Wicca magick teaches us that there are basically two ways of obtaining what we desire from life: either by raping it, or else by seducing it. When we act in accordance with our social training and beliefs, we are trying to rape life. On the other hand, when we act on wicca magick, then we are seducing it. Average people are rapists, but the witches – at least the white witches – are seducers or seductresses. Sometimes it’s difficult for the tyro to determine within him or herself which is witch – when he or she is just playing ego games, or when an impulse to act is prompted by true intent. The chief difference between acting with society and wicca magick practice is patience. When we act with society we’re always in a big hurry, because we have been trained to believe that we are so important that everybody – and God – should get out of our way. But practitioners of real magick have to be humble: realize that we are not special; that the universe and other people aren’t going to bend out of shape for us. Our society has conditioned us to believe that we deserve this and that and the other. That by stifling all of our true feelings and turning ourselves into mindless robots in order to serve society’s ends, we have some kind of claim on life. However, this is illusory. Practitioners of real magick know that their little lives and their little suffering make zero difference whatsoever. So long as we believe that life owes us something; that we are deserving of special consideration or treatment because of how spiritual and noble we are, or because of how much we have suffered, then we are acting with society instead of acting with wicca magick. Acting with real magick means patiently waiting our turn at the end of the line.
If we are not satisfied with how our lives are unfolding, then right from the top we are not acting like practitioners of wicca magick. The first principle of real magick is to accept with as much equanimity as we can muster the hand that has been dealt us. Life is not meant to be fair; it’s meant to be dealt with. This means we must take responsibility for our present life situation, for our karma. It means trying to understand what are the lessons which we must learn through our life experience, rather than try to escape from it into some fantasy future. Wicca magick entails realizing that life is something we do; not something which just happens.
The question is, if we can’t use the future as a fantasy escape from our present problems, how should we think about it? What is the difference between faith and fooling ourselves? Wicca magick tells us that the future doesn’t exist in the sense in which our society believes. The future is not a linear series of happenings which begin at the present moment. On the contrary, there are an infinite number of probable realities which take off from the present moment. The trick to real magick is to pick the one of the infinite number of probable reality branches which will lead us to a future in which our desires are realized. What makes this difficult is that our thinking minds, which can only regurgitate society’s beliefs, are not sufficiently intelligent to make the correct connections: to be able to choose the correct decision in the now moment which will lead to that probable reality in which our desire comes true. We cannot see that giving a dime to that beggar is the decision which – perhaps years down the line – will lead to our being promoted at work or winning the lottery. Also, it often is the case that the correct decision in the now moment which will lead to the realization of our desire in the future is something which we find disagreeable. Life always seems to set things up so we reject the probable reality which would lead to the fulfillment of our desires. Life dangles what we want right there before our eyes; and then it is jerked away at the last second. Or life makes us keep on keeping on, way beyond what we believed we were capable of. Real magick means going that extra mile; following a ray of hope in the face of certain defeat; tackling the impossible with utter abandon. To practice wicca magick, therefore, is a matter of showing life that we mean business. In order to choose consciously the probable reality in which we find ourselves, we must abide by our decisions. If we make an irrevocable decision and stick with it no matter what happens, then eventually we will wind up in a probable reality in which that decision comes true. And that is the only secret to wicca magick.
Real magick does not mean reciting funny words and wearing funny clothes; or waving a magic wand and everything we want comes for nothing. Rather, wicca magick is a matter of determination and patience. We can’t expect to bend the universe to our wills until we are able to control our own self-will – our own fears, doubts, and inertia.
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