Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments

by Gordon White

It used to be that magicians would play a defensive game against Scientific Materialism, scurrying away from the Sauron eye-beams of supposed Rationalism. We hid first with the priests, claiming that science only explains the physical while magic is of God. Then we hid in the truth of science’s adolescence: it had yet to explain magic. Then we hid in the mind, claiming ‘it’s just psychology’ as our cover. The time has come to play an offensive game. Turn and face these fools. Magic is real and Materialism is fraud. We must crush the material of Materialism into dust for our philtres and phylacteries. We must never cede the ground of truth to these clowns. NASA’s EmDrive violates the Second Law of Motion, nevertheless it is being built and the Second Law is still being taught. This is the kind of idiocy that stands opposed to us. You could knock it over with one breath, even if the mallet is far more satisfying.