would be better and easier to cast spells
to make you happy and confident in spite of your nose and to disfigure the princes
some usual way. Many would argue from
this that it would follow that to try and kill a person through magic would be
nonsensical for only a spell to make him or her lovable would work. From this, it would follow that most magic is
irrational for instead of asking for money or friends you should just ask for
happiness and live the simple life that makes it easy. Why ask to be happy when you have to be happy
to cause the magic to work? It cannot
work if it is unnecessary and therefore irrational. Magic requires picturing the event you desire
to happen and rejoicing in it. We have
proved that even if magic exists it must be a latent power and can’t be used.
The
If you can lift a cup by magic you can change nature.
SOME MAGICAL THEORIES
Psychokinesis is the power of mind to control matter. It means you can alter matter just by
thinking and feeling and nothing else.
It seems to be a safe assumption that this power exists for it would
explain evolution and the intelligent design of our bodies and the
creation. Since it is issued from
fallible minds there are many mistakes and conflicts.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating so if we employ the power and
get results and keep a journal we could soon develop faith in this power. The principle way the power will work is to
make you arise to a greater inner peace and happiness for that is the most
important concern for every person.
Why does this power not give us eternal life?
The answer is
that it would take too much power to change the universe into a perfectly safe
place. In billions of years the universe
will perish and it would take too much power for us to do anything to avert that. To try and gain eternal life of any kind
through magic is a waste of time. It is
not death we have to fear but our feelings about death. We fear life but we are programmed to fear
death when death looms. How can the
power save us from death when death does not seem real to us? Any joy we get is because we largely believe
that we will never die. The delusion
helps us though part of us knows we will die.
Can we use this power to kill people?
No for it is a waste of energy for the real problem is ourselves. Magic that is a waste will not work because
it is best if we do not waste and magic only works when we perceive it to be
for the best. If we could use the power
to cope with them that would be better and simpler. Magic is a terrific consolation - it gives us
hope that we can change. Magic is a
sacrament, a rite that is supposed to empower you to live in a better way. Magic cannot bring you money and power
directly. All it does is help your emotional health so that you can get these things
the natural way.
In reply to all this, magic could give us longer life if it cannot give
eternal life. But magic workers do not
live longer than usual. Magic would be
able to correct defective feelings in a second because when it has to fit our
deepest and most rational desire, to work, and the present moment is more
important than the future being the seed of the future it would psychologically
correct us instantly. And therefore what
would you need a journal for?
When the tamest and most harmless theories of magic cannot work or make
sense we very well can’t expect the stronger or darker doctrines to make any
sense either.
MAGIC AND THE DOMINO EFFECT
All things are part of one huge domino effect. Each and every event affects the other. Every thought ultimately steers the universe
in a new direction. Even dropping a
paper clip changes the direction of your life and the world forever. It makes it go a different way.
If magic works then it works by causing an event that will set the stage
to lead to your wish coming true. That
makes it simpler than trying to send out power to control a pile of events to
bring the result about. All you have to
do is direct that one tiny event will happen that makes the domino effect go
the right way for you. But that cannot
be done because you have to take control of everybody else’s magical domino
effects as well. It is not simple and
requires the impossible task of trying to influence everything and everyone on
earth. All magic must require a vast
amount of power that would put a thermonuclear bomb to shame. When you need all that power just for the
tiniest possible spell how can any spell work?
If magic can get you what you want and cannot enable you to secretly find
the cure for death or deafness whatever so that you can save or heal yourself
there is something wrong.
If there are two magicians they will be working at cross-purposes for
each is trying to change the domino effect in his or her way. One change in the chain wrecks everything.
Using the domino effect will ensure that it will be one hell of a long
time before you get your wish for there are billions and billions of events
that have to work for it and billions of rival forces to get out of the way
first. Magic could work but it would be
useless when if you cast a spell for love the love will not be won for you by
the spell until after ten billion reincarnations!
Could you cast a spell to keep the domino effect you are using separate
from the ones used by others? Then you
would be asking for some force to sweep you and some others away to another
world to get you away from the domino effects on earth for you cannot step
outside the universal domino effect.
What you would need to do is to work a spell to cause the different
effects to link up with one another to produce all the effects.
You can get out of the general domino effect for a while. When you are shut away
alone in your room dying for example.
You are strapped down and immobile in the place where you will be found
dead so no matter what you think or try to do it will not change anything in
the future. In that room, you will have
a domino effect that nobody else will be able to change. Why can’t you magically ensure that you will
not die until somebody opens the door?
You should be able to when you have temporarily escaped the effect.
If magic existed then you should be able to alter your concept of time so
that you dream the equivalent of a century in some island paradise. Why can’t you have visions of the future – if
you can do silly magic?
Magic is
nonsense. Go and help somebody instead
of casting spells.
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