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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote 2023-08-14 05:56 pm (UTC)

Re: Orders of practical magic

No, and if I did, I wouldn't recommend them. Trying to change the world without changing yourself is the classic route to total magical failure, because the circumstances you're in and the events that you encounter are always powerfully shaped by your own actions and your own character. That's why those orders that teach practical magic -- for example, the various branches of the Golden Dawn -- put as much energy into self-transformation as they do into more obviously practical workings, because if you do magic to try to change something in your environment, while still doing all the things in your everyday life that make your environment what it is, the magic will fail.

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