The Laws of Magic
November 19th, 2008
A diagram of the Laws of Magic, appearing in Isaac Bonewits’s Real Magic (1971).
“A qualitative diagram showing [the Laws] primary interrelationships”. Click for larger version.
A diagram of the Laws of Magic, appearing in Isaac Bonewits’s Real Magic (1971).
“A qualitative diagram showing [the Laws] primary interrelationships”. Click for larger version.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Why does perveristy have a tear drop shape and only connect with 4 of the interrelationships? Polarity, Cause and Effect, Synchronicity, and Association can certainly be influenced by a perverse perspective. But why not any other attributes? I don’t get this diagram?
Please explain further, I want to understand my perversity in it’s highest order.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Sage –
Bonewits says of the Law of Perversity, “If anything can go wrong, it will [Association]… Magical associations sometimes operate in the reverse [Polarity] of what was wanted [Cause & Effect]; meaningful coincidences [Synchronicity] are just as likely to be unpleasant as they to be helpful…”
The square brackets are mine. It appears Bonewits associates perversity specifically with events, or effects, and not knowledge or otherwise.