contemplativeExecution of Magic requires:
AwarenessThese guide us to the time, place, tools and actions.
Knowledge
Understanding
A relationship with the universe
Important!
All things have a time and a place
Actions are easier and harder depending on when they are done
Analogy of plants: water, sunshine and soil are good. BUT – not always.
The person performing magic must know:
What, why, who, when, where
Is magic mechanistic? No!
Other variables:
Chaos
Hand of God
Incomplete knowledge
Faith is required.
Analogy: The throwing of a dart
TechniqueThe true master of magic exposes a yogic mindset saying:
Faith
A bit of luck
Perfection is not iron fisted
The dart must be let go!
Make preparations and then let go.
Learn lessons from the results
“The trick is not in doing something right, but in not doing it at all. The rightness will follow”. This word paradox incorporates:
- The action is still performed
- It is done in the place where the divine is in control and the ego merely observes
- There is no duality of incorrect or correct.
- There is a transcendent place of what is, through the reason that it is the only thing that can be
