What is Magic?

[Unbound]

I deeply appreciate your respect, Shin'Ar, it brings a joy and smile to my heart and face, but admittedly also fits of giggles and laughter. All in love, of course.

I am very curious about the higher beings you commune with, both seen through and not, your individual spectrum of perception. Is it truly the ritual that is meaningful to the higher being?

In my own experience, it all depends on which facet of the higher being one is choosing to commune with. It also depends on one's individual construct and in what way their thought system creates a sense of BALANCED EXCHANGE that allows this or that manner of communication with other fields to arise.

You see, the only thing that is necessary for a two-way connection between fields is an even exchange of energy. This happens by a sort of geometric "puzzle-piecing" between the information of the fields, in my perception. In that regard, a ritual may be reduced to an intention, a single thought, because that is what a ritual is about. A ritual is a navigating or movement in consciousness in which a state of singleness of intention brings about an action.

The reason that a ritual can be long and packed full of symbolism is that one is attempting to compound all of those attributes in to a single thought and intention, hopefully this being of love.

However, what is ultimately sought is an experience of equal exchange. We hope that by appeasing, or adhering to the Gods or higher beings, we will receive their knowledge, their blessings, all to do with what we will.

To me, we are confounding their teachings by exalting them. They, supposedly on a platform above us are reaching down a hand, and we are too busy ogling the nature of their generosity that we have forgotten that they wish to rise us up as equals!

It is very good to contemplate and meditate upon the nature of this generosity, for it is the nature which we must learn to be as equals. However, we must remember that the business of the hand is to assist us, and if it is truly of a higher being, truly of Love and of Light, then it shall never strike you.

But! That doesn't mean they won't give you some tough lessons that you may perceive as a strike.

I say all this because in my experience, these higher beings are also us! Each is unique and absolutely individual, however, this also means that every iteration or different form of each higher being has experience to share. Remembering of course, once we have raised awareness to this or that lesson, we need to move on to concurrent experiences.

Magic is a term which is applied in various ways, so to ask about it, one must specifically point to a particular definition of it.

I can tell you what it is not.

It is not the ability to alter creation, or to willfully manifest anything that one might think up or desire.

I can also tell you that ritual is key to such practice as it is via ritual that certain elements are brought into the field which enable or activate specific magical attributes.

To suggest that one might be able to simply will a feat of magic based upon one's power of mind over matter is neither informed nor rational. is it possible? Of course it is possible, we have creation as evidence of that. But we must act based upon experience and memory, and that even more vital element of connection. And what we have access to does not include such power as being able to willfully alter creation. Not at this level of evolution.

What we do have access to is higher fields of connection which can enhance our ability and understanding, and experience and memory which reveal to us rituals which also enhance our abilities and understanding.

Within such enhancement one is able to focus more intensely on the metaphysical environment of their field of consciousness and tune into the vibrations of that environment, in effect being able to realize the invisible and discern what things are available for manipulation of some sort. In other words, magic is the ability to perceive one's actual field, and its interaction with other fields, thereby enabling the utilization of opportunities that would have remained otherwise invisible.

The ancient rituals which have been applied throughout history were taught to us by ancient fields knowing that such would be useful in our coming to such interactions. What would be the purpose or reason for dismissing them?

If you do not like symbolism, do not use it.

If you do not like chanting then do not use it.

If you are not aware of the power of the field, then ignore it.

But do not boldly declare powers of connection to be under the control of your will, somehow at your disposal and call. For to do so is to call upon higher powers which would like to reveal to you their own powers which would relinquish yours and deny you your pride and arrogance.

One does not stick their hand into a beehive in arrogant defiance, without taking certain precautions, without finding out that the bees are not under their control.

Do not deny the Sacred Eye. Do not claim it as your own. Its very Design is that more than one is required to establish it. And THAT is its magic.