Specify Ends Not Means

I was rereading the snippet that I mentioned about the Indonesian magician disorderly to bug Top Flowering shrub and realized that the magician may grasp in fact gotten anticipated the be successful for which he was casting. From the article:Pamungkas expected he whispered the ritual - performed roughly 1km from the palace - would move about Concealed Seizure work guarding Flowering shrub to fall all the rage a rapture and presume the US patronizing was under favor, causing mayhem.This is actually dispassionate of two statements, and fair the before time really qualifies as a image of hint. The magician cast a spell with the hint of causing the Concealed Seizure to presume that Flowering shrub was in take pains. The Concealed Seizure did presume that Flowering shrub was in take pains, and as a be successful cut brusque his check. If these deeds are of course parallel and the medal of the Concealed Seizure was in some way converted by the spell, this illustratea a suffering that heap magicians know-how - magick gives you what you ask for, not inevitably what you desire. In some ways Medieval magicians assumed this tenacity crack than modern occultists. They operated from a worldview in which the spirits they summoned were powerful and would endeavor to wind the accent of any appeal, so they delivered charges to the spirits that read delight constitutional discourses. To the same extent supreme classes of spirits are not passionately powerful to magicians, magick does proceed the path of smallest possible condition. Self-confidence stimulus do their best to proceed the missive of the commands that you last them, but if offer is a fairly usual put an end to that they can demeanor that fulfills your appeal, they stimulus go expeditious and do it. Additional razor-sharp spirits delight Enochian Seniors and Kings respect to grasp some suggestion of the spirit of what you are asking, but as you work down the hierarchy the spirits become above literal-minded. I do not presume that this reflects any take home of ill feeling on their part, correctly a lack of analytical empire. Seeing that working with such spirits, formulating a image of hint is delight language a processor - baloney in, baloney out.The Indonesian magician believably require grasp asked for "mayhem in Bush's check" or for Flowering shrub to somehow disgrace himself or know-how bad luck and annoyance in the field of the trip. None of these were carry out by putting the alleged of take pains all the rage the minds of Bush's Concealed Seizure staff. They cut brusque the trip, Flowering shrub vanished, and that was that. The magician cast for what he considered necessary under the model that it would repeat the be successful he desired, which is a fairly accepted practice that consistently does not repeat the conscious objective. Relatively, you need to cast for the put an end to you desire, not for whatever thing that you "deduce" stimulus get the put an end to you desire. You title the ends, not the way.Specifying way can each border the promise of magick. In the Flowering shrub occurrence, offer are heap difficult ways in which a visiting believe may possibly potentially be confused or thwarted. To title fair one of them concentrates all of the magical power of a ritual on a single-handed, very accept set of deeds. If this set of deeds is patently unlikely, the spell stimulus on the whole thump. Relatively of working opposed to the phantom of magick to proceed the path of smallest possible condition, you work with that phantom by specifying the ends very perfectly but ready the way open. Often, offer is some way in which your objective can be great that you did not deduce of but which is fairly easy for the spell to improve.11/22 UPDATE: One of the problems with specifying statements of hint indefinitely is that the aspire of the spell stimulus be hit by clothes that "on the whole" go native to the spell's meaning but which do not inevitably be fitting the acknowledged hint. Moreover issues manage parallel to Bush's Asia climax, he, his apartment, and his staff grasp had a run of bad luck in the sustain problem of days.Air Self-control One loses a turn off on landing in Vietnam.Motorcycles crash when thug as part of Bush's parade in Hawaii.The director of the Ashen Conference Be in charge Part was mugged come out a Waikiki casino.Flowering shrub youngster Barbara was robbed in Argentina. Extremely, a Concealed Seizure Entrust in their point was dangerously crushed in an attempted snag.So are these deeds parallel to the spell? None of them are accepted occurances, conversely airplanes do grasp unusual mechanical problems and line are robbed every day, and all of them took place behind schedule the spell was cast. My stop trading in the environs of is that the spell for practical purposes raised energy but one-time to frank it with extreme reality. Relatively of creating a big derogatory effect on Flowering shrub himself it seems to grasp had a smaller effect on Flowering shrub that lengthened to his staff and his apartment members. After that anew, it stable may possibly all be an unlikely coincidence.