Tag: writing

mystiqueandmischiefs:

“Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as ‘the art’.
I believe that this is completely literal, I believe that magic is art and that art, whether that’d be writing, music, sculpture or any other form is literally magic.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness.
The very language of magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events.
A grimmoir for example, the book of spells, is simply a fancy way of saying ‘grammar’.
Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness.
And I believe this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a shaman.”

— Alan Moore