Religion And Magic, Infleuence, present, past, future, connection experience, etc Options

I would like to get the ball rolling on this very important topic. It's fairly safe to recognize and acknowledge that religion and magic are something that go hand and hand. Though the idea is somewhat respressed in the major religions of Christianity and Islam. The undeniable truth is that both religions were not only founded by the premiere mystics of their time it they are also overloaded with all kinds of occult knowledge. Other religions are very open to the idea of magic: buddhism, hinduism and wiccan all openly acknowledge the concept of magic and feel fine about it. Even this forum here called sacred magic denotes a kind of religious magical ability.

Obviously one of the biggest infleuence on today's magical approach is that of the Qabbalah. It's infleuence is felt through nearly the entire range of ceremonial magic and is, itself one of the great ways on which one can traverse the mystical path.

Another great magical idea created in religion was the idea of the christians gathering on sundays for worship. When one steps back and takes a detached view of this ceremony it becomes evidently clear that this is one of the most brilliant innovations of magical thought in the last two millenia. The idea of gathering everyone to praise the name of the lord on one single day is a kind of group magical ritual that's rather awe inspiring. What it basically means is that there's a twenty four hour period every week where major surges of positive thought rises up from all over the world. Or at least that was the idea. Nowadays the church has drifted from its original purpose and intention. I think one of the major issues is the lack of quality people who are now involved in living the 'sacred' life. And those who are goodly christians often have become very removed from the very mysticism that lies at the heart of christianity.

Well, there's more but I'm not here to write an article but hopefully this can start a most interesting topic.

Salud

From Wikipedia: Religion and Magic