Ramscha wrote:raum215 wrote:The gift to do magick is given anyone of us and also the right to do so,
A person who says everyone can do magick is speaking for everyone. No magician worth his salt makes such generalities.
That would implicate that magic is something which has to be obtained. Does breathing has to be learned? Generally not and everyone is capable of it (genetic deffects and diseases not counted). Different breathing techniques of course have to be learned. Call me foolish to make this claim but I claim that with magick it is the same as with breathing. It can be done without really learning it (it is instinct and the basic, the oldest magic is also based on instinct). Controll and consciusness about it is for me the key for mastering but the instinct is in everyone. I don´t perform magic, I live it. That is all I have to say.
Ramscha
Magick is not the same as breathing. Magick is the same as a specialized skill set full of exacting demands and with universal applications. Magick is not like breathing - magick is the science of applying, understanding, dictating, predicting, and enacting the influence of breath. Everyone uses money, but not everyone is an economist. Many have no idea or false notions of what an economy is, or what controls or influences it and how. Everyone can turn on a light switch, but hundreds of people receive 110-120 volts on an AC current of 60 MHz load trying to change one. It even kills some of them. Instinct can pay off, in big ways too - but experience must temper instinct - or it can get you killed. Manipulation of instinct is how my ancestors used to ensure we were all few for months with but a few men, as instinct drove buffalo over a cliff. Instinct is what the Qabalaist called "Nephesh" - the animal soul. But there is also neshemah (the imagination and the way it creeps into the world), the Yechidah (the external infinite self projected into the existential condition of humanity), and many other components. And these models are all typically found in magick in Vedic, Taoist, Thelemic, Classical Magick, Medieval Magick, and Aboriginal, Classic, Western, and Masoretic Qabala, Hellenistic Magick, Tibetan Buddhist, Shinto, and Neo Platonic thought in General, as well as several other studies of general magickal worth their space in my brain, first and foremost being Enochian.
And see, these generalities are not true either - because not EVERYONE uses money, and many people cannot turn on a light switch. This presumes they even have access to a light switch. The model for how Magick is done is so complicated - there are people in the world without any access to the opportunity to even FIND OUT if they can do magick. Others lack the ability to focus enough, moreso.
So in short, everyone interacts with and has part in the distribution and transmission of magical phenomenon - we all PARTICIPATE in it - but that does not mean everyone on the plane can get us off the tarmac, or lay us down again safely at our destination. Not everyone on the plane is a pilot. And even if everyone is a pilot, there is still a limited number of seats in the cockpit.