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- From: grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer)
- Subject: Re: definitions of Magic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.223128.5589@u.washington.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov19.212749.24851@csus.edu> <JOSHUA.92Nov19211531@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:31:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.212749.24851@csus.edu> arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur
- Chandler) writes:
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- > Hope that folks here can help me. I'm putting together a collection
- > of definitions of magic -- not long essays, but one- or two sentence
- > distillations. I'll post some of what I have here so that you/we can
- > comment on them. If you have some of your own, or some you've copied
- > down, I'd be obliged if you could post hem or email them to me with as
- > much bibliographic info as possible (but send 'em even if you don't
- > remember the source).
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- Magic is the art and science of causing changes in consciousness in
- accordance with will.
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- (I believe this was Dion Fortune's adaptation of Crowley's definition,
- though I don't recall the specific source...)
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- -- John Michael Greer
- grimoire@u.washington.edu
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