Magic
Ra defined magical ability as “the ability to use the so-called unconscious.” They found Don’s definition of magic acceptable: “the ability to create changes in consciousness at will.”
Magic is the work of the adept; it is a sacramental connection undertaken at the level of the gateway, or indigo ray, which is fed by the disciplines of the personality. Through magic, actions may be accomplished in the material realm which may be considered miraculous because they exceed the known limitations of the illusion.
Consciousness itself is the primary tool and means of magic, though it is typically facilitated through careful preparation and ritual. Those workings which carry a magical charge are working with metaphysical power.
Ra: The principle behind any ritual of the white magical nature is to so configure the stimuli which reach down into the trunk of mind that this arrangement causes the generation of disciplined and purified emotion or love which then may be both protection and the key to the gateway to intelligent infinity. – 64.4Ra: The heart of white magic [the positive use of magic] is the experience of the joy of union with the Creator. This joy will, of necessity, radiate throughout the life experience of the positive adept. – 71.17
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For further exploration, see also:
- 11.10, 62.6, 71.16, 72.7, 73.22, 74.5-7, 79.32, 80.4, 80.10, 85.3
- White Magic: 42.13-15, 49.8, 64.4, 68.11-12, 69.20-22, 71.15-18, 73.7-17, 73.22, 74.11-16, 75.16, 75.32, 75.36-39, 76.2, 76.4, 79.5, 85.4-7, 86.7, 88.10, 88.14, 88.19, 95.3, 95.6-10, 96.2
- Cycle of the Gateway of Magic of the Adept: 61.2-4, 64.10-13, 98.5
- Magician/magic in archetypes: 78.33, 88.19, 89.21, 89.44, 90.30, 91.19, 91.24, 91.33, 93.18, 93.21, 93.24, 94.20, 96.15, 103.13