FAQ ON MAGICK
What is magick?
Before answering what magick is, let's define what it isn't. It isn't Bewitched twitching her nose, it isn't Gandalf or Merlin, or playing dungeon and dragons and it isn't three old hags toiling over a bubbling cauldron under the full moon chanting bad rhymes. Magick is being able to use your natural abilities to bring about change.
According to Aliester Crowley, "Magick is the science and art of causing change in conformity with will." Science is the reductive process that gives us theory; art is the creative process that gives us application thus causing changes to occur. Magick is the process by which we incorporate our science and art to create changes with our will. Or in simpler terms, if you can imagine it happening, it will. (Drury & Tillett, pages 41-42)
One keynote about magick is that magick itself will not work without action. You need to seek out your objective- what are you using magick to obtain. Casting a spell for a job won't work unless you actually go out and look for one; all the spell does is heighten your chances.
There have been cases of what is called spontaneous magick, magick that was called upon. This however is misleading, as often the human subconscious will call upon magick without the use of formal action. While the conscious mind did not call upon the forces to make changes the subconscious does and it is still the person calling upon the forces and not just a gift from the gods.
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