Magick Views vs. Traditional Religions

Most people will say that a belief in magick is illogical unto itself. Upon observation one might be able to see why. Just think about it for a moment. People claim to be able to do anything they want with it; they can change the world around them and themselves from within just by using/practicing it. Or so is the claim.


Many other religious beliefs will try to state that this practice cannot exist in the real for many reasons. The first are the ‘logical’ reasons of that saying certain words during certain practices will not bring what is wanted or needed to that individual. But how are their religious practices any crazier or illogical than the practice of magick?

In Christianity one believes that a man lived about 2,000 years ago and was the embodiment of God in human form on earth. Then after living a perfectly sinless life was brutally killed by his government; but that is not where the story ends. They also believe that he rose from the dead after three days in the grave. If one prays to this man all the wrongs they have ever done in their lives will be forgiven and they will pay no price for these wrongs but are now entitled to an after-life in paradise.

The Jewish faith believes that God helped Moses lead all of their people into a perfect land where they would be free from the Pharaoh who enslaved for generations. This God was said to have brought plagues and other forms of torture to the captures and lead the newly freed slaves/Jews by smoke during the day and fire from the sky by night. Then, during the journey they were given commandments of conduct on two large stones that Moses received after spending a lengthy amount of time upon a mountain.

Islam believes Mohamed was a major prophet of God and was correct in leading his people into war, killing their enemies, because God told them to do so.

Hindu beliefs are poly-theism and believe that each god physically and metaphysically helps in each and every aspect of a person’s life, such as Shiva is the god of war and protection while Ganesha is the god of peace, prosperity, and benevolence.

Buddhists believe that one keeps living lives on earth until they get it right. These lives are not always human. I could keep going into illogical beliefs and practices of different religions, but I feel this gives a good enough example of where I am going with my examples. If you would like more “illogical beliefs examples” just look to any religious book such as (but not limited to) Dianetics or the Book of Mormon. So doesn’t it seem odd now to have these religions say that magick is totally illogical and has to be nonexistent?

Also, unlike these other long retained religions; pagan beliefs did not result in wars unless they were the victims. The Celtics had all of their written traditions put into a pile and set ablaze by the Catholics when they came to Scotland/Ireland to convert them. If they did not convert they were thrown onto the burning pile to die as well.

This brings out another irrational point. Why do they claim that magick could not be real but are scared to death of it at the same time? They seem to not want to believe magick can be used for good, but fear it to the point of absurd if they believe it has been used against them. They go to the point of cursing themselves through their new absurd actions.

It could be said that these “Major religions” have fought many wars amongst themselves to prove which one is right. But the pagans do not fight physically amongst themselves when they disagree. They just choose to agree to disagree and move on with their own practices once more.

But, let us look from the other side as well. Could their fears of magick be justified? Well, if they really have been cursed their lives could spiral quickly to ruin. But one must know that no curse will take hold if the recipient is undeserving of the punishment dealt to them.

This then goes into aspects of how the magick ritual alone helps the practitioner. The release from the ritual itself is often sufficient to alleviate anger and hatred, even if nothing else happens to the individual who had the curse thrown at them.

The supreme judge is the real deciding factor, and those who claim to be doing the right things to stay in favor of their god (and are still afraid of magick) are really living in bad faith because they do not believe this god will protect them, or is really in charge of what happens to them. To persecute the practitioner of magick is seriously persecuting their own god and nullifying all the claims that they make to their god of being all-powerful.


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