Magickal Theorems

What is Magick?

Source

Magick Without Tears, Chapter I: What is Magick?

Definition

MAGICK is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

Postulate

ANY required Change may be effected by application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object.

Theorems

The Nature of Magical Action

• Every intentional act is a Magical Act.
• Every successful act has conformed to the postulate.
• Every failure proves that one or more requirements of the postulate have not been fulfilled.
• Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
• Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internal act whose influence ultimately affects action, thought it may not do so at the time.
• Every man should make Magick the keynote of his life. He should learn its laws and live by them.

Knowledge and Power

• The first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the condition.
• The second requisite of causing any change is the practical ability to set in right motion the necessary forces.
• Every force in the Universe is capable of being transformed into any other kind of force by using suitable means. There is thus an inexhaustible supply of any particular kind of force that we may need.
• A man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking advantage of the above theorems.
• He may attract to himself any force of the Universe by making himself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it, and arranging conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward him.
• Man can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fitted.

The Individual and True Will

• “Every man and every woman is a star.” That is to say, every human being is intrinsically an independent individual with his own proper character and proper motion.
• A man whose conscious will is at odds with his True Will is wasting his strength. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently.
• A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
• Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe.
• Every man has an indefeasible right to be what he is.
• Every man has a right, the right of self-preservation, to ful-fill himself to the utmost.
• Every man has a right to fulfil his own will without being afraid that it may interfere with that of others; for if he is in his proper path, it is the fault of others if they interfere with him.

Connection with the Universe

• Nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do not know in all cases how things are connected.
• Man is capable of being, and using, anything which he perceives; for everything that he perceives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will.
• Man’s sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.