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| A miracle is an accelerated metamorphosis, exceptional in quality or quantity.� With it, boundaries for familiar phenomena are surpassed.� Now, the science of Physics describes the behavior of matter, and even common sensibilities are more or less rooted in observation and approximation.� �Yet, such expectations are also based on reason, which normally circumscribes a realm of group subjectivity called, "reality".� A stage magician creates a visual anomaly, and is rewarded for his ingenuity.� Illusion, however, is understood to be part of this phenomenon, and no one in the audience reacts hysterically because some accepted parameter has been transgressed.� A shaman often produces a scientifically unexplainable cure, but this is allowable because most people feel that benevolent, elusive beings have been summoned to produce a healing.� Mystical power invested in clerics, while somewhat unreliable, sends no one into frenzy from imagined misdirection.� |
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| By contrast, producing deviation from secure parameters simply for the sake of creating wonder, beauty, or benefit independent of the prejudices of the socio-economic environment is an ability rumored of sorcerers.� It is regarded as chaotic by the mundane and stingy who succeed or fail in life's games played conspicuously by the rules, despite the fact that quite a bit of cheating on their part may be involved.� Should we argue philosophically in a way that might alter typical expectation in the public, it could simply warp the paradigm, making miracles even rarer by raising expectation.� As occultists, we rather seek to furnish explanations to some who wish to make their efforts in the sphere of true creativity more productive and sublime.� A witch or wizard learns to produce transformations of magick that defy limitation from outside her or his own pure purposes.� The best have learned that Love and Will propel occurrences that are beyond the reach of known cause and effect.� Still, as they handle supernatural forces with assistance from invisible entities, they operate in a world obscure to most humans.� |
| When we sit in a cinema watching a film, we see only what its creators intend for us to see.� The visible universe is such a theater. �The gods, its engineers, work behind the scenes to the continual amazement of the audience.� A wielder of magick knows something of the work going on in the precincts of the gods, participating also in the creative process of the material arena, though via rather inconspicuous means.� A different existence would be unthinkable to many practitioners, as a life in an accounting firm might be insufferable to a passionate musician.� Thus, the occult is usually more concerned with how than with why, as morality tends to deprive artistry of its edge.� Still, wizards who are tender hearted and on the level do find one another, so that the craft of becoming more discreet and cogent in the arcane mysteries (of producing more pleasant surprises in the cosmos) can survive and grow.� Magickal fraternities have much in common with priesthoods, because both foster education and cooperation in the business of miracles.� This is an affair overseen by the grand composers and cinematographers who dwell in the heavens.� |
| What are we getting at, then, in this short discourse?� Perhaps, simply a reminder to humans to remember the gods when perplexities arise in occult matters, since the flow of information from the beyond has such a great sphere upon which to draw.� The possibilities of intrigue when interacting with other sorcerers are fascinating and endless, but to clear the mind and admit that one is stumped in the great puzzle of an ingenious person's life is often necessary in surmounting the obstacles so often encountered.� If data from extra-human dimensions can rarely be applied without mishap unless we filter it with help from accomplished mages, it is nonetheless useful to optimize our ethereal resources.� |
| How, then, can we balance the streams of attention in our minds and achieve a confusion-free plateau suitable for magickal working?� Not simply by ever pushing our cleverness to the limits, but by establishing ourselves in a mode of function which soberly takes into account the marvelous scope of the universe.� As the focus of an imbecile is plagued by premature impulses, an un-mystical curmudgeon is plagued by post-mature ones.� These sparks can naturally cause the gates of higher perception to snap shut, and we might even call this, "dropping the crystal ball".� To see our way along the path of wonder, we so often need to use the dark lantern of forbearance.� No saboteur need know where our treasure is kept.� |
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