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True Art


They say true art conceals the artist’s hand. This is true of magic as well. Magic is not separate from the world. Magic is a toolkit and a language at once - magic is working with the world. All secular things have magic processes behind them and all magic things have secular processes behind them. The difference is nonexistent. The saint who collects tithes, heals the sick,  gives service to the crowd… all of these acts are one in the same. The saint is manipulating the world, by all means at once. There is no separation between the material and immaterial - to act on both is to perform magic.

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