Magick, in the most basic terms possible, is any act meant to create some type of intentional change. I define magick as probability enhancement (if something has a 50% chance of happening, magick can make it 90% chance). The 'k' in magick was popularized in the 20th century by Aleister Crowley to distinguish true magick from stage magick. I myself use it merely because typing 'magic' into google gives you no information on true magick.
Magick can be divided into two main categories: ritualistic and non-ritualistic. Ritualistic magick is the use of another's energy to cause a specific result to occur. This 'other' is usually a God/Goddess or other deity that helps the magician to achieve the desired result. This is not to say that in a ritual you will never use your own energy, but is that the end result of a ritual will be caused mainly by that other's energy and not your own. Non-ritualistic magick uses your own energy to cause a specific result to occur. This usually includes mind reading, reiki healing, telekinesis, and shamanism as well as many others. Non-ritualistic magick is usually used to create small, immediate change while Ritualistic is meant to cause a dramatic, long lasting change.
Anyone who is a practitioner of a certain field of magick can be labeled by it; if you practice demonology then you are a demonologist, if you practive druidry then you are a druid, if you practice divination then you are a diviner, if your practice spirit summoning then you are a summoner, and so on and so forth. These labels are intended to help one practitioner destinguish another so that they can understand one another; if you discuss necromancy with a druid, I can tell you right now that you rpobably won't get the same helpful advice as you would from another necromancer. The problem with this, however, is that now people are being labeled instead if choosing one. This is akin to someone calling you an Goth kid from afar compared to you referring to yourself as a Goth. A truer example for this is me: I consider myself to be a nocturnal druid. I use many dark Gods and Goddesses belonging to the Greek pantheon as well as ones belonging to the Celtic pantheon common to druids. I practice druidic and nocturnal magick while also dabbling in some more post-modern magicks. Now, while I describe myself that way, the general magick populace would label me as a Chaos Magician. Chaos magick is the use of many different styles of magick that oppose one another. For example, I cannot use the Egyptian Pantheon if I am later going to be using the Greek Pantheon, right? Wrong. You can do whatever you want; people have labeled this practice as chaos magick, but, in actuality, this is how magick is meant to be: a group of ideas that mix so that they become your own belief. Anything that you feel compelled to use can be used, no matter how hypocritical it seems to others. Your magick is exactly that: its YOURS. It does not matter if others think that these two things don't fit because what truly matters is that they fit to YOU. If there is anything that you can learn from this page it is this: a religion is a book, a belief is what you make of that book and how you fit those teachings into your life.
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