Magick

"Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."

- Aleister Crowley

"Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with the Will."

- Dion Fortune

"A magical act may be defined as causing reality to conform to will."

- Phil Hine, 'Undoing Yourself with Chaos Magic', Rebels and Devils

"Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results."

- Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.

"Real magick is not merely an assortment of skills and techniques. It's more like an open minded attitude, a blend of interest and dedication, which allows each honest mage to observe, to learn, to adapt, and to invent unique ways of changing idenity and reality from within."

- Jan Fries, Visual Magick

"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

"Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle."

- The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon.

"Causing change by directing energy with one's will."

- Kerr Cuhulain, Full Contact Magick

"Magic is not necromanteia - a raising of dead material substances endowed with an imagined life - but a psychological branch of science, dealing with the sympathetic effects of stones, drugs, herbs, and living substances upon the imaginative and reflective faculties - and leading to ever new glimpses of the world of wonders around us, ranking it in due order of phenomena and illustrating the beneficence of The Great Architect of the Universe."

- Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie

"Unless a man be born a magician, and God have destined him even from his birth to the work, so that spirits do willingly come of their own accord - which doth happen to few - a man must use only of those things herein set down, or written in our other books of occult philosophy, as means to fix the mind upon the work to be done; for it is in the power of the mind itself that spirits do come and go, and magical works are done, and all things in nature are but as uses to induce the will to rest upon the point desired."

- Cornelius Agrippa

"Magick is the art of belief."

- ludrikos muttleyos, on chaoskaos

"I honestly can't conceive of why anyone would want to 'make' magick into 'anything' [...] [d]on't attempt to put it into static terms. Use it an mutate it. At least I see people debating it, which assures me that the idea itself isn't losing all of it's transient nature. Part of the divine mystique that shrouds the essence of magick is the fact that it is unexplainable and undefineable - magick transcends reason, duh. Reason and time [...] magick transcends LOGIC. (Discordianism, anyone? Fnord.) Logic, is also a workable paradigm, but not a necessity to understanding or compreheding a concpet. There are plenty of things in life not worth explaining in words. There are plenty of ideas one can procure to realise through self-discovery and learning that no one can represent effectively with words - non-verbal uinderstanding. 'Intuition' and 'gut' comes to mind as being one of those things.

"Yes, apparently idiots -are- still trying to make magick into a science - but idiots are also trying to confine it as an 'art' as well."

- triskele, Z(Cluster)