On Materialism
If you are starting in magick/ocult/practical magic DON'T take this seriously go record your proofs in magical journal/dairy or until you are totally "accepting" magic before you take this seriously
Some years ago I kept my aunt living even though he was about to die using magic, she recovered sometime but again she got sick and died.Did I try to stop her death?
Sure I could say I was "In control" All all isn't the mark of a good magician is the ability to satisfy every whim?Can we not get laid at a frequency beyond what our genetics would normally dictate?Can we not win the job over a thousand more qualified candidates?Can we not defy death and cure the incurable?
But how many times must we get laid before sex is no longer an obsession? How many times we must win the job before we realize no amount of glamour or money is to our satisfaction?How many time must we heal the sick only to discover we cannot delay the inevitable?And for just how long will we sulk when we don't get our own way?.
I have found materialism to be the worst kind of idealism and rituals to manifest a specific event the clumsiest and most naive kind of magic.Materialism is the inability to exercise acceptance, and magic with material aim is a short -sighted solution at best.It's surprising, to say the least that I've found the results of mysticism to be most pragmatic.The transformation of the undesirable into the desirable, of Sorrow into Joy, by working upon the very substance of reality itself, is the greatest magical result possible.
I didn't want for my aunt to die but what I can do other than accept?