MAGIC THE DIVINE SCIENCE a talk with QA panel Sunday 19th November 2023, 7 pm at the United Lodge of Theosophists, UK A Zoroastrian Magus Merlin, the Magician Howard Pyle illustration from the 1903 edition of The Story of King Arthur and
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MAGIC THE DIVINE SCIENCE
a talk with Q&A panel
Sunday 19th November 2023, 7 pm at the United Lodge of Theosophists, UK<br>
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A Zoroastrian Magus<br>
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Merlin, the Magician Howard Pyle illustration from the 1903 edition of The Story of King Arthur and His Knights.<br>
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Gandalf, the Magician<br>
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Prospero, the Magician<br>
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MAN KNOW THYSELF, AND YOU WILL KNOW THE GODS AND THE UNIVERSE. …..the Oracle of Delphi (ancient Greece) What a piece of work is a man!
How In form and moving, how express noble in reason!
How infinite in faculty! and admirable!
In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!
The beauty of the world!
The paragon of animals...!
- Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2<br>
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Shakespeare’s play THE TEMPEST Prospero’s monologue Act V Scene 1 – extract
A portrait of a Magician: (Prospero draws a circle with his staff in the sand, and says)
“…. Graves at my command have waked their sleepers, oped and let ‘em forth, by my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; and when I have required some heavenly music – which even now I do – to work mine end upon their senses, that this airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I’ll drown my book."<br>
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What is Magic – a Theosophical definition “MAGIC is defined in Theosophy as a Science – as a knowledge of the operation of the laws of Nature, and of the way by which the omniscience, and the omnipotence of the Spirit, and its control over Nature’s forces may be acquired while still in the body. Magic as an art is the application of this knowledge in practice.. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result of law – eternal, immutable, ever active.. Apparent miracle is but the operation of higher laws of Nature. There may be laws once “known” but now unknown to science.” [that will be rediscovered at some time in the future]
- From Isis Unveiled, the Ten Items (10 Propositions of Psychology)<br>
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Magic is Spiritual Wisdom Nature, the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common vital principal pervades all things, and this controllable by the perfected human will.
Arcane knowledge misapplied is sorcery; beneficently used, true magic or wisdom. The cornerstone of magic is an intimate practical knowledge of magnetism and electricity, their qualities, correlations, and potencies. Especially necessary is a familiarity with their effects in, and upon the animal kingdom and man.<br>
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MAN is triune (and also a septenary being) i.e. he is comprised of body, mind and soul; as is Nature a trinity, e.g. there is creation, expansion and destruction.
“The trinity of Nature is the lock of magic; the trinity of Man the key that fits it.”<br>
