9/25/2006 - Why hasn't magick worked for me?

To those of you who might be relitively new to magick or just discovering it, or simply currious about it and uncertain, and perhaps you have attempted a spell or ritual and found that it did not work, or that perhaps the results were not instant and you wonder why, or are begening to doubt either yourself or the art itself, I have a few words to address this question which many might have.

Why hasn't magick worked for me?

First of all magick like anything, any skill, are or talent, might take time to develop and perfect and you cannot exepct to be a master of it just overnight or trying something once. You must dedicate yourself to it and you must not let one failure rule over all your future actions, though like anything there might be those that are more naturally talanted to it then others and seem to pick up on it and use it with ease, if this is not the case in reguards to you, that dosen't mean you cannot develop the ability within yourself. You must just give it time and a big part of magick is having faith and confidiance within yourself, if you exepct to fail it is almost a gaurntee that you will.

This goes into another point I wanted to make to address the question. If you go into it a skeptic and perhaps simply mean to cast a spell or attempt some other ceremony either to validate your opinion that maigck does not or cannot work, or to prove to yourself that it does work, then that is almost a gaurntee to fail. You cannot go into any sort of magick with any part of yourself closed. Your mind most be fully open and receptive to what you are doing. If you attempt it simply becasue you want proof of it then you are not putting any of yourself into it and so there is no meaning to what you are doing. In truth magick cannot just be pulled out of the air. It must come from within you, magick is not for those that need to see it to belive it, but for those that already feel it and know its truth and reality.

Now, say you do belive in it, and you go into it with your full heart and an open mind, but you do not see imditate restuls from what you have done. Do not be put off by this, there are a couple of explinations which can be applied here. For one thing magick dose not always act instantly and directly after it is applied, sometimes it takes time to see the restults of what you have done, as well sometimes with magick it might work in a form or a way which you have not exepcted. You may be looking for one thing, and miss the signs of what you really have done. It should not be too surprinsing to discover that magick does work in mysterious ways.

Another thing to keep in mind is that no matter what you skill level is or how much experince you have working with magick, it is a skill and ability as anything, and so it does to at least some degree play by the same rules as anything else, that is to say profressional atheletes do not catch the ball every single time, or hit home runs every single time. Famous and talanted artists do not produce a masterpice with thier every peice of work. Thiere are many mistakes, and throw aways along the way, there is no reason to view magick any differently, it is not gaurenteed to hit its mark at ever single turn, and for the very same reasons as one is not always perfect with thier every attempt, becasue you are still people and becasue you are imperfect you are bound to have a few flops here and there, and becasue magick is concenring the use of energy and because it comes so much from within yourself it is subject to sometimes being affected by your own emotions, thoughts and mind, and if you are not completely clear at the time of the preformace it can have an affect upon the results you produce.

You must belive in yourself and have faith and confidence with what you are doing, and if you do fail, your only choice is to try again for you just might be surprsied at what the results are of doing so.