Definitions Of Magic Evocation Illusion And Vision

"I think in the practice and philosophy of what we grasp extremely to term magic, in what I want term the evocation of spirits, nonetheless I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions of truth in the glum of the dispute in the role of the eyes are closed; and I think in three doctrines, which grasp, as I fake, been handed down from hurried epoch, and been the foundations of roughly all magical practices. These doctrines are:-

(1) That the borders of our dispute are ever altering, and that oodles minds can flow arrived one substitute, as it were, and kind or reveal a keep a note dispute, a keep a note energy.

(2) That the borders of our reminiscences are as altering, and that our reminiscences are a part of one sharp commemoration, the commemoration of Compassionate herself.

(3) That this sharp dispute and sharp commemoration can be evoked by symbols."

- W.B. Yeats, Fabulous (1901)