The concept of "magic" has long been included in our lives. The shelves of bookstores are filled with manuals for those wishing to learn magical rituals, on the Internet you can find almost an hourly daily astrological horoscope, and from the pages of newspapers, numerous seers, seers and healers offer a variety of services, not disdaining even the techniques of black magic. What exactly is magic?
This word itself is of Greek origin, it denotes a type of human thinking in which he turns to secret forces for help in order to solve certain problems. Astrologers, soothsayers, sorcerers and mediums all use magical rituals in their work to help their client.
Without noticing it, most people in everyday life often perform rituals that, in their opinion, have protective or good luck-attracting properties, that is, they carry magic in themselves. For example, someone holds on to a button when a black cat runs across the road, someone throws spilled salt over his shoulder three times (so that there is no quarrel), but not everyone will agree to lend money in the evening either, and there are many such examples.
The history of magic is rooted in the distant past, when primitive people, who lived as one with nature, tried to attract good luck on the hunt. Despite the fact that the times of the Middle Ages are long gone, and magic is rejected by modern science and is considered charlatanism, but even today there are situations when the accusation of witchcraft can have consequences.
For example, not so long ago in the Israeli city of Haifa, according to the decision of a religious court, at which another divorce proceedings were being dealt with, a woman was significantly reduced in compensation due to the fact that her husband (though, it seems, not groundlessly) accused her of witchcraft. And although the spouse accused her of treason, the judges considered this behavior not to be the reason for divorce, but mostly as a consequence of witchcraft.
Although now many healers-healers claim that their gift is passed down from generation to generation, there are not so many real strong magicians that history knows. Their images are often collected from legends and myths, so it is difficult to say for sure whether such a person really existed, or is it just a collective image. Although sometimes in ancient sources magicians (priests or wise men) are mentioned who possessed inexplicable abilities and knowledge.
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Thus, the famous connoisseur of ancient Egyptian writing Champollion, translating texts about the priests, wrote: “They could ascend into the air, walk on it, live under water, painlessly endure injuries, read in the past, predict the future, become invisible, die and resurrect, heal disease, etc..
It is difficult to imagine that all these skills were once able to be achieved by people. Of the more modern magicians, perhaps, one can single out the mystical personality of Nikolai Rasputin, who "took possession" of the entire royal family, the hypnotist and predictor Wolf Messing, the "electric genius" Nikola Tesla and many other people with extraordinary abilities and talents.
Some magicians who lived in antiquity are already strongly associated with fairy-tale characters. For example, in a book about the adventures of Harry Potter, his friend Ron collected cards with images of wizards. If readers remember, then he was missing some Agrippa. This is not a fictional character. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, originally from Germany, lived during the Renaissance. This extraordinary person was a doctor, an astrologer, and a lawyer, and apparently used hypnosis in his medical practice.
Thanks to his unconventional approach to the methods of treatment and passion for the occult sciences, Agrippa soon gained fame as a warlock. In his book Occult Philosophy, Agrippa argued that the best way for man to know God is through magic. For these imprudent conclusions at that time, he was recognized as a heretic, and put to prison.
Another famous character in many old British legends was the wizard Merlin. The gift of prophecy is attributed to this magician and sorcerer, and some of the researchers believe that the mysterious Stonehenge is the work of his hands.
Speaking of magic, one cannot fail to mention the Magi of Ancient Rus. The process of training the sorcerer lasted a long time - 20 years, after training, the subject had to pass a test, which could lead to the death of the newly appeared sorcerer. It happens that an extraordinary magical gift is given to a person from birth, nevertheless, good results in this craft can be achieved both through tireless work on oneself and with the help of special practices.
Most students of magic know that special attributes and artifacts during rituals are just preparatory steps in order to achieve the most important thing - to strengthen their own bioenergetics, and through this already influence other people. Unshakable confidence in your success and a clear concretization of the goal are the main components of successful magical actions. Psychologists know about the power of suggestion and auto-suggestion, and most people are suspicious.
And even as if by chance dropped a phrase is deposited in the subconscious of the person to whom it is addressed, and begins to work "for" or "against" him. All this is well known to practicing magicians who have an idea of how metabolic processes proceed in the human energy.
The esotericist Aleister Crowley defined witchcraft as an art and a science that help only by their own will to change the world around them and in ways that official science rejects. And again, it is worth noting that everything is determined by a person's faith in himself.
Any person is a source of energy, only someone has learned how to manage this most powerful resource, someone does the same on a purely intuitive level, and someone needs to work to activate their energy field.
Magic is usually divided into several types: black, white and gray. White magic, by definition, is designed to carry only a positive charge, and is aimed at achieving some kind of light goals. It is believed that the rituals of white magic cannot harm either the "performer" or the "customer". They are mainly aimed at ridding a person of the negative consequences of someone else's energy: damage, the evil eye.
There are many different opinions about "gray" magic, and some esotericists are inclined to believe that there can be no gray magic. First of all, it is aimed at achieving some personal goals for the sorcerer himself, and this already entails turning to both light and dark forces.
Well, black magic attracts fans of the occult by the fact that it is much easier to master this type of magic than white magic. At the same time, such magic rituals are based on the outflow of energy from other people, which ultimately has a detrimental effect on the health of the performer himself. At the same time, it is impossible to draw a clear line between good and evil, everything is very closely intertwined here.
And it is also impossible to argue that this or that ritual is absolutely harmless. However, we can definitely say that each person by nature can be a magician, and is able to influence events in the world around him. And it was not in vain that they paid much attention to their health before: they adhered to the fast, gave up bad habits.
By maintaining healthy energy in his body, it is much easier for a person to be confident in his abilities, and he is able to achieve a lot. And it was not for nothing that the Bible said that even a faith of the size of a "grain of millet" will allow a person to perform real miracles.
