What is the relation between Magic (esoteric) and Magic (illusion)?

Bumping cause potentially cool thread.
Sorry I can't help you fellow anon.

>>18819540
The same as a painter painting the outside of your house and Rembrandt painting De Nachtwacht.
Or you driving your car to the mall and a professional racing in Monte Carlo.

>>18819540
One is harmless illusion
The other is damaging, full-on delusion

Illusion is a way to understand the esoteric. It is like a metaphor.

Go read "Sane Occultism" and you will get what I am trying to say.

>>18819540
real magicians try to sell illusions as real magic so plebs are either getting ribbed off, or start believing magic is bullshit and turn away from it so the real magic gets hidden from them

>>18819540
Like Copin created music and Bieber making music. The first mastered the art of symphony while the latter is a stage actor and his music ain't nothing but his body and voice, totally composed behind the scenes by others.

>>18819540
Zoroastrianism and thelema, respectively.

>>18819540
A magician doing illusions is there to entertain people. Most prefer not to have their tricks revealed and don't try to convince their audience that what they are doing is real. They are actors playing the role of a conjurer, wizard, mystic, or deceiver.

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>>18819540
Is this a joke thread or you're mentally deficient?

>>18819658
It's a very serious question
:^)

>>18819656
I've heard some magicians use real magic though