Author: Harlequin Jones (---.rr.com)
Date: 01-08-2003 12:25
"In the broadest of terms, technology works by manipulating the scientifically determined relationships between objects and forces. If we know, for example, that electrical current creates magnetic fields, and that certain metals respond to magnetism, then we can use that relationship to build electric motors. (And electrical generators, for that matter.) It takes no force of will or mystical birthright; if the objects and forces are in the correct arrangement, it just works. We want our scientifical spells to behave the same way."
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It does require the will of the magus - the will that the motor
or generator be made.
This is pedantic, but I think it's important to keep in mind.
Big Al Crowley considered science to be a subset of magic, just
another way of working one's will upon the universe.
*smirk*
HJ
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