PONDERINGS IN MAGIC: RESPONSIBILITY

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 In “Ultimum Mysterium,” Physics Professor Anthony Burns notes that in relativity and quantum physics, the observer has influence over what happens at the quantum level. A person can make a significant difference to the behavior of quantum particles when they observe them. He writes, “We know how entities such as mass and electric charge behave – but we still don’t know what they really are. We don’t know what time is, except that we measure it with a clock. And most importantly we don’t know what the observer is. We knew that the “observer” is us… but we don’t know the true nature…”

 

In discussing what he called “new physics,” psychologist Allan Combs explains, “In quantum theory we recover the view of a world as an unbroken fabric in which seemingly separate events do not occur insolation, but in fact, form pieces interwoven into a common tapestry.” Combs was explaining what effect quantum physics has on mythology and synchronicity in his book, “Synchronicity.” According to Combs, the Common Tapestry is such that Wolfgang Pauli, well-known physicist, could have the “Pauli Effect.” (Note 1) Whenever he entered a laboratory, the equipment would break.

 

C.W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater, noted Theosophist, wrote in 1913 in “Hidden Side of Things,” that people’s vibrations of thoughts and feelings affected other people. He cites the Principle of Cause and Effect (Note 2) which he says that whatever a person puts forth will return to them. Therefore, people need to be responsible in their deeds and thoughts.

 

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart echoes this in “Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard.” “To be a Wizard is to acknowledge that everything is alive and everything is connected.” (Emphasis his.) A wizard understands that no matter how adept they are, there is always something else that they do not know. Since a wizard has the power to manifest whatever they want, they should examine what they are doing and why.

 

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, once said “Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.” What she meant was do not be falsely modest, but own your successes. Taking credit for their actions means that the mature person understands their place in the world. They are someone who can be trusted, since they have demonstrated that in their attitude and conduct.

 

Because the Universe is connected, what a person does has reverberations through the Cosmos. Since wizards have power, they have to take responsibility (and credit is a part of that). Or they will end like Pauli, who had no friends. Carl Jung observed that Pauli had relegated his “Effect” to his Shadow, which came out in his brutal insults of fellow scientists. Pauli died of pancreatic cancer at 58 years old.

 

Notes:

 

Note 1. The Pauli Effect (Pauli’s Device Corollary): “The mysterious failure of technical equipment in the presences of certain people, particularly theoretical physicists.”

 

Note 2. The Principle of Cause and Effect (The Sixth Hermetic Principle): “Every Cause has its Effect, every Effect its Cause, everything happens according to Law. Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; There are many planes of causation but nothing escapes the Law.”

 

Works Used:

Besant, Annie and C.W. Leadbeater, “Magic and the Left Hand Path.” Compiled by Pedro Oliveira, PDF. CWL World. 2023. Web. http://www.cwlworld.info/On_the_Left_Hand_Path.pdf .

Burns, Anthony, “Ultimum Mysterium.” Winchester (UK): 6th Books. 2016.

Combs, Allan and Mark Holland, “Synchronicity.” New York: Marlow & Comp. 1996.

Corradi, Max, “The Seven Laws of Reality and Being.” E-book. Jaborandi Publishing. 2013.

Hall, Manly P., “Magic, A Treatise on Natural Occultism. (1929).” E-book. Mockingbird Press. 2022

—, “Unseen Forces: Nature Spirits, Thought Forms, Ghosts and Specters, the Dweller on the Threshold. (1924).” E-book. Borodino Books. 2018.

Michelle, Heron, “Elemental Witchcraft.” Woodbury (MN): Llewellyn. 2021.

Leadbeater, C.W., “The Hidden Side of Things. (1913).” E-book. Global Grey. 2016.

Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon, “Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard.” New Page Books: Franklin Lakes (NJ). 2004.