On the nature of magick
This entry is an answer to the comments on "The death of magick" by Protesilaos ( The way of the wizard ). While I agree with most of the content of the post, it heavily focuses on the individual capacities of the self; you can become a magus if you are focused or "special" enough, it's a matter of perception, of self-discipline, of endurance. This posture is not wrong by itself, but rather incomplete when it comes at the core of the initial issue: the death of magick. The magus, understood as the powerful glass-cannon entity, is never alone; one cannot simply become a wizard on your own, no matter how hard you try, and even if you could, that wouldn't fix the main issue: the disenchantment of the world, as Weber said. The magi need others to perform the rituals, either adepts or entities to work with; Elijah couldn't have annihilated the prophets of Baal on his own, nor woken up from under the juniper tree, nor Moses open the Red Sea, nor the mystics...