Over the decades, I periodically but very consistently encountered people who wanted to practice magic, and who divided it into “good” and “bad”, the kind they wanted to do of course being “good”. My answer was, and remains, that it is all bad, it should be avoided, and it never comes to a good end. Those people always seem to think that this is hypocritical of me, because according to their definitions of magic I am an extremely skilled mage. However, their definitions are wrong and they are ignorant of the most basic facts, which are as follows.

Magic, in a wide sense, is any application of consciousness in the spiritual sphere that produces quantifiable results. This encompasses everything from people stirring up astral substance with their emotions and thoughts over time, to God creating new reality-types and universes within them. Such a wide definition is useful to those people, in their desire to justify their endeavours, but wide definitions are seldom useful, which is why I will make a more narrow one, according to which magic is any conscious attempt by incarnate humans to influence spiritual realities to whatever end.

The difference in definitions is that I exclude non-corporeal practitioners of spiritual skills, and I exclude all actions that do not result from conscious effort. Basically, if an old woman creates astral prints in her home with depressing thoughts for twenty years, I don’t count this as magic, I count it as poor spiritual hygiene.

So, let’s see what happens when incarnate humans attempt to dabble in spiritual affairs. First of all, they have to contend with the limitations imposed by physical incarnation. They are slow, their resolution is poor, and they are prone to errors. As a result, I can always clearly distinguish between artefacts and efforts produced by incarnate human mages, and astral ones, because human efforts are dull, imprecise, simple, and basically worthless. Also, human attempts at astral communication are slow, dull, of low resolution, and inflexible. This is why the first idea every human wannabe mage has is to do things himself, and after that fails, the second idea is to contact some competent astral being and compel it to do their bidding. Having in mind the realities of the situation, the outcomes of such an attempt can be immediately reduced – they certainly won’t be able to compel a good being to do anything, and bad beings from a level that allows them not to sleep, not to rest, not to have lapses of concentration due to exhaustion or other physical causes, and have inherently greater speed by several orders of magnitude, and also inherently better resolution and precision of perception and action, also by orders of magnitude, will have such an advantage over humans that it’s not even funny, and it is perfectly obvious who will end up controlling whom in this game. Basically, a human mage is a being that has a will for mischief, but lacks knowledge, skill, precision, virtue, purity and clarity, and tries to produce effects in a sphere they barely understand, with rules they barely understand (if even that), and absolutely everyone native to that sphere has an advantage. One of the rules they don’t understand is that by attempting to assert control over some other being, they forfeit their innate spiritual protections granted to them by God, which are normally impenetrable. However, when a human wannabe mage attempts to assert control, this is a karmic equation that has two sides: if you commit acts to enslave, pressure or control others, you are open to their retributive actions. So, basically, by dabbling in things they don’t understand, they forfeit extremely effective protections they know nothing about, and enter a sphere where nothing sleeps, nothing has to rest, everything sees and moves better and faster than them, and they are merely the helpless victims. This is why attempts at magic always come to a bad end.

Those wannabe mages think they can classify what I do as magic, and they are not wrong. I am indeed very good at what I do. However, I would not classify their efforts as magic, because their skills are worthless. They can only harm themselves and others, and are perfectly incapable of anything good and useful. In order to do that, one needs to focus on God alone, and nothing else. From that, one will develop purity, virtue and skill, and when your mind is in God and of God, and you focus intent with purity, virtue and skill, this results in artefacts of holiness, that are basically presence of God manifested in some shape and form. Also, as you need to dismantle blockages within your soul, you develop skills necessary to dismantle evil, that are also useful when you encounter external malevolent entities, because the principle is the same – the light of God defeats darkness. As you work from God, you are not limited by your physical properties – basically, you don’t access the astral plane from below, but from above, from the position of a higher power which is dimensionally greater, and as such you are in a position of advantage over astral beings that is greater than the one they have over inept human mages. So, you can see that what I do and what wannabe mages do can superficially sound similar – influence spiritual realities by spiritual means – but this only shows how useless definitions are when you are talking about realities you don’t understand. In the language of human idiots, “spiritual realities” don’t really distinguish between inept efforts to stir up astral with focus from the physical plane, and a tulku switching self-identity to bodhisattva and using focus to manifest vajra-based structures along the line of dharma.

The point is, the God-level magic can never be learned if you want to learn magic. It can only be learned if you want to know God, surrender to His will, know His thoughts and do His deeds. In order to do God-level magic you need to be a God-level being. It’s doable, but quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.