If I’m not mistaken, I believe I have heard you give the definition of magic a number of times to be, ‘the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will’, according to Dion Fortune. However, isn’t this Crowley’s quote where Dion Fortune actually said, magic is “the art of changing consciousness at will”, or I have also seen it as ,"The science and art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with will’", which Crowley and Fortune have different meanings? One is to use magic to change one’s circumstances, the other is working on changing one’s reality in the mind. Which do you think defines it best?
If the point of classic Hermeticism is something like union with God, and the point of Buddhism is something like awakening from samsara to enlightenment, alchemy is to create the Philosopher’s Stone, if someone had no knowledge of anything Golden Dawn related, whether it is the original order, or such as your books, Circles of Power, Paths of Wisdom or Celtic Golden Dawn, and asked you to summarize the main objective and point for doing all that work over all that time, what would it be?
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If I’m not mistaken, I believe I have heard you give the definition of magic a number of times to be, ‘the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will’, according to Dion Fortune. However, isn’t this Crowley’s quote where Dion Fortune actually said, magic is “the art of changing consciousness at will”, or I have also seen it as ,"The science and art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with will’", which Crowley and Fortune have different meanings? One is to use magic to change one’s circumstances, the other is working on changing one’s reality in the mind. Which do you think defines it best?
If the point of classic Hermeticism is something like union with God, and the point of Buddhism is something like awakening from samsara to enlightenment, alchemy is to create the Philosopher’s Stone, if someone had no knowledge of anything Golden Dawn related, whether it is the original order, or such as your books, Circles of Power, Paths of Wisdom or Celtic Golden Dawn, and asked you to summarize the main objective and point for doing all that work over all that time, what would it be?
Thank you for your time!
Jeremy