|
 Since Mankind first learned to speak......if, indeed, that is how we
gained our abilities in the area of verbal communication, Man has found names for everything above and below. Even today, we name and rename
even the oldest idea or philosophy, find abbreviated words to use as labels; the repitoire of our group vocabulary ever growing - ever evolving.
The internet has "helped" this progressive evolution along, whether for convenience, or the average user's inability to spell or complete a sentence
properly. Cool has become Kewl. We commonly abbreviate words and use the abbreviation as a substitution in conversation. We alter the spelling
of older words in order to demonstrate a new conceptual version of an older idea. These contrivances make communicating a new version of an old idea
translate easier and more succinctly with a new label to demonstrate the change.
The word, "Magick," is one such contrivance perpetrated upon you, the reader/student, out of the need to distinguish the magic of stage and slight
of hand illusion, from the Magick, which occurrs from the masterful manipulation of the energies around us.
Magick/Magik/Majik/Majick ...are all words used to indicate the bringing into being an idea or plan for one's life through manipulation
of the powers of the Earth and the components thereof. Magick is the resulting manifestation of that ethereal power of the universe which allows the Magick
User to alter and manipulate his/her life into something more resemblant of their own desires.
Majik is European, as is Magik. There is no difference between Magick, Magik, Majick, and Majik. They all mean the same thing. They are merely
indicators from all over the world that the need to divide "magic" into two different entities is of a growing concern to Pagans, worldwide.
Magic ...
is the act of performing a physical or optical illusion; slight of hand stage tricks; trickery. Magic is nothing more than parlor tricks,
illusionary slight of hand wrought on stage and streetside. While there were many magicians in the courts all around the globe, most were not true
Magick Users, but tricksters...illusionists who practiced a fine art.
That is the difference. While I do not mean to belittle an honest trade and a spectacular performing art, magic
is nothing more than parlor tricks, illusionary slight of hand wrought on stage and streetside. While there were [and are] many magicians in the
courts [and theaters]
all around the globe, most were/are not true Magick Users, but mere street-wise entertainers and little else...although that David Copperfield does
make me wonder sometimes ...
| | 