Magick [1] takes every thought and act for its apparatus; it has the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; all Nature and all that exists is its Subjects...

There are a great many people who quite misunderstand the nature of Magick. They have an idea that it is something vague and unreal, instead of being, as it is, a direct means of coming into contact with reality.

Alesister Crowley, 'Magick in Theory and Practice'

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Magic is the universal Science-Art through which it is possible to work on different plains of reality and on different levels of Consciousness to contact Natural and Divine Laws and Forces of any order and level, outside and inside of us. It’s the science of the correspondences that, according to the Will, applying the right Knowledge and the Energy needed, enables [us] to overcome the limits of space and time, acting “As above so below,” on the “similar which attracts the similar,” where “Thought creates.” Magic is “the art to make things to happen.” In the most abstract sense, magic is a method of taking advantage of the relationship between Will, Knowledge, and Energy.

In a certain sense, magic can be defined as the science not yet known. To quote from 'The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon,'


Papus, In 'Methodical Treatise of Practical Magick' says that “the magic is the projection of Vital Energy dynamised by the human Will.” As Aleister Crowley wrote in 'Magick in Theory and Practice,' “Magick is the Science and Art of causing change in conformity with Will.”

Esoteric Physics is the discipline that studies the laws of the universe and all the process through which practical magic works. The main applications and studies of esoteric physics regard cosmology, space and time, the structure of the form, human perceptions and sensitivity and, in a certain way, natural medicines. Esoteric physics explores all the correspondences of the universe with the human microcosms and its subtle and spiritual aspects: it’s a real pathway to knowledge and awareness, beyond this universe, towards the Infinite outside and inside of us. It concerns the “maximum systems” of magic, philosophical[ly] involving, subtle and divine ecosystems and, most of all, the energetic and spiritual complexity of Humankind. The esoteric physics is the theoretical base of the mysticism and operative magic of the New Aeon. But it is also an excuse to tell, with new words and different formulas, things already told and known since always.

The human being is naturally prone to attempt to improve its conditions of life and to research renewed solutions to its existence. According to the ethic values that inspire its action, the human being is able to pursue the improvement of its quality of life more or less in harmony with the ecosystem it belongs to, more or less safeguarding the equilibrium of its habitat in space and time. To act “in the good” cannot prescind from an extended awareness of the concept of life itself.

Spirituality is not a theoretic and transcendent concept. It is rather action, experience, behaviour and responsibility. But it is also enchantment, mystic enthusiasm and rapturous contemplation of everything. As we are incarnated into the forms, Spirituality is made of actions, events, choices, imperfect things, not of sublime ideas: there is no space for superstition in a real pathway of research and there is no space for fanaticism since the greatest spiritual realisation is not to reach certainties, but, perhaps, the continuous availability to change, to pose questions, to grow and renew ourselves.

The theories of the microcosms represent the universal system contained inside humankind and, vice-versa, the universe drawn in its own image.


Precise astrological, elemental, synchronic and temporal correspondences intertwine connections between all the forms, from the smallest to the largest, from the most elementary to the most complex.

Some philosophies say that the universe exists only when one perceives it, and the modern physics is more and more convinced of that. In fact esoteric physics assumes an anthropocentric approach: the human being is the unity of measure, the observer, the meter, the interpreter. The human being is at the centre of its plane of existence because it determines it.

Nevertheless the human being is a “bridge-form.” This means that its physical, subtle and spiritual structure enables it to participate simultaneously in different states of being. Through the rehabilitation and the integration of its owbn faculties the individual should be able to become the interpreter of the evolution of the entire reality.

“Evolution” means to extract from the forms the “further” meaning, the added value that nourishes the conscience of the Being with new perspectives, experiences and possibilities. it is to fully participate in every single thing, finding the All.

According with an ancient myth, the human being is considered a great primordial Divinity that “chooses” to make a new experience, renouncing to its own unicity and fragmenting itself into different forms. It renounces the omniscience to explore the unforeseeable and the free will. This way each one of us is a “piece of God,” a “fragment of the Mirror” capable of reflecting the All: we are living in this universe to learn. If we were aware of that we would be “enlightened” and if we act in accordance with that we will be sages, or, maybe, “magicians.”

Both men and women that chose to learn to be “magicians” and were attuned with the divine and spiritual forces, inside and outside of them, were once called “Initiates.”

Will it still be possible to truly become “Initiates to the Mysteries?”

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[1] "Magick" is a spelling of magic, used by Aleister Crowley, in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits. The “K” is the number of the Scarlet Woman in Crowley’s 'Thelema' mythos and it is also used to identify the Greek word “kteis,” in reference to certain Tantric practices.