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magicknoun
Core component of the mystical system of Thelema by Aleister Crowley. (The spelling with the terminal "k" was repopularized in the first half of the 20th century by Aleister Crowley.)
magicknoun
Actual magic or sorcery within fiction or real life, as opposed to illusion or "stage magic".
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Magickadjective
Acting or doing by powers superior to the known power of nature; incantating; necromantick.
Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vap’rous drop, profound;
I’ll catch it ere it come to ground:
And that distill’d by magick slights
Shall raise such artificial sprights,
As by the strength of their illusion,
Shall draw him on to his confusion. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake
Till all thy magick structures rear’d so high,
Were shatter’d into heaps. John Milton.Like castles built by magick art in air,
That vanish at approach, such thoughts appear. George Granville.MAGICKnoun
Etymology: magia, Latin.
She once being looft,
The noble ruin of her magick, Antony,
Claps on his sea-wing. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.What charm, what magick, can over-rule the force of all these motives. John Rogers.
The writers of natural magick do attribute much to the virtues that come from the parts of living creatures, as if they did infuse some immaterial virtue into the part severed. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.
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magick
Ceremonial magic (ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic. The works included are characterized by ceremony and numerous requisite accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an extension of ritual magic, and in most cases synonymous with it. Popularized by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, it draws on such schools of philosophical and occult thought as Hermetic Qabalah, Enochian magic, Thelema, and the magic of various grimoires. Ceremonial magic is part of Hermeticism and Western esotericism. The synonym magick is a archaic spelling of 'magic' used during the Renaissance, which was revived by Aleister Crowley to show and differentiate the occult from performance magic. He defined it as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", including "mundane" acts of will as well as ritual magic. Crowley wrote that "it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature". John Symonds and Kenneth Grant attach a deeper occult significance to this preference.Crowley saw magic as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny." Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4.
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Magick
Magick is an Early Modern English spelling for magic, used in works such as the 1651 translation of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magick. The British occultist Aleister Crowley chose the spelling to differentiate the occult from stage magic and defined it as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", including both "mundane" acts of will as well as ritual magic. Crowley wrote that "it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature". John Symonds and Kenneth Grant attach a deeper occult significance to this preference. Crowley saw magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny." Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4:
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of magick in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of magick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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