magic is unironically real. it's existance is in-line with religious philosophy.  i'm not talking about teenager ~witchy~ wicca, i'm talking about things more ancient and serious. you can bend reality to your will, and you can do it for selfish reasons (overwhelmingly condemned by christians as satanic, witchcraft and such) or you can do it for selfless reasons (unironically love). those are the 2 main divisions that many, many learned men of old, philosophers, doctors and theologians wrote a ton about. some call it left hand vs right hand, black vs white, but it's the same ancient concept being explained through different words and analogies. you can do it even if you don't know or actively seek to do it. from my own experiences, and from what i read, you have to say it out loud. you have to chant and invoke, it doesn't work if you just think about it. that's why we pray out loud, that's why when we do the hail mary in a group setting it's out loud, thats why buddhist do it out loud ('om mani padme hum'). i don't want to sound like a schizo or anything, but there is a lot of common things between eastern religions and western religions that developed before both were aware of each other. there is a truth behind it because they reached the same conclusions independently of each other, in the sense that the spiritual is above the material, asceticism and abstention is a pathway to virtue. sacrificing yourself unites you to the divine. chanting, praying and such. the seven mysteries (seven sacraments in the catholic church) are literally magic rituals, there's nothing wrong with it, because it's all about god's will, and not our own will. when you're practicing love and selflessness you sacrifice yourself, when you're practicing witchcraft you sacrifice other things (sacrifice meaning making something sacred, holy). also both mysteries and sacrament mean the same thing: hidden, occult.
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