Magic theory
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Template:Not verified Magic theory is theory on how, and why, magic works. Magic in this sense can be defined as the mental manipulation of reality. This should not be confused with magic tricks, or fairytale magic.
The question "Does magic work?" is usually avoided.Template:Citation needed Magic theory is not an organized science, but best described as an assortment of wildly speculative and often contradictory belief systems; however, there are often common themes and ideas that run through many systems. See magic (paranormal) for a few examples.
Magic works based on systems of dogmas that are accepted as real. These dogmas make the contruction of paradigms possible. In Magic theory by this definition, electronical devices will work over a Science paradigm based on the dogma of negatives and positive particles that: repel if they have the same polarity, or attract if they have opposite polarities.Template:Citation needed Almost all the magic systems are based on the dogma that points to the mind as a gate to the Universe.Template:Citation needed Since the advent of chaos magic, it has become fashionable to shift one's magic theory whenever necessary, apparently out of the realization that none of these theories explain the supposed phenomena in full.Template:Citation needed
In essence, here is how Magic is supposed to work: within every human being, there is a Higher Being (sometimes called the Subconscious portion of the mind).Template:Citation needed This Higher Being has supernormal powers and can, in effect, achieve anything that the person (the Conscious mind) can imagine.Template:Citation needed However, the desire has to be communicated to the Higher Being through images, not words (language is a man-made device that the Higher Being cannot comprehend).Template:Citation needed Such images are generated through active visualisation.Template:Citation needed The Higher Being turns these images into reality.Template:Citation needed
This process of communing with the Higher Being can be done in various different ways, thus leading to different types and techniques of Magic.Template:Citation needed
Hermetic Theory
The Hermetic understanding of how magic works is based upon the principle of "as above, so below. As below, so above." This principle, when explained, suggests that what happens on any plane of reality (broadly defined as spiritual, mental, and physical) will take effect on the other planes as well. If a change takes place in your physical body, it will be followed (if not prompted already by) an equal change in your mental and spiritual state. Your mind can also make changes in your spiritual and physical health, such as with psychosomatic illness. And of course, something effecting you on the spiritual level can effect your mind and body.
In working magic, the magician (or witch or warlock or sorceror,etc) generally uses physical objects in rituals to guide the mind, the physical effecting the mental. Through this mental act (the Universe is a mental construct to them after all) a change is made on the spiritual level, with a request made of some entity. Then that entity (in some cases no entity is required) then makes changes in something on the spiritual level, which happens to be more malleable than the physical or mental for the job at hand, which is brought down through the principle of "as above, so below" to make the appropriate change on the mental or physical level.
There is a theory that illness begins on the body as a spiritual infestation, and removing the "soul" of the disease will end up fixing the physical disease shortly thereafter. Many believe that a positive state of mind is healthy, while a negative state of mind is unhealthy, because the mental can effect the physical and spiritual as a result of it's thoughts.