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"Magic" is a peasant terminology meaning to affect one's will through some incorporeal means that they do not understand. It is also used more selectively (sometimes) by more educated people to refer to Sorcery, which is the more proper name for the arcane art of accessing the flows of energy that underwrite the material universe, and allow one to alter it through the Will.
To call someone a magician is to imply slight of hand or trickery--a Sorcerer by contrast is employing an esoteric but still very rigorously consistent science of exploring and manipulating energies. There is some debate as to whether it's really a science, given that there are non-empirical elements involved. The process of using magic involves semantic meaning and intent--the juxtaposition between the two inwardly allows you to pull apart the limitations of the human mind in accessing the Akashic realm in which the sausage is made, so to speak. So it might be better called a rational philosophy rather than a science, but in practical terms once you've made ot across that hurdle you have to start testing things practically and that definitely follows the scientific method.
Really it's a sort of multidisciplinary field of natural philosophy, engineering, and linguistics, that then lets you set people on fire with your mind. Cool stuff, requires both a genetic predisposition and a high intellect to be able to do it effectively, and then on top of that you need access to an enormous amount of culturally accumulated knowledge because you'd have to be some kind of extreme savant with massive resources to figure it all out on your own in one lifetime.
Schools of Sorcery develop to formalize these concepts, but these schools all have different philosophic approaches to Sorcery which are largely incompatible. As ideology is broadly downstream of philosophic method, this also leads to the schools typically having sharply divergent values and objectives, hencee the Scholastic Wars.
"Magic" is a peasant terminology meaning to affect one's will through some incorporeal means that they do not understand. It is also used more selectively (sometimes) by more educated people to refer to Sorcery, which is the more proper name for the arcane art of accessing the flows of energy that underwrite the material universe, and allow one to alter it through the Will.
To call someone a magician is to imply slight of hand or trickery--a Sorcerer by contrast is employing an esoteric but still very rigorously consistent science of exploring and manipulating energies. There is some debate as to whether it's really a science, given that there are non-empirical elements involved. The process of using magic involves semantic meaning and intent--the juxtaposition between the two inwardly allows you to pull apart the limitations of the human mind in accessing the Akashic realm in which the sausage is made, so to speak. So it might be better called a rational philosophy rather than a science, but in practical terms once you've made ot across that hurdle you have to start testing things practically and that definitely follows the scientific method.
Really it's a sort of multidisciplinary field of natural philosophy, engineering, and linguistics, that then lets you set people on fire with your mind. Cool stuff, requires both a genetic predisposition and a high intellect to be able to do it effectively, and then on top of that you need access to an enormous amount of culturally accumulated knowledge because you'd have to be some kind of extreme savant with massive resources to figure it all out on your own in one lifetime.
Schools of Sorcery develop to formalize these concepts, but these schools all have different philosophic approaches to Sorcery which are largely incompatible. As ideology is broadly downstream of philosophic method, this also leads to the schools typically having sharply divergent values and objectives, hencee the Scholastic Wars.
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