n these pages, I have written about magick; yet true magick is not in books or tools or incantations, but in the growing heart and spirit.
To the extent that you have ever consciously chosen a new direction for your life and made it happen, you are already a worker of magick. Books and teachers can help you become a more effective magician, but the magick is already in you.
To the extent you have avoided and resisted change in your life, you are not yet the magickal being you can be. Ultimately you can have no idea what any magician is talking about, really, until you begin to work magick and feel it for yourself.
Many people are drawn to the mystery and glamour of magick, but find that they are unable or unwilling to put in the effort that competence demands. They remain dabblers or content themselves with fantasy. This too is all right; such people have another path to follow, and may accomplish much on the earth plane without ever lighting a candle.
But if magick is part of your path, it will lead you to a world that is a deeper, richer, more vivid place than you have known, filled with signs and wonders—this world, seen with starlight vision.
Magick can help you find and follow the path that is yours alone, which no other may walk. It can help you to know that you are one with all that is, every tree and hawk and stone . . . and feel the sense of belonging such knowledge brings. It can lead you to the Divine within, and place in your hands such power and responsibility as you have not dreamed of . . . and release the love and wisdom you must have to wield that power “with harm toward none, and for the greatest good of all.”
Remember, the magick is within you. Blesséd be.