If magick is real, why is it so obscure?

[Nickel77]

Hi! I've been in these spaces for a few months now, working with a few angels, demons, and sigils with some quite amazing results and some failures (sorta 50/50). I've had plenty of very revealing and supernatural tarot readings, channeled messages and general synchronicities. However, sometimes, especially when I'm having some failures, I still have some doubts and the biggest one is probably the title. Yes, I understand the nature of the occult is that it's occult. Yes, I am familiar with "To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent" (love it). Yes, I am familiar with the fact that many religious and superstitious rituals are a form of magick. However, to believe and invest in the idea that I have this supernatural power that most people do not know of or use and that the people I meet in the forums like these are the only people who have really understood and refined this power feels hard to believe. Obviously, I am not trying to criticize any of you or your beliefs as I am one of you and probably share many of your beliefs, but this question still bothers me. I am hoping for some perspectives on this. would be really appreciated.
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nickel77

 

[Fr. Maximagus]

I think a vast majority of those who are most skilled in the magickal art aren’t on forums like these. They are probably members of generational royal/elite bloodlines who’ve been honing and passing down their practices for hundreds/thousands of years.
It isnt called “The Royal Arte” for nothing!
Until the dawn of the internet, they were really some of the only people with access to REAL occult knowledge and information. Them and occult orders or secret societies (which in the past especially were notoriously elitist).

Unfortunately back then and still today, there is a mountain of bad information out there for us “small folk” trying to learn the art. Much of it is likely bad info put out on purpose to throw seekers off. Then you have people claiming to be masters teaching absolute nonsense.

In other words, it’s a MESS! And one most people are not able to wade thru sufficiently in order to get proficient at magick. So many give up, being demoralized by the dizzying amount of information and not knowing what’s true.

 

[HoldAll]

It's probably because magic is so unpredictable and unreliable, costs an inordinate amount of study and practice, is built on a chaotic multitude of contradictory theoretical systems which are barely comprehensible to you once you start out. Most people don't like that. They're used to clear, streamlined and logical structures, they want a light switch to work every time and not three times out of ten, and without having to jump through numerous hoops first. Add to this its reputation of being superstitious nonsense, and hardly anybody will think it worth the bother when chances of success seem so infinitesimally small to laypeople. You'll have to convince yourself that it works first, and prospects of success won't look so good if you strongly doubt its efficacy to begin with.

 

[StarOfSitra]

That question, in fact, shows that you are still a beginner who has started to practice rituals without having a strong foundation of knowledge. Why do I say that? Because thinking of darkness as something bad or wrong is a dualistic conception imposed on us by monotheistic religious societies (light = good and holy, darkness = bad and evil).

Both darkness and light can be good or bad; both are parts of the whole, and both are sacred—just like Yin and Yang. If you feel an internal conflict with darkness, you need to work on your concepts and learn to accept darkness as a part of yourself and of the sacred whole. I love the obscure.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

It's a combination of things, but really it can be explained simply as: You know what you're ready to know. If Magic is obscure to you, that means your level of being isn't developed enough to comprehend it. It takes extreme self-cultivation and discipline in order to grasp a lot of higher truths that really make magic a lived, coherent, and real thing. Most of all, you yourself are more of an enigma than you realize, it is as they say that the microcosom mirrors the macrocosm, by going within lucidly and comprehensively, you will also understand the greater order of things, and the other way around. Magic isn't obscure, it's just subtle, and you need to learn how to look more closely, more deeply, and with more focus to see it. It's all already around you, the truth is out there

You won't find the most profound truths in books or courses, you will only find them through developing your awareness / presence, and then getting a better understanding of how the world works around you.

It's great that you've found success, now use these successes to reinforce your practice and motivation, build off each success and the results with be exponentially more profound, which will then feed your flame further.