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The Language of Belief
All systems work for their believers.
This because all magic is individual, subjective. Despite being able to cause Objective change, the instigation and performance is Always subjective. No matter how much of a "tradition" you come from, your worldview is Yours.
You never hear what another person is saying, you always interpret and make up your own meaning to their words. There is no tradition anywhere on the planet, it is ALL fresh to each and every practitioner.
Despite my strong sense, based on what I see as facts, that astrology is utter codswallop. All religions are tripe, that all worship is slavery. I am willing to listen to my interpretation of their view, regardless of my own definite choice to never swallow the bullshit they dine on.
Every system is wrong, including my own.
So why do they work?
I believe this is due to language. What I think of as "outer language". In other words, how you communicate to and receive communication from the universe of which you are a part.
In order to impart and receive any kind of knowledge you must have Some avenue of communication. If you don't know the words of quantum mechanics then something spoken in that lingo will not make sense to you, if you do not know Arabic you will be unable to understand something said to you in that language.
Though I don't believe in angels and demons, I realize that it is "just" a language. Individuals who do not wish to re-design their personal interface tend to pick the protocol that seems true to them from the get go, and this is the fastest route to effective magic.
I do not personally approve of the mystic path, as nearly all of them lose sight of the fact that it is all made up(to me that is a bad thing), but I have No trouble seeing that it is effective and that individuals can extract "real world" truth from it.
The system doesn't matter, even if it is bat shit insane. The practitioner Does.
by Svein H. Skavern
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