On Faith!, and Magick Options

How do you think faith affect your magick?

How does faith works?

What is faith?

Looked like simple questions, but I seemed can't answer them fast enough even to myself.
Anyone care to try?

I think faith does count to a certain extent, but maybe a skeptic would ask, if the magick is so real or powerful certainly the proper ritual should be enough itself. I think it might count especially with practices dealing with healing or energy or visualizations (which is a lot)

I think faith does count to a certain extent, but maybe a skeptic would ask, if the magick is so real or powerful certainly the proper ritual should be enough itself. I think it might count especially with practices dealing with healing or energy or visualizations (which is a lot)

The skeptic would be wrong there. Magick hinges on faith, at least at first. Even then - what magician goes his entire magical career without once doubting the truth of his experiences? Especially solitary magicians. It takes a great deal of faith to constantly remind yourself that the world you live in is more than just physical matter and sensations. No matter how successful your magick is, or what kind of spirit you evoke, there is always that nagging sensation it the back of one's mind: "Maybe I was just projecting my point of view on things, maybe there was no magick. Maybe I was just hallucinating a bit, maybe it was all in my head." Maybe this, maybe that... I find that the longer I go between magickal works of any type, the harder it is for me to have casual faith, the more I have to push it.

Faith does seem to be something that can be exhausted, though. It makes me wonder just exactly what it is, energetically. Under observation, faith seems to be a kind of energetic wind - similar to the solar wind in principle. My closest friends have the utmost faith in my abilities, even though they themselves are not magicians - and I must say there have been times when turning my attention to that source of faith has given me a sensation of empowerment before a ritual. When we do prepare for a ritual in which they take part, we pray together before hand to their respective deities, and state our faith in one another.

So, I think a question like, "what is faith" will be answered and reanswered again and again... and I don't think anyone is going to be 100% right or wrong. It is possible faith is an aspect of the subjective concsiousness, and different for everyone in purpose and makeup.

peace