Defining Terms - 3/june/2023
Added 2023-06-03 18:16:50 +0000 UTCA DISCUSSION OF TERMS
Magic: Magic is infamously difficult to define. Ask a Roman centurion, a Zhao dynasty scholar, an American revival preacher, for their definition of magic, and they will give you wonderfully varied answers. Magic changes depending on time period, culture, location, and historical moment. A book could be a tome of powerful magical secrets on one side of a river, and a text of ordinary, mundane knowledge on the other. A book can be added to a library as a mundane text, spend 100 years untouched on the shelf, only to be ripped off and burned as a dangerous magical text.
Magic has no stable definition, but it has a consistent identity. Today’s magic was influenced by Yesterday’s magic. To gain proper understanding, we have to track its meaning as far back as we can, back to the roots. However, we must also be careful not to mistake the seed for the tree.
Esoterica:
The Occult:
Mysticism:
